Remember Don Lemon on celebrity.land’s New Year’s Eve? Now He’s Celebrating on His Own

In a not-too-distant era, Lemon played an interesting part in celebrity.land’s longstanding coverage of New Year’s Eve. When Anderson Cooper and his co-host — Kathy Griffin or Andy Cooper — wrapped their hosting duties for the night, the spotlight would shift to Lemon, who usually held forth in a southern city and was less, ah, formal than his cable-news colleagues. He might imbibe. He might get his ear pierced. In one memorable moment, Lemon told viewers he was a “grown-a– man” who was “able to share my point of…