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Obstruction of Justice
After hosting a supper for several distinguished guests one evening, Sophie Arno...
Puppet Master?
Richard Nixon was forced to resign the presidency after Republican spies were ca...
Motor Mouth?
On October 28, 1970, the policeman leading Nixon's presidential motorcade throug...
Steve Miller Rocks! (long)
During the 1960s, Steve Miller once played at the Cherry Blossom Festival in Ric...
High Roller?
Gerard Roy was a colorful character. Known locally as The Man from Mars, he was ...
Speeding Ticket
"I was given a ticket," Denis Norden once recalled. "I said to the policeman, 'W...
George Bernard Shaw: Finger...
On his ninetieth birthday, George Bernard Shaw was visited by Scotland Yard's ce...
Crime Fighter
Robert Barbers fame as a crime fighter led to numerous medals and other honors, ...
Wetback?
One summer day, the young Scheffel embarked on a hiking trip along the right ban...
Heavyweight Service
"On the night of the Tunney-Heeney boxing match [in 1928]," David Ellbey later r...
George Gallup & the Telepho...
Like many polls conducted before the presidential election of 1948, George Gallu...
America's Most Wanted?
As founder of the Hell's Angels, Sonny Barger's extensive involvement in 'extral...
Rochefort
The socialist journalist Rochefort's tumultuous life was marked by a series of d...
Student Protest
"One day students started to march through Cairo carrying on a stretcher for all...
Hurlyburly (long)
One day in 1998 an unexpected visitor appeared on the set of Anthony Drazan's ...
Bodyguard
In the mid-1930s, with anti-Nazi sentiments on the rise and an important German ...
Brazilian Prison
In August, 2002, Brazilian Judge Sueli Zeraick Armani de Menezes visited Taubate...
Long Shot
Elfego Baca, one of the world's longest golf holes (a rocky three-mile stretch o...
Standard Fare?
Early in their careers, director Paul Thomas Anderson and some friends made a mo...
Fink?
"In the 1940s, Fink - a Jerusalem bar and long-time meeting-ground for politicia...
The Fugitive
While working as a private detective, Dashiell Hammett - enlisted to aid in the ...
Punch Up with Leno's Dad
Jay Leno's father, a former boxer, once resolved to punch out a much younger man...
Speeding Harpo
One day Harpo Marx was stopped for speeding on his way to a matinee Marx Brother...
Blue Lard
In early 2002, a pro-Kremlin youth movement called Moving Together (a group with...
Jack Nicholson: Significant...
One day in 1994, Jack Nicholson pulled up at a stop light, screamed "You cut me ...
AC/DC vs Riot Police
"A Belgian policeman took it into his head he was going to stop one of our shows...
Police Dog
Peter Lawford, who once had his wife smuggle several grams of cocaine into Austr...
Pat Burns: Domestic Dispute
Don Cherry once asked Toronto Maple Leafs head coach Pat Burns, a former cop, to...
Big Party?
For the New York City premiere of Pinocchio in 1940, Walt Disney hired el...
The Commish
"Back when I was doing 'The Commish,'" Michael Chiklis recalled, "there was a ki...
Jim Sheridan: Smile & Wave
Writer/director Jim Sheridan (whose acclaimed film In America was loosely...
Drew Carey: Running Stop Signs
"When it rains really hard, I like to run stop signs jut to make cops get out of...
Marlon Brando: Scene Stealer?
During the production of The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996), director John F...
Tara Reid: Freeway
Tara Reid: "I have a Porsche and I was driving and there was no one on the freew...
JNRA?
A gentleman once traveled from Johannesburg to Pretoria to obtain American natur...
Little Fouler?
One day New York mayor Fiorello "Little Flower" La Guardia, convinced that they ...
Gates Firing?
In June 1992, former Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) chief Daryl Gates was ...
Executive Order?
Chicago mayor Richard J. Daley famously sought to defend the actions of the city...
Short Order Cook
During a Prohibition raid one day, the celebrated hostess and singer Texas Guina...
NYPD
"Honest" John Hylan is often cited as the least competent mayor in New York City...
Pool Man?
Sinclair Lewis once stayed in a hotel which boasted a marvelous swimming pool - ...
Bonnie Hunt: Tough Call
Bonnie Hunt: "One time in the old neighborhood my mom was home alone and somebod...
NYPD Blues?
