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...

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...

Celebrity birthdays for the week of Jan. 20-26:Jan. 20: Singer Slim Whitman is 84. Actress Patricia Neal is 82. Comedian Arte Johnson is 79. Director David Lynch is 62. Guitarist Paul Stanley of Kiss is 56. Bassist Ian Hill of Judas Priest is 56. TV...

Unable to obtain a video screener of the documentary Inside Deep Throat, and unwilling to return to my old soft-core and hard-core haunts around Times Square, I resolved a few weeks back not to report on the film at all, though I finally caught it...