Thank you. I would like to see the New Dynasty stop trying so hard to be “cool” and aim instead for “treacherous and vulgar.”

Kelly, I hope you don’t mind my adopting “More chicken fried big daddy bullshit, more bananas sparkle clothing” as my personal mantra for 2018.

I found this hysterically funny, Zoe! I know a few people (both men and women, but yes, typically men) whose bloated self-importance reduces my conversational participation to your abbreviated, receptive-mode-only utterances.

Yes, it’s a sad, potential eventuality that anyone who loves an addict (or, as y0u mention, a bipolar or schizophrenic person) hopes will be avoided via recovery, or proper management of the disorder.

Seriously!?! Wow, you’ve got the inside track! I do think it’s the perfect time for a steamy novel, film or doc on yacht girl culture!

I’ve read several of her essays and her terse 1970 novel, Play It As It Lays. That novel captures for me the experience of urban anomie in Los Angeles, its combination of grimness and glamour, and what it’s like to drop over the edge into mental illness. I was so completely captivated I read it in one sitting. Count…

I recently subscribed to Hulu and see Harlots is available. Is it any good? I’ve been trying to put together a Hulu watchlist. Any other recommendations?

Oh please do: I think the timing is right.

Oh girl I hear that. But I wasn’t thinking a Yacht Girl doc would focus on Lindsay Lohan. I just thought a more general look at the phenomenon would be interesting. You hear so many veiled references to yacht girls– but the details are all so obscure. I imagine it to be both glamorous and sleazy at the same time.

This would actually make a great film. The kind of film that Weinstein will finance for his comeback next year.

Thank you for mentioning that! I recall reading about that relationship which confirmed how skeevy I’ve always found her. But her recent magazine cover White Wedding to yet another billionaire of course completely papered over the skeeve.

Someone needs to do a documentary.

Right? It’s all so veiled in mystery. Yacht Girl would make a fascinating documentary.

My impression, based on several addicts I know, is that at some point it’s no longer about addiction or choice, but about brain damage.

“...then i saw the headline and my lady boner wilted into a question mark”

omigod – I found that New Yorker audio viscerally repulsive. Manipulating, steamrolling that poor woman. utterly degrading. dehumanising. he’s disgusting.

holy shit (on that Bourdain/Damon tweet) !!!

Yeah, baby!

That’s probably true. Someone who knew about the molestations –and the settlements – might have been in a position to at least whisper about it. Get the word out to people they respect. Let the talent know the guy’s a dick. Still, it seems hard facts would be difficult to come by.

I’m not surprised at all that many professional colleagues knew nothing about Weinstein’s sexual activities. I don’t know about you, but I’m generally not interested in the sex lives of people I’m not having sex with.