Conclusions Drawn

When I heard this morning that Mickey Rooney had died, my first thought was back to THIS  2013 article in Vanity Fair , excerpting a newly ...

As I've noted before, I'm always intrigued by the under-reported epilogues to famous stories.  A reference in THIS article from t...

I can still remember where I was when I first heard that Kurt Cobain had shot and killed himself 20 years ago today. With the benefit of hin...

Do you remember "Mad Libs"?  If so, you may want to watch THIS 30 second clip from the NBC Nightly News last night.  It's a s...

I remember seeing retired postal worker Herbert Vogel and his wife, Brooklyn librarian Dorothy, profiled on 60 Minutes years ago.  Despite h...

Sally Ride became the first American woman in space when she was part of the crew of the Space Shuttle 'Challenger' in 1983.  She di...

I watched THIS one hour profile on CBS last night of legendary "60 Minutes" correspondent Mike Wallace, who died in April at the ...

Legendary motorcycle daredevil Evel Knievel died on this date back in 2007.  You can read an excellent obituary published at the time in The...

The creator of Batman, Bob Kane, died on this date in 1998 at the age of 83.  I met Bob Kane once and wrote about it HERE .

Gunther Gebel-Williams died ten years ago now, on July 19, 2001. I had forgotten about him, to be honest, until I took my young daughter to ...

If you're a certain age, you probably think of "Andrei Sakharov" when you hear the name Yelena Bonner. Yelena Bonner was a fam...

MSN.com posted an article detailing the last words of 33 deceased celebrities. I didn't think the article lived up to the promise of its...

You'd have to be a certain age to remember all the controversy sparked in the 1980s by Leona Helmsley, dubbed the so called "Queen ...

Do you remember "Mad Libs"?  If you do, you may want to watch this obituary about their creator, who died recently, that aired on ...

Dan Rostenkowski, a democrat congressman from Chicago who was the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee (before Charlie Rangel) fro...

Legendary voice actor Mel Blanc, "The Man of a Thousand Voices," including those of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and Porky Pig (to name ...

Rod Serling, who was perhaps most famous for creating and hosting The Twilight Zone TV show from 1959-1965, died on this date in 1975, afte...

Wehrner von Braun, the German-American rocket scientist who became the preeminent rocket engineer of the 20th century, died from pancreatic ...

Who is Jean Arp (at left) you might well ask? He was a French artist who co-founded (with several others) the art movement known as "Da...

Legendary college basketball coach John Wooden, who won ten NCCAA basketball championships at UCLA in a 12 year stretch from 1964 to 1975, h...