Meryl Streep Talks Florence Foster Jenkins & Acting After 40 In WSJ Magazine August 2016

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What caught my eye in the article was a comment about Meryl Streep and also Hillary Clinton. The deep level of its misogyny prompts me to post Streep's 4 minute speech about 'women firsts'. The comment is:

By all means let's take the time and effort to glorify a shameless socialist, a prostitute at least for totalitarianism, if not in other more conventional ways (as, being charitable, a solid plurality of actresses are). As usual the WSJ magazine is aiming to interest a very narrow slice of the .0001%, all of whom live either in Bel Air, Manhattan's Upper East Side, or are current/former Maobama or Dykesmistress von Rodham high counselors. Vomit.

Kim & Kanye Headline 2016 Bazaar Icons: In Bed With . . . By Karl Lagerfeld

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Kim & Kanye Headline 2016 Bazaar Icons: In Bed With . . . By Karl Lagerfeld

Kim Kardashian West and Kanye West's house sits atop a steep driveway in a gated community in Los Angeles's Bel Air neighborhood. Kanye, on the phone, is pacing in front of the house, occasionally obscured by a column or a shiny silver sports car. He waves me in with a publicly infrequent smile and apologizes for his workout gear: Miami Heat shorts and a black T-shirt.

This is not really their house, though. This is a stage home where the family—West, Kardashian, and their children, North, three, and Saint, nine months—are camping (a term used loosely; the place is majestically minimal) for the next few weeks until their new home is finally ready. Prior to this, they'd spent more than a year at the Calabasas home of Kim's mother, Kris Jenner. Read on at Harper's Bazaar US

Donna Brazile's 'Colored Girls' Crew Will Pen Book On Their Popular Political Posse

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Donna Brazile's 'Colored Girls' Crew Will Pen Book On Their Popular Political Posse AOC Front Page

Donna Brazile, the interim DNC chair, and her power players posse of Democratic party heavyweights and close friends are set to collaborate on a book together, writing with a collaborator.

Published by St. Martin's Press, the book is tentatively titled “The Colored Girls,” a name the fivesome gave themselves years ago. The quintet includes Brazile; top Hillary Clinton aide, Minyon Moore; chief executive of the Democratic convention, Leah Daughtry; director of the convention’s podium operations, Yolanda Caraway; and Bill Clinton’s chief of staff, Tina Flournoy.