Beauty and the Media Beast
Stop the presses! Miss California gets to keep her crown. Now get we get Carrie Prejean off the stage, please? I’m kind of sick of this Sarah Palin in-the-making. On the other hand, I have to admire the tons of free publicity she’s achieved–for herself and for the beauty pageant, a rather icky relick of a bygone era. Funny how Donald Trump took about five days to “decide,” milking this thing for all it...
Mannywood: Hall of Shame
Dodgertown now knows what Beantown was bitching about. All that bad behavior=’roid rage. With the news that Manny Ramirez has been suspended for 50 games, until July 3, a lot fewer people will be streaming through the gates at Chavez Ravine, and that’s got to be very troubling for the powers to be, who are probably thinking up new marketing plans right about now. They’ve already taken down the Mannywood sign in the...
Ashton vs. CNN: The Twitter Battle
Don’t you just love media hype? New media hype? The current battle between Ashton Kutcher and CNN has people a-Twitter. Who will be the first to get 1 million followers? Easy vote? Not necessarily. I’ve done some celebrity sampling on Twitter and just so you don’t have to, here’s some: RealHughJackmanJust landed in Berlin. Anxious to review your messages. sorry for the lack of correspondence these past few...
His Lethal Weapon: Mel’s Marriage Buyout
It’s amazing to me how much money men will pay for new nooky. In Mel Gibson’s case, it could be close to a record half a billion dollars to extricate himself from a long marriage to Robyn Gibson, one that spawned nearly countless numbers of kids. You gotta give her credit….Braveheart’s wife has kept a very low profile, apparently content to leave the spotlight to Mad Max Mel, who’s been a lightning rod...
Your Tzitzit is Tangled Up in my Seatbelt
That was a wild ride. I think it may have been the first time I’ve ever interacted with a Chasidic Jew. The poor guy was trapped in a middle seat next to me on a crowded cross-country flight on American Airlines. He was in his early 20s, a self-proclaimed computer geek with an expensive laptop. Said he was a cancer survivor. He was writing a book about it, and wanted my advice on how to overcome writer’s block. (“Go...
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