Joe Pompeo
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UFOs, Aliens & Steven Spielberg’s 20-Year Obsession
The director’s childhood celestial event led to ‘Close Encounters’ and a new sci-fi blockbuster era
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Vampira, Elvira and the Epic Battle Between Two L.A. Horror Queens
A bitter lawsuit, black wigs and major money (for one): The town wasn’t big enough for two strivers cut from the same goth
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Al Pacino and the Real-Life Bank Robbery That Changed Everything
Exclusive excerpts from the actor’s new memoir, ‘Sonny Boy’, reveal how his role in ‘Dog Day Afternoon’ was a turning point — and humanized a trans romance
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Rudolph Valentino’s 15 Days of Tawdry, Tabloid Death
‘Daily Mail’, Drudge and the Murdochs owe a debt to Bernarr Macfadden, whose ‘PornoGraphic’ paper rose on the fall of the world’s most famous matinee idol
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Marilyn Monroe’s Overdose and the Echo in Matthew Perry
The lurid media circus around the first public drug-induced end
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