Patti Smith: Dream Of Life: Only For Hardcore Smiths



People — writers, fans, music executives — don't really know what to do with an aging female musician. I'm not talking about someone like Celine Dion or Cher, whose popularity was never based on some amorphous idea of coolness or relevance. I'm not even talking about our beloved Liz Phair, who still plasters short,…
[Philadelphia, April 15. Image via FilmMagic.]
Juno's adorable Ellen Page is the subject an interview on "Carpetbagger," the New York Times' Oscar blog. It's a bit milquetoast, but you do learn that Page named her dog Patti after Patti Smith and that everyone at some dinner honoring Juno got a hamburger phone just like Ellen's in the movie.
Some genius had the ideal to compile a tome called The Complete Book of Aunts. We're not even being facetious: We really do think that this person is a genius. Because starting with the First Lady of Aunties, Rosalind Russell's Auntie Mame, aunts have always proved themselves to be a pretty wacky bunch. And most of…