Robert Rossen began his screenwriting career as a contract writer in Hollywood during the 1930s and in the late 1940s became a successful producer and director. Rossen's career was interrupted by the ...
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Since his debut album, ironically titled Reasonable Doubt, Jay-Z has put all doubts to rest. While Reasonable Doubt, may arguably be the most misunderstood album in hip hop, its critics cannot den...
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Boy SoldierBorn in 1942,
Larry
Flynt
grew up in a troubled, poverty-stricken
Kentucky
family that soon fell apart as a result of his father's drinking. Desperate for escape, he faked an identit...
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“I never met him, but Jay-Z is a mentor of mine,” Gonzalez recently told Vibe.com. “I’ve watched him grow as a hustler and I’m a hustler too. I taught myself the real ...
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Google “Diddy” and among a zillion other details, you’ll find that Sean John Combs is a Scorpio. Born in 1969—the Year of the Rooster. Catholic schoolboy, with a gorgeous mo...
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Since he popped up on the scene in 2001 with visions of grandeur, Clifford Harris Jr.has been called a lot of things: He went from Tip the hustler to T.I. the rapper (he thought people would confus...
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“I ain’t takin’ orders no more. It’s my house and I live in it,” Snoop Dogg proclaims on his new album, Paid tha Cost to Be da Bo$$. Throughout his career, it’s ...
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One of the rising stars of evangelical Christian politics resigns after allegations that he had sex with a man. More than a year later, a conservative U.S. senator is embroiled in a similar scandal...
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With all the women in television news on both sides of the camera, you would think sexism was an issue relegated to the 20th century.Yet recently a CBS News executive, herself a pioneer for women i...
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With all the women in television news on both sides of the camera, you would think sexism was an issue relegated to the 20th Century.Yet recently a CBS News executive, herself a pioneer for women i...
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Most people don't like being behind the eight ball, but Willie Mosconi made it his life's work.It has been half a century since the pool wizard quit playing competitively, but the sands of time hav...
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