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Billie Hayes, who rode a memorable cackle to kiddie-TV fame, playing a witch named Witchiepoo in the short-lived but much remembered 1969 series “

Billie Hayes, Memorable Witch on ‘H.R. Pufnstuf,’ Dies at 96 Ms. Hayes had quite a cackle, and it served her well in a number of witchy roles, beginning in 1969 on a short-lived but much remembered TV series. The actress Billie Hayes in her best-known role, as Witchiepoo on the 1969 children’s television series “H.R. Pufnstuf.”Credit...Everett Collection May 13, 2021 Billie Hayes, who rode a memorable cackle to kiddie-TV fame, playing a witch named Witchiepoo in the short-lived but much remembered 1969 series “H.R. Pufnstuf,” died on April 29 in Los Angeles. She was ...

Article content No road trip is complete without roadside attractions. Truth is, though, most of us hurtle past these off-ramp enticements on the way to somewhere else, at best glancing at a billboard (Canada’s first what?) or squinting at a signpost (Home to who?). For those of us who wished they’d stopped — even if just for a photo — following are some random Canadian destinations with weird, offbeat or just plain unusual claims to fame. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or Canada's roadside attractions range from loopy to lumbering Back ...

Republican blood feuds are jeopardizing the party’s hope of reclaiming Congress in 2022. Drew Angerer/Getty Images Cartoonist Al Capp, famous for the twentieth-century comic strip Li’l Abner, created a visually memorable character named Joe Btfsplk who walked around under his own rain cloud. That mood of persistent gloom afflicts the Democrats these days, even though Joe Biden is in the White House and the party holds shaky majorities in the Senate and the House.   Their laments are familiar and a tad self-pitying. The Senate, by giving each state two seats, is biased against the Dem...

When John Lennon was killed on Dec. 8, 1980, he left behind some 200 hours of film and video footage, most of it never publicly seen, a lot of it in the category of home movies. The people who made "Imagine: John Lennon" had access to all of it, and so this is not a return visit to the familiar Beatles footage we've seen before in documentaries like "The Beatles Story." Although "Imagine" begins in Lennon's childhood and of course includes the Beatles period, the emphasis is on the years after the Beatles broke up and he merged with Yoko Ono. Advertisement I use that word - "merged" - deliber...