Shep Houghton had a 50-year career as an actor in Hollywood, from silents in the 1920s through the gory 1970s. He retired almost 40 years ago. Today he turns 100....

Images courtesy Barbara Coulter. IT’S ALWAYS SEEMED ODD to me that no romantic comedy has featured a meet-cute between two people flirting over a celebrity’s corpse. Last summer I convinced a date to attend Marvin Hamlisch’s wake, and ...