The Halloween star who won an Oscar in 2023 for Everything Everywhere All at Once ...

Looking back from a distance of 60 years, Hoagy Carmichael‘s 1961 appearance on The Flintstones was a strange affair. The result was the clip seen here. The episode is titled “The Hit Song Writers” ...

{Editor’s note: First published on December 5, 2010. See our Bill Cosby biography for updates on his later convictions and imprisonment.} “My father said, ‘Junior, it takes a man to play football, but ...

Here’s a wild story about General George Patton, hard-driving hero (and cancelled-in-his-own-time villain) of the U.S. Army during World War II. Hawaiian or not, it got the job done: Gordon killed ...

20 years ago, for reasons we’ve forgotten, actor John Banner was one of our very first Who2 biographies. President George Washington was ceremonially #1, but soon after that came Banner, who starred ...

This Marlon Brando interview was just after he’d won the Oscar for The Godfather — and sent a surrogate to accept it, in a controversial move. He sat down to talk with Dick Cavett, the smartest talk ...

Jordan’s King Hussein died on this day in 1999, after being in power for 47 years. King Hussein was proclaimed King of Jordan in 1952, and only 18 when he took the throne in 1953. He died of cancer at ...

Ski champion Mikaela Shiffrin has spoken openly and bravely about her struggles with the 2020 death of her father, Jeff Shiffrin. Reports and interviews have noted that Mikaela “couldn’t even get out ...

Let’s talk about Mark Twain, winter, and San Francisco. Mark Twain is the guy I always heard it attributed to when I lived in the Bay Area, and I heard it attributed to him a lot. But Keyes says “Not ...

Running guru Jim Fixx died at age 52, and juice diet guru Paavo Airola died at 64. Longevity guru Nathan Pritikin didn’t make 70. But finally, an expert on healthy living has stepped up to the plate ...

Hello, friends of Who2! Fritz Holznagel here, co-founder (with Paul Hehn) of Who2. I’ve taken a new side gig as the quizmaster of The Conversation, a nonprofit news organization dedicated to unlocking ...

So now it comes out that the ‘S’ in the name of Harry S. Truman actually did have a meaning. For years we’ve heard people say that the S “doesn’t stand for anything” and that it was “just an initial.” ...