Links to the past, with relevance today ... (more…)
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Past & Curious: Freddy’s Revenge, Jamie Lee Curtis’s Admission & More!
Past & Curious: Nancy McKeon Returns, Soap Star Fired + More!
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Sally Field Recounts Abuse by Stepfather in New Memoir
Coming September 18 from Grand Central Publishing, a new memoir by 71-year-old two-time Oscar winner Sally Field, In Pieces, promises to demystify her wholesome image — in the name of truth. (more…)
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Past & Curious: Old Head Shots + Joan’s House + Judy’s B’day!
Ten dips into the past that are amusing us at present ... (more…)
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When Mae West Was Good: Hot New Book!
Goodness has something to do with it — but greatness has more. Michael Michaud, the author of engrossing books on celebs — Sal Mineo: A Biography (2011), Famous Enough: A Hollywood Memoir (with Diane McBain, 2014) and Alan Sues: A Funny Man (2017) — has just published his latest (and greatest?) tome, Mae West: Between the Covers (BearManor,…
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Happy Joan Crawford Day!
Enduring film legend Joan Crawford was born anywhere from 110 to 114 years ago today — mystery continues to swirl around her birth year — but she's one of the few Old Hollywood icons whose impact has continued into the 21st century, in spite of the fact that she died in 1977. (more…)
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Discovered! 1945 Pool Party Footage Is Window into Gay Life
Geoff Story of St. Louis stumbled upon an amazingly rare find at a 1990s estate sale — and it could be about to make its debut in full. (more…)
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Baby Peggy, Last Silent Era Star, Is … Alive at 99!
As Baby Peggy, Diana Serra Cary (pictured above in a 2012 photo by Matthew Rettenmund) was a bona fide star of the Silent Era. (more…)
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He Said/They’re Dead: Doc Profiles Hollywood Pimp Scotty Bowers
When Full Service was published several years ago, battle lines were drawn: You either believed Scotty Bowers, then 90, when he talked about having had sex with everyone from Bette Davis to Rock Hudson and having procured sex partners for no less a Hollywood great than Katharine Hepburn (and hundreds of others), or you dismissed…
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‘Anything Can Be Rented These Days’: Inside the Hollywood Show
I just returned from my latest trip to the Hollywood Show, the venerable autograph fest which hosts venerable celebs and their increasingly venerable fans (us!) (more…)
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