| 1947 | Mar 14, 1947 - Billy Crystal was born into a showbiz family in Long Beach, New York on March 14, 1947. His father was a successful concert promoter in New York City and his uncle, Milt Gabler, founded Commodore Records and later, Decca Records. Crystal grew up around ...Billy Crystal was born into a showbiz family in Long Beach, New York on March 14, 1947. His father was a successful concert promoter in New York City and his uncle, Milt Gabler, founded Commodore Records and later, Decca Records. Crystal grew up around talented people, and even can count Billie Holiday as one of his babysitters! His gift for making people laugh may have showed early on, but Billy Crystal's first love was sports. In fact, Crystal attended Marshall ...  Show more  Show lesswww.rhapsody.com/billy-crystal
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| 1986 | Aug 9, 1986 - By STEPHEN HOLDEN. The notion that everybody is in show business may be as old as entertainment, but it is given a new glitzy twist by the comedian Billy Crystal. Underneath the most genteel, button-down exterior, he proposes there is in all of us a flamboyant ham longing for ... www.nytimes.com/1986/08/09/arts/tv-billy-crystal-on-hbo.html
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| 1989 | Oct 21, 1989 - Billy Crystal almost didn't take his "Midnight Train to Moscow." The prospect of wringing laughter from a gray people in a gray land nurtured on the likes of Dostoevsky and the image of Ivan Denisovich was daunting. But with a little help from Charlie Chaplain and some heavy family ... pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access/24578488.html?dids=24578488:24578488&FMT=ABS& FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Oct...R...Billy+Crystal...
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| 1991 | Jun 5, 1991 - A year later, [Billy Crystal] and co-stars Bruno Kirby and Daniel Stern found themselves in New Mexico, doing just that: learning how to ride and rope like pros as they embarked on the project that Crystal not so jokingly calls his "coming of middle-age movie." City Slickers is coming ... pqasb.pqarchiver.com/thestar/access/514106241.html?dids=514106241:514106241&FMT=ABS&FMTS= ABS:FT&type=current&date=Jun...in...Billy+Crystal...
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| 1992 | Sep 23, 1992 - By JANET MASLIN. "Mr. Saturday Night" starts out by letting the audience know exactly what, or whom, it is up against: Buddy Young Jr., a corrosively funny stand-up comic who will stop at nothing for the sake of a laugh. Buddy's brand of humor is so emphatically in-your-face that he ... movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9B06E3D6123AF930A1575AC0A964958260&pagewanted=print
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| 1997 | May 8, 1997 - Robin Williams and Billy Crystal, Nos. 1 and 23, respectively, on Entertainment Weekly's recent ranking of the funniest comedians working today, ... PHOTO: Billy Crystal, left...and Robin Williams; PHOTOGRAPHER: ARI MINTZ / For The Times; PHOTO: FOOTPRINTS: Billy Crystal, left, ... pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/11702225.html?dids=11702225:11702225&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS: FT...Billy+Crystal%2C...a...
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| 1998 | Apr 10, 1998 - "MY GIANT," the new Billy Crystal movie opening Friday, should have been called "My Giant Mistake." It's tough to convey exactly how bad this movie is, but we'll give it a go. First and foremost, it's not funny. It's not even close to funny. And it's not even not funny enough to be ... www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/e/a/1998/04/10/WEEKEND9508.dtl
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| 1999 | Mar 9, 1999 - This is how you spend a year off from the Oscars. You make plans to do the baseball spring-training circuit. You smack around some golf balls. You see some friends. Sleep in on Saturdays. Maybe even take in a movie between talk shows. But don't think that Billy Crystal's not working ... docs.newsbank.com/g/GooglePM/ST/lib00155,0EAF91ECCBE1BB51.html
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| 2001 | Apr 28, 2001 - By Roger Friedman. The headlines are going to read "Billy Crystal Hits a Home Run." Or a grand slam. And they're all deserved. When HBO airs Crystal's movie, 61*, this weekend you will see that there was a time, 40 years ago, when people were fighting over asterisks as if they were ... www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,18117,00.html
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| 2004 | Dec 7, 2004 - NEW YORK (AP) — On Monday, the day after its opening, Billy Crystal's 700 Sundays took in $600000 at the box office, pushing the advance for the ... 700 Sundays "an affecting, hilarious evening of theater" and the New York Post proclaiming, "Come back to Broadway any time, Mr. Crystal. ... www.usatoday.com/life/theater/news/2004-12-07-sundays-600_x.htm?POE=LIFISVA
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