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Photograph courtesy Peter Bronson
One of the deadliest nightclub fires in U.S. history destroyed the Beverly Hills Supper Club in Southgate on May 28, 1977, killing 165 people. Former
Enquirer editor and columnist Peter Bronson has published a new book,
Forbidden Fruit, about the tragedy’s connections to Northern Kentucky’s long history as a gambling and organized crime hotbed. The fire was no accident, Bronson claims, but in fact flowed from 40 years of “Sin City” corruption linked to the birth of Las Vegas and even JFK’s assassination.
What was the Beverly Hills Supper Club’s connection to Newport’s organized crime history?
“These experiences, hard-won over the course of decades, will serve as my guide if I am confirmed to lead ATF,” Mr. Chipman will tell lawmakers. “The Bureau has excelled at investigating crimes since the days of Eliot Ness. My leadership mission will be to sharpen ATF’s focus while striving to prevent more violent crimes from occurring in the first place.”
Mr. Chipman’s nomination has been hailed by gun-control advocates, but Second Amendment groups say he’s advocated for extreme positions on firearms, including banning semiautomatic firearms and magazines.
The National Rifle Association, Gun Owners of America, and the National Association for Gun Rights have all opposed his nomination.
Joshua Hull’s
Underexposed! The 50 Greatest Movies Never Made, available today, is a wonderful peek into a movie history that never actually happened, detailing productions that fell apart at various stages in the Hollywood pipeline. Some of these are well-known studies in what could have been, while others have been less discussed on Film Twitter and other corners of movie fandom. Everyone knows that Guillermo del Toro was going to adapt
At the Mountains of Madness, Neill Blomkamp was attached to “Alien 5,” and that George Miller almost made his own “Justice League.” And, of course, the story of Jerry Lewis and “The Day the Clown Cried” (a movie that actually breaks the rules a bit in that it