Mark Simpson on the (fast diminishing) difference between fame and legend (The Hospital Club magazine, Spring 2010) A recent bloody assassination attempt on Gore Vidal, the last great American man of letters by the English journalist Christopher Hitchens in the glossy pages of Vanity Fair prompted me, and I suspect… Read More »The Legendary Test
God, I can’t help but love the old bastard. Another tour-de-force from Gore Vidal (interviewed by Tim Teeman) appeared in The London Times last week, in which, as usual, he said so many things, so very loudly that so many people know to be true but daren’t begin to mumble.… Read More »Gore Vidal Takes on The World – Again
Mark Simpson on fashion’s new love-affair with black males (Arena Hommes Plus, Spring 2009) Shortly after Obama’s election last year, Israeli-American designer Elie Tahari made a prediction: ‘I think the fashion industry will have a ball with him.’ So far, this is one fashion prediction that has been on the… Read More »The Obama Model
How a naughty new D&G ad sums up our self-regarding, clonosexual world (Arena Hommes Plus, Winter 2008, collected in Metrosexy) Most ads these days aren’t worth a first glance. But earlier this year D&G Time launched a heavily-rotated global campaign directed by Hype Williams that was definitely worth a second. If… Read More »Twinsome Devils and the Narcissus Complex
God, but they hate her. Really, really hate her. They hate her so much they want her dead. And it’s gone way past a bloody metaphor. Not most Democrat voters, of course, who have given her at least as many votes as Obama, (and though many Obama fans hate her… Read More »The Liberal Media’s Hillarycidal Urges