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Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

  • Blogs

    May 17, 2012

    The Kennedy Curse Strikes Again With New Death

    Many of the Kennedy family and their spouses have long been walking car crashes, as doomed as cast members from Saturday Night Live. All those good looks and great connections obviously come with a price. Just yesterday, Mary Richardson Kennedy--RFK Jr.'s troubled estranged wife--was found dead at ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 17, 2012

    Langella's Book Stops Short At Revealing Bisexuality

    I've praised Frank Langella's memoir, Dropped Names, several times, admiring its candor and insight--though I did note the weirdness of him writing about Anthony Perkins coming on to him without ever revealing whether the author bit the bait. Langella's book serves up steaming truckloads of dish ab ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    February 29, 2012

    CAMERA GALELLA

    The life of the original paparazzo

  • Blogs

    November 23, 2011

    Katie Holmes And Michelle Williams Need To Reunite: I Have The Project

    After all, Katie played swellegant first lady Jackie Kennedy in the TV miniseries The Kennedys this past year. And Michelle is currently portraying screen goddess Marilyn Monroe in the feature film My Week With Marilyn.

  • Blogs

    October 7, 2011

    Hedda Lettuce, Polanski, And I Rocked The Chelsea Clearview

    Drag star Hedda Lettuce presented Rosemary's Baby last night at the Chelsea Clearview and was delightfully satanic enough to bring me onstage beforehand to talk about my love for the 1968 horror classic. I advised the audience to look for various sitcom regulars who Polanski purposely cast as witch ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 10, 2011

    New Book Alleges JFK Really Didn't Want LBJ to be President

    via Wikipedia​According to a new book of interviews with Jacqueline Kennedy, the former First Lady said that her husband openly doubted Lyndon Johnson's ability to be president. The interviews, which were conducted by historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. in the year following JFK's assassination, ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    August 10, 2011

    COMING INTO FOCUS

    Last chance to catch Elliott Erwitt's famous photos

  • Blogs

    July 7, 2011

    The Five Best First Ladies Of All Time

    IMHO... ​ (5) Hillary Clinton She's smart, tough, and almost ran for President, securing a high-power job in the administration when that didn't work out. Besides, she behaved classily when humiliated by her husband's trouser antics, not letting us see her pain and using it to build char ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 20, 2011

    Jackie Kennedy Love Letters Go for $134,500

    ​Jacqueline Bouvier (Kennedy Onassis) wrote quite a lot of letters -- there was no email, after all -- to her boyfriend at Harvard, a 21-year-old fellow named R. Beverley Corbin Jr., in the late 1940s. A Christie's auction held on Thursday landed them in the hands of a "French lady" and "very ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 16, 2010

    Butter Queen of Brooklyn Churns Out the Good Stuff

    The First Ladies of butter​ Yes, Brooklyn foodism is reaching an apogee of somewhat annoying proportions, but one new company stands out as a worthwhile addition to the larder: The Butter Queen of Brooklyn, which sells a variety of flavored butters.

  • Blogs

    August 13, 2010

    R. Crumb's Debut in the 'Voice': as Fashion Designer!

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. October 30, 1969, Vol. XIV, No. 55 Outside Fashion by Blair Sobel When you come right down to it, fashion is about pure fantasy. Image-achieving or head-tripping to be exact. So why not have one of the biggest fantasy "heads" of all ti ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 9, 2010

    Prop 8, Michelle Obama, Ground Zero Mosque: Are Conservatives Basically The Honky Party?

    Last week Judge Vaughn Walker's decision setting aside Prop 8 in California unleashed plenty of grumbling from rightbloggers. As it involves gay people, this was to be expected. There was also rightblogger outrage, also expected, that Michelle Obama and her daughters had a swell, privately-funded v ... More >>

  • Columns

    June 8, 2010

    Reality Star Gets Paid Peanuts!

    Shooting from the hips about Allen Ginsberg, Ron Galella, and other provocateurs

  • Voice Choices

    March 2, 2010

    FOOT FETISH

    Jackie Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe had more than JFK in common

  • Voice Choices

    January 26, 2010

    FIRST STYLE

    From Jackie O. to Jacko

  • Blogs

    December 10, 2009

    Showbiz News: Liza Settles Harassment Suit; Wicked Beatdown; Jackie O-Peter Cook Affair?

    ​M'hammed Soumayah, variously described as a chaffeur, bodyguard, and right-hand man to Liza Minnelli, has settled a sexual harassment suit against the Cabaret star. He alleged that she threatened to fire him from his $238,000-a-year job if he did not sleep with him, so he did, and claimed to ... More >>

  • Theater

    September 8, 2009

    Fall Guide: Female Playwrights Look to Big Fall Season

    ​M'hammed Soumayah, variously described as a chaffeur, bodyguard, and right-hand man to Liza Minnelli, has settled a sexual harassment suit against the Cabaret star. He alleged that she threatened to fire him from his $238,000-a-year job if he did not sleep with him, so he did, and claimed to ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 27, 2009

    More Dish on The Jackie Kennedy Half-Brother Kiddie Porn Scandal

    ​It was a bad week for the Kennedys. As Teddy's corpse was barely cold, James Auchincloss, 62-year-old half brother to the late Jackie Kennedy Onassis, was indicted on possession of child porn. And guess who supposedly ratted him out? Eddie McManus, his "former assistant" of over a decade, wh ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 20, 2009

    Interview: Destroyer's Dan Bejar on Bay of Pigs, Jackie Kennedy (Sorta), and the New Pornographers

