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Burt KearnsJournalist, television and film writer and producer, and author of SHEMP!... MARLON BRANDO: HOLLYWOOD REBEL... LAWRENCE TIERNEY: HOLLYWOOD’S REAL-LIFE TOUGH GUY... THE SHOW WON’T GO ON... TABLOID BABY... AND TBA...
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GREATER THAN HOUDINI: THE HALLOWEEN DEATH OF ‘AMAZING JOE’ BURRUS
© 2019, 2026 by Jeff Abraham and Burt Kearns
Some people regarded Joe Burrus as just another ex-con and recovering drug addict. Joe Burrus saw himself as something more—much more. “I consider myself a master of illusion and escape artist,”...
I STARTED A JOKE... WHICH STARTED THE WHOLE GARDEN BOOING: MY NIGHT WITH SINEAD O’CONNOR
© 1999, 2026 By Burt Kearns
The story picks up on this date in October, thirty-four years ago. We were living in Los Angeles, working on the Paramount lot in Hollywood, into our third season running Hard Copy, the nightly tabloid televisio...
“HIT THE WATER! HIT THE WATER!” JANE DORNACKER AND THE NBC CHOPPER CRASH – FORTY YEARS AGO
Working as a traffic reporter in Los Angeles has to be one of the more dangerous jobs in the city, getting more dangerous as the skies get more crowded. The deaths of traffic reporter Elina Moreno and pilot George Marciniw Tuesday evening t...
JERRY & ME: BEHIND THE SCENES AT THE LABOR DAY TELETHON
©1999, 2026 By Burt Kearns
It’s August 1989. I am the managing editor and producer of the very popular but controversial syndicated television series A Current Affair. A product of the genius minds of some of Rupert Murdoch’s Australian ne...
WHY LABOR DAY WEEKEND WILL ALWAYS BE JERRY’S WEEKEND
©1989, 2022, 2026 By Burt Kearns
Labor Day Weekend will always be Jerry’s Weekend. It will for a great many people at least, at least a great many people I know. For us, Labor Day and Jerry Lewis go together like, well, like Jerry Lewis an...
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