When I was growing up we used to go to Southampton on Long Island during the summer. We also spent time in Italy, Greece, and Switzerland. Of the four, no place stands out as the best, but they are all special in different ways. Most places are ...
In Part One of this guide, I encouraged the newly rich not to wear white. Many people, possibly some of them newly rich, objected. They were right in one sense: You can wear white, but only if you know how to wear white. When you don’t, it is ...
Last week I found myself in Ibiza, where the car of choice is an economical mini-class SEAT Ibiza or its rental equivalent. When I saw a Rolls-Royce, I wanted to shout from my window, “Go back to St. Tropez, dum-dum—we don’t want your kind ...
What kind of society touts free speech and then shuns dissenters who dare to speak about "sensitive" issues? In today's politically correct environment one is expected to be at ease with genders, races, religions, and political viewpoints ...
When bad guys are taken out in real life like they are in the movies, I am reminded that despite our technological and artistic exploits, we are collectively brutish creatures with antediluvian predilections. Never have I been more ashamed to be ...
The Queen of England announced she was "absolutely delighted." The Prince of Wales issued a statement saying he, too, was "delighted." Prime Minister David Cameron said the engagement marked "a great day" for ...
So you"re here and you"re queer. Get over it. You"ve made your point and shoved it down our throats repeatedly. Now, when are you going to grow up and shut up? I"ve had just about all I can take of the gay community's loudmouth self ...
They say she's an heiress, but I say she's more like trailer trash. She wears a lot of Pepto Bismol pink and prances around like an innocent little doll, but make no mistake about it, Paris Hilton is a naughty girl. Before the age of thirty, not ...
The afternoon has gently passed me by The evening spreads it’s sail against the sky Waiting for tomorrow, just another day God bid yesterday good-bye Bring on the night I couldn’t spend another hour of daylight Bring on the night I ...
The idea of being cooped up on a boat with nowhere to go, at the mercy of a princess, an aging playboy, and his equally virile son made me hesitant. Apart from the time we spend together over Christmas, we haven"t been on a family holiday in ...
Sometimes being a woman in a man's world gives you the advantage. Yet even in the so-called liberated world, people tend to defer to men. As in the case of Sandra Bullock's ex, Jesse James, the world cast aspersions on the other woman more than on ...
Until recently, I had never heard of Liliane Bettencourt, the sole heiress to the L"Oreal fortune and France's richest woman. I can"t say that I care much now that I have, even though it seems like all of France is in a twist over her ...
