Jerry Lewis stood up from the Tonight Show guest chair, said the interview was finished, and walked toward the exit. 12 million people watching at home assumed they were about to see a host scramble. Carson didn’t scramble. He said one sentence to Lewis’s back, and Jerry Lewis stopped walking. It was…
What did I start to say? Oh, you are a pretty pretty lady. You get tired of people talking about your looks and how stunning you are all the time. I mean, it can’t get to be, you know. Johnny Carson named the 10 most beautiful women ever on his show. In…
There is a share price chart for Espri Holdings that every business school should frame and hang on the wall. It starts at 125 Hong Kong dollars in 2007 and ends at $111 in 2020. A straight line down that looks less like a stock decline and more like a cliff someone…
At the height of her fame, Gloria Swanson wore a hat and made 10,000 women copy it the following season. Her handprints were set in cement in Grauman’s Chinese Theatre. Her fan mail ran to 10,000 letters a week. She was earning $20,000 a week and she spent it on French perfume,…
On the evening of March 21st, 1964, the new museum at the south side of Columbus Circle in Manhattan opened to invited guests with the kind of confidence that only inherited wealth makes possible. The building had cost approximately $7.5 million to construct. Edward Jerel Stone, the architect who had designed the…
In January of 2021, Christie’s offered more than 665 lots from a 20-room duplex at 834 5th Avenue. The building the New York Observer had once called the most pedigreed building on the snobbiest street in the country’s most real estate-obsessed city. The lots included artworks, furniture, and jewelry that had once…
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008. Just after 7 in the morning, Castro Valley, California, a residential street 15 miles southeast of Oakland. The kind of culde-sac where the lawns get watered on a timer and the neighbors wave at the mailman by name. A man named Mark Anthony Candler is asleep inside one…
Sullivan Street in Greenwich Village is a quiet block. And Snyder Avenue in South Philadelphia is the same kind of street, the kind that in any other city would be entirely unremarkable, a row of modest houses where a neighborhood looked in 1980, much as it had looked 30 years before. And…
December 1st, 2009. Federal courthouse, Lower Manhattan. A jury files back into the room for the fourth time in 5 years. Four sets of charges, four separate trials. And for the fourth time, the forewoman looks up and says the same two words, “No verdict.” The judge declares a mistrial. John Angelo…
You know the craze. You know the Richardsons. You probably know Kenneth Noi, the Brinks Matt Fence, who put a knife into a stranger at a road rage stop on the M25. Here’s a name you almost certainly don’t know. Terrence George Adams, born October 18th, 1954 in Barnesbury, Islington. The eldest…
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