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 ...

A few nights ago I decided on a whim to look for any Humphrey Bogart film I’d never seen. I landed on Sahara, a 1943 war film that was Bogart’s next flick after Casablanca. (“Bogey + North Africa, ...

Rosalynn Carter, former First Lady of the United States and for 77 years the wife of former President Jimmy Carter, has died at age 96. She died on November 19, two days after entering hospice care at ...

2022 was a typically busy year in famous deaths. We tracked the passings of 32 famous people, from world leaders Queen Elizabeth II and Mikhail Gorbachev to hyphenated heroes Olivia Newton-John and ...

Liz Truss, the prime minister of the United Kingdom, has resigned after just 45 days in office.

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 ...

“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 …..

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 ...

Will anyone ever be taller than Robert Wadlow? That’s where modern medicine comes in. Today, pituitary surgery is not such a big deal. (They go in through your nose!) Surgery may not even be needed: ...

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” ...

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: ...

On February 11, 2021, the sixth International Day of Women and Girls in Science, the U.S. Postal Service issued a new Forever stamp to honor Chien-Shiung Wu, one of the most influential nuclear ...