Interview: Jerry Lewis
An 11-hour conversation about “well, just about everything that’s ever been funny.”
Amy Wallace
The Hollywood Exec and the Hand Transplant That Changed His Life
“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.”
Hollywood’s Information Man
As editor-in-chief of Variety, Peter Bart was one of the most powerful people in the entertainment industry. This piece got him suspended.
The Comedian’s Comedian’s Comedian
A profile of Garry Shandling.
The Mysterious Vision of Jeff Nichols, Hollywood’s Next Blockbuster Auteur
How the director of Midnight Special thinks strategically about his art and his career.
Huge News! The Penis Implant Is Here
The Los Angeles surgeon who can double your size for $13,000.
Who Won Science Fiction’s Hugo Awards, and Why It Matters
A culture war is raging between the people diversifying science fiction and the men who’d like to roll that back.
Conrad Hilton and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Flight
An eyewitness tells us what it was like to be there.
The Long, Strange Purgatory of Casey Kasem
The tragic final days (and very weird afterlife) of a radio legend.
Amen! (D'Angelo's Back)
A profile of the singer as he returns to the stage for the first time in a dozen years.
A Mobster, a Murder, and a Moll with a Secret
Nearly 70 years after Bugsy Siegel’s unsolved murder in Beverly Hills, a family finally comes forward: they know who did it.
Deep Inside Baz Luhrmann’s Creative Chaos
In between projects, the director searches for “that next soul-nourishing gig.”
A Very Dangerous Boy
The trial of a 10-year-old who murdered his neo-Nazi father.
The Rise and Fall of the Cincinnati Boner King
A jailhouse interview with Steve Washak, who made millions selling “natural male enhancement” pills.
Till Murder Do Us Part
A nasty divorce ends in murder and national notoriety.
California or Bust
On the culture of plastic surgery in Los Angeles, and how the reporter’s life changed when she got a pair of fake boobs.
What Made This University Scientist Snap?
How the culture of academia helped Amy Bishop, a University of Alabama scientist who murdered colleagues during a faculty meeting, fall apart.
Coke, Hookers, Hospital, Repeat
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.”
"I Heard the Shots and Ran Toward the Sound"
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.
Violence, Nudity, Adult Content
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.
