The words were barely audible. Sammy Davis Jr. leaned into the microphone, his voice destroyed by throat cancer, and whispered something to Johnny Carson. Johnny stopped the show, pulled Sammy close, and started crying. What Sammy said in those final words would be played at his funeral 8 weeks later. It was March 13th,…
Outside the town of Neneig, Germany in January 1945, a Sherman tank took a direct hit from a Tiger. Gus Stavros was close enough to watch what happened next. The crew tried to get out. They came through the hatches burning. Stavros, a combat veteran by then, had seen men die before, but this was…
10 May 1940. German forces strike westward without warning, and the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg are invaded in a single morning. Paratroopers fall from the sky, tanks roll across fields, and the Luftwaffe, the German Air Force, rains bombs on cities and civilians. The Dutch army fights bravely but cannot withstand the lightning German assault….
Johnny Carson was in the middle of introducing the next guest when his producer walked onto the set and handed him a note. Carson read it. He set it on the desk. He looked at the audience for 6 seconds without saying anything. Then, he stood up and walked off the stage without a…
Clint Eastwood named the seven most beautiful women in Hollywood. Before he became a legendary director before the Oscars and the iconic roles, Clint Eastwood was simply a man with an eye for beauty, not the manufactured kind that came from Hollywood’s assembly line. The kind that changes the temperature of a room. In…
22 June 1941, Eastern Europe. German forces launch Operation Barbarossa – a massive invasion of the Soviet Union, opening a new phase of the Second World War. Armies advance rapidly across vast territories, cities fall within days, and behind the front lines follows a system of terror aimed not only at defeating an enemy, but…
At 0815 on February 23rd, 1945, machine gunfire rad the black volcanic sand of Eoima. Corporal Hershel Williams pressed flat against it. 70 lb of pressurized fuel on his back, rounds splitting the air a foot above his helmet. 21 years old, 5’6, trained on Guadal Canal with a weapon most Marines refused to carry….
I’ll tell you I’ll tell you I’m I’m all right now. Last week I was in rough shape, though. You know, my wife’s father, he moved in with us. His electronic pacemaker. Every time he sneezes, the garage door opens. The funniest moments in television happened on Johnny Carson’s stage when legendary…
In 1967, Arthur Penn released Bonnie and Clyde and turned two poor Texas killers into cinematic icons of forbidden love and rebellion against the system. The world bought it. You probably bought it, too. I’m going to destroy that myth, not with opinion, but with 21 documented facts that Hollywood knowingly left out. Fact one,…
I’m a bad drinker. A bad drinker, Johnny. I mean, when I drink, I don’t know what I’m doing. The next day, I end up I usually wake up in some strange place with a kid with an accent playing with my feet. [laughter] >> Rodney Dangerfield crafted perfectly timed oneliners that created some…
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