Must See Diversity
So, we’ve come a long way with a woman and a black man battling it out to be the Democratic candidate for presidency. An historic campaign, everyone agrees. Score a couple points for diversity. In the entertainment industry, not so much. Every year, a San Diego State professor does a thorough report on women in below the line positions in TV and film, and although the numbers fluctuate (and this was a banner year for women...
818 Stigma: Like, It’s So Over!
A shout-out to all you Vals….number redemption is at hand! New numbers over the hill will get the kinda cool sounding 747 area code. I’m like…..dude, wasn’t that a plane? But really, being something of an area code freak–yes, I’ve even written an op-ed about it, when the 310 went to 10-digit dialing because of the 424 overlay. And I’m still not happy about it. But back to the...
Spitzer Gets Off
We all know–with probably more sordid details yet to come–how the “Luv Gov” got off on importing that skanky Girls Gone Wild chick Ashley (or whatever her name was) for some unprotected sex in a Washington hotel room before he made his way to Capitol Hill for some boring hearing. It’s still amazing that in this day and age of cell phone video cameras and clerks cashing in stories they sell to the...
Off the Record: A Monster
She was eclipsed by another woman’s firing shortly thereafter in a tit for tat campaign-to- campaign catfight between Hill and Barry, as Chicago insiders tell me he used to call himself. But what’s really disturbing about Samantha Power being “ousted” from her non-paying gig as a foreign policy advisor to Obama is the fact that no questioned the Scottish reporter who published Power’s OFF THE RECORD...
Step Up 2….The Steps
I’ve been out of town for awhile–a post-Oscar getaway (more on that soon)–and it’s so nice to get back to the steps. The steps are one of my absolute favorite things about LA, even when I run into unfriendly, rather arrogant celebrities there like Owen Wilson and John Mayer. Owen used to come a lot before his reported suicide attempt, and he’s looking good, poor guy. Not a nice vibe, though. No one there...