Uptown women can turn anything into a business opportunity — even their kids leaving the house. When former Vogue exec Donna Korren, 61, watched her youngest daughter fly the coop for college, she realized it was a “perfect storm” of heartbreak and opportunity. The moment wealthy moms finally regain their house and time, and suddenly … Read more
Jack Nicholson did not want to go to the Oscars. It was 1976 and he was nominated for best actor in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.” The Miloš Forman film, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary with a nationwide theatrical re-release on July 13 and July 16, had become a bit of a sensation — the second highest … Read more
Health officials found extensive evidence of rats on Gene Hackman’s New Mexico property during a hantavirus risk assessment test after the star’s wife was killed by the rodent-linked disease in late February. An environmental assessment of the property conducted in March — just one week after the couple was found dead — revealed rodent feces … Read more
Like most moms of graduating high school seniors, Kerry Barto was proud yet petrified by the thought of her 18-year-old son, Conor, leaving the nest for college. However, in the months leading up to his departure last fall, the mother of three and native New Yorker noticed a change in her middle boy. Her sweet baby, … Read more
What’s worse than having a spider in your ear? How about a whole nest of them? A UK mom realized every arachnophobe’s worst nightmare after discovering an apparent spider nursery inside her ear canal, as seen in spine-tingling viral footage. “I was very confused as to how it even got in there,” Lucy Wild, 29, … Read more
LOS ANGELES — Louise Fletcher, a late-blooming star whose riveting performance as the cruel and calculating Nurse Ratched in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” set a new standard for screen villains and won her an Academy Award, has died at age 88. Fletcher died in her sleep surrounded by family at her home in … Read more
Louise Fletcher, the sweet actress from Alabama who won an Academy Award for her turn as the heartless Nurse Ratched — one of the most reviled characters in movie history — in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, has died. She was 88. Fletcher died Friday of natural causes at her home in Montdurausse, France, her … Read more
Louise Fletcher, whose Oscar-winning performance as the sadistic Nurse Ratched in 1975’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest gave Hollywood one of its greatest all-time villains and provided the culture with a portrait of bureaucratic evil so indelible that the character’s last name could carry a TV series 45 years later, died Friday at her … Read more