Name a star or celebrity of the last 40 years and it’s likely that person was the subject of Bill Zehme’s keen mind and artful writing, in such magazines as Rolling Stone, Playboy, Vanity Fair and ...

CHICAGO – Name a star or celebrity of the last 40 years, and it’s likely that person was the subject of Bill Zehme’s keen mind and artful writing, in such magazines as Rolling Stone, Playboy, Vanity ...

Filmmaker Cameron Crowe, once a fellow magazine writer, dubbed Chicago's Bill Zehme "the King of the First Sentence," but the sentences that followed were awfully good, too. Like the one for Esquire, ...

If there are ghosts, the ghost of writer Bill Zehme might be found within the Old Town tavern/restaurant Twin Anchors, where he spent many living days and nights and where his face still stares from ...

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A prolific biographer, he charmed his way into access to, and insights about, Frank Sinatra, Hugh Hefner, Johnny Carson and many others. By Sam Roberts Bill Zehme, whose biographies and magazine ...

One day in the 1990s, Bill Zehme lay down naked next to actress Sharon Stone, who was also naked. They were not married. They were not dating. They barely knew each other. Mr. Zehme, the grand bard of ...

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Author Bill Zehme, the last person to interview Johnny Carson and biographer of Frank Sinatra and Andy Kaufman, has died. He was 65 and passed in Chicago after a long battle with colorectal cancer.

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Johnny Carson is ever the king of late night television, even over 30 years after his final "Tonight Show." Acclaimed Chicago writer Bill Zehme had unprecedented access to the host ...

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CHICAGO — If there are ghosts, the ghost of writer Bill Zehme might be found within the Chicago tavern/restaurant Twin Anchors, where he spent many living days and nights and where his face still ...