LETTER FROM
THE EDITOR
ity USA. As she said to Lila, “I need
the world to see that our family,
these kids, we’re no goddamned
different from anyone else.”
In our Voices section, late-night
talk show host Chelsea Handler
takes issue with how she was referenced in a New York Times piece on
Jimmy Fallon taking over the
Tonight Show.
“What bothered me was that
when I was listed in a paragraph
with the late-night hosts, I was
the only name put in parentheses,”
Handler writes. “(The only female
host in late-night is Chelsea Handler, 38, on E!).”
She goes on to give the dictionary’s first few definitions for a
parenthetical — “incidental, subordinate in significance, minor or
casual” — and explains that the
paragraph she was mentioned in
was regarding the competition Fallon faces for younger viewers.
“I share the distinction of having
the youngest average viewership
with Colbert, The Daily Show and
Conan. So from a purely statistical
standpoint how, in this paragraph,
could I only be mentioned as an
aside? Was it because I’m a woman?” Handler asks.
HUFFINGTON
03.02.14
Elsewhere in the issue, Rebecca
Adams sits down with Princess
Diana’s personal chef, Darren
McGrady, who remembers her as
someone who ignored the conventions typical of a royal kitchen.
I need the world to see
that our family, these kids,
we’re no goddamned different
from anyone else.”
“If she was on her own for
lunch, she’d actually come and
eat in the kitchen on the countertop,” McGrady tells Rebecca. “I’d
make a tray for her and I’d just be
tidying up the kitchen and things
as we were chatting.”
Don’t miss McGrady’s recipe for
bread and butter pudding, one of
Diana’s favorites! And finally, we
continue our focus on The Third
Metric with a breakdown of the
nine essential habits of
mentally strong people.
ARIANNA