During 1921 and 1922, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle was the central figure in three notorious trials for manslaughter, and his case provides a prime example of business and political means used to derail justice. The veteran vaudeville and silent film star...

In the annals of film history, no celebrity better illustrates the fragility of stardom than Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle. In 1919, Arbuckle was one of the most successful comedians in silent film. Two years later, accused of the rape and...

Paris Hilton is so pampered she doesn't read her mail. "I have people who do that for me," she told a judge. Legal documents and traffic citations elude her. "I just sign what people tell me to sign," she testified.Facing a 45-day jail sentence _...

Paris Hilton is so pampered she doesn't read her mail. "I have people who do that for me," she told a judge. Legal documents and traffic citations elude her. "I just sign what people tell me to sign," she testified.And based on statements from Hilton...

Two decades after Henry Ford rolled out the Model T in 1908, American cars still looked like boxes on wheels.That was before Harley Earl rolled into Detroit.Earl arrived in 1927 from Los Angeles, where he worked for his dad customizing cars, recalls Earl's grandson Richard...

The closest thing I have to a neighborhood multiplex is the Loews Orpheum on Third Avenue and 86th Street. It is there that I trudged off to see Hitch at an early-morning screening, simply because this lukewarmly reviewed comedy had soared to a $46 million...