Strange Love
Extreme Solitude
What Happened to Valor?
Peralta was summoned to the Marine Corps Air Station Miramar in San Diego, where Lieut. Gen. Richard F. Natonski informed her of the Pentagon’s decision: Rafael Peralta would not be awarded the Medal of Honor after all. Instead he would receive the Navy Cross, the second-highest American military decoration that can be awarded to a Marine.
Tony Curtis, The Last of the Playboys
For a guy who started life as Bernard Schwartz, son of a struggling tailor in the Bronx, Tony Curtis has done alright for himself.
The Trial of Pope Benedict XVI
M.I.A.’s Agitprop Pop
“I kind of want to be an outsider,” she said, eating a truffle-flavored French fry. “I don’t want to make the same music, sing about the same stuff, talk about the same things. If that makes me a terrorist, then I’m a terrorist.”
Joan Rivers Always Knew She Was Funny
It’s the rest of the world that sometimes forgot. “Expect nothing and you won’t be disappointed. This is the mantra of the pessimist and the persecuted alike, the preemptive strike of those who tend to paint the picture a little blacker than it is. And then there is Joan Rivers, the orneriest creature ever to darken Hollywood’s door. She once told me that her husband, Edgar Rosenberg, who killed himself in 1987, lived by the heartwarming motto ‘Fuck them over before they fuck you over first.'”
All The Dirt That’s Fit To Print
We’re used to National Enquirer stories on “shocking” plastic surgery, but in 2010 the rag almost won a Pulitzer. Alex Pappademas chronicles its evolution from tabloid to breaking-news contender
The Man Who Could Unsnarl Manhattan Traffic
Come party with Lady Gaga
From her dressing room to a sex club, an exclusive interview in which the singer discusses fame, the paparazzi – and those health rumours
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