Marlon Wright articles

For years, people believed Laurence Olivier had an affair with his mentor, Noel Coward. But when Olivier’s hidden letters were discovered, they revealed the even racier truth.

Old Hollywood sold glamour loudly while mess stayed carefully hidden. Courtrooms, contracts, and columnists often shaped careers more than talent did. This story revisits scandals that studios tried to smooth over, explaining how power worked behind smiles. Scroll ahead and spot the moments history tried to hush, and look closer.

Some moments don’t announce themselves. A single look, a cut, a pause. Suddenly, movies felt different, and the rules everyone expected quietly stopped applying.

Everyone remembers the image, but fewer remember the person behind it. This woman’s story isn’t flashy when you slow it down. It’s layered, uncomfortable at times, and shaped by lessons learned while growing up onscreen.

The Academy Awards should honor excellence, but controversy keeps stealing the spotlight. Envelopes go to the wrong people. Diversity vanishes mysteriously. Oscar history remembers its scandals far longer than most acceptance speeches.

Hollywood loves neat arcs. Rise, stumble, comeback, applause. Linda Fiorentino’s story ignored that script entirely, which made people uneasy. Talent showed up. Power pushed back. Silence followed. This piece looks at how that happened and why it still matters. Pull up a chair. This one rewards attention.

Today, the name Lucille Ricksen is largely unknown to most people. However, in the early 1920s, her face appeared everywhere. Hollywood touted her as the newest rising star, and maybe she would have been, if the very industry that let her shine hadn’t worked her to the point where she couldn’t go on, snuffing out her light far too soon.

Action films rarely credit the artists responsible for their most precise moments. Yuen Cheung-yan occupied multiple creative roles throughout his career as an actor, director, stuntman, and fight choreographer in Hong Kong and Hollywood. His legacy lives on through memorable performances.

An absolute titan of the music industry, Chuck Berry’s contribution to contemporary sound is indisputable. With a road to stardom equally decorated by success and controversy, the father of rock forces each of us to ask ourselves whether we can separate the art from the artist.