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When it came to writing about crooks, cops and the bizarre predicaments in which they can find themselves, Elmore Leonard was the Stephen King of his genre - or perhaps, as Time magazine once described him, "The Dickens of Detroit." Leonard published 45 novels, starting with The Bounty Hunters in…
Eydie Gormé was the sort of entertainer that you could imagine a young Don Draper taking his first wife Betty to see in some swank late- 1950s nightclub - or better yet, curling up with her on the couch to watch on the Philco TV as Gormé appeared with husband-to-be Steve Lawrence on The Tonight…
Of all the eras in Hollywood history, the decade that stretched from 1969 to 1979 was perhaps the most daring, a time of experimental masterpieces that shocked audiences into seeing the world in a different way. In the era's edgy eloquence, Karen Black portrayed quirky women who found themselves in…
If you watched the TV series " Lou Grant," you might cling to an image of newspaper owners in the mold of Mrs. Pynchon, the aristocratic, high-minded widow who struggled to keep the Los Angeles Tribune afloat. The character, played by the late Nancy Marchand, was based in large part on Katharine…
Somehow, J.J. Cale never became a rock superstar, even though the great Eric Clapton once confessed that he looked up to the Tulsa-born guitarist and songwriter as a role model and Neil Young ranked his 1972 rock classic " Crazy Mama" as the one song that most shaped his own songwriting.
It's a bit unsettling to note the possible demise of yet another familiar face that boomers grew up with. And it doesn't make it any easier that he's actually been dead for more than 30 years.
James Lewis Carter "T-Model" Ford didn't take up the guitar until he was 58, when his fifth wife ran off for good, giving him the instrument as a parting gift. As the story goes, the native Mississippian stayed up that whole night, drinking moonshine to dull his heartache as he started teaching…
One reason that golf is a great lifetime sport is that you don't have to finish first in a tournament or even finish with the best score in your regular foursome to be a winner.
Some journalists, as the saying goes, speak truth to power. Helen Thomas made power squirm.
Would you buy a house that a rock superstar is rumored to have lived in as a child?