When New Times called Stephin Merritt of the Magnetic Fields in late August, he apologized for his respiratory distress. He sounded a little congested, but his dulcifer baritone voice was unaffected ...

04:00, Tue, Sep 23, 2025 Updated: 09:43, Tue, Sep 23, 2025 When beloved musical Oliver! was released in 1968 the young cast had the world at their feet. While Mark Lester, who played the titular ...

I’ve written a lot about all of the amazing kids’ shows created by brothers Sid Krofft and Marty Krofft — and, whenever I mention H.R. Pufnstuf, without fail, someone will suggest that I do something ...

Not after a life spent living beneath the glaring spotlight of celebrity, a spotlight charged by a career that began with a significant role in one of the most prominent children's shows of the 2000s.

Ron Moody (left) as Fagin with Jack Wild as the Artful Dodger (right) in Carol Reed's 1968 musical Oliver! (Alamy) In the late 1960s there were few child stars bigger than Jack Wild. As one of the ...

Although it only lasted a single season of 17 episodes, there was something about the Saturday morning live action series HR Pufnstuff — as the following HR Pufnstuf facts will prove — that has ...

Marty Krofft, right, and his brother Sid, in the mid-1960s with puppets from their musical puppet show Les Poupées de Paris - Alamy Marty Krofft, who has died aged 86, was, with his brother Sid, the ...

NEW YORK — Marty Krofft, a TV producer known for imaginative children's shows such as "H.R. Pufnstuf" and primetime hits including "Donny & Marie" in the 1970s, has died in Los Angeles, his publicist ...