Harvey Weinstein’s Army of Spies
The film executive hired private investigators, including ex-Mossad agents, to track actresses and journalists.
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The film executive hired private investigators, including ex-Mossad agents, to track actresses and journalists.
Ronan Farrow The New Yorker Nov 2017 20min Permalink
The executive and investor resigned from his position as Tronc chairman hours before the news.
Kristen Bellstrom, Beth Kowitt Fortune Mar 2018 20min Permalink
The Federal Writers’ Project narratives provide an all-too-rare link to our past.
Clint Smith The Atlantic Feb 2021 30min Permalink
Unruly teens from around the world are kidnapped by parental order and sent to ‘behaviour-modification centers’ like Tranquility Bay, a $40,000/year prison-like compound in Jamaica.
Decca Aitkenhead The Guardian Jan 2003 25min Permalink
Did a school for spies get conned by a fake spook who molested students?
Ian Shapira Washington Post May 2017 10min Permalink
How Goldman Sachs made $5 billion by controlling supply and manipulating the aluminum market.
David Kocieniewski New York Times Jul 2013 15min Permalink
The late governor’s most enduring speech.
Mario Cuomo Democratic National Convention Jan 1984 15min Permalink
Everyone just wants to know if he’s going to the football game.
Jason Smith Matter Apr 2015 25min Permalink
What happened when Pakistan shut down the vitally important Karachi to Kabul trucking line.
Shahan Mufti Businessweek Dec 2011 20min Permalink
What happens when a complete stranger becomes convinced you’re the Zodiac killer.
Michael O'Hare Washington Monthly May 2009 10min Permalink
For more than a century, boys were sent to the Florida School for Boys reformatory. Many were beaten brutally and bear the physical and psychological scars to this day. Many others, though, never came home.
A search for lost boys and the reasons why they died.
A neglected cemetery yields more bodies than expected, but names are harder to find.
Ben Montgomery Tampa Bay Times Dec 2014 50min Permalink
Bryce Masters was 17 years old when a police officer tased him for 23 seconds. His heart stopped for almost eight minutes. His life will never be the same.
Nick Berardini, Matt Stroud The Intercept Jun 2016 35min Permalink
The “naked technological realities” of America’s heartland and how they power a “cosy coastal world of pretend farmers’ markets and happy cows.”
Venkatesh Rao Aeon Jul 2013 15min Permalink
How a man of little education and little means invented a simple machine that changed the lives of women in rural India.
Vibeke Venema BBC Mar 2014 10min Permalink
Groups protesting lockdown measures see the coronavirus pandemic as a pretext for tyranny—and as an opportunity for spreading rage.
Luke Mogelson New Yorker Aug 2020 40min Permalink
Today, Robert Dowlut is the National Rifle Association’s top lawyer. Fifty years ago, he was convicted of murdering a woman with a handgun.
Dave Gilson Mother Jones Jul 2014 30min Permalink
A profile of the highest-paid female executive in America, who was born male.
Lisa Miller New York Sep 2014 25min Permalink
A profile of Prince as Diamonds and Pearls was released, based mostly off a brief phone call, all the access he’ll allow.
Chris Heath Details Nov 1991 15min Permalink
Is Vemma an energy drink, the new Amway or a pyramid scheme taking advantage of college kids? Maybe all three.
Caleb Hannan Rolling Stone Oct 2014 20min Permalink
Behind the scenes of Lost Highway
A profile of Marlon Brando, age 33, holed up in a hotel suite in Kyoto where he was filming Sayonara.
Truman Capote New Yorker Nov 1957 55min
It was the middle of the day in the steamy Philippine jungle and the sun was merciless. Director Francis Ford Coppola, dressed in rumpled white Mao pajamas, was slowly making his way upriver in a motor launch.
Maureen Orth Newsweek Jun 1977
A “fanatical Lynch fan from way back,” David Foster Wallace visits the set of Lost Highway, never actually talks to the director, and writes a profile.
David Foster Wallace Premiere Sep 1996 45min
Inside the five-year (and counting) production of the Ilya Khrzhanovsky film Dau.
Michael Idov GQ Nov 2011 15min
In Austin in 1973, politicos and hippies could get together and create violent, visionary horror films for $60,000. So they did. The story of how The Texas Chainsaw Massacre got made:
John Bloom Texas Monthly Nov 2004 50min
The battle to make The Godfather pitted director Francis Ford Coppola against producers including Robert Evans, and the production itself against the real-life mob.
Mark Seal Vanity Fair Mar 2009 40min
An oral history of Goodfellas.
GQ Oct 2010 35min
How Warren Beatty seduced the studios into making the comedy Ishtar, which set the modern bar for cinematic debacles.
Peter Biskind Vanity Fair Feb 2012 35min
Nov 1957 – Feb 2012 Permalink
A profile of a virtual kingpin.
Andy Greenberg Forbes Aug 2013 Permalink
A profile of Joe Biden, written not long after the car crash that killed his wife and daughter.
Kitty Kelley Washingtonian Jun 1974 20min Permalink
Vengeance, abuse, and the strange double standards of death penalty politics.
Marc Bookman Mother Jones Nov 2015 15min Permalink
A trip to the zoo, Charlie Kaufman’s new film, and human despair.
Zadie Smith New York Review of Books Feb 2016 20min Permalink
A profile of Evgeny Morozov, “either the most astute, feared, loathed, or useless writer about digital technology working today.”
Michael Meyer Columbia Journalism Review Jan 2013 20min Permalink