Subject:

Barbara Payton

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    March 10, 2011

    The Five Best Celebrity Memoirs

    ​ I've read every celebrity memoir ever written (except for Keith Richards') because I love the inside dish, the self-aggrandizment, the bitterness, and the gloating, not to mention the peek into what makes these artists actually tick as people and performers. Of course some are more compell ... More >>

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    March 2, 2011

    I Just Figured Out Why I'm Alone!

    ​ I was re-reading I Am Not Ashamed, the memoir of unhappy 1950s screen starlet Barbara Payton, and the diagnosis Payton's shrink gave her rang so many bells I practically went deaf. As the therapist told Payton at the peak of her stardom:

  • Blogs

    February 28, 2011

    Lindsay Lohan, I Have a Part For You

    Benn Jaye​ You can even shoot it in prison, since some of the scenes will be set there! I want you to play 1950s starlet Barbara Payton, who unglamorously spiraled from fame to tawdriness, though at least she got a brilliantly frank memoir called I Am Not Ashamed out of it.

  • Blogs

    March 25, 2010

    The Gayest Apartment in History!

    ​I don't know whose place this is--certainly not David Gest's--but I do know that there's not one thing that could make it gayer, except maybe some zebra-print throw fabric and a copy of Barbara Payton's memoirs, I Am Not Ashamed. Look at your own risk.

  • News

    March 4, 2008

    MICHAEL MUSTO as LINDSAY LOHAN as MARILYN MONROE in 'The ultimate re-vamping'

    ​I don't know whose place this is--certainly not David Gest's--but I do know that there's not one thing that could make it gayer, except maybe some zebra-print throw fabric and a copy of Barbara Payton's memoirs, I Am Not Ashamed. Look at your own risk.

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