    "Sorry to use the word 'peppy.'" ​ The website for Merge Records says that Bay of Pigs, the new EP from Daniel Bejar's Destroyer which came out on Tuesday, "is an account of the 1961 American invasion of Cuba." That's sort of true--there was a second or two during the songwriting process whe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 7, 2009

    Clip Job: Gore Vidal Really Doesn't Like RFK for Senator

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesOctober 1, 1964, Vol. IX, No. 50Bobby is Not 'Best Man' for Playwright VidalBy Mary Perot NicholsThe author of "The Best Man" stood on a sidewalk at 74th Street and Madison Avenue on a rainy Monday and told TV and newspapermen that the best ma ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 30, 2009

    Clip Job: Lynda Bird at Gracie Mansion

     Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesAugust 20, 1964, Vol. IX, No. 44Feeding 'em Up for LBJ at Mr. Gracie's MansionBy Roberta BrandesWith 1000 pounds of pork ribs, 500 barbecued chickens, 5000 hot biscuits, and the culinary guidance of Walter Jetton, her father's favorite chef ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 9, 2009

    The Ultimate Grey Gardens Experience

    Haven't had enough of the Beales, the mother-daughter duo who were the subject of Grey Gardens the documentary, the musical, the followup documentary, and the HBO movie? Well, have I got a weekend for you! It's one entirely devoted to Grey Gardens with no mention of anything unrelated to the glamor ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 31, 2009

    Clip Job: Mailer's Solution to JFK's A-Bomb Jitters -- Jackie as Hostage

    Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesDecember 20, 1962, Vol. VIII, No. 9An Open Letter to JFK From Norman MailerDear Mr. President:For a few days I thought I might be going to the conference you will have in Nassau with Prime Minister Macmillan on December 19 and December 20. Then a ... More >>

  • Film

    March 18, 2009

    Stylish but Shallow, Valentino: The Last Emperor Is a Fashion Don't

    Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesDecember 20, 1962, Vol. VIII, No. 9An Open Letter to JFK From Norman MailerDear Mr. President:For a few days I thought I might be going to the conference you will have in Nassau with Prime Minister Macmillan on December 19 and December 20. Then a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2009

    Grey Gardens Blooms Again

    The squalid yet strangely uplifting story of the Beales--the mother/daughter duo who went from being Jackie Kennedy's fancy shmancy cousins to living in filth in a decayed Hamptons mansion filled with raccoons--rises again. The original Maysles brothers' documentary was made into a musical, which ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    January 7, 2009

    CROSSING MEDIUMS

    Exhibition explores transition of canvas to camera

  • Blogs

    December 17, 2008

    Caroline Kennedy in the Senate? Gag me with a silver spoon.

    Exhibition explores transition of canvas to camera

  • Blogs

    October 10, 2008

    New, Lamer Version of Fame Planned

    Exhibition explores transition of canvas to camera

  • Blogs

    May 21, 2008

    The Long Goodbye to Camelot: Ted Kennedy's Brain Tumor

    Exhibition explores transition of canvas to camera

  • Dance

    January 8, 2008

    Contemporary Dance Showcase's Tidbits from East Asia

    The perils of inter-office traffic and beyond-the runway fashion

  • Film

    July 11, 2006

    'The Beales of Grey Gardens'

    The perils of inter-office traffic and beyond-the runway fashion

  • News

    February 14, 2006

    Hunger of Memory

    New York has become a city of ghosts haunting us all

  • Music

    April 26, 2005

    Sacraments of the Scene

    New York has become a city of ghosts haunting us all

  • NYC Life

    April 12, 2005

    Goodbye to Charles and His Place

    Nolita's greatest treasure will soon shutter its doors

  • News

    January 11, 2005

    If You're Going (Crazy) . . .

    Some great package deals at the inaugural

  • News

    January 11, 2005

    The Crowning of Bush

    The lavish inaugural will cost you a lot—as if it's any of your business

  • NYC Life

    July 27, 2004

    Fashioning the Convention

    The lavish inaugural will cost you a lot—as if it's any of your business

  • Columns

    February 10, 2004

    NY Mirror

    The lavish inaugural will cost you a lot—as if it's any of your business

  • Art

    February 10, 2004

    Still Waters

    As a photographer, the filmmaker continues to make deliciously perverse 'little movies'

  • NYC Life

    August 20, 2002

    Big Girls Don't Cry

    Dressing for the Revolution in 'Hairspray'

  • Books

    November 13, 2001

    Our Crudest President

    Dressing for the Revolution in 'Hairspray'

  • Film

    November 13, 2001

    Slack Magic

    Dressing for the Revolution in 'Hairspray'

  • NYC Life

    July 24, 2001

    Clasp Struggle

    Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Designer Handbags

  • NYC Life

    May 8, 2001

    The Stars Look Down

    Jackie, Diana, and Marilyn at the Costume Institute

  • Music

    March 13, 2001

    Immigrant Songs

    Jackie, Diana, and Marilyn at the Costume Institute

  • News

    May 9, 2000

    Happy Trails

    A Tale of Intrepid Austrian Meats—and a Goodbye

  • News

    September 7, 1999

    September Song

    The Silly Symphony of the Fall Fashion Magazines

  • News

    August 10, 1999

    Bait and Switch

    The Silly Symphony of the Fall Fashion Magazines

  • News

    July 27, 1999

    Eyes Wide Shut

    Rating Death's Value in the Age of Celebrity Hype

  • News

    February 2, 1999

    A Most Dangerous Woman

    Before the DNA, there was Sally Hemings, The Novel

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