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Posted February 16, 2012

For the most part, this Self-Made Man column has focused on entertainers, specifically the ones who got big despite the handicaps of childhood poverty, lack of connections in their ...

Awesome Men Throughout History: Rodney Dangerfield

Posted February 14, 2012

I’ve been listening to comedian Marc Maron’s podcast a lot lately, and he brings up Rodney Dangerfield a lot, both in his interviews (especially the Norm MacDonald one) ...

Awesome Men Throughout History: Henry Durkee

Posted December 6, 2011

This week’s column is a special one to me, mostly because it involved some actual research on my part. A lot of my subjects, though obscure, have some kind of online presence ...

Awesome Men Throughout History: Oliver Reed

Posted November 29, 2011

If you read my Awesome Men article about Richard Harris, which you damn well should have, you may have noticed that he was something of a drinker. This was not uncommon among Briti ...

Awesome Men Throughout History: Ambrose Bierce

Posted November 3, 2011

This week’s installment of Awesome Men Throughout History is going to be about a writer. Again. I had a huge apology all typed up for this glaring conflict of interest, but t ...