A year before playing the charismatic—”Who loves ya, baby?”—fedora hat-wearing, lollipop-sucking, New York City police detective Theophilus “Theo” Kojak for five seasons on the popular TV series Kojak ...

Giallo: a splashy ‘70s subgenre of Italian horror with soft, overlit nightscapes filmed in garish Eastman color and stars whose hairlines didn’t recede, they advanced. Except for the lollipop-sucking ...

When you hear the name Telly Savalas, you probably think Kojak, the iconic character he played on the show of the same name. Actually, if you;re under thirty, you probably think, “Who the fuck is ...

Telly Savalas, who was best known for portraying Lt. Theo Kojak in Kojak, lived a very unique life. The Greek-American actor – who was a proud father to six children, shared with four mothers – had a ...

Intrigued? From my latest Daily Beast column: I started receiving People magazine recently, and as I was leafing through its ho-hum 40th anniversary issue, I stumbled across this 1974 cover featuring ...

America loved Telly Savalas in the 1970s, when the veteran Greek-American actor nailed the title role in CBS’ “Kojak” series — a tough New York City police lieutenant with a heart of gold, given to ...

Following Sean Connery’s original departure from the James Bond film franchise with 1967’s You Only Live Twice, unknown model George Lazenby was cast to fill his shoes in 1969’s On Her Majesty’s ...

I started receiving People magazine recently, and as I was leafing through its ho-hum 40th anniversary issue, I stumbled across this 1974 cover featuring Telly Savalas, the man who mainstreamed ...