January 31, 2007
Save That Date
You don't have to enter a contest to score a date John Waters. All you have to do is show up at Amoeba on Sunset in LA on February 6 at 6PM and buy his new CD, A Date With John Waters, which drops that day. Then he'll sign it and let you be photographed with him – if you're among the first 200 with proof of purchase, that is. But who's counting?
Vader, Please!
Set the controls for rap speed. It's "Star Wars Gangster Rap 2." Jabba the Hut makes all kinds of sense now.
Girls Gone Old!
Lenora Claire is the owner of that notorious painting of Bea Arthur in the nude, and she wants to share Bea's "liver-spotted bazooms with the world" by curating a hot Golden Girls art show devoted to the sexy septuagenarians. Like throwing an art show and inviting everyone she knows. Check it out on Bea's GoldenGirlsGoErotic MySpace. And thank you for being a friend.
Birthday Blow
Calm down, nobody got any blow for his or her birthday. (If they did, they're not sharing.) And, yeah, we bundle birthdays around here. You have a problem with that? It's economical and less fattening. Welcome to December-January, just like a year-end double-issue magazine, with your editor, Steven Corfe, Kiana Moore, and Kristin Rasmussen on the cover. (Photo by Thairin)
A Program Note
Yes, we know the Andy Warhol self-portrait thing was posted three times. On purpose, people. It was a concept. Andy worked in multiples. Get it? We won't do it again.
Ryan's Hope
Here's Ryan Phillippe out at Dan Tana restaurant in West Hollywood with a mystery girlfriend, who unlike Abbie Cornish, the girl who allegedly came between Phillippe and his wife, looks nothing like Reese Witherspoon. If we called Ryan's publicist, we're sure we'd get the standard "They're just friends." (via LustHunt)
WOW TV: Ring My Bell
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In this clip from Ring My Bell, Academy Award nominees Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady get a surprise phone call from Mike Jones, the gay masseuse who toppled top American Evangelist Ted Haggard. Find out what the masseuse had to say about the hell he went through before outing Haggard, and what sex with the pastor was like.
– Selected by Steven Corfe
Miller's Crossing
Has Sienna Miller crossed the line from starlet to It Girl? (Not really such a leap, by the way.) She's unavoidable right now, what with the rumors that her sex scenes with Hayden Christensen in Factory Girl were not simulated, her arriving home in the morning from her date with Diddy and a clubber at Crobar getting manhandled for photographing them dancing together, the panties pics of her at the Chelsea Hotel, and her letting out the first syllable of "fucking hell" before being cut off on the Today show. Why, even classic media whore Paris Hilton has only this irritating racist video to show for herself today.
Hostel
Not sure now what to make of that happy couple, Pete and Kate, skipping together into rehab in North London just the other day. The Sun has video footage of Doherty, days after he and Kate had their relationship blessed in Phuket, shooting up cocaine in a $16-a-night Thai youth hostel with three female backpackers as he talks to Moss on the phone, assuring her he's fine and not to worry. In the video, only one other person is seen and it's hard to hear over the music what he says on to Moss, if anything.
Starstruck Jess, a backpacking student, invited him to her room to party with her and two female friends. She asked Doherty if rumours he had married Kate were true. He replied: “No, I love her but I wouldn’t marry her if she was the last woman on Earth. She’s too paranoid.” Minutes later he was on the bed surrounded by cash he said he had taken from Kate. Jess, of Sydney, said she witnessed Doherty injecting coke at least three times between 1.30am and 4am. She added: “It was a bit mind-blowing. He asked us if we minded. Initially we were like, ‘OK, go for it’, but as time went on we began to get nervous.”
WOW TV: Raw Bird: Porny Monster Premiere Party
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It's that time of the month again and Raw Bird has exclusive footage of the Porny Monster Premiere Party hosted by James St. James and Porny Monster star Joanna Angel. Did you know that Joanna plays James in the movie?
