This screen icon of the '70s and '80s - now 89 - was spotted walking her dogs with a friend in Los Angeles.

The first Grammy Awards were presented; Louis Armstrong had a chart-topper; ragtime music hit the top of the album charts; ...

Government records show that FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover thought standup comedian Mort Sahl was a "very sick man," and that the feds kept close tabs on Sahl's jokes about them, believing that he and ...

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If it’s true that inside every cynic beats the heart of a disappointed idealist, then that pretty much perfectly describes groundbreaking satirist Mort Sahl, who passed away on Oct. 26 at 94 years old ...

Comedians are something like the front-line workers of show business. As the recent death of Norm Macdonald and the controversy surrounding Dave Chappelle show us, stand-up comics are often among the ...

Will Leonard, an illustrious Tribune nightlife critic, hated Mort Sahl when he performed at Chicago’s famed Mister Kelly’s nightclub in 1973. “Mort Sahl almost always is a surprise. Not always a ...

If you are younger than, say, fifty years old, I will forgive you if the name means little or nothing to you. But, this week we lost Mort Sahl, aged 94, one of the great comedians and humorists of our ...

His name largely faded from headlines and nightclub marquees, Mort Sahl was arguably the most influential comic of his generation. Sahl died Tuesday from what friends called “old age.” He was 94 years ...

Comedian Mort Sahl has died at the age of 94. Sahl was known as “a very likable guy who makes ex-friends easily.” He was popular in the ‘50s and ‘60s but faded from view after he fired back against ...