Lauren Bacall taught me how to be sexy. Forget Marilyn Monroe or Bette Davis, Bacall was the only woman to have the perfect balance of beauty, intelligence, and strength of character. I still remember my mother coming home with a ...
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The American Film Institute voted An Affair to Remember the most romantic film of all time. It is a seminal classic. But how many people know that it was a remake of a film made 18 years earlier – with ...
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About six months ago I was talking to a friend about what we had been reading recently. In her handbag was Stephen Chbosky’s The Perks of Being a Wallflower. It was one of those books that she loved to reread ...
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