This is event is part of the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Distinguished Speaker Series.
Maureen Dowd has been a New York Times columnist since 1995, winning a Pulitzer Prize in 1999 for her columns on the impact of President Bill Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky. Although she mostly focuses on presidential politics, Dowd often profiles Hollywood movie stars, Silicon Valley executives and business titans.
These delicious, gossipy, funny profiles are now collected in her new book, “Notorious: Portraits of Stars from Hollywood, Culture, Fashion, and Tech.” Here & Now co-host Robin Young joined Dowd to discuss the book and some of her most popular celebrity profiles.
About “Notorious”
A sly and chatty collection of the revered Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist’s most notorious celebrity profiles.
Shining a white-hot spotlight on America’s famous, from Hollywood legends to Broadway stars to media moguls, “Notorious” is a captivating assortment of Maureen Dowd’s most compelling style features and profiles. Using her signature wit and incisive commentary as a scalpel, Dowd dissects influential cultural elites, including:
- Leading Hollywood women from Uma Thurman to Jane Fonda to Greta Gerwig
- Silver screen foxes such as Paul Newman, Idris Elba and Ralph Fiennes
- Funny people like Tina Fey, Mel Brooks and Larry David
- Fashionistas from Andre Leon Talley to Ann Roth to Tom Ford
- And hubristic media and tech titans like Elon Musk, Bob Iger and Peter Thiel
“Notorious” is the perfect antidote to our current political malaise and an intimate, gossipy romp through the culture of celebrity from a legend in American journalism.