Rene Russo

I love Clint Eastwood. I’ve loved him since he was The Man with No Name. I loved him when he was Dirty Harry. I loved him when he was a grumpy old man in Gran Torino. And I loved him when he was an even older man at the Republican National Convention on Thursday night. Critics, not for the first time, panned him. Social media excoriated him, and liberals labelled him “weird” and “strange” because — shock! — he talked to an empty chair. Which just goes to show how these people have lost t...

I once was photographed for Cosmopolitan in an editorial photograph with the logo, "What will happen to you if you become a Cosmo Girl." Well, opportunity came my way due to the credo of Helen Gurley Brown, who imbued in her readers and models that we could look sexy, have a career and stay single for as long as we wished and still have an active sex life -- like a man. I went on to become a supermodel known primarily for the ads who wanted to hire me to sell their products: De Bee...