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May 18, 2012
Joan Rivers' Outrageous Joke About Whitney Houston
Of all the incendiary things in Joan Rivers' new book, I Hate Everyone...Starting With Me, probably the most scorching, outlandish, macabre, tasteless, sick, twisted, and funny one of all is the following wisecrack, in Joan's section about travel: "I hate Houston. It's crawling with bugs.
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January 25, 2012
Dishy Talk With Joan and Melissa Rivers!
For my newest column, my two favorite yentas -- Joan and Melissa Rivers -- engaged me in some scandalously good conversation. Among the esteemed topics: *Whether Joan is still smoking pot, as seen on their WE reality show
Columns
August 31, 2011
Fame Is Better Than Drugs And I Want To Mainline That Shit
My own schizoid ride between notoriety and nothingness.
Blogs
August 2, 2011
Your Favorite Female Comic Working Today?
Today's batch of femme joke hurlers are a smart and sassy gaggle of politically incorrect yet ultimately liberating beauties. Your fave from these choices? *Joan Rivers Hilarious, scathing, on target, and up to date, she makes me wet myself every time. *Wanda Sykes A sassy motor mouth a ... More >>
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May 27, 2011
If You Could Have Dinner With Any Five People In History...
Whether living or dead...who would they be? (And by the way, I'm available for any free meal.) My choices would start with pop culture visionary Andy Warhol (above), whom I did have dinner with, but I want to do so again and again.
Blogs
May 16, 2011
First Gay Bar in an Atlantic City Casino: I Was There!
It's on the 13th floor of Resorts' Ocean Tower, but here's hoping that won't be an unlucky roll of the dice. Resorts' LGBT marketing man Joel Ballesteros sent a bunch of us there this weekend for the gala opening, which started with a performance of the old-school drag revue "Believe--Divas ... More >>
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April 27, 2011
I Met The New Me!
Isn't he special? He's Nicholas Gumas, one of the LGBT scholarship winners honored at Live Out Loud, Monday night's benefit at the TimesCenter, which raised $250,000 for their programs and activities. Nicholas is whip-smart, gave a great speech, and is much better dressed than me. Well, he ... More >>
Voice Choices
April 13, 2011
MUPPET AROUND TOWN
Drive-in fun, no car needed
Blogs
April 12, 2011
Donald Trump Buys a Winery; Potential 'Drinking Gene' Isolated
A small winemaking cooperative in southern Bosnia and Herzegovina is working with six Croats and a Serb to revive ancient regional wine traditions -- and put the horrors of the Bosnian war to rest. [Reuters] Francis Ford Coppola has lured rockstar winemaker Phillipe Bascaules from Château M ... More >>
Blogs
January 19, 2011
Fox News Boots Joan Rivers For Sarah Palin Jokes
If you're Sarah Palin, supervillain extraordinaire, and you derive your power from media mentions -- more even, if they're negative -- then your strength is at an all-time high, what after stepping on the shoulders of Arizona's fallen to wave wildly about political victimhood. And that all do ... More >>
Columns
June 15, 2010
Joan Rivers's Gay Revelations
Also, remembering the Tonys, even the forgettable parts
Blogs
June 14, 2010
Adult Foodies Go to Farm Camp; Growing Dining Trend: 'Linner'
Egon Ronay, the Hungarian food critic who helped shape British culinary culture, has died at the age of 94. He had been ill for a number of weeks, but never fully retired. [Guardian] Parade Publications is planning to introduce a new food newspaper magazine and website called Dash, with the ... More >>
Blogs
June 14, 2010
Joan Rivers and I Storm NewFest
The other night, NewFest (the LGBT film festival) screened the very strong documentary Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work, after which I moderated a feisty Q&A onstage with Joan and filmmaker Ricki Stern. I'll tell you all about it in the column, but in the meantime, here are Scott Pasfield's ext ... More >>
Blogs
June 9, 2010
This Week, in the Voice: The Andrew Cuomo-Shelly Silver Donkey Show
How many Democrats does it take to make a donkey show? In this week's cover story, Village Voice columnist Wayne Barrett takes account of the opposition New York gubernatorial candidate Andrew Cuomo will actually have to face: Shelly Silver, and the rest of our state's old-school democrats.
