2000-2009: tattoos, slackers & baseball caps,still; The Sopranos; Dot-com Crash; Carrie & Mr. Big; Fla. recount; “Dub-Yuh”; 9/11!; bin Ladin/ al Qaeda; Patriotism/ Freedom Fries; Rummy,Condi; Taliban; Afghan war; Anthrax; Harry Potter; Guantanamo; DC sniper; file-sharing; Phil Spector murder; American Idol; Iraq war!; “Mission Accomplished”; ugh, Uggs;Paris Hilton; BlackBerry; sex tapes; Credit-Default swaps; real-estate boom; Trucker hats; Russian oligarchs; Ashton & Demi; Abu Ghraib; Bush redux,oh,no!! Global Warming; Brangelina; Ipod; MySpace; Blackwater; Google IPO; bull market; very expensive handbags; celebretards; steroids; more sex tapes; more Bush; more materialism; more billionaires; no panties; Katrina; Britney breakdown; Tsunami; bubbles; Iphone; more designer handbags; Anna Nicole death; Housewives; Internet tsunami:TV online; Facebook; black tights; exhibitionism & vulgarity as entertainment; foreclosures; Crash; New Depression; frozen banks; Madoff; sexy vampires; bail-outs; Barack Obama; Jon & Kate; Twitter; Lady GaGa; more reality; Michael Jackson: RIP; frothy markets; dreamy vampires; Tiger & the bimbos; healthcare reform; attempt to bring down Northwest flight; tattoos, slackers & baseball caps, Uggs, still…..& there are a few days left!
What about Suri Cruise’s high heels? Does Scientology approve this footgear for 3-year-olds? And I am taken aback by Bob Dylan’s appearance, in a pewter pageboy wig and Santa hat, on his new Christmas album, and by the entire undertaking!
to devour. I think you will enjoy David Kamp’s delicious “Twilight”-inspired teen saga .
& congratulations to Project Runway winner Irina Shabayeva. Her all-black collection is everything I love!
It is a challenge,” Major Nadil Malik Hasan told a woman who lived in his apt. building the night he announced he was “going away.” Dr. Val Finnell, who attended school w/ Hasan, has spoken out about how the psychiatrist’s extreme Muslim views permeated his outlook years ago. Reports have now surfaced that this deeply conflicted man not only prayed 5-times-a-day, but apparently also made visits to the local strip club. This terrible massacre is yet another scandal for the military brass. The warning signs were there–but Hasan filled a slot, as a desperately needed health care professional dealing with the ravaged minds of soldiers that had been deployed in war-zones 3, 4 & even 5-times. I wonder what he told his patients. They’re Army–and will not speak out.
Looked at the Enquirer cover w/ the wealthy twin icon story. It says she needs to protect her fortune from “struggling” artist boyfriend. I’m sure she’s aware he’s an oil business heir. On the other side of the family, grandpa is Buddhist scholar Robert Thurman, making Uma his step-aunt.
She is not a well known name, but in the late 90s this brilliant high-octane attorney & women rights advocate was the head of a small govt. agency that oversaw the derivatives market. Brooksley Born soon learned what she was supposed to oversee was an extraordinary, newly deregulated “dark market,” as inscrutable & protected as an organized crime cartel! Hidden like landmines, gambling in derivatives eventually ballooned internationally to an incomprehensible figure of $529 TRILLION!!! Do I need to say that number again??? They are now haggling in DC over less than a trillion, in a 10-yr period, to fix the entire health care system!!! & I naively wondered, before the crash, how their were suddenly thousands of billionaires.
