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Eric Lawson portrayed one of the most iconic characters in the history of advertising: the Marlboro Man, devised in the mid-1950s as a talisman of vigorous, healthy masculinity, even at a time of growing evidence that cigarette smoking was injurious.
The 2014 Grammy Awards had a distinctly throwback feel, as some of the classic performers from the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s joined current hit-makers onstage. Here are some of the highlights:
Paramount has announced that it will become the first Hollywood studio to stop releasing movies on reels of old-fashioned film, a medium that's been around since the movie industry began some 120 years ago. Paramount's The Wolf of Wall Street is the first blockbuster to come out only in digital…
In the hit 1960s TV sitcom Gilligan's Island, it was no accident that Roy "The Professor" Hinkley, portrayed by Russell Johnson, was the least-funny character.
On the afternoon of Feb. 1, 1960, 19-year-old Franklin McCain - accompanied by David Richmond, Joseph McNeil, and Ezell Blair Jr., three of his North Carolina A&T classmates - walked into an F.W. Woolworth store in Greensboro, N.C. After buying a few small items, he and the others sat down at the…
It's a measure of the greatness of Phil Everly, who died on Jan. 3 at age 74 in Burbank, Calif., that you hear him and his older brother Don practically every time you turn on a classic rock radio station, even when the DJ isn't actually playing "Bye Bye Love," "All I Have to Do is Dream" or…
Though he immodestly titled his memoirs They Call Me Mister 500, Andy Granatelli actually was behind the wheel at the famed Indianapolis Motor Speedway just once, in the time trials in 1948. Back then, he was billed "Antonio the Great, Famed Italian Speed Ace," even though he hailed from Chicago…
These days we're rarely shocked when we learn that a politician has enjoyed lavish benefits at public expense or found some way to exploit public office for personal gain. That makes all the more remarkable the story of former U.S. Rep. Andrew "Andy" Jacobs Jr. (D-Ind.), who during his three…
Looking for an exotic retirement destination? Here's a new possibility for you: Mars.
After Edgar Bronfman Sr. took over the reins of Seagram in the early 1970s, he expanded the liquor company founded by his father Samuel into a sprawling global comglomerate, taking over juice-maker Tropicana and expanding into the oil and chemical businesses as well.