• Please, Sir, No More Jackson Baby-Daddies!

    Step right up gossip-lovers, here comes the latest in the I’m-the-Real-Dad Michael Jackson saga!   This time it’s Mark Lester (who?) claiming paternity.   If all those scumbags claiming paternity were truth-telling, those kids would have more bio-dads than Octomom’s little money-makers.   The former child-star of filmdom’s “Oliver” is the latest to try and…

  • But What About Those Children?

    The King is dead … who cares?   Of course, everyone with a heart and compassion cares. The music industry, the film industry, his stalwart fan-base and the reality-challenged souls who believe MJ was an innocent, troubled genius. Stuck in his time-warp of a man/child’s recreation of a childhood never experienced, he could never escape…

  • Do We Need Another ‘Judy’ Redux?

    Every generation needs its own Judy Garland drama, and maybe that’s not such a smack-yourself-in-the-head idea. One of our first real-live celebrity train-wrecks to break our hearts, Judy had talent, beauty and a rare intelligence that couldn’t save her from herself. Not many celebutainers can claim those traits. Judy Garland lived for the undying love…

  • Forever Sally Bowles

    It was another night of recycling on Broadway, this time a 1998 preview performance of a Sam Mendes production of “Cabaret.” Into the footlights stepped Natasha Richardson as the wobbly Sally Bowles, straining to belt famous songs, her make-up smeary, her life a mess. That night, as the play wound to its devastating close, the…

  • Enchanted, I’m Sure

    What was last year’s TV Bachelor, the Brit hunk Matt Grant, doing at a meet-and-greet in Santa Fe last week? His latest proposal was on behalf of the state of New Mexico. Handsome Matt was helping to lure Hollywood producers hoping to create flicks without having to declare Chapter 11.   Alas, while 6-foot-5-inch Matt…

  • Long Live Liz Smith

    No one in the gossip world can touch the hem of Liz Smith’s pantsuit. It is a sad day indeed, when the Doyenne of All Things Gossip loses her column in a major New York tabloid. This is outrageous! Especially coming on the heels of a racially charged editorial cartoon that provoked King Rupert Murdoch…

  • From Tucson, Jonesing for L.A.

    Like the homeless guy peering over my shoulder at a sidewalk New York café, I’m now the outsider desperate to taste that Chinese Chicken Salad just out of reach….   After ditching New York City for the quiet, calm of Tucson’s desert life, I’m ready for my close-up. Or the Looney Bin.   In other…