– Selected by Ross Greenberg
Bidding on Andy
This Warhol, Self-Portrait (in Fright Wig), which is the usual go-to image to accompany stories about the artist and has become almost as iconic as his soup cans, will be sold at auction next Wednesday at Sotheby's, along with works by Bacon and Lichtenstein. Fright Wig is expected to bring $3 million. (Source)
Bidding on Andy
This Warhol, Self-Portrait (in Fright Wig), which is the usual go-to image to accompany stories about the artist and has become almost as iconic as his soup cans, will be sold at auction next Wednesday at Sotheby's, along with works by Bacon and Lichtenstein. Fright Wig is expected to bring $3 million. (Source)
Bidding on Andy
This Warhol, Self-Portrait (in Fright Wig), which is the usual go-to image to accompany stories about the artist and has become almost as iconic as his soup cans, will be sold at auction next Wednesday at Sotheby's, along with works by Bacon and Lichtenstein. Fright Wig is expected to bring $3 million. (Source)
Chelsea Girl
In a stunning reversal of the recent fad, a trend-setting Sienna Miller wears only panties to the after-party at the Chelsea Hotel after last night's New York premiere of Factory Girl.
Feathered Friends
The very strange Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen are blessed by a clerical-looking Bob Saget for showing up at the DVD release party for his R-rated Farce of the Penguins, a parody that turns March of into a road movie with two horny fowls walking 75 miles for booty. It's like What's Up, Tiger Lily? with beaks, but not as funny. Watch the trailer. (Photo via britney.cl)
January 30, 2007
Sitings
• House(wives) of Wax. Old mannequin heads with glass eyes and realistic teeth. Photographer Barbara Abel calls them Tragic Beauties. We call them disturbing.
• "Soupy George" by 7 Seconds of Love, from the rather good folks at rathergood.com. In the pop world, soup is soup but it's also art.
WOW TV: Top of the Fridge: Conspiracy Theory #1
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In this episode of Top of the Fridge, the conspiracy nut believes that JFK's assassin and a famous adult pop star were one and the same – an alien/human hybrid. That's so last season of The X-Files.
Little Dis Sunshine
Johnny Lopez at The Johnny Lopez has a problem with (the overrated) Little Miss Sunshine winning best ensemble at the SAG ceremony. Actually, he seems to have a problem with Little Miss Sunshine winning anything at all anywhere. Reasons 1, 3, and 5:
1. Steve Carell's character bumping into his ex at the rest stop on the highway. REALLY?! This isn't an episode of "Friends" people!
3. That Toni Collette's character would go to all this trouble to get her daughter to a beauty pageant, yet has no clue what her daughter's routine is until she's on stage? REALLY?!
5. The family driving around with Alan Arkin's dead body in the van. REALLY?! Actually, I thought this was funny too...in "National Lampoon's Vacation"!
Off-Color, Off-Key
Just because she even had this slutty, NSFW phone conversation, it seems right that Paris Hilton should have it broadcast on the Interweb™. And the same goes for this sour demo she recorded, seemingly into a karaoke machine. (via Drunken Stepfather)
WOW TV: Adam and Joe: Episode 1 Season 4
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In this episode of The Adam and Joe Show, when Adam and Joe turn up at a prank collective, the worlds of Star Wars and the Royal Family collide.
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Celebrities at Large
If you're a world-renowned former athlete / convicted rapist / occasional cannibal with an enormous facial tattoo and you're on the lam from a court-ordered drug rehab in Nevada, where do you hide? Well, if you're Mike Tyson, you hide out at the Starbucks on the corner of Hollywood and McCadden. That's what the lispy ex-champ was doing this morning, chatting amicably with the few ballsy tourists between bites on his bran muffin. Since that particular Starbucks is also known as a hangout for some of Hollywood's shadier characters, it seemed a particularly appropriate place for Iron Mike to contemplate his next move. Or drug score.
– Chris "You Got 'Em, I Spot 'Em" May
Badfinger
According to the story he told on New York's Funk Master Flex radio show – and it's a goo' one – The Game finger-banged Vida Guerra at a party at Jamie Foxx's house. All during the telling, host Flex shrieks like a goosed schoolboy – and with good reason. Listen here to The Game tell his tale in graphic detail. (via Bossip)
Diddy or Didn't He?
The P seemed to be keeping Sienna Miller so warm at Sundance she was in danger of ending up Burnt Sienna. TMZ, of course, has video footage of him taking her back to her hotel in the early hours of last Saturday. (Photo: JesusHeartsMusic)
Addressed to Kill
Thanks for the writeup on HOLLYWEED (the sign and our song). No, Finegood certainly wasn't a vandal; he was an artist! ;-)
We are still trying to get the song recorded by a known singer.
