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  • The Making of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest: A Journey From Broadway Flop Risk to Oscar Winning Classic

    The Hollywood Reporter oral history of Cuckoo’s Nest https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news www.indiewire.com/features/general/jack-nicholson-method-acting-one-flew-cuckoos-nest-1202157154/ • The New Goldman obituary with detailed script development history from Variety https://variety.com/2023/film/news https://www.orartswatch.org/milos-forman-oregon-hospital-and-the-making-of-a-masterpiece • Rare 1975 New York Times  production report (archived) https://www.nytimes.com/1975/01/12/archives/cuckoos-nest-is-filming-in-oregon.html

  • Cary Grant and Randolph Scott, A Quiet Love Story Hiding in Plain Sight

    Before any of that, Grant had spent years becoming someone new entirely. New York gave him cafes, stilts outside the Capitol Theater, and afternoons at Coney Island. Closeted gay journalist Ben Maddox came to dinner on their first evening in the new house and couldn't Stability was new to Grant. Pauline Kael on Cary Grant — The New Yorker 6.

  • The Golden State Killer: A Life of Crime Unmasked

    Early Life: The Making of a Predator Joseph James DeAngelo Jr. was born on November 8, 1945, in Bath, New York, to Kathleen “Kay” Louise DeGroat and Joseph James DeAngelo Sr.  In May 1973, he began working as a burglary unit officer in Exeter, California, a position he held until Officers approached him while he was working on a car in his driveway and took him into custody without

  • Robert Johnson: The Delta Blues King Who May Have Sold His Soul to the Devil

    His slide guitar work was unlike anything being recorded. He travelled with fellow blues musician Johnny Shines to Chicago, Texas, New York, Canada, Kentucky, Henry Townsend worked with him in St. Louis. He couldn't initially work out how many people were playing, assuming the guitar and bass lines must robert-johnson-murder-or-bad-whiskey-tony-hays-true-crime-historical-bottoms-up-music/ Visit Greenwood: Robert Johnson: A Story Shrouded in Mystery https://www.visitgreenwood.com/news

  • The Tragic Downfall of Frances Farmer: A Hollywood Starlet's Struggle with Mental Health

    Returning from the Soviet Union, she stopped in New York and caught the eye of Paramount Pictures talent The 1982 film with Jessica Lange introduced her story to a new generation.

  • David Funchess: The First Vietnam Veteran Executed in America — and the Uncomfortable Questions His Case Still Raises

    Funchess got a new sentencing hearing. Judge Duncan resentenced him to death anyway. to be there, but expressed discomfort at the crowd of death penalty supporters who cheered when the news Vietnam War veteran Florida Death Penalty Substack: Veterans on Florida's Death Row, Part I AP via New York Times: Vietnam Veteran Is Put to Death in Florida (April 23, 1986) World Socialist Web Site: California (Oklahoma): John Boltz case summary Murderpedia: Samuel McDonald Murderpedia: Michael Nicholaou CBS News

  • The Day They Shot the Pope: The Attempted Assassination of John Paul II

    What followed wasn't just a news story. was seriously wounded in the abdomen and Agca spent the next 19 years in Italian prisons In 1979, The New York Times detailed Ağca's menacing threat against the Pope, branding him as the "masked leader of the In March 2006, an Italian parliamentary commission cited new photographic analysis and concluded that Irish Post: On This Day in 1981, Pope John Paul II Was Shot Four Times — https://www.irishpost.com/news

  • The Assassination of Leon Trotsky: The Final Blow in Stalin's Vendetta

    who'd followed his father into exile and ran much of the international opposition movement's day to day work In Paris in 1938, Mercader befriended Sylvia Ageloff, an American Trotskyist working close to Trotsky's Trotskyists James Burnham and Max Shachtman, and wanted his opinion on it before he and Sylvia left for New York the next day. He let out a scream that Joseph Hansen, working nearby on the compound's alarm system, later described

  • The Tulsa Race Massacre: When Black Wall Street Burned in 1921

    It was a city on the rise, oil-rich, bustling with new money, and sharply divided by race. The first law passed by the new state legislature segregated railway coaches, and soon after, Black citizens Documentaries, books, and news features have brought Greenwood’s story to a global audience. & Museum ( www.tulsahistory.org ) Greenwood Cultural Center ( www.greenwoodculturalcenter.com ) The New York Times  and Washington Post  retrospective coverage (2021) NPR, “Tulsa 1921: Reporting a Massacre

  • Rocky Dennis: The Real Story Behind the Film Mask

    difficult due to his poor eyesight—his vision legally classified him as blind—but Rocky found ways to work Friends and family only found out she'd been hurt when they read a short news item about an unidentified Rocky Dennis” https://people.com/archive/the-short-remarkable-life-of-rocky-dennis-vol-23-no-20/ The New York Times – “Rocky Dennis Dies; Deformed Youth, 16” https://www.nytimes.com/1978/10/05/archives/rocky-dennis-dies-deformed-youth

  • The Real Story Behind The Exorcist: The Strange Case of Ronald Hunkeler

    Shortly after the failed rite, new scratches appeared on Ronald's body, words and symbols that looked A New Chapter in St. Louis The Hunkelers arrived in St. The novel was a sensation, selling millions of copies and spending over a year on the New York Times The Bel-Nor house, however, still stands, and sold to new owners in 2005 for $165,000, an unremarkable Mike Flanagan Wraps Production on New Exorcist Movie — The Movie Blog

  • Nick Drake: The Quiet King of British Folk

    While his work was largely unrecognised during his lifetime, his posthumous influence has been immense He played sporadic gigs at local pubs, his deep, resonant voice and intricate guitar work captivating The Recording of Five Leaves Left In 1968, Boyd signed Nick to Island Records, and work began on his The music press was dominated by the news of Brian Jones' death on 3 July and the Rolling Stones concert The New York Times reported in 2001 that sales had jumped from about 6,000 copies a year to more than

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