Category Archives: Celebrities

The lovely Miss Eileen

I sat next to a charming and elegant woman last night at the performance of the Harvard Sailing Team. Her name was Eileen. She was elderly and finely dressed and evidently happy to see a critic sitting next to her scribbling in a notebook.
She told me about her time touring with Disney and acting in […]

Wearing your creepiness on your sleeve

Crispin Glover. You gotta love a guy who’s made a career out of playing creepy fellas. I loved him as Andy Warhol in The Doors. I loved him as McFly in Back to the Future. I even liked his flasher-in-a-drench-coat kind of bad-guy in Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle. But with all those characters, he had […]

Furry News

The John Ancrum SPCA’s Furry Affair art auction won’t be held until Friday night at 6 p.m. But the art’s on display right now at the City Gallery at Waterfront Park, and the organization is taking bids.
Here’s a chance to see the lots without having to worry about having to negotiate crowds of patrons, autograph hunters chasing […]

Celebrity the way it used to be

American opera legend Beverly Sills died last week at 78. Readers of a certain age don’t have the slightest clue who she is, of course — they’re fixated on the modern variety of celebrity, the Parises and Anna Nicoles who are famous for nothing more than being attractive, completely talentless, and very, very wealthy. But […]

Mika Brzezinski bitch-slaps Paris

Sick to death of the way the mainstream media is reporting on Paris as if there were no other earthshaking tragedies occurring in the world? So is MSNBC anchor Mika Brzezinski, apparently. This is priceless.

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