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    March 19, 2012

    The Most Habit Forming Nuns In Screen History

    I won't be reading the comments on this one because I don't want to see all the cries of "You forgot about..." I forgot nothing. I know everything. These are my faves. Deal with it or go to hell.

  • Blogs

    January 18, 2012

    Who Dubbed Which Stars' Voices In Movie Musicals?

    Ever watch a star belt out a song in a movie musical and think, "Wow! I didn't know they could sing!"? Well, they couldn't! So many times, a perfectly nice-looking performer with lovely sounds emanating from their mouth is faking it like a drag queen doing Britney -- or even like Britney herself.

  • Blogs

    June 2, 2011

    You Could Help Bring the Marilyn Monroe Dress Back to NYC

    As we've reported previously, ​the white halter dress worn by Marilyn Monroe in The Seven Year Itch -- you know, the one in that iconic subway grate scene -- will soon be up for sale by an L.A. auction house. The dress, currently owned by Debbie Reynolds, is worth an estimated $1 to $2 million ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 29, 2011

    Buy Marilyn Monroe's "Subway Dress" For Only $2 Million

    ​Marilyn Monroe's iconic white dress from The Seven Year Itch is on sale for the low, low price of $2 million. It's the halter dress she wears while standing over the subway grate, trying to keep the skirt down. Actress Debbie Reynolds, 79, who is Carrie Fisher's mother, is also a movie memorabili ... More >>

  • Film

    May 18, 2011

    The Queen Is Dead: Long Live Liz Taylor

    ​Marilyn Monroe's iconic white dress from The Seven Year Itch is on sale for the low, low price of $2 million. It's the halter dress she wears while standing over the subway grate, trying to keep the skirt down. Actress Debbie Reynolds, 79, who is Carrie Fisher's mother, is also a movie memorabili ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 21, 2011

    New York Parties Are So Over

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. March 22, 1973, Vol. XVIII, No. 12 Wake up! The party's not over by Blair Sobol Perhaps Norman Mailer started it all. The latest craze is giving extravagantly dull parties. The bigger and more boring the better. Nowadays the success of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 23, 2011

    Elizabeth Taylor, RIP (Photos Inside)

    ​I thought it would never happen. I wrote several times that if it did happen, it would mean the end to old-time Hollywood glamour as we know it. Elizabeth Taylor has died at 79. A great movie star and a fabulous personality, Liz had radioactive charisma centered by those violet eyes which, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 1, 2010

    I Hobnobbed With Patty Duke, Fred Williamson, Theresa Russell...

    ​And Lesley Ann Warren, Patrick Duffy, Barbara Eden, Sandahl Bergman, Nancy Allen, and tons more. It was the Chiller Theater expo in Parsippany, New Jersey, where pals Mickey Boardman and Angelo Pitillo and I giddily trekked to hang with the culty and classic stars in a Jersey Hilton.

  • Blogs

    October 29, 2010

    News About Streisand, Debbie Reynolds, and Holly Woodlawn

    ​ A letter just came in from my writer friend Gary LeGault way out in LA LA Land: "Dear Michael: "I wanted to provide you with an update on the script I wrote for the Brolins, which you were so kind to have mentioned in your blog. Barbra never formally acknowledged my manuscript, but in the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 24, 2010

    R.I.P., Eddie Fisher

    ​In the 1950s, Eddie Fisher made himself a walking punchline for the rest of his life by dumping America's sweetheart, Debbie Reynolds, in favor of the vamp next door, Elizabeth Taylor, as any sensible person would do. He was basically the original Brad Pitt. Li'l Debbie was furious, but yea ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 13, 2010
  • Columns

    May 25, 2010

    Large Erection Headed Toward Angelina Jolie

    I do a full Gaynor! . . . over Mitzi and over Reichen Lehmkuhl; Friars toast David Dinkins

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2010

    Debbie Reynolds Coming Back To Broadway?

    ​Yes, kids, Princess Leia's mother, Debbie Reynolds, is considering an offer to replace Angela Lansbury as Madame Armfeldt in the Broadway revival of A Little Night Music. Can the peppy, old-time movie star (and the original Jennifer Aniston, victim-wise) give good wheelchair action? Can she ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    September 15, 2009

    FISHER'S WISH

    A toast to sobriety

  • Blogs

    August 19, 2009

    Who's Still Alive?

    ​In the midst of one of the dying-est years in celebrity history, I feel it's imperative to cherish the old-time stars who are still with us and make sure (via prayers, voodoo, or interventions) that they never transition to the other side. But who are they? Who's left?

  • Columns

    June 10, 2009

    The Low Point in the David Carradine Coverage

    Fighting off the recession with priceless gems. Plus, a few Debbie taunts.

  • Blogs

    June 10, 2009

    The Original Jennifer Aniston!

    That desperate headline was the only way I could draw your attention to my column (CLICK HERE) reviewing Debbie Reynolds, who was Hollywood's original girl-next-door-who's-man-left-her-for-a-vamp, way back in the '50s. Anyway, Debbie debuted at the Cafe Carlysle last week with a fun act of singing, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 15, 2009

    Uptown Diarist David Patrick Columbia Speaks About Social Faux Pas

    City Harvest is a wonderful organization that feeds people--including me at a benefit luncheon the other day, where they honored social scribe David Patrick Columbia, who's sort of the uptown version of me, but way nicer. David is the editor of Quest magazine and the author of newyorksocialdiary.co ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 26, 2008

    Clip Job: Roy Cohn, Boxing Promoter

    City Harvest is a wonderful organization that feeds people--including me at a benefit luncheon the other day, where they honored social scribe David Patrick Columbia, who's sort of the uptown version of me, but way nicer. David is the editor of Quest magazine and the author of newyorksocialdiary.co ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 19, 2008

    MP3 Debut: Steinski, "What Was Raymond Doing With His Hands? (A Soundtrack for a Real Swinger of a Nightmare)"

    City Harvest is a wonderful organization that feeds people--including me at a benefit luncheon the other day, where they honored social scribe David Patrick Columbia, who's sort of the uptown version of me, but way nicer. David is the editor of Quest magazine and the author of newyorksocialdiary.co ... More >>

  • Columns

    February 27, 2007

    Strange Bedfellows

    Accosted by fat guys, disgusted by Ann Coulter—all side effects of fabulousness

  • Film

    August 30, 2005

    Poe Relations: Avant-Garde Veteran Revisits His Haunted Past

    Accosted by fat guys, disgusted by Ann Coulter—all side effects of fabulousness

  • Screens

    August 9, 2005

    Rack Focus

    Accosted by fat guys, disgusted by Ann Coulter—all side effects of fabulousness

  • Columns

    April 6, 2004

    NY Mirror

    Accosted by fat guys, disgusted by Ann Coulter—all side effects of fabulousness

  • Film

    April 6, 2004

    Nia Vardalos drags Some Like It Hot into the recycling bin

    Accosted by fat guys, disgusted by Ann Coulter—all side effects of fabulousness

  • Film

    November 12, 2002

    High-Water Mark

    Accosted by fat guys, disgusted by Ann Coulter—all side effects of fabulousness

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