In an excerpt from her new book, the author remembers toting the Viet Cong flag as a toddler.

In an excerpt from her new book, the author remembers toting the Viet Cong flag as a toddler.

Slide show: A new book celebrates the style pioneer you never knew existed -- the woman who gave birth to you

"Rushmore" director Wes Anderson is more interested in his own precocity than he is in his characters.

When the match didn't take, I wound up with Merle Haggard.

Charles Taylor dismisses the 'authentic' pose of indie-hit 'Next Stop, Wonderland' and defends the glossier good-time gal movies 'Dance With Me' and 'How Stella Got Her Groove Back'.

'Babe: Pig in the City': The urban adventures of everyone's favorite talking pig makes for one of the most exhilarating films of the year. By Stephanie Zacharek.

Director Catherine Hardwicke collaborated with a teenage girl to accurately convey the gritty realities of American youth. The result goes down like medicine.

How the genius of Phil Spector and Ronnie Spector met and created a song of magnificent carnality.

Samantha Morton rules the screen in Lynne Ramsay's strange and powerful tale of a young Scottish woman dealing (or not dealing) with her boyfriend's Christmas suicide.

I know there's a scandal at the 40th Annual "Quick and Easy" Pillsbury Bake-Off.

The French president's hot wife may or may not have gone braless, but either way, I weep for humanity

Robert Pine was a man until age 64, when he became Rebecca. It started when he was a young boy, and loved his sister's underwear.

Just in time for holiday shopping, a new book portrays the world's largest retailer as greedy, sanctimonious and grossly unfair to its female employees.

With two other dirty girls, Cameron Diaz mucks up one of the flattest, stupidest, unfunniest sex comedies ever.