Adam West, who portrayed the superhero Batman in a wildly popular television show in the 1960s and who seemed trapped in the character’s cape and tights for the rest of his career, died June 9 in Los Angeles. He was 88.
The cause was leukemia, his publicist, Molly Schoneveld, said in a statement.
Other actors, including Michael Keaton, Ben Affleck, Val Kilmer and Oscar winners George Clooney and Christian Bale, have taken on the role of the Caped Crusader, but no one was as closely identified with the character as Mr. Read More...
Yvette Marie Stevens, better known by her stage name Chaka Khan, is an American singer. Yvette Marie Stevens was born on March 23, 1953, in Chicago, Illinois, into an artistic and bohemian family.
The eldest of five children born to Charles Stevens and Sandra Coleman, she has described her father as a beatnik and her mother as “able to do anything”. She grew up in Hyde Park, “an island in the middle of the madness” of Chicago’s rough South Side housing projects. Read More...
Alaska Airlines flight attendant Amber May was preparing for takeoff from Atlanta to Seattle last summer when a passenger’s call light came on. May hurried over to the passenger.
“She seemed pretty worried,” May said. “She asked, ‘Could you help me to keep some eggs warm?’”
May, 52, was perplexed.
“I’d never been asked something like that before, so at first, I thought she wanted me to heat up some breakfast,” she said. Read More...
