Everyone who has followed this story already knows the names Narissa and Catherine Bao’s Lion, the Queen Mother’s nieces, born with severe learning disabilities, institutionalized in 1941 and listed as...
Every royal myth has a servants’ corridor. In the front rooms, the dining rooms and drawing rooms, the palaces and the parlors, the Queen Mother smiled, waved, and became the...
The strange part was never that a widow wanted to stay in the house where she had been queen. The strange part was that the new queen was already in...
Welcome to Johnny Carson Files. Tonight, the most famous face in Hollywood is about to say four words on live television that will make Johnny Carson forget he is on...
Bob Ross, the gentlest man on television, the man with the soft voice and the happy little trees, is about to walk onto the Tonight Show stage carrying a small...
Joan Rivers is about to walk onto the Tonight Show stage for what everyone in that studio believed was a routine taping. But what happens in the middle of her...
On the night of April 3rd, 1974, two men walked through the backstage corridors of NBC Studios in Burbank, California, and every single person they passed stopped breathing. Not because...
Welcome to Johnny Carson files. In a moment, you are going to watch something happen on live television that nobody planned and nobody could have stopped. You are going to...
Lucille Ball is sitting across from Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show stage for what she already knows will be the last time. And what she slips into his hand...
John Wayne was 18 minutes into the best interview he had given in years when the backstage door opened and Henry Fonda walked through it. It was February the 19th,...