No, That Really Is the Times Not the Onion

On the heels of their recent layoffs and economic despair, this article in today's New York Times does make you wonder if they've replaced seasoned investigative journalists with a crew of randy undergard interns. However, I admit that I looked at every picture and read every stinking word. And they say Junk Thief if frivolous!

Rockefeller Like Me

In today's Times is this great story about one Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, a diminutive Bavarian who for several years duped the people of a New Hampshire town and even Manhattan by passing himself off as Clark Rockefeller. This is the stuff of the best Dominick Dunne Vanity Fair pieces and has shades of F for Fake, Color Me Kubrick and Six Degrees of Separation.

I've long been fascinated by art forgers, impostors and anyone able to pull the wool over the eyes of the rich. Usually I'd groan at the prospect of such a story being adapted to the screen, but this one begs out for it.

Times to Stefani: Get Outta Town

Best quote from the Gray Lady we've heard in years and proof that she still has her teeth: "...astonishingly bad, straight out of a mall in Ditzville."