Hillel Italie – Page 3

FILE – From left, Sonny Curtis, Bobby Vee, Joe B. Maudlin and Jerry J.I. Allison perform at the Stillman auditorium in Clear Lake, Iowa on Friday Jan. 30, 2009. (AP Photo/The Globe-Gazette, Teresa Prince, File)

Sonny Curtis, Crickets member who penned ‘Mary Tyler Moore Show’ theme, dies at 88

September 20, 2025 at 1:39 p.m.

Sonny Curtis, a vintage rock ‘n’ roller who wrote the raw classic “I Fought the Law” and posed the enduring question “Who can turn the world on with her smile?”...

This cover image released by Knopf shows “Nobody’s Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice” by Virginia Roberts Giuffre. (Knopf via AP)

Jeffrey Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre wrote a memoir. Months after her death, it’s coming out.

August 24, 2025 at 1:11 p.m.

A posthumous and “unsparing” memoir by one of Jeffrey Epstein’s most prominent accusers, Virginia Roberts Giuffre, will be published this fall, publishing house Alfred A. Knopf said Sunday.

FILE – The Kennedy Center is seen Aug. 13, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Trump names Stallone and Kiss for Kennedy Center Honors and says he’ll host the awards show

August 13, 2025 at 3:26 p.m.

As the new chairman of the Kennedy Center, President Donald Trump named as country music star George Strait, “Rocky” actor Sylvester Stallone, singer Gloria Gaynor, the rock band Kiss and...

FILE – Musician Brian Wilson poses for a portrait in Los Angeles on June 2, 2015. (Photo by Casey Curry/Invision/AP, File)

Brian Wilson, visionary leader of the Beach Boys, dies at 82

June 11, 2025 at 5:58 p.m.

Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys’ visionary and fragile leader and one of the world’s most influential recording artists, has died at 82.

FILE – Rock star Sylvester “Sly” Stone of Sly and the Family Stone, April 1972. (AP Photo, File)

Sly Stone, leader of funk revolutionaries Sly and the Family Stone, dies at 82

June 9, 2025 at 6:24 p.m.

Sly Stone, the revolutionary musician and dynamic showman whose Sly and the Family Stone transformed popular music in the 1960s and ’70s and beyond with such hits as “Everyday People,”...

Author Edmund White appears at his home in New York, Aug. 27, 2019. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, file)

Groundbreaking gay author Edmund White dies at 85

June 4, 2025 at 4:33 p.m.

Edmund White, the groundbreaking man of letters who documented and imagined the gay revolution through journalism, essays, plays and such novels as “A Boy’s Own Story” and “The Beautiful Room...

A 1776 broadside printing of the Declaration of Independence is displayed at the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia on June 17, 2019. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Book publishers see surging interest in the US Constitution and print new editions

April 23, 2025 at 10:00 a.m.

On Wednesday, Random House announced that it would publish a hardcover book in July combining the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution, followed in November by a hardcover edition...

FILE – In this 1993 file photo, actor Gene Hackman is seen. (AP Photo/File)

Actor Gene Hackman, raised in Danville, found dead at home along with his wife

February 27, 2025 at 10:59 a.m.

Gene Hackman, the prolific Oscar-winning actor whose studied portraits ranged from reluctant heroes to conniving villains and made him one of the industry’s most respected and honored performers, has been found...

Singer Roberta Flack poses for a portrait in New York on Oct. 10, 2018. A representative for Roberta Flack has announced that the legendary singer has ALS, commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease, and can no longer sing.

Roberta Flack, Grammy-winning singer with an intimate style, dies at 88

February 24, 2025 at 3:02 p.m.

Roberta Flack, the Grammy-winning singer and pianist whose intimate vocal and musical style on “Killing Me Softly with His Song,” “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” and other...

FILE – Author Salman Rushdie poses for a portrait to promote his book “Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder”, at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin, Germany, May 16, 2024. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

Author Salman Rushdie testifies about his shock and pain as a stranger repeatedly stabbed him on stage

February 11, 2025 at 5:43 p.m.

Salman Rushdie described in graphic detail Tuesday the frenzied moments in 2022 when a masked man rushed at him on a stage in western New York and repeatedly slashed him...

All Stories