Laughter means success to stand-up comics who began on the famous Borscht Belt. Despite pre-show jitters and some unusual events, everyone predicts Pearl Scraft's live-TV comeback performance at the Catskill resort where she once starred will be a huge success. But there's nothing funny about mur...
The gavel which Mayor Harold Harper had been banging on the scarred oak table in a steady rhythm, like percussion punctuation, slipped out of his hands. As he stooped with an ‘oof’ to retrieve it, none of the Wyndham-by-the-Sea Board of Village Trustees could distinguish the rest of his words, bu...