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The photo on the cover of “The Talented Miss Highsmith” depicts the young, sultry author of “Strangers on a Train” holding one of her pet cats. There’s no question which is the more spookily feline-looking creature. Pretty as it is, this picture is hardly representative. As a pet owner Highsmith was much more remarkable for keeping hundreds of snails and for liking to watch those mollusks mate. As a sex object she was far more androgynous in affect than she appears in the photograph. “In Paris restaurants, where French waiters are uncomfortably good at reading gender code, Pat is sometimes directed to the men’s lavatory,” writes Joan Schenkar, Highsmith’s enterprising new biographer. Ms. Schenkar adds: “Pat thought that waiters stopped her ‘because I have big feet and skinny thighs.’ She had to think something.” This is no ordinary literary biography. Ms. Schenkar, also a playwright, is not one of those thorough, respectful scholars who let the facts and the literature speak for … [Read more...] about Pick Your Adjective: Talented, Secretive, Perverse

THERE’S AN ART to imposture. It’s the how they did it, I think, rather than the self-evident why, that keeps us fascinated by tales of con artists and “visionaries,” the gurus and hucksters, schemers and dreamers, the online dating scammers — all of our 21st-century buccaneers of society, politics and commerce. From the small-time grifters like Anna Sorokin , who adopted the last name Delvey to masquerade in downtown New York circles as a European heiress for four years before she was convicted of second-degree grand larceny in 2019, to the murderous faux WASP “ Clark Rockefeller, ” as the serial impostor Christian Gerhartsreiter was known until his clubby life was upended by kidnapping charges in 2008, all impostors come equipped with a tall tale and a look to match. In Sorokin’s case, it seemed to be largely about the chunky Celine glasses, code for jolie-laide cool; in Gerhartsreiter’s, it was the Lacoste shirts and East Coast lockjaw copied from the millionaire character on … [Read more...] about How ‘The Talented Mr. Ripley’ Foretold Our Era of Grifting

close Video Fox News Flash top entertainment headlines for June 14 Fox News Flash top entertainment and celebrity headlines are here. Check out what's clicking today in entertainment. Ruta Lee has worked with the best of Hollywood – and now she’s telling all. The actress recently penned a memoir titled "Consider Your A—Kissed!" where she shared personal memories from over the years. She has worked with numerous stars, including Frank Sinatra , Burt Reynolds , Clint Eastwood , Johnny Carson , Alex Trebek and Fred Astaire – just to name a few. The "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" actress also befriended many fellow leading ladies, including Lucille Ball , Julie Newmar and Debbie Reynolds , among others. Lee spoke to Fox News about how her mother’s prayers may have led to a life-changing role, as well as what it was really like working with some of Hollywood's top stars. ‘MY THREE SONS’ STAR BARRY LIVINGSTON TALKS … [Read more...] about ‘Seven Brides for Seven Brothers’ star Ruta Lee says mother’s prayer may have led to iconic role: ‘A blessing’

NEW YORK (AP) — Fifteen months after shuttering for the pandemic, New York’s Radio City Music Hall reopened its doors Saturday for the Tribeca Festival premiere of a new Dave Chappelle documentary for a full-capacity, fully-vaccinated audience. The debut of “Dave Chappelle: This Time This Place,” which chronicles Chappelle’s pandemic stand-up series held in rural Ohio cornfields, marked the first time the hallowed midtown hall was yet again packed since closing in March 2020 — a shutdown that put a year-plus’s worth of concerts, including Radio City’s famous Rockettes, on ice for easily the longest spell since the Art Deco venue first opened in 1932. The premiere Saturday evening, the closing night gala for the 20th Tribeca Festival, was seen as a symbolic reawakening of the arts in New York, where many of the world’s most famous stages — Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Broadway theaters — remain dark. But after so many pandemic months of silence, that’s quickly changing. On … [Read more...] about Radio City Reopens with Dave Chappelle and Fully-Vaccinated Audience

In the United States, public interest in unidentified flying objects (UFOs) has its origins in the immediate post-WWII era, with increasingly advanced aerospace technology, the sci-fi craze of the 1950s, and exaggerated Red Scare fears of radically advanced Soviet technology. All of this contributed to burgeoning UFO sightings and gave birth to theories that we’re not alone in the universe. The US government and military were not immune to the speculation, and in 1948 formally tasked the US Air Force with officially studying and documenting UFOs, with the initiative codenamed Project SAUCER, and later renamed Project Sign. © Photo : National Archives Museum This comic strip relates to a July 19, 1952, series of multiple sightings of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) over Washington, DC. In 1949, the Air Force issued its final report under Project Sign, concluding that the vast majority of UFOs could be explained away by mundane phenomena like aircraft, weather … [Read more...] about The Truth Will Soon Be Out There: History of DoD’s UFO Files Amid Looming Release of Tell-All Report