So Long, Farewell, Auf Wiedersehen, Good Night

Here I am again, reluctantly counting my losses. Beloved, hated or just plain “Who cares?”, more celebrated people died in 2007 than any year in my memory. I always forget somebody, but here is the nucleus of the ones who will light up the headlines no more.

I suffered a particularly rough blow when Read More

Kitty Carlisle Hart, 96, the Last Charmer

Kitty Carlisle Hart died last week. She admitted to 96. But she was as young as the spring air. She left behind friends from every meeting she attended, every restaurant she dined in, every street she walked down. When I went out to dinner with her in the days after 9/11, people whose faces looked Read More

Remembering Mrs. Hart

A little over a decade ago, Kitty Carlisle Hart was scheduled to spend the day with the writer Marie Brenner for a profile in The New Yorker.

But there was a terrible storm, on a day when the two were meant to recreate the busy daily schedule of the legendary stage and screen actress and Read More