Steve North is a longtime broadcast journalist and freelance print writer. He has worked at ABC-TV, as news director of two NY radio stations, as correspondent/newscast anchor at NBC Radio, and feature reporter/producer at the RKO/United Stations Radio Networks. For 15 years, he was a writer/producer at CNBC-TV and newscast anchor at CNBC Business Radio, before coming to CBS as broadcast writer for the CBS Early Show. His articles have appeared in dozens of publications, including Newsweek.com, People magazine, The Jerusalem Post, Salon.com, and Newsday.

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The 83-year-old film legend’s two most memorable movies, An American in Paris and Gigi, are currently lighting up Broadway. The actress shares her favorite cinema memories.

Crooner

Michael Feinstein’s protégé is only 18, but he’s being hailed as his generation’s most able interpreter of the Great American Songbook.

Family Mystery

She fled the Third Reich. Then, years after the war ended, she and her husband and children left Israel and returned to Germany. Their relatives were mystified.

A Mother in History

She was manipulative, abrasive, and mercenary to a fault. To know his mother was to feel some small sympathy for Lee Harvey Oswald.

Steve North was a young broadcast journalist the night John Lennon was shot. He remembers being the first to confirm the horrifying news on the air 30 years ago today.