I was never a soccer fan but knew who David Beckham was back in the day. So I'm not sure if my increasing removal from pop culture is to blame or what -- I still don't know what a Harry Styles is -- but apparently this person whose name I have never even heard once in my life is now the "most stylish man in soccer." I've never understood long or even floppy hair on a guy, but Jack Grealish has definitely got his manspread down! More BELOW.
Someone just posted this incredibly obscure clip of Debbie Harry singing "Everybody's Talkin'" -- made famous by Harry Nilsson -- at Squeezebox back in 1996, a period I remember as her "lost years" when her solo recording contract was canceled and Blondie had yet to reform. Have a listen -- she sounds fantastic -- because something tells me it's not going to stay up for long.
P.S. There's a great appraisal of the legendary downtown nightspot HERE.
The year was 1994. Rudy Giuliani had just been elected mayor of New York. It was before the city was gripped by terror, before Times Square was recast as a Disneyfied playground for tourists, before models and bottles infiltrated, soured and sterilized its clubs.
P.S. There's also a documentary about the venue that premiered in 2008 at the Tribeca Film Festival.
Titles for Quentin Halys, Luca Van Assche, Lilli Tagger and Tamara Korpatsch. Full report plus all the ATP beef that's fit to post BEL...
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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My blog is featured in Susan Olsen's tell-all about the ill-fated "Brady Bunch Variety Hour"!
Growing up in Madison Heights, Mich.
The Web leads to an unexpected return to a house I grew up in.
Carlsbad, Calif. (2008)
Go Behind the Music of my high-school band, A La Plage
Little Larry left us too soon.
With Debbie Harry
With Robert Buckley
With Roger Federer
With Ed Burns
With Thomas Roberts
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