Celebrity

Maybe you know him through his storytelling on the radio show This American Life or through his best-selling books, including Me Talk Pretty One Day or Dress Your Family In Corduroy and Denim. Or maybe you’ve read his work in The New Yorker. However you know him, you’re likely to…

Many of you are probably familiar with Dr. Mary Pipher, the noted psychologist who wrote the 2005 groundbreaking book on adolescent girls, Reviving Ophelia. Well, just in time for the new year, Dr. Pipher is at it again, though this time she has focused her expert eye on the life…

Rumor has it that this may be his last film role, so lucky for us the early reviews of his performance are glowing. In The Old Man & His Gun, 82-year-old Robert Redford plays Forrest Tucker, a real-life gentleman bank robber, profiled in The New Yorker in 2003, who enjoyed…

Undoubtedly, you have your favorite: Could it be Maggie Smith in Downton Abbey? Or Judi Dench in Victoria and Abdul? Maybe Joan Plowright in Enchanted April? Or perhaps Eileen Atkins in Gosford Park? No matter, come September 21st, all four of these delightful British thespians will be on screen together…

Whether as an ingenue, political activist, fitness guru or now television star, actress Jane Fonda has always been a somewhat controversial and yet fascinating public figure. Now 80 years old, Fonda stars in the fifth season of her Netflix show Grace and Frankie. Along with actors Lily Tomlin, Sam Waterston and Martin…

It’s an all too familiar story for women of a certain age: A decades-long marriage in which the wife sublimates her ambitions and talents to support the husband as he prospers and succeeds. For some couples, this arrangement works- for others, the combination of inflated egos and lost opportunities becomes…