Gregory Peck DESTROYED This TV Critic—NBC Buried the Footage for 14 Years. Here’s WHY October 14th, 1966. NBC Studios, Burbank, California. Stage six. 3:15 p.m. Audrey Hepburn arrived in a black Givenchy coat, fresh from Paris, where she’d spent the summer filming Two for the Road. Her hair was shorter than America remembered, styled in…
December [music] 16th, 1944. If General George Smith Patton hadn’t made one phone call, if he hadn’t spoken four impossible words, the United States would have lost its greatest battle. Not just lost, destroyed. 20,000 American soldiers surrounded, freezing, dying in the snow. The German army closing in for the kill. Every military expert said…
The Married Man Who Broke Audrey’s Heart Forever October 1954 on the set of Sabrina at Paramount Studios, something happened that wasn’t in the script. Between takes, a cameraman noticed Audrey Hepburn and William Holden standing in the corner of the sound stage. They weren’t rehearsing. They were just looking at each other. And Audrey…
The arena bowl was empty, but the stage was lit like a courtroom. Late afternoon, soundcheck hours before doors, and Michael Jackson stood at center stage with a handheld microphone, [snorts] shoulders still, eyes fixed on the first few rows. Prince wasn’t backstage. He was in the seats, legs crossed, leaning forward, holding a folded…
The 16-year-old was dancing in Time Square for one reason. His mother’s medication cost $200, and insurance wouldn’t cover it. He’d been performing for 6 hours, had made $97, needed $13 more. Then his boom box died. No music, no performance, no money, no medication. He sat down on the sidewalk, defeated, when a man…
The 90 Days Audrey Hepburn Ate Tulip Bulbs to Survive April 16th, 1945. Velp, Nazi occupied Netherlands. A 16-year-old girl climbs out of a cellar. She weighs 88 lb. Her feet are swollen with edema, fluid retention that starts at the feet, and when it reaches your heart, you die. With her, it had reached…
18-Year-Old Gene Tierney Lost Role To 12-Year-Old Elizabeth Taylor. MGM’s 5-Year Mistake. 1939, a young actress on Broadway receives a phone call that could change her life forever. MGM Studios wants to meet with Jean Tierney about starring in their upcoming adaptation of National Velvet. At 18 years old, Jean Tierney is exactly the right…
106 years. That’s how long it took America to admit it had made a mistake, convicting 19 men in the largest mass execution in the army’s history. How did one brave woman force them to admit it? Graduate student Angela Holder sat in a Louisiana library, hands shaking as she read the final pages of…
Gregory Peck : Atticus Finch Actor Had to Kill His Own Child in His Most DISTURBING Role Ever October 15th, 1975. Sheperton Studios, London. Soundstage 7. Gregory Peek stood in a mockup cathedral holding a gleaming dagger above a sleeping child. At 59, Hollywood’s moral conscience was about to do something unthinkable. He was about…
September 1945, two weeks after victory in Europe, two black soldiers walk into a Red Cross tent in France to get donuts and coffee from white female volunteers. Within minutes, they’re both dead, shot by white American soldiers. The white killers face court marshall and are acquitted. This is the story of Alan Leidge and…
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