#Biography

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• 🇺🇸 50 Cent to Tell His Life Story in New Docuseries — 08/04/2026 [USA]

  The rapper/actor-producer will executive produce the three-part series, which will be released on Hulu

  Related: #Entertainment, #Music Industry, #Television
• 🇺🇸 Book excerpt: "When Caesar Was King" by David Margolick — 22/03/2026 [USA]

  David Margolick's biography of Sid Caesar explores how the 1950s comic reinvented the art of comedy in the new medium of television.

  Related: #History
• 🇺🇸 Remembering Chuck Norris' life and career — 20/03/2026 [USA]

  Action star and martial artist Chuck Norris has died, his family said. He was 86. Mark Strassmann looks back at his life and career.

  Related: #Entertainment
• 🇺🇸 Chuck Norris: A Life in Pictures — 20/03/2026 [USA]

  The actor, known for his skills as a martial artist, often played the warrior onscreen.

  Related: #Entertainment
• 🇺🇦 From revolutionary to vegan farmer — the wild life of Ukrainian author Volodymyr Vynnychenko — 19/03/2026 [Ukraine]

  Editor's Note: This story is part of the "Hidden Canon" – a special series celebrating Ukrainian classic literature and aiming to bring it to a wider international audience. The series is s...

  Related: #Transformation
• 🇺🇸 The Last Great Weed Smuggler — 17/03/2026 [USA]

  Before the cartels took over, Harvey Prager built a life on millions of dollars of drug money. One prosecutor called Prager “the last of the great amateurs.” This is his story

  Related: #Crime
• 🇬🇧 The Infinity Machine by Sebastian Mallaby review – the story of the man who changed the world — 16/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p> A journalist charts the progress of AI pioneer Demis Hassabis from child chess prodigy to Nobel prize winner</p><p>It was March 2016, and at the Four Seasons Hotel in Seoul, the world was gathered...

  Related: #Finance
• 🇺🇸 Netflix Developing Frida Kahlo Drama Series; Patricia Riggen & Gabriel Ripstein To Direct — 12/03/2026 [USA]

  Netflix is working up a scripted series about Mexican artist and cultural icon Frida Kahlo and her husband and fellow artist Diego Rivera. The streamer said the drama will show how the couple’s love, ...

  Related: #Entertainment
• 🇺🇸 “Definitive” Documentary On Whoopi Goldberg To Be Directed By Double Oscar Nominee Geeta Gandbhir — 10/03/2026 [USA]

  Imagine Documentaries and Message Pictures have announced production of the “definitive documentary” on Whoopi Goldberg, a film that’s said to expand on the Oscar winner’s autobiography Bits and Piece...

  Related: #Entertainment
• 🇺🇸 ‘The Perfect Neighbor’ Director Geeta Gandbhir’s Next Film Is a Bio-Doc on Whoopi Goldberg — 10/03/2026 [USA]

  Gandbhir's Message Pictures is teaming up with Imagine Documentaries on the film that expands on Goldberg's autobiography "Bits and Pieces."

  Related: #Documentary, #Entertainment
• 🇬🇧 Stella McCartney Paris show is a whistle-stop tour of her life — 05/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>A spot of ‘equine therapy’ marks Chinese year of the horse as designer turns fashion week show into a moment</p><p>Speaking after her show at Paris fashion week, the British designer Stella McCartn...

  Related: #Fashion, #Personal History
• 🇺🇸 ‘The Inquisitor’ Review: Barbara Jordan Is Speaking — 23/02/2026 [USA]

  This whirlwind biographical documentary puts Barbara Jordan, the esteemed congresswoman and professor who died in 1996, front and center as a voice of moral authority.

  Related: #Political History, #Moral Authority
• 🇺🇸 Viva Baz Vegas! Baz Luhrmann on the Burning Love That Went Into Making ‘EPiC’: ‘We Are Giving Elvis the World Tour He Dreamed Of, Playing on the World’s Biggest Screens’ — 23/02/2026 [USA]

  Baz Luhrmann is about to dive back into his long-aborning Joan of Arc movie. But before he does, he had to return to the Elvis well, and the King’s new and returning subjects are glad he did. “EPiC: E...

  Related: #Cinema, #Music
• 🇺🇸 Susan Sheehan, Pulitzer-Winning Chronicler of Lives on the Margins, Dies at 88 — 23/02/2026 [USA]

  As a journalist and author, she wrote meticulous portraits of people for The New Yorker. Her book “Is There No Place on Earth for Me?” won the Pulitzer Prize.

