For the first time in 80 years, a painting by the Dutch Old Master Jan Vermeer sold at auction. On Wednesday, the 10-by-8-inch A Young Woman Seated at the Virginals – expected to bring around $5.5 million – sold for more than $30.1 million at Sotheby's in London. That's … [Read more...]
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Hot Dog! Free Parking!
The St. James Version: Special Outfest Edition
OUTFEST OPENING NIGHT PARTY AND MOVIE AT THE ORPHEUM THEATER IN LA (LAST NIGHT) [Read more...]
Letter from London
Sticks and Stones Redux
Wasn't it just two days ago that a media watchdog group in England took an ad for a supermarket chain off the radio because it used the long-standing term "faggots" to describe a meatball dish? … [Read more...]
Web Site
Let us save you $10, $11, even $14, depending on your plex, on the price of admission to Spider-man 2. Here it is in just a few minutes and completely in Lego. … [Read more...]
Alumni Update
Little Shane Klingensmith –model, actor, singer – poses seductively from his own website, occasionally in a tiny wifebeater. Get all the latest news and press on this miniteen veteran of the first Showbiz Moms & Dads series from … [Read more...]
Games
The Nerve
Paris Hilton wanted to record the song "Born to Be Wild" for her so-called reality show, The Simple Life 2. You can see how she might. But Steppenwolf leader John Kay refused her. (Music and lyrics are attributed to a [Read more...]
Goat Floats & Shark Shakes
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Takeoff
Susanne Bartsch husband and chicest of the trendy New York gym owners, David Barton, has created the how-to manual for Song Airlines's in-flight workout program. For eight bucks, says AP via [Read more...]
Marlon in Wally World
We've always heard that mousy actor Wally Cox was quite handy with the gentlemen, especially with onetime roommate Marlon Brando. But we weren't aware that rooomie Brando was even handier, if somewhat less … [Read more...]
Addressed to Kill (Literally?)
Where's James??? I thought it a brilliant idea to ask James St James to contribute to this blog. While I am also an enormous fan of Stephen - his daily diversions keep me from falling asleep at my desk - I have always had a silent, and perhaps deadly, crush/obsession with … [Read more...]
Attack of the Killer Roos
House of Correction
In a post on June 30, the website address for the short film Secretary's Day was incomplete. It should have been http://www.secretarysdaymovie.com. OK? … [Read more...]
Hillary Pilloried
Jack Wheeler, in his editorial in The Washington Times last week, accused Bill Clinton of lying in his autobio, My Life, when he said that Hillary made him sleep on the couch after he confessed to the … [Read more...]
Hollywood’s Fonda Kerry
Last night at the Henry Fonda Theater on Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, John Kerry's daughters, Alex and Vanessa, hosted a fundraiser for their dad's presidential campaign. Judging from these photos from [Read more...]
Shock Therapy
Does … [Read more...]
Girlfriend!
Here is the almost medically infectious video, Gay Boyfriend, which you might have seen before on Comedy Central or, more likely, on the computer you're looking at now. But you really can't see it too often. … [Read more...]