Motherhood

Anthony.

Sympathy for the Devil: Can Anyone Relate to Casey Anthony?

I hesitated to ask the question. “Does anyone relate to Casey Anthony?” I said to a group of 20-something women. “I mean, at all? If she did plot to kill her child, can anyone understand where she’s coming from?”

I’d rather have asked the group if they felt a close personal kinship with Jeffrey Dahmer. Read More

Hanks.

The Cast of Lucky is Killer. Too Bad the Plot and Script Aren't.

Lucky is a black comedy about greed, marriage and murder with Tom Hanks’s look-alike son Colin—a chip off the old block—as a shy, nerdy aw-shucks office drone named Ben Keller, whose dreary job in an accounting firm is going nowhere until he wins the $36 million Iowa State Lottery. Ben has suffered an unrequited passion Read More

Interview

Living Dolls! The Lennon Sisters Do Toy Fair

In a booth on the third floor of the Javits Center, Janet and Kathy Lennon, the youngest two of the singing Lennon Sisters, the wholesome, bouffant-wearing quartet of Lawrence Welk Show fame (still periodically spoofed on Saturday Night Live), were recalling the shooting death of their father at the hands of a delusional stalker.

“It Read More