Sly Stone, an electrifying musician, songwriter and showman whose Sly and the Family Stone transformed popular music in the ...

He later graduated to on-air personality at three Toronto radio stations, where he worked under the name "Rick Allen." After transitioning to stand-up ... album, featuring new comedy bits ...

Come December, God willing, Woody Allen will celebrate his 90th birthday with his wife, Soon-Yi, and their two adult daughters. As a gag writer, stand-up comedian, screenwriter, and filmmaker ...

Patrick McGilligan’s exhaustive biography “Woody ... on Allen’s showbiz beginnings, or, as he writes, his “crucial development from a neophyte TV writer to a knock-kneed stand-up comic ...

NEW YORK — The Oscar-winning screenwriter Marshall Brickman, whose wide-ranging career spanned some of Woody ... Allen met in the early 1960s, when Allen was breaking through as a stand-up comedian.

when Allen was breaking through as a stand-up comedian. Brickman was brought on to write jokes for him. At the time, he had been playing banjo for the folk group the Tarriers. In one of the many ...

NEW YORK — The Oscar-winning screenwriter Marshall Brickman, whose wide-ranging career spanned some of Woody Allen ... when Allen was breaking through as a stand-up comedian.

A former 'Tonight Show' head writer and "Dueling Banjos" performer, he and Woody Allen also ... In the early 1960s, as Allen was making his mark as a stand-up comedian, Brickman was playing ...

With at least four distinct phases throughout his long career, writer-director-actor Woody ... stand-up comedian himself, honing the intellectual "schnook" persona that would become his trademark ...

It was a big change from the criticism he’s received for his stand-up. The comic has no problem with ... Village at the time, including Woody Allen, Bob Dylan, and Allen Ginsberg.

These are the 40 albums that document a stand-up comedian in full flight ... case with such masters of the form as Bill Cosby and Woody Allen, comedians who recorded successful and influential ...