“The maximum intrigue to be found on the August newstand is in GQ’s x-ray of Garry Shandling. Reads like Philip Roth directed by David Chase.” — from @shinangovani
When I looked him up on Twitter, this is what it told me:
I’ve always loved Canada…
Los Angeles magazine, July 2010
On this sunny morning at the Farmers Market, Jeffrey Donovan isn’t booby-trapping a doorway or defusing a bomb. He isn’t shaping cake frosting into blocks of counterfeit C4 authentic looking enough to fool an arms dealer or making an audio bug from a pair of cheap, rewired cell phones. No, the 42-year-old star of the number one show on cable—the wry spy drama Burn Notice—is simply reciting his recipe for vegetable soup. But since he’s already confided that he believes the best part of Burn Notice is that “nine times out of ten what we’re telling you is counterintuitive,” it’s easy to see his veggie brew as a metaphor.
“Take a lot of parsnips and carrots, summer squash—a medley. Then chop everything up, sauté it with a little bit of butter and olive oil, and boil it,” he says as he surveys rows of organic produce. “What most people do is make that their soup. No.”
This last directive he utters with a finality that fans of his USA Network series, whose fourth season premiered in early June, will recognize. Jaunty in a white formfitting T-shirt, gray suit pants, Puma sneakers, and a gray baseball cap, Donovan looks taut, like you could bounce a quarter off almost any part of his body. Not that you’d dare. His navy blue eyes squint slightly now as if to say: Pay attention. There might be a quiz later.
A friend just told me she just received her June More magazine, whose cover story on Sharon Stone I had the pleasure of writing. The whole piece isn’t online yet, but here’s the lede (and a photo by Brigitte Lacombe):
Sharon Stone is shameless. The actress considers it a skill to have no shame. She thinks everyone should try it, though she cautions that if you’re female, shamelessness can cost you. Her refusal to feel guilty, she says, has gotten her labeled difficult, or worse.
“I’m like a Prohibition-era flapper. I’m like a juke-joint hussy,” Stone says over lunch at an Italian restaurant near Beverly Hills. But better to be called names than to be pressured into not being herself. Feeling ashamed, she says, “is not an organic state of being, so shamelessness is closer to godliness. You have to put shame down.”
This morning I received a wonderful note from a woman who’d just read my More magazine piece about Harold, his purple crayon and me. She said she’d never written to a journalist before, but that the piece, which appeared in December, “struck me deeply… I feel exuberant!”
Harold always makes me feel exuberant. So glad to spread the word.
My sartorial NYT column is in the International Herald Tribune today.
Here are a few images of the shirt I designed via www.blank-label.com — complete with my own made-up label, “Live Free or Die.”
The handsome model is related to me. And he likes the shirt, even though his mom made it.
If the shirt fits...
Live Free or Die
In his 1899 book, “The Theory of the Leisure Class,” Thorstein Veblen (who I quote in tomorrow’s New York Times) coined the term “conspicuous consumption” to describe how people, rich or poor, acquire cool stuff to impress and to establish a pecking order.
Here are a few pictures of the cool stuff (specifically high-end cell phones) that I write about…
Has Dana Delany ever looked better? I don’t think so.
Peggy Sirota took it. 
I wrote the accompanying story. It’s in the April issue…
I just got this from a Wired reader in Australia who read my November cover story and was following the legal action that followed. She gave me permission to reprint it here:
My name is Toni McCaffery. I live in Australia and one year ago my beautiful
baby daughter Dana died from Pertussis on 9 March 2009
(www.danamccaffery.com). We live in an area with low vaccination rates and
my family knows only two well the harrassment and lunacy that Dr Offit, Amy
and WIRED magazine would have been subjected to as a result of just telling
the facts. I read with relief today that the libel lawsuit against you all
was dismissed. From all of my family, especially Dana, thank you for your
commitment to the facts. Sincerely, Toni
Last December, two days before Christmas, I was served with a $1 million lawsuit that alleged I had libeled a woman who was mentioned in my November 2009 cover story for Wired magazine: “An Epidemic of Fear: One Man’s Battle Against the Anti-Vaccine Movement”.
Today, the lawsuit was dismissed. Read the attached ruling here: Memorandum Opinion
