The day Apollo 11 landed on the moon 40 years ago, it inspired Eddie Lee McGhee to name his newborn daughter after the lunar lander. But he didn't name her Eagle. He named her Module. Module McGhee turned 40 on Monday. She's a ...

Two imprints of Simon & Schuster, Atria Books and the pop-culture–oriented Simon Spotlight Entertainment, have both acquired books about the terminally ill actor Patrick Swayze that will be published mere months apart. Though it’s unclear in what order the two deals were finalized, Atria was first out of the gate with their announcement, issuing a triumphant though tastefully ...

The New York Times' Richard Goldstein reports that former light-heavyweight champion and author José Torres has died in Ponce, Puerto Rico. He was 72-years-old. Mr. Torres, whose professional heyday was between 1958 and 1969 (YouTube has a couple of clips: Torres v. Carl 'Bobo' Olson in 1964; Torres v. Willie Pastrano from 1965) and went on to become the chairman ...