This week in 1971, the album What's Going On by Marvin Gaye was released by Tamla Records, a subsidiary of Motown. The unified concept album, consisting of nine linked songs, was inspired by the experiences of Gaye's brother Frankie, who had witnessed sickening death and destruction during what he deemed...(READ MORE)
On May 16, 1929, in the Blossom Room of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, a tradition was born: the Academy Awards ceremony, honoring the previous years’ best films, directors, and actors. Those early years of experiment and excess generated some of the all-time great life stories; here are our picks for...(READ MORE)
Jim Gaffigan has joined a cult, but he hasn’t done anything unusual. As he explains in his new memoir about parenting, Dad is Fat, becoming a parent is like joining a fringe religious sect: you only socialize with others who have joined, you try to convince everyone how great it is, and you reorganize...(READ MORE)
Today, The New York Times published an opinion piece written by Angelina Jolie in which the actor, director, and mother of six candidly discusses her decision to have a preventive double mastectomy. Jessica Queller, television writer and author of Pretty is What Changes, faced a similar reality.(READ MORE)
Martin Short will write his memoir for HarperCollins, tennis great Jimmy Connors's memoir hits stores today, Reese Witherspoon to star in the James Mangold-directed film adaptation of "Three Little Words," a memoir by Ashley Rhodes-Courter, and Aretha Franklin’s life will make its on-screen debut.(READ MORE)
Plus, Usher is set to play Sugar Ray Leonard in an upcoming Hands of Stone biopic, while Hillary Clinton will also be portrayed in an upcoming biopic.(READ MORE)
April showers bring May reads. Here's what we're most looking forward to reading this month.(READ MORE)
Mike D and Ad-Rock, the two remaining members of the Beastie Boys, have signed with Random House to publish their memoir, hip-hop artist Talib Kweli will also write his autobiography, as will novelist Gary Shteyngart. James Carville and Mary Matalin are also putting aside their opposing political views...(READ MORE)
Plus, Beatles biographer Philip Norman takes on Sir Paul McCartney; Johnny Marr, founding guitarist of 80's music-redefiners The Smiths, is writing a memoir; and Beach Boy Brian Wilson is the subject of a new biopic starring John Cusack and Paul Dano. (READ MORE)
For a self-proclaimed hick, Billy Ray Cyrus is tapped into some high-frequency vibrations. In his new memoir Hillbilly Heart, he credits intuition, or following instructions from the voice of God, for the success of his country music career since it catapulted with the 1992 smash hit “Achy Breaky Heart.”(READ MORE)
