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Film Classics
Sinatra in the Jungle On the 70th anniversary of Mogambo, John Ford’s 1950s adultery epic set in Africa, a behind-the-scenes look at its stars—Grace Kelly, Clark Gable, and Ava Gardner, married to Frank Sinatra at the time
Literary Matters
The Hard-Crusted Softy in Winter, Part II Ten years after Gore Vidal’s death, the one biographer to remain friendly with the prickly master reveals poignant details of his final years
School for Scandal
Skeletons in the Closet The culture wars have come for Skull and Bones, Yale’s most prestigious—and mysterious—secret society
Great Lives
Walter Mirisch Raised in the era of silent movies, the Some Like It Hot producer, whose films won 28 Oscars, started out as an usher in a New Jersey theater
Fifty Shades of Antiquity
A Cavalcade of Depravity Shakespearean actors, Penthouse Pets, 3,000 Roman costumes, 450 gallons of fake blood, and Gore Vidal. Was Caligula the most ambitious porno ever made—or the raunchiest historical epic?
Film
Kevin Costner’s Post Apocalypse The Postman was meant to be the Oscar winner’s magnum opus—instead it became the tale of a superstar’s self-indulgence
Weighty Issues
The Hunger Game Is fasting a longevity tool or a socially acceptable type of disordered eating? Over five long days, one brave soul investigates
Great Lives
Tom Lehrer A mordant Harvard math whiz who used musical satire to skewer the Establishment and pioneer a new kind of nonconformist comedy
