Director Richard Linklater has a new film at Cannes: Nouvelle Vague. It’s about the making of Breathless, the 1960 classic of the French New Wave. (Until just now, I didn’t know that nouvelle vague is ...

President Jimmy Carter has died at age 100, at his home in Plains, Georgia. If you didn’t like and admire this excellent public servant, have your heart examined. He did his best for America before, ...

Here’s a great little video from Variety in which actress Emily Blunt is handed cards with lines from some of her past roles and tries to remember the movies. It’s fun! She’s done 52 different ...

School integration is often thought of as something that took place in the 1960s. But the first Black student to desegregate a school by court order was an Iowa girl named Susan Clark in 1868.

Ski champion Mikaela Shiffrin has spoken openly and bravely about her struggles with the 2020 death of her father, Jeff Shiffrin. Reports and interviews have noted that Mikaela “ couldn’t even get out ...

Embracing the band was never a problem with Dolenz. The high-energy singer, guitarist and drummer is only Monkee to have been part of every incarnation of the band since 1966. The variations began ...

“May the Great Worm gnaw your vitals, and may your bones rot joint by little joint!” Here’s a wild story about General George Patton, hard-driving hero (and cancelled-in-his-own-time villain) of the U ...

Will anyone ever be taller than Robert Wadlow? The small-town boy from Illinois was a whopping 8’11” tall — that’s right: eight feet, eleven inches — when he died in 1940. He was only 22 years old.

Here’s a wonderful interview with rocker Dave Grohl, courtesy of New York magazine. Grohl just got inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for a second time. This time it was with his group Foo ...

Looking back from a distance of 60 years, Hoagy Carmichael ‘s 1961 appearance on The Flintstones was a strange affair. One might think this was a desperation gag near the end of the show’s run, when ...

Bo in 2009. (Official White House photo by Chuck Kennedy) Bo the Dog has died, sad to say. The former First Dog passed away at age 12 after a bout with cancer, said his owner and pal Michelle Obama: ...

Hank Aaron and Larry King had nothing in common, except for fame in their chosen fields. And now that both are dead, they have a second connection: Covid-19. Hank Aaron was 86 when he died on January ...