Articles by Irene Lacher

WOMEN detectives are probably getting a better ride in the realm of fiction than they are in police departments. Read more

STEVE CARELL is sipping coffee as he waits for a director to arrive so they can discuss a possible collaboration to follow “Get Smart,” his big-screen star vehicle, which opens June 20. Read more

FOR better or worse, George W. Bush is our presidential cowboy du jour. Read more

Emily Blunt nearly stole last year’s “The Devil Wears Prada” out from under its young star, Anne Hathaway, as the frenetically chic senior editorial assistant Emily Charlton. Read more

FOR a while after “Hairspray” opened on Broadway, composer Marc Shaiman and his co-lyricist and life partner, Scott Wittman, would sneak into an empty box at the Neil Simon Theatre as the show was revving up for its infectious finale. Read more

SOME people would consider S. Epatha Merkerson the most fortunate kind of celebrity there is – an anonymous one. Read more

OWEN WILSON’S Australian cattle dog, Garcia, is happily curled up around the actor’s feet. Read more

BACK in the ’50s, the name Irwin Mazursky suited a Borscht Belt comedian the way coleslaw went with pastrami – a perfect match greater than the sum of its parts. Read more

THIS was one case in which “almost” did count. Read more