Robert De Niro has been an anchor for Bradley Cooper in more ways than one. At the Tribeca Film Festival Saturday night, the actors sat down for a talk about their careers, with Cooper sharing a handful of precious stories about the ways De Niro impacted his career and personal life. The pair first worked […]
For more than 20 years, the green plains of Holderness, East Yorkshire, were the secret location of underground bunker RAF Holmpton, where radars watched the skies amid the threat of the Cold War. During the uncertain years of the Cold War, when nations prepared for the prospect of a devastating nuclear war, Britain created a […]
Some 1,500 guests filled the pews of St. Martin’s Episcopal Church in Houston on Saturday, including former presidents and first ladies, and family and friends who gathered to celebrate Barbara Bush’s 92 extraordinary years of life. Seated front and center, confined to a wheelchair but sporting socks embroidered with books to celebrate his wife’s dedication to literacy, was Barbara’s husband […]
The image of Stephen Hawking – who has died aged 76 – in his motorised wheelchair, with head contorted slightly to one side and hands crossed over to work the controls, caught the public imagination, as a true symbol of the triumph of mind over matter. As with the Delphic oracle of ancient Greece, physical […]
Holocaust survivor Sam Harris has told the story of how he survived the Holocaust hundreds of times. He’s talked about his experience in the Nazis’ concentration camps with school groups and in videos for oral history archives. He even wrote a children’s book. But when he sat down to tell his story in Los Angeles […]
Setsuko Thurlow will jointly accept the Nobel Peace Prize this Sunday with ICAN, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, a group she’s worked with since it was launched several years ago. Thurlow survived the bombing of Hiroshima and shared her story with NPR’s Kelly McEvers.This story originally aired on May 26, 2016 on All […]
This is not the Tom Petty story that I intended to write. Though I was more than thrilled to catch up with Petty, whom I had interviewed before, I had no clue that this would turn out to be the last, for me and for him — that he would die just a few days […]
Sam Shepard was a titan of American theater whose darkly funny, sometimes surreal, and often frightening evocations of the fringes of American life formed the backbone of a storied career as a writer and actor. He died last Thursday at his home in Kentucky at the age of 73 of complications from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, […]
George A. Romero, a horror visionary who created the modern zombie genre with his 1968 cult film, “Night of the Living Dead,” which has influenced generations of horror enthusiasts, died on Sunday in Toronto. He was 77. His death came after “a brief but aggressive battle with lung cancer,” his family said in a statement. […]
GEORGETOWN, Maine — Renowned Maine artist Dahlov Ipcar has died, her sons, Charles Ipcar of Richmond and Robert Ipcar of Brooklyn, New York, said in a statement Saturday afternoon on behalf of her family. Ipcar was 99 years old when she died Friday, her sons said. “Dahlov spent the morning as usual at her easel […]
I’m heartbroken at the death of Roger Moore. He was my Bond. Not Fleming’s Bond, as Bond is in the books, but the nicest Bond and Bond as he ought to be. With a charming, witty performance, Moore established himself as the quintessential English gentleman. The heir to David Niven. He wasn’t a one part […]
The flag raising on Iwo Jima is the source of many stories. One of the best begins in Tarawa on November 20th, 1943. Marine Staff Sergeant Norm Hatch and his assistant, Bill Kelliher, loaded down with two Bell and Howell 35mm Eyemo motion picture cameras, reels of film in 100 foot rolls, field packs, […]
