To legions of movie fans, Vivien Leigh (1913-1967) will best be remembered as the defiant and beautiful Scarlett O'Hara, heroine of the 1939 movie classic Gone With the Wind. Vivien Leigh had only a brief career on the British stage and screen when she...

It was bound to be a sticking point. The Royal Mail's decision to choose five women for a set of stamps called 20th-century Women of Achievement was destined to provoke an impassioned debate over who was left out. Yesterday, as the special issue...

COLLINS, Yvonne & Rideout, Sandy. New and improved Vivien Leigh Reid; diva in control. St. Martin's, Griffin. 231p. c2007. 0-312-35828-8. $9.95. JS In the third book about Leigh's life as an up-and-coming actress (following Introducing Vivien Leigh Reid and Now Starring Vivien...

I'm glad I caught up with Austin Pendleton's unusual backstage story, Orson's Shadow, which has settled in for a long run, I hope, at the Barrow Street Theatre downtown. For one surprising thing, it's a treat to see Laurence Olivier onstage again.Olivier, greatest classical actor...

There really aren't many television events that you can build a party around. There's the Super Bowl, of course. And a friend of mine once hosted an especially dismal State of the Union gathering which, if nothing else, proved that actual fun should be a...