Celebrity Death Clearing House TMZ has resurrected a decades-old Hollywood mystery worthy of breaking out of the usual Friday news dump churn–namely that Natalie Wood’s mysterious “accidental” death in November 1981 has been reclassified as “undetermined.” Just breathe, Harvey Levin: 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
There’s one member of our family who believes above all others that Santa exists. I’m not talking about our 13-year-old. By the age of 5, she was already telling us that she believed in the “spirit of Santa” rather than the flesh. Apparently a classmate with older siblings had tipped her off that the jolly Read More
Rona Barrett gave good Hedda. All through the 60′s, 70′s and into the early 80′s, Rona Barrett bestrode the world of celeb tittle-tattle like an elegantly coiffed Colossus. Then she disappeared in a puff of hair spray … but now she’s back! Yes, the celebrity pooper-scooper with the frosted and feathered Mount Etna coiffure est Read More
Heaven knows what possessed the Muses to come down from Mount Olympus and, as they went about their business of inspiring great art, to put on–as their business attire–the bodies of human beings. Ever since the Renaissance, when we first noticed their presence among us, we’ve seen the nine goddesses reincarnated as a series of Read More
