When Gianni Versace was alive, Donatella Versace was happy in his shadow. But after he died and left her daughter, Allegra, the lion’s share of his company, the shadow got darker. It took her till now to get out from under it.

Spike Lee, along with his wife, Tonya Lewis, is wealthy, hugely successful, at the top of W.E.B. DuBois’s “Talented Tenth” of black society in America. But does that mean Spike has mellowed? Hardly.

Teenage boys have always lusted after attractive teachers, but what happens when the teachers lust after the boys?

How Maureen Dowd became the most dangerous columnist in America—on her own, very female terms.

The charmed life of Nick McDonell.

Liz Phair doesn’t need your stinking “indie cred.” She’s not nostalgic for her bad-girl years. And she’s back with her best album yet.

A victim of abuse as a child, briefly a prostitute as a young woman, Andrea Dworkin married a gay man and spent three decades fighting hypersexualized America. She lost.

As Entourage’s snappy publicist, Debi Mazar is back in the public eye. And who knows better how to hold that gaze?

Jerry Seinfeld made the American everyman Jewish.

Ben Younger's first movie, set in the underbelly of the bull market, earned him a motorcycle from Ben Affleck and soaring stock in Hollywood. But the 27-year-old director likes it just fine in Brooklyn, thank you.