Scandalous Real Estate

New York's narrowest house -- No. 75-1/2 Bedford Street -- is on the market for the bargain price of $2.75 MM. Edna St. Vincent Millay ...

Scandalous Interview with Donna Woolfolk Cross

"Engaging . . . Pope Joan has all the elements: love, sex, violence, duplicity, and long-buried secrets."--Los Angeles Times Book...

The Unsinkable Molly Brown

On November 3, 1960 a musical opened on Broadway called The Unsinkable Molly Brown , based on the life of Margaret Tobin Brown. The musical...

Scandalous Women Receives the BINGO Award

Marie over at the Burton Review awarded me the BINGO Award for being informative. This "B-I-N-G-O" BEAUTIFUL BLOG AWARD means tha...

There's Something About Mary

Recently I wrote a post about the plethora of books on Henry VIII since The Tudors and the 500th anniversary of his coronation. I've als...

Chanel: The Early Years

Today marks the birthday of one of the most influential women in the history of the fashion industry, Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel. Her clothes ...

Scandalous Book Review: The White Queen

After writing six bestsellers about the Tudors and one about Mary, Queen of Scots, Philippa Gregory has now turned her attention to their pr...

Scandalous Movie Review: Du Barry was a Lady

A hapless nightclub hat check boy, Louis Blore (Red Skelton), loves nightclub singer May Daly (Lucille Ball), but she is in love with Alec ...

Anna Nicole Smith the Opera?

Just when you thought you’d heard everything, it was recently announced that the story of Anna Nicole Smith was being turned into opera, to ...

Mary Surratt - Mother of all Conspirators

You may not recognize her name but in 1865 everyone knew who Mary Surratt was. She was the only woman implicated in Lincoln’s assassination,...

Desperate Romantics

Recently I picked up a copy of the English magazine The Tatler which had a huge photo of a new BBC mini-series called Desperate Romantics a...

Pope Joan Contest Extended

The contest to win a trip to the premiere of Pope Joan has been extended to August 9th. For more information head on over to www.popejoan.c...

Everything's Coming up Tudors

With the success of Showtime's The Tudors, and the 500th anniversary of Henry VIII's coronation, bookstores are exploding with books...