I was kind of surprised that Woody Allen was not somehow attached to this.

“Guilt-inducing, yes, but I like it too!”

Go the “Downton Abbey” route: “Dearest Ma-MAH.”

When FDR was president he had five adult children, a daughter and four sons. During WWII at least three of the sons enlisted in the military. They didn’t hang around the White House sharing insights about how best to fight a global war on two fronts, although I’m sure he and Eleanor communicated with them as much as…

80s (1985) and it’s a warning about the rise of Reagan and the religious right. I am so old I bought but sadly no longer have a first edition hardcover.

Alex and Simon and the two kids (rarely shown) were my favorites. The kids running around and grabbing things in Zarin’s fabric emporium. The vacations in St. Bart’s in summer because “it’s less crowded” (room rates are 80% off.) Simon’s leather pants and Speedo. Simon the hotelier (didn’t he work the front desk at a…

Love Linda Evans’ “Gay Caballero” outfit. And Joan Collins is doing a creditable impression of the flowering shrub at the end of the driveway.

I think I saw the poisonous spider episode. It involved women’s tennis, did it not?

And COPS. I vividly remember one episode from Boston, parts of which had to be sub-titled, and it wasn’t because of the sound quality.

It does take a lot of self-confidence to pull off this little number:

What does he aspire to model? Will be there be a live action recreation of the Summer, 1986 Brooks Brothers catalog anytime soon?

As a teen I assumed that George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley were a couple, and I thought Andrew Ridgeley came off gayer than George Michael. Then I learned that Andrew Ridgeley is actually straight (according to wikipedia he currently lives in a 15th-century castle with Karen Woodward, of Bananarama, which is…

Why did Brazile feed the question in the first place? Did she really believe that HRC, of all people, would be blindsided by a question about potable drinking water at a debate held in Flint, MI? Thanks for taking the time and the energy to create yet another “controversy” that dogged Clinton in the run-up to the…

To be fair, Epps isn’t the first person to have a strange compulsion to dance with a kangaroo.

So romantic. I did something similar.

The Ivies and lots of other schools have tons of legacy/”generous donor” graduates. Who would criticize Kushner? Every wealthy family must have at least one close relative whose SAT scores were outliers and yet miraculously matriculated at some place where they were punching above their weight.

There’s an old (and somewhat unfair) trope that if you want to experience life free of the “dead hand” of government spend a long weekend in Somalia. It will be your last.

Bill Clinton was elected Governor of Arkansas when he was 32. It was the same year he would have attended his 10th college reunion. You just know he went. He was probably the head of the organizing committee.