If there are ghosts, the ghost of writer Bill Zehme might be found within the Old Town tavern/restaurant Twin Anchors, where he spent many living days and nights and where his face still stares ...

Johnny Carson, the man who made “The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson” an American institution, has been off the late-night air longer than he was on it. For people of a certain age — you ...

My decades-long friendship with Bill Zehme began as a professional partnership. In the fall of 1995, after discovering that the renowned profile writer had moved back to Chicago from Los Angeles ...

Not so with “Carson the Magnificent,” the long-awaited life of the late-night talk show legend Johnny Carson by Bill Zehme, completed by Mike Thomas. Its prologue, written by Thomas ...

When Zehme died on March 26, 2023, he left behind broken hearts and an unfinished book that had bedeviled him for the last ...