The old team of Bunkum & Ballyhoo isn’t dead. The fact is, they’re working in Hollywood making what is known as Z pictures. Bunkum is fast-talking James Nicholson, 50; Ballyhoo is fast-talking Samuel ...
ZZZZ Best was a carpet-cleaning company set up in Inglewood, California in 1982 by the then 16-year-old Barry Minkow, while he was still in school. The company initially struggled for survival. Minkow ...
Barry Minkow, who as a teen built a fortune out of his ZZZZ Best carpet-cleaning business in Reseda before it collapsed as a fraud, was sentenced to five years in prison for embezzling $3 million from ...
Steve Sostak, the saxophonist and vocalist for Chicago-based indie/experimental projects such as Sweep The Leg Johnny, Check Engine, and ZZZZ, has died, Stereogum can confirm. He was 49. Originally ...