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The estate of the late, great Dick Clark has just price-chopped his beloved Malibu hideaway by $250,000, bringing the price down from $3.25 million to $2,995,000. After two years on the Malibu housing market, this Flintstone-esque home atop a bluff got a price cut for the second time, as first reported by Curbed. It came down $250,000 in the summer of 2013, and without a buyer in sight, the price has been reduced by a quarter million dollars once again. One of Malibu’s landmark properties, Clark’s stone home features unparalleled 360 degree views of the Pacific Ocean, Channel Islands, Boney...

One of Hollywood’s most prestigious awards shows will soon have a Chinese owner. Under a deal announced Friday, Dalian Wanda Group will buy Santa Monica-based Dick Clark Productions for about $1 billion, giving it broadcasting rights to the Golden Globe Awards, the Academy of Country Music Awards and the New Year’s Eve countdown in New York. The acquisition is the latest effort by Dalian Wanda to expand its entertainment footprint after the firm bought the AMC Entertainment theater chain for $2.6 billion in 2012 and took over Legendary Entertainment this year in a deal valued at $3.5 billion dollars.

A few of us on the fifth floor here at the Register remember Dick Clark from the earliest days of his black and white American Bandstand telecasts. Television was young, so was he and so were we. Now TV is old hat, probably destined to fade into some amorphous merger with the Internet. Yours truly is of an age that it probably would be risky to revisit even the Stroll, which required minimal footwork, but a bit of rhythm and was just one of his priceless innovations. But Dick Clark . . .

TMZ is reporting that famed TV producer, and “New Year’s Rockin’ Eve” host Dick Clark has died at the age of 82 from an apparent massive heart attack. There are few details surrounding his death at this time. Clark suffered a stroke in 2004, forcing him to retire from hosting “New Years’ Rockin’ Eve.” Ryan Seacrest took over in 2006

I received a call on the morning of New Year’s Day from an old friend I hadn’t spoken to in a while, wishing me a Happy New Year. He asked me what I’d done the night before and I told him I was in bed by ten p.m.. He made fun of me and said he knew me when I did anything but sleep on New Year’s Eve. We laughed. He said he stayed home and watched ABC’s Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve. And then he said something that made the laughter stop. He said in a slurred voice,...

With the Golden Globes’ collapse, writers have struck a $75-million blow in their labour dispute, and the Oscars might well be the next casualty. The scribes aren’t celebrating, though, because no one expects this to end soon HOLLYWOOD – As symbols go, there probably isn't a more accurate one for the current crisis in show biz. It's a picture of Oscars host Jon Stewart with his fingers crossed, sheepishly hoping all is well, that adorns the new visitor's brochure of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. The brochure was likely printed before the Writers' Guild of America (WGA),...

BOOK REVIEW & DISCUSSION: Ain't Got No Cigarettes: Memories of Music Legend Roger Miller By Lyle E Style "It's an endless story about Roger. He was one of the cleverest people I've ever met in my life." (Waylon Jennings) This is my own review of Ain't Got No Cigarettes, the first Roger Miller book ever published. My review is based on reading the book (twice) and having several discussions with Lyle E Style, the author. He may stop by later to answer questions (as his schedule allows). This one is a must-read, folks. And for you radio personalities who...

Decades ago, the Publishers Clearing House launched a campaign to give away $1 million with Ed McMahon and Dick Clark as spokesmen. In addition to the prize and fat payments to the sponsors, PCH had millions in costs for its advertising and direct mail. That campaign offers a solution to the illegal alien problem in the US today. Some people wondered when the “Ed McMahon” campaign began, how that made good economic sense. I was working in direct mail advertising then. I knew exactly why it made sense. PCH were (and still are) spending tens of millions of dollars in...

NEW YORK -- There was more to celebrate than the ball dropping in Times Square for Dick Clark _ the personality who's been ringing in the New Year for decades made his first television appearance since a stroke in late 2004. Clark, sitting behind a desk with the street scene in the background, sounded hoarse and occasionally was hard to understand, but he said, "I wouldn't have missed this for the world." "Last year I had a stroke," he explained. "It left me in bad shape. I had to teach myself how to walk and talk again. It's been a...

An ABC publicity photo promoting their annual depressing-party-in-a-box, New Year's Rockin' Eve, is causing controversy for having Photoshopped in a smiling, fully upright, pre-stroke Dick Clark next to co-hosts Hilary Duff and Ryan Seacrest: [T]he image of the 76-year-old Clark was taken before his December 2004 stroke and superimposed onto a recently taken picture of Duff and Seacrest. The "Photoshopping" spurred rumors that the ageless celebrity hasn't recovered from the stroke and may be unable to properly perform his annual year-end duties on Saturday night, New Year's Eve. A spokesman for Clark and ABC bosses denied those rumors yesterday. [...]

