Francis Crick missed a crucial seminar in 1951, probably because he was seeing a lover. James Watson did go, failed to take notes and misremembered key details. As a result, their first model of DNA ...

Aileen Wuornos gave birth to a son when she was a teenager Courtesy of Netflix Aileen Wuornos was a serial killer who confessed in 1991 to killing seven men while working as a prostitute As a teenager ...

In 1950, James Baldwin and his lover, the painter Lucien Happersberger, set out from Paris for the mountains of Switzerland, where Baldwin, then around 25, hoped to climb his way out of a creative ...

"The Sound of Music" is celebrating it's 60th anniversary this year, and the celebrations include a return to theaters starting Sept. 12. But what happened to the real family behind the Julie Andrews ...

Zachary Leader’s book on Richard Ellmann’s landmark work on James Joyce asks whether a biographer can be considered an artist. In 1927—just five years after the publication of Ulysses and five years ...

Gwyneth Paltrow allegedly had a rather sharp nickname for her former friend and “Stranger Things” actor Winona Ryder. Author and journalist Amy Odell shared more about their feud in the bombshell book ...

Berlin-based sales outfit M-Appeal has picked up international rights to David Pablos’ “On the Road” (“En El Camino”). The film, a bold, tender Mexican road movie, will have its world premiere at the ...

She also presents the quotes that have gotten Paltrow pilloried in the press: “I can’t pretend to be somebody who makes $25,000 a year,” and “I would rather ...