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Here’s a wild story about General George Patton, hard-driving hero (and cancelled-in-his-own-time villain) of the U.S. Army during World War II. Hawaiian or not, it got the job done: Gordon killed ...

Frank Sinatra died there. Kate Hudson was born there. Alex Trebek went there after his heart attack. And this week, Britney Spears was taken there after a mental meltdown. “There” is Cedars-Sinai ...

The Guardian tees off on The King’s Speech, George VI, Edward VIII… and Winston Churchill into the bargain: In point of fact, Churchill was — for as long as he dared — a consistent friend of conceited ...

Looking back from a distance of 60 years, Hoagy Carmichael‘s 1961 appearance on The Flintstones was a strange affair. The result was the clip seen here. The episode is titled “The Hit Song Writers” ...

Running guru Jim Fixx died at age 52, and juice diet guru Paavo Airola died at 64. Longevity guru Nathan Pritikin didn’t make 70. But finally, an expert on healthy living has stepped up to the plate ...

Actor Chad Everett has died at age 76. Lung cancer was the cause, according to The Los Angeles Times. Boy, the music in those old dramas. Any show that started running in 1969 had one foot in the Old ...

Employees at a gas station in Los Angeles watch President Jimmy Carter giving his energy speech over national television on July 15, 1979 (AP file photo) Nearly 40 years ago, on July 15, 1979, ...

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 ...

Tina Louise — who played movie star Ginger Grant — is the last surviving member of the cast of Gilligan’s Island. That became true when Dawn Wells (“Mary Ann”) died on December 30, 2020. All the ...

The wonderful, spend-all-day-there site The Art of the Title Sequence has a great feature on the opening credits for the new TV mini-series Game of Thrones. The sequence, presented here, is broken ...

President Barack Obama delivered his 2012 State of the Union address last night, playing to that always-packed Odeon high on Capitol Hill. It was Obama’s fourth State of the Union address, and his ...