Clark Ready for New Year's Eve ReturnEmail this story Dec 29 8:01 AM US/EasternBURBANK, Calif. - Dick Clark, who suffered a stroke last December, won't be in a wheelchair when he appears on ABC's "New Year's Rockin' Eve," says co- host Ryan Seacrest. It will be the 76-year-old Clark's first TV appearance since his stroke, which forced him to bow out of last year's show. "I'm not a doctor and I'm not his wife so I don't see him on a daily basis, but he will not be in a wheelchair on the telecast," Seacrest told AP Radio in...

December 28, 2005 -- It's a happy new Dick Clark. Or at least that's what ABC-TV wants viewers to think after the network yesterday released this doctored publicity photo, which features Clark with his co-hosts for this year's New Year's Eve telecast from Times Square, Hilary Duff and Ryan Seacrest. But the image of the 76-year-old Clark was taken before his December 2004 stroke and superimposed onto a recently taken picture of Duff and Seacrest. The "Photoshopping" spurred rumors that the ageless celebrity hasn't recovered from the stroke and may be unable to properly perform his annual year-end duties on...

NEW YORK -- New Year's Eve is the biggest party night of the year, and television is among the most youth-obsessed media, so guess who will be the top hosts this weekend when the ball drops in Times Square? A couple of guys in their 70s, that's who. Dick Clark and Regis Philbin have long cultivated a sort of ageless appeal, and that will be put to the test during New Year's Eve specials on ABC and Fox, respectively. Clark partner Ryan Seacrest and NBC's Carson Daly are also on duty. The septuagenarian send-off to 2005 - one of a...

BURBANK, Calif. Dec 30, 2004 — "American Bandstand" icon Dick Clark plans to watch his New Year's Eve show from the hospital bed where he is recovering from a stroke. Clark, 75, suffered what was described as a mild stroke and has been hospitalized since Dec. 6. Regis Philbin is filling in for America's oldest teenager on ABC-TV's "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve 2005" on Friday. "Even though I won't be in New York this year, I will be watching 'New Year's Rockin' Eve' on TV and there's one tradition I intend to maintain," Clark said in a statement...

legendary Philly entertainment entrepeneur Dick Clark has had a stroke, according to his spokesman in California.

Access Hollywood didn't report Clark's condition or where he had the stroke. Last April, Clark announced he had type 2 diabetes, formerly called adult-onset diabetes, since 1994, but kept it a secret from everyone except close friends and family. Clark is now a spokesman for the American Association of Diabetes Educators and the pharmaceutical maker Merck & Co. Clark, 75, was a Philadelphia radio disc jockey in the early 1950s, when he took over a local show, American Bandstand, on WFIL-TV. Clark's show was later syndicated nationally and he moved to Los Angeles as his entertainment empire expanded. In 1973,...

'America's oldest teenager' Dick Clark has diabetes 04:05 PM CDT on Wednesday, April 14, 2004Assocaited Press LOS ANGELES – Dick Clark, renowned as "America's oldest teenager," has diabetes. The 74-year-old producer and TV star has had type 2 diabetes – what used to be called adult-onset diabetes – since 1994 but kept it a secret from everyone except close friends and family, according to the public relations firm Ogilvy, which is promoting Clark's new role as a spokesman for the American Association of Diabetes Educators and the pharmaceutical maker Merck & Co. Clark is working with the firms to launch...

Oh my gosh, I just realized I'm doing the same thing I did at 15, before I was allowed to date... I'm sitting at home watching New Year's Rockin Eve with Dick Clark......! Two divorces, and a few bad dates later..... But at least now, I've got my FR friends to keep me company! HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hollywood star stands up for decency Patricia Heaton walks out of music awards because of lewd tone For "Everybody Loves Raymond" star Patricia Heaton, the last straw came when a performer at the 30th annual American Music Awards made graphic references to three-way sex. That, and, perhaps, Sharon Osbourne's joke about what she called Mariah Carey's "fake" endowments. Patricia Heaton Though the actress was at the awards show to introduce a pre-recorded retrospective of executive producer Dick Clark's annual music show, enough was enough. She walked out of the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, disgusted by what she called "an...

FLASH: DICK CLARK 'AMERICAN MUSIC AWARDS' FLOP... 9.3 RATING/13 SHARE MONDAY NIGHT, SAYS NIELSEN; LOWEST AUDIENCE IN ABC HISTORY OF SHOW [DOWN FROM 11.5/17 IN 2002]...FINISHES 3RD PLACE IN SLOTS; DWARFED BY FOX 'JOE MILLIONAIRE' [12.8/18], CBS 'RAYMOND' [10.1/14]...