Sometimes, life imitates art. Sometimes, reality is the most potent drug of all. Steve Jobs understood that. Oscar Goldman understood that.
Before there was Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, there was Oscar Goldman and Rudy Wells. Jobs was the ideas man, and Woz was the technician who could build the personal computer.
Oscar Goldman was the ideas man, and Rudy Wells was the physician who could rebuild Steve Austin.
Marni Nixon was a name that Hollywood did its best to keep out of the credits, even as she found herself in one after another cinematic blockbuster of Hollywood’s Golden Age that featured the likes of Ingrid Bergman, Audrey Hepburn, Sophia Loren, Marilyn Monroe, and a young Natalie Wood.
First of all, let’s put his epitaph right out front: Without Rod McKuen, there would be no Seasons in the Sun. Few poets live and die in Beverly Hills, but Rod McKuen did just that. This strange fact alone stoked…
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Who is The Oldest Living Legend? Well, the pool of candidates just got a little smaller today with the passing of Shirley Temple. But think about some of the people who are still around. It’s humbling. There’s Yogi Berra, who…
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