Clark Gable

In The Star Machine, Jeanine Basinger, a film historian, tells her story with her customary verve and sass.  read more »

Audrey Hepburn moved through her movies like a mournful swan, unsure of her own beauty.  read more »

“Well, I know y’all are probably on a deadline,” said newspaperwoman Liz Smith on  read more »

The Real Estate had no intention of reporting during last night's Morrissey party at Sway, but happened to learn that the brooding singer's Los Angeles home is now on the market.

Despite being 3,000 miles from our usual turf, we couldn't resist offering a peek at Morrissey's lavish limestone bath. Several years ago, he decided that sunny California was a worthy substitute to gloomy Manchester.

But Morrissey isn't the only celebrity owner of this Hollywood Hills mansion. In fact, the Mediterranean-style house was built by Clark Gable for Carole Lombard, and later owned by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Note to obsessive fans: he's already moved out. And if Smiths lyrics offer any indication of his future plans, he "would rather not go back to the old house."  read more »

- Michael Calderone

The Good, the Bad, and Me: In My Anecdotage, by Eli Wallach.  read more »

A scene everyoneremembers from pre-Code Hollywood is Jean Harlow in Red Dust (1932), bathing in a ba  read more »

Wednesday, July 15 Every week, a hidden camera in a second-floor window on a beautiful-people stree  read more »

In the 50's and 60's, my European parents would sometimes talk about the powerful antifascist theme-  read more »