Word: joel
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...Kudos to Joel Stein for "confusing" badly dressed rich women with prostitutes [NOTEBOOK, Aug. 27]. As a woman, I am embarrassed by the sheer vulgarity of certain "modern" females who wear their sexuality on their sleeve. It makes it difficult to be a serene, self-respecting American lady when so many of my countrywomen insist on dressing like women of the night. I'm not sure why they want to look cheap. DIANA COOPER Kentfield, Calif...
...eight weeks, Coach told me I had potential. He also recommended "trying to write a column without using any celebrity names in it." In my final evaluation, Coach wrote, "Joel writes incredibly well, but some faces were meant for the printed page." I may not be any funnier than before I went to Coach, but I have learned that if I am ever fired from this job, I can charge people $725 to make fun of them. Which is just a little more than I'm making right...
Meanwhile, back on lower Earth--in the roiling depths of California film noir--there are plots every bit as dark and complex as those in the season's fantasy films. Just look into the barely beating heart of Ed Crane (Billy Bob Thornton), the barber of Santa Rosa, in Joel and Ethan Coen's tragicomic cardiograph The Man Who Wasn't There. He's got a cheating wife (Frances McDormand), a conniving friend (James Gandolfini), a dead-end job and the depressive sense that "life has dealt me some bum cards. Or maybe I didn't play them right...
Trying to remember the advice that appeared in the "How To Improve Your Memory" issue from last year? Need a little background information on George Bush the elder for that history paper you're working on? Want to prove to your pal that Joel Stein is really and truly engaged to be married...
...approached my fans, who had gathered along the fence. Fourteen-year-old Brian Rylander, who was sitting on an ATV and used to own a go-cart monster truck, said he thought I was a professional. I handed him an autograph reading "To Brian: Keep on monstering--Air Joel" that he clearly didn't want...