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Hudson's Bay Company, owner of retailers Hudson's Bay, Home Outfitters and Lord & Taylor, has made changes to the company's executive structure. Bonnie Brooks, President of Hudson's Bay Company, has been appointed Vice Chairman, Hudson's Bay ...

"Wet, she's a star. Dry, she ain't!" said Fanny Brice about MGM's swimming box-office queen Esther Williams, who died last Friday at age 91. Williams, who graduated from swimming champion to movie queen, was incredibly popular during the late 1940s ...

"What a rage for fame attends both great and small! Better be damned than mentioned not at all!" wrote Peter Pindar. • I was in Orso, the under-stated theatre café on West 44th Street the other night, and there was music tycoon Clive Davis with ...

"China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese," said Charles de Gaulle, with incredible insight. • Fans of Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon were caught by surprise when they learned that a sequel is being planned. Thirteen years after ...

"I will have to ask you to mind what you say. I am Isis. I am worshipped by millions who believe it." So snapped Elizabeth Taylor to Rex Harrison in "Cleopatra," a movie that pretended to chronicle the life of Egypt's ancient queen, but was really ...

Alas, or luckily, Oscar never saw Baz Luhrmann's latest interpretation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel The Great Gatsby. Mr. Luhrmann has done the impossible -- he has rendered Gatsby lurid, noisy and without soul. • Starring Leonardo ...

"When you start a column, you're in a very creative state; you're building a personality in a piece of writing. It's a strange kind of business. After a while the column becomes a tyrant. You've created a personality that is one aspect of yourself, ...

"She looked self-made, not handled, but she had the air of somebody who knew stardom was inevitable. The subtext of her attitude was 'You have no idea how big I'm going to be. You'll rue how you weren't more respectful." That is former MTV VJ, Alan ...

Lili St. Cyr in her famous bathtub. Cleanliness is next to godliness, after all — especially when it makes you a fortune. Calling Dr. Streisand! ... More Tales of Burlesque. MOST AWARDS, you know, they don't give you unless you go and get them.