Celebrity Hair Stylists

How in the world is it that every single hair stylist to the stars we see on TV has a foreign accent? And why are they almost exclusively all male?! It’s practically axiomatic that they are all foreign and male. Ever seen a woman doing hair and hawking her hair care products on QVC?! Yeah, [...]

Acceptance Speeches and Wasted Opportunity

There can hardly be an industry as smarmy, unctuous and self congratulatory as the film business.
Which is why I both love and hate to watch award shows.
These larger-than-life actors and moguls, who are walking corporations, are given about 30 seconds to say whatever they want. Most appropriately thank the cast, crew, producers, and directors. Some [...]

Warholism

I frequently check out a few trend watching websites, trendhunter.com, trendwatching.com, and springwise.com. They’re usually pretty interesting for what they say about people and their interaction with culture. One article about “Warholism” caught my eye. It notes, with the advent of blogs, myspace, and Reality TV, etc., that young people these days are growing up [...]

Tori Spelling Tell-All Memoir

Former Beverly Hills 90210 star Tori Spelling, daughter of deceased TV guru Aaron Spelling, has achieved some recent notoriety on VH1’s “So NoTORIous” celebreality show (which I’ve never seen and have no plans to.) Apparently she’s trying to capitalize on her minor comeback with a tell-all book. Her publisher says,
“We all think we know who [...]