In this fondly remembered but criminally short-lived 1980 TV show, Tenspeed and Brown Shoe, then virtually unknown Jeff Goldblum starred as the very naive, bored, terminally-square stockbroker Lionel “Brown Shoe” Whitney — a doofus with fantasies of becoming an over-boiled private eye like his fictional hero, Mark Savage, Private Eye, the hero of a series cheesy, pulpy Spillane-like thrillers. How obsessed was Lionel? His business card for the Whitney Agency sported a Tommy gun. not that he was a totally useless dweeb, mind you — he had a black-belt in Karate and was an Olympic Games pistol shooting competitor, but still… read more >
Hollywood and Highland’s Gay Coffee Shop Hangout
Coffee Dan’s was first mentioned in the 1916 silent comedy The Heiress at Coffee Dan’s, which starred Bessie Love. The first venue opened in San
