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Watch for Chakiris on White Christmas Tonight

Here’s a new way to watch “White Christmas” on American Movie Classics 8 p.m. and 10:45 p.m. tonight and Wednesday: Watch for glimpses of dancer George Chakiris, the Norwood native whose uncredited...

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The Naked Truth about George Chakiris

During his first visit back to his hometown of Norwood today, George Chakiris revealed he did his first (only?) nude scenes on Sherman Avenue across from the old high school, where his family lived...

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Celebrating 90 years of WLW-AM

Ninety years ago this week, WLW-AM began a “regular broadcast programming schedule of news, lectures, information and music.” A large advertisement in the Cincinnati Enquirer on March 22, 1922,...

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‘Red Garters’ dress at Rosemary Clooney House

A dress worn by Rosemary Clooney in “Red Garters,” her second movie (1953), will be added to  the Rosemary Clooney House museum collection Saturday in Augusta, Ky. Nick and Nina Clooney, her brother...

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Holiday TV: White Christmas, A Christmas Story, Shari Lewis and Lamb Chop

 Where do Generals keep their armies? In their sleevies! That’s not a line from the “Mr. Bones” vaudeville number in “White Christmas,” the Bing Crosby-Rosemary Clooney-Danny Kaye (and Norwood’s...

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Holiday TV: White Christmas with Vera-Ellen

 Did you know that  “White Christmas” (on AMC tonight) did not win the Oscar in 1954 for best original song. Why? Because Irving Berlin won the Oscar in 1943 for “White Christmas,” when it first...

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Reviving Cincinnati’s Broadcast Hall of Fame

Cincinnati’s Media Heritage Inc. – which has the local TV/radio display at the Voice of America Museum of Broadcasting on Tylersville Road in West Chester Township — wants  to revive the Greater...

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WVXU-FM salutes Rosemary Clooney Saturday

 WVXU-FM celebrates the big band career of Rosemary Clooney, born 85 years ago next week (May 23), with a two hour special at 10 p.m. Saturday. Clooney, who died in 2002 at age 74, will be heard on...

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National Radio Hall of Fame honors Powel Crosley Jr.

 WLW-AM founder Powel Crosley Jr. will be inducted in into the Chicago-based National Radio Hall of Fame in November, a year after retired WLW-AM afternoon drive host Gary Burbank received the honor....

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RIP: Dante DiPaolo, Rosemary Clooney’s husband

Actor-dancer Dante DiPaolo, the widower of singer Rosemary Clooney, died Tuesday in Los Angeles. He was 87. • All about Rosemary Clooney Clooney married DiPaolo at St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in her...

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