This is a Premier Program. All residents of Rancho Mirage and donors who contribute $100 or more annually to the Rancho Mirage Library and Observatory Foundation can take advantage of priority seating for Premier programs by arriving early.

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 hubristic 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.

The first 200 people at this event will receive a FREE copy of Notorious.  

This series is sponsored by the Rancho Mirage Writers Festival Foundation and is made possible by a generous gift from Jordan Schnitzer, funded by the Harold & Arlene Schnitzer CARE Foundation.