Patricia Neal (born 1926) is almost as well known for the events of her own life as she is for her career on stage and screen. In 1963, after winning her first Academy Award for Best Actress, Neal suffered three massive strokes. Her struggle to come...

AS I AM An Autobiography By Patricia Neal with Richard DeNeut Simon and Schuster. 384 pp. $18.95 WHEN THE heart speaks," observes Milan Kundera in his novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being, "the mind finds it indecent to object. In...

Though the film is anything but a musical, "The Subject Was Roses," based by Frank Gilroy on his play, stops suddenly for a song about halfway through. The voice of Judy Collins, both aching and angelic, sings "Who Knows Where the Time Goes?" while...

Today is Saturday, Jan. 20, the 20th day of 2007. There are 345 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Jan. 20, 1981, Iran released 52 Americans it had held hostage for 444 days, minutes after the presidency had passed from Jimmy Carter to...

Also on Monday, May 7: A slightly older, more dignified crowd crammed into the late Condé Nast kingpin Leo Lerman’s Edwardian apartment at the Osborne on West 57th Street. They were celebrating Knopf’s publication of Mr. Lerman’s journals under the title The Grand Surprise, at...