– David Batterson
Couples Therapy
Over the last two years, Pete Doherty has entered rehab six times and six times exited directly to his dealer. This time, though, at an unspectacular hospital in North London, he hopes to kick his habit for good with the help of his similarly troubled girlfriend Kate Moss, who's checking in with him. Moss and Doherty were seen arriving at the Capio Nightingale Hospital yesterday, where it's said they signed in under cloaks of anonymity. As if that were possible. We wish them luck, even though it could mean losing wondrous new Pete-repeat stories. (Sound Generator; photo, People)
Special Treatment Center of Attention
Since checking into the Wonderland rehab on January 17 after a night of particularly nasty debauchery, Lindsay Lohan has a) been on frequent work release to shoot scenes for a movie, b) chatted with "journos" on her cell, c) shopped on Rodeo Drive, d) had her Mercedes serviced, e) received visits from hair and makeup professionals, and f) generally been treated like a spa guest. The other addicts at the facility whined that they wanted the same privileges, and got them, even though free to come and go as you please does not clean and sober make. Plus, Lohan's text messaging during group sessions and disrespectful attitude angers fellow residents. A resident who, because of Lohan, checked out before he was ready said, "Wonderland has become a joke. While I'm trying to save my life, she's trying to save her face." The one good thing to come out of Lohan's reckless behavior is that that movie she's making is getting gobs of invaluable publicity. (Source)
Preparation H
Another treasure from the ParisExposed trove: her Valtrex prescription. At this refill after refill rate of goodies from the garage, you'll never need to pay that $40 monthly fee. (via Radar)
Donkey Conga
Captain Eeyore is the shot-for-shot parody of the 1986 George Lucas-produced, Francis Coppola-directed, Michael Jackson-starring Captain EO that played in 3D at the Disney theme parks. This takeoff, created by fully sanctioned Disney workers, stars Eeyore as Jackson with a cast of various costumed Disney characters chewing up the scenery. It's like a big plushy party, with moonwalking. Unfortunately, this is just a snippet. via Angry Tiki. (t/y Nick)
Quote Unquote
"They'd have their dates over in Bob's apartment and there'd be drinking and carrying on, and eventually they'd go into the bedroom where they had flags of different countries around the world. And if the girl couldn't identify what country the flag was from, she had to put out. It was like, 'Ooh, you don't know? You're going to have to go back to school. I'd better give you some lessons.'" – literary agent Marianne Strong, describing how the young Robert Stack and John F Kennedy got laid, as recounted by Stack's widow Rosemary in her memoir, Mr. Untouchable. (Source)
Lords of the Ring
Former world heavyweight champion Joe Frazier and famed boxing writer Bert Sugar at MSG for the screening of the final episode of the doc series 50 Greatest Moments at Madison Square Garden. (via NY Social Diary)
January 29, 2007
Sitings
All via b3ta:
• Know your bands by their members' first names? Like Chaim, Paul, Eric, and Tommy? Take the quiz.
• Running from the camera. If you do it once, it's a snapshot. If you do it more than three times, it's your art.
• Alpha Betty and friends? Naked ladies made entirely from letters of the alphabet and punctuation marks. Studio Pin-Ups is a calendar.
Queer Eye
There's nothing surprising about the news that Clay Aiken has once again been caught trolling the internet for gay sex. But there is something surprising to be found in the grainy webcam photos of an unkempt Aiken – something much more revealing than a rudely exposed sexuality could ever be: Clay Aiken has Shannen Doherty Wonky Eye Syndrome.
Look at the headshot of Shannen Doherty, above. Now look at the same shot with a line drawn through her eye, parallel to her lips (here). Next we'll rotate the entire picture so that the line is horizontal (here). Aargh! (here). Same thing with Clay Aiken, albeit it's his right eye that's higher (here). Clay has previously concealed his SDWE Syndrome well, be it with the classic head tilt (see figures A [here] and B [here]), or the disguising bangs (see figures C [here] and D [here]). Whatever the fallout of Clay being caught on Manhunt, one thing remains certain: Clay is now an out-and-proud Shannon Doherty Wonky Eye Syndrome sufferer. Show off your higher eye with pride, Clay!
