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When Marilyn Monroe was found dead in her bedroom on the 5th of August, 1962, she was wearing nothing. Her housekeeper, Eunice Murray, who had found her, chose the last dress Marilyn had worn for her to be buried in. The dress was a Pucci green dress, a favorite dress of Marilyn's. It had long sleeves, a cord around the waist, and was timeless and simple in a Peppermint green. Marilyn Monroe had worn the dress a few months earlier when she visited Mexico and when a photographer complimented her dress, she is said to have said: "You should see it on a hanger!"
This makeshift jail cell truly brings out the horrors of the Salem witch trials. It was in cells like this one that accused witches spent their final moments before being executed. Between 1692 and 1693, more than 200 people were accused — with 19 of those who were found guilty sentenced to death.
In 1954, Ella Fitzgerald faced discrimination when she was booked to perform at Mocambo, a popular nightclub in Hollywood. Marilyn Monroe, a fan of Fitzgerald, intervened and promised to sit in the front row every night if the club would book Ella. Monroe followed through on her promise, thereby boosting Fitzgerald's profile and helping to break down racial barriers in the entertainment industry. Monroe's public support was a turning point for Fitzgerald, thrusting her into a mainstream audience that was largely white at the time. This incident wasn't just a singular act of kindness; it had broader implications for both Fitzgerald's career and the industry as a whole, contributing to the incremental steps towards racial equality in America's entertainment landscape. Ella Fitzgerald, emboldened by this experience, continued to break new ground in her field, cementing her status as one of the most influential vocalists of the 20th century. To add a final layer of depth, this event was
In 2019, a man exploring his former neighborhood in Florida using Google Earth stumbled upon a startling discovery: the remains of a man who had disappeared 22 years prior. Satellite imagery exposed a vehicle submerged in the shallow waters of a lake. The skeletal remains were identified as those of William Moldt, who vanished in 1997 when he was 40 years old, after departing from a nightclub.
During a severe storm in August 1961, an eight-year-old girl named Ann Marie Burr disappeared from her home in Tacoma, Washington. Although her killer was never officially identified, it's widely believed to be a boy, who was 14 at the time and knew Ann. This boy, Ted Bundy, lived two miles away from Ann's family and was often followed by Ann when he delivered newspapers. Early in the morning, Ann's mother, Beverly, woke up feeling uneasy and discovered Ann was missing from her bed. She noticed a living room window, usually slightly open, was fully open and a bench was placed under it. The front door was also unlocked, and a small tennis shoe print was found near the bench, suggesting a young person could be the intruder. Ted Bundy, who later became known for his crimes, never admitted to taking Ann but had inconsistencies in his stories. Dr. Ronald Holmes claimed Bundy confessed to harming a young girl early in his criminal activities. Bundy mentioned he'd avoid confessing to crimes involving victims "too close to home," "too close to family," and "very young," which describes Ann's case.
Austro-Hungarian trench raiders near Caporetto, 1917. Trench raiding emerged as a tactical element of trench warfare during World War I, involving stealthy, nocturnal surprise assaults on enemy fortifications. Groups of soldiers, often with their faces camouflaged in burnt cork, would navigate the hazardous stretch of no man's land, evading barbed wire and debris, to penetrate opposing trench lines. The expanse separating adversaries could span several hundred meters, rendering any daylight assault futile due to the vigilant watch of enemy sharpshooters and machine gunners who dominated the open battlefield. Equipped with the U.S. M1917 "Knuckle Duster" trench knife and its accompanying leather sheath, raiders would employ stealth to approach and silently eliminate sentries, using the dim light of cigarettes or the sound of voices as guides. Upon securing a section, they aimed to swiftly achieve their objectives, often within minutes, knowing that prolonged presence increased the risk of encountering enemy reinforcements. The strategy included using grenades to target enemy soldiers in their quarters before making a timely retreat back to friendly lines. To mitigate the risk of mistaken identity and subsequent "friendly fire," it was customary to inform frontline guards of the raiding party's departure and return, employing passwords to safely identify the raiders in the darkness of their return.
