Sam Wasson, one of Hollywood’s preeminent historians and biographers, has published searching books on the lives and works of Francis Ford Coppola, Paul Mazursky, Blake Edwards and Roman Polanski.
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Gary Baum,
HollywoodReporter,
27 Oct. 2026
Coffin burials date back even further, but historians have many hyphotheses for why the tradition has carried through to today.
Such behavior is typically frowned upon by most major news organizations, which want their reporters to be viewed as neutral chroniclers of the subjects and institutions to which they are assigned.
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Brian Steinberg,
Variety,
18 Oct. 2026
Later chroniclers say he was first struck by an arrow—some specifying the eye—and then killed in close combat.
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