Golden Celebrity

Right about now, as you confront the very real possibility that your city will either be consumed by raging wildfires or an Apocalypse-beckoning strike, we’re betting that you could use some uplifting news to distract you from those hard-to-shake feelings of dread. And so we direct you to the LAT’s tale of how former Warner [...]

Today’s most popular headlines are Anna Nicole Smith Clown Video Director’s Cut More Disturbing Than We Ever Imagined (10,924 views today), Hugh Jackman’s Wife Claims Responsibility For ‘Viva Laughlin’ Bombing (2,117) and WGA Gives Up Reality TV For Now, Studios To Explore Nonunion Staffing Options (1,929).

Just a few minutes ago, WGA West president Fightin’ Patric Verrone sent out an e-mail blast in response to today’s Variety story about the Guild’s alleged plan to give up on its reality organizing efforts, ripping the publication for splashing “baseless assertions” and “opinions” about their strategy all over its front page, and reassuring the [...]

Look, it’s not a gay wizard, but it’s the best we could come up with on such short notice: A very special “Gays Around the World”-themed episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show featured as its guest of honor Prince Manvendra Singh Gohil of Rajpipla, the famed Indian prince disowned by his family after outing himself [...]

· Music round-up: Earlimart at the Troubadour; Mum at the Orpheum; Sia at the El Rey
· The NuArt screens Control, the film about Joy Division’s Ian Curtis that everyone seems to be going so nuts over.
· Mortified comes to King King, a showcase where adults relieve the pain of their awkward childhoods by cracking open [...]