THE LOST TESTAMENT OF SAM BUTERA: THE RISE & FALL OF ‘THE WILDEST SHOW IN VEGAS’
Sax player and arranger Sam Butera was ‘Keith Richards to Louis Prima’s Mick Jagger’ once he joined the...
Burt Kearns
FRED WILLARD WAS FOREVER YOUNG: AND REALLY REALLY OLD
For 60 years, Fred Willard made us laugh playing the same character, from early comedy club gigs with...
HOW SWEET TO BE NEIL INNES (RIP)
Neil Innes, one of the true gentlemen of rock & roll, died at the end of 2019. A...
THE QUEEN OF THE AIR MEETS THE HOMICIDAL YOUNG MAN ON THE FLYING TRAPEZE
Circus performers were, in some ways, the punk rockers of their day, and nobody was more punk than...
THE DEATH OF COUNTRY DICK MONTANA & THE BALLAD OF DAN MCLAIN
Once described as ‘half Waylon and half Johnny Rotten,’ Dan McLain was a mortal drummer from San Diego...
THE TOP TEN MOST SHOCKING, BIZARRE, AND HISTORIC DEATHS OF ROCK & ROLL DRUMMERS ONSTAGE
One of the key jokes in Spinal Tap is the long line of drummers who met unfortunate ends,...
THE MURDER OF ALFALFA
Carl ‘Alfalfa’ Switzer was the most popular star of the classic Our Gang comedies. But the facts of...
JERRY LEWIS, J.D. SALINGER & THE JEWISH HOLDEN CAULFIELD
There were once two men named Jerry: Salinger and Lewis. And one of them wrote a famous novel,...
THE BALLAD OF CATHY WAYNE: KILLED ON STAGE IN THE VIETNAM WAR
The teenage pop star from Australia ignored the warnings and embarked on a tour of military bases in...
‘WHERE’S THE BAG, MR. KARDASHIAN?’: OR, HOW I EXPOSED O.J. SIMPSON’S ACCOMPLICE AND SET THE STAGE FOR A TV EMPIRE
Four weeks after the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman, a tabloid news producer made a...
PRIDE TV: THE QUIET GAY HEROES OF SIXTIES SITCOMS
The faces of these three actors were familiar to Baby Boomers raised on TV situation comedies. Their private...
MU TUNC: THE DIRECTOR OF TURKEY’S FIRST PUNK MOVIE. OR, THE FALL OF EASTERN CIVILIZATION
Filmmaker Mu Tunc describes his film, Arada, as “Liquid Sky meets The Decline of Western Civilization,” which, of...
SHE SHOT ANDY WARHOLS: THE DIRTY LIFE & CRIMES OF DOROTHY PODBER
She called it ‘performance art’ when, in 1964, she casually strolled into Andy Warhol’s Factory, pulled out a...
THE DEATH OF SGT. CARTER
Frank Sutton, who played the gruff sergeant foil to Jim Nabors’ country bumpkin Gomer Pyle, was a talented...