His affairs are a mess: mentally ill, addicted to a slew of pills, on the outs with wife June and quickly acquiring a reputation for no-showing the promoters who book him. Can he hold it together ...

George Gershwin (1898-1937) american composer and pianist c. 1930 (Source Getty) George Gershwin had a "composer's stomach." His friend Oscar Levant joked that George’s favorite food was "gruel, ...

“I didn’t realize that the story was made up by Hollywood, but the music was so good and it had a lot of people who worked ...