"I want to have your child. With my looks and your brains, it will be a perfect child!"

"But what if it has my looks and your brains?" Freaky pic: Stand back or squint to achieve the best effect. And here's Einstei...

"Mitt Romney was not at Chappaquiddick. Mitt Romney has not been accused of rape. "

"Mitt Romney did not have an affair with a mob babe. He didn't have an affair with an actress who committed suicide later on. Mit...

"An increasing number of affluent women with affluent husbands are casting off the chains of professional work..."

Writes James Taranto , noting a new Federal Reserve study showing a decline in the number of highly educated women with highly educated husb...

Prop 8 ruling from the 9th Circuit is expected momentarily.

At 10 a.m. Pacific Time , noon Central. UPDATE: The court holds that the ban on same-sex marriage violates equal protection. AND: Here's...

Tony Curtis, RIP.

He was 85. As a performer, Mr. Curtis drew first and foremost on his startlingly good looks. With his dark, curly hair, worn in a sculptural...

"What Audrey does in 'Breakfast at Tiffany’s' is not uninteresting, but it is far from the modern woman..."

"...  even the one introduced to American audiences in the persons of Bette Davis, Irene Dunne, Margaret Sullavan, the other Hepburn (t...

It's the President's birthday!

He's 49, and having dinner with friends — no family — at a restaurant in Chicago.

The female female impersonator.

An interesting category, but who would we put in it? Guy Trebay starts with Wendy Williams. (It's an article about Wendy Williams .) But...

Norman Mailer died.

Today. Remember when he ran for Mayor? I do. The idea was that NYC should be the 51st state. It'd be the 12th largest, you know. (In cas...

"With Anna Nicole, she was pathetic but at the same time you thought, 'Gosh, if I could just scoop you up and fix things, it would be OK...."

"You wouldn't want to scoop up Paris Hilton.'" Ah, yes. The classic two types of hyper-sexualized women -- the kind you t...

Hanging in there... for -- what is it? -- 30 years?

I believe I have discovered the last surviving "Hang in There, Baby!" poster. Do you remember these things? They used to be all ov...

"I blame it all on lip gloss."

Writes Daphne Merkin: I believe there is something irrevocably ruinous about a culture in which women are expected to go around with their l...

"The classical pimples of the adolescent working his first gas pump would also pump for her..."

Virginia Heffernan quotes and is disgusted by a PBS show about photographs of Marilyn Monroe: The narration sounds like a terrible Norman M...

"#Through the nose, #High voice, #Nose broken early in youth to account for difficulty."

Brando's notes on the "Godfather" script -- along with other personal effects up for auction -- pictured here . And here '...

Out asexuals.

Here an interesting piece in the NYT about the newly found pride of persons who are not sexually attracted to anyone: They describe themsel...

The rose Marilyn Monroe painted for President Kennedy.

Sold for $78,ooo. It's rather nicely done actually. Her personal phone book brought a higher price, though. UPDATE: Here 's more on ...

''A star is an animal; you control an animal with love and threats.''

That's a line by Arthur Miller, from another one of his plays about his long-dead wife, Marilyn Monroe. Deborah Solomon plies her wily i...

Ronald Reagan and Shirley Temple. Today is Shirley Temple's birthday, and TMC is showing a lot of her movies. I love Shirley and have m...