Canadian Liberal incumbent Justin Trudeau has more than just politics and snowboarding in his blood: he also has family ties to the melancholy king of cool, Leonard Cohen. His father, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, one of Canada’s most beloved prime ministers, didn’t let his state duties interfere with a little rooftop poetry reading. Cohen recalls in […]
What do Barbra Streisand, Faye Dunaway, Michael Caine, Elliott Gould and Candice Bergen have in common? They aren’t all Jewish, but their agent was. Sue Mengers, who died four years ago this week, was a brassy, foul-mouthed, wisecracking superagent, who hustled her way from the secretarial pool to the top of Hollywood’s power elite. […]