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Black Dahlia: Murder, Monsters, and Madness in Midcentury America
. narr. by Michael Bower. Jan. 2026. 15:24 hrs. ISBN 9781668118818. $29.99. CRIME COPY ISBN Narrator Bower steadily anchors this comprehensive reevaluation by Hollywood historian and journalist Mann ( Bogie & Bacall: The Surprising True Story of Hollywood’s Greatest Love Affair) of the so-called Black Dahlia murder. The death of Elizabeth Short in January 1947 is one of the foundational tales of true crime, an unsolved murder so unsettling that it has become shorthand for depravity.
Vigil By George Saunders
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Black Dahlia: Murder, Monsters, and Madness in Midcentury Hollywood
The horrific murder of 22-year-old Elizabeth Short in 1947, one of the nation’s most fascinating and disturbing unsolved crimes, has grown into the stuff of legend. She came to be known as the Black Dahlia and a symbol of the supposed postwar crisis of morality. But in BLACK DAHLIA, William J. Mann unpacks the myths and realities, the evidence and the headlines surrounding this case in search of not the murderer, but the victim.
James Dean
He made only three movies - East of Eden, Rebel without a Cause, and Giant - and became an international icon after his tragic death at the age of 24. He was James Dean, and no one has told the real story of the man, the actor, or the myth as fully, as powerfully, and as intimately as the authors of James Dean: Little Boy Lost . This is the book drawn from extensive interviews with Dean's friends and colleagues, many of whom speak out for the first time.
Washington Independent Review of Books
Diane Kiesel is a former judge of the Supreme Court of New York. A former journalist, she is the author of Domestic Violence: Law Policy and Practice, published in 2017 by the Carolina Academic Press, and She Can Bring Us Home: Dr. Dorothy Boulding Ferebee, Civil Rights Pioneer, published in 2015 by the University of Nebraska Press/Potomac Books.
Friday the 13th of October 1307
by William F. Mann, author of several books including The Last Refuge of the Knights Templar The dark aura that enshrouds Friday the 13th has certainly grown since its awakening on that fateful night in October of 1307. It was a night of terror and indescribable horrors. The king of France, Philippe IV, in collusion with his holy conscript, Pope Clement V, had conspired for over a year to eradicate the entire French arm of the Order of the Poor Knights of Christ of the Temple.
Jesse James and the Lost Templar Treasure
Chapter 4. Connecting the Dots Shortly after my mother’s book on Jesse James came out, we were contacted by many people armed with stories of Jesse James, treasure, or sometimes both. Most of the treasure stories, after a little research, turn out to be tall tales, but there are a few that turned out to be true. One of those true stories came from a man by the name of George Roming from El Paso, Texas.
Lending to Startups: Not as Risky as You’d Think
Lending to cash-burning startups might at first glance seem like a chump’s game. Most lenders want commercial borrowers to show positive cash flow or at least enough liquid assets to cover any debt. Young, venture-backed companies rarely have either. Yet loans to these companies are on the rise. In a working paper, Juanita González-Uribe of the London School of Economics and UCLA Anderson’s William Mann aim to explain why.
William Haines's Hollywood Interior Design & Decorating | Architectural Digest
It's the kind of irony William Haines would have savored: On the centennial of his birth this wisecracking, self-taught, maverick actor-decorator is in vogue once again. Born January 1, 1900, he used to call himself "a true child of the twentieth century"—and now, as his furniture becomes a hot ticket for collectors, it looks as if he'll be around for the twenty-first. He was always a fiercely contemporary man.
Tinseltown Review | Book Reviews and News | EW.com
The year is 1922. Warren G. Harding is in the White House. Prohibition is the law of the land. And construction is beginning on Yankee Stadium. Meanwhile, 3,000 miles away, in the fledgling dream factory known as Hollywood, silent movies have minted a new breed of hedonistic celebrity. They work hard and play harder, reveling in opium dens, drinking bathtub gin, and indulging in libertine carnal relations out of wedlock.
Steven Spielberg and George Lucas: The Titans Talk!
How exactly do you mediate a conversation with two of the most fertile minds in moviemaking? You hang on for dear life, that's how! When EW sat down with George Lucas and Steven Spielberg for a chat about Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (which opens May 22), the pace was fast and furious. You'll see part of our chat in the Summer Movie Preview issue of EW (as well as here).
Seduction
In this riveting popular history, the creator of You Must Remember This probes the inner workings of Hollywood’s glamorous Golden Age through the stories of some of the dozens of actresses pursued by Howard Hughes, to reveal how the millionaire mogul’s obsessions with sex, power, and publicity trapped, abused, or benefited women who dreamt of screen stardom.
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