Assignment: Sinatra Part IV
Talese turns in “Frank Sinatra Has a Cold”—one of the most memorable profiles in magazine history—and worries about the reaction from editor and subject
The Whistleblowing WifeGaslit, starring Julia Roberts, tells the story of Martha Mitchell, the first and most improbable person to publicly accuse Nixon over Watergate
The Dame with the Game
She stole Christopher Nolan, wooed Tom Cruise, and had Ice Cube praising the size of her cojones. How Donna Langley became the most powerful woman in Hollywood
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
Sleeping Around
A farmhouse in Romania, a monastery in Greece, a cottage in Cornwall—King Charles’s preferred getaways are surprisingly plebeian. And most are open to the public
Selling Sussex
Harry and Meghan’s new director of communications has a Sisyphean task: making the pair, well, likable. Four public-relations experts weigh in on how they would achieve the impossible
The Daumier of La Dolce Vita
Ava Gardner kicked him in the groin, Peter O’Toole socked him in the ear, and this month Gérard Depardieu pounded him to a pulp. But 79-year-old Rino Barillari isn’t slowing down
School for Scoundrels
Eton College has long played an outsize role in Great Britain’s public life. It’s where some of the country’s most prominent figures were schooled in the art of dissembling
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
