Arts

With the late Heath Ledger as the Joker and the fallen Christian Bale as Batman, ‘The Dark Knight’ might become the all-time box office champ. What do Whoopi Goldberg, Julia Reed, Joan Ganz Cooney, Mary Wells and Liz Smith attribute the movie’s success to?

Candice Bergen tells herself it’s soft jazz, not muzak. Joan Cooney tries to recall the last time she took out the Protestant hymns. Judith Martin blew her chance to sing with Decca and the Dectones

Joan Juliet Buck would be happy inside any film directed by Ernst Lubitsch. For Candice Bergen, it’s Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly