In a letter written to the agent Irving “Swifty” Lazar proposing an autobiography strong on name-dropping—a “conglamouration of stars,” as John Gielgud once put it in a slip of the tongue while acting ...

What critic, dead or alive, wouldn’t want to be immortalized by the very medium they’ve written about? And what sane person would want their personal diaries splayed before the public eye, their ...

"Once one is called a living genius, one only exists to disappoint." So says theater critic Kenneth Tynan about his friend Orson Welles in the third act of the comedy "Orson's Shadow," a fictional ...