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Black dragonfish are fish known for their bioluminescence that inhabit the deep ocean. Female dragonfish possess distinct, fang-like teeth and a barbel extending from their chin, equipped with photophores for light emission, serving as a lure for prey. These females, growing up to 2 feet, resemble eels in shape. In contrast, male dragonfish appear less intimidating. Significantly smaller, they lack teeth and a barbel, and their lifespan is brief, extending only until reproduction. Photo by Mark Colin
Carrie Fisher once gave a Hollywood producer a cow's tongue after learning he had assaulted her friend. Heather Ross, who works in the film industry, told Fisher about how the unnamed producer assaulted her in his car. Fisher reacted by personally delivering the cow tongue in a Tiffany box wrapped in a bow to his office in Los Angeles.
In 2012, a Burger King employee anonymously posted an image on 4-chan of him putting his feet in lettuce, with the caption: "This is the lettuce you eat at Burger King." It took 20 minutes for people to track down the branch the employee worked at and contact the news. The next morning, Cleveland Scene Magazine contacted the Burger King establishment and talked to the breakfast shift manager, who, upon seeing the offending photo, said, "Oh, I know who that is. He's getting fired."
At first glance, the so-called Spanish Donkey may not seem menacing. But take a closer look. It was shaped like a pommel horse in gymnastics, but with a pointed triangular edge facing upwards. This device’s shape ensured that its victims received a gruesomely agonizing experience. The offender would be stripped of all of their clothes and then made to straddle what was essentially a triangular piece of metal with a board placed over it to form a sawhorse-type shape. Often, the victim would then have restraints or weights tied to their ankles in order to make the experience even more painful. Depending on how long a victim was made to sit on the Spanish Donkey, they could experience anything from intense discomfort to agonizing pain to disfigurement and death.
Deep in the Volgograd region of Russia, Boris, or “Boriska” to his mother, was born on January 11, 1996. Even from birth, he was different from other babies. Boris’s mother says that her child’s birth was swift and painless and that when she held her precious baby, he looked up at her with what she recalls as the big brown eyes of a grown adult. He could immediately focus on objects, which is usually impossible for a newborn. As Boris grew, he continued to display feats of intelligence that shocked them. According to his mother, Boris was beginning to speak at 4 months of age, and by 8 months, he was speaking basic sentences. For reference, most babies don’t even say their first word until the ages of 9 to 12 months. The next extraordinary milestone for Boris was reading basic sentences at a year of age, and it was then that his parents noticed their child had what they described as psychic abilities. Their one-year-old child was now painting and drawing, and the first inklings of what he would later claim to be his Martian origins appeared. Boris grew, and as the years went by, his interest in space, astronomy, and other celestial subjects increased by leaps and bounds. His parents would later say they never went out of their way to teach their son anything about space but that he brought up the subject all on his own. Little Boriska started kindergarten at the tender age of only 2, but he was already displaying
At the age of 18, Hildegard Trutz had everything going for her. She was young, smart and beautiful. More importantly, she was the right kind of beautiful for 1936 Germany. She was blond, with blue eyes and wide hips suited to giving birth. But before her 18th birthday, Hildegard had been making waves in her local chapter of Bund Deutscher Mädel, also known as the BDM. The BDM was the women’s version of the infamous Hitler Youth. Hildegard’s Nordic appearance made her quite the popular member. She enjoyed the weekly meetings and was incredibly proud to be a part of Nazi Germany. It was this popularity that led her, once she became an adult, to become a guinea pig for one of the Nazi’s lesser-known but still wildly unsettling organizations. It was called the Lebensborn, or “Fountain of Life”. In the Lebensborn, Hildegard Trutz would be one of a number of girls to produce a child for Nazi Germany–not to keep, but simply for the good of the movement.
Frank Lucas, the black drug lord who ruled Harlem in the 1970s, was so discreet that the police didn't know who he was in 1971 when he decided to wear a $ 100,000 full-length chinchilla coat — to a Muhammad Ali boxing match. He later wrote that this was a “massive mistake. Apparently, Lucas’s coat caught the eye of law enforcement — who were surprised that he had better seats than Diana Ross and Frank Sinatra. As Lucas put it: “I left that fight a marked man.”
The last American slave ship arrived in Mobile, Alabama, in 1860, despite the illegal importation of slaves. On board were approximately 160 West African individuals who had been captured and enslaved. One of the captives, named Cudjo Lewis, was acutely aware of the potential erasure of his birth culture as he toiled in this new land. However, when he eventually gained his freedom, Lewis took action to preserve his heritage. Using the money he had earned, Cudjo Lewis purchased two acres of land and established a self-sufficient community for the survivors of the last slave ship. This community, known to outsiders as Africatown, aimed to recreate aspects of the West African home from which they had been forcibly removed. Lewis wanted to ensure that extended families could live together, conversations could be held in regional languages, and traditions that might otherwise have been lost in America could be maintained. Today, Africatown still exists as a community and continues to house the descendants of the individuals who were brought to America on the nation's last slave ship. It stands as a testament to the resilience and determination of those who fought to preserve their heritage and maintain a sense of cultural identity in the face of tremendous adversity.