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June 9, 2010
This Week's Voice: Summer Jam 2010, Christina Aguilera, Against Me!, Bret Easton Ellis, and More
Nicki Minaj, in one of many "invincible Street Fighter 2 character" outfits. Photo by Santiago FelipeIn this week's Village Voice, Rob Harvilla keeps a running diary of Summer Jam 2010, where the best highlight Hot 97 could muster was a set from DJ Khaled. What happened, New York? Elsewhere, ... More >>
Film
June 8, 2010
Joan Rivers, Can We Talk?
There's got to be more to this piece of work
Blogs
June 2, 2010
I Just Shot a Cameo in The Smurfs Movie
I'm gonna be in 3-D! Yep, I was one of the New York notables featured in a festive scene from the film debut of those lovable Smurfs that I watch on BOOM channel all the time.
Blogs
May 12, 2010
Who Should Host Saturday Night Live?
Thank God I finally joined Facebook! It's such a powerful tool that swarms of armchair producers there managed to get Betty White (face-) booked as last Saturday's SNL host. And she raked in the ratings! So who should you and your "friends" rally for next?
Blogs
April 21, 2010
This Week's Voice: R. Crumb on Genesis (The Band), Green Day's New Musical, Merle Haggard, The Tribeca Film Festival, Le Cage aux Folles, And More
Lots of great stuff in this week's Village Voice, though it all kinda pales in comparison to the incomparable Ward Sutton, who imagines R. Crumb doing an illustrated history of Genesis -- that's Phil Collins' Genesis, not God's. Elsewhere in music, Harvilla checks out the tremendously profane ... More >>
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April 21, 2010
Anderson Cooper Vs. Dr. Death!
CLICK HERE to read my new column about the meeting between CNN dreamboat Anderson Cooper and Dr. Death Jack Kevorkian, which I was privy to in person. It was so exciting I wanted to kill myself afterwards because nothing could ever top it! On a lighter note, I also cover:
Film
April 20, 2010
5 Tribeca Film Festival Must-Sees
CLICK HERE to read my new column about the meeting between CNN dreamboat Anderson Cooper and Dr. Death Jack Kevorkian, which I was privy to in person. It was so exciting I wanted to kill myself afterwards because nothing could ever top it! On a lighter note, I also cover:
Columns
April 20, 2010
Anderson Cooper Vs. Dr. Death
Fun with assisted suicide. Plus: Puffy Combs on the craft of acting?
Blogs
April 19, 2010
Funny People Aren't Funny In Person!
Whenever I've interviewed brilliantly hilarious, world-famous comedians, it turns out they're rarely all that funny (with the exception of the endlessly mirthy Joan Rivers). I usually find that either: (1) They're dark, tortured people for whom merry-making is simply an act that they do whe ... More >>
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March 12, 2010
Another Reality Show For Joan Rivers
My best friend Joan Rivers not only just came off E!'s Fashion Police (dissecting the Oscar outfits in all their glory and ghastliness) and is hosting more of TV Land's How'd You Get So Rich? series, but now she's starting a reality show on the WE channel with her daughter Melissa. It's call ... More >>
Blogs
March 2, 2010
Joan Rivers's Date Drops Dead at Le Cirque
Eater has it that Joan Rivers made an appearance on the Howard Stern show in which the comedian revealed that, seven months ago, her elderly date dropped dead at Le Cirque. Tasteless but funny: Rivers noted that her salmon dish was totally ruined by the incident, and speculated that he had ke ... More >>
Blogs
February 2, 2010
See Melissa Rivers in Person
This Thursday February 4 at 7 PM, Melissa Rivers will appear at the Columbus Circle Borders to sign copies of her book Red Carpet Ready: Secrets For Making The Most of Any Moment You're in the Spotlight. And Melissa should know, seeing as she's worked both sides of the carpet. Besides, the ... More >>
Blogs
January 5, 2010
Joan Rivers Latest Victim of Tightened Airport Security
We're all a little jumpy after the crotch-bomber, so it was to be expected that one day a celebrity would find that all her wealth and fame couldn't get her past airport security. "I was 20 minutes late, big deal," Joan Rivers tells Good Day NY, describing her "ordeal" in Costa Rica, where ... More >>
Voice Choices
November 10, 2009
PEOPLES IS PEOPLES
Can you tell me how to get to Court Street?
Blogs
August 11, 2009
The Most Outrageous Lines From the Joan Rivers Roast
We've had a couple of days to recover from Comedy Central's roast of veteran funny lady Joan Rivers, and now that the wonderfully putrid air has cleared, we can look back and remember the choicest bits of appallingly hilarious indecorum (not all of them aimed at Rivers, by the way.) Among th ... More >>
Columns
August 11, 2009
President Rejects Gay Hustler!
