The Rise and Fall of the Cincinnati Boner King
A jailhouse interview with Steve Washak, who made millions selling “natural male enhancement” pills.
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A jailhouse interview with Steve Washak, who made millions selling “natural male enhancement” pills.
Amy Wallace GQ Sep 2009 20min Permalink
The director Stacy Title is paralyzed and cannot speak. But she is determined to make one final movie.
Amy Wallace Vulture May 2019 25min Permalink
The true story of a ring of thieves who stole millions of dollars’ worth of luxury watches—and the special agent who brought them down.
Amy Wallace GQ Oct 2018 25min Permalink
She raced cars when few women dared. But more than trophies or prize money, it was the zen of driving that pulled her in. This is the story of Denise McCluggage, America’s once-fastest woman.
An 11-hour conversation about “well, just about everything that’s ever been funny.”
Amy Wallace GQ Aug 2011 25min Permalink
“It is a beautiful hand: strong, with long, slender fingers and smooth skin, its nails ridgeless and pink. If you didn’t know Jonathan Koch—if you first met him, say, on the courts at the Calabasas Tennis & Swim Club—you might not suspect that his hand previously belonged to someone else.”
Amy Wallace Los Angeles Mar 2017 35min Permalink
As editor-in-chief of Variety, Peter Bart was one of the most powerful people in the entertainment industry. This piece got him suspended.
Amy Wallace Los Angeles Sep 2001 45min Permalink
A profile of Garry Shandling.
Amy Wallace GQ Aug 2010 25min Permalink
How the director of Midnight Special thinks strategically about his art and his career.
Amy Wallace Wired Mar 2016 Permalink
The Los Angeles surgeon who can double your size for $13,000.
Amy Wallace GQ Jan 2016 15min Permalink
A culture war is raging between the people diversifying science fiction and the men who’d like to roll that back.
Amy Wallace Wired Aug 2015 20min Permalink
An eyewitness tells us what it was like to be there.
Amy Wallace GQ Mar 2015 10min Permalink
The tragic final days (and very weird afterlife) of a radio legend.
Amy Wallace GQ Jan 2015 20min Permalink
A profile of the singer as he returns to the stage for the first time in a dozen years.
Amy Wallace GQ May 2012 30min Permalink
Nearly 70 years after Bugsy Siegel’s unsolved murder in Beverly Hills, a family finally comes forward: they know who did it.
Amy Wallace Los Angeles Sep 2014 15min Permalink
In between projects, the director searches for “that next soul-nourishing gig.”
Amy Wallace New York Times Magazine Feb 2014 25min Permalink
The trial of a 10-year-old who murdered his neo-Nazi father.
Amy Wallace GQ Nov 2013 20min Permalink
A nasty divorce ends in murder and national notoriety.
Amy Wallace The Los Angeles Times Jun 1990 30min Permalink
On the culture of plastic surgery in Los Angeles, and how the reporter’s life changed when she got a pair of fake boobs.
Amy Wallace Los Angeles Jan 2002 20min Permalink
How the culture of academia helped Amy Bishop, a University of Alabama scientist who murdered colleagues during a faculty meeting, fall apart.
Amy Wallace Wired Mar 2011 35min Permalink
GQ moved up the release of this Charlie Sheen profile: ”The fucking AA shit. The sobriety shit. It was always for other people. I just wanted to get a job back and get enough money to tell everybody to go fuck themselves and then roll like Errol Flynn and Frank Sinatra—the good parts of those guys.”
Amy Wallace GQ Apr 2011 Permalink
The Gabrielle Giffords shooting, from the vantage point of three central figures: Daniel Hernandez helped save the congresswoman’s life; Patricia Maisch stopped the shooter from reloading; Bill Badger tackled him.
Amy Wallace GQ Mar 2011 15min Permalink
As CEO of HBO, Chris Albrecht was responsible for putting The Wire, The Sopranos, and Sex and the City on the air. Then he choked his girlfriend outside a Vegas casino, got fired, and took a job running Starz.
Amy Wallace GQ Nov 2010 15min Permalink