Director Richard Linklater has a new film at Cannes: Nouvelle Vague. It's about the making of Breathless, the 1960 classic of the French New Wave. (Until just now, I didn't know that nouvelle vague is ...

Liz Truss, the prime minister of the United Kingdom, has resigned after just 45 days in office. It was just two days ago that her Home Minister, Suella Braverman, was complaining about the ...

Ski champion Mikaela Shiffrin has spoken openly and bravely about her struggles with the 2020 death of her father, Jeff Shiffrin. Reports and interviews have noted that Mikaela "couldn't even get out ...

“May the Great Worm gnaw your vitals, and may your bones rot joint by little joint!” Here’s a wild story about General George Patton, hard-driving hero (and cancelled-in-his-own-time villain) of …..

"May the Great Worm gnaw your vitals, and may your bones rot joint by little joint!" Here's a wild story about General George Patton, hard-driving hero (and cancelled-in-his-own-time villain) of the U ...

Will anyone ever be taller than Robert Wadlow? The small-town boy from Illinois was a whopping 8’11” tall — that’s right: eight feet, eleven inches — when he died in 1940. He was only 22 years old.

Looking back from a distance of 60 years, Hoagy Carmichael ‘s 1961 appearance on The Flintstones was a strange affair. One might think this was a desperation gag near the end of the show’s run, when ...

Hank Aaron and Larry King had nothing in common, except for fame in their chosen fields. And now that both are dead, they have a second connection: Covid-19. Hank Aaron was 86 when he died on January ...

Tina Louise — who played movie star Ginger Grant — is the last surviving member of the cast of Gilligan’s Island. That became true when Dawn Wells (“Mary Ann”) died on December 30, 2020. All the ...

John Lewis never stopped working for civil rights and social justice for Black Americans, but he returned to greater fame in recent years, beginning with the election of his friend Barack Obama as ...

With astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley blasting into space aboard their NASA/SpaceX flight, this is the perfect time to introduce a fun new feature from Who2: GIANT LEAPS: Heroes of Space ...

Guest post by Maria Höhn of Vassar College. Until the 21st century, the contributions of African-American soldiers in World War II barely registered in America’s collective memory of that war. The ...