The last American slave ship arrived in Mobile, Alabama, in 1860, despite the illegal importation of slaves. On board were approximately 160 West African individuals who had been captured and enslaved. One of the captives, named Cudjo Lewis, was acutely aware of the potential erasure of his birth culture as he toiled in this new land. However, when he eventually gained his freedom, Lewis took action to preserve his heritage. Using the money he had earned, Cudjo Lewis purchased two acres of land and established a self-sufficient community for the survivors of the last slave ship. This community, known to outsiders as Africatown, aimed to recreate aspects of the West African home from which they had been forcibly removed. Lewis wanted to ensure that extended families could live together, conversations could be held in regional languages, and traditions that might otherwise have been lost in America could be maintained. Today, Africatown still exists as a community and continues to house the descendants of the individuals who were brought to America on the nation's last slave ship. It stands as a testament to the resilience and determination of those who fought to preserve their heritage and maintain a sense of cultural identity in the face of tremendous adversity.
In the 1970s, New York City was a study in contrasts. Marked by soaring crime rates and a fiscal crisis that pushed the city to the brink of bankruptcy, it was also an era of vibrant cultural resurgence. The streets of Manhattan were lined with the grit and glamour that defined a decade of significant transformation. As the decade began, New York faced an economic downturn that deeply affected its infrastructure and quality of life. The city's near-bankruptcy in 1975 is a well-documented episode, marked famously by the Daily News headline "Ford to City: Drop Dead." This fiscal desperation was mirrored on the streets — graffiti-covered subways and abandoned buildings were common sights, painting a picture of decay that seemed irreversible. Despite these challenges, the city's cultural scene flourished with an unbridled energy that became synonymous with New York's identity. It was the golden age of disco, with clubs like Studio 54 drawing both celebrities and regular New Yorkers into its glamorous embrace. The music scene was equally robust, witnessing the birth of punk at CBGB in the Bowery, where bands like The Ramones and Blondie took the stage, crafting the sounds that would influence generations
When Marina Abramovic placed herself at the mercy of a crowd of strangers in an art studio in Naples in 1974, she had no idea what to expect. She stood before them with a sign that read: “There are 72 objects on the table that one can use on me as desired. Performance. I am the object. During this period, I take full responsibility. Duration: 6 hours (8 pm – 2 am)” At first, the participants were gentle. They kissed her, fed her chocolate cake, and put a rose in her hand. But very soon, the mood shifted. As each person took their turn, things took a dark twist.
Three Jewish men who all survived the Auschwitz concentration camp and were liberated on the same day reunite 73 years later, in 2019 All three men survived the camp, and the number on their tattoos are different by only 10, meaning they were all in the camp simultaneously. All three went on to have families and good lives. Photographer: Sandi Bachom Source: Last eye witness project
In the constellation of Hollywood's golden era, few stars have burned as brightly and faded as quickly as James Dean. Born on February 8, 1931, in Marion, Indiana, Dean's rise to cinematic fame was as meteoric as his tragic demise, which came just 24 years later. Raised primarily in Fairmount, Indiana, after the death of his mother, Dean developed a passion for drama and the creative arts during his school years. His early foray into the world of acting led him to the prestigious Actors Studio in New York, where he honed the craft under Lee Strasberg’s tutelage, embracing the method acting approach that would later define his career. Dean’s breakthrough came with the 1955 film "East of Eden," an adaptation of John Steinbeck’s novel. His portrayal of the emotionally complex Cal Trask earned him a posthumous Academy Award nomination for Best Actor, a rare honor and a testament to his profound impact on audiences and critics alike. This was followed by two more iconic roles: as the troubled teenager Jim Stark in "Rebel Without a Cause" and as the disaffected ranch hand Jett Rink in "Giant." Both films cemented his reputation as a symbol of youthful angst and disillusionment in post-war America. Off-screen, Dean was known for his eclectic interests, from bullfighting literature to jazz music, and his love for fast cars. His passion for racing and automobiles was well-known, contributing to his legend but also to his untimely demise. Dean's life came to an abrupt end on September 30, 1955, when his Porsche collided with another vehicle in Cholame, California. His death was an ironic echo of the restless, risk-taking characters he portrayed. James Dean’s career was brief, his life shorter, but his legacy is undiminished. In just three films, he crafted an enduring image of youthful defiance and vulnerability that continues to resonate with generations. His performances, marked by an intense realism, helped set a new standard for actors and remain a high benchmark for the art of cinema. Even decades after his death, Dean remains a figure of fascination, embodying the forever young and forever rebellious spirit of the silver screen.
