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He is more than a talking hairdo. He Is more than America's most beloved sportscaster. Dan Patrick is a warrior. I don't know Dan Patrick, really--nobody knows Dan Patrick--and yet [...]

READING HER RULES AND CODES ARE WELL AND GOOD, SO LONG AS YOU PICK YOUR SPOTS At lunch the other day, a guy I know, a professor, made a glib [...]

That's it, that's right. McCarthy. That was the sergeant's name. He was an Irishman from Massachusetts. The Boston area. Justin McCarthy. His gun jammed. Funny things happen in war, and [...]

This is how the story will begin for me, when I tell it in another saloon some day, maybe ten years from now, as the ocean darkens outside the windows. [...]

It's not as if she's totally ignored. Carrie-Anne Moss is the subject of a respectable number of heavy-breathing fan Web sites, has logged a few minutes on Jay Leno's couch, [...]

Was Nathan Powell's business partner a film director trying to shed himself of an ineffective producer? Or was he 'in league with the Taliban' and a threat to Powell and [...]

A BLACK PEUGEOT WITH TINTED WINDOWS purred along a narrow, winding road on the south shore of Bermuda. following impatiently behind a trio of puttering minivan taxis and a shiny [...]

Maybe it's because the midterm elections went so very well. Maybe it's because at the White House, politics is the best policy. Maybe because it's the reign of Karl Rove. [...]

The single most influential adviser to the president of the United States is going home to Texas with her family to live a simpler life. Perhaps Andy Card, the White [...]

Ten years ago, in the wake of the Rodney King verdicts, American society ruptured in South Central Los Angeles, resulting in the worst riots in our nation's modern history. Ten [...]

THE HORIZON IS MADE of fractured peaks all around its great compass, as though the earth had been built once, broken, and then repaired in haste. Often, when my baseball-afflicted [...]

The Top 10 IT'S NOT WHAT YOU THINK. Despite Esquire's heritage of defining style for every generation of American men since 1933, we have resisted 'best dressed' lists for some [...]

DRAGON SIX IS OSCAR MIKE, on the move to link up with Bandit. Foot mobile along Axis Kim, he is leading a detachment of ten U. S. Marines across a [...]

MICHAEL JORDAN needed shirts. It was the fall of 1998 and he was a few months away from retirement. He called his personal tailor. Randolph Williamson of Nashville, and asked [...]

DREW BARRYMORE A profile in the form of an oral history A word about this article, which is presented as an oral biography: The form is particularly appealing for number [...]

First we have the bull. Yeah, that was his first piece. He's stretching his V-neck down to provide a view of that bull depicted on his splendid left breast. Yeah, [...]

Oh, landy. Look at this Hanks. Look at what he has done. He has shown us the way. That is what he has done. He has shown us our best [...]

HE THINKS OF HIMSELF as an intruder in a deer's living room. It doesn't bother him to be an intruder, doesn't bother him in the least. He'll tell you what, [...]

Jeannie VanVelkinburgh lives with her two sons and a nephew in a three-room apartment in Aurora, Colorado, on a dead-end street hard by Denver's rugged east side, in a land [...]

Once upon a time, a little boy loved a stuffed animal whose name was Old Rabbit. It was so old, in fact, that it was really an unstuffed animal; so [...]

WHEN YOU FIRST CAME INTO COUNTRY, it was on a Buffalo, a huge, silver-winged transport flashing through the clouds at three hundred knots. This was your commute, the way some [...]

IT'S NIGHTTIME IN LUTHERSVILLE, GEORGIA, THE SUMMER AIR A thick, damp brocade, and he's got another call, a domestic on West Oak. The young drunks--girl and boy with her baby [...]

MICHAEL TORPEY WANTS TO CONSTRUCT A CAR THAT HAS NEVER BEEN seen before and that will last only briefly and never be seen again. 'I want to explore aged objects [...]

It starts as a single dollar handed over in a little place very much like the N-N Express convenience store on Hall Street in Manchester, New Hampshire. All the single [...]

THE TOP CITY-SIDE COLUMNIST IN NEW YORK WAS TIRED OF THE DIRTY-COP BEAT, UNTIL THE DIRTIEST STORY HE'D EVER HEARD HIT HIM HARD IN HIS OWN GUT I was hoping [...]

