This excerpt was written by Richard Zoglin and originally published in the introduction to his biography, Hope. Memorials to Hope have proliferated across the American landscape. You can walk down ...

At one time, Bob Hope was the hottest thing in comedy, a fresh face with a fresh delivery. Really. He was cutting edge in the 1930s, practically inventing the monologue as a delivery system for jokes.

May 29, 1903 — Leslie Towns Hope is born in Eltham, England, the fifth of seven sons, to William Henry Hope and Avis Towns Hope. 1908 — The Hope family emigrates to the United States, settling in ...

Bob Hope was one of last century's greatest entertainers, but was the comedian and philanthropist a ladies man? INSIDE EDITION speaks to the author of the new Bob Hope biography who claims he was.

Leslie Townes "Bob" Hope (May 29, 1903 – July 27, 2003) was an American comedian, actor, and entertainer. With a career that spanned nearly 80 years, Hope appeared in more than 70 short and feature ...

To the boomer generation, seeing Bob Hope on TV or in the movies was like spending time with cranky relatives. Sure, there were a lot of great memories — the World War II shows, the “Road” movies with ...

Richard Zoglin is the author of a new biography on Bob Hope, the late, longtime honorary mayor of Palm Springs. Desert Sun reporter Bruce Fessier interviewed Hope many times and received a rare ...

Hope, who’s so often remembered as an American comedy icon, was actually born in England as Leslie Townes Hope in 1903. Migrating to the US at the age of 4, Hope’s parents and their seven sons settled ...

The truth is, Bob Hope actually dug Lenny Bruce, he really did – even considered him “brilliant,” according to Richard Zoglin in his new biography Hope: Entertainer of the Century. Zoglin tells the ...

Bob Hope may be something of a forgotten figure, as a Los Angeles Times writer said in a Nov. 29 story about a new biography on the late comedian, “Hope: Entertainer of the Century.” Yet a ...

Until I read Terry Teachout’s excellent essay, I had not thought about Bob Hope since I was a child. For a TV-obsessed kid like me (born in 1967), Hope was huge. And then suddenly, he was simply not ...