Scaphism was a supposed Persian method of execution that was designed to inflict a lingering, painful, and humiliating death on those who were unfortunate enough to experience it. The victim would be trapped between two boats or other hollow objects, and their exposed head, arms, and legs would be covered in honey. They would then be force-fed only milk and honey before being left in the sun or a stagnant pool. Flies, other insects, and rodents would be attracted to the victim and would slowly eat them. The only evidence for this comes from Greek historical texts, which had a lot of bias towards the Persians.
Raquel Welch's name is synonymous with both the rise of 1960s sex symbol and the transformation of female roles in Hollywood. Born Jo Raquel Tejada on September 5, 1940, in Chicago, Welch's breakthrough came with her role in the 1966 film One Million Years B.C., where she barely had three lines but her depiction in a doe-skin bikini made her an instant pop culture icon. Yet, Welch was determined not to be pigeonholed by her image. She showcased her versatility in roles across various genres, from comedies like Bedazzled (1967) to the action-packed Bandolero! (1968) and the musical The Wild Party (1975). Her efforts to diversify her career did not go unnoticed. Welch won a Golden Globe in 1974 for her role in The Three Musketeers and continued to break the mold with her performances in television specials and Broadway, proving her talents extended beyond the silver screen. Off-screen, Welch's influence extended into the realms of fashion and fitness, where she published books that reflected her advocacy for health and well-being, resonating with fans worldwide. Her image graced the covers of magazines, setting trends and defining a generation's aesthetics
In 2011, a Brazilian fisherman found a tiny penguin covered in oil on the rocks on his local beach. The man nursed it back to health for 11 months and then the released it back into the wild. A few months later, the penguin returned. The penguin swims 5,000 miles every year to spend time with the fisherman. He spends the rest of his time mating in Argentina.
Breastplate Armor of Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor, 1549.
In 2013, a paralyzed man in Wales gave up his dream of walking again to help pay for a young boy's treatment instead. Dan Black spent years saving £20,000 for stem cell treatment, but after hearing of a five-year-old boy in a similar predicament, he donated the money to him instead. The young boy named Brecon Vaughan was born with cerebral palsy and was unable to walk unaided since birth. Just two years later, thanks to the help of Dan and others, Brecon was able to walk by himself. When Dan asked why he donated the money, he said, “I’ve had 22 years of walking before my accident whereas Brecon has never known what it was like even for 22 seconds.” “To me it wasn’t a big thing to give the money to him. If more people did that sort of thing the world would be a much nicer place"
This is the last known photo taken of reggae legend Bob Marley before he succumbed to cancer on May 11, 1981.
Immediately following the initial attacks on the World Trade Center, tunnels were closed, and traffic fleeing Manhattan via bridges reached a standstill. Many civilians, especially in those neighborhoods closest to the attacks, were desperate to escape the island but had no way to do so. Luckily, their salvation came like lightning. A coast guard transmission went out. “All available boats,” it said. “This is the United States Coast Guard… Anyone wanting to help with the evacuation of Lower Manhattan report to Governors Island.” Within minutes, around 150 private ships of all shapes, sizes, and purposes reported for duty and got to work. All told, these heroic captains transported around 500,000 people away from the disaster zone. This came to be known as the 9/11 Boat Lift, which to this day, is the largest water evacuation in history.
In 1961, Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara wrote a book called “Guerrilla Warfare”, which explained different tactics for waging guerrilla warfare in different countries. Bolivian counter-insurgency forces also studied this book, which eventually led to Guevara’s capture and execution in 1967.
