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Mobsters in Las Vegas & Hollywood
Date Saturday - August 15 2020 Host George Knapp Guests Jack Sheehan, Lee Server Jimmy Chagra was so many things — a mob-connected drug runner, a smart man with a dark side, a high roller and convicted felon. Rich and powerful and criminal, Chagra relished the high life in Las Vegas. Author Jack Sheehan joins George Knapp to discuss the life of Chagra and how Chagra changed the way money was laundered in Las Vegas.
Kirk Douglas obituary: the last of Hollywood’s golden age male stars | Sight & Sound
Centenarian Kirk Douglas, a legendary name in film history and the last of the great male stars of Hollywood’s golden age, has died aged 103. An actor with a singularly intense, often ferocious, presence on screen, his portrayals of damaged masculinity and misanthropic heroism – in Champion, Ace in the Hole, The Bad and the Beautiful, Lust for Life, Paths of Glory – were counted among the most ambitious and acclaimed performances in the postwar cinema.
Ava Gardner: "Love Is Nothing"
Ava Gardner (Paperback) "Love Is Nothing" By Lee Server St. Martin's Griffin, 9780312312107, 560pp. Publication Date: May 15, 2007 Other Editions of This Title: Hardcover (4/18/2006) List Price: 22.99* * Individual store prices may vary. Description "The most complete and engrossing biography yet of this exotic Southern girl...Excellent."—Liz Smith She was the sex symbol who dazzled all the other sex symbols.
Lee Server - Biography & Interviews
Lee Server is the author of the best-selling and critically acclaimed biographies Robert Mitchum: Baby, I Don't Care and Ava Gardner: Love is Nothing. Robert Mitchum was named a Best Book of the Year by the Los Angeles Times, "the film biography of the year" by the Sunday Times (U.K.) and one of the "60 Greatest Film Books." Ava Gardner was a New York Times Notable Book, and a New York Times, Los Angeles Times and USA Today bestseller. He lives in Palm Springs, California.
As Long As We Both Shall Live: New Excerpt
By JoAnn Chaney As Long As We Both Shall Live JoAnn Chaney January 15, 2019 As Long As We Both Shall Live is JoAnn Chaney’s wicked novel of a marriage gone very wrong. A marriage with lots of secrets… “My wife! I think she’s dead!” Matt frantically tells park rangers that he and his wife, Marie, were hiking when she fell off a cliff into the raging river below. They start a search, but they aren’t hopeful: no one could have survived that fall. It was a tragic accident.
Book World: The incredible life of 'Handsome Johnny,' a gangster worthy of the movies
"Handsome Johnny: The Life and Death of Johnny Rosselli, Gentleman Gangster, Hollywood Producer, CIA Assassin," by Lee Server.
Handsome Johnny
'A smile can get you far, but a smile with a gun can get you further.' - Al Capone Featured in Vice A man of singular influence in the American underworld, Johnny Rosselli's career flourished for half a century, from the bloody years of bootlegging in the Twenties - the last protégé of Al Capone - to the modern era of organised crime as a dominant corporate power.
Win A Copy Of The Book 'Handsome Johnny: The Life Of Gangster Johnny Rosselli' By Lee Server
A singular figure in the annals of the American underworld, Johnny Rosselli’s career flourished for an extraordinary fifty years, from the bloody years of bootlegging in the Roaring Twenties–the last protégé of Al Capone―to the modern era of organized crime as a dominant corporate power. The Mob’s “Man in Hollywood,” Johnny Rosselli introduced big-time crime to the movie industry, corrupting unions and robbing moguls in the biggest extortion plot in history.
The Real Reason Frank Sinatra Was Banned from the Kennedy White House
Over the course of his life, John F. Kennedy spent time with many famous faces, but perhaps his most curious friendship was his short-lived camaraderie with entertainer Frank Sinatra. The following excerpt from Handsome Johnny, Lee Server's biography of West Coast mobster Johnny Rosselli, details why Sinatra fell out of favor with the Kennedy family. The story behind Sinatra’s dismissal from the Kennedy inner circle, the accepted narrative, had it that the FBI’s J.
BOOKS OF THE TIMES; The Swaggering Life of a Movie Idol
Jane Greer, Robert Mitchum's co-star in the great film noir ''Out of the Past,'' once had the temerity to seat him next to William Faulkner at dinner. ''I really like the way that boy talks,'' Faulkner said afterward, and no wonder. Mitchum was a walking antidote to pretension, a natural-born hipster whose diffidence made for wild surprises wherever he went. He would bait anybody, especially the press.
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