Their outposts look like the offspring of Lenin’s mausoleum and an off-the-Strip Vegas casino.

I consider myself a pioneer in categorically rejecting Tom Cruise as a sexual being.

Ohhhh, I saw it too. Our boy Joe was freakin’ great in it. And not once did he lapse into British accent. He seems like a sweetheart, but maybe I’m conflating him with his character Billy Lynn.

We mostly see portraits of him in older age. But both he & Thomas Jefferson were gingers. While TJ was reportedly reserved and a bit standoffish in social settings, GW was gallant and charming. Also: a good dancer! And he loved and respected Martha, their marriage was a real partnership. Even while leading the ragtag…

She is known for roaming the film festivals circuit alone, incognito. She sat next to me at an LA Film Festival screening circa 2003/4. It was a bunch of music videos grouped thematically, can’t even remember much about it. Totally random.. She wore a baseball cap so I didn’t immediately recognize her—until she…

You appear to have liked him well enough yourself, Tavarishch Brezhnev. Anywhoo, Kissinger has mostly just outlived his detractors.

I hope he had good drugs. And used them to soothe the pain of standing for hours in those pointy, toe-destroying boots.

I choose to believe that Rihanna’s cloven hoof boots pay tribute to the great God Pan! #bleat

I adore John Goodman! He created such memorable characters in Coen brothers films. Walter Sobchack in The Big Lebowski, and the unforgettable Charlie “I’ll show you the life of the mind!” Meadows in Barton Fink.

I keep getting Soviet Bloc era vibes from this guy, by which I mean everything poorly tailored and ill-fitting, an obsession with Western logos and shopping bags (people prized plastic shopping bags like gold in 80s Eastern Bloc countries; shopping bags with logos were the ultimate get!), bad haircuts and sallow…

They are all over-arching their lower back and serving their butts like cats about to be mounted. That’s “#mammalian lordosis” not “#bootyfordays.”

I can’t get over their collective fuggitude. For Scandinavians, they surely must be in the 99 percentile fug-wise. You can have one uggo in a boy band, maaaaaybe two—although that’s pushing it—but not a one of these folks is even cute.

Tilda is a prince. Margaret is kind of a disloyal, lyin’ ass-munch? Eh, I still love them both.

Why do people still throw millions at monstrous dog torturer & killer Michael Vick and convicted rapist Mike Tyson? Can you explain why illiterate wife-beater Floyd Mayweather is the highest paid athlete in the world? Why are these obvious monsters celebrated? Polanski is at best enjoyed by a very limited, teeny…

Polanski fled to France; he is a French citizen and France does not extradite its citizens. That’s one thing. But there are many other ones: Circa 2008/9, his own attorneys filed to dismiss the outstanding warrant against him in LA Superior Court. That was denied by a judge, and then his attorneys filed to move the…

She’s lusciously buxom though. (Which suits her very well, BTW.) But her type of figure, plus her magnificent fun bags, do not come about by fasting. She might be only eating air/smoked salmon/capers in company, but girlfriend is for sure sneaking complex carbs when her handlers aren’t looking.

That is such a cool nugget! I recently learned about the etymology of desire and consider: They both come from the Latin root sidus, wich means “heavenly body.”

Sometimes it works out—Johan Strauss II > Johan Strauss I; Jeff Buckley > Tim Buckley.

I crossed professional paths with his oldest son, Jesse Dylan, who is a successful director of commercials & music videos, sometimes films, etc. but hardly famous. He was cordial on the set and competent at his job, and I remember feeling a little ashamed that all I wanted to do was cozy up to him and pry…

I can see how someone can pick up an imperative tone behind the lines “Stay with your man” and “Let me see you make him smile”—and go, “And what else? Make him a sandwich? Fuck off!”