– Steven Corfe
Shortbus Omnibus
Come March 13, the DVD of John Cameron Mitchell's Shortbus will drop. Meanwhile, here's a very likable, sexy music video that compiles what are probably the best moments of the film. (t/y Alan)
Vamping After Midnight
Not long ago, Mary-Kate Olsen was photographed in a seemingly depraved scene with her teeth sunk into the leg of a transgender stripper (left). Remember? (How could you forget.) Now comes a recent, caught-in-the-headlights photograph of the fawn-like fashion victim Ashley salivating over a male nipple (right). We know it's a cliché, but WTF! (Photos: Sujet; Faded Youth)
K-Fed Up in Their Grills
This is Kevin Federline's Nationwide Insurance Super Bowl commercial that has workers in the fast-food industry flippin' mad at the implication that fry cook is a demeaning job. "The ad is offensive to anyone who works in the restaurant industry," said CEO of the National Restaurant Association, who would like to see the ad banned on Sunday.
Some restaurant workers said the ad simply wasn't realistic. One waitress said that she didn't think Federline had the skills to work in her restaurant. Another man said, "I don't think he really has any skills."
But you can't deny he has skillz. Watch the commercial here. (t/y Eduardo)
Boys Will Be Girls
A little Austrian boy named Tim, like so many little boys these days, liked to play with Barbie dolls, wear dresses, and be thought of as a girl. His parents initially assumed their son was going through a phase, like it was something all the kids were into, but eventually "saw Kim as a girl, but not as a problem. Our life was surprisingly normal." Two years ago, when Tim was 12, doctors diagnosed him as a transsexual and began treatments to stop the onset of male puberty and boost his femaleness. Now known as Kim, the world's youngest sex-change patient is registered as a female and looks like a typical girl of 14. She dreams of becoming a Paris fashion designer. Again, like so many boys these days. (Telegraph)
Addressed to Kill
Just dropping a quick note to let you know I received my copy of La Dolce Musto in the mail today and really, probably shouldn't have opened it until today's errands were run. Cannot put this book down! Some of the older articles I hadn't seen, but [they] cover events or places that were actually meaningful to me at one time or another. And each is as captivating and brilliant as everything else I'd read from Mr. Musto. (Or is it "Ms., motherfucker!").
Anyway, thank-you for this priceless compilation. I'll make it a goal for 2007 to track down Mr. Musto and convince him to jot an inappropriately familiar note to me on the inside cover. Maybe ask him when he plans to have another intimate session with Brad Pitt? There's room in the back for a second inappropriately familiar note...
– D. Swindell
[Ed note: And a stalker is born.]
WOW TV: Gemini Lodge: Dancing Queen
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In this episode of Gemini Lodge, Sandy shows you his stirring renditions of "Dancing Queen" and "Candle in the Wind," all while being the best innkeeper he can be.
Of Interest
Mad TV's Michael McDonald and the Stooges' Iggy Pop. No, really. (t/y Barbara at GiggleSugar)
Owl Be Seeing You
Everyone knows I hate owls, and I am happy to report that Woodsy "Don't Give a Hoot" Owl is meeting a timely and horrifying death by way of our good friends at the USDA Forest Service. In "staying with the times" the Service has decided to kill off the older, larger-size owl (above) for a much younger, trimmer owl (at right). Instead of the thick owley head, they went with a cheaper and easier-to-source-out plastic face mask, worn with a white Hanes t-shirt, size medium. And it will be a sad and long death for the owl costume, since the Forest Service, ignoring all other types of disposal, went with the tried-and-true method of burning alive. According to the symbols.gov website, the method must be carried out thusly:
1. Incinerate the complete costume within sight of an official USDA
Forest Service law enforcement officer.
2. The entire Woodsy Owl costume, including each of the separate pieces is to be destroyed beyond recognition.
(via BoingBoing)
– Ian Grant
Do You Have Change for a Penny?