Like James Brown, but for different reasons, Ms. Born began waking up in a “in a cold sweat.” Testifying before four gov’t committees, she warned the pols & Big Boys (Alan Greenspan, Robert Rubin, Larry Summers, underling Tim Geithner; titans of the the Street & their partners in crime: lobbyists & Beltway pals) that the situation was beyond dire & could bring down the entire global financial system. This was eleven years ago. You will see it all on this extraordinary show from PBS’s Frontline: THE WARNING. PLS WATCH…THIS IS CRITICAL since Obama has yet to reinstitute the regulations that were put into effect during the early days FDR’s presidency, more than 75 years ago. Designed to prevent this type of endgame, the laws worked! Experts say it can happen again, if action isn’t taken!!!
have lived in LA. Meeting in acting class, of course, the “aliens” left Tinseltown as deadbeats. None of this surprises me, I just feel sorry for the kids.
What does surprise me is that Heene père has such low aspirations…Wife Swap, Jon & Kate go rogue w/ extreme weather?? With that overinflated ego, I think he would be pitching prestige–something like Mad Men. Maybe he could show his acting chops as a rival advertising genius giving Don Draper competition? Or what about trying to snatch David Duchovy’s wife on Californication? (JL said he wishes he thought of that title.)
Unfortunately, the stunts Richard Heene has come up with seem clearly like child abuse; therefore it’s Law & Order: Special Victims Unit for this scenario. Child services, pls!
when least expected, they say.
Last May, I dipped my toe back into the market. I’m not complaining, but I have never experienced such froth: tasty dividends & incredible gains. My Apple & Goldman shares alone are up $50+! But I remain bearish. How could one not?
The skeletal remains of a 4′-tall, 110 lb. female hominid that walked erect 4.4-million yrs. ago, have been unearthed in Ethiopia. The oldest creature thought to be an ancestor of man, she beats out the previous title-holder, “Lucy”, by a million years.
Has Sarah Palin commented on this remarkable find?
Accused in 1977 of sexually assaulting an underage girl–a Tinseltown hopeful, the adolescent was handed over to the Polanski by her mother, then taken to Jack Nicholson’s house for a photo shoot, that culminated in sexual assault. The Academy-award winning director fled LA just before sentencing, & has been exiled in Paris all these years.
This new terrorist plot demonstrates the strengths and weaknesses of our Constitution. The alleged wannabe evil-doers (how’s that for retro Bush-isms) were living in this country–working the system! The central figure of interest, 24-yr old Afghani Najibullah Zazi, has been here for 10 years & is a legal resident. Employed in a strategic location— airline shuttle driver–Zazi had among his effects: too many backpacks & too much peroxide; bomb recipes; & a food cart licensed to work the Wall St. area!!! A deadbeat, Zazi racked up more than $50K in credit card debt in a very short time, then declared bankruptcy. DID THE BANKS finance his trip to Pakistan to train at a terrorist camp? LOOKS LIKE IT!
There may have been a lot of talk about Kanye West yesterday, but I saw a clip from Oprah that was a stunner. It was Whitney Houston’s revelation that her descent into hell was caused by her addiction to Bobby Brown, whom she called the “Best Sex In The World!!!” & I thought Tommy Lee held that title!!!
In a restaurant recently, I was seated, at separate tables, across from BB. No pretty sight, he was w/ a woman & was definitely into large servings of PDA & “charm,” topped off w/ plenty of smarmy baby, baby, babies. BLAHH!!! & yes, there was a baby at the table!
Lindsay Lohan is now the creative director of Ungaro!!?? I thought the only time she made fashion news was when she left home w/out her panties. Just what audience is she supposed to attract?
Euro-auto heirs are now going mano-a-mano in the fashion arena. In one corner, w/ ITALIA INDEPENDENT, is Lapo Elkann, the allegedly kinky, great-looking Fiat kid. The challenger is big & tall, soft-bodied Simca scion, Jean Pigozzi. Not only is Pigozzi occupied “saving the world”—from his yacht, villa in Cap D’Antibes, Manhattan apt., & mansion overlooking the Bois de Boulogne –w/ Liquid Jungle Lab– he’s now at work marketing LIMOLAND, a men’s clothing line.
BTW: Since I never Tivo, I’m watching The Real Housewives of Atlanta, not Project Runway, on Thursday nights. & likey Full Front Fashion on the Sundance Channel..
have lived in LA. 
