Articles by Hank Stuever

In a world of people who all coyly say “In a world . Read more

The end of the world is here: Lizardbreath has married Blandthony. Read more

According to everyone, Clay Felker’s New York magazine was the best. Read more

Even now – in the era of erectile-dysfunction television commercials or teenage girls extolling the latest in cardboard-applicator tampons – we still don’t quite know how to advertise something as simple as toilet paper. Read more

On the death of “Will & Grace,” which will end its eight-season run Thursday night on NBC, the mind seems to have erased most of the clip reel. Read more

Celebrities often say in interviews that they’d like to have lots of kids, but, in fact, most stick to just one, sometimes two. Read more

Though he has gone (of apparent natural causes, said Los Angeles police, after a caretaker found him dead in his Universal City home Friday morning), the singer Rick James will always be with us: at class reunions, bar mitzvahs, wedding receptions. Read more

It seems to me a strange thing, mystifying (to quote the show), that singer and actor Carl Anderson, whom audiences knew from the stage and screen versions of the 1970s rock opera “Jesus Christ Superstar,” died the same week Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of the Christ” arrived in movie theaters. Read more

Jan Miner played Madge the Manicurist in an age of blissful, new-and-improved consumer disbelief. Read more