Maureen Orth nominates the Shriver siblings for their public service with a smile.

By Maureen Orth•Photograph by Annie Leibovitz
May 2011

Because they are undaunted by having such enormous shoes to fill: Their mother, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, who died in 2009, was a hurricane of energy, possessed of fierce faith and will. She founded the Special Olympics and changed the fate of millions of the intellectually disabled worldwide. Their father, Sargent Shriver, equally iconic, who died in January, was the founding director of the Peace Corps, which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. He also...

by Julian Sancton August 24, 2009, 5:11 PM

Semi-retired from acting at the age of 70, George Hamilton is happy being remembered for his suntan, his gleaming teeth, and his reputation as a Hollywood Zelig. His autobiography, Don’t Mind if I Do, released in paperback in May, reveals how he left his modest Arkansas roots to make it as an actor, and how he spun the illusion of a glamorous lifestyle out of whole cloth. This week, a new movie called My One And Only—starring Renée Zellweger, Kevin Bacon, and 17-year-old Logan Lerman as a precocious George coming into his own—dramatizes a chapter...

At last night’s midtown Manhattan press screening of the highly anticipated biopic The Runaways, a diminutive figure in a black hoodie slunk into the front row minutes before the lights dimmed. I could just make out a pair of Kohl-rimmed eyes and an inky fringe, but it was the unmistakable slouch that made me wonder: “Is that Kristen Stewart?” I was half-right. It was Joan Jett, the pioneering hard rocker portrayed in the film by Stewart.

The Runaways tells the story of its namesake band—the all-girl teen band that launched Jett’s career in the 1970s. It tells the age-old tale of sex,...