Adoptive parents, adoption agencies, and probably PETA have condemned the idea for the new Fox reality show Who's Your Daddy? – in which a woman given up for adoption as a child tries to pick her birth father from a clutch of contestants so she can take home $100,000 – as … [Read more...]
Flea’s Circus
Last Saturday night at the Barnsdall Art Park in Los Feliz, I went to see a friend perform in the Christmas recital that the [Read more...]
Not the Conservative Party
Not to be outdone by our Los Angelean associates, we at World of Wonder’s London office threw our own Christmas party. It was a fine affair. Champagne flowed almost as copiously as the gossip – I learned a thing or two about colleagues I once assumed were shy and retiring, I can … [Read more...]
Gerard Damiano
1. Describe yourself as if you were writing a personals ad. I'm nice enough to take home to Mother. But only if Father is not at home. 2. What's the title of your autobiography? The Devil Made Me Do It. 3. Who plays you in the movie? It's a toss-up between Tom Cruise and … [Read more...]
Can I Get a Witness?
Now, because of the Kobe Bryant case, says Popbitch, a brand new assistant job has opened up in the celebrity community: sex witness. It's the new witness protection program. The sex witness stays in the room while the famed, blinged one … [Read more...]
Recently Dead
Princess Kikuko, the 92-year-old sister-in-law of Japan's Emperor Hirohito, died Saturday of kidney problems, in Tokyo. She was married to the emperor's younger brother, Takamatsu, and was the grand-daughter of Japan's last shogun, Yoshinobu Tokugawa. She had been a champion of … [Read more...]
This Is My Rifle, This Is My Gun
Last May, like a ritual out of the insect world, an American soldier had sex with an Iraqi soldier, then killed him, shooting him 11 times with his rifle. And like most incidents in Iraq, this one has only just come to light. Twenty-one-year-old National Guard private, Federico … [Read more...]
Spectacular
Wasn't it Jane Child who had those piercings all over her face with chains and whatnots hanging precariously from them? And they served no purpose. Here, though, we find a facial piercing that's actually a kind of godsend for the seeing impaired. Ne'er again will you lose your … [Read more...]
Snap!
Kirsten Dunst takes a walk with her, er, um, little brother Christian Coutesy livejournal … [Read more...]
Sitings
• The heartwarming holiday classic It's a Wonderful Life performed by rabbits in 30 seconds. (t/y James) • Michael Jackson sings about [Read more...]
