Word: madoff
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...Madoff, Bernard • jail seems not to agree with...
...just pooped on AIG. Then I puked on Bernie Madoff, attacked Coldplay with a chainsaw and peed on the stock market. And I did it all with help from Netdisaster.com...
...suffering from outrage-deficit disorder. It's not that I'm not angry. I am, in fact, frustrated that we've civilized ourselves out of really satisfying scapegoat rituals: The ancients would have staged a mass immolation of the AIG casino pigs in their private jets or crucified Bernie Madoff on the 18th hole at the Palm Beach Country Club, preceded by a public show trial with Jon Stewart as chief magistrate. You probably need an over-the-top catharsis or two like that to get the popular rage under control. As it is, guilt and anger are being splashed...
...thereabouts is often the most attractive age for women, when you're old enough to really appreciate, understand and know how to flatter yourself. But in Hollywood it mostly leads to unintentional vanishing acts or inspires unfortunate experiments with surgery. Roberts could toss aside her career--unless Bernie Madoff managed her money, she shouldn't need the paycheck--but she doesn't want to. Working, she has said, brings some form into the "shapeless blob of happy chaos" that is motherhood. I've already seen Duplicity, but I'd be willing to give her my $10 just for summing...
Watch TIME's video from outside the courthouse during Madoff's trial...