Golden Celebrity

· Yo! Oscar! Over here! It’s the 80th Annual Academy Awards Sunday evening, and good things invariably come in extremely round numbers. As is our custom, we’ll be liveblogging the entire, bloated affair. Live! (Did we mention that already?) It promises to be four-plus hours of wildly inebriated fun. Be there: 5 p.m. Pacific. And [...]

· This week’s Dirt Sandwich is comprised of tragic tales of depression/cancer/diabetes/AIDS, tiger attacks and missing family members. And, as usual, they were handled with the grace and aplomb we have come to expect from paragons of journalistic integrity like Mark McGrath and Donny Osmond.
· Coked-Up Viral Promotion Theater Presents: Vikki & Kenickie in: THE [...]

Kevin O’Connell, the Susan Lucci of the sound-mixing set, is nominated for an Oscar yet again, this time for his work on Transformers. That makes 20 nominations, 0 wins. (7 more and Katherine Heigl plays him in the movie of his life! Rimshot.) Little Gold Men caught up with O’Connell, but judiciously failed to bring [...]

FRIDAY
· The Liars at the El Rey, Built to Spill and the Meat Puppets at the Echoplex (first of 2 nights!), Marilyn Manson at the Wiltern (first of 2 nights!) and Kimya Dawson at Amoeba. There’s also a nice triple bill at the Troubadour tonight, featuring The Lovemakers, Something For Rockets and Astra Heights.
· And [...]

In case any of you ugly ducklings out there stare at the impossibly adorable and feisty Elisabeth Hasselbeck, The View panel’s hawkish contributor, and see in her an unattainably shrill ideal, fear not. She too was once a gawky pre-adolescent, smiling past the sadness through a wall of orthodontic appliances and tragically outmoded frames purchased [...]