Please let let me indulge myself. I promise to be brief. Forgive me if you’ve already heard these questions or if they’re just downright cheesy.
Does it take a rocket scientist to get from Houston to Orlando without stopping for bladder relief? Doesn’t Lisa Marie Nowak’s mug shot look like Katie Couric after a heroin binge? […]

In “Sunset Boulevard”, famous female film star Norma Desmond was ancient history at 50 — over the hill, washed up, finished, kaput. Now, three top women actresses over that age are riding high in the Golden Globes and Oscars — Helen Mirren, Meryl Streep and Judi Dench. They are defying the trend of the last […]

Today, several items are up for bid  — Nowak patches, photos, news articles.  “Why do people do this?” Asks one of my readers. “Why do they want these items?”
Simple.
We live in a celebrity culture where friends of friends of friends of friends of a D list celebrity become celebrities in their own rights. There are […]

“Why is it that today’s peace movement is dominated by the middle-aged and the retired,” asked one of my readers… “Where are the kids? Is it solely the absence of a draft that has caused younger people to bypass antiwar protest, or are there other factors as well?”
Younger people live in a different world than […]

“The Queen” and “Bobby” both mix actors and fictional elements with real archival news footage — of Princess Diana and Robert F. Kennedy — what makes these hybrids so popular?
Hybrid movies that mix fact and fiction are a lot more palatable to audiences because many documentaries are boring. Movie audiences shell out ten bucks to […]

APRIL MASINI’S TOP 10 TIPS FOR THROWING A VALENTINE’S DAY PARTY EVERYONE WILL LOVE
1. Send invitations, don’t just call. There is something about receiving an invitation in the mail that makes people think that yours will be a special, thought out party — not just a get together that’s thrown together. Be specific in your […]