by Sheila Weller | Feb 7, 2024
Editor’s Note: Sheila Weller wrote this beautiful assessment of Joni Mitchell’s legacy when she was celebrated by the Grammy’s in 2022. Her appraisal is more true than ever, after her touching performance at last Sunday’s Grammy’s, which...
by Sheila Weller | Sep 10, 2023
“Saying `Three thousand people died sounds so impersonal and distant,'” said the rabbi who officiated at the first memorial service, shortly after September 11, 2001. It was held at a stadium; I avidly watched it on TV. “Rather,” he went on, “I think...
by Sheila Weller | Apr 25, 2023
Is there a woman who was alive in the 1970s who didn’t want to be like Mary Tyler Moore, a.k.a. Mary Richards, the associate producer of Minneapolis’s WJM-TV’s six o’clock news. Mary Richards held the whole office together, even though she called her boss, the...
by Sheila Weller | Mar 30, 2023
Right after Susanna Hoffs received her March 27th rave review from The New York Times for her debut novel This Bird Has Flown (“smart, ferocious rockstar redemption romance you didn’t know you needed . . . a total knockout”) she was, unsurprisingly, “slammed” with...
by Sheila Weller | Mar 7, 2023
“I’ve flown on wires and surfed in the ocean, rode on horses in wagon trains and fast cars. I’ve had multiple personalities, worked in a textile mill, picked cotton. I’ve been Mrs. Doubtfire’s employer, Forrest Gump’s mother, Lincoln’s wife, and...
