Articles by Phoebe Connelly
Gadhafi was looks-conscious until the end
Thursday brought to an abrupt end the months-long hunt for Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi. But as authorities seek to piece together a timeline of his final moments, some striking reminders of his extravagant lifestyle have emerged. The Washington Post reports Friday that when investigators performed DNA testing on Gadhafi's body, they learned that the vainglorious strongman was wearing a wig.
So That's Why Frankenstein Is Green
A political writer I know once told me he felt guilty turning in a piece analyzing class issues in Veronica Mars. "It felt like a cop-out," he said. "I was getting a free pass to write about my Tuesday-night television habit." Pop culture may be an all-purpose fallback for party conversation, but even among critics there's a sense that applying political or cultural analysis to the fluff churned out by Hollywood can't be serious work.
Invisible America
There's No Jose Here: Following the Hidden Lives of Mexican Immigrants | Gabriel Thompson (Nation Books) The passage of HR 4437, aka the Border Protection, Antiterrorism and Illegal Immigration Control Act of 2005, caused cities across the nation to erupt last year, drawing protesters into the streets in numbers that enshrined immigration as the public policy hot button of the moment.
Elizabeth Taylor and AIDS: A Brief History of the 80s
Elizabeth Taylor turned 49 in 1981, and she had behind her six marriages and 55 feature films. In November of that year, she would appear on daytime soap “General Hospital” as a mysterious widow. She was also in the final year of her marriage to Republican Congressman John Warner of Virginia. “The Republican women told me, ‘You simply cannot wear the purple pantsuit you’ve been campaigning in anymore,’” she told Michael Kors, later, in Harpers Bazaar. “I ended up in a tweed suit.
Elizabeth Taylor and AIDS: A Brief History of the 80s
Elizabeth Taylor turned 49 in 1981, and she had behind her six marriages and 55 feature films. In November of that year, she would appear on daytime soap “General Hospital” as a mysterious widow. She was also in the final year of her marriage to Republican Congressman John Warner of Virginia. “The Republican women told me, ‘You simply cannot wear the purple pantsuit you’ve been campaigning in anymore,'” she told Michael Kors, later, in Harpers Bazaar. “I ended up in a tweed suit.
Love Stories
Photograph courtesy of Elisabeth Moore. F. and I were introduced by a mutual friend while I was on a visit to L.A. I was living in D.C., newly single and working at a political magazine. I had given myself a firm dating rule: no journalists. In a sleepy company town, where ethics precluded romantic liaisons with my sources, it had begun to feel as if I’d doomed myself to celibacy. F. was a writer who’d just finished his first film and was passing time as a listings editor.
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