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Audrey Hepburn’s legacy as the world’s most celebrated woman has stretched long beyond her lifetime. Her fragile beauty and innocent demeanor were her movie star trademarks. But, behind that delicate persona was a fierce woman who survived World War Two’s Nazi occupation as a child in Holland, and endured a difficult childhood with a father …

“Excuse me!” I called out from across the room, “Excuse me, Ms. Minelli?” My heart was palpitating and my mouth felt like cotton. The one and only Liza Minelli turned to face me, her rich, brown doe eyes sparkled with charisma. I was speechless as I drifted away for a moment, and thought about the …

When I finished my last semester of college, I started a spring internship at a government funded radio network called CKUA. The station was world renowned for its focus on eclectic arts and culture that otherwise wouldn’t be heard on the airwaves. It even had fans in major stars like KD Lang, who expressed her …

I’ve never been a morning person, well not by nature. Even at the tender age of eight, I used to stay up with a flashlight under the covers, and tear through my Babysitters Club books into the wee hours of the morning. As an adult, I held onto the idea that my creative writing juices …

Jodie Foster was the reigning queen of Hollywood when she began directing films in the nineties. As an actress, she’d been a child prodigy, booking her first commercial for Coppertone when she was just a toddler. By age twelve, she’d famously earned an Oscar nomination for her controversial role in Martin Scorsese’s  Taxi Driver. By …

Around the time Sara Blakely first had entrepreneurial success, she attended a cocktail party. Shortly after her arrival that evening, two businessmen recognized her from across the room as the face of Spanx, the shapewear empire that had recently turned the fashion business world on its ear. By now, word of mouth had made her …

In 1968, nineteen-year-old Vera Wang took a deep breath and stepped onto the ice at the U.S. National Skating Championships. With partner James Stuart in tow, she glided towards her dream of qualifying for that year’s Winter Olympics. She’d been working for this since the age of eight, and had recently dropped out of Sarah …

There were three years in my adult life when I stopped writing. In fact, it seemed there was no choice in the matter. I’d spent many an evening staring at a blank laptop screen, desperately willing the lightening rod of brilliance. But it left me high and dry. Writer’s block had taken me hostage, and …

In my years working the trenches of red carpet reporting in New York, I had the fascinating experience of observing and interviewing the most famous personalities in the world. It was sometimes a bit jarring to meet a celebrity I admired, only to be steamrolled by their ego. It also added to the challenge of …

When I was in elementary school, my mom had the habit of replacing the teen soap opera novels on my nightstand with more wholesome reading. They were lighthearted books with an under current of the importance of not worrying how others perceived you, and usually involved a child protagonist, boldly standing up to school bullies. …