The visiting room at Pelican Bay State Prison sits at the far northern edge of California behind three fences. On one side of the table a graying man in prison blues. On the other his daughter. A few feet away a guard listens to every word. That is his job. The father mentions…
In 1979, a newspaper published a photograph from inside Menard prison. Two men were in the frame. One was named, the other was not. The named man was Earl Mongoose Good, the convicted killer serving a life sentence. The unnamed man was Samuel King Ram Lawrence. The caption gave him a category…
September 14th, 1987. North Biloxi, Mississippi. The exact minute has never been pinned down in public records, but sometime that night inside a brick ranch house, Circuit Judge Vincent Sherry and his wife Margaret were attacked in the one place they should have been safest. Vincent was a sitting judge. Margaret was…
September 30th, 2022. 3:15 in the afternoon. TD Bank, Union Street, downtown Boston. A man in his late 50s walks in. No mask, no gun in his hand, no getaway driver waiting at the curb. He approaches the teller, leans in, and says six words that would put him back in federal…
Angie Dickinson was one of Hollywood’s most beloved golden era icons, but behind her dazzling smile lay a bitter grudge. >> >> Out of all the directors, co-stars, and high-powered executives she crossed paths with during her legendary career, there was one specific man she utterly loathed. The backstage tension was legendary,…
From the outside, these celebrity marriages looked absolutely flawless. The husband was polished, talented, and admired, while the wife was famous, radiant, and seemingly secure beside him. But old Hollywood glamour has a ruthless way of hiding quiet pain. The real story didn’t become clear until years later, when scandals, biographies, and…
He sold more than 14 million records in the United States alone. For one stretch around 1980, he practically owned the radio. Soft, slow, unkillable songs that played in every kitchen, every car, every grocery store in America. He wrote a song that the entire country still sings on New Year’s Eve. He…
Dustin shocked me because we were shooting a scene. >> This look, you’re going to have to do what you’re going to have to do and I’m going to have to do it. >> I’m very sorry about this. My wine glass was sitting there and he >> just with his hand,…
On the set of The Return of the King, there was a day when an 81-year-old actor stopped Peter Jackson midirection and said something that made the entire crew go quiet. It had to do with the war, the real one. And standing a few feet away, saying nothing, absorbing every word,…
One word, always. That’s the line that broke a generation of Harry Potter fans. The moment audiences finally understood why Snape had looked at Harry that way for eight films. Alan Rickman knew the truth the entire time. J.K. Rowling had told him years before anyone else. On January 14th, 2016, Emma…
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