Reputation is not built in a single day. But sometimes it only takes one night for it to collapse. In November 2009, Tiger Woods, the man once seen as the perfect model of discipline in sports, was involved in a car accident right outside his home in Florida. At first, it seemed like nothing more…
Natalie Wood, the actress, was found dead. Her body was discovered floating in the water. Officials said she apparently drowned accidentally, but they offered nothing further on the circumstances. For more than four decades, one of Hollywood’s most haunting mysteries has stayed unsolved. What really happened to Natalie Wood on that cold November night in…
At 78, Guy Madison finally spoke their names out loud. These were the men he had dated quietly for fifty years. “I lived a lie; I smiled for the cameras and died a little inside each time they called me the all-American hero,” he confessed. He was the perfect man every woman wanted, the dream…
Gordon MacRae had a voice that could make all of America pause and listen, drawing people in with its gentle warmth. Yet hardly anyone knew the hidden struggles that had shaped that very voice, the darkness he kept to himself. On stage, he looked like the ideal leading man from Hollywood’s Golden Age. His rich…
In the summer of 1968, a waifish blonde with soulful brown eyes and an aura of gentle melancholy burst onto American television screens and instantly captured the spirit of a restless, searching generation. Peggy Lipton, playing Julie Barnes on The Mod Squad, became an overnight sensation. With her long, iron-straight hair, fringed vests, miniskirts, love…
On stage, there are 5,000 people out there coughing and sneezing and laughing and cheering. Sir Cliff Richard has always been known as the clean-cut Peter Pan of Pop. For decades, he was the star who stayed out of trouble, never married, and kept his private life strictly behind closed doors. But after twenty-nine years,…
The people who were there agree on one thing: every night without exception in the last twelve months of his life, Elvis Presley cried. Not on stage, not in public, and not in any of the photographs or footage the world has seen a thousand times. He cried in private, alone or near alone, with…
Memphis, 1977. The lights in the recording studio had grown dim as Elvis Presley sat alone at the piano, his hands trembling just above the keys. The musicians had packed up their instruments and gone home for the night, but the King of Rock and Roll could not bring himself to leave. There was one…
“I’ll be there tomorrow, and he would like to meet you. I thought Elvis Presley wanted to meet me? It was unbelievable. God. And I went there, and I.” For nearly fifty years, Tom Jones carried a secret so heavy it changed the way he understood everything. A final conversation with Elvis Presley the night…
Rising forty-five feet over the rugged, sun-baked hills of Los Angeles, the nine stark white letters spelling “HOLLYWOOD” form one of the world’s most instantly recognizable cultural landmarks. From a distance, whether you are driving in on the 101 freeway or standing on the observation decks of Griffith Observatory, the sign appears almost serene: a…
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