The Critical Commentator

  Make America Great Again Ashley Rawson Photo Credit: Gordon Baird  I'm shouting at you tonight so you can hear me over the cheers for the All-Florida Ultimate Cage Fighting Championships being held next door in the Carmen Miranda Chica Chica Boom Ballroom. Beautiful, beautiful ballroom. Come visit! All the surf 'n'turf you can eat Thursdays. And MORE good news. There's a ceasefire. Which means you have to stop firing. Unless you don't want to, like my pal Bibi, who's enjoying a PEACEFIRE! Firing for PEACE. But me, I'm done with firing. I fired Kirsti Noem. I fired Pam Bondi. One by one they're all disappearing off the hit list. Who's next? JD Vance after the peace talks. Maybe the Iranians don't like bearded fanatics!? So maybe the firing will start once again. Who knows? Not me! Or maybe I do. 'Cos the Iranian people, they love me bombing. They miss my bombing. They want it SO BAD! Fact! But maybe they can't have my bombing. Maybe my b...

  Carolyn Bessette Kennedy has been an insider style icon for ever, but this year she has flipped from under-the-radar reference to global phenomenon. ( Wow, who would have guessed that our Carolyn was an insider style icon with world-wide appeal? ) Ryan Murphy's Love Story, a glossy dramatisation of her doomed romance with JFK Jr, gave us nine delicious hours of lingering closeups of her white tank tops and jeans, her simple black dresses, perfect black oval sunglasses and tortoiseshell headbands. ( Glossy, doomed, delicious and lingering -  perfect descriptions of our Carolyn.) Girl in a Blue Dress Jean Baptiste Greuze (1725-1805) Photo Credit: The Wallace Collection [CC BY-NC-ND]  If you didn't know you wanted to dress like CBK before you started watching, you did by the end. ( How true, how true .) Carole Radziwill, who was friends with Carolyn, has pointed out that copying CBK's style is pretty much the least CBK thing you could do. ( Of course. ) Her friend, she tol...