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Just about every horror fan has a soft spot in their black hearts for Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas. For a new spin on a classic tune, check out the video embedded at the top of the ...

God bless gibberish. Pop music often works best when it's most meaningless, when it reaches for a level of pure euphoric silliness. The word "boogie" isn't quite gibberish; it has a whole etymology.

On Twitter, the beloved music-maker wrote, “I’m still stunned by last night’s terrible news. Ken Page died suddenly. He was the one and only Oggie Boogie Man. He was simply one of the best, most ...

Ken Page, one of Broadway‘s most familiar character actors who indelibly lent his voice to Tim Burton’s holiday film classic The Nightmare Before Christmas as the villainous Oogie Boogie, died Monday, ...

Ken Page, a theater icon who brought Old Deuteronomy to life in the Broadway debut of “Cats” and delighted children everywhere by voicing Oogie Boogie from “The Nightmare Before Christmas,” has died.