Gloria Vanderbilt

Anderson Cooper temporarily blind after a gig in Portugal

2012-12-04 19:02:00

The Ministry has a bone to pick with Mother Nature: She's dared to tamper with the crystal-blue peepers of one Anderson Cooper. The TV journalist, captain of the airline citizen police and host of the soon-to-be defunct "Anderson Live," revealed Tuesday...

Friday's TV Talk Shows: Jermaine Paul; Tim Tebow; Eva Longoria

2012-05-10 21:37:29

FYI Book Club selects Domingo Martinez's memoir, "The Boy Kings of Texas," a National Book Award finalist.

2013-05-18 01:34:01

Writer Domingo Martinez grew up in a big, border-town family in Texas, but his memoir hardly reads like a Latino version of life on Walton's Mountain with John and Olivia's brood. Way rougher and more uncomfortable than that. In "The Boy Kings of...

We asked residents of Wyndemere, a retirement community in Wheaton: What little luxury do you splurge on?

2013-05-09 13:37:00

George Newitt, 95 I love bow ties — hand tied ones. They're not readily available these days, but Land"'s End occasionally offers them in a catalog. The ladies love them too! They evoke compliments. Joanne East, 87 Gloria Vanderbilt jeans —...

Garbo! The unending saga of Hollywood's most mysterious, misunderstood star

2013-03-29 02:30:06

"SHE WAS LIKE A HORSE ON THE TRACK. Nothing, and then the bell goes, and something happens," said Hollywood cinematographer James Wong Howe about Greta Garbo. If you're like me, sometimes you roam your living quarters picking up and putting down books...

Madonna's GLAAD for Anderson Cooper -- and for a good martini

2013-03-19 02:30:06

"HEELS OR the combat boots? I know the heels are sexier and campy, but I feel better in the boots, and they are more Boy Scout-ish. I'm gonna go with the boots. Although I wonder what they are going to think when a Munchkin from "The Wizard of Oz" comes...

N.Y. turns out for Penny Marshall's 'My Mother Was Nuts'

2012-09-21 21:55:06

"Whatever you have read I have said is almost certainly untrue, except if it is funny in which case I definitely said it." -- Tallulah Bankhead. Speaking of old-time stars who really twinkled reminds me of something I read in The New York Times last...

Fashion, Art, and Gloria Vanderbilt

2012-09-17 21:55:06

"DON'T you think fashion is basically over?" asked the humorist and expert Cynthia Heimel, back in 2004. Well, fashion happens to be the biggest item in what we laughingly call "the civilized world" right now and it is the second-biggest business in...

Gloria Vanderbilt is a fashion designer and author best known for making blue jeans more fashionable. Vanderbilt is a graduate of Miss Porter's.

2013-01-23 00:00:00

Nathan Turner divides his book into three California living styles: beach, city and country. In his take on a mid-century beach house, the base of the seating is upholstered in a fabric by Lulu DK, and the cushions are in complementary solids. "Let's face it," Turner writes, "the pattern is busy.

2012-10-24 12:02:36

Halston, second from left, joined three other top fashion designers -- Bob Mackie, left, Gloria Vanderbilt and Geoffrey Beene -- for a taping of an episode of the TV show "The Love Boat" on Feb. 4, 1981.

1981-02-04 00:00:00