Plus Abe Lincoln's logs and more than 15 minutes at Warhol's birthday party.
Blogs
August 11, 2009
This Week in the Voice
New Yorkers can do a lot of things other people can't: ride the Staten Island Ferry at midnight, have lunch in Central Park, etc. But we can't buy a damn bottle of wine at the grocery store. This year we had a chance to change it -- but the state's liquor stores and their lobbyists blocked it ... More >>
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August 4, 2009
Joan Rivers Loved Being Roasted
I went to a party last night at Joan Rivers's three-floor East Side palace (Melissa has the lower floor), which is elegant and gorgeous and currently for sale. The bash was for Joan's TV Land show, How'd You Get So Rich?, but I also wanted to know about her already legendary Comedy Central r ... More >>
Blogs
July 8, 2009
Dancing With The Stars' Gay Faux Pas!
That very mess is richly described in this week's column [CLICK HERE], along with these other bitter pills to swallow: *A talk show host seems to confuse me with Larry Craig *Golden Girl Rue McClanahan reveals what Bea Arthur called Betty White *Comic Judy Gold makes fun of that deaf Oscar winner ... More >>
Blogs
June 3, 2009
Joan Rivers Lets It Rip
Veteran funny lady Joan Rivers gave me an earful the other day, and I've carefully transcribed it all for you in this week's riotous column. (CLICK HERE). Here's what Joan had to say about Miss California, the bible-toting Carrie Prejean: "Just shut up. You got your new breasts--smile and shut the ... More >>
Blogs
June 3, 2009
This Week's Voice: Jane's Addiction, 'Muslim Voices,' Francis Ford Coppola, The Hangover, Exit Art's 'Negritude,' The Life and Times of I.F. Stone, and More
Jared GruenwaldTropicalia in Furs In this week's Village Voice Music Section, Charly Wilder tracks down an East Village storehouse of Brazilian psychedelia at Tropicalia in Furs. Phil Freeman on the Jane's Addiction reunion and three-CD, one-DVD box set, A Cabinet of Curiosities. Andy Beta talks ... More >>
Blogs
June 2, 2009
This Week in the Voice
Oh come on. This picture, and Michael Musto interviewing Joan Rivers? Are you that straight you wouldn't enjoy it? New York hasn't had this good a mob trial in a while: Roger Khan, exiled drug dealer and a hero to some of his neighbors in Guyana, got picked up by the DEA; celebrity mob lawyer Bob S ... More >>
Blogs
January 28, 2009
This Week in the Voice
Conservatives say cheap mortgages killed the economy; President Obama blames "the collective failure to make hard choices." But the problem's really corporate players gone wild and often illegal, analyst James Lieber tells the Voice. And without a raft of subpoenas, we may never get to the bottom o ... More >>
Blogs
January 15, 2009
Interview: Andrew "Dice" Clay
Andrew "Dice" Clay headlines the Nokia Theater Times Square on Friday, January 16. Tickets are still available here. "Me and my wife broke up in 2002 but since then I've gone through 26 mattresses. It's like these beds can't take a beating. And these chicks aren't even fat." Andrew "Dice" Clay, ... More >>
Music
June 17, 2008
On the Genius of ZO2
Brooklyn trio is fucking with you, possibly
Columns
November 28, 2006
NY Mirror
Brooklyn trio is fucking with you, possibly
Columns
November 21, 2006
NY Mirror
Brooklyn trio is fucking with you, possibly
Columns
July 11, 2006
NY Mirror
Brooklyn trio is fucking with you, possibly
NYC Life
March 1, 2005
Spin Cycle
From Marc Spitz's Talking Heads to Interpol and Joan Rivers
Columns
January 21, 2003
NY Mirror
From Marc Spitz's Talking Heads to Interpol and Joan Rivers
NYC Life
December 24, 2002
A Murray Murray Christmas!
From Marc Spitz's Talking Heads to Interpol and Joan Rivers
NYC Life
March 19, 2002
Malice in Wonderland
Joan Rivers, Bohemia, and the Oscars
Film
March 5, 2002
They Are the World
Joan Rivers, Bohemia, and the Oscars
Columns
November 13, 2001
NY Mirror
Joan Rivers, Bohemia, and the Oscars
Film
August 8, 2000
Three Sheets in the Wind
Joan Rivers, Bohemia, and the Oscars
Columns
March 9, 1999
NY Mirror
What actor was boyfriends until recently with that hotshot director who helped guide him to Oscar?
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