Mickey Cohen Brings Max Tannenbaum Out to L.A.
Sure, there’s a copy of Case of the Half-Wakened Wife by that Perry Mason writer underneath your glass of iced Seagram’s, its […]
Author: Lee Wallender
Deception, influence, fakes, illusions, themed environments, simulations, secret places, secret infrastructure, imagined places, dreamscapes, movie sets and props, evasions, camouflage, studio backlots, miniatures.
5 Things Nobody Ever Says About Carvana
Even before I bought a car from Carvana, I spent months poring not just over the cars but the platform and the […]
David Foster Wallace: Narcissism of Self-Hatred
Imagine, though, if she called you up late at night and talked to you for two hours and it was mostly apologizing […]
Cold Turkey (1971)
A giant tobacco company offers the small town of Eagle Rock, Iowa $25M if all 4,006 residents can give up smoking for […]
Lee Harvey Oswald Gun Photo: Before and After
History remains frozen solid at 214 W. Neeley St., Dallas, Texas. The home where Lee Harvey Oswald lived with his wife Marina […]
Kraft Suspense Theater: The Gun
It ran only from 1963 to 1965, but Kraft Suspense Theater (later titled Crisis) had some of the underpinnings of a great […]
Lola DeWitt: Talman Party Member and Walking Disaster
One of the less savory aspects of the William Talman raid in 1960 was one of the members of the party: Lola […]
Max Tannenbaum: New York Hoodlum Brought to L.A. By Mickey Cohen
Los Angeles. It’s the 1950s. You’re on the front lines as a low-level gang associate of famed mobster Mickey Cohen. Associate, enforcer, […]
Richard Reibold: Shady Ad Exec and Talman Raid Party Host
Shady ad executive figures into a 1960 scandal that almost brought down TV actor William Talman.