Debbie Reynolds once told me, and not so very long ago at that, “I’m so busy, if I got married now I’d have to give my husband a picture of myself, so he’d know what I look like!” My, how that attitude has changed! Debbie’s still...
It was one amazing feat to build the first practical motor cars—it was another to start making more and selling them. Just convincing people of their benefits was often difficult. Entrepreneurs, engineers, and aristocrats all played parts in the earliest faltering steps toward car manufacture....
For four hours once—and this was not for a movie script—Zsa Zsa Gabor was sitting in the middle of half a dozen sort of starving lions. This is how it started. Picture Zsa Zsa Gabor, and you get a mental image of this beauty in an...
The 19th century saw tremendous advances in engineering, as mechanization transformed production in factories. Inventors turned their attention to replacing the horse with something that could go faster and farther. Steam, electricity, and gas were all tried, and in this early period it was hard...
Dear Marilyn, Remember when you said, “If I had a child, a little girl, I would bring her up to have all the things I never had. I don’t mean material things like clothes and money. They’re nice, too—but—I mean love. People caring about her. People...
I’m here to preach sophistication for teenage girls, a nice kind of sophistication. In England, where I grew up, girls dressed very, very youthfully and wore no make-up at all until they were seventeen or so—I’ll get to make-up. later—but in America that needn’t be...
Serves 4 8 bone-in, skin-on chicken thighs (2½ to 3 lb. total) Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper 2 oz. (4 Tbs.) unsalted butter ¾ lb. fresh pearl onions, peeled 6 medium cloves garlic, thinly sliced ½ tsp. smoked sweet paprika (pimenton) 1½ cups cane vinegar 1½ cups lower-salt chicken broth 4 large...
It wasn’t that I was a fiend type. As a matter of fact, when I look back on my boyhood I see myself as a walking symbol of the YMCA—such an angel that it’s a wonder I lived through it. At home in Beechhurst on...
A classic side dish that all cooks should have in their recipe boxes....
One afternoon, Doris Day left her studio dressing room and started walking over to the set. Then the pain hit her. It hit her like the shock of an unexpected breaker in an angry sea and she was drowning with it. Her heart was a hammer and...