The actress Sally Field has appeared in dozens of television and movie roles since first appearing as "Gidget." But she's perhaps best known for a 45-second acceptance speech at the 57th Academy Awards, when she accepted the Oscar for Best Actress and told the...
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Taxes Without Zaxes
March 2 marks the birthday of Theodore Geisel — better known to millions of children and former children as Doctor Seuss. That's reason enough to celebrate. But the beloved author's birthday is especially noteworthy this year. Archivists working at the Geisel Library...
Men, Boys, Price, Toys
How much is a classic bright-red Ferrari worth? Well, if it's the 1957 335 S Spider Scaglietti that the French Bardinon family auctioned earlier this month, the answer is €32 million, or around $35.8 million. But if there isn't a convenient auction to establish how...
Rats Finding Cheese
Anyone who's ever watched a gangster movie knows there's nothing worse than a rat . . . a snitch . . . a stool pigeon. Life is hard for that much-maligned species! In Martin Scorsese's classic mob saga Goodfellas, Henry Hill rats out his partners in crime to get a...
Deee-Fence!
Football fans who enjoyed Super Bowl 50 all know that while offense may sell tickets, it's defense that wins championships. The Carolina Panthers learned this lesson the hard way Sunday night, losing to the underdog Denver Broncos, 24-10. The Broncos scored just one...
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
Rock & roll fans lost an icon last month with the death of David Bowie just two days after his 69th birthday. Bowie made a career out of breaking molds, pioneering "glam rock" and reinventing himself constantly along the way. Rolling Stone magazine's obituary...
We Bring Good Things To Boston
Way back in 1889, the inventor Thomas Edison and the financier J.P. Morgan put their heads together to create the Edison General Electric Company. Just seven years later, it was one of the original twelve companies listed on the new Dow Jones Industrial Average....
Spinning Garbage Into Gold
Centuries ago, medieval alchemists used all the technology at their disposal to try to transform base elements like lead into precious substances like gold. Occasionally they even succeeded! Alas, in most cases, transmutations that seemed too good to be true turned...
Golf Course Owners Go for the Green
Golf courses may be some of the most beautiful manmade environments on earth. Millions of Americans actually hate the game itself, but tolerate topping their drives, shanking their wedges, and losing $2 Nassau bets by missing three-foot putts just because they get to...
The Rich Are Different
Back in the Gilded Age, an ambitious social climber and noted toady named Ward McAllister coined the phrase "the Four Hundred," named for the number of people that Manhattan heiress Caroline Astor could fit in her Fifth Avenue ballroom. In 1982, Forbes magazine...