The Imagination Diet
Thursday, May 19th, 2011 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »If my writing seems a little different in this post, it's because I recently lost 10.2 pounds. I'm writing thinner, my friends. Like this sentence right here: just a wisp of a thing! A recent study by scientists at Carnegie Mellon ...
Tina Fey’s “Velvet Glove”
Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Henry makes spanikopita with 30 Rock creator, producer, writer, star and soon-to-be-memoirist Tina Fey in the April issue of InStyle, on newsstands now. In between all the spinach-sautee-ing and dough brushing, the Bossypants author talks about what she does to stay in control ...
Still Hungry
Thursday, March 3rd, 2011 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »What are independent-minded older folk eating these days? My article, "My Unhealthy Diet? It Got Me This Far," from yesterday's New York Times. UPDATE: The reviews are in: "Tongue-in-cheek" (Boston Globe) "Thoroughly delightful" (Epicurious) "Filthy" (Slate)
How Is My Mother?
Friday, February 4th, 2011 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Because my mother is the de facto protagonist of my book How to Live, some have asked how Ann is doing. Swimmingly. More specifically, though, people wonder how she is shouldering the burden of having been called by Oprah magazine, in ...
Welcome, Krysti
Monday, January 31st, 2011 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »I have a new column in Vanity Fair: I'll be writing the campaign diaries of one Krysti McCandless, a supposed superstar of the Tea Party. Here is the first one. Lock 'n load, people!
Oscars Ho
Monday, January 31st, 2011 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Here I am talking to the Hollywood Reporter about Oscars campaigning. (The writer included my favorite Oscars fun fact: that when Miramax Films held screenings for Academy members to promote "My Left Foot" in 1989, Miramax's marketing department handed out chocolate feet.)
This Week in Old
Saturday, January 15th, 2011 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »- God *does* play favorites: Pope John Paul II put on the fast-track to sainthood. (Los Angeles Times) - Rudy Giuliani is gearing up for another run at the presidency. (New York Post) - And now meet Herman Cain, the first official ...
Elderism #102
Saturday, January 1st, 2011 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »"In a dream you are never eighty." -Anne Sexton, poet.
Elderism #101
Saturday, January 1st, 2011 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »"Calmly considered, I have no quarrel with intelligent people making use of the blog constructively." -John Simon, world's meanest theater critic. This summer, the 85 year-old Simon, who has has written for newspapers and magazines for 50 years, called bloggers "the ...
Baby Busted?
Friday, December 31st, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Over at the Wall Street Journal, Brett Arends is looking at the possible repercussions the extension of the Bush-era Tax Cuts will have on an nation full of aging baby boomers. With the new Tax Deal expected to tack another ...
