Most people who spend years training to become a neurosurgeon don’t walk away from it. The years of study, the professional license, the financial security those things tend to keep people in place. Cynthia Clarke walked away anyway. And the Nigerian film industry is considerably richer for it. The Cynthia Clarke biography is one of … Read more
There are very few people in human history who can be described as genuinely world-changing. Michael Jackson was one of them. Not just famous — world-changing. A boy who grew up in a small, overcrowded house in Gary, Indiana, who had a belt-wielding father for a rehearsal coach and a practice stage in his living … Read more
She never gave a formal interview. She never posed for a magazine cover. She refused almost every request that would have given her some measure of control over her own narrative in the press. And yet Carolyn Bessette Kennedy became one of the most photographed, most analyzed, most mythologized women of the 1990s — a … Read more