tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-188100562012-01-21T22:53:49.336-08:00tabloid babytabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.comBlogger28691100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-61772106489761165472010-12-19T19:09:00.000-08:002010-12-20T10:56:45.469-08:00Buy, byeMike Wallace, CBS News ‘60 Minutes’ Sad, funny, undeniably authentic, Tabloid Baby tells the tale of what befell too much of mainstream television news over the past couple of decades as the bad drove out the good. Maury Povich Burt was there for the birthing of tabloid, he became the heart of the genre, and now he’s written the Bible. Paula Zahn, Fox News Channel It was a fun read. I tabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-60190250671642041992010-11-19T09:02:00.000-08:002010-12-19T19:08:03.826-08:00Chris Montez concert tonight!Pop music icon Chris Montez-- whom the LA Weekly calls "the great, underrated pop-rock legend," is in concert tonight at El Camino College in Torrance, just outside L.A.Appearing with the singer known for Let's Dance and Call Me are the great lost Sixties pop group Help Light and a special preview of the 2011 Montez bio feature, El Viaje Musical de Ezekiel Montanez: The Chris Montez tabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-23953691091172887312010-11-13T08:17:00.000-08:002010-11-13T09:51:57.509-08:00Collect all three Chris Montez posters!Chris Montez, the man the LA Weekly calls "the great, underrated pop-rock legend" performs Friday night at El Camino College in Torrance California, along with a preview of the upcoming musical feature, El Viaje Musical de Ezekiel Montanez: The Chris Montez Story (and a special performance by the great lost Seventies pop band, Help Light).This is the third in our series of collectible tabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-20457884897169794112010-11-13T08:00:00.000-08:002010-11-13T09:49:12.074-08:00Danny Gans' manager settles lawsuit aganst Donny & Marie; apologizes for "hurtful" comments that "may have been made"Danny Gans' former manager Chip Lightman has gotten the "amicable" resolution to the lawsuit he fired against Donny & Marie Osmond for firing him as producer of their show at the Flamingo in Las Vegas, after all.Lightman released a statement yesterday:“I am pleased we were able to resolve this matter and am sorry that, in the heat of battle, comments may have been made that were hurtful to the tabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-58773740352977953622010-10-31T10:50:00.000-07:002010-10-31T10:56:35.912-07:00Collect another Chris Montez concert poster!Collect all three!And see Chris perform along with a special preview of the movie and special guests at El Camino College in Torrance, California on Friday November 19th.Click here for details.And click here, then click the image to enlarge, hang it up or pass it around!tabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-76189161664987194762010-10-30T21:35:00.000-07:002010-10-31T08:47:09.610-07:00Randy Travis divorces his old ladyCountry music superstar Randy Travis has divorced his wife Lib Hatcher after 19 years of marriage.Randy Travis is 51. Lib Hatcher is somewhere around 70.Though there have been rumours Lib might have been Randy's "beard" (they did have a house in Hawaii), there were reports back in July that Randy was cheating with the wife of his dentist. Lib reportedly caught him by sticking a spycam on his tabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-64637202875612025342010-10-30T16:30:00.001-07:002010-10-30T19:48:44.240-07:00George Hickenlooper's last Facebook post"Thanks to all my new friendsin Austin for making last night'sscreening such a great success!I love Austin! One of the if notthe best audience in the world.Literally.Hope to come back soon...On to Denver!"The film director, whose fine work included Mayor of the Sunset Strip, died last night in Denver at 47. He made the post yesterday, before heading to Denver for a film festival with his new tabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-89748249879678335902010-10-30T08:03:00.000-07:002010-10-30T08:19:21.947-07:00Danny Gans death house soldThe mansion in which Danny Gans died has been sold, cutting another tie between the family of the late Las Vegas superstar and the city with which he'd been identified for more than a decade.Coldwell Bankers announced that the lavish estate owned by Gans and his wife Julie was sold quietly this week to a couple from California. Reports say they paid about $9 million for the 9,400-square-foot tabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-43173678047494121782010-10-27T13:20:00.001-07:002010-10-27T13:25:51.597-07:00Collectible Chris Montez concert poster!Click here, then click the image to enlarge, hang it up or pass it