Portraying as human the people you hear about on the news doing bad things is dangerous. But it's also necessary and important.
When I see something I like, that's all that counts. What they use, how they get there, I never bother them.
I had a little epiphany when I was a writer at 'Chicago' magazine. I sat down to dinner at the Ritz-Carlton. Somebody poured a white dessert wine with chocolate cake. It was a wine I would never have expected to make sense. The idea of any wine tasting fabulous with chocolate cake was fascinating to

