Burt Kearns

Burt Kearns is an American author, journalist, and television and film producer, writer and director, whom Vanity Fair referred to as "a show business and pop culture savant.

[8][9] The Show Won't Go On: The Most Shocking, Bizarre, and Historic Deaths of Performers Onstage, which he wrote with Jeff Abraham, was published in 2019 by Chicago Review Press.

Hair Confidential; Tori Spelling: Celebrity Lie Detector; Mystery Millionaire; Joe Rogan Questions Everything; Dumbest Stuff on Wheels; and Legend Quest.

He directed and produced the 2008 Frozen Pictures documentary musical film, The Seventh Python, about the career and influence of Monty Python collaborator and Bonzo Dog Band member Neil Innes,[39] and directed and produced Basketball Man,[40] the 2007 Frozen Pictures documentary film that featured basketball stars and legends telling the story of the life and legacy of the game's inventor, Dr. James Naismith.

[41] Kearns received international attention,[42] including front page stories in The New York Times[43] and USA Today,[44] for his controversial Saintmychal.com website and documentary project that chronicled and inherently promoted the canonization of 9/11 hero Rev.

[47][48][49] The range of his influence on the genre and its participants was laid out clearly in the 2012 biography, Mike Wallace: A Life by Peter Rader [50] and Australian television executive Gerald Stone's 2011 memoir, Say It with Feeling.

[52] He was the model for the character Al Bunker, the tabloid television producer covering the fall of the Berlin Wall in Thomas Keneally's 1993 novel, Jacko: The Great Intruder.

[54][55] The book was praised by Mike Wallace of CBS News' 60 Minutes as "sad, funny, undeniably authentic" and by tabloid television host Maury Povich as "The Bible".

[56][57][58][59] After graduation from Fairfield University;[60] Kearns worked as a reporter and editor for the Acorn Press, a chain of newspapers in southern Connecticut and Westchester, New York.

[73] In addition to numerous television, radio and podcast appearances [74] promoting his books and other projects, Kearns has appeared as an expert or "talking head" on many television specials and documentaries, including Dark Side of The 90s: Tabloid TV,[75] Kardashian: The Man Who Saved OJ Simpson,[76] Fame for 15,[77] Victim 0001,[78][79] Rock Stars Do The Dumbest Things,[80] Headliners & Legends with Matt Lauer [81] and When Cameras Cross The Line.