Put aside the much-hyped shows on Oprah Winfrey, and the celestial ranking on bestseller lists, and what’s most noticeable about Mackenzie Phillips’ kiss-and-tell memoir, “High on Arrival,” is the predatory narcissism that was everywhere in her young life. Phillips’ out-of-control father, John, was just one of her surreal impediments. There [...]

No, this isn't a post about Roman Polanski (except, I guess, now his name's in the post, so it sort of is). It's a post about rape — real rape versus false allegations of rape, like the one that happened recently at Hofstra University, where a woman had sex with [...]

A few facts that I assume aren't in dispute: 1. Roman Polanski is an enormously talented director with an impressive filmography. 2. Roman Polanski's life has been marred by tragedy beyond what most of us could ever imagine. 3. Roman Polanski's trial was a circus, presided over by a clearly biased and publicity-hungry [...]

So a lot of Hollywood heavyweights are signing a petition for the release of cinema auteur/child rapist Roman Polanski, including Woody Allen, whose act of putting pen to paper on such a document is the funniest thing he's done since "Annie Hall." If I had known that being an girl-molesting artist [...]

Not surprisingly, One Day at a Time star Mackenzie Phillips' recent announcement that she had "consensual" sexual relations with her father, the late Mamas & Papas singer and notorious drug abuser, John Phillips, has fired up her much-extended family. Stepmom Michelle Phillips (an original Mama and classic '70s siren)  doesn't [...]