Are Bestselling Authors ‘Stars’? ‘Dancing With Stars’ Yet To Include Author On Its Roster
Anyway, it has come to my attention that DWTS keeps neglecting one important genre of stars–authors!
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Aaron Shapiro: Paris Hilton’s Twitter Feed: a Cautionary Tale
Time, the Associated Press and Perez Hilton, all covered the same news this week — Paris Hilton’s curious Twitter feed. On the night of August 27, Paris Hilton was arrested in Las Vegas for possession of cocaine. Then nearly immediately after…
Jeff Klima: Memoirists Are the Lit World Equivalent of Reality Television Stars
I hate when I write such an accurate title that everything traveling in its wake (namely, this article) seems to suffer by comparison. Well, to be fair, this article would suck even if the title had something to do with the nocturnal emissions…
Anne B. Kelly: Smolder and Shoot: Photographer Tasya Van Ree
If Ellen von Unwerth and Helmut Newton had a love child the result could be photographer and rising art star Tasya Van Ree. With heart and soul laid bare and often decorated in inky poetry, Van Ree’s high contrast portraits manage to appear bo…
Lady Gaga, Tiger Woods, Andy Warhol: What Will You Learn About Celebrities From New Book, ‘Short History Of Celebrity’?
Celebrity painters such as Andy Warhol are the heirs of Joshua Reynolds; Tiger Woods and Richard Gere follow Lord Byron. This is the view of writer Fred Inglis, who links all these, Princess Diana, J.P. Morgan and Marilyn Monroe in his lively …
Alexia Parks: Jobs for a "Two Billion Global Workforce"
Nathan Eagle’s challenge to the global business community is mind-boggling. While the U.S. Federal Reserve is scrambling to stabilize the economy, the CEO of txteagle, and visiting assistant professor at the MIT Media Lab, is busy assembling t…
Kevin Grandia: DiCaprio’s Solar Powered Inception (Photos)
I was taking a quick look at Leonardo DiCaprio’s twitter account, when I saw he has posted on Facebook shots of the solar panels that were used to power some of the set for his movie Inception.
I know, I know, these aren’t the exciting back-s…
ARTINFO: Francophrenia: A Digest of New York’s Epic James Franco Profile
Although these days quizzical mentions of actor-turned-student-turned-writer-turned-artist James Franco’s name are frequently heard in art-world precincts, ARTINFO just recently discovered that the artist’s multifarious productivity is an even…
Virginia Bell: Dear Lindsay, Please Don’t Join the 27 Club
Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, and Brian Jones were all members. So was Kurt Cobain; in fact, according to his sister, he spoke about wanting to join the 27 Club and he succeeded. Robert Downey Jr. almost became a member. Amy Wineho…
Beth Pinsker: Nicolas Cage’s Foreclosed House Nets Zero at Auction
Nicolas Cage bid adieu to another mansion Wednesday — after no one bid for it in a foreclosure auction. His Bel-Air, Calif., Tudor estate went on the block starting at $10.4 million, a measly sum given that the “National Treasure” star had as…
