Marilyn Monroe
Date: August 5, 1962
Drugs: Pentobarbital (AKA Nembutal) and chloral hydrate (sleeping pills)
The sex symbol actress was found dead at age 36 in her Los Angeles home early on the morning of August 5. The toxicology report showed high levels of two barbiturates in her blood: Nembutal and chloral hydrate. Monroe’s “acute barbiturate poisoning” was [...]
10 Erin Burnett
Despite having to put up with nicknames like “street sweetie” and being called a “knockout” by Chris Matthews, Erin Burnett is CNBC’s resident alpha female. Burnett began her career as a financial analyst for Goldman Sachs. She moved into media when she was offered a job as a writer on CNN’s MONEYLINE. From there, [...]
Cat
Patients at one Rhode Island nursing home do not want a visit from Oscar the cat. For five years the otherwise unsocial feline has been cozying up to old people—about 50 so far— just hours before they kick the bucket. Oscar’s prognostications are so dead-on that they’ve even inspired a book. (Just don’t hold your [...]
1. Throw out any and all expectations.
The fastest way to kill a blind date is to walk in expecting Bradley Cooper and then feel nothing but disappointment when it’s someone other than Bradley Cooper (and I guarantee it will be). Even if you had an amazing, two-hour phone conversation and his online profile was custom [...]