Ronald K. Fried

Frank Costello ran the Genovese crime family, controlled Tammany Hall, and bankrolled the Enquirer. Then things started unraveling.

The two-time Oscar winner (for “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” and “Melvin and Howard”) was brilliant and childlike in the best sense.

“There was that sense of…I’m trying to avoid using the word inferiority in his case.”

The Tesla tycoon isn’t a raging antisemite, but otherwise, there’s industry-shattering innovation coupled with self-serving duplicity, hardheartedness, and a loathing for unions.

As Francis Ford Coppola’s masterpiece hits the half-century mark, it’s time we stared a little harder at the men the film celebrates. Because heroes they’re not.

The towering fashion maven was a walking encyclopedia on designers and their work, but his true legacy may be inspiring young people to be themselves.

A new biography helps us comprehend just how tough and brilliant Hardwick must have been to hold her own in the ferocious dens of New York’s literary lions.

The author talks to The Daily Beast about his latest novel, “Inside Story,” where fictional characters bump into the likes of Christopher Hitchens and Anna Wintour.

Greenwich Village was the Genovese family’s backyard, so of course the mob had a hand in every extra-legal enterprise, starting with bars that catered to gay patrons.

Arguably the most famous living British novelist, Amis has always seemed enviably larger than life. So it’s a relief to know that he obsesses about Trump just like the rest of us.