Growing Up (Not) Gotti: You gotta love NYT columnist Clyde Haberman for calling bullshit on Irving and ChristopherLorenzo, the hip-hop producers from Queens, who decided one day that they wanted to be known as Irv and ChristopherGotti. You may have read about these self-made Gottis. They are on trial in Brooklyn, accused by federal prosecutors of using their record label, the Inc., formerly Murder Inc., to launder drug money: "One of these days, a jury will decide their guilt or innocence. Wouldn't it be more exciting, though, if the jurors could also render a verdict on the Lorenzos' taste in names?" (NYT)
Reservation in Hell: I defy you to read this article about the girl with cerebral palsy who got hit with a light fixture during the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade without dying laughing. (NYT)
Duke It Out: It seems that Teen People has sent a story about Nazi pop-tarts Lynx and Lamb Gaede to the gas chambers after an unauthorized staffer promised the girls' mother that the magazine would avoid using such sweet words as "hate," "supremacist" and "Nazi" in the piece. You know how touchy those white pride types can be. (NY Daily News)
i don't understand why they'd want an adult who can't speak and a child to be on a morning talk show just because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time. who cares? they weren't hurt. why waste valuable resources on this when nick lachey is now single and we have no idea what he's up to?
This week's rag 'n' mag roundup features Edji Da Silva, Arno Antino, Dillon Roman, Harry Melling, Bruno Alcantara, Tom Holland...
Fake Jan Alert
My blog is featured in Susan Olsen's tell-all about the ill-fated "Brady Bunch Variety Hour"!
Little Kenny
Growing up in Madison Heights, Mich.
Back to the Old House
The Web leads to an unexpected return to a house I grew up in.
Oceans 11
Carlsbad, Calif. (2008)
1983
Go Behind the Music of my high-school band, A La Plage
A Death in the Family
Little Larry left us too soon.
Once I Had a Love
With Debbie Harry
'Jungle' Fever
With Robert Buckley
Roger & Me
With Roger Federer
Step Brother McMullen
With Ed Burns
Headline News
With Thomas Roberts
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i don't understand why they'd want an adult who can't speak and a child to be on a morning talk show just because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time. who cares? they weren't hurt. why waste valuable resources on this when nick lachey is now single and we have no idea what he's up to?
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