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and then justin bieber and ryan seacrest talked about women… WHAT DO YOU MEAN?
(via ryan seacrest on instagram) whilst i haven’t the time to perform a full close reading on this momentous moment, i do want to draw it to your attention for two reasons… one specific query: ryan...
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the sex lives of dead people: jackie onassis and frank sinatra edition
why hello, again. so, fyi, this is not a new rumor. but because it’s been a whole year since this… and even longer since this… mayhaps you have forgot. lucky for you, i am in the middle of JACKIE: THE...
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UNAUTHORIZED: the “true” story of a “new” nostalgia trend in lifetime...
as you may or may not know, i’m pretty much a huge big deal in the world of developing and casting lifetime movies that will never be made. (via lifetime) (and HOLY SMOKES, their new logo really raises...
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didion, cobain, nostalgia, biography and the continuing belief that we can...
WHERE TO BEGIN? because, after driving away 79% of the people who might have read this, that title really raised the stakes for whoever’s left. props to ya’ll who’re sticking it out! <3 <3 <3...
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apologies to capote: history, gossip and gore vidal (emotions via britney)
i have- quite late in the day for one writing a biography of jackie onassis- come to the late memoirs of the late gore vidal. for which i will need my celebrity EMOTIONS ALL OVER THE FACE face double…...
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a moment of reflection on our cultural loss: the importance of hair dryers in...
because biographical research takes one to all manner of rando places, i’ve been thinking about hair dryers today. this isn’t really sooooooo random. the magazines i’m writing about were believed, at...
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40 years ago, jackie onassis got a job: reflections on our curious cultural...
well, 40 years and some days ago. and, to bring us full circle, this happened to coincide with the aforementioned spate of 1975 rumors that she was hooking up with sinatra, so the story is frequently...
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we steal stories
as janet malcolm writes in the silent woman, her MASTERPIECE of biographical criticism, the biographer is “like the professional burglar, breaking into a house, rifling through certain drawers that he...
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writing around hillary rodham clinton: “i wouldn’t call myself a feminist,”...
a preemptive plea: please do not bombard me with hate because i am trying to find a way to write about someone whose politics you may not agree with and whose personality you may not like. an...
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rock hudson died 30 years ago today
“There was something about Hudson’s diagnosis that seemed to strike an archetypal chord in the American consciousness. For decades, Hudson had been among the handful of screen actors who personified...
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a somewhat unnecessary analysis of joe namath’s 1968 mustache
i’ve been working with movie magazine for YEARS and, after awhile, one gets rather inoculated to the crazy. and so looking at this copy of july 1969’s TV star parade, i was initially like, ooooh,...
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the daily mail, what women wear and the way we write about them (emotions via...
YOU GUYS. i read the daily mail on the regular because it’s pretty much where all gossip stories start. so i’m aware of the mail’s howshallwesay… COLOSSAL PROBLEMS. but every now and again, there’s an...
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the sex lives of dead people: elizabeth taylor and mickey rooney edition
now i’mma do this real quick, ya’ll. because you know we have been here before so rumors about people’s sex lives are pretty much old hat to us, non? today: ET and MR. conveniently, both 5′ 2″ (ish)...
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the pathos of jackie kennedy dolls on etsy
i’ve written before about paperdolls. about how they are sometimes so haunting and we should all be using them to teach history because their pathos seems a particularly useful pedological tool. but...
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women and admin
gender isn’t everything. it also isn’t nothing. which is what our haste to say it isn’t everything tends to imply. immediately we downgrade it. in trying to make it less important we make it...
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the sex lives of dead people: elizabeth taylor + everyone edition
come, let us look at this closely. and let us begin by noting that, thanks to the oddities of the daily mail‘s online layout, no, this is not liz taylor at 16. it is a marks & spencer’s conspiracy...
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“franco-ing” and a very important update on my boyfriend adrien brody, artist
and no, no, ALAS. he is not taking my unsolicited career advice and starring in a salvadore dali biopic so my unsolicited career advice still stands. via adrien brody, instagram no, instead of...
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stray thoughts re: gloria emerson
gloria emerson was in my dreams last night. in twenty years, i’ve had a grand total of two jackie dreams, so gloria emerson is already giving her a run for her money. gloria emerson by dorothy marder,...
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why jackie?: an autoethnographic exploration
so much of life, or our experience of the world around us, is what i’mma call THINGS IN THE AIR. (feel free to credit me with that incredibly precise phraseology when discussing this later with all yo...
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saint west, saint wentz and “the ultimate celebrity disaster”
have you ever wondered, what is the ultimate celebrity disaster? well, lo, THE DAILY MAIL PROVIDES. kanye and KK had their kid. they named it saint. pete wentz also has a kid and it is also named...
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