Street Thug Robbed Lucky Luciano — 24 Hours Later This Happens (write how lucky saved him) The new stand on the corner of Malberry Street and Grand in Little Italy had been there since 1904. Old Sal Romano ran it, sold newspapers, magazines, cigarettes, kept his head down, minded his own business. He had seen…
Assassin Came For Frank Costello — What Happened Next Changed The Mafia The doorman at the Majestic Apartments on Central Park West tipped his hat as Frank Costello walked through the lobby at 10:55 p.m. on May 2nd, 1957. It was a Thursday night. Frank had just finished dinner at an Italian restaurant in Midtown…
Arrogant Passenger Snatched Clint Eastwood’s Seat – What Clint Did Next STUNNED Everyone They say you can judge a person’s character not by how they handle success, but by how they handle disrespect. On September 8th, 2008, on United Airlines Flight 447 from San Francisco to Los Angeles, a 78-year-old man in a simple button-down…
Homeless Boy Arrived on Clint Eastwood’s Set – What Clint Did CHANGED His Life They say Hollywood doesn’t believe in second chances. They say the studios are too ruthless, the competition too fierce, and the industry too cold to notice a kid with nothing but a dream. But on July 12th, 1992, on stage 16…
William Wyler Won 3 Oscars For Dramas. Tried Comedy Once. How To Steal A Million Bombed July 13th, 1966, Radio City Music Hall, New York. The premiere of How to Steal a Million, a sophisticated heist comedy starring Audrey Heppern and Peter Oul. Directed by William Wiler. William Wiler, threetime Academy Award winner. The man…
Grave Robbers Desecrated Mike Todd’s Tomb. What They Found Was Shocking June 26th, 1977. Waldheim Cemetery, Forest Park, Illinois. An elderly woman visits her husband’s grave on a quiet Sunday morning. She notices something wrong at the nearby headstone. The marker for Avram Hirs Gold Boen has been knocked over. The earth around it disturbed….
The Film That Nearly Killed Audrey: The Unforgiven Nightmare January 28th, 1959. Durango, Mexico. A horse stopped abruptly. Audrey Hepburn went flying over its head. She bounced two or three times on the hard desert ground. Then she lay still for 5 minutes. She was unconscious when she finally opened her eyes. The first words…
Gregory Peck BURNED This $2 Million Script—Studio Never Recovered From What He Did Next Thursday afternoon, August 19th, 1954. Universal Studios, bungalow 14, 4:15 p.m. Gregory Peck [music] sat behind his mahogany desk, staring at the leather-bound script that had just cost Universal Pictures $2 million to develop. At 38, Hollywood’s moral conscience was at…
The Man Who Destroyed Audrey: 14 Years of Psychological Abuse March 1955, Audrey Hepburn sat in a hospital room after losing her first baby. She was devastated, crying, asking the doctors what she’d done wrong. Her husband, Mel Furer, wasn’t there. He’d gone back to the studio to work on a film project. When he…
Audrey Hepburn Spent Her Life Helping Others While Suffering In Silence January 20th, 1993. To loan, Switzerland. Audrey Hepburn is [music] dying. Colon cancer. Her final days. As she lies in bed, surrounded by her sons, Shawn and Luca. She’s thinking about children. Not just her sons, but the children she lost. The ones who…
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