Christopher Reeve and Robin Williams, close friends since their Juilliard days, found fame and then tragedy
The makers of “Alien” had everything designed except for the terrifying being itself and for that, they turned to H. R. Giger
Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane: the fierce queen of San Francisco’s psychedelic scene wanted to drug Richard Nixon
The Dorabella Cipher: a cryptic letter from a married composer to a young woman that’s been unsolved since 1897
After the first chimpanzee survived a space flight in 1961, his name was changed from Number 65 to Ham the Astrochimp