Gilbert & George go to The Netherlands, Mad Men Returns

Plus, Olivia Munn makes you laugh (until you cry), Pitchfork launches a new music blog, and Australia celebrates winter Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, London, through October ...

Long Live Queen Elizabeth

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II is visiting us here in Manhattan this week. As I write this, she has just got through delivering an address to the U.N. General Assembly, 16 of ...

Twilight Hit for the Same Reasons Knight and Day Flopped

Believe it or not, it's worth comparing a current box office smash—The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, a Mormon teen vampire romance—to a dud—Knight and Day, an ...

Male Vanity Hits The Midwest

There have been many signs of the apocalypse as of late. We have a war in the birthplace of the Lord as was foretold in The Omen III, Global Warming is causing sheep to shrink as ...

Jean Cocteau’s House Opens, The Bulls Go Running in Pamplona

Plus, Helen Mirren gets her sex on and Louis C.K. stages a comeback La Maison Jean Cocteau La Maison Cocteau at Milly-la-Forêt is open to the public after five years and ...

Prince Charles Saves Chelsea Barracks

Something happened to British architects after the Second World War. Rugged Howard Roarke-like geniuses and obscure mediocrities alike shared an aesthetic that, for some reason, ...

Zooey Deschanel Sings, John Baldessari Art Goes Virtual

Plus, The Railway Children come to Waterloo and the Blue Boat goes up for auction She & Him Unlike, say, Lindsay Lohan, Zooey Deschanel can act, write songs, and sing. She ...

Bunky Mortimer’s London Season Diary

We WASPS have a long tradition with the London "€œSeason."€ The Chelsea Flower Show, Royal Ascot, Wimbledon, Henley, Glorious Goodwood in mid-summer, it's very old hat to us. ...

Costner & Kutcher to, Like, Fix the Oil Spill

We need to do our part to let BP know there are consequences for causing something like this… The more costly their punishment, the more money they will spend to make sure ...

The Death of the WASP

A remark by Richard Brookhiser in April in a syndicated column in the New York Post about “how we"€™re all WASPs now” made me realize that Brookhiser's statement ...

10 Things I”€™ve Learned About Writing For TV

The first thing you need to know about pitching TV shows is, you are not going to get a show. Television is 1,000 burn victims trying to seduce a supermodel; what was considered ...

Toff Luck

I was as polite to him as his breath would allow… Thus wrote Jane Austen in a letter to her sister, displaying some of the withering insight and laughing bitchiness for ...

Katharine Hepburn and the Tomboys Who Followed

It’s hard to open a fashion magazine or celebrity rag this year without reading tomboy-this or boyfriend cut-that. Twenty years ago, however, or even five, the word tomboy, ...

In Defense of Fergie

It’s a classic, archetypal story: build somebody up, only to tear them down. Sarah, Duchess of York, has embarrassed the royal family yet again, and now the public and press ...

Why I Quit Touring with The Black Eyed Peas

Last year I toured with the Black Eyed Peas on their Japan/Australia run. It was dubbed The E.N.D. - World Tour, which was appropriate. The production is a dazzling metaphor for ...

Fashion Wrap: The Met Gala Disappoints

         A panoply of dreary frocks and ill-conceived looks appeared on the red carpet at this year's MET Costume Institute gala. What a ...


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