Mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves’ story is nearly as dramatic as her operatic portrayals. Abandoned by an alcoholic father, she and her siblings performed with their mother at a host of Washington, D ...

The first Donkey Kong game in over a decade has just been released and critics (including this one) are already hailing it as ...

Mae Questel, a rubber-voiced veteran of stage, screen and vaudeville who played Woody Allen’s mother in the film “New York Stories” and was the cartoon voice of Betty Boop and Olive Oyl, has ...

Our world has become a Popeye cartoon. Shades of our poop deck pals haunt today’s culture, melding the lines between fantasy and reality with eerie accuracy.

Olive Oyl, who auditioned with 400 other animal acts before being selected as a finalist, had a leg up on the competition, so to speak. The Rothackers own TOPS Kennels in Grayslake, ...

YouTube video still Wilco lead singer Jeff Tweedy, left, appears in animated form for the band's music video "Dawned On Me," stealing Popeye the Sailor Man's girlfriend Olive Oyl. The video is the ...

CHESTER - As the cartoon character Popeye the Sailor Man is celebrated in a weekend festival, the inspiration for his longtime love interest, Olive Oyl, will be honored in a special ceremony today ...

Some nasty bullies even gave her the nickname Olive Oyl after cartoon character Popeye’s gangly girlfriend. “I wasn’t at ease with myself because I was very skinny and quite tall for my age ...