Word: barbarae
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...House: Family Life and Pictures, 1961-1963 (Simon & Schuster; 304 pages; $32), a collection of photographs that will center on Jackie, who, as the crowds that visited the recent exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum show, has assumed goddess stature. Jackie's White House years are also the subject of Barbara Leaming's new biography, Mrs. Kennedy: The Missing History of the Kennedy Years (Free Press; 368 pages; $25), which draws on personal letters, Secret Service records and other recently declassified documents to tell the story of the Kennedys' troubled marriage and Jackie's role in shaping Jack's presidency...
...there's more on the way. Barbara Bush is writing a sequel to her popular 1994 best-selling memoir, this one on life after the White House. Hillary Clinton got an $8 million advance for her book, and some critics expect it will be far more interesting than Bill's. Meanwhile, a new museum for Mamie Doud Eisenhower is being completed in Broomfield, Colo.; PBS is toying with a series on White House partners; and there is talk of a television drama about a White House family that would center on a fictional First Lady. No doubt she will...
...hard to imagine a person less suited to carrying the name of the early 20th century boxer Jack Johnson than the early 21st century folk singer Jack Johnson. The contemporary Johnson, 26, spends his days shuffling between rooms of a shabby-chic Santa Barbara bungalow, editing surf films and strumming out tunes on an acoustic guitar. When life gets too tough, he takes a five-minute stroll to the the beach. "I try to surf everyday," he says quietly. "If there's no waves, I'll go swimming, or we'll just set up camp with a cooler...
...What did Anne Heche NOT tell Barbara Walters...
OVERRATED Barbara Walters with Anne Heche. Promoted ad nauseam, Babs' interview with the wayward actress turned out to be an egregious example of the celebrity confessional as career move. At least Condit spared us the psychobabble...