From the Archives: Actor William Holden Found Dead at Home
William Holden, whose handsome face and easy, masculine manner made him the quintessential American in many movies, was found dead Monday morning in his apartment in Santa Monica. He was….
William Holden, whose handsome face and easy, masculine manner made him the quintessential American in many movies, was found dead Monday morning in his apartment in Santa Monica. He was….
Eve Babitz, the author known for her hedonistic chronicles of Los Angeles drawn largely from her own life, died Friday at 78. According to her sister, Mirandi Babitz, the cause….
Trained in the Paris workrooms of Christian Dior, Elsa Schiaparelli and Jeanne Paquin, Pierre Cardin saw his future unfold before him at an early age. Building on the pioneering innovations….
Patrice Wymore Flynn, a film and television actress who appeared opposite Frank Sinatra in the original “Ocean’s Eleven” but earned wider notice for her real-life role as the last wife….
For Bea Abrams Cohen, life was all about “mitzvah,” the Jewish tradition of doing a good deed. Believed to be California’s oldest female veteran, Cohen served her country during World….
In 1935, 12-year-old Lillian Gobitas refused to salute the U.S. flag in her seventh-grade classroom in Minersville, Pa. By doing so, the Jehovah’s Witness got herself expelled from school, made….
Freezing in a cramped trailer, shooting rabbits for dinner, slurping a gruel of ketchup and oyster crackers: Warren Miller’s early 20s would have been downright Dickensian if they weren’t so….
Biochemist Alexander Shulgin accidentally discovered one of the most famous and infamous party drugs of the 1980s. He synthesized a compound called MDMA in 1976 in his backyard laboratory and,….
Dave Foreman, a self-proclaimed eco-warrior who was a prominent member of the radical environmentalism movement and a co-founder of Earth First!, has died at 74. The New Mexico-based Rewilding Institute,….
Ed McMahon, a television pioneer who warmed “The Tonight Show” couch for nearly 30 years as Johnny Carson’s jovial sidekick and announcer, died early Tuesday. He was 86. McMahon died….