ESCAPE FROM GRACELAND
©2022 By Burt Kearns (So Elvis is alive. There’s a lot of talk about that new Baz Luhrmann [...]
alexrosas2022-06-07T16:42:13+00:00June 7th, 2022|Music|
©2022 By Burt Kearns (So Elvis is alive. There’s a lot of talk about that new Baz Luhrmann [...]
alexrosas2022-05-19T01:43:47+00:00May 18th, 2022|Comedy, Essays|
Bobcat Goldthwait comes out and introduces the clips that Jerry brought, and the clips are running. There's the famous dance down the stairs from Cinderfella. There’s him doing the incredibly famous boardroom bit from The Errand Boy. And I'm watching Jerry look at himself. He was seventy-six, overweight and nobody knows who he is anymore, and he's looking at the twenty-six-year-old version of himself when he was super-famous. And I see Jerry look out at the half-full crowd, and then Jerry fell to the ground. And I think he’s dead.
alexrosas2022-06-02T15:31:15+00:00May 13th, 2022|Music|
Louis Prima, Keely Smith and Sam Butera revolutionized Las Vegas, the lounge scene and 20th century popular music when they launched their spectacular act in December 1954 at the Sahara hotel and casino on the Las Vegas Strip.
alexrosas2022-04-30T15:55:21+00:00April 29th, 2022|Essays|
On April 29, 1992, jurors in Simi Valley, California acquitted five Los Angeles police officers in the videotaped beating of Rodney King. Los Angeles citizens responded to the news with a display of widespread civil disobedience and destruction that became known as the Los Angeles Riots. The evening the violence began, Burt Kearns, a producer of the syndicated nightly tabloid magazine series, Hard Copy, was sharing a pizza with correspondent Rafael Abramovitz at Santopietro’s restaurant. Thirty years later, the following is adapted from his memoir, Tabloid Baby.
alexrosas2022-04-29T13:34:15+00:00April 27th, 2022|Music|
Louis Prima, Keely Smith and Sam Butera revolutionized Las Vegas, the lounge scene and 20th century popular music when they launched their spectacular act in December 1954 at the Sahara hotel and casino on the Las Vegas Strip. The story of their success has never been told in full, and never accurately – until now. Based on long-hidden interviews with the principals and extensive research, Burt Kearns reveals how all the parts fell into place, long before that historic debut. In Part One, we meet the man who answered the call of The Wildest, the key player without whom this success story would never have happened.
alexrosas2022-04-04T20:16:01+00:00April 4th, 2022|Music|
I’d heard that something had happened to Frank Sinatra's grave. That someone defaced the memorial to the most important musical artist of the 20th century. Attacking Sinatra? This was like taking a wrecking ball to Graceland. Reading about it was one thing. I had to see for myself.
alexrosas2022-04-13T22:21:45+00:00April 4th, 2022|Video Of The Month|
Joe Coleman is a world-renowned painter, writer & performer who’s exhibited for four decades in major museums throughout the world
alexrosas2022-04-13T22:22:11+00:00March 31st, 2022|Video Of The Month|
alexrosas2022-04-29T17:09:52+00:00March 8th, 2022|True Crime|
In this series, Legs & Nikolas Schreck discuss Manson & the Tate-LaBianca murders, Pop Culture Satanism, & the mysteries of the JFK Assassination.
alexrosas2022-06-02T15:34:26+00:00March 1st, 2022|True Crime, TV & Film|
In this series, Legs & Nikolas Schreck discuss Manson & the Tate-LaBianca murders, Pop Culture Satanism, & the mysteries of the JFK Assassination.
alexrosas2022-04-29T17:11:31+00:00February 11th, 2022|Music|
Johnny “Guitar” Watson was a hardcore guitar gunslinger with a sound described as “an icepick to the forehead.” He was the Gangster of Love, and he proved it in the way he played, the way he lived – and the way he died.
alexrosas2022-01-29T20:55:09+00:00January 29th, 2022|Essays, True Crime|
By Burt Kearns | Tone was a movie star. Neal was a B-movie dolt who looked good in trunks. The woman was Barbara Payton, a badtime, badass blonde who’d gone more rounds (in the sack, of course) than both men put together.
alexrosas2022-06-02T15:34:37+00:00January 26th, 2022|Narrative Oral History Of The Month, True Crime, TV & Film|
In this series, Legs & Nikolas Schreck discuss Manson & the Tate-LaBianca murders, Pop Culture Satanism, & the mysteries of the JFK Assassination.
alexrosas2022-01-16T19:38:04+00:00January 15th, 2022|Literature, True Crime, Video Of The Month|
The Dark Side of the Sixties: Charles Manson & Porn
alexrosas2022-01-16T19:38:39+00:00December 31st, 2021|Narrative Oral History Of The Month|
Join us as we present A Legsville oral History featuring: Carol Overby (Legs' ex-wife). She recounts the times she was photographed by the great Robert Maplethorpe.
alexrosas2022-04-29T17:07:48+00:00December 25th, 2021|True Crime|
By Burt Kearns | On July 20, 1979, a bullet blasted from the barrel of a stolen .38 caliber Smith & Wesson pistol...