The activist who led the Indian anti-corruption movement of the early 21st century ...

“May the Great Worm gnaw your vitals, and may your bones rot joint by little joint!” Here’s a wild story about General George Patton, hard-driving hero (and cancelled-in-his-own-time villain) of the U ...

{Editor’s note: First published on December 5, 2010. See our Bill Cosby biography for updates on his later convictions and imprisonment.} “My father said, ‘Junior, it takes a man to play football, but ...

Remember when the US had a president who thought deeply about America’s problems and then told Americans they were responsible? That was Jimmy Carter, and Americans were not impressed by the ...

"Hogan's Heroes" star John Banner is buried in his native Vienna. So why does his tombstone read "Johann Hübner"?

Will anyone ever be taller than Robert Wadlow? The small-town boy from Illinois was a whopping 8’11” tall — that’s right: eight feet, eleven inches — when he died in 1940. He was only 22 years old.

Looking back from a distance of 60 years, Hoagy Carmichael ‘s 1961 appearance on The Flintstones was a strange affair. One might think this was a desperation gag near the end of the show’s run, when ...

Disney is buying LucasFilm for about $4 billion dollars, and threatening to make a new Star Wars movie by 2015. When they say Disney is buying LucasFilm, they mean Disney is paying George Lucas, who ...

Ski champion Mikaela Shiffrin has spoken openly and bravely about her struggles with the 2020 death of her father, Jeff Shiffrin. Reports and interviews have noted that Mikaela “ couldn’t even get out ...

Charles Payne/NY Daily News via Getty Images and the SI Photo Blog I can’t stop looking at Jesse Owens ‘ awesomely elegant right sock in this photo. The year: 1965. Three decades after his Olympic ...

Here’s a story about Hollywood legend Marlene Dietrich, Champagne, and a bad quote. But! When hunting for the source of that quote recently, we couldn’t find proof that the actress ever said it at all ...

This Marlon Brando interview was just after he’d won the Oscar for The Godfather — and sent a surrogate to accept it, in a controversial move. He sat down to talk with Dick Cavett, the smartest talk ...