LIZ SMITH: Lost in Space ...
All Hail Hugh (Carlo Allegri/Reuters).Tuesday, June 10, 2014 by Liz Smith Lost in Space: Andy Weir's Great Novel, "The Martian" .... "The Edge of Tomorrow" is Better Than than the U.S. Box-Office Says...
View ArticleBideawee Ball
Cat Greenleaf with Molly, a recent addition to her family.Bideawee Ball by Delia von Neuschatz Bideawee, one of the nation’s oldest animal adoption centers, celebrated its 2014 annual ball with a...
View ArticleLIZ SMITH: Dazzling, Delicious, and Delirious ...
The delicious Lee Grant.Wednesday, June 11, 2014 by Liz Smith Lee Grant's Dazzling, Delicious, Delirious, Daunting Memoir — "I Said Yes To Everything." "LITTLE Lyova Haskell Rosenthal is precocious,"...
View ArticleLIZ SMITH: "Jersey Boys" Drives New Yorker's Wild ...
The cast of Warner Bros. Pictures'"Jersey Boys" (2014).Thursday, June 12, 2014 by Liz Smith Clint Eastwood's "Jersey Boys" Drives New Yorker's Wild At Premiere ... When Your Liz Tells You To Go To The...
View ArticleMad Ave Moments
940 Madison Avenue, circa 1920 — From bank (The US Mortgage & Trust Building to Chemical Bank to Chase Manhattan) ...Mad Ave Moments by Richard Turley With the departure of luxury goods maker VBH...
View ArticleLIZ SMITH: Barbara Walters Retired?
Friday, June 13, 2014 by Liz Smith Barbara Walters Retired? Uhhhh ... I Don't Think So! ... Vanity Fair Picks The Winners! “I GAVE them hope!” remarked Barbara Walters, accepting an important award and...
View ArticleJill Krementz covers The Livingston Awards
Jill Abramson and Steve Brill.The Livingston Awards luncheon honoring young journalists is always my favorite luncheon of the year. As usual, this year's ceremony, held yesterday, was at the Yale Club...
View ArticleLIZ SMITH: A Night To Remember ...
Monroe casual at the JFK rehearsal. Photo: LIFE.Monday, June 16, 2014 by Liz Smith A Fan Tells His Tale of MM and A Night To Remember ... In Praise of Emily Blunt ... Saving Picasso in...
View ArticleLIZ SMITH: Tuesday Tsunami ...
“I’ve been a broad all my life, and now I’m a Dame!”Tuesday, June 17, 2014 by Liz Smith Tuesday Tsunami: Dame Angelina ... The Sandals of Diane Keaton ... The Golden Age of the Stewardess ... Peter...
View ArticleLIZ SMITH: The News Sorority
Cover detail from “The News Sorority.”Wednesday, June 18, 2014 by Liz Smith Sheila Weller's Hot Book About Women In Broadcasting — "The News Sorority."“THE most successful women in this business are...
View ArticleLIZ SMITH: What Is it Anyway ...
LIZZIE Award Recipient Peter Brown, with Lizzie herself at Literacy Partners Evening of Readings & Gala Dinner Dance.Thursday, June 19, 2014 by Liz Smith Literature — What Is it Anyway, And Have...
View ArticleLIZ SMITH: Strong, Fabulous Women ...
Liz and Barbara Taylor Bradford at Literacy Partners.Friday, June 20, 2014 by Liz Smith "Game of Thrones" Finale Re-Opens the Debate About Women Vs. Men ... Great Country Houses ...The Art of Diana...
View ArticleLIZ SMITH: Master Class ...
Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee.Monday, June 23, 2014 by Liz Smith The Great Meryl Streep as the Great Maria Callas in the Great Terrence McNally's "Master Class" ... Remembering and Forever Saluting...
View ArticleLIZ SMITH: Still Supreme! ...
Tuesday, June 24, 2014 by Liz Smith Diana Ross — Still Supreme! ... Sean Young — Still a Bit Bewildering (But Quite Busy!) ... Sam Cooke on Vinyl ... Freddie Mercury Remembered in Rolling Stone.“I NEED...
View ArticleLIZ SMITH: When Legends Meet ...
When Legends Meet — Garland and Monroe in 1962.Wednesday, June 25, 2014 by Liz Smith When Legends Embraced — Judy and Marilyn! ... Welcoming Back the Great Lawrence O' Donnell.“CONTROL YOUR own...
View ArticleLIZ SMITH: Who Fixes What? ...
Thursday, June 26, 2014 by Liz Smith Who Fixes What In Hollywood? — Tilda Swinton Will Tell All! ... Brad Pitt Marches On ... Elaine Stritch Recovers ... Harry Treadaway Makes Monsters ... More on Judy...
View ArticleLIZ SMITH: Pages and Pages ...
Eli Wallach and Marilyn Monroe between takes on "The Misfits," 1960.Friday, June 27, 2014 by Liz Smith Kanye West Doesn't Read Books. He Has Pages and Pages of Kim Kardashian to Get Through! ......
View ArticleJill Krementz covers Jeff Koons at the Whitney
The Whitney's last hurrah uptown.Jeff Koons, A RetrospectiveJune 27-October 19, 2014 Whitney Museum of American Art at 75th and MadisonJeff Koons, (b. 1955), is one of the most influential and...
View ArticleLIZ SMITH: 'Low Tide'
Monday, June 30, 2014 by Liz Smith Monday's 'Low Tide'. (A Short Story.) We agree with critics who say writers don’t get their dues these days. Everybody offers an opinion and nobody’s byline seems to...
View ArticleLIZ SMITH: Secret History ...
Joel Schumacher, Julia Roberts, and Liz in the good old days.Tuesday, July 1, 2014 by Liz Smith The "Secret History" of Donna Tartt ... "The Leftovers" — a Hit or Will It Be Left for the Dogs? ......
View Article