Pointe Guard

The favored casual footwear of 1950s style icons like Lauren Bacall, Grace Kelly and Sophia Loren, ballet slippers got an added dose of sex appeal once Brigitte...

Q&A Lauren Bacall

Private Screenings: Lauren Bacall, an interview show, and a marathon of Bacall's films air on TCM this month. Humphrey Bogart, Frank Sinatra, Jason Robards .....

Geez, You'd Think She'd Worked with Bogie

Sixty years ago, LAUREN BACALL showed Humphrey Bogart how to whistle. At the Venice Film Festival last week, the husky-voiced screen veteran showed attendees how...

Short Takes: Theater: Waiting In The Wings By Noel Coward

This autumnal comedy wasn't treated kindly by critics in 1960 when it opened in London, and it hasn't fared much better in its belated Broadway debut. A pity,...

Television: Too Rich: The Secret Life Of Doris Duke

Her dad founded the American Tobacco Company. But the richest girl in the world found only domestic rancor: a hateful mother, scheming lovers and, finally, a...

Cinema: Distant Love

THE FAN Directed by Edward Bianchi Screenplay by Priscilla Chapman and John Hartwell Psychopath stalks celebrated actress, bloodily maims or kills people he...

Essay: What the Stars Are Really Like

As soon as the film industry invented movie stars, the public caught a case of chronic curiosity about their off-screen lives. Americans idolized the images of...

People: Sep. 22, 1986

Whatever way he did it -- and he certainly seems to have done it -- Author Kitty Kelley has written about it her way. His Way: The Unauthorized Biography of...

Momma's Legacy

Loehmann's, one of the first bargain retailers and lately one of the fastest growing, does not have customers; it has addicts. Says one shopper, a woman who...

Hollywood: The Ages of Man

"I'm 40 and I admit it, but I'm only 40. I am younger than Tony Curtis." So declared Lauren Bacall recently, piqued at a Hollywood that excluded her from the...