8 of the best true crime books of all time Graduate from podcasts and YouTube deep-dives Evening Standard · Aug 7, 2023
Capote’s Women by Laurence Leamer review – super creeps in haute couture A rehash of Truman Capote’s fallout with a coven of Manhattan socialites lacks their style and his imagination The Guardian - UK · Jul 31, 2023
Capote’s Women by Laurence Leamer review – cold-blooded clique An attempt to recreate the gilded desolation of a mid-century Manhattan milieu offers champagne and betrayal by the bucket The Guardian - UK · Jul 15, 2023
Penance by Eliza Clark review – art or porn? Set in a northern seaside town, this show-stopping second novel is a bravura deconstruction of our voyeuristic love for true crime The Guardian - UK · Jun 28, 2023
Notes, ponderings, doodlings: behind Capote’s creation of In Cold Blood New manuscript offers insight into the painstaking work of writer’s seemingly effortless storytelling in true crime classic The Guardian - US · Jun 28, 2023
25+ Fun Facts About Chevy Chase And The Comedian’s Legendary Career One of the heavyweights of comedy, Chevy Chase has led a fascinating and wild life, here are some of the best facts about it. Cinemablend · Jun 5, 2023
Calista Flockhart's life 20 years after Ally McBeal's end from A-list husband to TV return Calista Flockhart rose to fame playing the titular lawyer on the FOX series Ally McBeal from 1997 until 2000, with the actor having since appeared in TV shows such as Brothers & Sisters and Supergirl Daily Mirror · May 9, 2023
Actor Robert Blake, Star of ‘Baretta’ and ‘In Cold Blood,’ Dead at Age 89 Robert Blake, a child actor from the Depression-era "Our Gang" comedies who won adult stardom playing an undercover cop on the 1970s television series "Baretta" before fame was eclipsed by his murder trial in the 2001 killing of his wife, has died at age 89. Blake, who also won acclaim… Asharq Al-Awsat · Mar 10, 2023
Robert Blake, star of ‘In Cold Blood’ who faced murder charges in real life, dies at 89 LOS ANGELES — Robert Blake, the critically acclaimed and Emmy-award-winning actor whose career was derailed by charges he murdered his wife in 2001, has died. Los Angeles Times · Mar 10, 2023
Murdaughs, murder and the birth of TV’s newest true-crime sensation Pat Conroy. Truman Capote. John Grisham. Shakespeare. Los Angeles Times · Feb 22, 2023
DNA could crack a notorious Florida cold case — with infamous suspects TAMPA, Fla. — The Walkers’ wood frame cottage stood plain and white, surrounded by pasture land and hardwood forest. There in tiny Osprey, on the southern tip of the vast Palmer Ranch, the family’s nearest neighbor was half a mile away. Tribune News Service · Feb 14, 2023
11 surprising facts about Audrey Hepburn and everything we know about Luca Guadagnino’s upcoming biopic Rumour has it she smoked three packs of cigarettes a day, kept pet deer and left an Oscar in the loos… Evening Standard · Feb 2, 2023
Richard Avedon's brutal photography Being the subject of Avedon's photographic scrutiny could be uncomfortable, especially if you've visibly aged Salon · Jan 16, 2023
Richard Avedon, Truman Capote and the brutality of photography What obligation does a portrait photographer have to their subject? Is it their duty to cast that person in the best light, or the most revealing light? The Conversation · Jan 6, 2023
The Guardian - UK · Nov 24, 2022 Daniel Craig’s 20 best film performances – ranked! With Craig about to return as Benoit Blanc in Glass Onion, we take a look through the blond Bond’s action-packed filmography
The Guardian - UK · Oct 14, 2022 The Guide #56: From Britbox to Shudder, the best niche streaming services In this week’s newsletter: Whether you’re after horror, arthouse, reality TV or teatime crime, don’t be afraid to look past the ‘big five’
The Independent UK · Sep 6, 2022 How Truman Capote betrayed his ‘swans’: The real-life high society saga behind Feud’s season 2 A new season of the TV show “Feud” will look into the novelist’s life before and after the publication of a short story that scandalized high society -- and Capote’s friends. Clémence Michallon reports
The Conversation · Jun 23, 2022 Art, freedom and drag invasions: the history of New York's Fire Island as a gay sanctuary Recently screened at the Sydney Film Festival, Fire Island is a rom-com inspired by Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, the film breaking traditional conventions to feature gay romance as the plot.
Evening Standard · Jun 23, 2022 Brad Pitt opens up about attending ‘private and selective’ Alcoholics Anonymous group The actor also revealed he believes he is on the “last leg” of his acting career
The Guardian - UK · Jun 19, 2022 Rogues by Patrick Radden Keefe review – a preternaturally attentive reporter at work In this ‘greatest hits’ collection, the author of the acclaimed Empire of Pain stops at nothing in pursuit of the truth
The Guardian - UK · May 21, 2022 What links Harry Styles to Ipswich Town and Humphrey Bogart? When you dive down the rabbit hole, you can go in only one direction: straight to pop’s foremost charmer, via Shania Twain, John Huston and Olivia Wilde
The Guardian - UK · May 8, 2022 What do you get when a lack of taste meets a shedload of cash? Anna Wintour’s ball New York’s annual Met Gala is tawdry at the best of times. This year its excess just seemed moronic
The Independent UK · Apr 23, 2022 Robert Morse: Tony-winning comic and Mad Men actor As well as being a Broadway sensation, Morse delighted TV viewers as the eccentric advertising executive Bert Cooper on ‘Mad Men’
Chicago Sun-Times · Apr 21, 2022 Robert Morse, Tony Award-winning actor, dies at 90 More recently, Morse played the autocratic and eccentric leader of an advertising agency in “Mad Men,” AMC’s hit drama that debuted in 2007.
The Independent UK · Apr 21, 2022 Robert Morse, two-time Tony-winning actor, dies at 90 Actor Robert Morse, who won a Tony Award as a hilariously brash corporate climber in “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying” and a second one a generation later as the brilliant, troubled Truman Capote in “Tru,” has died