Pat Gallagher

We recently revealed 20 celebrity couples who have been married 25 years or more. Actress Marlo Thomas wrote a sweet tribute about her own marriage to the love of her life, Phil Donahue. The two lovebirds just celebrated 32 years of wedded bliss on May 21st.

Everybody has to pay their dues -- whether it is in business or the entertainment field -- before they make it to the top. In theory. Of course, child actors and (some) reality stars are two exceptions (I won't name any famous reality stars because I'll break out in a...

Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan kicked off the wedding season this past weekend with their surprise nuptials in the backyard of their Palo Alto, California home. Since they met in 2004 at Harvard, well before Zuckerberg earned his billions, we're pulling for them to celebrate decades of wedded bliss one...

Not all of us know what it is like to have a celebrity son or daughter, but it's interesting to pick the brain of a mother who has shared the "stage" with a famous offspring. And who better to talk to than Faye Parker (or better known as Clay Aiken's...

It saddened my heart to hear of George Lindsey's death. He brought to life one of my favorite character actors of all time -- Goober Pyle on The Andy Griffith Show -- and I had the pleasure of interviewing him two years ago when I was doing a piece about...

When we were children, we never even thought about turning 50 years old. The milestone birthdays are one, 13 (because you're finally a teenager), sweet 16, 21, 30 and then every birthday that has a zero in it.

The big 5-0 is, for some reason, a wake-up call that "act...

It was so easy to keep in touch with my four children when they were living at home... let's say between the ages of birth and 18. They all lived under our roof and daily communication was a way of life -- until they all reached the age of 12...

So when I'm lying in bed at night, my nose whistles. I think that started when I was 52 and a half. I can't explain it, but it has to do with aging because that particular sound didn't come out of my nostrils in my 20s, 30s or 40s. It...

In 1957 real men didn't wear earrings or beaded necklaces or jeans that showed off the bottom of their butt crack while they were standing up. Dear God! Grandmothers didn't wear funky T-shirts and tight blue jeans, and they wouldn't be caught dead without white gloves at church on Sunday....

Reality shows be gone... well, most of them. Maybe it's time to bring back Ponderosa and Dodge City to television because reality shows aren't quite as good as they use to be. Remember a reality-based show called This Is Your Life with Ralph Edwards? Ralph surprised...

Rock and roll -- what a concept. The pillars of uptight communities all across Northern America back in the '50s were yelling, "Rock and roll has got to go!" In their distorted wisdom. They thought that this vibrant, loud, feel-good music was somehow going to corrupt the world.

Dance crazes...

There are certain things I miss when I reminisce about my childhood, including watching one of my favorite television shows of all time: The Pinky Lee Show ("Yoo hoo, it's me, my name is Pinky Lee"); Little Lulu comic books (who has had a better friend than Tubby?); Dave Garroway...

Pardon me a moment. I'm concentrating.

Picture it. I'm sitting in the den with my husband Buff. He's on the sofa in the fetal position, I'm in my chair, and I make this comment:

"We had a full moon last night. I love full moons. We should take a moment...

I know. I know. I know. Prostitution is a controversial subject.

What if we legalize prostitution and then we can do away with the word: prostitute?

Hold on. Let's take a look at this before getting really, really defensive.

Tell me. What's the difference between a woman taking cold...

If you look at the many leading men who have become household names over the past 60 years, you'll recognize these names: Humphrey Bogart, Clark Gable, Rock Hudson, Kirk Douglas, Paul Newman, Michael Douglas, Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Jack Nicholson and Johnny Depp -- just to name a...

"Someone turns 50 years of age every six seconds." ... Jennifer N. Block

When I was a kid, I loved watching really good television shows, and since television was an infant itself back then, almost everything that came on that black & white box was like going to...

I have thin lips. Putting lipstick on me is like putting lipstick on a goat. I don't enjoy having goat lips. I'd like to have full lips, but somehow in the womb, my DNA blueprint read: thin lips, skinny legs, small blue eyes, red hair, Jimmy Durante nose (although I'm...

When the powers-that-be sit in the malt shop -- wearing their poodle skirts and sporting Brylcreem -- throwing out the names of potential candidates to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, do they base their choices on anything specific or do they just toss...

The Academy Awards got it right again this year. Billy Crystal -- the funniest baby boomer alive -- will host The Greatest Show on Earth (pardon the circus metaphor) for the ninth time so we can all breathe a sigh of relief. No worries now. It WILL be funny and...

Honeymoons are great. There's nothing more romantic than two people in love basking in the sun by day, making love in the moonlight by night. Life is good.

The first five years of marriage breezes by because the happiness quotient is still high and talking politely to your spouse keeps...