Air Canada will suspend service to New York’s JFK International airport over the summer as the war in Iran creates jet fuel shortages that have sent prices soaring. Canada’s flag carrier said Friday that service from Toronto and Montreal to JFK will cease June 1 and resume Oct. 25. Service to the New York metropolitan … Read more
It was a flashback to NYC in the 1990s. A sea of hunks wearing backwards hats, suits and cut-off shirts took over Washington Square Park on Sunday for the first-ever John F. Kennedy Jr. lookalike contest. As Lenny Kravitz’s 1991 hit “It Ain’t Over Until It’s Over” blasted through speakers, seven — more participants were … Read more
On August 7, 1963, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis delivered her youngest child via an emergency caesarean section at an Air Force Base Hospital in Massachusetts. Baby Patrick was five and a half weeks premature, and doctors immediately knew there were problems with his labored breathing. “The infant had a translucent grapelike coloring, warning of … Read more
Call me a Jack of all trades. Or perhaps no trades. I was the envy of the office when my editor asked me to spend a day living like Jack Schlossberg, the occasionally employed political scion most famous for feuding with family members, celebrities and strangers on social media. “Some reporters get dispatched to war,” … Read more
Times are hard over at Netflix. “Stranger Things,” their tentpole property for nine years, has given its three-month notice. The series is calling it quits on Dec. 31. “Squid Game” Season 2 was a big floptopus. And all that seems to hit now are quick one-off British limited series like “Adolescence” and “Baby Reindeer.” So, … Read more
Sarah Pidgeon isn’t letting criticism taint her portrayal of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy. The actress, 29, is set to play the late fashion publicist in Ryan Murphy’s series “American Love Story.” The show will follow the relationship between Carolyn and John F. Kennedy Jr. Last month, the creator, 59, shared pictures to Instagram of Pidgeon as Carolyn and Paul Kelly … Read more
Love them, they did. When The Beatles launched their US invasion in 1964 — complete with their historic debut appearance on “The Ed Sullivan Show” — the mop-topped Brits were under siege by the screaming masses upon their arrival in New York. “It was like being in the eye of a hurricane,” says John Lennon … Read more
Shirley MacLaine says Marilyn Monroe went to bed with both John F. Kennedy and his brother Robert on the same night. The Oscar-winner, 90, makes the scandalous claim in her new coffee book, “The Wall of Life: Pictures and Stories from this Marvellous Lifetime,” which features a photograph from May 19, 1962 — the night … Read more
Much is known about the Kennedy women — Jackie, Caroline, Carolyn — but for many, Rosemary Kennedy remains an enigma. And for good reason. Headstrong and carefree — but plagued by mental health challenges — Rosemary remains the least known (if not forgotten) Kennedy. And in her new book Ask Not: The Kennedys and the … Read more
On May 1, 2011, President Obama, his staff and military brass watched the raid to on Osama bin Laden’s Pakistan compound while crowded tightly together in the Situation Room, the sequestered complex in the White House basement. Official White House photographer Pete Souza captured the iconic moment, but it only happened because of technical difficulties. … Read more
In the final years of the Roaring Twenties, Joseph P. Kennedy, patriarch of what would become known as “America’s royal family,” purchased a white clapboard house in Hyannis Port, a picturesque village on Cape Cod. Joe renovated the place — which boasted a breathtaking view of Nantucket Sound — for his wife, Rose, the Kennedy matriarch, … Read more
A forthcoming book about the Kennedy family is alleging that the late Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis fought to nip in the bud a particular problem in her Cape Cod garden. In the book “White House by the Sea,” by Kate Storey, the former first lady learned that marijuana was growing in her garden, much to her horror. According … Read more
He’s got beef with dining out. Jack Schlossberg, the only grandson of the late President John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Onassis, is going viral for claiming eating at restaurants is “purely corrupt.” The 30-year-old Yale and Harvard grad’s “Resta-rant” was posted Monday to his Instagram Story and remains on his account as a Highlight. Some … Read more
JFK wasn’t the only person both these famous ladies were allegedly seeing. Former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy reportedly confronted her psychiatrist after discovering that the shrink had also treated Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe — with whom her husband allegedly had an affair. The Tinseltown bombshell was revealed recently in her newly released biography “Jackie: Public, Private, … Read more
It’s June 1949, wedding season, and it seems like all the girls in Jacqueline Bouvier’s social set are on the hunt for a husband. Not Jackie. The 19-year-old Vassar student can’t think of anything drearier than settling down and getting married. “Can you think of anything worse than living in a small town like this … Read more
Tony Vaccaro took his first picture when he was 10 years old and living in Italy. He soon started toting a camera everywhere — to school, on camping trips, a visit to the Vatican, and eventually to the frontlines of World War II, where, as an American soldier, he documented the Battle of the Bulge, … Read more
Jackie Kennedy was prepared to die during the tense days of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, according to revelations in a new book by the former first lady’s Secret Service bodyguard. When he offered to hide Kennedy and her children, John and Caroline, during the nuclear standoff between the Soviet Union and the US, … Read more