 He wrote for Time Inc. magazines including "Time", "Life", "People" and "Sports Illustrated".During a career which spanned the 1940s to the 1990s, he profiled such notables as Elizabeth Taylor, Marlon Brando, Frank Sinatra, Fred Astaire, Barbra Streisand, Robin Williams, Bill Cosby, Jack Nicholson and Miss Piggy.His 1955 "Time" cover story on Marilyn Monroe, based on a chaste 10-hour interview in her hotel bed while she was filming "Bus Stop", was the first to report on the star's traumatic childhood; in 1984, he wrote