by Michele Willens | Dec 6, 2023
Norman Lear lived to 101 and left so much behind: some of the best televisions shows in history (ones actually made history), some excellent films (I recommend the little-seen Divorce American Style), and countless important causes that all had to do with maintaining...
by Michele Willens | Nov 20, 2023
Editor’s Note: Michele Willens wrote this wonderful tribute to Rosalynn Carter when a new book was published about her husband. It still holds today when we mourn her loss. *** When I was a young writer for CBS News, a friend—the daughter of a Democratic...
by Michele Willens | Nov 7, 2023
This morning, I switched from a 24-hour news channel to the network airing an ice -skating championship. I do not generally follow the sport, but somehow, moving from escalating death statistics, to watching young men and women gliding, twirling, and flipping felt...
by Michele Willens | Oct 1, 2023
So, the fall list of coming books is out, and high up there is My Name Is Barbra. Yes, on November 7th, Barbra Streisand is ready to tell all. The book is 1,000 pages long. Oy, and yay. I can only imagine what her editors have dealt with: Likely, hairs have turned...
by Michele Willens | Sep 12, 2023
Right now, the top selling, and performing, artists in the world are a couple of women. Congrats to Taylor and Beyonce. Then again, as my husband always says, “Our music was better.” Yes, I know, I am turning into my mother, who used to extoll the virtues of Martin...
