Articles Tagged with #celebrities
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Spoofs & Satire
What Is a Career Move
Following his triumphant appearance on Jeopardy, IBM’s Watson supercomputer strikes a deal to replace Charlie Sheen on CBS’s hit comedy Two and a Half Men.
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Spoofs & Satire
How to Make Celebrities Fall in Love With You
If you tell Johnny Depp he’s hideous looking, he’ll think you’re the first person he’s met who sees past his physical appearance—and other lessons.
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Personal Essays
The Karma Bum
When Allen Ginsberg stayed with my family, we played video games and read together. But the harmony was broken when the yoga began. It wouldn’t be the last time.
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Profiles
Impresario Seaman
Norman Seaman was one of New York’s great avant-garde supporters. In his biography, he said, John and Yoko would only get a chapter.
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Opinions
Movement for a Standstill
Jon Stewart’s Rally to Restore Sanity is bad for America, except for the America that buys or sells advertising time on Comedy Central.
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The Novice
How to Do Astrology
Those who can’t do, learn. In this installment of our series in which the clueless apprentice with the experts, we divine meaning from the heavenly bodies.
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Spoofs & Satire
Being Nominated Is the Award
The allure of an awards show is not the thrill of victory, but rather the anticipation—and of course the potential for a handjob.
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Opinions
Bret Easton Ellis, Author Célèbre
Four digressions about obsession, venom, and life in a famous author’s orbit.
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Personal Essays
To Chelsea, and Climate Control, Cheers
From the awkward phase through the sweater phase to the riot grrrl phase and the New York phase, growing up with a First Daughter I’ve never met.
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Behind the Scenes
The Beaver Post-Production
No one knows what will happen to The Beaver, Jodie Foster’s new film starring Mel Gibson, where Gibson plays a suicidal man whose life is changed by a hand puppet.
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Personal Essays
The Rough Cut
When you share your life with a reality TV editor, you learn that reality often winds up on the cutting-room floor.
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Personal Essays
Justice With a Tagline
When your publisher won’t pay you for translating a popular German guide to anal sex, don’t take the law into your own hands—take ‘em to court. But which one?