Fall’s Fashionable Felons! Plus: A Plea for Pageantry

I wonder if John Mark Karr, that strange bloke who falsely claimed to have killed JonBenet Ramsey, realizes how fashionable he is. The squeaky-clean nerd in the high-waisted pants embodies so many of this fall’s trends that I found myself wondering, “Who’s he wearing?” Ralph? Dior? Valentino?

Attention, fashion P.R. flacks! The red-carpet thing is Read More

Fall's Fashionable Felons! Plus: A Plea for Pageantry

I wonder if John Mark Karr, that strange bloke who falsely claimed to have killed JonBenet Ramsey, realizes how fashionable he is. The squeaky-clean nerd in the high-waisted pants embodies so many of this fall’s trends that I found myself wondering, “Who’s he wearing?” Ralph? Dior? Valentino?

Attention, fashion P.R. flacks! The red-carpet thing Read More

The Torture of Patsy Ramsey

It’s been so long, and gone thru so many bizarre turns, that the JonBenet Ramsey case seems to have lost all reality and become pure entertainment, like a history-channel crime, where no one gets hurt anymore. But I think about the late Patsy Ramsey, and what she suffered. To lose your child in a Read More

Erica Jong Screens Lolita With Adrian Lyne

When Adrian Lyne was shooting Lolita in North Carolina in 1995, he succumbed to the stray fear that “some redneck sheriff might cart us off.… After all, we were in Jesse Helms’ territory.” Given the hell he has been put through for daring to make this brilliant, politically incorrect movie (one that even Vladimir Nabokov Read More