Beyond Rummy, the Stars- June 30, 2005 Bono looked very much at home on NBC's "Meet the Press" Sunday talking about Third World debt. So much so that the future path for Sunday morning talk shows became blindingly obvious: Dispense with politicians altogether. They have passed their sell-by date. They don't smell so good.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/29/AR2005062902890.html?nav=r... Hillary Clinton Attacked by Man From Mars- June 23, 2005 Maybe it's a secret fantasy of girl-on-girl action that makes Ed Klein obsess about Sen. Hillary Clinton's supposed lesbian ethos in his new book "The Truth About Hillary." It's hard to know what else he has to draw on. Yelling "lesbian" at powerful heterosexual women has always been the pathetic projection of the menaced male, but it's especially baffling in Klein's case. As the former editor of the New York Times Magazine, with some bestsellers behind him, Klein used to be a workmanlike...http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/22/AR2005062202301.html?nav=r... Kofi Annan, Served and Grilled- June 16, 2005 Spare a thought, in all his troubles, for Kofi Annan's official social life.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/15/AR2005061502558.html?nav=r... Fame Is No Excuse For the Rest of Us- June 9, 2005 Russell Crowe's rumble in the Mercer Hotel in New York this week suggests a possible new use for Neverland after the Jackson verdict is rendered. It could be refitted as a rehabilitation facility for stars, CEOs and ersatz billionaires afflicted with the classic symptoms of Narcissistic Celebrity Disorder.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/08/AR2005060802551.html?nav=r... Honor Thy Father- June 2, 2005 There's no such thing as a perfectly truthful memoir. Anyway, who would want one Much of the interest in reading personal history is decoding what's real about a remembered life from the author's baggage of partial understanding or simmering resentment or wishful thinking.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/01/AR2005060101985.html?nav=r... |