And it ended up being one of the most enjoyable relationships I’ve ever had. >> I saw her on a TV show. And I had never seen her before. And I said, “That’s it. Whoever she is, [laughter] I’m going to go with it. I’m going to take a chance.” >> There comes a moment…
September 1956. The Sans Hotel, Las Vegas. Frank Sinatra was having dinner in the Garden Room restaurant when he noticed something strange. Every night, Nat King Cole performed to sold out crowds at the Sands. The most famous voice in America, earning $4,500 a week. But Nat never ate in the restaurant. Never sat in…
Ed Sullivan revealed the 10 guests with secret lives they hid from America. For 23 years from 1948 to 1971, Ed Sullivan hosted the most watched television program in America. On any given Sunday night, up to 50 million Americans gathered around their television sets to watch his show. He introduced the Beatles. He introduced…
The tragedy of Tony Walton’s life when he married Julie Andrews. The most dangerous sentence in award show history. April 5th, 1965. The Academy Awards, Santa Monica Civic Auditorium. Tony Walton was backstage. Not as a guest, not as a nominee. as the man who had spent months designing every stitch of the costume…
No one told you the horrifying way comedian Peter Sers broke the women who loved him. The woman who didn’t call for help. Britt Ecklund married Peter Sers 10 days after they first met. 10 days. Years later, when asked what made her agree so quickly, she answered with a kind of quiet honesty that…
Late on November 2nd, 1987, running into the first hours of November 3rd, the air inside Tarly’s Restaurant and Lounge on 18th Avenue in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, smelled like stale beer, cigarette smoke, and the sour metallic edge of spilled liquor drying on wood. Sometime after 3:00 a.m. , the place went quiet in the worst…
On July 30th, 1975, Jimmy Hoffa walked into a restaurant parking lot in suburban Detroit to meet two mob bosses. He called his wife at 2:30 to say he’d been stood up. He told her he’d be home by 4 to grill steaks. That was the last time anyone heard his voice. For…
There’s a street corner in Manhattan on 52nd Street between 5th and 6th Avenue where something happened in 1965 that nobody who witnessed it ever forgot. Not because of violence, not because of gunfire or blood or death, but because of the moment when the most dangerous man in New York stood up for the…
There’s a moment in a courtroom in 2011 that nobody who witnessed it will ever forget. Not because of the verdict, not because of the evidence, but because of what a 94year-old man’s said to a federal judge who just sentenced him to eight years in prison. John Sunny Franesi stood in the courtroom of…
Every war on this list started with something small, a missing tribute, a handshake that was never returned. A man who forgot his place or a man who refused to accept his. And every war on this list ended the same way. Bodies in streets, in restaurants, in cars, in churches, in front of wives,…
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