Hillary Clinton will drop in on her Hollywood friends next month to head off Barack Obama’s courting of some of the town’s most deep-pocketed stars and moguls. Elizabeth Taylor calls Hillary “savvy.”
A bipartisan independent panel charged with recommending top candidates for the vacant comptroller position jilted the hard-lobbying Sheldon Silver by not Read More
I feel that Andy Warhol spoke for all of us when he said: “You can’t take a princess to dinner and order a cookie for starters no matter how much you crave one. People expect you to eat protein and you do, so they won’t talk. If you decided to be stubborn and ordered the Read More
“Using every threat, contract, and influence I could muster”: That’s John Huston in his 1980 autobiography, An Open Book, on how he fought Warner Bros. to release his 1967 adaptation of Carson McCullers’ novella, Reflections in a Golden Eye, in a diffuse amber wash that would give the film a golden tint. Warner agreed to Read More
Dan Ireland’s Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont, from a screenplay by Ruth Sacks, is based on the novel by the late English author Elizabeth Taylor (no, not the movie star with the profoundly purple eyes). Seventy-six-year-old Dame Joan Plowright has been cast here in the most dominant and demanding role that she has ever undertaken Read More
Dan Ireland’s Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont, from a screenplay by Ruth Sacks, is based on the novel by the late English author Elizabeth Taylor (no, not the movie star with the profoundly purple eyes). Seventy-six-year-old Dame Joan Plowright has been cast here in the most dominant and demanding role that she has ever undertaken Read More
Natalie Wood: A Life , by Gavin Lambert. Alfred A. Knopf, 384 pages, $25.95.
A lot of writers will tell you that the last star created by the studio system was Elizabeth Taylor, but a lot of writers are wrong. Years after Elizabeth Taylor, there was Natalie Wood.
MGM gave Elizabeth Taylor Lassie Come Read More
Back when I was a spotty-faced youth, it was the grown-ups who got all the respect: the attention and the jewelry and the shags and the sparkling champers. Adults were-I know it’s hard to imagine-at the center stage of the cultural drama. Sure, there were pop tarts and gangly layabouts, but nobody listened to them Read More
The best thing about Manhattan is the high density of freaks therein. Observing the oddballs in one’s neighborhood, getting to know them, watching them evolve or unravel-these are a few of my favorite things. You know what I’m talking about: That tall, radically maquillaged , purple-clad lady who trawls lower Fifth, arm-in-arm with an Asian Read More
Happy birthday, Halston! The great modernist fashion-designing legend, had he not succumbed to the plague in 1990, would have celebrated his 70th birthday on April 23. Can you imagine the ghoulish and szhooshy hoopla that would have ensued? Let’s face it, Halston was not what you’d call un homme du peuple : When he hobnobbed-which Read More
“I can’t believe I’m living with two low-contrast Autumns,” said my bloke, with more disdain than was really necessary. After all, weren’t we members of the same cult? The cult of Color Me Beautiful ?
We became devotees of C.M.B. in the late 90′s. Finding our colors not only helped us find our true Read More
