A biography of Louella Parsons, America's premiere movie gossip columnist from 1915 to 1960, chronicles her reign over Hollywood during the studio era, her lifelong alliance with William Randolph Hear
In 1952, the Hill family was held hostage by escaped convicts in their suburban Pennsylvania hom. The family of seven was trapped for nineteen hours by three fugitives who treated them politely, took
In the 1950s, Confidential magazine, America’s first celebrity scandal magazine, revealed Hollywood stars’ secrets, misdeeds, and transgressions in gritty, unvarnished detail. Deploying a
Americans have long been obsessed with their imagestheir looks, public personas, and the impressions they make. This preoccupation has left its mark on the law. The twentieth century saw the creation