David Fantle & Tom Johnson

Don Rickles was a study in contrasts. The man who made a career out of sarcasm and insults and who has been variously tagged with the monikers “The Merchant of Venom” and “Mr. Warmth,” couldn’t have been a nicer guy… offstage. But onstage, it was a different matter altogether. During Rickles’ show (he did about 20 a year, give or take before he died in 2017); a sort of blood fever took hold as his

Once upon a time in Hollywood (the early 1950s to be exact), there lived a beautiful princess named Janet Leigh and her crown prince, Tony Curtis. As a married couple, their union in 1951 had been properly sanctified by an ordained minister and by God. Beyond that, it earned the beneficence of another — perhaps higher power — Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios. You see, the star-crossed couple generate

The fabled devotion of dogs to their human caretakers has earned them the title of “man’s best friend” and the status (continually jockeying with cats) of America’s most popular pet. Hollywood celebrities, like everyone else, are not immune to this imprinting. Quite the contrary, even more than we civilians, stars often need the incessant reassurance and unswerving love-without-qualification that