Whatever happened to the Long Lady Wallet? That long and lean financial accessory, proportioned for a checkbook, and fitted with an interior cash pocket and slots for perhaps a dozen credit cards. Maybe you recall your mother or grandmother or aunt wielding one at the grocery store checkout. Once upon a time, owning a Long … Read more
New Year’s Eve is my least favorite holiday; it’s a rookie drinking night where average people spend way too much money in over-crowded bars in order to let loose for the first time in their lives, but only end up annoyingly drunk and making it everyone else’s problem. So instead of muscling up to the … Read more
At 25, I bought a one-way ticket to Johannesburg in the months after Paul Theroux’s Dark Star Safari: Overland From Cairo to Cape Town was published. My hazy goal was to re-create his overland journey across Africa, except I’d do it from Cape Town to Cairo. My desire was to crisscross Southern and East Africa … Read more
There’s nothing car builders love more than a “Mad Max” theme. Everyone loves to take a car, jack it up on some big tires, paint it black, and weaponize it. But when they do, are they really thinking about “Mad Max”? Why ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ Is the Ultimate Car Movie Propmakers, when working on … Read more
Just as memorable as the darkly comic one-liners and the twisted romance between Winona Ryder and Christian Slater in this teen classic are the preppy, shoulder-padded plaid blazers and primary color tights of the high school clique that lend the film its name. The trio of girls—all named Heather, of course, and who begin to … Read more
The 1980s were good to the producing partnership of Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer. While Simpson was known as something of a shit heel in Hollywood, he got results, and with Bruckheimer helping him out, those results were worth billions. Beginning in 1983, when their first film together Flashdance, garnered $201.5 million from a $7 … Read more
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