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Doris Day: insecure about her looks and talents

Saturday, July 5th, 2008

From article: Shadows of Day, Los Angeles Times
A new biography looks into the shadows and ‘Untold Story’ of Doris Day
On screen, she was America’s smiling, singing darling. But off screen, her husbands weren’t Rock Hudson and her life was no light romp.
A former singer with Les Brown’s band in the 1940s.. Day was always portrayed [...]

Heather Thomas on trophy wives and feminizing influences

Saturday, May 10th, 2008

Heather Thomas based her new novel “Trophies” on Hollywood trophy wives - who, she says “get a bad rap, and there’s a lot of misconceptions about them. But really, there isn’t a hospital wing or a library in this city that wasn’t the result of some trophy wife’s efforts.”
Here is an excerpt from the mediabistro [...]

Jamie Lee Curtis on growing older and liking it

Friday, April 25th, 2008

Jamie Lee Curtis says she embraces getting older: “I actually think there’s an incredible amount of self-knowledge that comes with getting older. I feel way better now than I did when I was 20. I’m stronger, I’m smarter in every way, I’m so much less crazy than I was then.
“Years ago my husband and I [...]

Ann Curry on Perseverance

Thursday, April 3rd, 2008

News journalist Ann Curry [Today show etc] was born in Guam to a Japanese mother and a father of predominantly French and Scots-Irish descent from Colorado. [Wikipedia profile.]
She has talked about how her multi-ethnic background was at times in her life painful, but has also helped fuel her ambition to achieve, along with the inspiration [...]

Jenny McCarthy on motherhood and guilt

Monday, March 31st, 2008

Jenny McCarthy was a guest on the Oprah and Eckhart Tolle’s A New Earth Online Class. She spoke about her complex emotional reactions in raising her autistic son Evan.
Jenny: You know, I read this book [A New Earth, by Eckhart Tolle] when it first came out and that was one of my big [...]

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