I would totally watch that Kristin Scott Thomas movie (especially if she actually did a Liza Minnelli impression, although maybe they should just go ahead and cast Liza). But I would be even happier if they cast Egyptian leading man Khaled Selim as the driver...

I pretty much think he’s a Windsor-Mountbatten. There’s a lot of Spencer in there, but he also strongly recalls not only the young Prince Philip, but others one generation further back, including Queen Mary (who was said to strongly resemble “the old Royal Family” that predated Victoria and Albert). Whatever the mix…

I bid my father (and the Evil Stepmother, but that’s a whole ‘nother story) adios a decade or so ago, and it was the smartest emotional/personal decision I’ve about ever made. I’m only sorry I waited ‘til I was 40 to do so. It was astonishing to realize that there’s no law of destiny that says you must remain…

I’m afraid we’re long past the point at which one can expect anything like doctrinal coherence from the vast majority of American fundamentalists. They’re all too busy waiting for the second coming and, in the meantime, hating women and gays.

the roaches shall finally inherit the earth like they always deserved.

And there, in a nutshell, is the story of Elijah Blue Bono’s life.

I think Chaz is kind of okay (complicated, but who isn’t?) - Elijah Blue, on the other hand... Cher hasn’t had an easy time of it, family-wise.

THANK YOU! This has been driving me crazy since this ridiculous “conversation” has been going on these last few weeks. I had open-heart surgery in February, and I can guarantee you that it was many times as gross as anything seen in these videos (I haven’t had the stomach even to look at the post-op pictures my…

Chris, it’s not 2012. You’re not the Republican Party’s prettiest princess anymore

Excellent piece. It’s always sobering to read memoirs that include these dark few months. The amount of upheaval and uncertainty it caused in the lives of everyone from the royals to ordinary families is astonishing - everything from people like Harold Nicolson and Virginia Woolf planning their suicides, as they…

I will admit I’ve not been paying enough attention to the campaign so far (at this stage, well more than a year out, I figure there’s plenty of time left to get depressed, and at least it will be over fewer idiots), but does Fiorina always look so much like an egg styled by a nearsighted drag queen?

...and the world gets a little bit less glam; say what you will, Joan and Jackie pioneered a very specific kind of trashy elegance (which they proved wasn’t completely oxymoronic) and then kept the flame alive for decades. I think I kind of thought those two were immortal (but then again, once upon a time I thought…

Well, if nothing else, that’s the first time in my life I’ve ever heard of a tiki bar that wasn’t at least bi-curious...

...and who was Albanian, noted for her work in India. There’s just not a single thing about it that’s not laughable.*

She is as calculating as they come.

Is that not the best word ever?

And there’s the question of whether or not they’re going to be able to make 2015 Renee Zellweger look like anything like Bridget Jones - I know she’s won’t have to get as heavy as for the first film (in which I thought she looked fab), but her changes are so drastic one wonders if she can still convince as a character…

Bless you. With those two images, you have just become my favorite person in the history of the Internet. Now, you’ll excuse me, as I have to go clean chicken salad off my keyboard...

Add this one to the “must read” list - if it goes on like this, it must be astonishing.

Frankly, after the first fifteen seconds, I knew I wasn’t going to feel satisfied unless this ended with someone shooting her. I live in hope that that will happen at some point, though, with that attitude.