Sports network ESPN had a “Jane, you ignorant slut” moment recently when Tony Kornheiser, host of its Pardon the Interruption program, said on his radio show that ESPN television anchor Hannah Storm was wearing “a horrifying, horrifying outfit today. She’s got on red go-go boots and a Catholic school plaid skirt … way too short [...]
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This winter, I’ve spent a number of insomniac nights watching 3 a.m. and 4 a.m. reruns of Buffy the Vampire Slayer on Logo. After seeing the episodes Double Meat Palace and Dead Things, I complained via Twitter that Buffy was unkind to her Billy Idol-esque, Brit, bad boy vampire lovah, Spike.
To my surprise, I got [...]
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Former Tonight Show host Johnny Carson used to do a bit about a psychic named Carnac the Magnificent.
Get me a giant turban, people, because I am having a Carnac moment after reading today’s New York Times story on Zac Posen, The Trials of a Former Boy Wonder. It quotes Posen, a pre-crash success story known [...]
If your child asks, “If drugs are so bad for me, why did you do them when you were a teenager?” I suggest you answer, “Because I wasn’t sure they led to stupid children till now.”
WendyB: Answering idiotic questions with brutal honesty since forever.
UPDATED: I didn’t include the Rachel Leigh Cook anti-drug ad originally because [...]
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My gorgeous friend Elizabeth Wurtzel and I went to a screening of a documentary called American Character Along Highway 50, which will be airing on USA Network (motto: “Characters Welcome“) on Monday, January 18.
Route 50, part of the U.S. highway system, stretches from Ocean City, Md., to West Sacramento, Calif., passing through 12 states for [...]
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I got a little hoarse yesterday.
Considering I have two sales coming up, this hoarseness made me very nervous. I took my temperature and it was 99.1. This is basically normal, but, because it wasn’t exactly 98.6, I decided I must be coming down with swine flu. Normally I don’t worry about such things, because I [...]
Hayden Panettiere from the television show Heroes wore my 18K gold and diamond Borgia poison ring on the Jimmy Kimmel show October 1. She picked up the ring at Broken English.
Here she is in action.
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I have a memory like a sieve when it comes to important things — unless you’ve offended me, in which case I have a memory like an elephant. So even though several gorgeous bloggers told me that NieNie, the blogger who was severely burned in a plane crash last year, was going to be on [...]
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Now that my Patrick Kelly dress — previously declared by WWD to be a fashion disaster — went over so well at the IFB Dress-Up Soiree, I feel emboldened to pursue the gown of my dreams. And that, my friends, is the drapery dress, complete with curtain rods, worn by Carol Burnett in her role [...]
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Something I did in Napa Valley: Hot-air ballooning.
Something I didn’t do in Napa Valley: Grape stomping.
I Love Lucy grape-stomping episode
News reporter grape-stomping fail
Family Guy’s Stewie imitates the reporter’s grape-stomping failure
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Here’s one from the air.
After the flight, we had breakfast at a Tex-Mex place, where I was amused by this sign.
Believe it [...]
