Category Archives: fame

Taboo in The Tiki Theater

Yesterday TV funny man Fred Willard for lewd behavior at the Tiki Theater by an undercover LAPD officer at 8:45pm. At first I thought the arrest had occurred at the Tiki Cineplex, which is featuring Ice Age: Continental Drift, Ted, The Amazing Spider-Man, Brave, Magic Mike, and Savages on its multi-screens, although none of those […]

15 Minutes For A Nobody

In 1968 Warhol wrote that “In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes.” for a catalogue of his work in Sweden. Eleven years later Warhol crowed the triumph of his prediction by saying, “My prediction from the sixties finally came true: In the future everyone will be famous for 15 minutes.” The statement […]

Bad Girl Joni

Last week The LA Times published an interview with Joni Mitchell in which the famed artist lambasted Bob Dylan as a plagiarist. “His name and voice are fake. Everything about Bob is a deception. We are like night and day, he and I.” Strong words from the singer. In the 60s Bob Dylan was our […]

Poor Baby

Last February Whitney Houston died in suite 434 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. She was found submerged in the bathtub. The loss of the megastar saddened her fans around the world and yesterday the LA coroner announced the causes of death as accidental drowning due to cocaine, Benadryl, Xanax, marijuana and Flexiril. Heart failure was […]

Whitney Houston RIP

Whitney Houston burst onto the music scene in 1986, scoring # 1 hits with “Saving All My Love for You”, “Thinking About You” and “Greatest Love of All,” and WHITNEY HOUSTON was that year’s top-selling LP. The next year she scored a mega-hit with her single I WANNA LOVE SOMEBOY. Success after success propelled Whitney […]