Cross Dressing for Success

Palm Springs International Film Festival honoree Glenn Close revives a role and creates Oscar buzz

ANTHONY MASSUCCI Arts & Entertainment

In the movie, released in December, Close plays a woman passing herself off as a middle-aged male butler in 19th century Dublin, Ireland.

Marilyn & Johnny, 1949-50

Susan Bernard flips open the archives of her father, great Hollywood glamour photographer Bruno Bernard.

Site Staff Arts & Entertainment

Adapted from Marilyn: Intimate Exposures (Sterling Signature) by Susan Bernard. Photos by Bruno Bernard.

Something to See Here

Actor Jim Carrey’s serial humor belies his artful quest to make sense of the world and affect people’s lives

Steven Biller Arts & Entertainment

Actor Jim Carrey’s serial humor belies his artful quest to make sense of the world and affect people’s lives

The Big Picture

INTELLIGENCER

Site Staff Arts & Entertainment

In November, Christie’s hammered the most expensive photograph ever sold at auction: German artist Andreas Gursky’s image of the desolate Rhine under gray skies. Rhine II sold for $4.34 million

Editor's Letter January 2012

The Stars are Shining on Palm Springs

Steven Biller Arts & Entertainment

Sometimes, celebrities appear exactly as you expect when you meet them. And we meet many — especially when the Palm Springs International Film Festival (Jan. 5-16) draws the eyes of the entertainment industry.

Deep Waters

James Egan has the film impresario John Waters covered

Janice Kleinschmidt. Arts & Entertainment

James Egan was working in his father’s insurance business in Baltimore at the time he met avante-garde John Waters at a birthday party for drag queen Divine 37 years ago.