I was born so I was born Mary and Louise was my mother’s best friend, Louise Buckman. So I was named after her and um but I was always called Merryill. My father’s made that name up and he he liked that name and so I hated it. >> Hollywood is a place that…
I don’t really listen to a whole lot of music and Marty used to let me listen to a lot a lot of different music but trying to focus now just on gospel music. I try to keep my focus on God and what he wants me to do. >> For nearly half a…
though. In 1993, Robert Dairo directed his first film, A Bronx Tale. It made about 17 million at the box office on a modest budget. Got decent reviews, and then something strange happened. It never went away. 30 years later, people still rank it alongside Good Fellas and The Godfather as one of the…
January 14th, 1979. A house in Queens. Tommy Desimone walks through the door expecting wine, cigars, and the ceremony he’d been chasing his entire life. Instead, he gets bullets. Good fellas told you he died because of Billy Bats, because of one barroom beating 9 years earlier. That’s the story Scorsesei sold you. But…
Newark, New Jersey. October 16th, 1933. 7:45 p.m. 800 men in brown shirts gather at Schwabenhal in Irvington. They march in formation, sing German songs, raise their arms, and Hitler salutes. The building sits on Springfield Avenue. German flags hang from windows. Inside, they celebrate Hitler’s rise to power 9 months earlier. Outside, 20…
The bullet passed so close to Charles Lucky Luciano’s head that he felt the heat from it. A second bullet shattered the window of the Cadillac, sending glass fragments across the back seat where Lucky sat. A third hit the door, punching through metal. It was March 18th, 1947. Lucky had been back in…
Las Vegas has always been the city that never sleeps. But now, something changed. Hotels are empty, casinos are losing millions, and even taxis sit idle. International tourists are staying away, and local are feeling the squeeze. The city’s problems are now shaking the travel industry. How did Las Vegas of all places cause…
Picture this. The year is 2015. A foreign billionaire stands on the Las Vegas strip, points at a patch of dirt, and tells the world he is going to build the most expensive, most exclusive, most jaw-dropping casino resort in the history of this city. The press goes wild. Vegas goes wild. Everyone goes…
July 4th, 1857. 9:00 at night. Lower Manhattan is on fire. Not from fireworks, from war. A thousand men are tearing each other apart across six city blocks. Bricks rain down from rooftops. Paving stones the size of a man’s skull crash through windows. Pistol shots crack through the smoke. On Bayard Street, barricades…
February 25th, 1855. Stanwix Hall, a saloon on Broadway near Prince Street, Manhattan. >> [snorts] >> A man named Louis Baker walked through the door with a pistol tucked in his coat. Inside, William Poole, the most feared nativist brawler in New York City, was drinking. Baker raised the gun and fired. One bullet…
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