Speaking of fat, Marlon Brando has added his Jabba-like bulk to the growing community of actors willing to voiceover for food. After listening to "the world's greatest living actor" gasp his way through a Range Rover commercial, … [Read more...]
Name Brand
Bush Bashing
Hmm. It seems the storm over Access Hollywood's golden boy Billy Bush, disgruntled publicists, and the New York Post is gathering force. I've already come to Bush's defense and agree with "Page Six"'s … [Read more...]
Vanity’s Fairest
Most people I'm friendly with went straight to page 298 of April's Vanity Fair to look at the group photo of the "Kings and Queens of Clubs" assembled on Ninth Avenue at 13th Street in Manhattan. Imagine my surprise when I spotted, standing in the back near the likes of … [Read more...]
Recently Dead–for 20 Years
One of the Dead Milkmen is actually dead. Dave Blood, bass player for the Eighties punk band, took his own life on Tuesday. His sister, Kathy, says on the Milkmen's Website that since the band broke up, "inner peace has seemed to elude … [Read more...]
No Sparrow
Der Fuhrer Furor
Fake Boobs
Now that special moment shared by Janet and Justin at the Super Bowl halftime show has been painstakingly captured, Franklin Mint style, to be treasured by your family forever. These delicate, lifelike figurines are sucking in the money on [Read more...]
The Life of Graham
Gin and Tonic, a film about the late Monty Python member Graham Chapman, will recreate his early days studying medicine at Cambridge University, his years as a member of the Python team, his struggles with alcohol, … [Read more...]
Does That Diacetyl Come With a Medium Size Coke?
Thinking about making popcorn before you settle in to watch Gigli on DVD tonight? Not so fast, Romeo. According to some alarming news reports today, it seems that diacetyl vapors from a butter … [Read more...]
On Target
Fenton … [Read more...]
Bite Me
His Two Cents
In the latest issue of Playboy, the overrated rapper 50 Cent says he "ain't into faggots," but he is into women who, like his mother, are into women. Speaking as an unofficial representative for that segment of the … [Read more...]
Recently Dead
Monologuist Spaulding Gray's body was barely dry after being fished out of the East River (was he swimming to Manhattan?) when news came yesterday that Murphy Brown's housepainter Eldin, Robert Pastorelli, only 49, was found dead in a bathroom of his Los Angeles home--in the … [Read more...]
A Wing and a Prayer
First there was Wings, Paul McCartney's post-Beatles band, with wife Linda warbling tuneless backup. Then came Gerty Molson, the German senior who had curious hits in the Eighties with her covers of Lou Reed's "Walk on the Wild Side" and Culture Club's "Do You Really Want to … [Read more...]
Cut and Print
Thom Fowler's Movie Poop Shoot takes up the subjects of gay marriages, Prince performing in San Francisco, John Cleese, drunk couples, and hair color as therapy. If you want to change your life, don’t even bother … [Read more...]
Gone
but never forgotten. … [Read more...]
Spymo
Is there a mole at World of Wonder? Did someone leak a tape of Totally Gayer to Stereogum.com days before its VH1 premiere tomorrow at … [Read more...]
Hats (and Clothes) Off to Esai
The NY Daily News reports that NYPD Blue star Esai Morales discussed sex and violence on television with Jason … [Read more...]
Fashion Show
No need to claw your way to the front of the tent, tripping skeletal editrixes as you lunge for that lone empty seat near the runway. Sit back in your ergonomically sensible chair and let the NY Times' soothing fashion editor, Kathy Horyn, lull you with [Read more...]