Rivers Roast: Hot and Nasty
Ah, the good old days….drinking, smoking and telling dirty, filthy jokes at the Friars Club—all in service of roasting the top comics of their time. Minus the smoking and drinking but with plenty of bleeped out vulgarity, Comedy Central is continuing the tradition with probably the best televised bake-off yet: its roast of Joan Rivers. If you missed it last night, don’t worry, you’ll have many other opportunities to catch an hour...
Nursing Michael Jackson
Even as the Las Vegas, NV home and offices of the incompetent, asleep at the swtich Dr. Conrad Murray were being raided, I was having a very interesting conversation with some medical colleagues of Dr. Steven Hoefflin who did (most of) Michael Jackson’s plastic surgeries, including his first or second nose job, depending on who you believe. Apparently loving the limelight that he got from being associated with celebrities...
Arresting Developments: The Harvard Professor and the Cop
OK, the president said it: the Cambridge, Mass. police department acted “stupidly” in arresting Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates at his own home. Since then, Obama has backpedaled, but the controversy has only heated up. On the surface, it certainly seems like a case of racial profiling: neighbors call the cops when they see two black men apparently trying to break into a house. It turns out the good professor lived in...
The Pepsi Commercial: 25 Years Later
Although it’s hard to watch, it’s good that the footage of the fire during the Pepsi commercial that burned Michael Jackson’s scalp has come to light. Brings up interesting questions, though–who had it under lock and key for so long, and how much did US Weekly, that paragon of investigative journalistic reporting, pay for it? Now, one of the two LA city fire inspectors that was on set is also speaking out,...
Jackson Memorial: Breaking the Bar
Not since young JFK, Jr. saluted his slain father’s coffin has a child’s reaction to the loss of a parent so moved a global television audience. Paris Michael Katherine Jackson’s spontaneous, heartfelt tribute to her father was the highly emotional capper to the public memorial service for Michael Jackson at Staples Center. If you hadn’t choked back tears when Usher sang “Gone Too Soon,” taking off his sunglasses to gaze at the King...
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