January 6, 2009 - 'YEAH, I HAD the son of a bitch killed. I'm glad I did. I'm sorry I couldn't have done it myself!" These were the words of Carlos Marcello, the Mafia godfather of Louisiana and Texas. And he was talking about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Marcello's...

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• 'INCREDIBLE TIME TO BE ALIVE'

  December 26, 2008 - 'WHEN ARCHAEOLOGISTS discover the missing arms of Venus de Milo, they will find she was wearing boxing gloves," so said the famous actor and womanizer John Barrymore. Sorry, readers, but...more >

• CHARITY THE BEST GIFT

  December 23, 2008 - 'THAT'S in every contract. That's what they call a sanity clause," says Groucho. "You can't fool me. There ain't no Sanity Claus!" says Chico. IN THESE days...more >

• IN THE JEANS POOL

  December 21, 2008 - 'WORK HARD, and if you can't work hard, be smart; and, if you can't be smart, be loud," says Sammy Glick in Budd Schulberg's "What Makes Sammy Run?" E ARLY last...more >

• CAT LEAVES 'NINE' LIFE FOR ME

  December 18, 2008 - 'EVERYTHING you see I owe to spa ghetti!" This was Sophia Loren, com menting on her fabled figure, the one that molded her stardom back in the early 1950s. And she's still going...more >

• BROADWAY DOE$ CARE

  December 16, 2008 - 'HE ERRORS who thinks Santa enters through the chimney. Santa enters through the heart," said Charles W. Howard, who founded the Santa Claus school of Midland, Mich. I would think the...more >

• 'MOTOWN' REVISITED

  December 14, 2008 - 'THE WORLD is proof that God is a committee," said one Bob Stokes. S PEAKING OF that, President George Bush opined to ABC's "Nightline" co-anchor Cynthia McFadden, when she...more >

• WINSLET BOUND TO WIN

  December 11, 2008 - 'THE DEAD are still dead, aren't they?" That's Kate Winslet, in charac ter as Hanna Schmitz, in Stephen Daldry's beautiful new film, "The Reader." Hanna is speaking...more >

• ACTOR GETS BIG BREAK

  December 9, 2008 - 'WHEN TWO people love each other, they come together - WHAM! - like two taxis on Broadway." That was icy cool, red-hot Grace Kelly, trying to talk Jimmy Stewart into marriage in "...more >

• STARRY STARRY NIGHT

  December 7, 2008 - 'IF MY film makes one more person miserable, I'll feel I've done my job," says Woody Allen. WENT DOWN to Cipriani Wall Street for the Gotham Indepen dent Film Awards, where I was...more >

• IVANKA'S WORKING IT

  December 4, 2008 - 'MY FATHER always impressed upon me the idea that America is a meritocracy and that you must work for everything you get. I hope to share a positive perspective with the women of my generation...more >