Friday May 16, 2008
Latest Columns 
Celebrity defence barks up wrong tree
Online Edition: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 03:49 AM
Celebrity defence barks up wrong tree
Published: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 12:00 AM Page R1
Life has just got a little better and a little worse for man's best friend.Better and worse because as we begin to cohere, as a society, and recognize the virulence of animal abuse, we learn so many hideous details of its wanton occurrence.
Who's being lewd? Lolita Montana or her salacious critics?
Online Edition: Tuesday, May 6, 2008 03:45 AM
Who's being lewd? Lolita Montana or her salacious critics?
Published: Tuesday, May 6, 2008 12:00 AM Page R1
Miley Cyrus performed at Disney's Magic Kingdom this weekend, despite claims that executives for the corporation were keeping her on ice for a while, after her controversial, almost-topless Vanity Fair shoot.
Madonna's beauty secret? The big O
Published: Saturday, May 3, 2008 12:00 AM Page L1
AMadonna comeback is like the return of spring: After a long, bleak absence of colour and sound, the trees fill with blossoms and the birds begin speaking in the language of love and renewal. And pop music's greatest trickster reinvents herself again, in the manner of the season's first insect sac releasing its fast, wild hostages.
She broke the glass ceiling with her gavel
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Online Edition: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 03:10 AM
She broke the glass ceiling with her gavel
Published: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 12:00 AM Page R1
Jezebel, the Defamer-paired website that deals with ''Celebrity, Sex, Fashion. Without Airbrushing'', provides a distaff roundup of such things as ''Missdemeanors'' (recaps of sexist raunch, tagged with suitable punishments), fashion-industry mockery (in ''Mag Hag'') and innumerable stories about the often strange and intriguing women they love.
5 Things, 7 Days
Published: Tuesday, April 22, 2008 12:00 AM Page R1
1. My Beautiful Suppurating MommyA Florida-based plastic surgeon has written a children's book that explains why Mommy is bruised, bandaged and prostrate while recovering. If only Joan Crawford had thought to write I'm Not Mad at You, I'm Mad at the Dirt.
Dr. Phil backs out again
Online Edition: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 03:41 AM
Dr. Phil backs out again
Published: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 12:00 AM Page R1
''Prejudice about female violence,'' crime journalist Patricia Pearson argues, ''is the gift of misogyny to women who want to get away with crime.''And so, apparently, Dr. Phil (the TMZ-titled Dr. Fame Whore) is in the news for bailing out Mercades Nichols, the alpha-teen leading a group of eight, who viciously attacked their friend Victoria Lindsay in Tampa, Fla., last week and will be charged as adults.
