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Cintra Wilson's Salon stories

Wednesday, Sep 10, 2008 03:20 PDT

Pissed about Palin

McCain's running mate is a Christian Stepford wife in a sexy librarian costume. Women, it's time to get furious.
Thursday, Jul 17, 2008 03:47 PDT

Cracking Code Pink

Why does the peace movement have to dress and act like an irritating children's birthday party?
Monday, Feb 25, 2008 04:00 PST

Does Oscar hate his own smell?

The academy shows American-style self-loathing by handing its biggest trophies to foreigners and drowning itself in montages. Save us, George Clooney!
Saturday, Feb 9, 2008 05:00 PST

And they're auf!

"Project Runway" designers march their designs -- feathers! fringe! Oprah-worthy pronouncements -- down the catwalk at Fashion Week. Who will take the prize? Video
Monday, Feb 4, 2008 12:00 PST

Alice in Fashionland

Love-starved reality TV stars! Food-starved baby-faced models! Clothes that starve the imagination! A first foray into New York Fashion Week. Video
Sunday, Jul 8, 2007 09:00 PDT

Al's big day

Gore's Live Earth festival rocked, and may rock our world. So long, Hummers. Hello (again), Flower Power!
Friday, Jun 8, 2007 10:45 PDT

We'll always hate Paris

The public outrage over Paris Hilton's early release from her L.A. prison cell may be justified -- but why are we expending so much energy protesting the antics of a spoiled media whore?
Monday, Feb 26, 2007 08:21 PST

Hollywood gets humble

Ellen was 'Ellish in her tacky leisure suits. But at Sunday night's Oscars, Helen Mirren, Jennifer Hudson, Al Gore and the rest restored fame's good name.
Friday, Feb 9, 2007 09:08 PST

Goodbye, Vickie Lynn

No candle in the wind, Anna Nicole Smith was more like a bonfire in a hailstorm -- and we couldn't pry our eyes away from her.
Tuesday, Dec 5, 2006 04:45 PST

Two parts hubris, one part paranoia

9/11 gave America amnesia about the real Rudy Giuliani. He's an authoritarian narcissist -- and we don't need another one of those in the White House.
Saturday, Aug 19, 2006 05:30 PDT

Battle of the blondes

Jessica Simpson's Malibu Barbie, Xtina Aguilera and her assless chaps, and the unrepentantly slutty Paris Hilton face off with new records. Is this some kind of Republican plot?
Friday, Mar 10, 2006 08:13 PST

Folie à deux in the Hamptons

The cult film "Grey Gardens" followed the descent of mother-daughter socialites into feral living. Can the new musical version re-create the magic?
Monday, Mar 6, 2006 08:30 PST

Oscar castrates himself

The Academy celebrates niceness, bleeps out "bitch" and pats itself on the back for good behavior. And what did they do to poor Jon Stewart?
Thursday, Mar 2, 2006 07:09 PST

"Jen" Doe

Nancy Balbirer, the actress who kicked off the latest Jennifer Aniston scandal, shares her ex-best friend's secrets -- from pert nipples and plastic surgery to chicken cutlets in the bra.
Saturday, Dec 24, 2005 04:30 PST

Christmas with the Wilsons

For one day each year, my mixed-up family of Jews, Muslims, Christians and New Agers gathers to sing karaoke carols, munch on jello mold and get wasted at church.
Saturday, Aug 27, 2005 12:18 PDT

I invaded the White House press corps

I had front row seats at the media's Great Slave Rebellion over Karl Rove. No wonder our democracy's in trouble.
Thursday, May 5, 2005 11:55 PDT

The invariably naked Gregoire Colin

The French stud-boy is usually too hot to keep clothed, and too interesting for Hollywood to ever take notice.
Monday, Feb 28, 2005 20:50 PST

Oscar on life support

Welcome to wartime Academy Awards: Cheap, tense and cobbled together from graphics rations donated by the E! Channel. Not even Chris Rock or Beyoncé -- or the travesty that is Antonio Banderas -- can save it.
Monday, Feb 21, 2005 11:35 PST

The Duke of Hazard

Hunter S. Thompson blasted through the world like a big-finned rocket of defiance and revulsion. He leaves a big burned hole and a safer, duller world.
Tuesday, Oct 26, 2004 13:00 PDT

The magic Christian

All bow before the young British actor with more going on than any American actor, ever -- Garland, Brando, Sinatra, you name it. And he's not even a major star (yet).
Friday, Sep 17, 2004 13:00 PDT

Liza's horrible so-called life

Mean boys. Badass girls. Your worst first-day-of-high-school nightmare, to the millionth power ... and in Marin County, Calif.
Thursday, Aug 26, 2004 14:46 PDT

Oh, that guy

So you never knew his name. But surely you remember the face of J.T. Walsh, whose angry, cowardly, inwardly wrecked characters scowled their way into our collective memory.
Thursday, Jul 22, 2004 15:52 PDT

The mightier Penn

He transformed before us from a Caravaggio-like dancing teen to a love-handled bad guy. While Chris Penn has never received the attention of his older brother, he's deserved it -- and oh, so much more.
Thursday, May 20, 2004 13:28 PDT

Beautiful bastard

You know him as that red-faced rageoholic or the drippingly sarcastic dad. But you probably don't know Christopher McDonald's name, despite the dozens of movies he's stolen from bigger stars.
Thursday, Apr 22, 2004 12:07 PDT

Devoured by demons

Klaus Kinski played the messianic monster, consumed by an epic lust and a taste for violence. His screen roles were pretty weird, too.
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