Alan Freed

On Saturday, July 14, 2012 the Concern Foundation for Cancer Research, an independent non-profit organization dedicated to raising and granting funds to support cancer research for over 43 years, will hold its 38 th Annual Block Party at Paramount Studios. Read More

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My favorite scene in Carole King 's long-awaited "A Natural Woman" comes near the beginning — appropriately, since the teen hitmaker was the epitome of an early starter. Read More

This story originally appeared in the May 4 issue of The Hollywood Reporter. Read More

My favorite scene in Carole King 's long-awaited "A Natural Woman" comes near the beginning — appropriately, since the teen hitmaker was the epitome of an early starter. Read More

Dick Clark's passing last week reminded me of a rock-and-roll "Christmas Jubilee" concert I saw at the Brooklyn Paramount Theater on Flatbush Avenue during Christmas break 1959. Read More

You know you may not be a kid anymore when rock 'n roll heroes from your youth start to die -- not in their '20s from too much, sex, drugs and rock 'n roll -- but in their '60s or even '70s from diseases of aging like stroke and cancer. Read More

"People may not remember everything Dick Clark said," muses Norm N. Nite. "But they will never forget how he made them feel."Read More

As an early promoter of rock 'n' roll he was the opposite of Alan Freed , the passionate radio wild man who could get so excited he would shout and sometimes ring a cowbell. Read More

Dick Clark, who has died aged 82 following a heart attack, used the fledgling mediums of rock'n'roll and television to make himself a US household name and a vast fortune. Read More