around!tabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-58316900810665484612010-10-26T00:13:00.000-07:002010-10-26T12:15:57.968-07:00Katie Couric thinks you need a bathOnce was a time when network news nabobs considered everything between the New York-DC corridor and Los Angeles as "flyover country"-- the vast middle of America that looked eastward for guidance and leadership, and west for news of dead celebrities and earthquakes.,not worthy or economical for coverage beyond the occasional natural disaster or shooting spree. That time passed abut twenty-five tabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-85776780928974397582010-10-24T08:42:00.000-07:002010-10-24T08:43:40.132-07:00Art Vargas brings touch of Prima to the PalmsArt Vargas himself summed it up in hipster code for his Facebook friends early this morning: "Mondo Lounge was a gass!... Swingin time with the swank set... very cool crowd, swank settin' hipsters... diggin the scene, layin it down old school style... like no other dig it the most daddy!"The red hot Vargas brought down the house at the Palms' Key West ballroom in Las Vegas last night, working thetabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-73092362038407298812010-10-22T12:33:00.000-07:002010-10-22T16:44:30.239-07:00Michael Douglas, the defiant oneMichael Douglas, shown this morning in New York City, is said to responding well to chemotherapy and radiation treatment for his Stage 4 throat cancer. The Oscar® winning actor has roles in two movies released this year that will surely vie for Best Actor Academy Award® nominations. We expect to see him at the ceremony after he beats this. tabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-13070389688677231302010-10-22T09:57:00.000-07:002010-10-24T08:35:36.800-07:00Art Vargas plays the Palms Saturday nightArt Vargas, the charismatic, energetic veteran showman we've picked as a prime candidate for a showroom of his own on the Las Vegas Strip, gets a few blocks closer when he brings his show to the Palms Casino Resort Saturday night at.That's tomorrow. At 8.Hot off last weekend's success at the Rampart, Vargas and his group The Swank Set will be the highlight of the "Mondo Lounge Ultimate Retro tabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-14451972042913481132010-10-19T17:26:00.000-07:002010-11-10T14:37:29.419-08:00Chris Montez returns to El Camino College!Pop music legend performsFriday, November 19th!With sneak preview of the Chris Montez biopic!It'll be a rock 'n' roll homecoming for pop icon Chris Montez when he plays at El Camino College on November 19th, along with another sneak preview of his film bio-in-the-making.Montez grew up in nearby Hawthorne, California, and enrolled at the Torrance college back in the Sixties, after he washed out oftabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-17932871674012963232010-10-18T15:46:00.000-07:002010-10-18T16:27:15.592-07:00Tragic Kingdom: Disneyland's haunted parking structure of terrorThe suicide last night at Disneyland's Mickey & Friends parking structure adds an unintended real-life macabre twist to the park's Halloween Time celebration. Attractions including Space Mountain, Pirates of the Caribbean and the Haunted Mansion have been tricked out in special Halloween themes. How many parents, while walking their kids to the escalators on their way from their cars to the tabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-42376215176756224332010-10-18T15:20:00.000-07:002010-10-18T15:24:51.620-07:00Another suicide at DisneylandA man committed suicide yesterday by leaping from an upper floor at the Mickey & Friends parking structure at Disneyland. Anaheim Police say the unidentified man, believed to be in his forties or early fifties, jumped from the southwest corner of the structure and was found around 8:45 p.m. Police spokesman Rick Martinez said the man didn't carry any identification on him but did leave a tabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-1258203464343619102010-10-18T09:56:00.000-07:002010-10-18T13:06:57.779-07:00Why can't we find cans of Planters Honey Roasted Peanuts in Los Angeles?Cans of Planters' popular honey roasted peanuts disappeared from supermarket shelves months ago, around the time its "healthy" "NUT-rition" cans began taking up space.Mr. Peanut, what happened?tabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-88049423628976188152010-10-14T16:27:00.000-07:002010-10-14T17:56:05.362-07:00Steve Friess pulls boners in LA Weekly transgender sportswriter storyLas Vegas blogger, New York Times stringer, Gay Vegas author, concert promoter and comp queen Steve Friess apparently made some embarrassing errors when he brought his opinionated work to Los Angeles in the form of a reheated LA Weekly cover story on the tragedy of LA Times sportswriter Mike Penner, who committed suicide after coming out publicly as a transgender, then