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Miscellaneous

Details feature: “Rise of the Hot Jewish Girl”

The December issue of Details includes my feature on the fetishization of hot Jewish women. Read on for quick, snappy, not-terribly-deep take on “JILFS,” semi-observant hardcore queen Joanna Angel and the glory of frum porn ... Story was slammed by Jezebel (Favorite new nickname: “sloppy, knee-jerk misogynist") and given qualified endorsement by Jewcy.

Follow the Barfing Baby

Op-ed in the trade magazine Brandweek on why so much marketing aimed at not-quite-grownups misses the mark.

Pop’s Secretive Svengali, Mutt Lange

Investigative profile of pop genius Mutt Lange, a press-shy knob-twiddler behind chart-toppers as diverse as AC/DC, Tina Turner, the Backstreet Boys and Shania Twain. Good training for my run-in a few years later with another evasive celebrity, Mel Gibson.

The Trouble with Rehab

Feature for Playboy (tagged on the cover just below the Sizzling Porn Pictorial—my mother was so proud.) about drug rehab programs and why they so often don’t work. After spending three days in a Valley rehab undergoing the boot-camp-support-group regimen, I wanted nothing more than a stiff drink.

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