I am always searching for pop culture happenings to see if anything piques my interest, and lo and behold, something has. Just when I think this story will die on the vine, it doesn't, and it grows and twists, which is rare in an era of hyperpublicists and iron-fisted curation of celebrity narratives and images. Stories like this require a perfect recipe of timing, luck, and a stubborn cast of players whose room-reading skills are shockingly horrible. Topped with a heavy dollop of gargantuan ego and a pinch of recklessness, garnished with entitlement, this dish is still simmering on the stove.  This story has been developing for months, with recent news that Blake Lively plans to testify in her ill-conceived case against Justin Baldoni next year. Baldoni is counter-suing for hundreds of millions and leaking salacious tidbits to the press, feeding the news cycles with fresh red meat. His astute team has taken the temperature and knows we need a distraction from the bleak political l...

I will say upfront that she is not a favorite and has never been, so if you are a superstanley, please exit the article because this will hurt your delicate sensibilities. Shoo. Save yourself some tears and hurt feelings. I ask this earnestly, already knowing the answer, but I will ask this question anyway...Is there anyone on the planet who can make the case that Blake wouldn't have disappeared long ago, a forgotten cable TV actress who may or may not have rubbed on Leo DiCaprio's plastic Ken bump if she hadn't married B list Ryan? Can they say without falling into a fit of giggles that she was headed for several acclaimed starring roles? Blake was never good; she was demi-okay, but she never nailed a role or showed any fantastic range or reason that she even had a career after Gossip Girl. As for Leo, she did go on an obligatory bike ride with him, so I feel like that was a signal that Leo tried to get his reportedly impotent teenie weenie to play with Blake's girly b...

This is a tale of moxie, a tale of bravery, a tale of all-out chutzpah from everyone's favorite Jewish convert - since Tia Tequila and Jenna Jameson, at least. This is the tale of Ivanka Trump. Why "brave," you ask? Because what's the ultimate nepo baby to do when not a single person wants to be in their company?  No, really. No one.  Since she's no longer advising world leaders at the G20 Summit  or focusing on the economic empowerment of women as daddy's specialist-ever "special advisor," Ivanka has had to completely re-architect her life! This is plainly audacious on her part, and make no mistake, architecting your life is hard.  Ever since daddy got elected, then lost his re-election, Ivanka has faced grueling hardships. Her fashion and accessories line went belly up; former social and cultural besties, like Anna Wintour and Blake Lively, no longer invited her to their exclusive soirees and events; while NYC friends since childhood, such as Lysan...