Bruce … [Read more...]
Try Hard
Of Interest
Not exactly the hammer of the gods, the Electras were a high school garage band formed in 1961 that have become somewhat of a curiosity now that bass player John Kerry may be – we hope – the next president of the … [Read more...]
Results May Vary
Justin Time
On Saturday night, Aric Laferriere, a segment producer here at WOW, went with friends to XES – the SEX-spelled-backwards nightclub with several poles for creative dancing – and got his dance on with a celebrity. Against our better judgment, some friends and I ventured out to … [Read more...]
Filipino 9/11
It's not often, … [Read more...]
Recently Dead
Claudia "Sue" Powers, widow of the U-2 pilot and spy who was famously shot down over Russia, died of respiratory failure last week at 68, in Las Vegas, reports the LA [Read more...]
Dream Date
WOW producer Alicia Gargaro had a dream last night. Let her tell it: [Read more...]
Imelda No Shoe-in
Imelda, Ramona Diaz's documentary that won kudos and a cinematography prize at Sundance and was described in the NY Times as "a devastating portrait of how power begets self delusion,” is having a hard time getting screened in the Philippines. The well-heeled onetime first lady … [Read more...]
Poetry
I've turned Alicia Gargaro's dream account into a poem. I was once forced to attend an all-female, vegetarian, no-smoking poetry conference in Santa Fe, New Mexico, so I know what I'm doing. Bill Clinton was in my dream last night Bill Clinton was in my dream last night He … [Read more...]
Come!
Britney Baby One More Time
Big Baby
One wonders if they destroyed all the labs in Germany after the war. A baby, a product of genetic mutation, was born in Berlin five years ago and now, though he appears to be a normal boy, is able to perform circus-quality feats of strength. His doctor Markus Schuelke, began … [Read more...]
Wart Treatment, Thy Name Is Woman!
A-Courting We Will Go
Every so often I have to go to court. And I'm not a lawyer or a juror. And the only judging I do is on The WOW Report. Yet all this morning I was in court. Again. (Heaves sigh.) I'll explain later; of course, there've been clues in some of the posts here at the Report, … [Read more...]
So Nine Years Ago
After six years as a cult favorite on Channel 4 in England (and three years of repeats here on BBC America), starring as titular host of an hilariously risqué sort of audience-participation chat show (talking to the likes of Joan Collins and Sophia Loren) called So Graham Norton, … [Read more...]
Just Say Notes
An almost-fullpage ad in Daily Variety today is headlined HOW TO PACE YOUR CHARACTER'S DIVE DOWN THE K-HOLE, followed by some copy: A cool bottle of springwater laced with puppy tranquilizer – Special K, as it's known on the dance floor – sends you spiraling down the "K-Hole." … [Read more...]
Gossip Grab Bag
Unlike Madonna and Britney, David Bowie didn't postpone or cancel his concert, he ended it prematurely. During a performance in Prague yesterday, Bowie was stricken with a painful … [Read more...]
Twin Piques
It's … [Read more...]
Colin Farrell’s Biggest Part
"It’s official," reports The Sun, "the Irish badboy is very, very well hung." In Colin Farrell's latest movie, A Home at the End of the World, costarring Sissy Spacek and Robin Wright Penn, he appears in some … [Read more...]