A young actor overplays a scene on John Wayne’s set. Wayne stops the cameras, says something brutal. The young man nearly quits Hollywood…
Durango, Mexico, October 18th, 1972. The dusty film set of the train robbers buzzes with typical western production energy. John Wayne, 65 years…
The coffee cup hit the dirt 2 in from the assistant director’s boot, and Robert Mitchum didn’t break character, but John Wayne finally…
Folsam State Prison, California. December 18th, 1967. The winter rain pounds against the concrete walls as Johnny Cash, 35 years old, stands in…
June 3rd, 1956. The Steve Allen Show, Studio 6B at NBC. 743 people in the audience. Edmund Hartley, the most feared music critic…
When Elvis Presley’s Cadillac broke down on Union Avenue in Memphis on a sweltering July afternoon in 1970, he had no choice but…
Elvis was signing autographs backstage when a little girl handed him a homemade birthday card. But it wasn’t Elvis’s birthday. What he discovered…
Elvis Presley stood on the stage at Market Square Arena in Indianapolis, Indiana on June 26th, 1977. It was 10:47 p.m. on a…
Elvis Presley woke up on August 15th, 1977 at 11:47 a.m. It was a Monday morning, his last Monday, his final full day…
Private First Class Danny Martinez, First Marine Division, is walking point with 68 lbs of napalm strapped to his back. He’s carrying the…