Thankfully though, we live in the era we define as "New Luxury," where it's all about the story behind the glitter and the true craftsmanship that separates luxury fashion from everything else. In this world, luxury brands aren't just selling products; they're offering pieces with a ...
You should ask yourself if the alternate theories and theorists might be selling the main lines of the desired story just as fully as the standard theory. For the powers that be, it may not matter whether you believe there was one shooter or many, or even whether you believe that the CIA...
As for being broke by buying nice cars, that isn’t just a LA story, but everywhere. My family in the Midwest also buys very nice cars, much more than they can afford. I can afford nicer, but I drive a new Chevy. It’s all about priorities and the choices you mak...
Finally, the boyfriend of the student music teacher came in: "Hey, kids, this is a real Air Force pilot." I asked him something to the effect of how it felt to be dropping bombs on children in Vietnamese villages. And it got very icy in there all of a sudden, and finally the te...
In run time,American Horror Storyis equivalent to doing six feature films a year. How did you justify it to yourself? It was a brand-new project, and Ryan is incredibly persuasive. When he called me out of the blue in early 2011 to ask me if I would do this, I was at my farmhous...
The other day I was trying to focus on Marion Zurbach’s excellent Les Héritiers-x (“The Inheritors-x”) and one of the many of the thoughts bedeviling me was that in a reality where everything is supposed to be a story or a part of a story, small plot twists take on an outsi...
Editor’s note:We are not particularly courageous. Most people greatly over-estimate the costs of candor and activism. The sky will not fall if you say what you think. Your friends will not look at you with horror. A few people may think worse of you, but others will think better of ...
So the story is that I had to sit up completely straight up in a First Class seat that I paid over $1,100 for the whole trip. I did ask if there was a coach seat available for me to sit in instead at least I would of been able to sit back. They said it was a full flight...
or poets. Arbus clearly had a compulsion to tell her story, probably a greater compulsion than most of her unknowing subjects. However, the story she had to tell about herself could also be told about her subjects – a story of alienation, loneliness, sadness, resilience, and courage. And...