Watts’s Stacks
The Rolling Stones drummer was a passionate collector of first editions and jazz ephemera
Dreams in Progress
A new book celebrates Hollywood’s greatest behind-the-scenes photographer
Hall of Mirrors
Guillermo del Toro’s Nightmare Alley—now showing in glorious black and white—is a throwback to Hollywood’s golden era, and a film for our times
Hall of Mirrors
Guillermo del Toro’s Nightmare Alley—now showing in glorious black and white—is a throwback to Hollywood’s golden age, and a film for our times
Rumbled in the Jungle
The 1974 championship bout between George Foreman and Muhammad Ali, in Zaire, forever changed the lives of both fighters—and the writers who covered it
Singer, Dancer, Marcher, Spy
Josephine Baker broke barriers onstage and off—from Jim Crow Miami to the royal court of Monaco
When the Little Tramp Returned to America
In 1972, 20 years after Charlie Chaplin was forced into exile, the man who helped invent Hollywood came to a garden party in Los Angeles. Everyone was there
A Tale of Two Brothers
How Herman and Joe Mankiewicz won and lost the Hollywood dream
Sub Human
A horrific end awaits a promising young journalist when she goes to meet an eccentric inventor in the dark waters off the coast of Copenhagen