Golden Celebrity

In an effort to document for posterity how some of the striking writers tasked with pacing the sidewalks outside of Hollywood’s temporarily stalled dream-fabricating factories spent this third, historic day of picketing, we dispatched Defamer videographer Molly McAleer to the Paramount lot, hoping that her bribes of tasty donuts (the beer we offered was less [...]

As a follow-up to this morning’s post about a scuffle at Madeo between reigning hunks of two widely differing showbiz arenas–George Clooney and Fabio–we pass along this photo evidence, obtained by TMZ. In the pictures, the famed Lake Como resident is clearly seen delivering a middle-fingered salute in the direction of the male model, as [...]

· Music round-up: The Hold Steady and Art Brut at the Henry Fonda; The Hives at Avalon; The Thrills at Spaceland.
· Slash–rock star, top hat model, author–returns to the Whiskey A Go-Go tonight to sign his memoir, an event put on by his new literary groupies at Book Soup.
· The Coen Brothers’ latest, No Country [...]

So maybe America’s Most Smartest Model isn’t the greatest reality show of all time. But it’s on TV, it requires no Guild writers, and at least it has a goal in life–finding the most smartest model or whatever–so we think it deserves the occasional scrutiny of our ever-diminishing attention span, now hovering somewhere between that [...]

Open a month if that, Thai Town’s Auto Insurance (Hollywood at Western) is experiencing the same branding challenge faced former tenant Thai Town Express; namely, how to explain the gigantic, archaic, filthy hot dog parked on the roof’s apex. In an unfortunate but altogether unsurprising move, Thai Town Express in turn left its own [...]