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…
Celebs Flock to the GBK Gifting Suite
By Leah Sydney and Lisa Johnson Mandell What are the celebrities gobbling up at the gifting suites during awards season? No one knows better than Gavin Keilly, the founder of GBK Productions, known as the “Gift Bag King” and the mastermind of gifting suites in general. Celebrities are attracted to the GBK gifting suite, not only to…
Fashion Fling – "The Boy Next Door" and a Slave to the Stiletto
By Staci Layne Wilson Even though nobody’s ever really wearing anything significant in the new J-Lo hot-n-heavy stalkerific thriller The Boy Next Door, there was indeed a costume designer. Her name is Courtney Hoffman. Since I am a slave to the stiletto, the scene that immediately had my full attention was when Claire’s (Jennifer Lopez)…
2015 Critics Choice Awards are Better Than Ever!
This year A&E is broadcasting the Critics Choice Awards, and they are going all out–they hired Michael Strahan as the host, all the stars and filmmakers will be there front and center, and I’ll be right their in the middle of them, seated snuggly at a table with Lana Del Rey (YES!). “What are the Critics…
Dennis Miller Asks $22.5 Million For His Beautiful Beach House in Carpinteria
If it were in Malibu, maybe, but we think comedian/talk show host Dennis Miller is shooting a little high by listing his Carpinteria beach house for a whopping $22.5 million. As gorgeous as the home may be, it’s in south Santa Barbara County, not trendy, Oprah-infested Montecito, and it boasts 63 feet of sandy beach…
The Thinking Guys Guide to Movies for the New Year
By James Mandell Editor’s Note: Every holiday season my favorite seat mate, James Mandell, contributes a Thinking Guys Guide to Movies for the New Year. Enjoy! Top Picks Interstellar Stellar indeed, this is some dense story-telling, requiring leaps of quantum faith, but once accomplished, it’s a geek’s play land of possibilities, reminiscent of 2001 but more exciting and…
Why Did Kim Kardashian and Kanye West Buy This $3 Million Shack?
This run down ranch house is hardly a star quality property. As a matter of fact, in any other market, they’d be hard pressed to get $300,000 for it, let alone $3 million. So why did Kim Kardashian and Kanye West buy this $3 million tear down? Location, my dears. It’s all about location. It seems…
