‘In interviews I don’t talk about religion, politics, or ex-husbands. Those are the three no-no’s.’ — “A great day is spending time with my kids doing nothing.” During the month that would have toasted Lisa Marie Presley’s 55th birthday, an exclusive interview conducted in the wake of Storm & Grace’s bow is finally surfacing. In 2012 I got on the phone with a still-weary but upbeat…

‘What did they want us to let them do? Film a last show where everybody on the Ponderosa was killed off?’ Andrew J. Klyde, archivist and executive producer of the official season DVD’s, investigates why the unforgettable family horse opera that sustained the Peacock network from 1959–1973 was suddenly cancelled 50 years ago. — The Andy Klyde Interview For Bonanza fans, what exactly went down on Jan. 16, 1973?

‘If their meeting had taken place today we’d have dozens of pictures and possibly some video of these two icons deep in conversation. But for each of them it was just another night in the studio making music,’ corroborates ‘Adam-12’ TV policeman Kent McCord in the second chapter of a revelatory dialogue coinciding with the 92nd birthday of the genius ‘Man Who Invented Soul.’ —

Adversity did not deter Tommie Vickers. A fatal heart attack felled the 86-year-old Alapaha voter on the bitterly freezing morning before Christmas Eve. Mr. Tommie was seven years old when a country doctor diagnosed him with a painful bone disease known as ankylosis. Admitted to the old Scottish Rites Hospital…

“I was asleep when I heard my wife Rocky scream at the news on TV.” Kent McCord, rookie LAPD officer Jim Reed on NBC’s enduring Adam-12 series, takes a deep dive into the life of gentle soul Rick Nelson. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame alum died suddenly on…

Nancy Olson Livingston didn’t have a constant craving for her name on the marquee in spite of a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination for Sunset Boulevard. Before Billy Wilder’s depressing satire of a broke screenwriter’s toxic relationship with a fading silent film maven was officially unveiled in 1950, the 22-year-old…

“The best thing always is to do what your own heart tells you.” Before Jeannie Seely sank her teeth into future husband Hank Cochran’s empowering “Don’t Touch Me” and watched it rise to the top echelon of Billboard’s Hot Country Singles in 1966 and nab a Grammy thanks to her…

The cool, cloudy weather did not dampen the spirits of the local and state officials, financial contributors, and volunteers gathered to celebrate the ribbon cutting of the historic Alapaha Station Depot in Alapaha, Georgia, on Saturday, Dec. 10. Intrigued residents were treated to an open house later in the afternoon. …

“When I’m in trouble and I need a friend, I know she’ll stick with me until the end, everybody asks me, how you know, I smile at them and say she told me so.” Seven years into his recording career on Atlantic Records, blind African American pianist Ray Charles composed…