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Sex, John Rocker and The Mood in London

Written by Taki on February 15, 2000. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

Professional athletes have not practiced civility or sportsmanship since the ghastly 60s, so how has Rocker suddenly dishonored baseball? Muhammad Ali is cheered as a hero though he called all white people devils. When Jim Brown periodically busted up women, judges gave him suspended sentences. When Rae Carruth is arrested for the drive-by shooting of
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Pinochet, Moving Back to London and Germany’s Wassergate

Written by Taki on February 8, 2000. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

Taki Le Maître Picking on Pinochet Even by British standards, the fog of hypocrisy surrounding Gen. Pinochet’s case is breathtaking enough to kill every pigeon in Central Park. Tony Blair and his motley crew of phonies make Bill and Hillary Clinton seem almost honest. This is a case of frustrated 1970s radical nonentities getting their
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Observer Media Gossip Columnist Botches It; A Sweeter Athens

Written by Taki on February 1, 2000. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

Taki Le Maître Smoke Signals Athens – A funny thing happened on my way to an Athenian forum last week. On an Olympic Airways flight to the Greek capital, some of my countrymen asked the cabin attendant whether they could smoke. Not if other people object, was his Solomonic answer. The plane was almost empty,
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Good Snobbery; Denying Holocaust Denial

Written by Taki on January 25, 2000. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

Taki LE MAÎTRE A Good Snob My memory isn’t what it used to be–what is?–but I seem to remember a scene in a Stendahl or Flaubert novel where a princess, on her way to a ball, stops, looks at herself in front of a mirror and thinks of a terrific witticism. "Too bad," she tells
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I Am A Stalker; Mouthing Off From Gstaad

Written by Taki on January 18, 2000. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

Taki LE MAÎTRE Modern Man Gstaad – While schussing down knee-deep powdered slopes and churning through snowy cross-country paths, the only noise that is constant in this most beautiful alpine setting is…the ringing of mobile telephones. I’m in Gstaad, better known as the mecca of the rich and lifted, and probably the most beautiful and
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Web Perverts and The Truth

Written by Taki on January 4, 2000. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

Taki LE MAÎTRE Truth Believer This being the last column of the year, in fact of the decade, of the century and of the millennium, the expounding of a few non-p.c. truths is very much in order. Let’s start with a subject that is bound to get me into trouble: gays and women in the
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Taki’s Poor Liver; London’s Unwanted Guests

Written by Taki on December 28, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

Taki LE MAÎTRE Friends And Livers The world’s greatest doctor, Harvey Klein, informs me that my liver at its present state is an exact replica of a map of Dresden–circa 1945, after Bomber Command had finished its business. Never have I felt worse, yet had a better time. Pre-Christmas in New York should carry a
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Liars, Stalkers & Scrooges

Written by Taki on December 20, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

Taki LE MAÎTRE A Few More Liars A very long time ago, drunk in El Morocco, the premier dinner-nightclub of its day, I made friends with Alan Jay Lerner, the famous lyricist, upon discovering we were both boxers. (I had a black eye, he had lost an eye practicing the sweet science.) My dinner companion
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Defending Linda Tripp

Written by Taki on December 14, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

Ben & King The name of Ben Sonnenberg caught my eye last week while reading Alexander Cockburn’s column. For any of you unfamiliar with it, Sonnenberg is the author of Lost Property, a memoir, and founder of Grand Street, the literary magazine. Cockburn refers to Ben as a onetime dandy (he is now laid up
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Lies, Snake Oil & Supermodel Roommates

Written by Taki on December 7, 1999. Posted in Breaking News, Posts

It’s All Relative It is not often that I respond to readers’ mail, but some of last week’s were a gem. One by Kevin Beary I found particularly intelligent. Needless to say (we all have a bit of Clinton in us) it had to do with the attack on my person in Central Park. Fear
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