“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.”
A jailhouse interview with Steve Washak, who made millions selling “natural male enhancement” pills.
The director Stacy Title is paralyzed and cannot speak. But she is determined to make one final movie.
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.
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.”
As editor-in-chief of Variety, Peter Bart was one of the most powerful people in the entertainment industry. This piece got him suspended.
A profile of Garry Shandling.
How the director of Midnight Special thinks strategically about his art and his career.
The Los Angeles surgeon who can double your size for $13,000.
A culture war is raging between the people diversifying science fiction and the men who’d like to roll that back.
An eyewitness tells us what it was like to be there.
The tragic final days (and very weird afterlife) of a radio legend.
A profile of the singer as he returns to the stage for the first time in a dozen years.
Nearly 70 years after Bugsy Siegel’s unsolved murder in Beverly Hills, a family finally comes forward: they know who did it.
In between projects, the director searches for “that next soul-nourishing gig.”
The trial of a 10-year-old who murdered his neo-Nazi father.
A nasty divorce ends in murder and national notoriety.
On the culture of plastic surgery in Los Angeles, and how the reporter’s life changed when she got a pair of fake boobs.
How the culture of academia helped Amy Bishop, a University of Alabama scientist who murdered colleagues during a faculty meeting, fall apart.
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.”
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.
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.
