As a state legislator, Gordon Bushnell couldn't pass a bill to construct the 200-mile road. So he grabbed a shovel and wheelbarrow, completing about 12 miles by the time he died at age 81 in 1982.

“I was taken by all of the themes that Alex and Jenny had put into this story,” says Chiwetel Ejiofor of Showtime’s The Man Who Fell To Earth series from Jenny Lumet and Alex Kurtzman. “Themes that ...

The song knocked Captain and Tenille’s pop classic “Love Will Keep Us Together” from the top of the Hot 100. “Listen to What the Man Said” spent a week at No. 1 before being replaced by Van McCoy’s ...