Everybody’s got one—that sibling, aunt, uncle, in-law, parent, child— who’s movie-mad, who can regularly be found at the local repertory house and whose cable box is set by default at Turner Classic ...

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The new biography of Natalie Wood is at once unusual, impressive, disturbing and revelatory. This sort of carefully researched, in-depth study of a life is unusual among Hollywood biographies, which ...

When a film historian, Kevin Brownlow, showed up at the home of producer Irving Asher to shoot a documentary about his career, Brownlow hoped he would also get to interview Asher’s wife, the elusive ...

He was crowned "the King of Hollywood" in a 1938 poll conducted by columnist Ed Sullivan, and for once the hype was accurate. Whether he was striking sparks with Jean Harlow in "Red Dust" or bringing ...

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The Academy Awards are always a good reason to read a book. I don’t necessarily mean in place of watching the broadcast this weekend – though I am in favor of counterprogramming the telecast if you ...

Although Gwyneth Paltrow now preaches peace and wellness, her past reveals a far more ruthless side. A new unauthorized biography reveals a darker past filled with ambition, icy grudges, and savage ...

Joe Hyams, a former Hollywood columnist and best-selling author of books ranging from biographies of Humphrey Bogart and James Dean to a popular tome on Eastern philosophy, has died. He was 85. Hyams, ...

Are legendary romances – like the one traced in Stephen Galloway's new Hollywood biography “Truly, Madly: Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, and the Romance of the Century” (Grand Central Publishing, 342 ...