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Tricia Romano is an award-winning writer who has written about pop culture, style, and celebrity for The New York Times, The Village Voice, Spin, and Radar magazine. She won Best Feature at the Newswomen’s Club of New York Front Page Award for her Village Voice cover story, about sober DJs and promoters in the nightlife industry, “The Sober Bunch.”

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Johnny Depp’s Mid-career Crisis

From Stud to Dud

<p>Hollywood’s most reluctant heartthrob isn’t doing so hot. With <i>Transcendence</i> tanking, it seems as though America may have finally tired of the actor’s too-cool shtick.</p>

Tricia Romano | Published Apr 21, 2014

Don’t Hate Me ’Cuz I’m Beautiful

Too Sexy

Being a pretty boy in Hollywood is a bad thing, according to Rob Lowe. But some heartthrobs were able to succeed critically—by playing against type.

Tricia Romano | Published Apr 08, 2014

Yale Classmates Dish on Lupita

Before She Was Famous

<p>Hollywood’s It Girl was known at the prestigious drama school as a hard worker with raw talent and an intuitive gift for language, wowing in her audition for <i>Romeo and Juliet</i>.</p>

Tricia Romano | Published Mar 13, 2014

Has ‘Biggest Loser’ Gone Too Far?

Under Pressure

Though the show’s entire premise is based on losing tons of weight in a short period of time, America was shocked when Rachel Frederickson glided on stage 155 pounds lighter.

Tricia Romano | Published Feb 08, 2014

The Test Tube Generation

Fertile Questions

A provocative new book says that women are being sold a lie that they can have it all and get easily pregnant in their late thirties and forties—and that we’re experimenting with fertility across a whole generation.

Tricia Romano | Published Jan 25, 2014

Why Reality Stars Can't Be Real

Hypocrites ‘R’ Us

<p>If the gang on <i>Duck Dynasty</i> behaves in an unsavory way that makes us feel uncomfortable rather than smug and self-satisfied, we shut off the TV.<br> </p>

Tricia Romano | Published Dec 20, 2013

Hollywood’s Silver Spoon MCs

Drop the Mic

For Chet Haze, Tom Hanks’s wannabe rapper son, any success has the whiff of nepotism and privilege. It’s time to drop the gangster swagger and be authentic.

Tricia Romano | Published Dec 09, 2013

Was The Next VS Angel Born A Man?

Campaign

No transgender model has cracked something as mainstream as Victoria’s Secret—for whom much of the audience is straight men. Is Carmen Carrera ready for the runway?

Tricia Romano | Published Nov 12, 2013

What’s So Bad About Open Marriage?

Adults

When Will Smith was allegedly caught getting intimate with a woman who is not his wife, Jada, gossipers immediately jumped to allegations of an open marriage.

Tricia Romano | Published Nov 11, 2013

The Invisible Black Women of Comedy

Nothing to LOL About

Kenan Thompson pissed the Internet off by saying that black female comics weren’t ready for ‘SNL.’ Does he have a point? Tricia Romano reports.

Tricia Romano | Published Oct 17, 2013

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