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Joan Rocks Oprah

Stick Joan Jett on a cheesy daytime talk show cum soap opera, performing with an erstwhile Disney cartoonish character, and she still looks totally bad-ass. With her hair black and long again these days, Jett exuded deadsexycool vibe beside Miley … Continue reading

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Summer of the Runaways

“1776: Bicentennial. 1976: Bisexual.” So said a T-shirt that  rock-star groupie turned rock-star DJ Chuck E. Starr liked to wear during what he calls the summer of the Runaways. “That’s when all the magic happened,” he told me recently as … Continue reading

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Introducing Cherry Bomb

Cherry Bomb 0 00 28-12As Barack Obama recently demonstrated, the standard bribe for getting small children to move across country is to promise a pet. This is how we got Otis, the best little dog in the universe, when Bud moved his daughters to live with me in New York 11 years ago. Now, Cole has Cherry Bomb. [...] Continue reading

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