Golden Celebrity

· Ssssssh, everybody! Those unsuspecting YouTubers have no idea that Oprah has stashed away Patrick Swayze backstage, who’s ready to give the wife the Dirty Dancing thrill of a lifetime! (”You get a fading star, and you get a fading star, and you get a fading star!” etc etc.)
· When he’s not busying preparing for [...]

If you’ve filled out all the required paperwork, enclosed a stack of Polaroids featuring your naked self in a variety of seductive poses, and still not heard back from Heidi Fleiss’s Stud Farm, don’t fret–you still may be in the running towards becoming Nevada’s next top male prostitute. The man-wrangling madame’s business plan is simply [...]

A tip of the creepy top hat to photographer Matthew Rolston and his Ebony magazine covershoot team, who managed to give the ghoulishly pale Michael Jackson we know and fear the rich, healthy glow of a French aristocrat’s wife rejuvenated from a weekend shopping excursion to St. Tropez. It’s a transformation that rivals Sunset Tan’s [...]

The WGA Strike: pitting writer vs. studio, picketer vs. picketed, and roomie vs. roomie: “Dear Roommate,
I don’t give a f*ck if you’re on strike or not, you’re not bringing your “movement” into our apartment. Start cleaning this place up!! You should have plenty of time now.” [My Roomate is Such a Dick]

· Music round-up: Architecture in Helsinki at the Troubadour; Jay Z at House of Blues; Stars of Track & Field at the Roxy; Parts & Labor at Spaceland.
· FOUND Magazine’s Davy Rothbart and filmmaker Jessica Sanders join in conversation at the Hammer Museum.
· Dodger legend and pasta sauce magnate Tommy Lasorda will sign new book [...]