Elvis was three chords into That’s All right. when the shop owner stopped him. “Hold on, hold on,” the young man said, walking over with confidence. “Your hand positioning is all wrong. You’re going to hurt your wrist playing like that.” Elvis stopped mid-strum and looked at the enthusiastic young shop owner, then at…
Elvis stopped his entire tour convoy for a woman whose car had broken down alone on a highway. What he did before he got back on the bus left two of his crew members in tears. It was the evening of September 14th, 1972, and Elvis Presley’s tour convoy was moving east on Route…
Pull up the address 640th Fifth Avenue on any map today and you will find a commercial tower, glass and steel and entirely indifferent to the people moving past it. Nothing on the facade marks what stood here before. No plaque, no ghost. The building offers no confession. What occupied this address in the…
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…
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