"Within months, the Peppermint Lounge became the hottest club in the country, as New Jersey teens mixed with such celebrities as Norman Mailer, Ava Gardner and even the Beatles???all doing the Twist. ???The Twist hit like an atomic bomb and the Peppermint Lounge was ground zero,??? write veteran journalists Johnson (co-author: Blood Brothers: The Inside Story of the Menendez Murders, 1994) and Selv" . . . . .