How to Live Like a Movie Star… If Only for a Day
We all wonder what it would be like to live in one of those gorgeous Beverly Hills mansions, or perhaps a sleek super modern with views going on forever in the Hollywood Hills. Now it’s possible to live like a movies star–sans the multi-million dollar mortgage. Websites like VacationHomeRentals.com allow you to stay in the glamorous…
Jupiter Ascending Review
With every asset and resource known to modern filmmakers, including a $175 million budget and the creative genius behind The Matrix franchise, this overblown, mind numbing, gas bag of a movie is the best the Wachowskis could come up with? Written, produced and directed by the mercurial siblings, it’s apparent they need a lot more supervision, as…
Melissa McCarthy's Weight Loss Secret
Yes, my friends, that’s our favorite (formerly) plus-size gal Melissa McCarthy standing right next to me at the Critics Choice Awards, and, like you, I’m amazed to see how positively petite she looks. I absolutely dwarf her, and I’m about a size 8 on most days. That makes her look like maybe a size 4? What, you may ask,…
Katie Holmes Joins Ray Donovan
Anyone familiar with my taste in television knows how I love me some dark and dirty Ray Donovan on Showtime. A little like the Los Angeles version of The Sopranos, Liev Schreiber’s alpha male “fixer” is, not unlike Tony himself, the bad guy you just can’t bring yourself to hate, no matter how much havoc he…
Great Gifting Suite Goods From The Artisan Group
Three things I love, and not necessarily in this oder, are savvy entrepreneurship, artistic creativity, and gorgeous goodies that you can’t find just anywhere. So, like Viola Davis, I can’t help but be drawn to the unique products The Artisan Group introduces at the GBK celebrity gifting suites. It’s really quite a clever concept. Savvy…
My Take On the 2015 Critics Choice Awards
As I’m sure you know by now, the Broadcast Film Critics Association (of which I am a not-so-humble member) announced the Critics Choice Awards winners last night, at a giant gala and show broadcast live by A&E from the Hollywood Palladium. While I was told I would be seated next to Lana Del Rey, who was nominated for…
DogVacay Host — The Best Gig in Hollywood (Or Anywhere Else)
Anyone involved in the canine culture knows that it’s often much easier to accommodate and interact with four-legged friends than their two-legged counterparts. Pets show unreserved gratitude and unconditional love with nary a complaint. Humans not so much. That’s why I wouldn’t dream of opening up my Hollywood home to strangers who found me on a website and…
Unique Lack of Diversity in Oscar Acting Nominations
Although Selma is nominated for Best Motion Picture of the Year and Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Birdman is nominated nine times, note that there is a unique lack of diversity in Oscar acting nominations. All 20 of those who received nods for best actor, actress, supporting actor and supporting actress, are, to use a sweeping term, white. In…
Come With Me Into the Secret Room Celebrity Gifting Suite
Sure I see celebrities almost every day and am constantly invited to tour their designer mansions. Don’t hate me for that. Hate me for the fact that just prior to every major awards ceremony I’m invited to the prestigious Secret Room Style Lounge, a celebrity gifting suite extraordinaire, held in a luxurious hotel, where I, along with all the stars…
Best Actor, Actress and Farewell to 'Just Seen It'
I’m always up for a rousing debate about who will and who should win the Oscars for best actor and best actress, but the panel discussion I recently participated in on the PBS review show Just Seen It was particularly bittersweet. It was the last segment of the show I’ll ever appear in, on the last episode of the show…
