If the Jews really ran show business, then KISS would"ve been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame the first year they were eligible"in 1999, 25 years after the release of their first record. Pure snobbery has kept them out. It’s a snobbery I once shared. Then I got hooked on ...
"Income inequality" has become the global warming of economics, so it's sad but hardly surprising to see Pope Francis getting in on the act. I"m a cradle Catholic. I"ve worked for two Catholic newspapers and a major Catholic publishing house. My first blog, launched back in 2000, ...
I have it on good authority that some women find Boris Johnson irresistibly attractive. Now, the Brits are a comparatively homely race of people, but I’ll admit to finding some Englishmen pretty damn sexy, even a few categorically ugly ones (a lingering side effect of my punk-rock ...
Charles Manson’s 25-year-old girlfriend Star says they’re getting married, but the aging criminal ringleader scoffs at the idea. Isn’t that just like a man? In the Rolling Stone interview that’s got everyone talking, the 79-year-old cult leader calls Star’s marriage ...
I thought I’d stumbled into a black hole when I read about the white supremacist who had just received the shock of his life on a television talk show. A generation ago, his ilk were shock-talk daytime-TV fixtures, up there with alien abductees and victims of real or imagined sexual abuse. ...
Being a crotchety old white racist and all, I don’t mind admitting that I thought Kanye West and Jay-Z were the same person until a week ago. It doesn’t help that both of these black hip-hop “geniuses” are hooked up with omnipresent big-butted superstars Kim Kardashian and ...
William Shatner missed his calling. It’s no secret that the Star Trek icon’s “acting” and “singing” make up a double-decker Dagwood sandwich larded with equal measures of ham and cheese. But have you ever seen Shatner play talk-show host? As an interviewer, ...
So has everyone finally recovered from United Nations Day? October 24th seems to roll around faster every year. I almost forgot to order the “blue helmet”-shaped cake with cholera-shaped sprinkles and was late mailing out the novelty parking tickets with the comically huge fines you ...
Apparently I was the only Canadian who wasn’t shocked when singer Steven Page was nicked for possessing cocaine back in 2011 (while in the company of a woman not his wife, to boot). Barenaked Ladies are the country’s most wholesome, huggable band, but their lead singer’s creepy, ...
Jean Harlow’s final, deliciously pre-Code exchange with matronly Marie Dressler in 1933’s Dinner at Eight endures as one of cinema’s choicest comedy morsels. Harlow’s Kitty, a ditzy platinum blonde gold digger, fairly knocks Dressler’s Carlotta off her feet when she ...
