He made three movies. He’s been famous forever after. James Dean’s entire film career fits […]
Year: 2026
Judy Garland still inseparable from ‘Wizard’
“I’ll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too!” That line belongs to the […]
James Cagney was the archetype gangster
Everyone remembers James Cagney snarling “You dirty rat!” at some poor soul in a gangster […]
Vivien Leigh forever known as Scarlett O’Hara
“Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.” It’s the most famous closing line in […]
CEPT: A Tower, a Dove, and 70 Years of Europe on a Stamp
If you’ve spent any time poking through European stamp albums, you’ve almost certainly run into […]
George Bernard Shaw: Wit, Provocateur, and Reformer of the English Stage
Few writers have managed to be as consistently entertaining and as consistently annoying to their […]
Arthur C. Clarke: Prophet of the Space Age
Arthur C. Clarke spent his career doing something few writers ever manage: He predicted the […]
The World Loved The Three Stooges
Not many actors keep working after they’ve died. Shemp Howard managed four more movies. When […]
Humphrey Bogart: Africa was a tough assignment
Some actors get typecast. Humphrey Bogart got dehydrated — but he insisted it was the […]
J.R.R. Tolkien: The Philologist Who Built a World
In January 1892, in Bloemfontein, in what was then the Orange Free State in southern […]
Gary Cooper: Wearing Wool Under the Arizona Sun
Before he was the strong, silent type audiences fell for again and again, Gary Cooper […]
The Pathfinder Who Lost His Way in Arizona
By the time John Charles Frémont arrived in Arizona Territory in October 1878 to take […]