The ‘S’ in ‘Harry S. Truman’ Really DID Stand for Something
So now it comes out that the ‘S’ in the name of Harry S. Truman actually did have a meaning. For years we’ve heard people say that the S “doesn’t …..
Biographies
Kier Starmer, SPECTRE Agent?
Look, this never would have happened if they hadn’t killed James Bond in No Time to Die. But they had to go for the cheap noble sentiment and the big …..
Humphrey Bogart in ‘Sahara’: A Brief Review
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 …..
Emily Blunt Tries to Remember Her Lines
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 …..
Rosalynn Carter and the Battle for Mental Health
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, …..
All the Michael Gambon You Could Want
Our new biography of Michael Gambon is now live — just in time for him to join Jimmy Buffett, Tina Turner, and Daniel Ellsberg on our list of famous people …..
The Lincoln-Douglas-Trump Debates
“Faced with a litany of criminal charges, Donald Trump on Sunday told a campaign rally in Iowa that he would prefer to die by electrocution rather than be eaten by …..
LBJ’s Long Hair
The Atlantic’s Kevin Townsend has a lovely little article about how retired President Lyndon Johnson grew his hair out in Texas in the last year of his life. It starts …..
Mitch McConnell Is No Longer Fit for Office
We’ll say it if no one else will: Mitch McConnell is no longer fit to be a U.S. Senator, much less the Senate minority leader. NBC News has the latest …..
Happy Birthday to Jack Sowards, Who Wrote a Great ‘Star Trek’ Film
It might be going too far to say that Jack B. Sowards *saved* Star Trek. But he sure threw the franchise a lifeline when he wrote the 1982 film Star …..