Twins On Way, CNN’s Nancy Grace Adopts Her 3rd East Side Condo

Sensationalism buys big condos!!!! Georgian prosecutor-turned-CNN anchoress Nancy Grace, whose prime time show bills itself as “television’s only justice-themed interview/debate show,” has bought a third apartment on a high floor of The Revere condo on East 54th Street.

She paid $925,000, public deeds show. The deal closed in late May, but didn’t Read More

Nancy Grace’s Unmanageable Crisis

On Sept. 8, a lithe and comely South Korean orphan named Melinda Duckett—21 years old and known to friends as Mindy—went to her grandparents’ retirement home and shot herself in the head.

That was fewer than 24 hours after she had taped an interview for Nancy Grace’s prime-time Headline News show to talk about the Read More

Nancy Grace's Unmanageable Crisis

On Sept. 8, a lithe and comely South Korean orphan named Melinda Duckett—21 years old and known to friends as Mindy—went to her grandparents’ retirement home and shot herself in the head.

That was fewer than 24 hours after she had taped an interview for Nancy Grace’s prime-time Headline News show to talk about Read More

CNN’s Royal Pain: Would Nancy Succeed King?

March 16 was a good day for tributes to CNN’s Larry King. But not on CNN.

Over on Fox News, personalities were lining up to praise Mr. King. Greta Van Susteren was applauding him on the air and on her blog, adding that Fox News Channel chairman Roger Ailes was also a fan. Sean Hannity Read More

CNN’s Royal Pain: Would Nancy Succeed King?

March 16 was a good day for tributes to CNN’s Larry King. But not on CNN.

Over on Fox News, personalities were lining up to praise Mr. King. Greta Van Susteren was applauding him on the air and on her blog, adding that Fox News Channel chairman Roger Ailes was also a fan. Sean Read More

Letters

Kabul Scribe Writes One for the Record

To the Editor:

John Heilpern’s excellent column correctly reports and analyzes the mishandling of My Name Is Rachel Corrie by New York Theater Workshop, which has resulted in the cancellation of its N.Y. premiere, apparently out of fear of political objections to its content [“A Scandal Read More

Raise the Red-State Lantern

HBO’s new polygamy drama, Big Love, opens in a sunlit suburban bedroom, with a man and his wife quietly having sex. Then the husband dresses and leaves, dropping a $100 bill on the nightstand.

That captures the tone of Big Love—disturbing, but not quite disturbing in the signature HBO way. No one ever swears in Read More

Did Nancy Grace, TV Crimebuster, Muddy Her Myth?

Every crime-fighting superhero has a creation story. Nancy Grace, the prosecutor turned breakout star at CNN Headline News, has a particularly moving one. As she tells it, in the summer of 1980, she was a 19-year-old college student in small-town Georgia, engaged to Keith Griffin, a star third baseman for the Valdosta State University Blazers. Read More

Ta-Ta, Dull Do-Gooders: All Hail the New Virago

Great news: Bitches are back!

Being noble and self-denying and altruistic is totally over. Self-involved disco slags with flippy bangs are suddenly all the rage! The caring celeb—that gal who cannot accept an award without professing how “humbled” she is by it—is suddenly déjà vu. The era when even Ginger Spice became a Read More