America’s most poisonous pen
Truman Capote got what he wanted, and it killed him.
Truman Capote got what he wanted, and it killed him.
The Easey Street murders lodged in the minds of those who lived in Melbourne then at the same level as Adelaide’s missing Beaumont children. That same day, I started my newspaper career.
Melbourne University had Frank Macfarlane Burnet, Gustav Nossal and David Penington – but humble George Berci changed many more lives.
The exploding pagers and walkie talkies in Lebanon are a sign of the bloody times – killing and maiming your enemies is no longer done face-to-face.
Celine Dion didn’t like Will Jennings’ My Heart Will Go On when she first heard it, but her husband convinced her it was at least worth a demo.
Lex Marinos’s parents took him to a touring tent vaudeville show when he was eight – that was the business he wanted to be in.
Sounding deceptively simple, Herbie Flowers played the bass line backbone of Lou Reed’s only charting song, Walk On The Wild Side.
In Palestinian territories, streets, schools and even sports carnivals are named after people who in a civilised territory would be jailed for life. It’s a hotbed of Jew-hating, but also delusion.
Once on their way, the plans to attack Pearl Harbor were revealed. He was filled with dread. This would mean total war.
Michel Siffre spent weeks underground, sometimes sleeping two hours, and at other times 18, without feeling the difference.
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