Festival organizers at Woodstock tried everything they could to keep Carlos Santana away from the stage on August 16th, 1969, dismissing the unknown San Francisco band as unworthy of their legendary festival. But when 4000 people refused to accept that decision and chanted until Santana was allowed to perform, what followed wasn’t just one…
The young metal band Iron Serpent was riding high on Arrogance and Local Success when they spotted Carlos Santana quietly tuning his guitar backstage at the Whiskey Agogo in West Hollywood. It was October 2008 and the four-piece band from Orange County had just finished their opening set for a bigger act, feeling…
welcome age of vintage society anthony perkins is best known for playing norman bates in psycho its notoriety and success ensured he remained one of filmdom’s most recognizable faces for the rest of his life and beyond yet there were those who felt he never truly shook the screen persona of the knife-wielding mother-obsessed…
you won’t believe what Richard Harris hid behind the camera get ready to step into a world where Harris’s devilish Deeds were kept in the shadows hidden from the spotlight from playing the bully card to leaving a trail of Chaos in his wake he was the definition of unpredictable you’d never guess in…
What happens when the most desired man on Earth is secretly suffocating inside his own skin? When you look at him on the silver screen, you see the ultimate manifestation of the American dream, the astronomical wealth, the string of beautiful glamorous women, the prestigious Academy Award sitting proudly on his mantle….
The hero who held a gun to his wife’s head. The real Steve McQueen. The photograph. August 1965, 2 in the morning. A chateau in the French countryside. The man in this photograph is Steve McQueen, 45 years old, the highest paid actor in the world, the face that defined American masculinity for an…
The hotel conference room in Panama City, Panama on November 12th, 1984 was supposed to be secure, private, a place where powerful men could meet without surveillance, without interruption, without the world knowing they were in the same room together. Present were five men who between them…
Picture a government that hands organized crime the greatest business opportunity in human history. Not metaphorically, literally. The United States Congress drafts the legislation. The states ratify it. The president signs it into law. And on the 17th of January 1920, at midnight, the most powerful nation on Earth makes it illegal to manufacture,…
March 21st, 1980, 9:20 p.m. South Philadelphia, 9th Street, and Snyder Avenue. Angelo Bruno, 69 years old, compact and careful, the kind of boss who could end a dispute with a look, is sitting in the passenger seat of a car outside his own home. He smells the cigarette smoke. He hears the idle of…
December 17,9 86 5:30 a.m. A truck stop off the New Jersey Turnpike. Richard Klinsky sat in his car waiting. He thought he was about to close a deal for cyanide and a mob hit. Instead, undercover ATF agents surrounded him, guns drawn. Operation Iceman was over. The suburban family man, the guy who…
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