A colleague at 1039FM loaned me this book by Gerald Posner. It’s a few years old now, a tremendously entertaining read and it busts open the doors to one of music’s most celebrated labels and hit-making houses. …
Motown: Music, Money, Sex and Power Read More »
Ellen Degeneres is the new fourth judge on American Idol. When I first read about it, I thought it was an April Fool’s joke played either very late or very early. …
Charles Gibson is stepping down as evening anchor at ABC News and Diane Sawyer is replacing him. …
Please go away! Please stop posing for cameras and accepting every invitation to every see-and-be-seen D list party. I’m really sick of seeing your goofy grin and cheap hair plugs sullying websites I otherwise enjoy. …
Dear Jon Gosselin Read More »
From what I can recall, three people stood up for Michael Jackson when he was going through his child molestation trial. …
The Fragility of Life and the Weakness of People Read More »
Quite some time ago I realised that being a cynic wasn’t serving me well. …
Uselessness Cynicism Read More »
I shouldn’t be shocked by how many people claim to know better than the court system when it comes to Michael Jackson. Sure, justice fails and has its flaws but lay-peoples’ blanket statements about how, when and why it works are just as bad. …
Innocent Unless Proven Otherwise Read More »
It didn’t take long for the conspiracy theorists to pop up all over the Internet and proclaim Michael Jackson’s death a hoax. …
Those of us with a sense of the macabre developed as a shield to survive the cold environs of a radio newsroom wondered yesterday, who would be next? …
They Go in Threes Read More »
American Idol runner-up Adam Lambert is planning a fall debut album. But a company he did some earlier pre-Idol recording for, now says it will release those songs as Lambert’s first album in the summer and Adam is freaking out, to put it mildly. It’s the same as if a sleazy photographer came forward with cheap-o nude shots of a Hollywood starlet just before her tastefully done photo layout in Vanity Fair hits newsstands. It happens.
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The Eve of the Era of Adam Read More »
I’ve never understood how anyone could want to destroy someone they were once married to. By the same token, I’ve never really understood how they can stay close friends, either, but that’s a blog for another day.
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Most former child stars who reveal the sordid details of their personal lives don’t grab my interest. Exceptions have been Danny Bonaduce (Danny Partridge) and Maureen McCormick (Marsha, Marsha, Marsha!). But I had loved, lived and breathed both The Partridge Family and The Brady Bunch in their days. (Don’t judge me! I was a kid and as we all know, kids have no taste!) And now toss on the pile Little House on the Prairie’s Melissa Gilbert (Laura Ingalls Wilder) who has written a new book called Prairie Tale. …
Half-Pint Tells All Read More »
So American Idol runner-up Adam Lambert is on the cover of Rolling Stone to finally announce to the world that he’s gay. I have one response. …
By now you know that David Carradine has died and the speculation about how it happened. …
This Week In Celebrity Creepiness Read More »
The California Supreme Court upheld a ban on gay marriage. …
Things That Don’t Make Sense To Me Read More »
I don’t think Jay Leno is the funniest comedian ever but he is a survivor and now a legend who took over the reins of The Tonight Show from Johnny Carson 17 years ago today and that in itself earns him a measure of respect. …
Be Me Ever So Humble Read More »
After watching Celebrity Apprentice all season, my first ever, we pretty much had to see the entire THREE HOUR finale. …
Starting Monday With A “Meh”! Read More »
Filmmaker Ed Burns and supermodel Christy Turlington never became Edsty or Chrisward or, in short, the kind of star-powered couple that the tabloids feed on. …
Celebrity Voices for a Worthy Cause Read More »