I was raised by sensible Midwesterners who believed that no good could come of psychology or introspection. That may be why I get impatient with memoirs that dwell on their writers' inner lives. What ...

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Gwyneth, Amy Odell’s biography of Gwyneth Paltrow, opens with one of the star’s biggest controversies. Not her “overly emotional” Oscars speech, nor her recent ski crash trial, nor her many ...

In 1936, Merle Oberon became the first Asian woman–and person of color–to receive an Oscar nomination for best actress. She was nominated for... A new biography tells the story of a South Asian ...

"Fay Wray and Robert Riskin: A Hollywood Memoir" (Pantheon), by Victoria Riskin If there was an Academy Award for movie books, Victoria Riskin would be making room beside the Oscar her father won for ...

Matthew Specktor grew up the son of a famous Hollywood agent. In The Golden Hour he serves up family saga, cultural criticism, fictionalized... This Hollywood memoir is an expertly mixed cocktail of ...