Category Archives: miscellaneous

This and that. Posts that don’t fit neatly into any other category.

Mayor Bloomberg for a Third Term

Three cheers for Mayor Bloomberg, although he doesn’t need my three cheers. I’m sure he cheers for himself quite competently.

He handles emergencies like the Gestapo, only this time he made the trains stop. I will be so sorry to …

Many Movie Stars Have Almond-Shaped Eyes, Or Haven’t You Noticed?

What do Richard Gere, Renee Zellweger, Julia Roberts and countless more movie stars have in common. ALMOND-SHAPED EYES. Why, I don’t know. You keep a boring old round eye peeled (as it were) and see for yourself.

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Fight, Obama, Fight

Obama lucked out–big time. If he wasn’t running against these stumblebums, he might have had a harder time of it. But he just has to sit back and watch these guys shooting themselves in the foot over and over. But, …

Armageddon Hits Barney’s Men’s Department

The world is coming to an end. Truly.

I was checking out Barney’s men’s department to see what merch people are knocking off to sell in my price bracket. I like to look at men’s socks–sometimes Barney’s has sales, and …

Fifty Shades of Sexual Dysfunction

Brilliant intellectual men who worry about the book business point to instantly huge sales of the Fifty Shades of Grey books (50-50 ebooks vs tangible books) as the latest example of the power of the social network.

Before generalizing, however, …

A New Seinfeld After All These Years

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Did you ever have a really great day and want to savor it. Well, my most recent great day was punctuated by an event that just blissed me out. I was flipping channels: nothing interested me. But then suddenly I …

Death of John Lennon’s and Elvis Presley’s Biographer

 

On March 28, 1994, Albert Goldman, age 66, died of a heart attack, exactly six and a half months after he told me that he had six months to live. The pop critic and former Columbia University teacher was …

The Night David Letterman Hated Me

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Our streets bring a kaleidoscope of treasure to us voyeurs or (as we prefer to say) totally intense observers.

I’ll never forget the night I took a solitary walk around my block. It was after a soft spring  rain and …

High Style. Low Prices. Zara’s Rules

I love walking Manhattan streets. I love talking to fellow streetwalkers.   Of course black men are the best to look at–style and carriage or just oomph.  But I usually talk to women–our encounters are glancing, upbeat, and informative.

For example,I …

Streetwalking with Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman

Your Manhattan Voyeur wrote an article for the New York Times in summer 1977 about Marshall Brickman, Woody Allen’s writing collaborator for Annie Hall.

Annie Hall is a work of art. And watching it makes me happy.

The …