I is for Isaac

I don’t think I like Isaac Mizrahi very much. This is a sad thing for me because there was a time when I thought that I liked him very much (insofar as you can like someone you only know through the television and an occasional magazine profile). He was funny....

J is for Jenny from the Block

I have a number of recurring nightmares, most of which are the typical ones — the teeth falling out dream, the dream where I’m in college and it’s the end of the semester and I suddenly realize that I have a final for a class that I’ve...

In Defense of K is for K-Fed

Consider this: Kevin Federline is judged harshly because he’s gotten famous not for anything he’s accomplished but because of different reasons all together. His soon-to-be wife, too, is judged harshly because her fame, though not wholly unearned, seems...

L is for Luther, L is for Love

I wouldn’t have been so direct about this last year, because I’m a coward, but now that he’s dead (and you can’t be sued by a dead person), I’ll just say it: Luther Vandross was gay. Or, as The New York Times put it in their obituary,...

M is for Alex P. Keaton

I knew there was a reason I liked Michael J. Fox (aside, that is, from his winning smile, his ability to go back in time to turn his loser parents into obnoxious yuppies, and that time when I was trying to cut back on my fossil fuel consumption when he loaned me his...