Leslie Zemeckis is a contradiction in terms -- a restrained burlesque queen. She defines her character, Staar, as a gold-digging slut, hungry for sex and happy to be a mistress, but she never lets go ...

Montecito resident Leslie Zemeckis is an award-winning filmmaker and social media influencer, and she loves chasing her dreams. Among those dreams was going back to school and Santa Barbara City ...

Back in the 1940s, burlesque was considered a shabby, second-rate, and mildly sleazy form of entertainment. Then Lili St. Cyr took the stage. “Lili,” writes Leslie Zemeckis in her new biography ...

Everything old was new again this week at The Culver Hotel as Leslie Zemeckis threw a truly memorable book party and fundraiser for her newish tome, Goddess of Love Incarnate: The Life of Stripteuse ...

The film follows a middle aged, suburban couple (Jesse Hlubik and Jennifer Sommerfeld) as they work through their marital issues while becoming entangled with a Russian crime family. Wolff is ...

EXCLUSIVE: Filmmaker, writer and actress Leslie Zemeckis has inked with Buchwald for representation in the directing arena. Zemeckis will film a new role in Here, the Robert Zemeckis adaptation of the ...

Director Leslie Zemeckis tells the strange story of Daisy and Violet Hilton in the luridly titled documentary “Bound By Flesh.” Diminutive conjoined twins the Hilton Sisters — stars of vaudeville, ...

Leslie Zemeckis, an actor, documentarian and author living in Montecito, Calif., on her 1954 Cadillac Eldorado convertible, as told to A.J. Baime. I have always been into vintage stuff. I like past ...

Anecdotes aplenty tumble past the footlights in "Behind the Burly Q," a love note to '30s-era burlesque that plays best for those already invested enough in the milieu to hang on every word of aged ...

Leslie Zemeckis is a best-selling actress, writer and award-winning documentarian. Leslie's critically acclaimed films include Behind the Burly Q, the true story of old-time burlesque in America. She ...