If Billy Crystal is one of the kings of comedy, his family home in L.A.’s Pacific Palisades neighborhood was definitely his castle. “Sunday Morning” was invited there a few times for interviews, and I’d usually end up getting schooled on his backyard basketball court. It was, he acknowledged, a magical place: “Yeah, it kept me…
Long before he became the most famous cinematic fighter of all time, Sylvester Stallone had to fight his own battle to survive in New York. For example, he was living in places where he literally had pizza boxes for his mattress. “I did, yeah. It was very comfortable,” he said. His jobs also included cleaning…
Film legend Robert De Niro has lived or worked in Lower Manhattan for years. “You know, the East Side is another world to someone like me who’s Lower Manhattan,” he said. So, for De Niro, the attacks on 9/11 hit especially close to home: “I was just about to fly to California. I was at…
