Anna Held's birthdate and hometown are a dark mystery, thanks to her own mythmaking.

John Gilbert was perfectly willing to jump into talkies. He had as good a voice as Clark Gable. There was such a divide between the silent and talkies. There was no logic to who survived and who didn't.

I never took any writing classes or planned to write. But I was working as an advertising copywriter in the late '80s and thought, 'What a shame there has never been a decent book on Jean Harlow,' then thought, 'Why don't I write one myself?' being kind of an idiot and not having the slightest idea what I was getting myself into.

I can't wait to have kids. I want so many. I want to adopt and have my own.

Coming from Ruff Ryders, there would be, like, 30 guys in the studio at once, and then me, trying to do my own thing.

It's so rare that I get to do something in my own accent in my own hometown.