Subject: Paul Williams: Still Alive Fri Jun 08, 2012 7:35 am
A ubiquitous TV game and talk-show presence who racked up 50 appearances on Johnny Carson’s “Tonight Show” and a lengthy list of acting credits, including in the “Smokey and the Bandit” trilogy, Paul Williams was virtually inescapable in the 1970s and early 1980s. The chubby, diminutive singer also wrote a string of era-defining hits, among them “We’ve Only Just Begun” (for the Carpenters), “An Old-Fashioned Love Song” (Three Dog Night) and “Rainbow Connection” (the Muppets), and shared an Oscar with Barbra Streisand for “Evergreen.’’
