I saw some recent clip of Leah Remini saying [paraphrasing], “People think that Scientology has something over Tom Cruise, that he stays because he’s scared of what they have on him, but he’s in because of the power. Why would he give that up?” She gave an example, like, if Tom Cruise says, “I want a coffee,” it is una…

And it wasn’t even really his apartment in Manhattan — it belonged to some guy he met in prison. That was mind-blowing to me: that this dude, the apartment owner, who had served time in prison (I guess for some financial malfeasance?), was able to hold onto what must be a very valuable apartment in NYC AND let Larry…

Isabelle’s story is heartbreaking.“Stolen Youth” shows that she came from a super dysfunctional background (her mother is interviewed and definitely comes across as having been negligent/NOT a great parent) and had been able, by some miracle, to escape and make it to Sarah Lawrence — it should have a been a chance for…

I’m a fourth-generation native of Nashville (though I don’t live there now, but my whole family does and I visit 3-4 times a year) and I had never heard of this woman until these Jezebel articles.

After giving this way too much thought, here’s my theory about Baldwinito #6, which includes the surrogate route: At some point, a few of Hilaria’s eggs had been fertilized and set aside just in case. Hilaria has wanted another girl, and when Edo (Edu?) turned out to be a boy, since 1) they wanted to cram as many kids…

So this has been planned for a while? I’m so confused.

The one person I knew from 2016 who enthusiastically supported Trump was a very very wealthy (Old Money) 25-year old (ish) white dude. Super happy about Trump.

Since January 2017 I’ve been thinking that we need a good sage ceremony around the White House once this band of malevolent bags of pus have left. I’m not even that New Age-y, but I truly think a good smudge ceremony, with hundreds of people circling the WH, is necessary to clear out the evil.

Or Christine Amanpour

Did you mean when Mace referred to Columbia? I’m pretty sure she meant Columbia, SC, the state capital, not the university in New York. 

I hope they name him Barack.

OK, that makes sense.

I don’t have strong feelings about either John Krasinski or Emily Blunt, but this struck me when I read Vanity Fair’s February 2018 profile of Blunt: There’s this anecdote that Krasinski tells about visiting her on the set of “Into the Woods” (IIRC) and hearing her sing for the first time. Made him cry, it was so…

Maybe April Ryan was #40 ... I think she was supposed to be one of the bridesmaids before, you know, everything went kaput between them.

Errm, so, ahh, the pope is His Holiness.

It’s “fiancée,” Lauren.

Who in the world has forgiven OJ Simpson?

So, so many stories are worse than this, but the Starbucks one made me remember one time I was in line ... The young woman in front of me told the server at the register that she would like a grande latte. (Mmm, I thought, me too, that's what I'm going to order too.) The server said, loudly, "Grande latte!" and the…

So I'm going to be That Person who points out that Queen Mary lived several centuries before the Victorian era.

My friend's baby is also Ruth Baby Ginsburg, and has won the Halloween 2014 Facebook feed as far as I'm concerned. Best costume ever. (I'd post her pic if I was actually her mother but I'm not so I don't feel like I should.)