There comes a time in a man's life when he has to take up with a desperate former New York gangster, a retired Serb-sympathizing Special Forces commando, and a Croat [...]

BY THE LOOK OF THE BROAD Slavic faces on the street, we might be in Cracow or Warsaw or Gdansk. It's the kind of enclave in urban America where people [...]

Was it music I heard or love's faint echo in the stillness left by Monk's departure? One night years ago in Paris trying to read myself to sleep, I discovered [...]

Like Billy Bob Thornton says, he and the president of the of the United States aren't 'what you'd call asshole buddies,' but the two, both Arkansas small-town boys made good, [...]

How to achieve the perfect postmodern marriage (complete with the occasional stripper, hooker, and porn star). In that most vexing realm of matrimony, the heroic are few. The knowledgeable are [...]

IT'S A PRIZEFIGHT SATURDAY NIGHT, hot and mobbed. A black BMW 750 inches down the Strip, followed by a half dozen other black luxury cars. Tupac Amaru Shakur, twentyfive, stands [...]

SO HERE I AM ON A SEARING DAY IN 1981, BEING shown to my first office on the lot at Paramount. I'd just spent a year watching working-class girls with [...]

What happens when all of a man's intelligence and athleticism is focused on placing a fuzzy yellow ball where his opponent is not? An obsessive inquiry (1) into the physic [...]

When Dean Martin went gentle into that good nightclub, the Rat Pack lost its smoothest member. But the Leader is still knocking 'em back, and at last he shares the [...]

What happens when a seven-foot-one-inch, 330-pound man-child gets a boo-boo on the basketball court? First, rebuild the Shaq. Then start tearing down the NBA. Before there was Homeboy Payback, there [...]

'NEVER HAVE A FRIEND IN THIS TOWN.' For years, that was Michael Eisner's mantra. And whether it's because of those words or in spite of them, Eisner has proven to [...]

THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN the Maryland state fair and every other state fair is ... um, ah--well, there is no difference, actually. You've got your corn dogs, your rigged midway games [...]

THERE'S ONE STORY that says the whole thing. It was 1995, in the summer. Dick Cheney and a couple guys were on horseback in Yellowstone, clomping down a trail toward [...]

I'VE SEEN HIM once in public. It was in a hotel lobby downtown, middle of the day. There were a lot of people standing around, shoulder to shoulder, and, suddenly, [...]

Twice Dan Stockwell has put himself in danger to save the life of another human being. Not once has he wanted to talk about it. AT THE TIME, I WASN'T [...]

and then I saw her face. That face. I had seen it before, of course, somewhere. Ten thousand times. I hadn't known its name, or, rather, I knew its name [...]

She wants to be one of us. Christy Turlington is mystery and smoke and poetry But, like Superman or Pinocchio, like an angel who fell to earth, Christy Turlingon only [...]

FRANK GEHRY In 2003, the celebrated architect's biggest project yet, the state-of-the-art, 424,000-square-foot computer-science lab at MIT, will be complete. This is the story, in his words, of how it [...]

WAYNE JOHNSON His organization once brought Capone and Giancana to heel. Today, the Chicago Crime Commission consists of one determined guy. Now people in Chicago laugh when you mention the [...]

He's thirty-six. He's the son of farmers. He's saved the world once. He's on the verge of saving it again. And his greatest discovery is just around the corner. He's [...]

Based on a true story [He is the singer for a great band. These days, he's also a celebrity, which means that he's a bit ... generic. Hell, in order [...]

Yankees closer Mariano Rivera is so good, it hurts NOT ENOUGH HAS BEEN written about the art of the autograph. Oh, we have had earnest disquisitions concerning the science of [...]

ONE YEAR AGO THIS MONTH, THE NEW ECONOMY, AFTER A BRIEF, VIOLENT ILLNESS, DIED. THE MORNING AFTER HAS BEEN TOUGH, BUT WE'RE OKAY NOW, BECAUSE THE GRIM REAPER, THE BUZZARD, [...]

THE AMERICAN TIRE INDUSTRY FIGURED THE EASIEST WAY TO BEAT THIS LITTLE REDNECK LAWYER FROM OCALA, FLORIDA, WAS TO OUTLIVE HIM. IT TOOK FIFTEEN YEARS FOR THEM TO REALIZE IT'S [...]