You're not gonna want to put those few pennies you get as change into that dish on the counter of your local convenience story anymore. The little copper pests could be worth five cents each now. The rising price of metals means the face value of a penny is less than the value of the material it's made of and the US Mint fears speculators will be melting the coins down and selling them for profit. A top economist suggests "rebasing" the penny, making it worth five cents rather than one cent. Doing so, he says, would increase the amount of five-cent coins in circulation and do away with the almost worthless one-cent coin. (Source)
Since 1982, the Mint began making copper-coated zinc pennies to prevent metals speculators from taking advantage of lofty base metal prices. Though the penny is losing its importance – it is worth only four seconds of the average American's work time, assuming a 40-hour workweek – the Mint is making more and more pennies [and has] produced 910 pennies for every American. Last year there were 8.23 billion pennies in circulation, according to the Mint.
Deja View
This is The View, a Brit band whose debut album, Hats off to the Buskers, is #1 on the pop charts – in the UK. Could they even get to top-40 in the States with a name that conjures up images of nattering old ladies?
Knight Moves
It seems ass-backward, but instead of Isaiah Washington leaving the show, it appears TR Knight may be the one cleaning out his locker at Grey's Anatomy. After all that's gone down on the set with the name-calling and coming out and what-have-you, "he feels that the atmosphere there is so toxic and unhealthy,” that he wants out, a source tells Jeannette Walls. He's "disgusted by how it was all handled." Knight's people originally had no comment on the subject, but later called Walls to say the rumor was "one thousand percent false," and the network chimed in with "irrefutably untrue." So he'll probably be leaving. If one good thing has come out of this ugly mess, it's that bloggers not familiar with the bible can now spell "Isaiah."
Recently Dead
Actress Marcheline Bertrand, who played "Girl in Jeep" in Hal Ashby's 1982 Lookin' to Get Out and "Girl" in Blake Edwards' 1983 The Man Who Loved Women, died yesterday of ovarian cancer at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. She was 56. Bertrand, who was of Native American descent, studied acting with Lee Strasberg, but is most notable as the mother of Angelina Jolie, whom she raised with Jolie's brother, James Haven, as a single parent after divorcing actor Jon Voight in 1978. Jolie, Haven, and Brad Pitt were at the hospital when Bertrand died. (LA Times)
January 28, 2007
A Bunch of Joke-Offs
Here are several scenes deleted from Jackass: Number 2 due to their "questionable sexual orientation." Translation: gay. Reality: naked boys. Watch here. (via b3ta)
French Dressing
We found this necklace, which you know you want, on the Alain Truong blog while searching for this photo, which you know you like, and then found these fashionable French kids who seriously put US Target-wearing teens to shame, which should concern you.
Celebrities at Small
Friday night leaving the WOW offices, Lydia and I ran smack into a short blond man on the sidewalk. We walked on 10 feet, before simultaneously hissing, "Was that David Spade?" If indeed it was, then he's a seriously height-challenged man. Lydia is 5'2", and she practically towered over him.
– Steven Corfe
January 27, 2007
Recently Dead
On January 1, 1976, Cal State Northridge art major Daniel N Finegood, with three friends and $50-worth of fabric, altered the Los Angeles Hollywood sign to read "Hollyweed" in honor of California instating a new relaxed marijuana law that day. It was also his project for a class assignment on scale. The outlaw "environmental sculpture," as he called it, earned him an A, made his parents proud, was seen all over the world, inspired copycats, and eventually led to a fence and closed-circuit surveillance system around the landmark. Finegood, who resented being called a vandal, died Monday of multiple myeloma at Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center. He was 52. Last year, David Batterson and Mark Giles wrote a song,"Hollyweed USA," about Finegood and his handiwork. (LA Times)
Paris to Fans: I'm Sad
In a letter posted later today on Stavros Niarchos' MySpace, an "ashamed and overly embarassed" Paris Hilton asks her fans to understand the pictures and videos on the Paris Exposed website are "from years ago, when I was wild and just partied all the time." Droll. So she's still playing the game. (via Celebrity Dirty Laundry)
Paris Exposed
We were suspicious of Paris Hilton's "leaked" storage-space booty right from the beginning. Please, why would the heiress use a self-service storage facility to house lewd and incriminating materials and, if she did, why let the rent on it lapse? Now the Rad Report has it on good authority that the whole thing was and is a scam and Hilton is involved and will be benefiting from the website's monthly membership fees. Meanwhile, hang out at this enjoyable Hiltron MySpace. It's free. (t/y Randy)