The new issue of Publisher's Weekly has a capsulized review of David Kaufman's new book. Here it is in its entirety: Doris Day: The Untold Story of the Girl Next Door David Kaufman. Virgin (Holtzbrinck, dist.), $29.95 (592p) ISBN 978-1-905264-30-8 Aside from her as-told-to autobiography with A.E. Ho...

I am so sorry about the loss of Ralph. I loved readings his postings on the Forum and he was always so interesting, passionate and genuine in all ways. His reviews were well written and so informative and I will always treasure the kind remarks he would make about my postings when I provided him wit...

I don't know how accurate this piece is, but it does not seem likely. It was from a newspaper in Scotland: Dog has its Day Barking she isn't. Doris Day was up for a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Oscars but 48 hours before the event she called off. She was at home nursing one of her 17 dogs, hit ...

Excerpts from the upcoming biography are scheduled to appear in the May issue of Vanity Fair which goes on sale the first week of April.

Oscar producer Gil Cates was quoted on Monday as saying that since he began producing the show the one person he has wanted to appear on the Oscar Show is Doris Day. He has invited her but she has declined.

That's correct Ken about Louis being born in 1919 - June, in fact which would make him 88 at the present time.

For many years he and his wife lived across the street from Miss Day on North Crescent Drive in Beverly Hills.

Here is the complete text from Army Archerd's column, of Miss Day's letter which was read at the Saturday Grammy ceremony. Morning After for Doris Day On Sunday night's Grammys show, Tony Bennett and Natalie Cole announced Doris Day was a recipient of the Recording Academy's Lifetime Achievment Awar...

Bryan - "Love Me or Leave Me" is on the list at number 11. The 8 million it took in back in 1955 would translate to over 80 million in today's market. I am researching the other titles. Warner Brothers is not quite as forthcoming with providing data but I am working on it....ditto Columbia ("Jane") ...

Toni - That has been a popular misconception further perpetuated by film pundits in more recent years who try to dismiss Miss Day. What is true is that the quality of some of the scripts (Do Not Disturb, Caprice, Ballad of Josie, Where Were You...) did not measure up to some of the earlier scripts. ...

Last week I provided some information about the box-office grosses of Miss Day's films. The information I supplied was obtained from Variety the Show Business "Bible". After I made the post I became curious as to whether or not any of those figures would be different if obtained from the studio rele...

Ray is right about "Forty Carats". (Hi Ray, I owe you an update). When Producer Ross Hunter left Universal after many years and signed a deal with Columbia, his first project was to have been "Forty Carats", the screen version of the hugely popular Broadway comedy that starred Julie Harris. (It's al...

Rock was also mentioned in "Do Not Disturb"!