Jon Mooallem
Writer-at-Large at The New York Times
(not on here) Author, SERIOUS FACE, THIS IS CHANCE! and WILD ONES.
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2 weeks ago |
wsj.com | Jon Mooallem
After retiring from the seafood business at 66, he threw himself into mentoring children and rescuing addictsApproximately 330 million years ago, a creature completely void of charisma called the crawfish evolved to live inconspicuously in the mud at the bottom of swamps. And approximately 329.9999 million years after that, a second creature came along that was pretty much the opposite: a swaggering, wide-smiling showman who got famous boiling and selling the first.
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1 month ago |
wsj.com | Jon Mooallem
Roman left the show after being arrested for drug possession, but returned after she reinvented herself as a singer and proselytizer“Hee Haw,” which premiered on CBS in 1969, was conceived as a kind of vaudeville revue for rural America: a parade of corny comedy sketches; buxom girls in pigtails, denim and gingham; and guest performances by country music A-listers—all hosted by the celebrated, cowboy-hat-wearing musicians Buck Owens and Roy Clark.
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1 month ago |
wsj.com | Jon Mooallem
Messner, who claimed to have been behind the building of more than 1,800 churches, served just over two years in prison for hiding assets during bankruptcy proceedingsIn the 1980s, the televangelist Jim Bakker was riding a sensational wave of fame, religious fervor and cash, bringing in more than $100 million in revenue annually as the founder and face, along with his wife Tammy Faye, of “The PTL Club” television show and PTL Satellite Network.
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1 month ago |
wsj.com | Jon Mooallem
Spencer, who was a de facto general manager—the only woman in that role in NFL history—was unable to undo the financial damage caused by her fatherIn early 1983, the Philadelphia Eagles football team was on the brink of financial ruin. A strike-shortened season had exacerbated longer-standing shortfalls.
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tntribune.com | Jon Mooallem
George Bell was 7 feet 8 inches tall. He was so tall that strangers were constantly coming up to him to take pictures and ask the same dumbstruck question: “How tall are you?”; that he learned early on to request two beds end-to-end when he made hotel reservations; that children would rush outside after church, needing to see how the quiet colossus they’d been staring at in the pews would manage to get into his regular-size car.
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