A Roman helmet found in the Rhine River. Inscribed inside is the name of the soldier who wore it, L. Lucretius Celeris. Photo by Wolfgang Sauber
Princess Diana on a water slide with her son Harry at an amusement park in 1992
The man in this picture is Adolf Eichmann. He was the Nazi that facilitated and managed the logistics involved in the mass deportation of millions of Jews to Nazi ghettos and Nazi extermination camps across German-occupied Europe At the end of World War II, he escaped to Argentina where he worked in an automobile factory and lived in near poverty until May 11, 1960, when he was captured by Israeli Mossad agents. Eichmann was taken out of Argentina to Israel where he would stand trial. On May 31, 1962, he was executed for his crimes by hanging.
In the late 1980s, as the Soviet Union was in decline, organized crime ran rampant, fueled by economic shortages and corruption. There were more than 5,000 gangs plundering the state, and every 22 minutes a person was murdered in a mafia related event. Usually only the lowest of the low mafia members, called the “fighters,” were caught and charged. The top dogs hadn't gotten their hands dirty for a long time, as they relied on others to do their dirty work. The photo below, taken by Hans-Jürgen Burkard, shows mafia prisoners at the overcrowded St. Petersburg remand prison “IZ 45/1”, called “The Cross” which was built during the time of the Tsars on the banks of the Neva. The photo was originally published in Stern magazine, where Burkard noted, "Im Chaos des sowjetischen Alltags ist die Mafia oft die einzige Gewalt, die wirklich funktioniert." (In the chaos of everyday Soviet life, the mafia is often the only force that really works)
In January 1968, women in Portland were terrorized by Jerry Brudos, a man who allegedly had a foot fetish and was connected to the disappearance of four individuals. Approximately a year later, a fisherman stumbled upon the remains of Linda Salee, a 22-year-old woman who had vanished the year prior. Following this grim discovery, law enforcement uncovered four additional bodies, all tied to Brudos. During police interrogations, he confessed to these murders in disturbing detail. Brudos retained his first victim's body for months, dressing her and eventually disposing of her in a river. He even mutilated one of her feet to indulge in trying on heels and taking photos. Further horrors came to light as detectives uncovered Brudos' macabre collection of mementos, including shoes, bras, girdles, and a paperweight crafted from human breasts. On June 28, 1969, Brudos pleaded guilty to three counts of first-degree murder, leading to three consecutive life sentences at the Oregon State Penitentiary.
Hitler rehearsing a speech in front of a mirror, 1925. Taken by his personal photographer Heinrich Hoffmann, Hitler was known for practicing speeches countless times until he felt ready to deliver them. Hitler demanded that this image & others be destroyed after he saw them, but Hoffmann instead hid them until they were published in his 1955 memoirs, "Hitler Was My Friend."
A size comparison between the Titanic and a modern cruise ship.
A 900-year-old Crusader sword was discovered off Israel's northern coast in October 2021. The iron sword measures just under 4 ft. long and is believed to have belonged to a Crusader who was sailing to the Holy Land around 1100 AD.
The actors James Dean and Earth Kitt were fabulous friends. He’d seen her on stage in a performance and had been in awe of her movements. “Can you please teach me to move like you?” he asked her. “Sure, she said,” and took him to a ballet studio. They remained close ever since — Dean didn’t trust a lot of people in ‘the business’ but with Kitt, he felt safe enough to open up. They’d hang out, and exchange stories. He would confide his worries in her, and unload his heavy heart. Sometimes he’d even call her up in the middle of the night, if something troubled him particularly much. She never hung up early or told him to go to sleep — she’s always hear him out, realizing it was something he needed. He didn’t like Hollywood,” Kitt later said, “because he found fame, the way he was being treated as a business, as a piece of flesh, a thing. It was not becoming beautiful to him anymore.” Eartha Kitt saw James Dean one last time
In 1925, a man flying from Casablanca to Dakar photographed a Barbary Lion in the Atlas Mountains. This photo is special because it's the last known picture of a wild Barbary Lion before they went extinct. This lion, often called the Egyptian Lion, was famous its size and strength. It was the kind of lion that fought gladiators in ancient Rome. They were known for their big, impressive manes, which they probably grew because it's colder in the Atlas Mountains.
