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Adventures in Journalism

Assignment: Sinatra A legendary editor. A recalcitrant writer. And a subject that was both man and myth. The story behind the writing of what became known as the greatest magazine profile ever

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Adventures in Journalism

Assignment: Sinatra
Part II
While he waits for an opening into the singer’s inner circle, Gay Talese acquaints himself with “the unhappy ones”

The Long Run

Changing Places Linda Fairstein put Yusef Salaam in prison for the attack on the Central Park jogger. He was exonerated and is running for office; she is excoriated and living as a pariah


Oral History

30 Years of Friends From Matthew Perry’s addiction issues to David Schwimmer’s leather pants, the creators and actors of the hit sitcom tell the story of how it came to be, three decades after its first episode

Film and Television

The Rules of the Dame Helen Mirren may have turned 80, but she’s still acting—and aging—gracefully. Just don’t call her feisty

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Special Report

Armie Hammer Breaks His Silence Two years after some of the most shocking allegations of the #MeToo era lit up the Internet and destroyed his career, the actor has finally decided to tell his side of the story

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Film and Television

A Lone Star Is Born From Texan cowboy to Hollywood’s hottest leading man, Glen Powell is equal parts Tom Cruise adrenaline and Matthew McConaughey charm

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Cold Case in a Warm Climate

To Catch a Murderer In 1973, Cynthia Bouron, a notorious Hollywood hanger-on who publicly alleged that Cary Grant fathered her child, was brutally killed. Why has the case remained unsolved?

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The Fog of War

Dollar Diplomacy Israel and the U.S. had a plan to cut off funding to Hamas, but they chose instead to buy peace by facilitating prosperity for the terrorist organization

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In Cold Blood

The Eyes of a Killer: Part V This week, Bryan Kohberger’s defense team announced that they plan to prove their client wasn’t even at the scene of the crime. Could they actually get him off?

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A Town Divided

There Goes the Neigh-borhood! In Florida, old-guard horse-lovers and new-money developers are duking it out for the soul of Wellington

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All About Edie

Super Star Power More than half a century after Edie Sedgwick and Andy Warhol hooked up, their mystique endures. Now Edie’s sister Alice is making sense of it all

Washington Confidential

Tommy Supreme and the Blitz Tom Goldstein was a star in arguing cases before the Supreme Court. He was also one of the world’s highest-rolling—and most reckless—poker players. Then his worlds collided


Washington Confidential

The Whistleblowing Wife Gaslit, starring Julia Roberts, tells the story of Martha Mitchell, the first and most improbable person to publicly accuse Nixon over Watergate

Facing the Music

The Alien and the Fawn Accusations of sexual harassment upended the career of award-winning Hollywood composer Danny Elfman. But what really happened between him and his accuser?

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Disappearing Act

The 40-Year Con: Part III Once Spiro Pavlovich became Nicholas Rockefeller, he never dropped the charade, even in private. But beneath the “wonderful man,” as he was described by a Yale Law School classmate, lurked a dark, abusive Mr. Hyde

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The King of Lies Separating fact from fiction in the latest, heavily fabricated season of The Crown

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Adventures in Journalism

Assignment: Sinatra
Part III
Harold Hayes decides that Esquire will be proceeding with or without the cooperation of Sinatra—whom Talese trails to Las Vegas

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