Recipe for Dating Lite: Insta-macy!

Recently over lox

and eggs at Barney Greengrass, I told my father I wanted to write an article

about how intimacy can be deceptive.

 ”I’ve got a such a

good story for you,” he said, laughing. “When Mom and I started dating, she had

a bust out to here”- he straightened

his arms away Read More

The Mini-Me Decade and Other Digressions

1: Mini-Me Mania. What is it about Mini-Me, what’s the deal, why am I–and, apparently, much of the rest of America–so intrigued by the dwarf clone of Dr. Evil in Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me ? Why did Mini-Me make Entertainment Weekly’s “It” list of “the hundred most creative people in Entertainment”? Why Read More

Chopped Liver and a Lost Literary Friendship

I’m going to interrupt my impeachment coverage this week in part because there’s not much new to say about the procedural wrangles that have led up to the depositions, which (as of this writing) are still under wraps. But also because I have some remarkable news to report about the results of a perhaps even Read More