by Dear Dexter | Feb 28, 2007 | Dear Dexter
In yesterday’s inaugural entry into the Encyclopedia of American Celebrity Project (or EnAmCel, as we like to say as of yesterday), I mused on the physical luminescence of Jessica "A is for" Alba. Today we deal with "B is for" Beck (Hansen),...
by Dear Dexter | Mar 2, 2007 | Dear Dexter
Another day, another entry in EnAmCel.C is for Cameron (Diaz, that is, not Cam’ron, who, though he’s done some important work on behalf of the apostrophe, isn’t quite EnAmCel-worthy yet) The seminal image in Cameron Diaz’s ouevre is of her...
by Dear Dexter | Feb 26, 2007 | Dear Dexter
Let us consider the curious case of Alicia Silverstone, an under-theorized figure on the celebrity landscape. Silverstone’s first movie break was 1993’s The Crush, in which she played a sexually and intellectually precocious teenager who almost but not...
by Dear Dexter | Mar 6, 2007 | Dear Dexter
I’m talkin’, of course, ‘bout the sing-off scene in the hotel room in Don’t Look Back, D.A. Pennebakers classic documentary of Bob Dylan’s 1965 tour of England (I’m talkin’ ‘bout the ’60s man, therefore I’m...
by Dear Dexter | Mar 8, 2007 | Dear Dexter
So this is the question I find myself asking myself on this balmy March afternoon: What is the cultural significance of Earvin "Magic" Johnson? (If it surprises you that I entertain myself, on balmy March afternoons, asking myself questions about the...
