In the early 1990s, the neon lights of Hollywood were “fading” for the man who had once been the industry’s most “lethal” asset. Bruce Willis, the blue-collar god of Die…

In the shivering, sunless winter of 1993, a rising star named Brad Pitt found himself “buried” alive. For six months, the production of Interview with the Vampire had “colonized” the…

The stage was a “minefield” of legacy. In 1986, the HBO special The Return of Bruno threatened to be just another “vanity project” from a Hollywood star “intoxicated” by his…

In the shimmering, 130-degree “cauldron” of Tunisia in 1981, the grand machinery of Hollywood “ground” to a halt. One hundred crew members stood “marooned” in the dust, their technical precision…

In the polished, “meticulously” rehearsed world of late-night television, reality rarely makes an appearance. But on November 1, 2013, the set of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon became a “theatre…

The Sunset Strip was a “fortress” of glitz, and in 1955, the Mocambo was its most “impenetrable” bastion. For ten years, Ella Fitzgerald—the woman whose voice was a “miracle” of…