Showing posts with label Burt Kearns. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Burt Kearns. Show all posts

Friday, April 27, 2018

Fifty years! It’s a historic rock ’n’roll high school reunion between Brian Wilson & Chris Montez on PleaseKillMe.com!


Hey! I’ve posted more times in the past few weeks than I have in the year I was released -- err,  checked out -- of Her Majesty’s guest lodging, all because my pals are keeping more busy than ever, what with books, stories and film offerings.  The latest is the reunion, after fifty years, of a couple of high school buddies: Beach Boys superstar Brian Wilson and rock ’n’ roll legend Chris Montez.  


The video and story come from my former boss, colleague, competitor-- whatever you wanna call him, I call him “pally” --  Burt Kearns.  He shot the scene for his movie, El Viaje Musical de Ezekiel Montanez: The Chris Montez Story, the documentary that was previewed at Beatles fan conventions and film festivals a few years back and is still in the works.


The story and exclusive video are posted on PleaseKillMe.com, that website based on his old pal Legs McNeil’s  (with the statuesque Gillian McCain) punk rock history book.  (Back in March, Burt and Jeff Abraham wrote a tee-rific piece on my old drinking galpal, Rusty Warren, she of the bawdy tunes and comedy elpees of the Sixties).



You can click here to see the video and read the story on the Please Kill Me site.

Sunday, April 1, 2018

Sex! Knockers! Laffs! And Saucy Songs! You’ve got to read the Rusty Warren story on PleaseKillMe.com!


 

Ya can't beat it when a couple of your pals pals of two generations come together, hit it off, and make some kinda history together.  And that’s exactly what happened when my old gal pal and comedy legend Rusty Warren arrived in southern California from her home in Hawaii, met up with my man (he's been my client and he's been my boss) Burt Kearns and came away with some kind of history.


Kearnsey and his pal and co-author (on a show business book that I will be the first to tell you about before it hits shelves in 2019) Jeff Abraham had a long lunch and conversation with the famed Knockers Up Gal of party records fame that happened to be timed perfectly with the release of the book, Rusty Warren: The Knockers Up Gal (My Life Volume 1).


That conversation became a feature story and now it's been posted on PleaseKillMe.com, the rock, pop culture and literary website based on Please Kill Me, the punk rock history book penned by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain.


Burt wrote Tabloid Baby. Jeff is Hollywood’s leading comedy historian. Their piece on Rusty introduces a new generation to a lively, hilarious and important comedy and sexual pioneer.  Sex and comedy!  Can't beat that!  I’ll take my knockers... up!  See ya on the town!

Read all about it by clicking here.








Thursday, June 9, 2016

Sam sez: Don’t miss KARDASHIAN: THE MAN WHO SAVED OJ SIMPSON! Monday June 13 on Reelz!


He was the first Kardashian, the original, the one who got the name out there more than a decade before a... excuse the expression... “sex tape”... and reality television series turned it into a brand!  Robert Kardashian became a household name after his pal OJ Simpson was charged in a double murder, and a television special is about to expose what he really did to save OJ!


Kardashian: The Man Who Saved OJ Simpson, which premieres Monday, June 13 at 9 pm ET/PT on Reelz, is the latest headline-grabbing television event from our pals at P&L Media, the folks who brought you El Chapo & Sean Penn: Bungle In The Jungle, the one that Oliver Stone is still tearing out his hair over.

Included are interviews with victim Ron Goldman's sister Kim, Jeffrey Felix, a former correctional officer who befriended O.J. Simpson when he worked in the prison where Simpson is behind bars, Associated Press reporter Michael Fleeman, who covered the trial, and attorney Carl Douglas, a member of the Simpson “Dream Team” defense team under Johnnie Cochran, and many more.



And even more explosively, this show tells how tells the story behind the footage of Robert Kardashian handling and slipping away with the infamous Louis Vuitton garment bag in plain sight of TV news crews and investigators --  and the person telling it is the news producer who caught him!


Burt Kearns, who’s an executive producer of the show along with P&L’s Peter Brennan and Lisa Lew, told us the story in his book, Tabloid Baby, and now, for the first time ever, takes us step-by-step through the video and tells how he broke the story four weeks after the murders.


Compelling stuff!  Kearns, Brennan and Lew were all on the same news team all those years ago, leading Simpson case coverage with the show Premier Story.  And a lot of the adventures of the Premier Story gang, headed by host Alison Holloway, are resurrected, including the work of “Hi-8 Joe” Guidry, who with his home video camera literally revolutionized the way news is covered on television.  Marcia Clark, Johnnie Cochran-- even Tupac Shakur and TMZ’s Harvey Levin show up in his viewfinder.

And you won’t believe where Joe Guidry wound up years later!


This is a winner, pals.  It’s not one of those big cinematic HBO or Netflix epics that take years to make.  This is fast-breaking, up-to-the-minute, butt-kicking nonfiction news! 

Take it from me, Sam Peters (whose subsidiary, in the interest of full disclosure, is helping with the publicity): Don’t miss it! 

Set your DVR!

You’ll find yourself asking: “Where’s The Bag, Mr, Kardashian?”

And I’ll see you after the show... on the town!

Saturday, March 5, 2016

Sam sez: Don't miss 'El Chapo & Sean Penn: Bungle In The Jungle'! Thursday March 10 on Reelz!


Television alert!  Set your DVR  or make sure you've got your Barcalounger in place and ready to spend an hour this Thursday night, March 10 for one thriller of a nonfiction television special: El Chapo & Sean Penn: Bungle in the Jungle.

The one-hour special premieres at 9 pm Eastern, 6 pm Pacific Time (and there should be a west coast rerun at 8 on the Reelz Channel.

This special is bound to break some news and change recent history, as it tells "the sensational real story behind the Oscar winner’s meeting with the Mexican drug lord, and the famous Hollywood figure who was pulling the strings back in Hollywood."


It features experts including Hollywood producer Vance Owen, our colleagues, The Wrap editor-in-chief Sharon Waxman and Daily Mail showbiz editor (that's her actual title!) Natalie Trombetta, Narcos creator Chris Brancato, Hollywood crime expert Raquel Queen of Bail -- and our old pals: Tyrel Ventura --  late of Conspiracy Theory, now hosting Watching The Hawks on RT and Sean Penn's former assistant -- and Paul Rodriguez, comedian, actor, activist... and... I'll let the cat out of the bag... relative of El Chapo himself!

Don't miss this one, pals and gals! The show comes from P and L Media, the reality television innovators of everything from Judge Judy to A&E's Deadly Paradise... and the producing team includes the reunion of three tabloid television pioneers: Peter Brennan, Lisa Lew and Burt Kearns (yes, of the High There crew).


And I'd be remiss not to add that one of  our subsidiaries, Sam Peters Public Relations, is helping out with the publicity!

See you... after El Chapo & Sean Penn: Bungle in the Jungle... on the town!