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Michael Nesmith has done far more than just Monkee around. Famed as one-quarter of the legendary television/music/live performance project in the late 1960s, Nesmith shared highlights of his unusual life in a new memoir, Infinite Tuesday. In it, he talks of his high-flying days in the Monkees, personal and financial struggles following their dissolution, and the shocking mysterious illness that nearly left him paralyzed.

The Monkees were designed as television’s answer to the Beatles, and their instant success soon brought them into upper echelon of fame alongside the real Fab Four. Nesmith stuck up a friendship with John Lennon,...

What did Jackie really know? Get new details about her complicated marriage to JFK, suicidal despair after his death and how she found the strength to go on. Subscribe now to get instant access to this Kennedy confidential, only in People!

Tales of President John F. Kennedy‘s infidelities during his 10-year marriage to First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy have circulated for more than half a century.

In this week’s cover story, People profiles some of the women who claimed or were reported to be involved with the 35th president. Here’s what we know.

Judith Exner

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The setup to De Palma, Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow's engrossing new documentary about the life and career of controversial filmmaker Brian De Palma (opening in theaters on June 10th), couldn't be simpler: The 75-year-old director dissects most of his films and shares analyses and behind-the-scenes anecdotes in between clips. Forget talking-head testimonials from collaborators, flashy visuals or dramatic reenactments. You just get the man himself, looking back and holding court in all his verbose, insightful glory.

And that is more than enough. Known primarily for his obsession with voyeurism,...

Cinema’s Hidden Pearls – Part I

By Alex Simon

One of nature’s rarest items, a pearl is produced within the soft tissue (specifically the mantle) of a living shelled mollusk. Just like the shell of a clam, a pearl is composed of calcium carbonate in minute crystalline form, which has been deposited in concentric layers. Truly flawless pearls are infrequently produced in nature, and as a result, the pearl has become a metaphor for something rare, fine, admirable and valuable. Hidden pearls exist in the world of movies, as well: films that, in spite of being brilliantly crafted and executed, never got the audience they deserved beyond a cult following.

Here are a few of our favorite hidden pearls in the world of film:

1. Night Moves (1975)

Director Arthur Penn hit three home runs in a row with the trifecta of Bonnie & Clyde, Alice’s Restaurant and Little Big Man,...

In a shocking December 2013 cover story from ‘Vanity Fair,’ Liberty Ross is speaking out for the first time after being blindsided in July 2012, when her then-husband Rupert Sanders was caught and photographed cheating on her with Kristen Stewart. Read how she felt after hearing the ‘horrible’ news right here.

Liberty Ross though she had it all — a successful director of a husband, Rupert Sanders, a hot modeling career, and two gorgeous children — until a cheating scandal rocked her world and her marriage. ”I’m not a quitter. But I didn’t have any more to give, you know?” See what she said to Vanity Fair about surviving the affair that make headlines below.

Liberty Ross & Rupert Sanders — She Speaks On His Affair With Kristen Stewart To ‘Vanity Fair’

Liberty reveals that Rupert told her about the photos, which showed him kissing Kristen Stewart, who was half his age, 20 hours before...