Schmidt will be at Carpenter's grade school, Nathan Hale, 480 Townsend Ave., at 2 p.m. Saturday to read excerpts from his book and talk about her. This wasn't an easy book to write, especially for ...

Carpenter had invested a lot in this treatment — the suite was $6,000 a month before food and phone bills — but, she argued, she needed to feel comfortable. Then she paid Levenkron $100 for ...

In the summer of 1974, the Carpenters sat down with Rolling Stone writer Tom Nolan at Hollywood’s Au Petit Café for a cover story. Richard and Karen Carpenter, who had spent the past four years ...