SHEMP! THE BIOGRAPHY OF THE THREE STOOGES’ SHEMP HOWARD, THE FACE OF FILM COMEDY, published October 1, 2024, Applause Theatre & Cinema Books
HOW THE GREATEST ACTOR OF THE 20TH CENTURY CONTINUES TO INFLUENCE THE 21St... COMING APRIL 2, 2024 FROM APPLAUSE THEATRE & CINEMA BOOKS.
THE FIRST BIOGRAPHY OF THE NOTORIOUS HOLLYWOOD LEGEND, PUBLISHED DECEMBER 6, 2022 BY THE UNIVERSITY PRESS OF KENTUCKY
WRITTEN WITH JEFF ABRAHAM, PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER 3, 2019 BY CHICAGO REVIEW PRESS' A CAPPELLA BOOKS
THE BOOK THAT MAURY POVICH CALLED “THE BIBLE” AND THAT MIKE WALLACE SAID WAS “UNDENIABLY AUTHENTIC.” SEE THE “BOOK” SECTION ON THIS SITE.
OCTOBER 2024: MENTIONED ALONG WITH OTHER TABLOID FIGURES IN ORAL HISTORY OF THE NEW YORK POST
BURT’S 2018 INTERVIEW WITH COMEDY LEGEND RUSTY WARREN FROM PLEASEKILLME.COM IS QUOTED AND REFERENCED IN SHAWN LEVY’S 2022 BOOK ON FEMALE STAND-UP COMEDIANS
HONOR: "BURT KEARNS” IS AGAIN A FICTIONAL CHARACTER (“BOY WONDER PRODUCER OF CBS GOLF”) IN A BEST-SELLER BY BURT’S OLD FRIEND PETER DE JONGE & JAMES PATTERSON.
BURT IS FEATURED AS AN EXPERT --NOT A VICTIM OR PERPETRATOR! -- IN THE TIME INC. SPECIAL BOOK RELEASED NOVEMBER 11, 2016
2022: FIND BURT’S ESSAYS, ARTICLES, INTERVIEWS & VIDEO SEGMENTS AT LEGSVILLE.COM
BURT CONTRIBUTES NON-FICTION STORIES TO THE LITERARY POP CULTURE WEBSITE, PLEASEKILLME.COM
THE PREMIERE OF BURT’S FILM, 'THE SEVENTH PYTHON,' AT THE EGYPTIAN THEATRE IN HOLLYWOOD, IS INCLUDED AS A SIGNIFICANT MOMENT IN PYTHON HISTORY
BURT’S PLEASEKILLME.COM PIECE ON HIS FILMED REUNION OF CHRIS MONTEZ AND BRIAN WILSON IS CITED
BURT WROTE A COVER BLURB FOR THIS 2018 MUSIC MEMOIR, IN WHICH HE’S DESCRIBED AS "ONE OF A ‘SELDOM SEEN NOW BREED.’”
Burt’s newspaper days, covering sensational cross-burning & Satanic cult cases -- and Keith Richards -- told in wickedly entertaining 2016 book by his former editor
BURT’S EXPLOITS AT THE FALL OF THE BERLIN WALL, RECOUNTED IN MAURY POVICH’S BEST SELLER, “CURRENT AFFAIRS"
Burt’s role in tabloid television and influence on Mike Wallace’s nephew Eames Yates are explored.
THE AUSSIE NEWS EXECUTIVE WRITES OF BURT’S ROLE AT 'A CURRENT AFFAIR,’ AND CALLS TABLOID BABY “A REAL EYE-OPENER... REVEALING INTRIGUES THAT WENT ON BEHIND MY BACK... AT FOX IN THE LATE 1980s."
BURT IS QUOTED AS ‘TABLOID HISTORIAN’ IN MARVIN KITMAN’S BIO OF THE FORMER FOX NEWS TALKER
TABLOID BABY IS CITED AS A SOURCE IN THIS BOOK’S TRACING OF THE HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF FOX’S COUNTER-ELITE NEWS BRAND
IN HIS 1995 BOOK, HOWARD STERN INCLUDES THE SCRIPT OF A 'HARD COPY' SEGMENT ABOUT HIM-- A SCRIPT WRITTEN BY BURT.
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BURT'S FRIEND, HOLLYWOOD’S LEADING ANIMAL ACTIVIST, POINTS OUT BURT’S ROLE IN BRINGING ANIMAL RIGHTS TO MAINSTREAM TELEVISION IN THE EARLY 1990s
SCHOLAR CITES TABLOID BABY’S SKETCH OF “AN ANXIOUS DARWINIAN, HARD-DRINKING, SEXUALLY VIRILE, HOMOSOCIAL WORKPLACE" & "INTERPERSONAL CARNAGE"
BURT’s WORK IN SPIN MAGAZINE IS REPRODUCED IN THIS BOOK ABOUT THE AFTERLIFE OF ELVIS PRESLEY
BURT & ELLI WOHLGELERNETER’S INTENSE COVERAGE OF THE ISRAELI BASEBALL LEAGUE ON TABLOIDBABY.BLOGSPOT.COM (2007-2010) IS ENSHRINED IN THE ARCHIVES OF THE BASEBALL HALL OF FAME
THE NATION’s ‘LIBERAL MEDIA’ COLUMNIST QUOTES BURT’S BOOK TABLOID BABY AS AN EXAMPLE OF HOW THE TELEVISION SHOW ‘A CURRENT AFFAIR' “ERASED MOST OF THE JOURNALISTIC RULE BOOK"
BURT’S SPIN MAGAZINE PIECE ON KD LANG IS CITED IN THE STORY OF CANADIAN POP MUSIC
Burt’s 1988 SPIN magazine article, Canadian Cowpie, is quoted in this award-winning biography of the superstar singer k.d. lang
BURT'S LANDMARK SPIN MAGAZINE ARTICLE ON KD LANG IS QUOTED & CITED IN THIS STONEWALL BOOK AWARD WINNER, RANKED BY MS. MAGAZINE AS ONE OF THE TOP 100 FEMINIST NON-FICTION BOOKS
BURT’S PRAISE FOR SONDRA LONDON’S CHILLING TRUE-LIFE BOOK IS FEATURED AS A BACK-COVER BLURB
BURT IS HONORED BY A FICTIONAL CHARACTER, A NEWSPAPER REPORTER, GIVEN HIS NAME IN THE BESTSELLER BY HIS FORMER NEWSPAPER COLLEAGUE PETER DE JONGE & JAMES PATTERSON
BURT & HIS EXPLOITS AT THE FALL OF THE BERLIN WALL INSPIRED THE CHARACTER AL BUNKER IN THIS NOVEL BY THE AUTHOR OF SCHINDLER’S LIST
The chapter on musician and 1960s pop star Chris Montez goes into detail on El Viaje Musical de Ezekiel Montanez: The Chris Montez Story, the documentary Burt produced an directed.
EARLY NEWSPAPER DAYS: FROM 'WICKED RIDGEFIELD CONNECTICUT' by BURT’S FORMER EDITOR, JACK SANDERS
TABLOID TELEVISION VETERAN & AUTHOR: FROM TIME-LIFE’s 'CRIMES OF PASSION: 15 STORIES OF LOVE GONE WRONG'
EARLY DAYS, PRINT REPORTER & EDITOR
BURT KEARNS ON ELVIS, SPIN MAGAZINE DEC 1988
BURT KEARNS’ JOHN HYATT PROFILE, SPIN MAGAZINE MARCH 1989
BURT KEARNS ON JOHN HYATT, CON’TD, SPIN MARCH 1989
BURT KEARNS’ PROFILE OF STEVE MILLER, SPIN MAGAZINE, NOVEMBER 1988
BURT KEARNS ON STEVE MILLER CONT’D, SPIN, NOV 1988
BURT KEARNS’ KD LANG PROFILE IN SPIN MAGAZINE, SEPT 1988, QUOTED IN MANY KD LANG BIOGRAPHIES
FEATURE ON AUTHOR & ARTIST MAURICE SENDAK for RIDGEFIELD CT PRESS 07 DEC 1978
BURT KEARNS’ 1988 SPIN MAGAZINE PIECE ON ELVIS PRESLEY, QUOTED IN BOOK, 'ELVIS AFTER ELVIS: THE POSTHUMOUS CAREER OF A LIVING LEGEND’ BY GILBERT B. RODMAN
BURT INCLUDED IN 'FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY ALUMNI' (ISBN-13: 9781157372349), BOOK OF UNIVERSITY’S PROMINENT GRADUATES
SHEMP! THE BIOGRAPHY OF THE THREE STOOGES’ SHEMP HOWARD, THE FACE OF FILM COMEDY, published October 1, 2024, Applause Theatre & Cinema Books
HOW THE GREATEST ACTOR OF THE 20TH CENTURY CONTINUES TO INFLUENCE THE 21St... COMING APRIL 2, 2024 FROM APPLAUSE THEATRE & CINEMA BOOKS.
