Hortense Manchini had scores of scandalous affairs, but when she caught one of her lovers with her own daughter, she was set on revenge, and it was unspeakably brutal. Hortense...
there’s a long bizarre history of unique people who have been exploited for the entertainment of others but the story of the Queen’s dwarf Jeffrey Hudson might be the most...
It was a Sunday morning in December 1997 and the snow was coming down lightly on Kensington when Keith Richards heard a sound that stopped him mid-stride. A Salvation Army...
The summer of 1958 arrived in Tucson the way it always did, without asking permission. Tommy Reese was 22 years old and had been on set for 23 days. His...
The biggest of the three grabbed the old man’s shoulder and spun him half around on the counter stool and the coffee cup went over and broke on the floor...
Cedars Sinai Medical Center, 8700 Beverly Boulevard, Los Angeles, California, United States. Late autumn, November 1977, 4:15 in the afternoon. Nobody, not the doctors, not the nurses, not the patients...
Roy Coddle’s hat sat on the hood of the production car for 11 minutes before anyone touched it. It was a brown felt cowboy hat, the brim curved just right,...
October 1957. In the lobby of the Rough Rider Hotel in Medora, North Dakota, a young night clerk has just told John Wayne there isn’t a single room left in...
When Janis Joplin Told Dick Cavett Why She Was Returning to Her Hometown to Make Her Bullies Feel Bad Behind the blinding lights of global stardom, Grammy-winning success, and iconic...
By November 1918, some 10,169 QF 18-pounder field guns had been produced for British and Imperial service, more than any other artillery piece fielded by any nation during the Great...