Nutri-Bio: Forgotten MLM Supplements Scheme
Long-forgotten supplements company that grossed $30 million per year.
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.
When TV D.A. William Talman Got Busted For Narcotics and Lewd Vagrancy
1960 scandal involving TV actor William Talman and seven others at a West Hollywood apartment.
Go for Broke! (1951): a Film Out of Its Time
Judging by Go for Broke‘s posters and related promotional material, you’d think that this Robert Pirosh picture is yet another post-WWII jingoistic […]
Charles McGraw’s Freakishly Sad and Incongruous Death
Charles McGraw (1914-1980) was the squarest jawed of all square-jawed Hollywood actors of the golden period, always playing a tough guy of […]
Miss Lesley E. Bogert, Prominent Among Newport Socialites
It starts with a photo in a LIFE magazine, July 11, 1938, with the caption saying, “Miss Lesley E. Bogert was prominent […]
Predicting the Date Kamala Harris Becomes President
With Joe Biden’s election as U.S. president, a major power shift has happened in the White House. But there is also the […]
Houlihan’s Old Place: The Era of the Funky Themed Restaurant
It was the post-hippie era, early- to mid-Seventies, but the hippie influence had permeated into the lives of regular citizens and lingered […]
Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur: Pure Palm Springs Attitude
Getting invited by friend Nelda Linsk to her home in 1970 for a casual photo shoot immortalized Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur.
Death Pledge: Our Love Affair With Mortgages
Be tipped off to the fact that “mort,” meaning “death,” in French, is part of the word “mortgage.” It’s like the hired […]
Paramount Studios, 1970: Let’s Film on the Studio Today
One sub-niche of 1960s and 1970s television is the show that demonstrates the studio backlot for what it is. It’s a fascinating […]