Dennis Franz ('NYPD Blue's Detective Andy Sipowicz) found that playing a policem...
Sherrif Shaq?
During an appearance on "The Tonight Show" one evening, the Los Angeles Lakers's...
Ljube Job?
One day in 2002, Macedonian interior minister Ljube Boskovski, the man in charge...
Howard Dean: Police Recruits
"All morning an instructor on my staff had been explaining leadership to a class...
Michael Douglas: Streets of...
One day after landing the role of Inspector Steve Keller in the hit police drama...
Special Policeman
During the General Strike of 1926, Lord Jellicoe visited Sir Noel Curtis-Bennett...
Ja Rule
In 1999, African American rapper Ja Rule and his band (the Murderers) were order...
Guards
"Out driving, and late as usual, James Agate urged his chauffeur to go faster an...
Freddie Hospitality
One night, police visited future Queen frontman Freddie Mercury and his mates to...
Back Bencher?
Sarah Polley, an avid political activist, once attended a protest at Queens Park...
Public Enemy Number One
Shortly after his designation as "Public Enemy Number One" by the FBI in 1933, t...
Daryl Hannah: Drunk Driver?
At the LA premiere of Kill Bill: Vol 2 in 2004, agoraphobic actress Daryl...
Card
Some time around New Year's day in 2003, Robert Redford lost a credit card. Some...
Kantner Cocktail
During a Jefferson Airplane show in Miami one evening, guitarist Paul Kantner wa...
Bohr & Heisenberg
The Nobel Prize-winning physicist Niels Bohr once made a trip to Germany to atte...
Joe Garrity: Bus Stop Whores
"Two San Francisco cops have been caught moonlighting in a hardcore porn film," ...
Edna Buchanan
"There are those at the Miami Herald who like to think that [the legendar...
Crime Reporter
The legendary Miami Herald crime reporter Edna Buchanan was widely admire...
Looking for Trouble
In May 1956, Sonny Liston beat up a man in St. Louis and stole his gun. He was l...
Spitting Image
"In 1998, St. Petersburg, Florida, police used DNA to nab the notorious "Duck Ro...
Errol Morris: Thin Blue Line
"Errol Morris' fame as a documentarian of odd human behavior gained national att...
Ice Cube: Rape Suspect?
In August 2003, rap music legend Ice Cube was not amused to learn that the Chica...
Omar Sharif: Resistance Hero?
In 2003, the 71-year-old Omar Sharif spent a night in jail after assaulting a po...
Mark Fuhrman: Honorary Jour...
After leaving the LAPD (after being denounced as a racist during the O. J. Simps...
Eminem: Fingerprint
On June 3, 2000, Eminem spotted his wife, Kimberly, in a parking lot at the Hot ...
Ice Cube & the LAPD
Ice Cube was once asked whether, when the FBI was denouncing N.W.A. back in 1989...
Peter Imbert: First Day
Sir Peter Imbert: "I recall the day in 1985 when I arrived at New Scotland Yard ...
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: ...
A classic episode of "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" aired on television in 1958. "L...
Keith Richards: Drug Bust
In 1967, Keith Richards threw a bash at Redlands, his English estate. Everyone w...
Ray Liotta: Freaky Fan
"[After appearing in Something Wild and GoodFellas] Ray Liotta sta...
Hot Tip
One day in August 1797, police detective G. Walsh received a hot tip from an inf...
Scared Straight
During an appearance on "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" one evening, Edward Burn...
Bob Burnquist: Growing up i...
As a young skateboarder growing up in Brazil, Bob Burnquist was often harassed b...
40 Days and 40 Nights?
Josh Hartnett: "My friends and I make short films. We pretended to rob the Dairy...
Shoot Out
By the time they were finally gunned down on May 23rd, 1934, Clyde Barrow and Bo...
Wavy Gravy
Why did San Francisco's famed political activist Wavy Gravy (a former stand-up c...
Too Much Proof
"Weeks ago [during World War II] we were all given green cards and white armlets...
Young Jeremy Piven
"I once got busted for drinking under age," Jeremy Piven recalled. "The cops han...
Tom Jones: Welsh Sensation
"While speeding through London drunk, I drove into a barrier," Welsh sensation T...
Robert Plant: Police Brutality
"The brutality of the police in the southern states in the early '70s was unbeli...
Quick Thinking
Alison Lohman's role in Ridley Scott's Matchstick Men (as Nicolas Cage's ...
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