Donna Mills

Rita Hayworth in Gilda... there's not a shot of her in that movie that isn't gorgeous.

I thought it was very important that femininity wasn't lost.

I found through my fan mail that women... really wanted a role model.

I was fortunate enough to meet Sophie Dahl. And I'm slightly in love with Scarlett Johansson: she's just stunning. And she's bright, which is incredibly sexy.

I'm trying to make the readers feel as if he or she is right there in the conversation, and so I don't try to manipulate it too much.

We met with the poet Frank O'Hara, who was a link between Upper and Lower Bohemia, and who worked at the Museum of Modern Art, where we had hoped to do the readings.