Speculation makes moving on tough for many Nov 15, 2009
Recruits put on hold while UNO ponders its athletic future Thursday, November 12, 2009 By Ted Lewis Staff writer. First-year UNO baseball coach Bruce Peddie has had to deliver potential devastating news before. (Nola.com -- Sports)
'Chicago' wows 'em Sep 17, 2009
" Set in Prohibition-era Chicago, it's instantly clear that the show's ingredients are not the stuff of which so many sweet-and-lovely musicals are made. The leading female characters, Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart, both have committed homicide. Their lawyer, Billy Flynn, is motivated mainly by the size of the fee he can collect. The women compete for his services and for the attention of a criminal-celebrity-hungry media. The show ends with the women teaming up for a possible future in showbiz. So... (Erie Times-News, PA)
Pat Yankee Stars in a Special Jazz Concert June 14 in San Francisco - Her Tribute to Sophie Tucker May 28, 2009
Ms. Yankee, the last of the red hot mamas, began her career with the famed Ted Lewis band as a tap dancer, then became a jazz vocalist with her own band, "Pat Yankee and the Sinners." She performed for many years with San Francisco's own Turk Murphy Jazz Band at Earthquake McGoon's and, later, at the Fairmont Hotel. Her career took her all over the world. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
'Alien Trespass': Space Junk, By Kurt Loder Apr 4, 2009
Eric McCormack as Ted Lewis in "Alien Trespass" (Roadside Attraction) ... The Ghota escapes and goes on a people-eating binge, so when a local astronomer named Ted Lewis (Eric McCormack) shows up to check out the downed ship, Urp takes over his body and sets off in search of the escaped monster. (VHI.com -- Music News)
B-movie tribute 'Alien Trespass' deserves a B-plus Apr 3, 2009
Slumming Hollywood star Eric McCormack ("Will and Grace") has a plum dual role as Dr. Ted Lewis, a befuddled, pipe-smoking astrophysicist, and Urp, the robotic alien who temporarily inhabits Ted's body after his spaceship crash-lands in the desert near the tiny town of Mojave. Urp has lost an intergalactic prisoner called the Ghota, a 7-foot-tall purple phallic symbol with a giant red eyeball who can reduce humans to puddles of goo in seconds. (Boston Globe)
Obituaries for Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2009 Feb 17, 2009
She was especially fond of music by Nat King Cole, Willie Nelson, Ted Lewis and the Ink Spots. Surviving are her two daughters, Barbara (Barry) Winrich of Amherst Junction, Wis. (La Crosse Tribune, WI)
