Ghost of Christmas Past Quiz Nov 6, 2009
Jim Carrey joins the legions of actors who have played Ebenezer Scrooge. In honor of the latest version of "A Christmas Carol," we offer a quiz to test your smarts about this classic. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Cassidy brothers bond over ‘Ruby’ Jul 23, 2009
The brothers are all sons of Jack Cassidy, the comic actor whose presence continues to hang over the family nearly 33 years after his death ... It showed Jack Cassidy in costume for He & She, a 1967-68 CBS sitcom in which he played a preening, hyperconfident actor. (Boston Globe)
'Partridge Family' redux -- sorta Jul 22, 2009
"But the flip side is it can also be the most tortuous and most stressful, because it's your family and the lines can get blurry. The brothers are all sons of Jack Cassidy, the prolific comic actor whose presence continues to hang over the family nearly 33 years after his death. David is the son of Cassidy and Evelyn Ward; Jack Cassidy later married actress Shirley Jones, the mother of Shaun, Patrick and Ryan. In a paradoxical twist, she played David's birth mother on "The Partridge Family. "... (FOX59, IN)
Cassidy bros. Jul 21, 2009
All are sons of the late actor Jack Cassidy, while , the actress and singer, is the mother of Shaun, Patrick and Ryan. "The four of us never worked together. I loved the idea that I can get up in the morning and go to work with my brothers, my best friends," David says. (USA Today)
The other side of Mrs. Partridge May 15, 2009
Decorating the walls are pictures of her sons with her first husband, the late singer-actor Jack Cassidy: TV producer-writer Shaun, actor Patrick, art director Ryan, and stepson David, with whom she starred in "The Partridge Family.". Shaun has created a new series for Patrick and David for ABC Family about two brothers who were once big rock stars 20 years ago called "Ruby and the Rockits." "I will pop in and out as Grandma," Jones says. (Boston Globe)
The Almanac -- weekly Feb 24, 2009
They include Flemish mapmaker Gerardus Mercator in 1512; the Rev. William Blackstone, the first settler in what is now Boston, in 1595; Antoine Cadillac, founder of Detroit, in 1658; poet Lucy Larcom in 1824; lithographer James Ives, partner of Nathaniel Currier, in 1824; author Frank Norris in 1870; water treatment pioneer Emmett J. Culligan in 1893; actors Rex Harrison in 1908, Jack Cassidy in 1927, Dean Stockwell in 1936 (age 73), Samantha Eggar in 1939 (age 70), Paul Sand in 1944 (age 65),... (Yahoo News -- Auto Racing)
