Extra: In Her Tacky Wedding Era
Pop princess Taylor Swift’s net worth is $2 billion. Unless the whole thing is a massive decoy, she is using part of that enormous fortune to host a wedding reception for her marriage to Travis Kelce at Madison Square Garden (MSG) today. The modern-day Colosseum sits between West 31st and 33rd Streets and 7th and 8th Avenues in Manhattan. Entire streets surrounding the venue are closed off. There are sharpshooters on top of MSG at present. The VIP guests, from Sabrina Carpenter to Steven Spielberg, will party from 4 pm to 4 am, starting this afternoon. Call me crazy, but I can’t imagine a more vulgar venue or a more meretricious matrimonial display. We live in tacky times. The current president, whose love of all things gold surpasses Bond villain Goldfinger's, has bedecked the once-staid Oval Office with gilded tchotchkes. Now, Swift says, "Hold my beer." This won’t be the first time MSG was a wedding venue. In 1982, the Unification Church Founder Reverend Sun Myung Moon...