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A fascinating read. What I am trying to decipher is whether this is a brilliantly-staged character assassination on the part of a gigantic corporation and its expensive hired guns, or whether in fact this fellow Donziger is, in fact, a caricature of an ambulance-chaser. Almost as good as a Grisham novel
"How Eva Marie Saint became a Hitchcock blonde and a Hollywood legend, but never a diva superstar."
"Until five years ago, Mel Gibson was one of the best-loved and best-paid talents in Hollywood, not to mention one of the town’s few real family men. How to explain the foulmouthed, violent bigotry that has since burst into public view, making him an industry pariah, even as his 26-year marriage imploded? With the help of Gibson’s friends—and his movies—Peter Biskind delves into the roots of a star’s divided life."
"Where did Piers Morgan come from? And is there any way to send him back? Reviewing the debut “gets”—Oprah! Rudy! Condoleezza!—of Larry King’s blustery British heir, the author examines the failures behind Morgan’s success."
"In April 1943, 25-year-old John F. Kennedy arrived in the Pacific and took command of the PT-109. Just months later, the boat collided with a Japanese ship, killing two of his men (John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library, PC101). "
Liang Congjie, who was one of the founders of China’s first legally recognized environmental group and who came to be honored by international agencies and the Chinese government alike, died here on Thursday. He was 78.
When Freddie de Cordova, Johnny Carson’s longtime producer, died in 2001, his wife knew her big-caviar days were over. Their mansion would have to go. Then Janet de Cordova did something that shocked le tout Beverly Hills.
Filling this government-manufactured void was Chao's government-trusted sandbox for cynics, celebrities, influential bloggers and media elites. It has become China's most potent incubator for subversive Internet memes, much to the consternation of bungling local officials across the country. From a deadly fire in Shanghai to a fatal hit-and-run by the son of a police official (producing the catchphrase, "Sue me if you dare, my dad is Li Gang!") to a recent online campaign to find and retrieve kidnapped child beggars, Weibo has forced authorities to reckon with popular opinion in a way unprecedented in Communist-ruled China.
While the arguable non-story of China’s “Jasmine protests” enjoys excited and widespread coverage internationally, boiling over into a tug-of-war over the very real harassment of foreign journalists in China, there is one potentially great big story missing from everyone’s agenda — the mysterious death of Chinese college student Zhao Wei (赵伟).
"But how to freshly document the life of a man who was his own Boswell, whose books and articles slavishly documented his own every tic, whoop and hallucination? A journalist who announced his arrival in American letters by riding with the Hells Angels and in the end choreographed a memorial from the grave that made the Burning Man bacchanal seem chaste? "
A fun look at Judi Dench, pushing her new book and proving that captivating and delightful is in the soul. What a truly remarkable lady.
"On the set of Howard Hawks’s To Have and Have Not, Humphrey Bogart, then married to mercurial actress Mayo Methot, fell madly in love with a beautiful 19-year-old who had not quite yet become Lauren Bacall. In an excerpt from their new biography, A. M. Sperber and Eric Lax recount the dazzling, tempestuous start of a legendary Hollywood romance."
"Geena Davis is the perfect movie star for the nineties: she’s the most offhanded sex goddess since Rita Hayworth, and the liberated virago who blazed her way through the Zeitgeist as the co-star of Thelma & Louise. Now she’s stepping up to a lead role in Stephen Frear’s Hero. Kevin Sessums reports. "
"The sexiest man alive? “Nah,” says Mel Gibson, whose Lethal Weapon II opens this month. He subscribes wholeheartedly to the Australian Male Ethic, and just wants to be one of the guys. But, writes Stephen Schiff, the gods have created him in the form of a heartthrob."
"To meet Mel Gibson, the amazingly blue-eyed, velvet-voiced, $20 million movie king, is to run into a wall of good humor and matinee-idol glamour. And yet, Cathy Horyn discovers, Gibson the practical joker may also be Gibson the thinker of dark thoughts, a man not unlike the revolutionary of Braveheart or the half-lunatic cabdriver he plays in his big summer movie, Conspiracy Theory."
"She’s one of the last of Hollywood’s golden-age stars—the girl who stole Humphrey Bogart’s heart at age 19 and has been grappling with their dual legend ever since. Now 86, Lauren Bacall looks back on a lucky, if often difficult, life as she gives it straight to Matt Tyrnauer, talking about the effect of Bogie’s fame on her and their kids; her very brief engagement to Frank Sinatra; her stormy second union, to Jason Robards; and why she hates the Oscar she received, in 2009."
David Kamp and Gavin Bond spotlight the Sherman Brothers, who wrote the soundtrack for American childhood.
Read More http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2011/03/sherman-bros-201103?printable=true#ixzz1Dvv3lt8m
Peter Guber on navigating Hollywood, courting gorillas, and splitting with Jon Peters.
Q&A by George Wayne
Read More http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2011/03/peter-guber-qa-201103?printable=true#ixzz1Dvup8q7F
Edmund Morris’s Roosevelt trilogy is one of the best biographies in modern literature. I've got the first, I'm going to buy the other two.
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