It seems like a lot of young writers really think sexual ambiguity in pop began in the 1980s. It did not. It goes back at least to the 1920s in recorded music (probably earlier, but unrecorded). Dress and Androgyny in appearance certainly goes back to the 30s (ie Marlene Dietrich) and the 50s (ie Little Richard), but…
Just ask Wyatt Cooper - having to live in hand me downs from Benjamin Cohen (probably the very best hand me downs, but still).
Point of order: Sasha was the youngest occupant of the White House since John-John Kennedy. Malia was the same age as Amy Carter had been when she was there.
Mrs Glenfiddich up there appears to have started drinking after she took out her curlers, then forgot to tease out and set that hair. That is an unfinished 60s ‘do.
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It’s strange how Jezebel can’t fathom that Brad Pitt and Alia Shawkat are just friends. Brad’s best friend for over thirty years has been Mindy Cohn (she’s even godmother to his kids), yet no one ever suggested anything more to their relationship. Perhaps Brad just prefers women friends; it’s really not so unusual.
I suspect you already knew.
Yes, she did. And she speaks openly about that era and her refusal to lie when she was WH Spokesperson. I respect someone who has grown and learned from mistakes she made in her twenties/early thirties. Now in her late forties, she is one of the best bullshit detectors on TV - and freely calls it.
Trump tweet childishly attacking Nicolle Wallace on Friday:
Also Teddy Roosevelt who was giving a speech in 1912. The bullet was stopped by the metal eyeglass case in his jacket pocket. He didn’t even realize it had happened until after the speech when he went for the eyeglass case - and it had absorbed the shot.
I’m old school, but: paper or plain cotton surgical masks are always correct. Anything else: no.
The good: performances by the old pros. LuPone and Reiner (best part of the whole thing); Jim Parsons (having the time of his life, with foul mouthed relish), Dylan McDermott is delightful (though Scotty Bowers deserves his own biopic, and in 1948, he was 25 - not 60ish); and Holland Taylor & Joe Mantello all made the…
I don’t have any idea who Padma Lakshmi’s fanbase is, though it’s clearly large. Hopefully they’re mainly old enough and unimpressionable enough to see she’s drinking iced tea from a fancy tequila bottle. Because if kids are out there trying to swig a pint or so of straight tequila, the Emergency Rooms would have a…
His Faye Dunaway story last week was spicier (but Faye! Always! Wins!). Anyway, I’ve mentioned this here before, but a reminder: Leslie Jordan’s one-man show is 90 minutes of his reminiscences (from his troubled youth to his Hollywood success). Anyone who likes his Instagram microbites will absolutely love this (Free…
Ha! I’d forgotten the context of that, so I scrolled back to it just now. It was the first thing that came to mind when I needed a “projectile vomiting” image!
I get emails about 10x/day from the DSCC. In recent weeks they’ve polled for approval of potential VP picks Klobuchar and Harris, so I assume they’re the ones the party really has their eye on. As a Californian, I’m fine with VP Harris. Then Gavin Newsom can appoint Adam Schiff or Katie Porter to her Senate seat (my…
I love Warren. I voted for Warren. He shouldn’t pick Warren because the balance of the Senate is at stake, and Massachusetts has a Republican governor who’d appoint a Republican to her seat. We can’t afford it.
Those depictions of then-state-of-the-art diagnostics were accurate, because this was a decade before the biggest change, particularly to those violently moving x-rays systems still in use in the 70s came about 14 years later when nuclear imaging tech came into use (MRIs, CTs and PTs). As for the spinal tap (which…
Thank God that address puts it in the Hudson River.
