Melvin Van Peebles, whose low-budget 1971 phenomenon, “Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song” — an X-rated film about a Black ...

He had an acclaimed Broadway career in musicals and comedies, but moviegoers knew him mostly as the self-assured, easygoing ...

His years illustrating pulp novels honed his sense of pictorial drama, and his meticulous research ensured historical ...

"But I felt like a freak for thinking I could do something like that." One day, he received an offer to come to L.A. to make ...

Sal Maida, a New York-born bassist who played with bands including Roxy Music, Sparks and Milk 'N' Cookies passed away at the ...