“American Pharaoh: Mayor Richard J. Daley — His Battle for Chicago and the...
Like former Alabama Gov. George Wallace, Chicago's legendary Mayor Richard J. Daley became a national figure in the 1960s as a symbol of working-class white backlash against the civil rights movement...
View ArticleThe return of Miriam Makeba
South African singing legend Miriam Makeba first came to the U.S. in 1959 for a gig at the Village Vanguard, then New York's hippest jazz spot. Soon she was the toast of the town, attracting Miles...
View ArticleOut, out, damned rumor
You think the rumors don't hurt Whitney Houston? They do. Deeply. But it's not the drug rumors that sting. Oh no. It's those other rumors that cut her to the quick."The thing that hurt me the most was...
View ArticleMarilyn Manson predicts better music under Bush
When it comes to politics, Marilyn Manson changes his mind more frequently than Britney Spears changes baby-Ts. First Manson claimed he was a Bush man. Then a few weeks later he was stumping for Gore....
View ArticleBlue Glow
Series Boston Public (8 p.m., Fox) concludes its crossover with "The Practice." On Ally McBeal (9 p.m., Fox), Richard hires a rainmaker (Taye Diggs), and Barry Manilow has a cameo as himself. Ray and...
View ArticleBlue Glow
Series On a rerun of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (8 p.m., WB), love-struck Spike shows Buffy how Riley has been spending his nights. Angel rushes to find Darla before she's reborn as a vampire on a rerun...
View ArticleA nation loses its lunch
If Billy Bob Thornton and Angelina Jolie don't stop tapping into their veins every five minutes to collect vials of blood, the American Red Cross is gonna want a piece of the bloody action. As we all...
View ArticleEasy come, easy go
Good news for Eminem's reputedly jealous ex-wife, Kim Mathers. It sounds like that vicious rumor about Eminem and Kim Basinger is a big figment of our collective imagination. So insists Brian Grazer,...
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Elizabeth Taylor: How to Be a Movie Star
"Elizabeth Taylor" was one of the answers during a high-speed round of the party game Celebrities I played recently. The player had seconds to get his team to guess her name, and the first thing that...
View ArticleOcto-wife Elizabeth Taylor’s endless husbands
The rumor mill went into fifth gear over the weekend when news broke that octo-wife Dame Elizabeth Taylor might be thinking of putting a ring on it for the ninth time, this time with manager/dandy...
View ArticleActress Elizabeth Taylor dead at 79
Screen legend Elizabeth Taylor has died in Los Angeles. She was 79.Publicist Sally Morrison says the actress died Wednesday morning at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center from congestive heart failure....
View ArticleThe short and strange career of Elizabeth Taylor, movie star
When news arrived in my household early this morning that Elizabeth Taylor had died at age 79, my wife was surprised to learn that Taylor had still been alive. Every obituary that gets written today --...
View ArticleElizabeth Taylor: Weapon of mass obsession
Last week, in Miami, I stayed at a self-described "gay hotel," mostly for the kicky interior: Every room featured, over the bed, an enormous photo portrait of Elizabeth Taylor as Cleopatra. She was,...
View ArticleElizabeth Taylor, from beauty icon to punchline
Elizabeth Taylor, b. London, 1932 It is years now since Elizabeth Taylor made a proper movie. Yet we know she’s there, still: her face blooms for perfume promotions, and she’s always likely to be...
View ArticlePaglia on Taylor: “A luscious, opulent, ripe fruit!”
I remember reading your essay on Elizabeth Taylor from Penthouse in 1992 (it appeared in the collection "Sex, Art, and American Culture"), where you called her "a pre-feminist woman." You said: "She...
View ArticleInside Elizabeth Taylor’s blockbuster wardrobe
Elizabeth Taylor's allure was such that it probably didn't matter what she wore; particularly in her younger years, she would arguably have been attractive in almost anything. And yet, her monumental...
View ArticleNew famous last words
What would be your final message to the world? Salon contributor Wajahat Ali mulled his own in this essay. As he points out, many people end up at death’s door with no prior warning, and unwittingly...
View ArticleLiLo’s Lifetime joke
In its review of “Liz & Dick,” the television movie about the storied, passionate, decades long, true lust and love affair between Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton — i.e., the Lifetime movie in...
View ArticleAnother Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton biopic is on its way
Only months after Lifetime's release of "Liz & Dick," the Linday Lohan-starring biopic about Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton's tumultuous romance, BBC Four has announced plans for its own...
View ArticleA peek under Oscar’s skirt
The red carpet event at the Oscars, Hollywood's preeminent see-and-be-seen affair, is as much about celebrity pageantry as it is a chance for stylists to make their mark. Each year, designers prepare...
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