A year before playing the charismatic—”Who loves ya, baby?”—fedora hat-wearing, lollipop-sucking, New York City police detective Theophilus “Theo” Kojak for five seasons on the popular TV series Kojak ...

Giallo: a splashy ‘70s subgenre of Italian horror with soft, overlit nightscapes filmed in garish Eastman color and stars whose hairlines didn’t recede, they advanced. Except for the lollipop-sucking ...

An online campaign launched this week to rename a Duluth street for actor Telly Savalas, the bald-headed, crime-solving, lollipop-sucking star of TV's "Kojak" in the 1970s. "Telly Savalas lived in ...

Intrigued? From my latest Daily Beast column: I started receiving People magazine recently, and as I was leafing through its ho-hum 40th anniversary issue, I stumbled across this 1974 cover featuring ...

America loved Telly Savalas in the 1970s, when the veteran Greek-American actor nailed the title role in CBS’ “Kojak” series — a tough New York City police lieutenant with a heart of gold, given to ...

Tom DiMenna doing a swell impression of the macho-man actor, swiveling back from the dead to tell stories about looking for Peter Falk’s missing eye and playing with Maud Adams’s fiery libido. “What ...

“Kojak” is back, 11 years after the death of Telly Savalas, in a limited series from the USA Network, and let us all admit from the start that, lollipops and “New York setting” aside -- Toronto ...

Get Access To Every Broadway Story Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Tom DiMenna returns as Telly Savalas for a SoHo ...

DEL MAR — Thirty years ago, when Bill Koch was 5, he trailed his grandfather to tracks all over California to see a 2-year-old gelding called Telly’s Pop run. Young Koch was here in 1975 when Telly’s ...