HE DID IT CY'S WAY
NOBODY had more fun sitting at the piano playing a Cy Coleman tune than Cy Coleman. A few years ago, the Broadway composer, who died last week at age 75 of a heart attack, performed at Carnegie Hall with the New York Pops.For his encore, Coleman, a bright and energetic force at the piano, launched into a jazzy medley of his hit songs - "The Best Is Yet to Come," "Real Live Girl," "If They Could See Me Now," among...
Live Girl McCulley picked to be treasurer of county executive's bid for re-election
CLINTON -- Joyce McCulley has been named treasurer of Anderson County Executive Rex Lynch's re-election campaign.A lifelong resident of Anderson County, McCulley lives in Clinton. She has been an employee of Anderson County since 1975 and now works in the County Executive's office.McCulley is a member of the Christian Outreach Church in Oak Ridge, where she is president of the Women's Ministry. She is a writer and a regular contributor to Reaching...
Live Girl Hollywood makes much ado about mortality
Hollywood picks up where life leaves off
Movie-ing on
You could say they died cute. From Cary Grant and Constance Bennett ("Topper") to Albert Brooks and Meryl Streep ("Defending Your Life"), death has often been a pretty romantic life option in Hollywood movies. Maybe there's less pressure and more expansive possibilities when one is dead.And indeed, sometimes only one is dead. James Caan with Sally Field in "Kiss Me Goodbye" (1982), Richard Dreyfuss with...
Couple collects kitsch
BURLINGTON (AP) - Imagine Barbie in the kitchen with her hand in the cookie jar while her friend, Elvis, plows the back 40 on his John Deere tractor and you've just about got the Clyde and Kay Thacker household.No, Elvis isn't alive and mowing grass in Burlington and Barbie hasn't morphed into a real live girl. They are just a couple of the things the Thackers collect.The Burlington couple, married for 20 years, cannot remember a time when they...