Arriving early to catch a screening of Oliver Stone's new film W. gave me the opportunity to overhear one very wise reaction from a woman who had just seen it, "Well, no one comes across very well in that film," she told the man walking next to her. This, I...

Shockingly handsome in 1957, the world would soon learn of an inner beauty that burned brightly until yesterday.

Graceful and dignified until the very end, Paul Newman will always serve as a model for how to live. Sharing the substantial rewards of celebrity...

Note: This piece was written prior to Ruby Dee's SAG win for Best Supporting Actress. In it, I proclaimed that on the day of her Academy Award Nomination "the tide (had) turned." I am delighted to see that it has.

When I woke on the morning of the announcements of...

Need a reprieve from news of the writers' strike and gossip about the 20-something drama princesses? Just close your eyes and think of Deborah Kerr.

To say I had a special relationship with her would be a total lie as well the honest truth. She died just over one...

Been harmonizing with Patti so long that she really should hire me to sing back up. Our voices are very well suited to one another.

At 20, I attended my second Patti Smith concert in Boston. By that time, she had released Horses, the underplayed Radio Ethiopia --...

This is an updated version from the author in response to recent evidence that has emerged from the case.

I know when people are depressed, I can feel it. They walk around like ghosts and only some of us choose to see them. They are a painful sight and are...

I knew it! I felt it coming. I could feel it in my bones.

Ideas about about beauty (aesthetics), politics and power are changing. That Helen Mirren won every major acting award this year is not just poetic justice for an actress of such extraordinary gifts with a film career...