It was pure absurdist surrealism in the guise of a kids' show. I was 12 when I first saw Soupy Sales. His show was on a local LA station; this was several years before he moved his operation to New ...

As Roy Edroso pointed out the other day, most children’s programming in the New York area during the early and mid-1960s was dreck. There were exceptions: Chuck McCann, who read the funnies to us on ...

REASON TO WATCH Clips, clips, clips . . . WHAT IT'S ABOUT Written and directed by Smithtown native (now living in Bohemia) Marino Amoruso, this is an especially clip-rich overview of the unforgettable ...

I hate it when someone I consider a social icon - someone who helped mold my character and make me the person I am today - passes away and their death gets little notice, by which I mean no flags at ...

Shor, he says, “does a terrific job of chronicling Soupy’s early days in television, especially those important Detroit years…where he created some of his most memorable characters. Shor makes a ...

He claimed to have taken about 20,000 pies in his face over the course of his career and was a TV icon to the Baby Boomer generation. There’s word from New York ...