In “Didion & Babitz,” author Lili Anolik ... “I did talk about the alcoholism, but that’s because Joan wrote a book about Quintana’s death,” Anolik continues. “I actually learned ...

There are floods and droughts and debris flows. There are Santa Ana winds. “It is hard,” Joan Didion wrote in her 1967 essay “Los Angeles Notebook,” “for people who have not lived in Los ...

She got involved with a group of serious writers in a house on Franklin Avenue, where the occupants, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion, would throw parties. She would go on to immortalize and ...

Joan Didion is herself a character in Democracy (1984), wherein she reconstructs Victor’s life as if picking up scattered puzzle pieces. The reader, let alone Didion, cannot clearly define the ...

(Publishes Feb. 11) “We Tell Ourselves Stories,” by Alissa Wilkinson: A novel approach to the great Joan Didion based in the Hollywood and Washington, D.C., worlds she chronicled. Wilkinson ...

Joan Plowright, an award-winning British actress and widow of Laurence Olivier, has died. She was 95. "She enjoyed a long and illustrious career across theatre, film and TV over seven decades ...

Bruce Glikas/WireImage Joan Vassos is turning a bittersweet anniversary into a celebratory moment. On Sunday, Jan. 19, the Golden Bachelorette star, 62, celebrated the fourth anniversary of her ...

LONDON, Jan. 17 (Reuters) — British actor Joan Plowright, winner of two Golden Globe Awards and a Tony Award, has died aged 95, her family said on Friday. Plowright made her on-screen debut in ...

It seems only fitting that the love affair between two of Britain's greatest actors started in the theatre. It was in 1956 when the late Joan Plowright (who has died aged 95) first clocked eyes on the ...

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Oscar nominee Dame Joan Plowright has died at the age of 95, her family has said. The British actress, who was married to Lord Laurence Olivier, was known for her Golden Globe award-winning ...

Oscar nominee Dame Joan Plowright has died at the age of 95, her family has said. The British actress, who was married to Lord Laurence Olivier, was known for her Golden Globe award-winning ...