THE FIRST BIOGRAPHY OF THE NOTORIOUS HOLLYWOOD LEGEND, PUBLISHED DECEMBER 6, 2022 BY THE UNIVERSITY PRESS OF KENTUCKY
WRITTEN WITH JEFF ABRAHAM, PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER 3, 2019 BY CHICAGO REVIEW PRESS' A CAPPELLA BOOKS
THE BOOK THAT MAURY POVICH CALLED “THE BIBLE” AND THAT MIKE WALLACE SAID WAS “UNDENIABLY AUTHENTIC.” SEE THE “BOOK” SECTION ON THIS SITE.
OCTOBER 2024: MENTIONED ALONG WITH OTHER TABLOID FIGURES IN ORAL HISTORY OF THE NEW YORK POST
BURT’S 2018 INTERVIEW WITH COMEDY LEGEND RUSTY WARREN FROM PLEASEKILLME.COM IS QUOTED AND REFERENCED IN SHAWN LEVY’S 2022 BOOK ON FEMALE STAND-UP COMEDIANS
HONOR: "BURT KEARNS” IS AGAIN A FICTIONAL CHARACTER (“BOY WONDER PRODUCER OF CBS GOLF”) IN A BEST-SELLER BY BURT’S OLD FRIEND PETER DE JONGE & JAMES PATTERSON.
BURT IS FEATURED AS AN EXPERT --NOT A VICTIM OR PERPETRATOR! -- IN THE TIME INC. SPECIAL BOOK RELEASED NOVEMBER 11, 2016
2022: FIND BURT’S ESSAYS, ARTICLES, INTERVIEWS & VIDEO SEGMENTS AT LEGSVILLE.COM
BURT CONTRIBUTES NON-FICTION STORIES TO THE LITERARY POP CULTURE WEBSITE, PLEASEKILLME.COM
THE PREMIERE OF BURT’S FILM, 'THE SEVENTH PYTHON,' AT THE EGYPTIAN THEATRE IN HOLLYWOOD, IS INCLUDED AS A SIGNIFICANT MOMENT IN PYTHON HISTORY
BURT’S PLEASEKILLME.COM PIECE ON HIS FILMED REUNION OF CHRIS MONTEZ AND BRIAN WILSON IS CITED
BURT WROTE A COVER BLURB FOR THIS 2018 MUSIC MEMOIR, IN WHICH HE’S DESCRIBED AS "ONE OF A ‘SELDOM SEEN NOW BREED.’”
Burt’s newspaper days, covering sensational cross-burning & Satanic cult cases -- and Keith Richards -- told in wickedly entertaining 2016 book by his former editor
BURT’S EXPLOITS AT THE FALL OF THE BERLIN WALL, RECOUNTED IN MAURY POVICH’S BEST SELLER, “CURRENT AFFAIRS"“Burt Kearns and his hearty band plunged into Red Germany in search of a sentimental sidelight to the busting of the borders. Burt Kearns took the BMW..."
Burt’s role in tabloid television and influence on Mike Wallace’s nephew Eames Yates are explored.“What Kearns wanted was the antithesis of CBS; with the nihilism of punk rock, he wanted to demolish the whole smug institution of network news. Thus, he would become managing editor of A Current Affair, which was launched as a lurid late-night alternative to Ted Koppel’s highbrow Nightline…"
THE AUSSIE NEWS EXECUTIVE WRITES OF BURT’S ROLE AT 'A CURRENT AFFAIR,’ AND CALLS TABLOID BABY “A REAL EYE-OPENER... REVEALING INTRIGUES THAT WENT ON BEHIND MY BACK... AT FOX IN THE LATE 1980s."
BURT IS QUOTED AS ‘TABLOID HISTORIAN’ IN MARVIN KITMAN’S BIO OF THE FORMER FOX NEWS TALKER“When O’Reilly was cast as the new host (of Inside Edition),” said Kearns, at the time a producer at A Current Affair, “he was like a doofus, a hundred and eighty degrees from what he is today. He was polite, He was very, you know, sickening and polite. He woud open the show — and this always got to us — by thanking the audience for being there. Thank you for doing what? Oh, thank you for not changing the channel?”
TABLOID BABY IS CITED AS A SOURCE IN THIS BOOK’S TRACING OF THE HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF FOX’S COUNTER-ELITE NEWS BRAND
IN HIS 1995 BOOK, HOWARD STERN INCLUDES THE SCRIPT OF A 'HARD COPY' SEGMENT ABOUT HIM-- A SCRIPT WRITTEN BY BURT.
