Susan Cowsill, the singer-songwriter whose new CD "Lighthouse" has just been released, is 51, the same age Michael Jackson would be had he not died a year ago last Friday. Both were child stars in the late '60s and had abusive father/managers.

Cowsill, however,...

As I sat in a glass capsule 541 feet in the air on the planet's tallest Ferris wheel, taking in the almost hallucinogenic view of the skyscrapers and casinos going up in the world's fourth richest per capita country, I had one thought:

Don't make the mistake I...

I hope I don't sound smug when I tell you that this candy addict has managed to last a month so far without candy and sweets. Amazed is how I really feel.

Maybe blessed is a better word. Yes, blessed, for what has been revealed to me and what I...

Is there a less-sexy addiction on the planet? Or a more infantile one?

Doubtful. I live in one of the most sophisticated places on earth -- France -- but my vice is more suited to Sesame Street.

I'm a candy addict. And even though I live in France, I'm...

Even though I haven't worked for the Associated Press since 1993, emails from old co-workers saying "Pyle's leaving!" started coming in weeks ago. Richard Pyle, 75, retires from the AP in New York City today after 49 years as an AP reporter, beginning in Ann Arbor, MI and eventually covering...

How do you learn to make a movie good enough to be accepted at the Cannes Film Festival when you're only 22?

If you're Dara van Dusen, whose 12-minute film, Malzonkowie (Significant Others,) was one of 17 chosen from more than 1,500 for the prestigious student film competition at Cannes...

Believe it, bitches. And don't forget the apostrophe. As far as I'm concerned, Mo'Nique could take Meryl Streep in an Oscar bar fight one-handed - and clean the floor with her.

She scared me to death in a movie screened at Cannes today called "Precious" that won all...

I must be sleepwalking. I must have taken two or three 10-milligram tablets of Ambien last night instead of one. Keep me away from the refrigerator! Hide the car keys! Get me away from the computer - oops, too late.

Forgive me in advance - but I'm hallucinating.

This is...

I chose the wrong month - during this panic and hysteria - to develop an obsession with the 1960s space program: In between watching stammering, sweating Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson not calm the nation and seeing the Dow plunge today after George Bush spoke - I've been switching...

AIE! What kind of word is that? Well, it means "ouch" in French but I don't like the way it sounds. When I got stung by jellyfish today in the waters off Nice, France I said OUCH loudly in the water. The French people swimming near me understood immediately.

MOSCOW - How soon did I meet the New Russia?

Right after arriving at Sheremetyevo Airport. I was at passport control and called my producer. He was already in the city for our shoot for HD Net's "World Report" about the "New Russia" airing this week.

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I emailed Tatum O'Neal not long after I heard she was busted for drugs in New York City. I didn't know what to say other than: "Hang in there. Nobody's perfect."

I have her email because I've interviewed her three times since 1990 - most recently for the...

I went to bed last night feeling sorry for that doomed loser Hillary Clinton and woke up to see her triumphant, Joker-meets-the-Riddler smile looming from my laptop.

Did I share in the collective shame of the blogosphere today while eating the Clintonian breakfast of champions - crowq-au-vin, humble pie and...

On first glance, steely, determined Hillary Clinton has nothing in common with the Italian-born, Parisian-bred temptress Carla Bruni, who began dating French President Nicolas Sarkozy last month and is said to be marrying him in February.

Bruni's calling card is her gorgeous baby face and well-honed aura...

Before Iowa, I was rooting for Hillary Clinton. For purely emotional reasons. First, I wanted to see the first woman president in my lifetime. Second, I wanted the happy ending. I wanted Hillary to get hers at last.

I'm not someone who sucks it up and stands by her horndog...

Have you heard about the gorgeous model in France who accused Tony Parker of cheating on Eva Longoria with her?

OK, but have you heard that people who know her say she's a fake? A scary mastermind who fabricated her relationship with Parker, fabricated a relationship with Brazilian...

Sometimes I have to interrupt my impossibly glamorous life in France to actually live in France.

Today I could not longer stand having so much wax stuck in my ear. I was tired of cocking my head and asking people to walk on my "good side." After all, I'm not...

NEW YORK, Oct. 12, 2043 - Just two years after the Experiment in Anonymous Living was launched, the project director announced that a consortium of unnamed benefactors will fund the controversial project with more than $25 billion.

More than 5 million people, mostly Americans, are on the waiting list...

After hearing about NFL quarterback Michael Vick's indictment in connection with a vicious dogfighting ring, I'm reminded how I take issue with many well-respected motivational speakers, past and present -- on at least one topic.

Meaning sometimes I find the idea of "forgiveness" -- when it involves people who commit...

Sure, the $6000 bottles of Dom Perignon attached to fiery sparklers were flowing at the VIP Room in St. Tropez early Monday morning.

Go-go dancers in teeny string bikinis and aviator glasses were gyrating so vigorously that sweat poured down their enhanced breasts and surfboard-flat stomachs.

The...