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so there’s been a natalie portman jackie movie in the works for awhile, scheduled for release in 2017, and they’ve doled out a promo image to excite us all and prove they’re in production.
YOU GUYS.
i read the daily mail on the regular because it’s pretty much where all gossip stories start. so i’m aware of the mail’s howshallwesay… COLOSSAL PROBLEMS. but every now and again, there’s an especially egregiously awful article for which britney is required to express the resulting spectrum of emotions.
and yesterday, that was this:
which made me go:
i’m sorry, i’ve been horribly remiss in celebrating my boyfriend adrien brody’s sartorial choices for this year’s met ball. all apologies. voila! WHAT IZ UP?! 
Backstage with #DerekZoolander, Hansel and Anna Wintour #Zoolander2 #linkinbio http://t.co/PJEiinPc7E pic.twitter.com/yztEtgX3lq
— Valentino (@MaisonValentino) March 10, 2015
surely we’ve all been around the block together enough that i don’t have to preface my close reading of a seemingly deeply shallow thing– in this case, a fashion magazine editorial (the captions! the prices! the open mouths! the ennui!)– with a disclaimer that i don’t always take a magnifying glass to a fashion mag to study the fine print in the posters the model’s affixing to the wall, yeah? surely it’s understood by now that i’d only do that when it leads us to a cultural Deep Point? yes?
i’mma go with yes. and assume you’re with me.
anyhoo, so in the past week, steinem has suddenly been EVERYWHERE. by which i mean she is probably no more or less present in all your lives than usual but, in my own, because i’m writing about the 70s, she is increasingly, every day, coming up.
in random things i happened upon whilst writing about 1972…
this post may not amount to anything more than a prolonged exclamation of LOOKIT THIS IS BIZARRE!!! accompanied by pretty pictures, most of them in glorious technicolor… but around the 50th anniversary of john kennedy’s assassination last fall, i noticed something that struck me as incredibly odd: a new cultural obsession with jackie’s pink suit.
so i wasn’t even thinking about liz taylor at all, which is a rare occurrence as i feel she’s rather one of those people who should always be on the mind…
so do you know about this? given the number of friends who have asked me for an explanation, it seems the majority of us are at least reading headlines and sarah michelle geller’s tweet.
do you know iris apfel?
you should, because she is amaze. Continue reading
an alarming life 
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