Dory Previn Shannon, who helped pen the score for the film "Valley of the Dolls" and the theme for "Last Tango in Paris," has died. She was 86. / Source: The Associated Press Dory Previn Shannon, who ...

This column is about bad movies. The ones that make us wince when we leave the theater. The ones that have us saying: "What were they thinking?" When space allows, we will examine said films and offer ...

Transforming books into movies and then into books about the making of the movies may sound like a convoluted contortion of intellectual property, but it’s been standard practice for years, from ...

Some movies are bad. Some are so bad, they’re good. And then there’s the movie so utterly awful, yet so compulsively watchable, it could only be “Valley of the Dolls.” “Dolls! Dolls! Dolls” is Stephen ...

The novel Valley of the Dolls turns fifty this year — and it still looks fabulous. Maybe it's the nips and tucks, or the booze and pills — you know, the dolls — or the backstabbing. Or the bonking. If ...