In 1935, fishermen in Sydney caught a tiger shark and displayed it in an aquarium. The shark got sick and vomited a human hand with a tattoo. The hand belonged to Jim Smith, a missing former boxer and criminal. It was severed deliberately, leading to a murder investigation. Suspicions pointed towards Reginald Holmes, a businessman known for fraud and smuggling. Holmes had hired Smith for scams and was associated with Patrick Brady, a forger and ex-serviceman. Smith was last seen with Brady at a hotel before going fishing. Police suspected Brady's rented cottage as the murder site. Despite searching, Smith's body was never fully found. Brady was arrested for Smith's murder. Initially denying involvement, Holmes later attempted suicide but survived. He then admitted Brady's guilt, claiming Brady dismembered Smith's body and dumped it in Gunnamatta Bay.
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In 1935, fishermen in Sydney caught a tiger shark and displayed it in an aquarium. The shark got sick and vomited a human hand with a tattoo. The hand belonged to Jim Smith, a missing former boxer and criminal. It was severed deliberately, leading to a murder investigation. Suspicions pointed towards Reginald Holmes, a businessman known for fraud and smuggling. Holmes had hired Smith for scams and was associated with Patrick Brady, a forger and ex-serviceman. Smith was last seen with Brady at a hotel before going fishing. Police suspected Brady's rented cottage as the murder site. Despite searching, Smith's body was never fully found. Brady was arrested for Smith's murder. Initially denying involvement, Holmes later attempted suicide but survived. He then admitted Brady's guilt, claiming Brady dismembered Smith's body and dumped it in Gunnamatta Bay.
Edna Cintron seen waving from a hole created by Flight 11 crashing into WTC on Sept 11, 2001. She did not survive. A bit of Edna’s life was revealed by her husband in her obituary: ‘For Edna Cintron and her husband, William, every evening fit into a comforting routine. "She had everything prompt, clean, neat, organized," Mr. Cintron, a 44-year- old doorman, said of his 46-year-old wife, an administrative assistant for Marsh & McLennan. "She would come out of work, come home, cook, make sure that when I would come out of work there was food on the table and everything. And every night we would have ice cream and we would watch TV." That simple routine in their home in East Elmhurst, Queens, was remarkable, Mr. Cintron said, because they each had been homeless, and in their 12 years of marriage they had struggled with his alcoholism. "We started from the bottom," he said, "and we worked our way all the way up to the top," even opening a florist business, Sweet William's, in East Harlem. Mr. Cintron said that his wife had given him the courage to go to detox and that last January he celebrated 12 years of sobriety. "She made sure that she kept me in check," he said. "She made sure that I did the things I was supposed to do. She was a very, very strong woman because she would put her foot down. "She was more like a mother to me. She would make sure that I would eat right and she would make sure that no one would manipulate me. So she was also my backbone. She made me strong. She made me who I am today."’
When Kurt Russell was a kid, he worked with Charles Bronson. On discovering it was Bronson's birthday, Russell gave him a gift. Bronson took the gift and left without a word, leaving Russell worried he had upset him. Later, Bronson called Russell to his dressing room and quietly said he had never received a birthday gift before. Bronson grew up very poor, with fourteen siblings, and worked in mines from a young age, never completing school or experiencing much kindness. Bronson was touched by Russell's gesture. He later gifted Russell a skateboard for his birthday, and they became lifelong friends.
Ingrid Bergman, born in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1915, experienced a series of personal tragedies during her early life. By the age of two and a half, she had lost her mother, and by fourteen, her father also passed away. Shortly after being sent to live with her aunt, she too passed away within six months, leading Ingrid to live with another aunt and her five children. Despite these hardships, Ingrid's desire to pursue acting remained undeterred. She was drawn to the stage from a young age, securing her first film role in 1932 and her first speaking part in 1934. By her early 20s, Bergman had already established herself as a celebrated actress in Sweden, and she was on the brink of stardom in the United States. Bergman's career spanned across the globe, and she was fluent in Swedish, German, English, Italian, and French, performing in films in all five languages. Her talent and versatility earned her many accolades, including three Academy Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, a Tony Award, four Golden Globe Awards, and a BAFTA Award, cementing her legacy as a distinguished actress.
When Keith Richards heard someone had shot his good friend John Lennon, he got his gun and went looking for the killer. "I was just down the road when he got blown away, man," the Rolling Stones guitarist said in this week's New Musical Express, a British trade magazine. "You know, I was like running up the road with my shooter going, `I'll get the ----er!' " Richards recalled. Mark David Chapman killed Lennon in front of the ex-Beatle's New York City apartment in December 1980. Richards said he and Lennon used to jam backstage at concerts in the early days. "John was a good friend of mine, I miss him," Richards said. "He had a large heart."