Julie Burchill Still Alive

Here’s how ancien terrible Julie Burchill sets up a disquisition on smoking v. drinking: “Everyone’s got their own Something Nasty In The Woodshed, and mine is Madonna’s muff. Not in the flesh, you understand — rather, hand-held in black-and-white, glimpsed a whopping EIGHTEEN YEARS ago when some commissioning clown thought it would be a right laugh to give sensitive, sheltered me her book SEX to review. Visions of that greasy muff, which one could easily have fried an egg on without the benefit of oil, haunt me till this very day.” She also regrets not having taken part in “Celebrity Big Brother.” You’ve still got it, Jules!