Email Author Michael Musto

Awards

• 2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published June 22, 2010

  "Kicked in the Groin at Every Glittery Turn"

• 2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published August 18, 2010

  "Where's My Book?"

• 2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published December 29, 2010

  "Year in Review"

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2003 Stories by Michael Musto

• NY Mirror

  published December 30, 2003

  I've run out of cow-spine fritters, so let's just crack open some blind items and make a guilty feast of it, shall we? Normally, every single such... More >>

• New York Films

  published December 30, 2003

  In Hollywood's eyes, New York is generally either a glistening paradise of glamour and romance or a backstabby cesspool of depravity and lies.... More >>

• NY Mirror

  published December 30, 2003

  Rather than fight the happy hordes who'll surely be chirping "Happy New Year!" for the next three to six weeks, I've decided to abandon all... More >>

• NY Mirror

  published December 23, 2003

  Unlike a great celebrity or an internationally renowned event, my annual Felix Awards do need an introduction, but rather than waste time... More >>

• NY Mirror

  published December 16, 2003

  Down under diva Toni Collette, exuding her usual Aussie moxie and some new Uma-ized hair, swept in for a Blue Fin lunch promoting... More >>

• NY Mirror

  published December 9, 2003

  At first, I resisted the machinations of In America—Jim Sheridan's remembrance of moving his shattered Irish family to scary... More >>

• Those Lips, Those Lies

  published November 25, 2003

  Rude comments about the state of Michael Jackson's face don't exactly raise the level of discourse, but come on, when that mug shot hit the news,... More >>

• NY Mirror

  published November 25, 2003

  The call came inviting me to a Plaza Hotel tea party hosted by Dame Julie Andrews to promote the TV movie Eloise at Christmastime,... More >>

• NY Mirror

  published November 18, 2003

  I know what your refined palates are craving: more fucking items about Queer Eye for the Straight Guy! You haven't heard about the show in... More >>

• NY Mirror

  published November 11, 2003

  Swiss Miss Susanne Bartsch really turned it out for her effusive Halloween bash at the Maritime Hotel, which climaxed in a topless costume... More >>

• NY Mirror

  published November 4, 2003

  The world is finally starting to catch up with manic funnyman Mario Cantone, and it was worth the gay wait. Kooky Cantone will be in the... More >>

• NY Mirror

  published October 28, 2003

  Stephen Glass—the motherfucking scumbag journalist who made up stories for The New Republic—doesn't deserve such a solid... More >>

• NY Mirror

  published October 21, 2003

  First it was kids killing each other, then it was yanks patronizing Japanese culture, and now the hot movie trend is biopics of writers, whether... More >>

• NY Mirror

  published October 14, 2003

  Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill: Vol. 1 is a virtuoso wow, a disjointed but enticing collection of set pieces, a female-superhero... More >>

• NY Mirror

  published October 7, 2003

  I usually hate feel-good movies—they're so formulaic and manipulative that they make me feel awful—but School of Rock is... More >>

• NY Mirror

  published September 30, 2003

  So how're you doing, Parker Posey, you appealing kook of ages? "I'm a dork," she cracked to me at B Bar with her usual soignée... More >>

• NY Mirror

  published September 23, 2003

  With staggering predictability, I went to the first party at Avalon, which last year was the disastrous Estate and before that was the scandalous,... More >>

• NY Mirror

  published September 16, 2003

  Last year, the big indie movie trend, for whatever reason, was Douglas Sirk homages, and a couple of seconds ago, it was kids mutilating... More >>

• NY Mirror

  published September 9, 2003

  This column will detail some bests and worsts in popular entertainment, and in fact, let's start by saying it's already the best column of its... More >>

• NY Mirror

  published September 2, 2003

  Wigstock, which had gotten too big for its pantyhose, just went back to its dark roots as a two-hour Mini-Me version in Tompkins Square Park,... More >>

• NY Mirror

  published August 19, 2003

  Bruce Willis was singing the blues last week, and not because his ex is screwing Ashton Kutcher—he just likes to sing the... More >>

• Der Vild, Vild Vest!

  published August 12, 2003

  Turning on late-night talk TV these days has become an explosive experiment in fright. Flicking the channels, I'm terrified I'll catch Ashton... More >>

• NY Mirror

  published August 12, 2003

  Le Divorce is le movie with Kate Hudson (who's thankfully dropped le giggles and gotten more contemplative) and le red Hermès... More >>

• NY Mirror

  published August 5, 2003

  The only effective way to flush clichés out of our language is to use them all up at once in a cathartic colonic of bad verbiage and then... More >>

• NY Mirror

  published July 29, 2003

  In the ultra-likable Camp, the romantic stuff may be a bit too Dawson's Creeky—for once, I wanted fewer freckle-faced mating... More >>