Four shark killings in 1916 triggered a tsunami of hysteria that inspired Steven Spielberg’s blockbuster “Jaws”
A father kidnapped his two sons and boarded the Titanic, using false names, and when he died, confusion reigned
Abbott and Costello were the highest paid entertainers of WWII, but away from the spotlight life wasn’t so joyful
After Umberto Eco was invited to submit a short detective story to a magazine, he instead wrote his first novel, “The Name of the Rose”
The real-life wiseguys behind Scorsese’s “GoodFellas,” who pulled off the multi-million Lufthansa heist
Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier’s 20-year marriage seemed perfect, but affairs, artistic rivalry, and mental instability destroyed it
“Win one for the Gipper”: The Hollywood career of Ronald Reagan offered clues to his presidential style