The 1970s Kitchen: 11 Things Every Home Had That Nobody Owns Today
There is a particular sound that belongs entirely to the past. It is the sound of a percolator working itself up to a boil on a Saturday…
She Taped a Chore List to My Hotel Door. Three Days Later, She Was the One Being Escorted Out
My name is Margaret. I am sixty-three years old, I have been married to Dale for thirty-one years, and until this past July I had never once…
She Told The Nurse I Couldn’t Remember My Own Address. I’d Spent Thirty-One Years As A Court Stenographer
My name is Ruth Vandermeer. I’m seventy-one years old, and until the second week of April I lived in the house my husband Peter and I bought…
“That Was Your Decision, Not My Responsibility” — So I Made One Phone Call
I was thirty-one years old the day I became a widow. My son, Eric, was four. He wore a clip-on tie to the funeral because I couldn’t…
The Oscar Nominee Who Turned Down $100,000 — Then Lost His Home
Strangers raised more than $100,000 to keep Mickey Rourke housed. He told them to take it back. Weeks later, a Los Angeles judge ended his lease anyway….
What Robert Redford Quietly Did Before Filming His Most Famous Romantic Scene
Robert Redford did not want the part. When Columbia Pictures began casting the 1973 romantic classic The Way We Were, director Sydney Pollack spent eight agonizing months…
The Fridge Magnet Clue That Ended a Serial Killer’s Undetected Reign
When a serial predator held a gun to 15-year-old Kara Robinson’s neck in a South Carolina driveway, her brain made an immediate, calculated pivot: do whatever it…
The valley winds in late November had a way of stripping the warmth out of everything, turning the pines black and the rutted dirt roads to solid stone.
The valley winds in late November had a way of stripping the warmth out of everything, turning the pines black and the rutted dirt roads to solid…
A Rare Casual Photo Of A Legendary Hollywood Couple Just Resurfaced
Strip away the studio lighting, red-carpet stylists, and designer gowns, and even Hollywood royalty looks strikingly familiar. A recently resurfaced, unvarnished photograph of one of the industry’s…
Shirley MacLaine Ruled Hollywood for Decades, but Her Daughter Lived a Very Different Reality
To millions of moviegoers, Shirley MacLaine was the radiant, sharp-witted darling of Hollywood’s golden era. Behind the glamour, an ocean of physical and emotional distance separated the…