Isn't She Great
Jacqueline Susann wanted to be famous. She had no talent and daunting burdens--an autistic child, breast cancer. But she had an iron will, an indefatigable publicist husband named Irving Mansfield and an unsuspected gift for salacious tale telling. The couple reinvented the art of book promotion while making best sellers of novels like Valley of the Dolls. This miscast, miscalculated movie (Bette Midler and Nathan Lane star) wants them to be inspiring, missing the obvious point, which is their potentially instructive monstrousness. The result is one of the worst messes in years.
Most Popular »
- Your Turn, Canada: A Second-By-Second Look at Jeremy Lin Lighting Up Toronto
- Linsanity Heads East, Linfects China and Taiwan
- Love Ever After: A Valentine’s Day Special
- Can Jeremy Lin End The MSG/Time Warner Cable War?
- After Whitney Houston, Musicians Say: I'm Afraid
- Move Over, Pajama Jeans: Dress-Pant Sweatpants Have Arrived
- Top 10 Famous Love Letters
- Music: White Lies and The White Stripes
- Rick Santorum Wants to Fight 'The Dangers Of Contraception'
- Roving the Red Planet
- Beirut: Where Valentine's Day Belongs to Another Kind of Saint
- Europe's Deep Freeze: Why Climate Change Is Not (Entirely) to Blame
- Children of the New India: How Economic Reforms Impacted Upon the Young
- The Upside Of Being An Introvert (And Why Extroverts Are Overrated)
- The Coming U.S.-China Solar War
- How City Lights Are Snuffing Out the Stars
- The Power of Make-Believe
- What a Real-Time Copy of the Mona Lisa Reveals About Leonardo
- Abortion the Future Is Already Here
- Archaeology in Jerusalem: Digging Up Trouble
More News from Our Partners
Top Stories on TIME.com
Quotes of the Day »
ADELE, multi Grammy-award winning singer, in an interview given to Vogue before last Sunday's ceremony, on her plans to take a lengthy break. Her last album 21 was inspired by a failed relationship but the Londoner is now "madly in love"
