A Hollywood icon — and a Tinseltown murder

The man who guards the Johnny Carson legacy – and his archives

Ten years after the death of legendary talk show host Johnny Carson, I check in with the keeper of the flame, Jeff Sotzing – Carson’s nephew, protégé and president of Carson Entertainment Group – in the May issue of Orange Coast.

The 1922 murder of director William Desmond Taylor still resonates

Glad to see that others share my enthusiasm for the book Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood (Harper & Row), which I reviewed last year for BookPage. The author, William J. Mann, just received an Edgar award (named for Edgar Allan Poe) from the Mystery Writers of America. The genre: best fact crime.