PARTY OF THE YEAR!
Once, sorta, in Time, thrice in Playboy, now hopefully we settle in for a long run at Vanity Fair.
DRIBBLE, DRIBBLE
My buddy Paul Lindstrom and I took off yesterday and visited the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield MA. A nicely scaled faxility–I recommend it.
KILLING O’REILLY
I have known guys like Bill O’Reilly all my life, and they have all annoyed me. He’s Cathoic working class, just like me, just like a lot of guys I went to school with. He’s smart, but bombastic, smug, pugnacious, anti-intellectual, and on top of that, cynical. He always wants to pick an argument, and …
THE SPECTRE OF. . . SOMETHING ELSE?
I saw Spectre. I was prepared to love it. I only liked it. This places me squarely in the company of such reviewers as Rene Rodriguez of the Miami Herald (“The opening is exciting, outrageous and a cheeky showcase of cinematic craftsmanship. So why is the rest of the movie so dull? Spectre. . . …
DANCING WITH WILL CUSHING
The lovely folks at the Putnam Valley Historical Society invited me to give my presentation on Commander Will. “You do an eclectic celebration of the dance! You do Fosse, Fosse, Fosse! You do Martha Graham, Martha Graham, Martha Graham! Or Twyla, Twyla, Twyla! Or Michael Kidd, Michael Kidd, Michael Kidd, Michael Kidd! Or Madonna, Madonna, …
AUZ ARMES, CITOYENS! FORMEZ VOS BATAILLONS!
Fans depart La Stade de France on the evening of November 13, after three terrorist suicide bombers had tried to kill them. Seven sites were attacked; 129 were murdered.
THE CRACK-UP
These were sentences heard on Morning Joe on Monday, November 9th: “This is sui generis. We’ve never seen anything like this.” “Confusing beyond confusing to any established politician.” “I’ve never seen anything like it.” “There is no logic to it.” “It doesn’t make any sense.” What Mika, Donnie Deutsch, Willie Geist and the others were …
THE LAST EIGHTIES MAN
From my article in yesterday’s USA Today: “Whether you adore him or abhor him, the next time Donald Trump trudges across your TV screen, make your children watch. “Gaze upon him,” you should insist. “Yonder walks one of the last great examples of ’80s Man.” Nonsense, you say; the world is crawling with people who …