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Bruce Feirstein nails it in January's Vanity Fair. A sampler:
DAD IS A BUMBLING LUDDITE IDIOT Yet, amazingly, his children are a combination of Steve Jobs, Oscar Wilde, and Socrates.
SHE'S BEAUTIFUL, BUT SHE DOESN'T KNOW IT She's also a hooker with a Ph.D. And she just remembered her biological clock is ticking.THE MAGIC NEGRO How about if, just once, the long-suffering black character didn't end up providing wisdom and salvation to the white folk?
Mark Lacter created the LA Biz Observed blog in 2006. He posted
until the day before his death on Nov. 13, 2013.