Category Archives: Hearne_Christopher
Hearne: Out Dammed Desert, I’m Heading Home
This just in… Hold on to whatever you wish, I’m heading home. So get ready. After three years in Tucson (Oro Valley), I’ve had enough. I shoulda known better when I packed up my stakes, sold my house in Lawrence … Continue reading
Hearne: Lord Of The Rings Redux
Guess what? A very special treat is about to arrive in the form of an early Christmas gift. One of your all-time favorite KCC columnists – Brandon Leftridge – is suiting up again. And believe it or don’t, he is … Continue reading
Hearne: Buttering Martha’s 81 Year-Old Muffin W/ Gates BBQ
About Martha Stewart being on Sports Illustrated’s annual swimsuit issue… Face it, she’s an octogenarian – yet there she is in the flesh – with plenty of cleavage, a carefully revealed amount of leg flesh and a soft focus covering … Continue reading
Hearne: Hollywood Madame Loves Mahomes, Not Mizzou
Once a Hollywood Madam, always a Hollywood Madam… Although Heidi Fleiss is years removed from her colorful past – including her turbulent romance with actor Tom Sizemore, who died recently at the age of 61 – the thought of her moving … Continue reading
Hearne: Hollywood Madam to Mizzou As Ex Checks Out?
Would it surprise you to find I spent a day hanging with Hollywood Madam Heidi Fleiss? You remember her from 20 years ago when – as Wikipedia puts it – “She ran an upscale prostitution ring based in Los Angeles and … Continue reading
Hearne: Should The Chiefs Change Team Name?
In the words of Ronald Reagan, there they go again… And you thought the Kansas City Chiefs season was behind you. Not so fast, because the politically correct powers-that-be on Facebook are back. They dug up a two year-old story … Continue reading
Hearne: Dobler Dogg Checks Out
There are movie villains, and there are real life ones… By the NFL’s measure former KCMO 810 AM sports talker Conrad Dobler was one of the best… as in, worst. That’s because his football career was peppered with things like … Continue reading
Hearne: Woke Police Attack Chiefs – OP Injun Dude Fights Back
Remember the Good Ol Daze? More than 20 years ago – long before the dawning of today’s woke culture – writers at the Kansas City Star decided to take on Marty Schottenheimer‘s Chiefs. for their Indian themes. That was back … Continue reading
Hearne: KC Homecoming, Tourism Scrum
Guess who’s coming to dinner, for the first time in two years? You got it…moi! I’ll be driving my tricked-out 2020 Honda Civic Si there in a couple days. So save a little snow and ice for me, will ya? As I … Continue reading
Hearne: In Search of the Lost News Chord
Think Tale of Two Cities plus… Being holed up here in Tucson for two years, I’ve made some observations on how local journalism is evolving. While folks in Kansas City are still mostly trapped with the few … Continue reading
Hearne: Johnny Dare Co Host Murphy Wells Bares All
Once upon a time, the Johnny Dare / Murphy Wells radio show was born… Hard to imagine, but 22 years ago Kansas City’s preeminent, high profile dirt ball – for all practical purposes – was essentially created. The year was 1994, and … Continue reading
Hearne: Time For Folks to Woke Up?
It’s a brave new world out there, not to mention a woke one… That said, you may want to pinch yourself – before reading an Associated Press story that ran in both the Kansas City Star and Arizona Daily Star over the … Continue reading
Hearne: Big 12 Renaissance Vs Big 10/SEC Reality
Not only is the Big 12 back, it’s super bad and soon to get badder… The mini glut of perennial College Football Playoff teams aside – Alabama, Georgia, LSU, Ohio State, Clemson – the vaunted Big 10 and SEC conferences are mostly cash … Continue reading
Hearne: ‘All That Glitters’ & Len Dawson
Everybody loves a local sports heroe… And deceased Chiefs quarterback Len Dawson is no exception. That said, most of that so-called “love” is based upon our reverence for athletes – as some call it “jock sniffing” – dating back to … Continue reading
Hearne: About The Local Doc Who Claimed To Be Treating Elvis
Speaking of the hoopla re the new Elvis Presley movie… What better time to take a trip back in time than now- 21 years after the fact, to be specific – to when area physician Donald Hinton wrote a book claiming Elvis was … Continue reading
Hearne: Elvis Has Left The Cutting Room Floor
About that new Elvis flick out of Australia… Star of the show Austin Butler plays a kick ass “young” Elvis – even though he turns 31 in August – nearly 10 years older than the young King he plays in … Continue reading
Hearne: Three Strikes Plus @ KC Star
They say, what goes around comes around… We may soon see, given that Kansas City Star editor and main man Mike Fannin recently took a 3rd trip to the DUI plate. Add to that a felony conviction for assault prior … Continue reading
Hearne: ‘Top Gun Maverick’ – Flashback to the Golden Daze
Buckle up, Boomers… Your ticket to the good old days of 1986 is now playing at a movie theater near you. And while the first third of it I found kinda sleepy and predictable, its CGI effects finish more than … Continue reading
Hearne: ‘Disinformation’ Kansas City Style
Big Bother works in mysterious ways… Take Kansas City Star editorial page editor Melinda Henneberger‘s hasty exit and going away column last Sunday. After five years of far-left editorials and watching KC’s newspaper of record morph from 600 pound gorilla to homeless person, … Continue reading
Hearne: Flashback to Fortune, Kietzman, Whitlock, Zuroweste
At least there’s a little bit of motive to this particular madness, in that someone slipped in a comment on this 2013 column standing up for…waity for it…former sports media kingpin Don Fortune aka Don Fortunado. And how about, No … Continue reading