George Carlin lampoons the people he used to know in his New York City neighborhood, including Italians, Jews and the police, doing hilarious stereotypical impressions in a recently rediscovered clip of him performing in 1973. The clip comes from the rarely seen special, The Real George Carlin, that will be …
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Robert Grossman, the artist and illustrator whose musician portraits and madcap political caricatures featured on the cover and in the pages of Rolling Stone, died March 15th at the age of 78. His son, Alex Emanuel Grossman, confirmed his death to The New York Times. For Rolling Stone, Grossman created …
Read More »Natalee Holloway: Man Linked to 2005 Disappearance Fatally Stabbed
A Florida man who claimed in a TV interview to have helped cremate Natalee Holloway’s remains back in 2010 was fatally stabbed with his own knife during an attempted kidnapping Wednesday. John Christopher Ludwick was stabbed in North Port, Florida, after trying to kidnap a woman as she was exiting …
Read More »Inside the Gramercy: The Grit and Glamour of New York's Rock & Roll Hotel
It all began with David Bowie. Candy-colored hair. A lightning bolt across his cream-painted face. A mysterious backstory that he was a “messenger from Mars.” It was February 1973, and Bowie had come to New York to promote The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars …
Read More »Rose McGowan's Interview With Ronan Farrow: 6 Takeaways
There are no simple answers from Rose McGowan. Even a “How are you?” from the 92Y event’s moderator and investigative journalist Ronan Farrow pulls the actress, activist and author into a circuitous explanation about how the cult she was born into trained her for The End of Days at 18 …
Read More »See Pauly Shore Mock Stephen Miller's Statue of Liberty Presser
Pauly Shore plays Trump policy aide Stephen Miller in a Funny or Die sketch that mocks Miller’s White House briefing room showdown with a reporter over the Statue of Liberty and the poem “The New Colossus.” In the sketch, which utilizes footage from that actual argument with CNN reporter Jim …
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