DECOUPAGE!: L.A. POST-PUNKS ON TV! SEALED WITH A KITSCH!
In the late ’80s, L.A. performance artist and musician Craig Roose took his breezy, ‘60s-obsessed “drag” character “Miss Summer...
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TOMORROW WITH TOM SNYDER: A RECONSIDERATION
During the punk era, Tom Snyder carved out a post-midnight corner of the TV landscape with his show,...
ALLAN SHERMAN: WEIRD AL’S FOUNDING ‘FADDAH’
Allan Sherman, a pudgy TV game show producer, dominated the pre-Beatles record charts with a string of hit...
NICK REYNOLDS: ALABAMA 3, THE SOPRANOS, THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY, SEX PISTOLS AND DEATH MASKS
The resume of Nick Reynolds has many fascinating facets—son of the mastermind of The Great Train Robbery, abstract...
HAL WILLNER, AMERICAN VISIONARY
The coronavirus pandemic has killed thousands of people worldwide, each a tragedy to their friends and families. But...
THE MURDER OF ALFALFA
Carl ‘Alfalfa’ Switzer was the most popular star of the classic Our Gang comedies. But the facts of...
‘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...
THE DEATH OF SGT. CARTER
Frank Sutton, who played the gruff sergeant foil to Jim Nabors’ country bumpkin Gomer Pyle, was a talented...
REAL CHARACTER: MISTER ROGERS
A new documentary, Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, reveals the revolutionary simplicity of a children’s TV icon who...
WHEN SCTV RULED THE WORLD
SNL got all the ink but SCTV was the place for serious comedy in the 1970s. PKM revisits...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON VS THE HELLS ANGELS
After Thompson’s first book, Hell’s Angels, was published, his publicity junket led to some bizarre and downright blood-boiling TV...
WATCH OLD FRIENDS DAVID BOWIE AND PETER FRAMPTON SEARCH FOR BEER IN MADRID
Old schoolmates from Bromley, Bowie and Frampton go looking for fun in Madrid on the Glass Spider tour...
THE BADDEST MOTHERS IN TV HISTORY
While A Bad Moms Christmas makes its holiday run at the movie box office, don’t forget about these...