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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>

Don’t Hate Me ’Cuz I’m Beautiful
Too SexyBeing 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.

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>

Has ‘Biggest Loser’ Gone Too Far?
Under PressureThough 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.

The Test Tube Generation
Fertile QuestionsA 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.

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>

Hollywood’s Silver Spoon MCs
Drop the MicFor 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.

Was The Next VS Angel Born A Man?
CampaignNo 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?

What’s So Bad About Open Marriage?
AdultsWhen 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.

The Invisible Black Women of Comedy
Nothing to LOL AboutKenan Thompson pissed the Internet off by saying that black female comics weren’t ready for ‘SNL.’ Does he have a point? Tricia Romano reports.
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