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 ...

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 ...

A heir to the du Pont family fortune and the richest U.S. man to stand trial for murder, John du Pont tried to buy justice.

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 ...

Bennett Miller’s “Foxcatcher” derives little of its suspense from the climactic spoiler the entire audience knows is coming. As it should — the 1996 trial of paranoid-schizophrenic John du Pont held ...

Goodale, still in the passenger seat, pointed the barrel of his gun at du Pont's. The multimillionaire blinked and threw his revolver on the car's seat. Goodale jumped out of the car and slammed the ...

In “Capote” and “Moneyball,” Bennett Miller gazed into the souls of real-life American iconoclasts launching bold and unexpectedly costly new enterprises, a theme that the director has now taken to ...

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 ...

"When you're playing somebody like this who has a family that survived him, you really want to do your best to be as true to the memory that they hold of him as possible" By Hilary Lewis Deputy Editor ...

"Foxcatcher" went into last weekend's Venice and Telluride film festivals as an early Oscar favorite. And now that people have had a chance to see Bennett Miller's fact-based drama? It doesn't appear ...