Rob Lowe: Talking ’Bout My Generation

I am a keen consumer of gossip magazines, the trashier and more lurid the better, but I don’t usually bother with celebrity memoirs. Too many of them fall into over-familiar categories: “I Rose, I Flamed Out, Now I’m Back”; “Dropping Names Nobody Remembers”; or the most worthless of them all, …

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Written by Danielle Crittenden on Friday August 5, 2011

Elizabeth Taylor: Hollywood's Queen

Elizabeth Taylor experienced an almost Kennedy-esque, Shakespearean catalog of tragedies in her life, but managed to rise above it on screen and off. As anyone who's turned on the computer or the TV set knows by now, the Queen (of the movies) is dead.  Tonight, Broadway will dim its marquees …

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Written by Telly Davidson on Friday March 25, 2011

We're All Charlie Sheen's Enablers

In the past, we wanted our stars and politicians to be larger than life, like American royalty. Now, we want to watch when they spin out of control. I'll ask the question myself.  Why, when there is revolution in Egypt and Libya, a horrifying tsunami and earthquake in Japan, and a legislative …

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Written by Telly Davidson on Friday March 11, 2011

Reagan Never Went Rogue

Many commentators have likened Sarah Palin to revered conservative icon Ronald Reagan. Both were governors of Western states, but the similarities end there. As Sarah Palin embarks on a publicity tour for her book, conservative commentators have again taken to likening the former Alaska …

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Written by Rob Bernstein on Sunday November 22, 2009

Palin's Heartland Appeal

Palin is a phenomenon of our times – arguably the only Republican at the moment with star power. With her book tour bus, complete with her portrait on the side, Palin is taking aim at heartland America – her constituency and a group immune to the appeals of the elite. Sarah Palin is back, using …

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Written by Peter Worthington on Friday November 20, 2009