Tag Archives: Michael Cartel

CARTEL DIRECTS AGAIN AS ‘GHOST DOG’ HITS THE BEACH

22 Feb
  As a combat soldier, LAPD cop, carnival midway fighter, middleweight boxer, movie stunt man, LAUSD high school teacher, newspaper owner-editor, sideshow barker and target of failed filmmakers who have become hateful film critics, Cartel is no stranger at ducking...
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SO WHAT’S SO BAD ABOUT CHARLIE MANSON?

4 Feb
The people in the following story are genuine and the events are real, but some of the names of the individuals have been changed to protect their privacy. Fictitious names will be set in italic type (E.G. Ann Dornan) the...
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A FUNNY THING HAPPENED TO ME ON MY WAY THROUGH VIETNAM

12 Nov
Michael Cartel from my 1993 print column ‘Parades Make Strange Bedfellows‘   The biggest parade in Los Angeles history. Over one million attended. Tanks, jets, missiles. The day before, 200,000 stood for another elegant celebration in Orange County. San Francisco, the...
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A KILLER STORM SAVES A SLOW DAY IN THE NEWS

4 Nov
By Michael Cartel   “What a wonderful picture! Blood all over him – and exclusive too!” the city editor of Joseph Pulitzer’s Evening World said when handed a photo of the assassinated New York City mayor at the moment of...
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