Rachel Syme

Watching the U.S. Open.

A flimsy high-school comedy provides just enough of a vehicle for a generation-defining cast.

The late singer-songwriter rarely felt at home either in her native Texas or in the music industry, but her nostalgic ditties of girlhood captured a potent sense of place.

The New York representative told his colleagues, “I would be embarrassed to use any credit card with Jim Jordan’s name on it.”

In “My Name Is Barbra,” the icon takes a maximalist approach to her own life, studying every trial, triumph, and snack food of a six-decade career.

Sofia Coppola' path to filming gilded adolescence. RACHEL SYME

Apfel pursued the driving creative project of her life—getting dressed, dazzlingly—for eight decades without any promise of greater glory. How could she ever have seen it coming?

The actor, author, cabaret performer, and host of the hit reality series “The Traitors” says, “I think American people, especially, are slightly ashamed of abandon.”

Over a thirty-year career, Alan Cumming has been a stage star, a cabaret performer, a memoirist, a night-club owner, and a political activist. Animating many of these endeavors are his talents as a raconteur and an m.c., perhaps most famously in his Tony-winning role in “Cabaret” on Broadway, a show he starred in twice. This past Monday night, Cumming brought the latest of his numerous one-man shows, “Alan Cumming Is Not Acting His Age,” to Studio 54, in Manhattan. Between torch numbers—including Peggy Lee’s “Is That All There Is?” and “Mein Herr” from “Cabaret”—he talked about the time he drank a handle of liquor that Florence Henderson sneaked into Carol Channing’s ninety-fifth-birthday party. (Henderson died a few months later, Cumming said, but he has not forgotten her advice: “You

The “Stranger Things” actress, and college dropout, explains why she visited her brother at Brown before writing her new studio album, “Chaos Angel.”