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 ...

NPR's Scott Simon interviews Mike Thomas about the new Johnny Carson biography, "Carson the Magnificent," co-written by Bill Zehme.

He does that and more in Lazarus Man, the story of a tenement collapsing in East Harlem, New York in 2008. Price zeroes in on ...

Bill Plaschke, an L.A. Times sports columnist since 1996, is a member of the National Sports Media Hall of Fame and California Sports Hall of Fame. He has been named national Sports Columnist of ...

Knesset House Committee members voted 9-to-2 on Tuesday to advance a bill seeking to deport families of terrorists living in Israel under certain circumstances. The proposed law is meant as a ...

Editor’s Note: Andrew Buss served as Bill Zehme’s chief editorial assistant/right-hand man from March 2016 until his death in March 2023. With Zehme’s final (and most personally treasured) book Carson ...

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has reportedly promised Jewish leaders he will try to pass the Antisemitism Awareness Act by the end of the year, Axios reported Tuesday. The bill is meant to ...

A visibly Jewish man was slashed in the face in a random attack on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn, New York Tuesday morning, COLlive reported. The incident occurred at about 9:15 a.m. local time.

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 ...

For almost 30 years as host of “The Tonight Show,” Johnny Carson was the last face millions of viewers saw before they closed their eyes and went to sleep. Carson, the critic David Thomson ...

Everybody who was anybody landed on Johnny's couch, clockwise from upper left: Richard Pryor, 1986; Drew Barrymore, 1982; Bette Midler, 1992; then-Gov. Jerry Brown, 1979. (Ron Tom, Gene Arias ...

So perhaps the publication of Bill Zehme’s long-anticipated biography “Carson: The Magnificent,” finished by Mike Thomas, is occurring just when it should. Television continues to produce stars worthy ...