For the past five years, I’ve been interviewing Hollywood professionals about what they wish they’d known when they were starting out. The entertainment business can feel opaque and overwhelming, and many who navigated it the hard way said they want to help level the playing field for those a...

Pictured here with his wife Maude Evelyn Sherman Naismith, James Naismith was a Canadian American physical educator who invented basketball in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1891 to keep his students active during the winter. The game was an immediate success and the original American sport spre...