S’s barber shop had been on Taylor Street since 1925. Salvatore Moretti opened it when he was 28 years old. Fresh from Italy. Didn’t speak much English, but he knew how to cut hair. For 44 years, Sal had been cutting the hair of Chicago’s most important men, mayors, aldermen, police chiefs, union bosses, and…
The tragedy of Steven Crane’s life when he married Lana Turner. There is a quote that Steven Crane never gave to a reporter, never put in a book, never said on record in any format across the 40 years after his marriage ended. But the people who knew him, the ones who…
Dick Van Djk reveals the six actors he hated the most. For 33 years, I loved a woman another man had broken. Not broken the way you drop a glass and it shatters. Broken the way you bend something so many times it forgets how to stand straight. He took six years of her…
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Racing is life. Anything that happens before or after is just waiting. Those words spoken by Steve McQueen in Le Man perfectly capture the obsession that nearly destroyed him. This wasn’t just a movie. It was a man’s desperate attempt to bottle lightning to capture the raw terror and beauty of the world’s most dangerous…
The door to stage 9 opened and Chuck Norris stepped in carrying a gym bag over one shoulder. He was dressed simply in dark pants and a gray shirt, expecting nothing more than a routine conversation with Warner Brothers about a possible film role. What he did not…
A thug crushed Bruce Lee’s burger under his boot in front of Chuck Norris, then raised a chair to strike. In that instant, the whole bar realized they had picked the wrong two men to mess with that night. The two of them hadn’t shared a mat in years. Chuck Norris and Bruce Lee,…
1969, a young farmer in Colorado woke up one morning and found half his corn crop destroyed. It was the only money he had, the only thing standing between his family and a very hard winter. [music] He drove to the film set next door to ask for help. They turned him away. He came…
The day Chuck Norris died, what Dolph Lungren whispered at the casket left everyone in tears. The church was small, plain, and quiet in the way old churches usually are when the people inside know the loss is too heavy for noise. No cameras waited outside. No reporters stood by the doors. There were…
Robert Redford stood frozen. The echo of the gunshot was still ringing in his ears. Around him, 40 crew members had stopped breathing. Paul Newman was grinning, that mischievous, dangerous grin. And Redford knew in that moment that his co-star had just crossed a line that nobody on a Hollywood set should ever cross….
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