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trending: on celebrity death + matthew modine (a personal meditation)
matthew modine has not died. but let’s backtrack… my parents were confused by the response to the death of robin williams. they asked me- because aren’t we all, for our parents, The Voice Of Our...
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the celebrity after-image (jackie, dickie, lauren, joan: obituaries, photos,...
i’ve repeatedly banged on and on and on about how this is the image of jackie most often used in the press since her death in 1994. how that has long been the case and how i want more because i think...
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“she purred down the line”: sexism, david cameron and the queen
so hey. this is the prime minister of the united kingdom: and this is the queen of the united kingdom: as you may have noted, the prime minister of the united kingdom is a man and the queen of the...
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super quick superficial thoughts on george clooney’s impending nuptials to...
which aren’t actually impending because they’ve actually happened by now. we just don’t have photographic evidence of that happening at the moment of this sentence’s composition. what we have is this:...
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weekend update: the ongoing tomkat-ification of alamooney + the ongoing...
it’s been a week, ya’ll. are you over it? better not be because this show is rolling on… (via) seriously, riddle me this, how in heck did george clooney’s wedding out kardashian the wedding of kim...
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incredibly superficial, brief thoughts on kristen stewart’s skinny jeans
so this is maybe the greatest article EVAH. simultaneously, it is maybe the stupidest article ever. because the ultimate point is discussion of stewart’s role in still alice and the daily mail‘s...
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martha, gwynnie, conscious (un)coupling + cat fights
so’s i was casting about today on the daily mail looking for something to write about and i stumbled upon news of the brewing cat fight between martha stewart and gwyneth paltrow. and i thought YES. i...
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OBSESSION: tippi hedren’s lion
tippi hedren has recently come out and said ‘We were stupid beyond belief to have that lion in our house’, which is how i found out about this. BUT, yes, it’s true, once upon a time, tippi hedren and...
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totally random gossip nostalgia trip: gwyneth paltrow + brad pitt edition
YOU GUYS. remember when this was the height of cool? pitt and paltrow hooked up during the filming of se7en in 1995 and were engaged for a quick bit in 1997. then paltrow moved on to the batfleck and...
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i do not want to write about renée zellweger
but sometimes we have to do things we do not want to do because those are the things that make us think. renée zellweger is trending today because she went to an event last night. some headlines: this...
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OBSESSION: vanilla ice’s wallaroo
so last week i was all TIPPI HEDRON’S LION WAS THE GREATEST THING WE’LL EVER SEE EVER IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD!!! yeah, maybe not. remember vanilla ice? if you are a human being of a certain age...
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my life with jackie: paris edition
i’ve been in paris for an interview with jackie’s former college roommate. which, just typing that sentence, sounds über spaceballs and makes me realize how i would never ever want anyone talking to my...
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the jian ghomeshi sexual assault scandal: 2 seemingly unrelated anecdotes...
i wanted to write about this, but i’m not sure how i want to write about this so bear with me… jian ghomeshi. i’mma write this for a non-canadian audience and assume most everyone reading it didn’t...
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elvis presley’s wallaby
true story: i love me some elvis. and not just young elvis. or movie elvis. all elvis. as a little girl, i sincerely and truly with every fiber of my being believed he was alive. and yet, if we’ve...
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fyi: macaulay culkin is alive
story here. and OF COURSE, there’s this… Filed under: macaulay culkin
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my forever boyfriend leo dicap = 40
though, let’s be real, he will always, in our sixteen year old hearts, be 20-23. Filed under: leo
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a stream of consciousness response to this 1976 photo of jackie onassis and...
SWEET JESUS. jackie and the mccartneys would be pretty much the best band name ever. like barbie and the rockers, which OF COURSE, brings up THE BARBIE AND THE ROCKERS CONCERT IN SPACE FOR PEACE!!!!!...
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cosby
this is epically dreadful, non? because… doesn’t go so well with this: and because, much as was the case with the allegations of assault against jian ghomeschi (which i wrote about last month), people...
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22 november 1963: jackie (pics), koestenbaum (words)
“There’s a metaphoric equivalence between our retrospective glances toward Jackie in 1963 and Jackie’s own movement onto the back of the car, an instant obsessively replayed. Symbolically, aren’t we...
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continuing thoughts on valérie trierweiler (FLOTUS, silence, scandal [+ a hit...
so i’ve written about valérie trierweiler a couple times now. first, in the immediate aftermath of the clusterwhoops with françois hollande back in january, looking at what was going on there with the...
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