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Editor’s note: This story was originally published in December 2020. It has been updated. (CNN) — It’s George Bailey’s crucial moment. Disheveled and desperate, he offers up a Hail-Mary prayer to a God he’s not sure is listening: “I’m not a praying man, but if you’re up there and you can hear me, show me […]
Pop star Justin Timberlake and his wife, the actress Jessica Biel, are putting their expansive Los Angeles compound on the market for $35 million.
âThe Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Winâ By Maria Konnikova 326 pages Konnikova is a psychologist with an interest in con artistry and game theory. She approached her publisher inspired by Colson Whiteheadâs Noble Shuffle, where a magazine gave a novelist 10K to play a Vegas poker tournament. It was an entertainment. Konnikova does another take â ultimately as entertaining, and more helpful to the novice. The author wasnât a player when she pitched the idea to her publisher, but gave herself a year to try to win at a Vegas tournament...
APIC/Hulton Archive/Getty Images February 8, 2021 marks what would have been the 100th birthday of Lana Turner, the ice-blonde goddess of the silver screen whose film credits include The Postman Always Rings Twice, Peyton Place, The Bad and the Beautiful, and Imitation of Life. Though she was a Hollywood icon, Turner's real life was as dramatic and tragic as any of the heroines she ever played onscreen (if not more so). 1. Lana Turner's father was murdered when she was a child. Lana Turner—born Julia Jean Mildred Francis Turner on February 8, 1921 in Wallace, Idaho—had one of the most...
'It's a Wonderful Life': Cary Grant Almost Played George and 15 Other Surprising Facts (Photos) TheWrap takes a look at some fun trivia about "It's a Wonderful Life," courtesy of its lead reviewer Alonso Duralde, as well as IMDb and Old Hollywood biographer Robert Matzen's book, "Mission: Jimmy Stewart and the Fight for Europe." You can also go to IMDb for more trivia, goofs and quotes from "It's a Wonderful Life." The film technically started as a greeting card. When author Philip Van Doren Stern failed to find a publisher for his book about a man named George Pratt who considers sui...