Carlos Santana was walking through the Mission District of San Francisco on a quiet Tuesday afternoon in October 1995 when he saw something that stopped him in his tracks. A 10-year-old boy sitting on the sidewalk outside Rosario’s music shop, carefully counting and recounting five pennies in…
Most decorated American soldier of World War II, Audi Murphy. >> Top five actors Audi Murphy hated the most. Hollywood has always loved its heroes, the tough guys, the warriors, the men who stared death in the face and never blinked. But there was one man in Tinsel Town who didn’t need to act…
Well, I think a lot of people get married this way. We suddenly looked at each other and I said, “Well, after we’re married, why uh we’ll do this or that or the other.” She didn’t say no. >> In the golden age of Hollywood, few men carried the quiet intensity of Humphrey Bogart. With…
The tragedy of Ronald Reagan’s life when he married Jane Wyman. The year was 1949. Jane Wyman walked onto the stage at the Academy Awards and accepted the Oscar for best actress. The entire industry stood and applauded. She smiled. She looked flawless. She said exactly the right words into the microphone. Her husband was…
did. But you took on that problem with me when you took me red. You were >> In the golden age of Hollywood, public facades concealed private worlds of forbidden desire and scandalous excess. This script reveals the era’s most whispered secrets through biographies, memoirs, and insider anecdotes. It starts with the actor whose massive…
February 7th, 1997. Fort Lauderdale, Florida. A hospital room. Simone Rizzo de Cavalcante, 84 years old, gray hair, still sharp in the eyes, took his last breath, surrounded by nurses who had no idea who he was, no FBI surveillance, no press, no headlines, just an old man dying of natural causes, buried days later…
December 2nd, 1999, 4:30 in the morning, Island Park, Long Island. A narrow strip of waterfront neighborhoods wedged between the bay and the Atlantic, where houses sit so close to the water that high tide laps against [music] the bulkheads. At 9 Warwick Road, a two-story colonial with a 100 ft pier extending into Reynolds…
They gave him a suite on a floor that did not exist on any elevator panel, comped everything from the bourbon to the bodyguards. And when it was over, when the week had finally bled itself dry, and the SUV pulled away from the valet in the gray Nevada morning, $80 million had quietly changed…
He checked in on a Tuesday in January of 1999 with three suitcases, a briefcase full of wire transfer confirmations, and no return ticket because the penthouse at the Bellagio was comped, and the man living in it was about to hand the casino more money than most people earn in a lifetime. He was…
May 22nd, 1992. 8:47 a.m. St. Mary of Nazareth Hospital, Chicago. Anthony Josephardo closed his eyes for the last time. He was 86 years old. He died in a hospital bed surrounded by family, congestive heart failure, acute respiratory failure, natural causes. He was buried 4 days later at Queen of Heaven Cemetery in Hillside,…
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