Sarah Palin’s ascent, not unlike Barack Obama’s, is an American story. The hockey mom becomes the mayor who becomes the governor who becomes the national candidate. She’s a folkloric character: Annie Oakley, Horatio Alger and Gatsby in one. Even her ...
Among the many questions raised by photographs of child beauty pageant contestants, there is the question of how we are to view them. Are these images art or exploitation? Creep show or camp? The little faces spackled with makeup, the hair poufed and ...
Sept. 29, 2009 | “We are getting a divorce. It has been in the works for a while now,” Lauren, a 36-year-old mother of two who resides in a small town outside of Austin, wrote on her Facebook page, at the beginning of July, about her husband of 13 ...
Cast member Jennifer Aniston arrives at the premiere of "Love Happens" in Los Angeles on Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2009. Sept. 17, 2009 | Why do we love Jennifer Aniston? It's hard to count the ways. The woman best remembered as the perky, fluttery Rachel ...
Aug. 24, 2009 | Not long ago, I would have confessed, with the shame that some people feel over having had multiple spouses, that I have been the owner of multiple iPhones. As with any bad union, there is a story behind each one's demise. My starter ...
July 24, 2009 | If you, like me, are somewhat private by nature, you are often made uneasy by our exceedingly confessional society, one in which friends upload photos of all things personal — kids, wild weekends, dark adolescent years — tweet their ...
Enter the recipients' email addresses, separated by commas: Your email has been sent. Alberto E. Rodriguez / Getty Images Jessica Lange will likely earn an Emmy nod next week for Grey Gardens, and is now an acclaimed photographer. Amanda Fortini ...
Fans outside public memorial service for Michael Jackson Tuesday, July 7, 2009, in L.A. July 8, 2009 | On a warm, overcast early morning in downtown Los Angeles, the 8,000-plus lucky souls who won tickets to Michael Jackson's memorial donned the ...
June 24, 2009 | Why would anyone submit to the doomed delusion that is marriage? The unmarried among us have surely begun to ask this question. (No doubt the married have, too, though in the past tense.) For several years now, disdain for heterosexual ...
Smog, that dirty gauze that shrouds buildings and streetlights, blots out mountains, and sends hacking residents running indoors, is as much a symbol of Los Angeles as the Hollywood sign it so often obscures. Although the air here has improved since ...
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