  Related: #Journalism, #Social issues
• 🇺🇸 ‘EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert’ Review — 20/02/2026 [USA]

  Newly found footage makes for a fun and revealing concert movie from the director Baz Luhrmann.

  Related: #Music, #Cinema
• 🇬🇧 It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley review – a sympathetic, urgent look at a life cut tragically short — 12/02/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Amy Berg’s arresting documentary delves into the early life and untimely death of the 90s singer-songwriter, with extensive contributions from his mother and girlfriends</p><p>Some moths are drawn ...

  Related: #Music, #Documentary
• 🇬🇧 Dear Liar review – George Bernard Shaw spars with the original Eliza in Pygmalion — 11/02/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p><strong>Jermyn Street theatre, London<br></strong>Jerome Kilty’s fusty two-hander charts the cantankerous and flirtatious relationship between the playwright and actor Mrs Patrick Campbell</p><p>Wh...

  Related: #Theatre, #Literature
• 🇬🇧 Unmasking US rap iconoclast MF Doom’s final years in West Yorkshire — 10/02/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Podcast by Adam Batty and BBC 6 Music DJ Afrodeutsche follows the leads to Leeds </p><p>The hunt for clues about the life of the masked rapper MF Doom had taken Adam Batty to some strange places, n...

  Related: #Music History, #Investigation
• 🇺🇸 1/12: The Takeout: Jonathan Alter — 09/02/2026 [USA]

  Jonathan Alter, author of a biography of former President Jimmy Carter, joins Major Garrett to talk about Carter's life and legacy, the principles that guided Carter in the White House and his foresig...

  Related: #Political History, #Environmentalism
• 🇺🇸 7/7: The Takeout: Dr. Anthony Fauci — 09/02/2026 [USA]

  Dr. Anthony Fauci talks about the pandemic, the AIDS crisis of the 1980s and how his career in public health helped shape his new memoir, "On Call."

  Related: #Public Health, #Medicine
• 🇺🇸 Margaret Atwood gets personal with "Inner Advice Columnist" in new memoir — 09/02/2026 [USA]

  Margaret Atwood's fiction tells of future worlds plagued by totalitarianism, environmental collapse, and global pandemic. At 86, she looks not forward but back at her her own life in a new memoir.

  Related: #Literature, #Culture
• 🇺🇸 Margaret Atwood: The 60 Minutes Interview — 09/02/2026 [USA]

  Margaret Atwood's fiction tells of future worlds plagued by totalitarianism, environmental collapse, and global pandemic. At 86, she looks not forward but back at her own life in a new memoir.

  Related: #Literature, #Society
• 🇺🇸 Book excerpt: "American Kings: A Biography of the Quarterback" — 08/02/2026 [USA]

  Seth Wickersham, author of "American Kings: A Biography of the Quarterback," helps us understand why quarterbacks are among the toughest positions in sports.

  Related: #Sports Culture, #Leadership
• 🇺🇸 How Lindsey Vonn began her ski racing career | 60 Minutes Archive — 06/02/2026 [USA]

  Olympic gold medalist Lindsey Vonn began skiing when she was nearly 3 years old. In a 2017 interview with 60 Minutes, the alpine star shared how she started out as a "turtle" on the slopes. "My coach ...

  Related: #Sports, #Olympics
• 🇺🇸 2/5: The Takeout with Major Garrett — 06/02/2026 [USA]

  President Trump touts administration at National Prayer Breakfast; New book looks at the rise and political career of the late Sen. Harry Reid.

  Related: #Politics, #Religion
• 🇺🇸 How a journalist's rocky relationship with Harry Reid led to a book on the senator's life — 06/02/2026 [USA]

  A new book by political journalist Jon Ralston, "The Game Changer," details the rise and political career of the late Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. Ralston joins "The Takeout" to discu...

  Related: #Politics, #History
• 🇺🇸 Rushdie on his reflection in the mirror — 05/02/2026 [USA]

  "The lips of the man in the mirror do not move. There is a slash across the top of his forehead," Salman Rushdie writes in his book "Knife."

  Related: #Literature, #Human Rights
• 🇺🇸 Melania Trump Documentary Premiere: Who Turned Up to the Kennedy Center — 30/01/2026 [USA]

  Top White House officials streamed into the Kennedy Center on Thursday to see Amazon’s new documentary about the first lady, Melania Trump.

  Related: #Politics, #Entertainment