Paris, October 1935. A young woman stands at the rear entrance of a cabaret on the Ru Pierre Shaon, waiting to be told what to do next. She has just performed for the first time on a proper stage. Not a street corner, not a courtyard, not the narrow strip of pavement outside a Belleville…
[music] [music] [music] you know, growing up, right? I remember watching the network called Fox that has some great shows and living color used to come on living single rock New York undercover. I even go back to watching the show uh South Central was on. It was a show called South Central. But when…
Before the corporate towers, before Steve Win, before the theme parks and the buffets and the billiondoll resort fees, Las Vegas belonged to somebody else. Not the bankers, not the shareholders, not the men in suits who show up in the annual reports. It belonged to a…
[music] [music] [music] Who remembers that cute little girl named Gwindelyn who used to be after little Richie on the TV show Family Matters with Steve Urkel. Y’all, she was just the little cutest little thing. But she grew up to be a beautiful [music] woman named Nia Rivera. Nia Rivera was super talented. Not…
What’s up, CU crew? Before we get into today’s video, I want to show you all the super fun game I have been playing recently called Match Masters. Match Masters is the world’s first player versus player three match game where you attempt to match colorful pieces and score points faster than your opponent. It’s…
The 18th of November 1982, Kings County Supreme Court, Brooklyn, New York. Frank Manzo, 57 years old, stood before Judge Raymond Harwood wearing a tailored suit that cost more than most people made in a month. He owned nothing. On paper, at least. The prosecutor held up a stack of property deeds, 43 homes, total…
You know, House Party is one of my favorite movies of all time and there were a lot of people in that movie that really made an impact and stole the show. I mean, Kid and Play did their thing. The late great comedian Robin Harris freestyle all his lines in the movie. He didn’t…
September 19th, 1980. A patch of woods on Staten Island, New York. The van doors swing open. A 69year-old man steps out into the dirt. No blindfold, no restraints. He already knows. He’s been riding with his killers for 13 hours, talking, laughing, telling stories about the old days. Now it’s over. John Johnny Keys….
On the morning of December 30th, 1918, a young woman named May Coughlin walked into St. Mary Star of the Sea Catholic Church in Brooklyn and became a wife. She was 20 years old. The man beside her was 19. The ceremony was modest. The parish was the same one where she had been baptized,…
In casino, Ginger McKenna dies in a motel hallway. Sharon Stone collapses. The camera pulls back and Dairo’s voice over tells you she overdosed somewhere in Los Angeles alone. And that was the end. There’s a daughter in the film, a single girl called Amy. She appears in a handful of scenes, the custody fight,…
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