On a warm June evening, Lily Marotta and Steven Phillips-Horst, comedian hosts of the podcast Celebrity Book Club with Steven and Lily, are talking over each other at Cafe Mogador in Manhattan. “That’s why we love the East Village, because we feel like — ” Marotta says. “We’re total Patti …
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It would not be Black History Month without a shout-out to Lewis Howard Latimer, the African-American inventor whose groundbreaking innovations led to lightbulbs and modern telecommunications. Or George Washington Carver, the scientist who helped revolutionize agriculture and whose work with crops, including peanuts, is credited with eventually leading to grocery-store …
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Rip Taylor, the animated comedian who always left behind a trail of confetti, died Sunday, The New York Times reports. He was 84. Taylor’s publicist, Harlan Böll, confirmed Taylor’s death, saying the comedian suffered a seizure before he died at a Los Angeles hospital. An exact cause of death, however, …
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