In case you haven't heard of him before, Calaveras County Sheriff Benjamin K. Thorn was the man who captured highwayman Black Bart. He was also the man who captured the bandit Joaquin Murietta. While this isn't a biography of Sheriff Thorn, below is a story of a highway robbery in Ca...
before he moved West to work the clubs in Los Angeles, where he was discovered by Lorne Michaels’ conduits and dispatched back to Manhattan. Sandler zooms in on the phrase “five years,” counting every season precious at his ripe old 23 as his voice gets all craggy: “I feel like an ...