Screengrab by Various Today in Nerve's film blog: Holiday special - 35 people, places and movies we're thankful for.
The Remote Island by Bryan Christian Michael Phelps indulges Anderson Cooper in some watersports and Dexter makes a 'bitch move.' Plus: the secret of Tina Fey's scar, revealed!
Dating Advice From . . . Engineers by Steph Auteri Q. For optimal functionality, what should go into a first-date emergency kit? A. Fine wine, road flares, a snake-bite kit and Ghirardelli chocolates.
Over the four years that I wrote my column Jack's Naughty Bits, I began and ended with a few lines of Dante's Inferno that I thought encapsulated perfectly everything the Naughty Bits was about. The scene is Dante's famous encounter with Paolo and Francesca, the couple who went to Hell for an adulterous love spurred on by reading a racy book. Paolo and Francesca's story dramatizes the power I've always thought books should possess: to move, to stir the senses, to elicit thoughts, feelings, moods, memories and even illicit kisses from one's secret paramour. We read to feel, and I hope, if you read my "bits", that they help you feel as moved and motivated as Francesca.
, featuring curious yet marvelous infusions of cucumber and rose petal.
