“She was a fanatic about clowns,” Chuck Bisel told appraiser Brian Thomczek at a recent appraisal session held at the Michigan Design Center in Troy. Chuck and his wife, Leah, inherited one of the two ...

When Red Skelton does a nightclub or television show, a man with a towel stands by at all times in case Red’s stomach suffers one of its frequent reactions to the strain. Throughout the performance, ...