It was supposed to be an ordinary Thursday night at NBC Studios in Burbank, March 1973. The Tonight Show was running like clockwork. Johnny Carson was backstage reviewing his Q cards. Ed McMahon was warming up the audience. Doc Severson’s band was tuning their instruments. Everything was normal until it wasn’t. A…
Hollywood stars with the worst tempers of all time. >> Get out. Get out. Get out. Get the out. Charming on screen, but monstrous behind the scenes. The golden smiles that turned to rage when the cameras stopped rolling. Hollywood’s brightest stars hiding the darkest tempers that terrified everyone around them. The…
Johnny Carson wasn’t just the king of late night, he was a one-man economy. Over 30 years of hosting The Tonight Show, he built a staggering $300 empire, making him the highest-paid man in the history of television. He had the world at his feet and enough wealth to sustain his family…
Look at it. The Twilight Zone is it’s a place of imagination, a land of shadow. To reach it, you write a dream. To enter it, you need only your imagination. >> Most people remember the Twilight Zone for its cosmic twists and cautionary tales, a show that used the supernatural to…
Don Rickles became a Tonight Show legend by turning the host into his favorite punching bag. What the hell’s the matter with you? BEEN ON 26 YEARS. YOU’RE STARTING TO BE LIKE REAGAN. HUH? ANYWAY, these are Don Rickles’s funniest roasts on Johnny Carson. The back and forth battle. Oh, Don. Are…
We all know the smile, that widebeaming grin that belongs to the king of waltz. You see Andre Rio standing in front of thousands of people conducting his Yan Strauss orchestra and he looks like the happiest man on earth. He looks like a man who has everything. The castle, the gold,…
Known for being the big man on Gutfeld, Tyrus has a pretty interesting career trajectory. Coming from the wrestling ring to becoming a panelist in one of the leading late night TV shows today. For the big man with even bigger opinions, he fit just right in. But despite being in the…
Tessio had been with the Corleons for decades, a trusted Kappo. Heck, he helped build the empire. Some would say a true family member, a brother to Veto and an uncle to Michael. But when Michael took over and saw how he was going to run things, he figured it was time…
January 28th, 1975. A Tuesday morning, Tene, New Jersey, Sheffield Road. A modest split level at number 933. 1500 square ft of green lawn and a tree growing crooked in the front yard. Suburban, quiet, the kind of house a postal clerk owns. 20 federal agents move on the front door. 10de…
In 1971, the state of Illinois sent two men away for the same case. Same charges, same courtroom, same conviction. One received 100 to 200 years. The other received death. Nearly 40 years after that courtroom handed down those sentences, one of those men walked into a memorial service on the south…
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