My all-time favorite member of the Jackson tribe, La Toya (pictured) (Rebbie is a close second), has made a very specific demand to the producers of the reality show “Celebrity Big Brother“: she can’t be filmed when she isn’t wearing make-up. In Britain, this is being seen as an outrageous demand. Me, I just call it a lady being a lady.
Being a big fan of the miniature, I couldn’t help but be seduced by this tiny new art gallery in Britain, supported by Portishead’s Geoff Barrow (pictured, left, with collector Tom Friend). Musicians (Stephen O’Malley of rock band Sunn O is one of them) provide the art.
“Damages,” the television legal series starring American acting’s uber-bitch Glenn Close (pictured), returns this week. So far, the reviews are not so nice. But there’s a new character I’m looking forward to. Says Variety: ‘As Daniel Purcell, William Hurt — reuniting with Close for the first time in the 25 years since “The Big Chill” — has information “that can take down an industry” and is being stalked for his ultra-sensitive material.’ Meanwhile, here’s Hurt spouting off to the New York Times.
John Travolta has finally spoken about his son, Jett, 16, who died suddenly on Friday. He called him “the most wonderful son that two parents could ever ask for.”
A closed industry reading of the new musical ‘Finding Neverland,” based on the romantic tear-jerker film about James M. Barrie’s attachment to four young boys whose mother is ill, was held last month in New York. Katie Holmes (pictured), whose participation in a just-closed run of “All My Sons” on Broadway helped make that production a hit, did the “Neverland” reading. Read more »
It’s nice to know that Michael Jackson (pictured) loves literacy, but when I look at this photo of him browsing in a bookstore this week all I can think is: Do his sunglasses have a reading prescription in them? Sorry there’s writing on the pic, but I took it from the popular Perez Hilton site, and he loves to deface images.
Wasn’t me! I certainly didn’t submit myself to experiencing all 42 of them in one gulp. In honor of the 250th anniversary of Handel’s death, a writer named Emma Pomfret did. Her report: “I’ve seen three Handel operas on stage - ‘Agrippina,’ ‘Giulio Cesare,’ and ‘Xerxes’ - so I knew that he wrote for funny-sounding, high-voiced men (the 18th-century castrati singers or today’s countertenors. If Alan Carr sang opera he’d sound like this, Read more »
