Biography

A Look At Peter Selz: Sketches Of A Life In Art

John Seed | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Books, Paul Karlstrom, Arts, Mitchell Johnson, Sam Francis, Peter Selz, UC Press, Biography, Home News

Curatorial infighting, rivalry and the perception of a "glass ceiling" which kept Jews from rising to the position of museum director all colored Selz's tenure at MOMA.

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Why Can't Jessie J Be Bi?

Amy Andre | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Pop Music, The Voice, Celebrity Rumors, Jessie J, Lgbt Celebrities, Lesbian, Bisexual, Sexism, Homophobia, Singer, Biphobia, Biography, Celebrity News

Singer Jessie J is in the news because of her sexuality again. But this time, it's not because of something the bi artist has done. It's because of something an unofficial biographer says she hasn't done. And that thing is: have sex with men.

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'I Survived ... Beyond And Back': Allergic To Bees, Stung 90 Times

Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: TV Canada, Video, Reality TV, Near-Death Experiences, I Survived Beyond and Back, Tv Replay, Bee Allergy, Allergic to Bees, Biography, TV News

"I Survived ... Beyond And Back" (Sun., 9 p.m. ET on Biography) expands on the network's popular "I Survived" series by adding the element of the near...

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SECRETS REVEALED

AP | JILL LAWLESS | Posted 04.21.2012

Read More: Simon Cowell, Video, Sweet Revenge: The Intimate Life of Simon Cowell, Biography, Books News

LONDON — He gets colonic irrigations, Botox injections and vitamin drips, and insists on black toilet paper in his home. A revealing new biogra...

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Janice Dickinson More Interested In Realtor On 'Celeb House Hunting'

Posted 04.20.2012

Read More: Reality TV, Video, Janice Dickinson, Celebrity House Hunting, Tv Replay, TV Canada, Biography, TV News

Janice Dickinson was on the hunt for a new house, but when she first laid eyes on her realtor, Doug Skoro, she suddenly started the hunt for something...

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'I Survived': Man Saved By Guardian Angels After Farming Accident

Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: TV Canada, Video, Combine, Reality TV, I Survived, Guardian Angels, Farming Accident, Tv Replay, Biography, TV News

Pat took center stage on the latest installment of "I Survived" (Sun., 9 p.m. ET on Biography) with a harrowing tale of a combine accident when he was...

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Biz Markie's Surprising Collection On 'Celebrity House Hunting'

Posted 04.13.2012

Read More: Barbie Collection, TV Canada, Biz Markie, Reality TV, Video, Dj Barbie, Celebrity House Hunting, Tv Replay, Bv-Video, Biography, TV News

Biz Markie will forever be famous for his 1989 Top 10 hit "Just a Friend." The song's awkward -- some would say horrible -- singing on the chorus had ...

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Dolphins To The Rescue From Sharks On 'I Survived'

Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: TV Canada, Video, Reality TV, Dolphins, I Survived, Tressell, Shark Attack, Adrift at Sea, Coast Guard, Tv Replay, Sharks, Biography, TV News

Tressell and his two friends are lucky to be alive, after spending more than a week lost at sea on a capsized fishing boat on "I Survived" (Sun., 9 p....

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'I Survived' A Mountain Lion Attack And Then Saw Jesus

Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Reality TV, Video, I Survived, Transparent Jesus, Bio., Tv Replay, TV Canada, Mountain Lion Attack, Biography, TV News

Andy was featured on the season premiere of "I Survived" (Sun., 9 p.m. ET on Bio.), where he told the story of surviving being attacked by a mountain ...

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Verne Troyer's 'Panic Room' On 'Celebrity House Hunting

Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: TV Canada, Video, Reality TV, Verne Troyer, Bio., Celebrity House Hunting, Tv Replay, Mini-Me, Austin Powers, Biography, TV News

Verne Troyer was made famous for his diminutive size as Mini-Me in the "Austin Powers" series of films. Troyer stands at 2'8" tall. And once again, he...

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Danny Bonaduce Wants A See-Through Bathtub

Posted 03.16.2012

Read More: TV Canada, Video, Canada Tv, Reality TV, Danny Bonaduce, Celebrity House Hunting, Tv Replay, Real Estate, Biography, TV News

Danny Bonaduce and his wife Amy were doing a spot of "Celebrity House Hunting" (Thu., 10 p.m. ET on Bravo) when they visited one New York fun palace w...

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Just in Case It Matters: Biographer Jeffrey Spivak on the Magic of Busby Berkeley

Dan Lybarger | Posted 05.13.2012

Read More: Dancing, They Made Me a Criminal, 42nd Street, Jeffrey Spivak, Books, The Gold Diggers of 1933, The Gangs's All Here, Musicals, Busby Berkeley, Film, Buzz: The Life and Art of Busby Berkeley, Movies, Biography, Cinema, Books News

In the 1930s and '40s, Busby Berkeley (1895-1976) staged a series of movie dance numbers that could rival the paintings of Salvador Dali in their outlandishness. His movies were loaded with jaw-dropping optical illusions and wound up influencing everyone from the Coen Brothers to Mel Brooks.

