This is how I choose to remember Meat Loaf. It’s 1978 and he’s pointing an accusatory finger at an overly-cosmeticed Karla DeVito. His ruffled tuxedo shirt is untucked and sweaty and he’s praying for the end of time. No politics. No pandemics. Just paradise… and a light from the dashboard.
Just after her graduation from high school, a talent scout from Warner Brothers signed Lynn Baggett to a contract. The studio made up a backstory for Lynn, claiming wins in a number of beauty pageants. The fiery redhead was cast in a number of uncredited roles in films, including The Adventures of Mark Twain, Mildred …
There’s this phenomena called “Jewish Geography.” I don’t know how far it reaches or if it is known by other names in other parts of the country, but in the great I-95 Corridor that runs from New York City to roughly just north of Baltimore (including a big geographical leap to the many tribesman transplants …
She was a singer, an icon, a pioneer, an inspiration and a fighter. Ronnie Spector passed away in January 2022. A fighter to the end.
While working as the executive producer of The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, Ken Kragen met singer Kenny Rogers and soon became his manager. Eventually, Ken was managing a full roster of popular singers, including Lionel Ritchie, Travis Tritt, Dottie West and Trisha Yearwood. Singer-actor Harry Belafonte was so moved after hearing the song “Do They …
On August 13, 1980 — the two-year anniversary of her arrival in Los Angeles from her native Vancouver — Dorothy Stratten was murdered by her estranged husband Paul Snider, who then turned the gun on himself. But, this isn’t really a story about Dorothy Stratten, the beautiful, but ill-fated actress and Playboy centerfold. This story …
Betty White. She missed one hundred years on this earth by a mere seventeen days. But, oh, what a life.
