I don’t know about you, but New Year’s Eve usually makes me really depressed. That is, unless you’re madly in love with the man/woman of your dreams and that person is the one kissing you at midnight.
In 2011 I hope to:
1. Get a prestigious job.
2. Get my novel published, or at least get a literary [...]

Hugh Hefner did as all classic pimps do: he got engaged to be married to a 24-year-old Playboy playmate at the ripe old age of 84. I don’t know about you but sixty years of difference seems like some sort of a record.
The ‘lucky’ lady, Crystal Harris, is a British-American model and singer (according to [...]

Somewhere is Sofia Coppola’s newest film, which deals with all her favorite themes: Hollywood, celebrity, loneliness, meaninglessness, love, romance (or lack there of), travel, and hotel living. Stephen Dorff plays a very attractive famous actor who is a total pimp but doesn’t enjoy it — he drinks Coronas in his empty hotel room at the [...]

There is a billionaire in Russia named Roman Abramovich whose girlfriend is into the arts, so naturally he has decided to drop $400 million to make his own museum on an island near St. Petersburg. Roman already has a significant contemporary art collection to install in his museum, and he hopes that others will have [...]

The Vogue Japan editor, Anna Della Russo, is so addicted to capitalism that her closet is as big as an apartment — no, wait, her closet is an actual one-bedroom apartment. And all its contents change every season, so it’s not exactly renewable.
This Russo woman thinks of herself as such a pimp of the fashion world [...]

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps is beyond satisfying as far as big Hollywood movies go. Michael Douglas continues to be the original pimp who makes a cigar into a lot more than just a cigar. And Carey Mulligan is great as Gordon Gekko’s estranged daughter fighting for liberal politics through a little lefty news blog.
I highly [...]

Martin Amis, the enfant terrible of British novelists, recently came to Manhattan to read from his new book, The Pregnant Widow. During the summer of 1970, the novel’s protagonist and several other privileged 20-somethings frolic in a castle outside of Rome, reveling in the newfound sexual liberties of their time. Amis could have chosen to read a [...]

The 19-year-old Colton Harris-Moore, or “The Barefoot Bandit,” led a luxe life on the run, because apparently juvie and halfway houses didn’t suit his taste for the finer things. He burgled homes, stole cars and big boats, and even hijacked a bunch of planes, though he was never trained in the technicalities of flight. He’s [...]

I have always been obsessed by glass houses, and even more so by the people who inhabit them. Robert Rubin is a total pimp and a collector of something even more exciting than fine art … fine architecture.
After Rubin got rich on Wall Street, he was able to pursue his real passion for collecting, and [...]

I recently received an expensive camera as a belated birthday gift, and it makes HD-quality videos, so basically, I can shoot my very own vodka advertisements, and other important things like that for Youtube.
But filmmaking is hard. Apparently even Woody Allen, the miniature king of cinema, does not yet have sufficient funding for his next [...]