The stage lights at Camp Pendleton cut out at 9:15. The USO coordinator stood in…
Summer 1945. On a Hollywood set, a decorated war hero turned [music] director humiliated America’s…
The Copa room at the Sands Hotel was packed to capacity on November 3rd, 1962.…
The Texas heat was brutal. July 17th, 1958, Old Tucson Studios, right in the middle…
They laughed first, soft chuckles at the far end of the table, then louder, more…
The night Kirk Douglas publicly challenged John Wayne’s gun skills began like any other glittering…
In Hollywood, they used to say nobody could intimidate a producer. They controlled the contracts,…
March 1961, a school teacher in rural Montana asks her 12 students to write one…
1966, one of the most famous restaurants in Hollywood. A young man sits down at…
It’s the early 1970s and John Wayne is sailing off the California coast with his…