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Actress Sylvia Kristel, the sensual star of the soft porn classic, Emmanuelle, recently offered up some advice for her fellow actresses: “Don’t Get Old! You’re much better off as a love goddess to die around the age of 40.” Hey, sounds like the plot of a good retirement movie. Famous porn actress fakes her death [...]

Kirk Douglas has some advice about relationships. Quote: “The thing about a relationship between a man and a woman, is that there always has to be a bit of mystery. A bit of you’re-not-quite-sure. You know? I wrote a chapter in the book titled: Romance Begins At 80. And it’s true.”
Of course, in the same [...]

Imagine sitting at home in Cleveland, Ohio, minding your own business when the phone rings. “Hello?” “Jimmy Scott?” “Yes.” “Pink Martini. How would you like to sing Tea for Two with Pink Martini?” “I would love it.” And that’s exactly what happened!
No one is ever too old to work!

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The myths about the unlucky number thirteen abound. A person’s phobia about the number actually has its own disorder name, triskaidekaphobia. Tall buildings sometimes avoid designating a 13th floor. What’s it all mean? The human mind knows how to scare the hell out of itself.
When it comes to an author, though, the number thirteen represents [...]

Watch as an older man sits down at the piano and plays a song that conjures up memories of his former life. Bravo, Adian Gibbons! This was a pleasure to experience.

In honor of Jerry Falwell’s recent demise, we hope you might find condolence in Michael Baisden’s first book, Never Satisfied: How & Why Men Cheat. We suggest reading this book as a metaphor for how Mr. Falwell cheated decent American citizens out of their Constitutional rights in the name of God almighty.
When religion becomes [...]

Author Henry Louis Gates, Jr. beat Oprah’s dad to the punch by writing Finding Oprah’s Roots. This must have ticked off Oprah’s father, because he’s just announced that he’s writing his own tell-all book on Oprah’s roots called “Things Unspoken.” Hey Oprah, truth is in the mouth of the father, not the eye of the [...]

When you get fired in Hollywood, the fall from grace is not about the money, it’s about the loss of power. Disney CEO Michael Eisner and MTV CEO Tom Freston both got booted from their jobs and their journey since sounds more like a tale of Little Red Riding Hood getting lost in the woods [...]

Source: Steve Bartrick
Rembrandt’s Portrait of an Old Woman from 1895. This is a photogravure. Study that face. Does she look like a happy woman to you? Rather grim and practical to me. I’d sure hate to be late for dinner as a kid in her house.

© Joyce Tennyson
While the glamor of New York often seems to reside in its spectacular buildings and parks, there can be no doubt that it belongs in the romantic minds of New Yorkers themselves. One such luminous figure was Kitty Carlisle Hart. Those were the days, my friends, when you could gallivant around the city [...]

We live in a media age when anything, and I mean anything, that can remotely be connected to a celebrity is fodder for publication. If you’re shooting a movie, then why not shoot the making of the movie. And while you’re at it, why not hire a still photographer to turn the moving images into [...]

Per Isabella Rossellini:
My Dad Is 100 Years Old was made to celebrate the one hundredth anniversary of my father’s birth in 1906. I know that during his centennial year there will be occasions to celebrate and remember my father’s work and I will be asked to present his films at screenings and give interviews. I [...]

As the snow moves toward the East Coast, perhaps now would be a good time to make a nice cup of hot chocolate and listen to Byron Janis play Rachmaninoff’s 3rd Concerto, Movement 3.
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The details of life always surpass that which ends up in the movies, newspapers or magazines. Marlene Dietrich, the bombshell beauty, closed out her life not with a bang, but a whimpering song.
New York Post’s Page Six is flogging a new biography that tells how late in her life Marlene was so broke she [...]

Actor Kirk Douglas is hitting the book tour circuit soon. His new book, Let’s Face It, offers up 90 years of living, loving and learning. The Hollywood life has been good to Kirk. New York Post’s Page Six is highlighting the “loving” part of his biography by featuring an incident involving a German airline stewardess [...]

Sir Edwin Henry Landseer was a great 19th Century animal painter. A biography by Frederick G. Stephens from 1880 points out the influence of his father on his career. The act of mentoring is so crucial to the discovery of one’s identity…
The best living authority avers that our subject was by no means diligent at [...]

For every great recording artist there’s sure to be a record label producer who knew a hit when he or she heard it. Jerry Wexler is one of these guys with the golden ear. His continued passion for the business is testimony that it pays to do what you love!
Celebrating his 90th birthday today, Mr. [...]

The Trump ego has now been enlarged, thanks to Ivanka and Don, Jr. joining The Apprentice. Nepotism is fine in a family business, but when it becomes so self-promoting you have to wonder where the ego stops and desire for fame implodes.
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Old age, at least in the case of artist Martin Kippenberger, forgos vanity in favor of artistic truth. I stumbled on this self-portrait while visiting Saatchi’s gallery online. It’s raw, in your face, and disturbing like all good art.
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Saatchi Gallery © Martin Kippenberger
Martin Kippenberger
Saatchi Gallery
Self Portrait
1988, oil on canvas
200 x 240cm
Description: [...]

Two-part interview with Bettie Davis by Barbara Walters.