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'Celebrity House Hunting': Andy Dick Lives In A Shed

Posted 03.09.2012

Read More: TV Canada, Rest, Canada Tv, Video, Reality TV, Celebrity House Hunting, Andy Dick Shed, Tv Replay, Andy Dick, Real Estate, Real Estate Tv Shows, Biography, TV News

Andy Dick has been living in a shed for the last two years. A pretty fancy one, but a shed nonetheless. On "Celebrity House Hunting" (Thu., 10 p.m...

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Lost & Found in Translation

Joe Woodward | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Writers, Literary Biography, Book Awards, Cervantes, Alive Inside the Wreck, Nathanael West, Translation, Pen, Literary-Translators, Biography, Books News

Let us enjoy the surprises, the challenges of literature in all languages, in translation and otherwise. Let us contemplate the writer, too, writing in all her forms. Let us see how we are.

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The Buzz About Ralph Lauren -- America's Style Icon

Chloe Spencer | Posted 01.07.2012

Read More: Clothing, Furniture, Lincoln Center, Entrepreneurs, Passion, Billionaires, Clothes, Celebrity Style, Biography, Success, Oprah Winfrey, Polo Ralph Lauren, Style, Inspiration, Fashion, Entrepreneurship, Ralph Lauren, Style News

There has been a lot of buzz about Ralph Lauren lately, as some may know--The Lincoln Center in New York presented An Evening With Ralph Lauren, hoste...

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Occup(ied) America: A Literary History

Joe Woodward | Posted 12.26.2011

Read More: History, Occupy Wall Street Movement, 1930s, John Dos Passos, Literary History, Biography, Great Depression, Occupy Wall Street, Books News

As I've watched and listened to the nascent movement "Occupy Wall Street," I've been driven to reread a favorite book of mine about America -- The American 1930s: A Literary History.

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Do You Know Simone Weil?

George Mitrovich | Posted 10.13.2011

Read More: Simone Weil, Biography, Books News

We know much of Simone Weil's life and thought, as she left a remarkable collection of articles, essays, and letters. But her death at so young an age was one more manifestation of history's cruel cycle

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Hunting Down The Real Karl Marx

Mary Gabriel | Posted 12.11.2011

Read More: Karl Marx Biography, Karl Marx in Love, Marxism, Economics, Eleanor Marx, Karl Marx, Myth of Karl Marx, Biography, Books News

Ask anyone on the street if they have heard of Karl Marx and the answer more often than not would be yes. Ask those same people what they know about Marx and the responses will be wildly different - and usually wrong.

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National Book Festival 2011 (Photo Gallery)

Jeff Malet | Posted 11.30.2011

Read More: Authors, Illustrators, Poets. Poetry, Reading, Libraries, Biography, Slidepollajax, Washington DC, Books News

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Rothko's 'Volcanic' Character Explored In Play 'Red'

Times | Posted 11.22.2011

Read More: Rothko Play, Rothko Life, Michael Grandage, Alfred Molina, Theater, Mark Rothko, Plays, Rothko, Red, New York, Biography, Performance, Arts News

The most astonishing sequence in "Red," John Logan's 2011 Tony Award-winning play about a tumultuous moment in the career of Mark Rothko, the master A...

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Where Art & Politics Collide

Joe Woodward | Posted 11.06.2011

Read More: George Grosz, Art, Literary Fiction, 1930s, Moma, Nathanael West, Biography, Moma Grosz, George Grosz Moma, Books News

In America today, to mix art and politics in any literal sense is considered either passé or taboo, but in the 1930s it was a vein of practice mined by many writers and artists.

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Stage Door: Joan Copeland's Show

Fern Siegel | Posted 10.14.2011

Read More: Joan Copeland, Theater, Biography, Off-Broadway, Entertainment, Arthur Miller, Memoir, Arts News

Theater fans have admired her work for decades; now they can get the inside story. Actress Joan Copeland, whose worked has spanned theater, film and television, is starring in the autobiographical Joan's Show for two nights.

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Unauthorized Tiger Woods Biography To Be Released

AP | Posted 09.12.2011

Read More: Comic Books, Tiger Woods Comic Book, C.W. Cooke, Tiger Woods Bio, Tiger Woods, Tiger Woods Biography, Bluewater Productions Inc., Biography, Books News

PHILADELPHIA — Golfer Tiger Woods is the latest celebrity and athlete to get his own unauthorized biography in a comic book. Publisher Bluewate...

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Do You Still Read Fiction?

Lev Raphael | Posted 08.31.2011

Read More: Short Stories, Authors, Book Publishing, Books, Fiction, Novels, Biographies, Historical Fiction, Philip Roth, Booker Prize, The Gilded Age, Biography, Book Reviews, Reviewing, Roth on Fiction, Phillip Roth Fiction, Books News

Philip Roth has written two dozen novels, yet fiction has lost its appeal for him personally. When asked why, he said he didn't know, and only offered a smart-aleck response: "I wised up."

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Mr. Beverly Hills, Fred Hayman, Honored... and His Biography Is Published

Jay Weston | Posted 08.01.2011

Read More: Rodeo Drive, Rose Apodaca, Fred Hayman, Beverly Hills, Hollywood Glamor, Giorgio Boutique, Perfume, Hollywood Style, Biography, La-Style, Los Angeles News

Under the yellow-and-white colors of his store, Giorgio Beverly Hills, and his namesake follow-up, Fred Hayman really did radically change the way the world considers Los Angeles style.

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