TAMPA, Fla. — I don’t scare easily. I pick up snakes, wade among alligators and eat lunch at rural diners where the best thing on the menu is lima-bean stew. Yet I was afraid to ask Cheri Irwin, who once owned the most famous derriere in America, about her tan line.
The Question has become the price of her strange fame, a fame she never...
SEATTLE — The late playwright Wendy Wasserstein was a woman of many facets — some even her closest friends weren’t aware of before her death from cancer in 2006, at 55.
In her compelling, revealing and insightful new biography “Wendy and the Lost Boys: The Uncommon Life of Wendy Wasserstein” (Penguin Press; $29.95), Julie Salamon...
Australian actress Rachael Carpani has made a name for herself Down Under in the prime-time soap-opera-style television series “McLeod’s Daughters.” She is now following in the footsteps of fellow Aussies, such as Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman, who have made it in the United States.
Carpani has had roles on “The Glades,” and “NCIS: Los...
NEW YORK — Jennifer Egan takes bold leaps all over the literary map. Her latest novel, “A Visit From the Goon Squad,” has been called wildly ambitious, bravura, a virtuoso performance. “Is there anything Egan can’t do?” crowed the New York Times Book Review.
Heck, yes, she’d say if you asked her. At the moment, fumbling with the spanking...
Jane Fonda can even make shopping controversial.
Last month, the Oscar-winning actress disclosed on her blog that QVC had canceled her appearance on the cable TV shopping channel after getting calls criticizing her involvement in anti-Vietnam War activities in the 1970s.
Not that she was peddling anything political: She was going...
