For the presidential inauguration of Bill Clinton in 1993, Maya Angelou recited her poem "On the Pulse of Morning". This made her the first poet to make an inaugural recitation…
Before James Dean was a Hollywood heartthrob invading the silver screen with a cigarette hanging out of his mouth. Before he was a mysterious rebel with dark, burrowing eyes and…
Steve McQueen was a breakout star the year his series, Wanted Dead or Alive exploded on TV. Pretty soon his antihero acting persona earned him the reputation as "The King…
Moviegoers turned out in droves this weekend for writer-director Christopher Nolan's new film Oppenheimer, fueling an expectations-shattering domestic box office debut of $80 million. The three-hour-long biopic recounts the life story of J.…
Wisdom shared by Mark Twain: "It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."
Congratulations to the Oppenheimer family on a successful screening this past Saturday, July 22nd. Through partnership with Universal Pictures and the US Department of Energy, 500 attendees got to enjoy…
Bettie Page was given a screen test at 20th Century Fox. It did not work out. "By the time they finished making me up for the screen test," Bettie said,…
"In the 1971 World Series, Roberto Clemente played a kind of baseball that none of us had ever seen before -- throwing and running and hitting at something close to…
The first black heavyweight boxing champion of the world was Jack Johnson. His parents had been slaves who were freed during the Civil War. "I made a lot of mistakes…
With his unique improvisational style Thelonious Monk excelled as a jazz pianist and composer. Only Duke Ellington tops Monk as the most-recorded composer of jazz music, ever. Monk and Ellington…
