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...Texas in 1987 and found her way back to Houston, a city with a brash and brassy side. There, in October 1991, an aging oil millionaire, grief stricken with the loss of both a wife and a mistress, was taken by his chaffeur for a little cheering up to Gigi's Cabaret. It was the kind of place where young women dance exotically for their suppers. And that is how Anna Nicole found her second husband, Howard Marshall II, one of the richest men in Texas. They married in June 1994. He was 89 and she was 26. "He wanted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Anna Nicole Smith, 1967-2007 | 2/8/2007 | See Source »

...more lovely." Yet Ella, who said she "grew up wanting to be more than anything else English, slim and an actress," seemed miffed that Audrey got all that, and more. She rarely showed pleasure in her daughter's success. She came backstage after Audrey's Broadway triumph in "Gigi" in 1951 and said, "You've done very well, my dear, considering that you have no talent." (A few years later Ella appears briefly as a sidewalk cafe patron in "Funny Face".) Audrey's son Sean Hepburn Ferrer called his mom "a star who couldn't see her own light." Could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Audrey Hepburn: Still the Fairest Lady | 1/20/2007 | See Source »

...What kind of creatures will our evolutionary betters be? Will we share 99% of our DNA with them? How long will it take until humans are outfoxed and new beings take over? Surely we are not the end of the evolutionary line. Gigi King Oro Valley, Arizona...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 1/4/2007 | See Source »

...GIGI KING Oro Valley, Ariz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 30, 2006 | 10/22/2006 | See Source »

...clear we can't return to the days of Gigi and Daddy Long Legs and Funny Girl, when gawky young women were transformed into Givenchy-wearing lovelies by suave, much older men who danced well. Steve Martin tried that last year with shopgirl. In the scene where he puts his hand on Claire Danes' naked back, audience members around me practically reached for their cell phones to dial child services. Meanwhile, the vicissitudes of show biz have done in the witty Spencer Tracy--Katharine Hepburn bickerfests, because they require people to actually pay attention. And let's face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Have All the Cary Grants Gone? | 7/31/2006 | See Source »

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