Carol Burnett

"Horton Hears a Who": A photograph of Carol Burnett and Jim Carrey with an article about the film "Horton Hears a Who" in Sunday's Calendar section was incorrectly credited to 20th Century Fox. It was taken by Times photographer Karen Tapia-Andersen.

Photo credit: A photograph last Sunday of Carol Burnett and Jim Carrey with an article about the film "Horton Hears a Who" was incorrectly credited to 20th Century Fox. It was taken by Times photographer Karen Tapia-Andersen.

Dick Lynch, 72, who starred at cornerback for the New York Giants during their glory years in the late 1950s and early '60s and was a longtime radio analyst for the team, died Wednesday in New York, family members told the Associated Press. He had been treated for leukemia. Lynch played in the National Football League from 1958 to 1966 -- his first season with Washington and the last eight with the Giants.

Carol Burnett filed a $2-million copyright infringement lawsuit against 20th Century Fox, claiming her cleaning woman character was portrayed on the animated series "Family Guy." The U.S. District Court suit filed in L.A. this week said the Fox Broadcasting show didn't have her permission to include her cleaning woman character Charwoman in an April 2006 episode. The episode shows Charwoman as a porno shop maid and it uses what the lawsuit called an "altered version" of Burnett's theme music.

A federal judge tossed out a lawsuit that entertainer Carol Burnett brought against Fox over use of her well-known Charwoman character in an episode of the animated TV series "Family Guy." Burnett alleged in her copyright infringement lawsuit, filed in March, that the show's creators did not have her consent to include the cleaning woman character she created in the late 1950s, while a repertoire player on "The Garry Moore Show," in an April 2006 episode.

People often search their lives for meaningful signs, something that might telegraph the future. As a child, Carol Burnett's was just outside the one-room apartment she shared with her grandmother on Wilcox Avenue. "Every morning, I would walk out of [our] little building, look up and there would be the Hollywood sign," the 74-year-old clown princess of comedy said during a recent interview at the Beverly Hilton. "That was when you could feel that you could touch the sign!"

There is value in being old enough to remember watching "The Carol Burnett Show" in real time. It was the best of that now-extinct species, the variety show, and in memory serves as something of a Camelot. Yes, there was a time when comedy was smart yet innocent, when satire did not have to be smug, when TV actors could sing and dance and execute a perfectly timed pratfall. Burnett, bless her soul, is a comic genius and highly accomplished actress who would not be able to find a job today.

Carol Burnett: A caption with an article in Monday's Calendar section about the PBS "American Masters" show "Carol Burnett: A Woman of Character" referred to Dick Van Dyke, pictured with Burnett, as a guest star on the show. Van Dyke was a cast member on Burnett's variety show during the 1977 season.

Carrie Hamilton had no direct connection to the Pasadena Playhouse. But it's increasingly likely that the name of the late writer and actress will be attached to the playhouse's small Balcony Theatre and to outreach and play development programs that will be headquartered there. Spurred in part by a Dec.

The lore about Carol Burnett starts, fittingly, in Hollywood. She grew up in an apartment on Wilcox and Yucca with her grandmother, who took her to four double features a week. Afterward, Burnett and her friends would act out all the parts. They'd climb up to the Hollywood sign -- Burnett favored the O's because they were less rickety than the other letters, as she tells it -- and she would let loose with a Tarzan yell.