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BURT'S FRIEND, HOLLYWOOD’S LEADING ANIMAL ACTIVIST, POINTS OUT BURT’S ROLE IN BRINGING ANIMAL RIGHTS TO MAINSTREAM TELEVISION IN THE EARLY 1990s
SCHOLAR CITES TABLOID BABY’S SKETCH OF “AN ANXIOUS DARWINIAN, HARD-DRINKING, SEXUALLY VIRILE, HOMOSOCIAL WORKPLACE" & "INTERPERSONAL CARNAGE"
BURT’s WORK IN SPIN MAGAZINE IS REPRODUCED IN THIS BOOK ABOUT THE AFTERLIFE OF ELVIS PRESLEY
BURT & ELLI WOHLGELERNETER’S INTENSE COVERAGE OF THE ISRAELI BASEBALL LEAGUE ON TABLOIDBABY.BLOGSPOT.COM (2007-2010) IS ENSHRINED IN THE ARCHIVES OF THE BASEBALL HALL OF FAME
THE NATION’s ‘LIBERAL MEDIA’ COLUMNIST QUOTES BURT’S BOOK TABLOID BABY AS AN EXAMPLE OF HOW THE TELEVISION SHOW ‘A CURRENT AFFAIR' “ERASED MOST OF THE JOURNALISTIC RULE BOOK"
BURT’S SPIN MAGAZINE PIECE ON KD LANG IS CITED IN THE STORY OF CANADIAN POP MUSIC
Burt’s 1988 SPIN magazine article, Canadian Cowpie, is quoted in this award-winning biography of the superstar singer k.d. lang
BURT'S LANDMARK SPIN MAGAZINE ARTICLE ON KD LANG IS QUOTED & CITED IN THIS STONEWALL BOOK AWARD WINNER, RANKED BY MS. MAGAZINE AS ONE OF THE TOP 100 FEMINIST NON-FICTION BOOKS
BURT’S PRAISE FOR SONDRA LONDON’S CHILLING TRUE-LIFE BOOK IS FEATURED AS A BACK-COVER BLURB
BURT IS HONORED BY A FICTIONAL CHARACTER, A NEWSPAPER REPORTER, GIVEN HIS NAME IN THE BESTSELLER BY HIS FORMER NEWSPAPER COLLEAGUE PETER DE JONGE & JAMES PATTERSON Then it hit me. I went into the kitchen and called Burt Kearns, the reporter from the East Hampton Star who'd slipped me his number at my father’s funeral. Ten minutes later Kearns stood at the door with a tape recorder and two reporter’s notepads. “Christ," I said. “you’re faster than Chinese food.”
BURT & HIS EXPLOITS AT THE FALL OF THE BERLIN WALL INSPIRED THE CHARACTER AL BUNKER IN THIS NOVEL BY THE AUTHOR OF SCHINDLER’S LIST
The chapter on musician and 1960s pop star Chris Montez goes into detail on El Viaje Musical de Ezekiel Montanez: The Chris Montez Story, the documentary Burt produced an directed.
EARLY NEWSPAPER DAYS: FROM 'WICKED RIDGEFIELD CONNECTICUT' by BURT’S FORMER EDITOR, JACK SANDERS
TABLOID TELEVISION VETERAN & AUTHOR: FROM TIME-LIFE’s 'CRIMES OF PASSION: 15 STORIES OF LOVE GONE WRONG'
EARLY DAYS, PRINT REPORTER & EDITOR
BURT KEARNS ON ELVIS, SPIN MAGAZINE DEC 1988
BURT KEARNS’ JOHN HYATT PROFILE, SPIN MAGAZINE MARCH 1989
BURT KEARNS ON JOHN HYATT, CON’TD, SPIN MARCH 1989
BURT KEARNS’ PROFILE OF STEVE MILLER, SPIN MAGAZINE, NOVEMBER 1988
BURT KEARNS ON STEVE MILLER CONT’D, SPIN, NOV 1988
BURT KEARNS’ KD LANG PROFILE IN SPIN MAGAZINE, SEPT 1988, QUOTED IN MANY KD LANG BIOGRAPHIES
FEATURE ON AUTHOR & ARTIST MAURICE SENDAK for RIDGEFIELD CT PRESS 07 DEC 1978
BURT KEARNS’ 1988 SPIN MAGAZINE PIECE ON ELVIS PRESLEY, QUOTED IN BOOK, 'ELVIS AFTER ELVIS: THE POSTHUMOUS CAREER OF A LIVING LEGEND’ BY GILBERT B. RODMAN
BURT INCLUDED IN 'FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY ALUMNI' (ISBN-13: 9781157372349), BOOK OF UNIVERSITY’S PROMINENT GRADUATES
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