Beverly Hills, California, March 7th, 1968, 4:15 p.m. Dean Martin was reading his mail. This was unusual. Dean almost never read his own mail. He had people for that, assistants...
The year was 1967. Dean Martin had everything a man could want. His television show was the highest rated program in America. His record sold in the millions. His face...
The Sans Hotel, Las Vegas. November 11th, 1972. Veterans Day. Dean Martin was halfway through Everybody Loves Somebody when he saw the wheelchair third row center. A young man couldn’t...
Old Tucson Studios, Arizona. August 1958. The temperature is 114°. The kind of heat that makes the air shimmer like water and turns the desert into a frying pan. John...
October 15th, 1974. Rogue River, Oregon. Dawn breaks through Douglas fir trees, casting long shadows across the film set. The air smells of pine needles and river water. Temperature hovers...
“Nobody touches the artist. Not on my watch.” John Wayne’s voice booms across Barnsdall Park like thunder over Monument Valley as he steps between Salvador Dalí and a surging mob...
Katherine Maro was the most expensive makeup artist in Hollywood. Then she refused to touch a burn victim child’s face on Michael Jackson’s set, calling the scars diseased skin. Three...
In the highly sanitized, heavily corporatized world of modern professional sports, an athlete’s signature is far more than just a hasty scribble of ink on a piece of paper. It...
Pull over now. The command came from the back seat, sharp enough to cut through the hum of the air conditioning. The driver glanced in the rearview mirror, confused. They...
10-year-old Michael Jackson collapsed during a Jackson 5 performance. The exhaustion, the pressure, the endless schedule had finally broken his small body. In the hospital room, with doctors saying he...