Kathy Ireland was an '80s icon, one of the most famous faces – and bodies – of the era, who has gone on to become a successful and savvy businesswoman worth millions.

It's staff meeting time for the biggest retail brand you've never heard of, which at Kathy Ireland Worldwide means marching up the hills outside Santa Barbara to the eponymous founder's mission-style home for a corporate version of "I'm OK, You're OK." As the coastal air tempers the bright California sun, 15 staffers dressed in casual black sprawl on the plush sofas or sit cross-legged on the floor. An Academy Award rests nonchalantly on an end table, lending a surreal touch. "Don't ask about the Oscar," one of Ireland's confidants says to me furtively. (It was from another fashion diva with a flair for retail, Elizabeth Taylor.)

Author of The Life of Slang, Professor Julie Coleman and Kathy August, deputy chief executive of the United Learning Trust, discuss the use of slang in modern life.

Veteran actress Kathy Bates battled ovarian cancer almost a decade ago and is now opening up about why she kept her diagnosis a secret. “I was advised to [do so],” Bates, 63, told Anderson Cooper in an episode of “Anderson” airing Thursday. ”I was contracted to...

Waves the size of houses rise and fall off the coast of Ireland