Maureen Dowd — Notorious: Portraits of Stars from Hollywood, Culture, Fashion, and Tech - with Simon Godwin

Shining a white-hot spotlight on America's famous, from Hollywood legends to Broadway stars to media moguls, Notorious is a captivating assortment of Maureen Dowd's most compelling style features and profiles. Using her signature wit and incisive commentary as a scalpel, Dowd dissects influential cultural elites, including:Leading Hollywood women from Uma Thurman to Jane Fonda to Greta Gerwig; Silver screen foxes such as Paul Newman, Idris Elba, and Ralph Fiennes; Funny people like Tina Fey, Mel Brooks, and Larry David; Fashionistas from Andre Leon Talley to Ann Roth to Tom Ford; And media and tech titans like Elon Musk, Bob Iger, and Peter Thiel.Notorious is the perfect antidote to our current political malaise and an intimate, gossipy romp through the culture of celebrity from a legend in American journalism.PURCHASE BOOK HERE: https://politics-prose.com/book/9780063392229?ic_referral=Z8bVLr9pHi0HVPAhgtwNQ_vzKPej8j7MhjMipYOKA38wMzhaobQe4-LR2umx0WLQ4zuyb8zsZOsdED9PJthkwK_OkaXx0xkOB9EPjDnThq-G0hRjt3JvzHc1k7nUDXEZqJYR7gMaureen Dowd is a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the New York Times, known for her sharp and incisive commentary on politics and culture. She is the author of three bestselling books: Bushworld, Are Men Necessary?, and The Year of Voting Dangerously. She lives in Washington, DC.Dowd is in conversation with Simon Godwin, Artistic Director at the Shakespeare Theatre Company. His directing credits at STC include Comedy of Errors, King Lear, Much Ado About Nothing, Timon of Athens, and the 2024 production of Macbeth with Ralph Fiennes and Indira Varm. He is an Associate Director of the National Theatre of London, and has served as Associate Director of the Royal Court Theatre, the Bristol Old Vic, and the Royal and Derngate Theatres in Northampton. He has directed at the Royal Shakespeare Company, including productions of Timon of Athens with Kathryn Hunter in the titular role, which was reimagined in early 2020 for Theatre for a New Audience in New York City and Shakespeare Theatre Company, an acclaimed Hamlet, which toured to the Kennedy Center, and The Two Gentlemen of Verona. In 2012, Simon was awarded the inaugural Evening Standard/Burberry Award for an Emerging Director. In 2023, Simon became the annual Harman/Eisner Residence Artist at the Aspen Institute.*recorded 4/5/2025