Eden Roc

An Oscar for Taki

ONBOARD S/Y BUSHIDO—My moment of glory came and went in a jiffy. It was actually a whole afternoon of filming onboard without a single retake, temper tantrum, or even the planned fight between Alec Baldwin and yours truly. The name of ...

Going out With a Bang Instead of a Whimper

As I was stuck in New York’s Pennsylvania Station (“lead us not into Penn Station...”) waiting for a commuter train home and mooching vaguely around in the news outlet, the May 28 issue of New York magazine caught my ...

Gaston Gaston 1883

Social Science v. Social Engineering

In his impressive first book, Uncontrolled: The Surprising Payoff of Trial-and-Error for Business, Politics, and Society, entrepreneur/intellectual Jim Manzi has the makings of an airport best seller in the genre of Steven Levitt's ...

Cochran’s Guide to Suicide

If you"€™re looking for a husband, ladies, stay away from the Kennedys! Chances are better you will make it through life avoiding an untimely death or some horrific tragedy. You wouldn"€™t want to end up like Mary Jo Kopechne, ...

Eva Longoria

Affirmative Acting

Long ago, crazy people at least had the good sense to pretend they were heroes. Asylums were packed with dueling Napoleons. Rival Jesuses (Jesuii?) challenged each other to miracle-working matches in the sunroom. The play Arsenic and ...

Mr. Toback, I”€™m Ready for My Close-Up

"€œSorry, I"€™m in makeup; if it's something important, call my agent, Israel Goldfarb."€ This is how I"€™ve been fending off the myriad calls from eager females trying to reach me now that I"€™m about to become a major ...

The Bore War

War is supposed to be full of action. Men are supposed to dive over barbed wire and charge at the enemy while being shot. The enemy is supposed to be tough and unrelenting but eventually die or surrender. War is supposed to be noisy and ...

Basta la Pasta!

"€œYou"€™re so lucky living in Italy,"€ people tell me. "€œThe food's so divine."€ Oh no, it isn"€™t. Italian food is tedious"€”so tedious that I gave up going to Italian restaurants of my own free will long ago. I was ...

Sacha Baron Cohen

Comedy That Never Forgets

The Dictator is Sacha Baron Cohen's fourth and"€”surprisingly"€”funniest movie, a definite improvement over his biggest hit Borat. But critics, who raved in 2006 about how Borat exposed the anti-Semitism throbbing in Red State ...

Fat, Broke and Single?

Like the French language, the liberal brain works in reverse. Where we say "€œthe red book,"€ the French say "€œle livre rouge."€ They start with a blank book and work backwards to fill it in with rouge. Liberals start with, ...

A Floridian Cesspool for the Rich and Vulgar

MIAMI BEACH—I thought it a good time to visit, no Spring Break debauchery nor fashionista pretense. So I signed up yet again for the judo championships, trained very hard, and flew down with four buddies hoping to stay in a family ...


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