Director Anne Bass's Dancing Across Borders is a wonderful and moving documentary about the young Cambodian dancer Sokvannaara Sar. After Bass discovered Sar performing with a small troupe in Angkor Wat, she arranged for him to come to New York and audition for the School of American Ballet.

We all want to be attractive and admired. What I object to is the excess, the shameless retouching, the body sculpting performed by so many magazines, and the dangerous message it sends.

This is the debut of my new portrait series on the Huffington Post. Last week Sandra Bernhard sat for me to commemorate her upcoming revival of "Without You I'm Nothing: The 20th Anniversary."

American treasure Lou Reed did a flawless set last night at The Whitney Museum.

In Senegal and much of Africa, according to Rolling Stone, Youssou N'Dour is "perhaps the most famous singer alive." Beyond those borders, he is a well-kept secret.

If aging gracefully is the goal, then we can learn a lot from the legendary supermodels in HBO's new series "About Face: Supermodels Then And Now." ...