PHILADELPHIA -- The new movie 'Foxcatcher' opens nationwide Friday. It's the story of the 1996 murder of Olympic Gold medalist Dave Schultz by John du Pont in the Delaware Valley. Actor Steve Carrell ...

Arrogance: the essential toxin that drives the wealthy. For John du Pont, heir to his fabled family’s chemical fortune, it was a healthy dose of that poison chased with wild delusions that led him to ...

The du Pont family made its fortune selling gunpowder during the War of 1812, and soldiered on to invent everything ever worn by a cop: Kevlar, nylon, polyester, synthetic rubber. If you’ve cooked on ...

It wasn't just the nose. Or the hooded eyelids. Or the protruding gums in the small mouth that almost never smiled. It was the total demeanor. The flat tones of his speech, punctuated by frequent ...

If you thought the billionaire played by Steve Carell in Bennett Miller’s Foxcatcher was eerie, please allow me to introduce you to the real John du Pont. A dangerous concoction of lonely and paranoid ...

The O.J. Simpson case isn’t the only sensational murder from the 1990s that has been mined lately by the film and television industry. The murder of the Olympic wrestler Dave Schultz by John E. du ...

In 1926, F. Scott Fitzgerald published a short story called The Rich Boy in which he famously wrote, "Let me tell you about the rich. They are different from you and me." It was 10 years later that ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Bennett Miller’s “Foxcatcher” derives little of its suspense from the climactic spoiler the entire ...

Nearly two years after Bennett Miller's Foxcatcher premiered at Cannes Film Festival, Netflix hits the mat with a new documentary about Olympic gold wrestler Dave Schultz, who was killed by ...

Melissa Trejo is a Film and Television features writer here on Collider. Born and raised in the rougher parts of South Los Angeles, Melissa always loved the magic of storytelling from an early age.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jan. 26, 1996: John E. du Pont, 57, shoots 36-year-old Olympic wrestler David L. Schultz to death in the driveway of a home on du ...