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We Time’s-Upped Lena Dunham Way Before The Sisters Did
Lena (Bad News) Dunham opened the family-sized can of worms when she posted this on Instagram. That led to this rebuttal, as chronicled by Paper’s Beatrice Hazlehurst. TIME’S UP SAYS LENA DUNHAM WAS NOT PART OF THE MOVEMENT Reese Witherspoon, … Continue reading
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Time’s Up for Lena Dunham in the Ranks of the Sisterhood
Harvey Weinstein Fallout, Exhibit Umpteen: A group of high-profile show business women have formed a group called Time’s Up, which describes itself as “a unified call for change from women in entertainment for women everywhere.” New York Times culture reporter … Continue reading
What the Hell Was Caroline Kennedy Thinking With This Dress?
From our Whiskey Tango Foxtrot desk This item by Meredith Goldstein ran in yesterday’s Boston Globe Names column. JFK’s grandson named to Vanity Fair’s Best-Dressed List Jack Schlossberg, John F. Kennedy’s grandson, has made Vanity Fair’s 2017 International Best-Dressed List, which … Continue reading
Positively 231st Street: Bob Dylan, the Bronx, and Me
In the summer of 1966, the Jack & Agnes Carrolls misguidedly moved from 89th and Third in Manhattan to Brookview Road in Windsor, CT – a town that lacked virtually everything, including sidewalks. I did not go with them. Hell, I … Continue reading
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Donald Trump Gets Mt. McKinley Wrong (Big Surprise)
From our To Know Trump desk Donald Trump, who is his own political reality show, has proven to be the most unreliable source since Charles Kinbote in Vladimir Nabokov’s Rubik’s novel Pale Fire. Exhibit Umpteen: This 1990 Vanity Fair profile by Marie Brenner (tip … Continue reading
That’s Just So Mean! (Transjenner Edition)
Well the hardworking staff was cleaning up some of the piles of reading material scattered about the Global Worldwide Headquarters when we came across this recent piece by The Weekly Standard’s Matt Labash. Transjennered America Hero worship in our time. … Continue reading
Vanity Fair – or Foul? – in Native Advertising Launch
Say hello to yet another mainstream publisher that’s gone native (advertising). From today’s New York Times: A Message That Tries to Blend In AS Madison Avenue continues debating the pros and cons of a hot trend in marketing known as native … Continue reading
Taylor Gives Cape House The Swift
Taylor Swift has made a rapid exit from Cape Cod homeownership, which the local dailies are on like Taylor on . . . whoever. From the Boston Globe’s Namesniks: Taylor Swift on serial boyfriends, home buying in Vanity Fair Singer Taylor Swift tries … Continue reading
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