Robert Caro on LBJ and the Biographer’s Art
If you like biography, interviews or Lyndon B. Johnson, don’t miss this Paris Review interview with Pulitzer Prize-winner Robert Caro. Caro is now starting his fifth decade of work on …..
Biographies
Natalie Portman as Jackie Kennedy: Does She Even Look Like Jackie?
Natalie Portman is playing First Lady Jackie Kennedy in the new biopic Jackie. The film just premiered at the Venice Film Festival and it’s a “brilliantly constructed, diamond-hard character study,” according …..
Crikey! Steve Irwin, the Crocodile Hunter, Died 10 Years Ago
Steve Irwin, super-charismatic star of the Animal Planet show The Crocodile Hunter, died 10 years ago this month. He was barbed to death by a giant stingray while filming in …..
Woody Allen Has a Strange New Hobby
Woody Allen revealed something strange about himself in an interview with The Guardian last month. Can you pick out the famous director’s new hobby from this list of otherwise phony items? Woody Allen spends …..
Marilyn Monroe Didn’t Have Six Toes on Her Left Foot, Alas
Sad but true: Marilyn Monroe did not have six toes on her left foot. Or on her right foot, either. She was a ten-toed beauty. We were unaware of the …..
Tatyana McFadden Biography: New!
Our Tatyana McFadden biography is now live. Tatyana McFadden is the wheelchair racer who is expected to compete for seven gold medals at this year’s Paralympic Games in Rio de …..
Gene Wilder, ‘Willy Wonka’ Star, is Dead at 83
Gene Wilder is dead at age 83. Alzheimer’s Disease was the cause, said his nephew Jordan Walker-Pearlman. At 83 years and 78 days, he just outlived actor Leonard Nimoy and …..
Mother Teresa, the Saint of Calcutta? Not to Dr. Aroup Chatterjee
Mother Teresa will be granted sainthood by Pope Francis on September 4th, giving her the rare trifecta of winning sainthood, the Nobel Prize (1979) and the U.S. Medal of Freedom (1985). Congratulations to …..
Cary Grant’s Suits: The Not-So-Strange Journey
Cary Grant has been dead since 1984, but his suits live on, according to a new Wall Street Journal article titled The Strange Journey of Cary Grant’s Suits. [2024 note: Article is …..
Rudy Van Gelder, Engineer of ‘That’ Jazz Sound, Is Dead
(Photo for The New York Times by James Estrin) Here’s one of those obituaries for someone you never heard of who turns out to be a giant: audio engineer Rudy Van Gelder, …..