Rupert Murdoch, who retired from the boards of Fox and News Corporation last year, walked down an outdoor aisle under blue skies to exchange vows on Saturday with Elena Zhukova, his fifth bride, at Moraga, his Tuscan-style vineyard estate in the hills of the Bel Air neighborhood of Los Angeles. Ms. Zhukova, 67, carried a…
Good morning. Julie Powell famously learned to cook by making her way through all of Julia Child’s “Mastering the Art of French Cooking,” an endeavor she chronicled in a blog that became a book and then a movie. I tried a similar march with Chris Schlesinger and John Willoughby’s “Let the Flames Begin” when I…
Even before former President Donald J. Trump was convicted on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to conceal a sex scandal, a verdict was being delivered on The National Enquirer. The no-holds-barred supermarket tabloid was once famous for publishing salacious stories about celebrities and politicians. Now it may be better known for suppressing them.…
WHEN WOMEN RAN FIFTH AVENUE: Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion, by Julie Satow In 1980, Donald J. Trump made the front page of The New York Times after assaulting a pair of scantily clad women at a Fifth Avenue department store. That the women were made of stone and were attached…
Some stories are so perfect and poignant that even if we suspect they are not true, we simply do not want to know. There is a white peacock perched inside Brooke Shields’s home in New York City. She named it Steve. He sits frozen on an acrylic pedestal, feathers draped to the floor. Ms. Shields…
A confession: I almost always pull back the sugar in a dessert recipe. (I’m sharing this here because I don’t think I’m alone.) I do this because 1) I come from a home where “not too sweet” is the highest praise a dessert can get; 2) I get cavities just by thinking about sweets; and…
[Ahora también estamos en WhatsApp. Haz clic aquí y empieza a seguirnos] Mi divorcio, aunque relativamente fácil y amable, me dejó destrozada, agotada y desconfiada. Durante los 12 años que duró nuestro matrimonio, me sentí como si hubiera estado interpretando el papel de una esposa y madre de la alta sociedad de Hollywood, y ya…
Wendy Mazur said her “jaw hit the floor” when she saw her favorite pop singer, Goldford, walk out with his guitar during her first dance with Jerry Bedwell at their wedding in April 2022. The couple considered the ballad “Upside Down” their song and had made it the theme of their reception at City Winery…