Most A-list celebs manage to finance adequate security without plunging into bankruptcy. A high estimate for top notch home security team and personal bodyguards would run $500-750k annually. And they’ll be making stupid amounts of money hand over fist as style icons and humanitarians.

And what I’m emphasizing is that families may have reasons to come together at the holidays that are greater and more important than religion, at least for them. The Windsors’ traditions may go back for centuries, but that only makes them more solemn, not any more emotionally resonant than anyone else’s.

Harry inherited amply from Diana’s estate. His net worth is about $39M. If he walked away, he might lose his allowance from Charles’ duchy ($28M/y), but less restricted by royal protocol on how he’s able to earn income.

Many families celebrate Christmas without emphasis on the religious aspect, it's a time for togetherness. Harry’s side of the family has already gotten in ample quality time with baby Archie, so it makes sense that they’d want to give Meghan’s family a turn.

Who’s Brenda?

This is the silliest annual controversy, and the only people who insist on calling this song rapey are those who maintain ignorance of old-timey slang and sexual mores.

What’s really gross is that they cringed at that joke then lept to their feet to laud him a couple hours later.

Is everybody else taking an inventory of the faces of people who gave this monster a standing ovation in absentia at the Oscars, and then imagining those same faces as they read this article?

Musicians prefer the people around them to be actual fans of their work, but most actors prefer people who've never seen them in anything at all. 

And what I’m saying is that awareness and understanding are cognitively and developmentally different things. Teens are wired to test boundaries, and even when they know what the rules and consequences are, they’ll still consider themselves the exception. This is science, not opinion.

Of course if these kids are of high school age, they’re more than old enough to understand that blackface is wrong and why, but the OP and I are referring to their understanding that this would be posted to social media for posterity, following them through life, and thereby ruining countless future social,…

Because teenagers have underdeveloped brains and don’t fully understand long term consequences?

Maybe the parents are racist themselves. Or maybe they don’t see teenagers off to school in the morning because they have to get to work. Or the kids might’ve arrived to campus early and put on makeup in the school bathroom. There are a dozen explanations as to why.

This is hilarious because I once, while sharing a cigarette on a city sidewalk, said to Jane’s Addiction drummer Steve Perkins how much better he had it than his bandmates for exactly that reason.

Because coffee is made from beans.

Fantastically cheap. Dorinda had a couple of lucrative businesses before her Housewife days, and her net worth is in the range of $20M.

I have already addressed that by linking to articles exploring the differing reasons for which the very rich and the very poor reproduce in larger numbers than the middle class. Please stop being obtuse.

Luann could never be the queen bee with or without Bethenny. She couldn’t even rise to the top during the Heather/Aviva/Kristen years, for Botox's sake. Some people are meant to be the countess, but not the queen. 

For me it's college age Beth. I'm wowed by her everytime. She's got the speech cadence and mannerisms down pat.

So many people applauded the Bashir interview where she airs the family’s dirty laundry and paints herself as the victim, but I always thought it was tacky and vindictive AF, and definitely the move of a textbook narcissist.