changing his mind.A tabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-89930864318127963072010-10-14T09:12:00.000-07:002010-10-14T09:14:58.063-07:00The Yankles? New team takes new swing at bringing professional baseball to Israel!Remember the Israel Baseball League? How could you forget? Tabloid Baby's comprehensive coverage of the disastrous 2007 season and the tragicomic failed attempts to carry on led to our editor and Our Man Elli in Israel being submitted for a Pulitzer Prize-- being cut off at the pass by gatekeeper Sig Gissler-- and given a place in the Baseball Hall of Fame at Cooperstown. Now, a new group of tabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-11921138124290788722010-10-13T09:39:00.000-07:002010-10-13T11:08:28.066-07:00Welcome to LA, Richard JohnsonTabloid Baby pal Richard Johnson is leaving his job as editor of the New York Post's Page Six and moving to Los Angeles. Johnson has been at the helm of the most influential gossip column of our time for close to twenty five years, and a made a little gossip himself along the way while steering the column from the days of Sukhreet Gabel and Mark Gastineau. We'd have thought Johnson would have tabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-84069563911110049992010-10-12T21:55:00.000-07:002010-10-14T17:56:37.626-07:00MDA to Jerry Lewis: "Thanks and f--- you!"The Muscular Dystrophy Association has distanced itself from and shown great disrespect toward its greatest asset and the man who gave it an international identity, saying today that Jerry Lewis "will be asked" to participate in the drastically-slashed telethon in 2011.We reported five days ago that something was amiss in the MDA's announcement that it would turn the 21 1/2 hour national tabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-29583650854371725322010-10-12T21:54:00.000-07:002010-10-12T22:03:23.138-07:00Where's Jerry? Read the MDA press releaseWORLD’S TOP TELETHON EMBRACES SHORTER FORMAT TO INCREASE AUDIENCE AND INCOMETUCSON, Ariz., Oct. 6, 2010 – The Muscular Dystrophy Association today announced an important change to its perennial Labor Day Telethon, which for 45 years has galvanized tremendous public support for MDA’s lifesaving mission. The Association will shave more than 15 hours off its previous 21½-hour Telethon format. The tabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-26323586469028020352010-10-10T08:20:00.001-07:002010-10-10T08:37:30.695-07:00Lightman's solo act issue in Osmond lawsuitThere's an interesting and forgotten footnote to Chip Lightman's lawsuit against Donny Osmond, for firing him as producer of the Donny & Marie show at the Flamingo. In August, 2009, after it was announced that Donny would compete in ABC's Dancing with The Stars, Mike Weatherford wrote in the Las Vegas Review-Journal:"The Flamingo was wise to lock in the duo with a contract extension through Oct.tabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-53190955268504549822010-10-10T08:09:00.000-07:002010-10-10T08:13:50.628-07:00Donny Osmond hosts Danny Gans runThough he's being sued by Danny Gans' former manager and producing partner, Donny Osmond couldn't miss hosting yesterday's second annual Danny Gans Memorial Champions run for the Nevada Cance Foundation-- not when it's been retitled the “Danny Gans Memorial Champions Run for Life Hosted by Donny Osmond."Chip Lightman filed suit after Osmond fired him last month as producer of the Donny & Marie tabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-65438494508273945662010-10-08T17:10:00.000-07:002010-10-09T07:37:06.921-07:00Decision to slash telethon was "strictly MDA"Though he's national chairman of the Muscular Dystrophy Association, Jerry Lewis was not involved in the decision to shorten the MDA's annual Labor Day Telethon that he's starred in, tirelessly promoted and has been singularly identified with for 45 years.A telethon insider tells us the decision to slash the national institution from its 21-hour marathon length and turn it into a Sunday night tabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-43599950102809612932010-10-08T09:23:00.000-07:002010-10-08T09:24:33.879-07:00Where's Jerry Lewis? Where's the media?Surprising that the media's not making more of the news of the death of the Jerry Lewis Labor Day Telethon, or looking into why the Muscular Dystrophy Association is trumpeting the news on its website with a photo of telethon supporting player Jann Carl and not Jerry Lewis himself. Is it a signal Jerry's being pushed aside? His startling display at last month's disappointing, low-wattage event tabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-31155976843653217022010-10-07T18:22:00.000-07:002010-10-07T18:26:26.633-07:00Death of a Telethon: MDA's announcement does not mention Jerry LewisThe Muscular Dystrophy Association announced plans to turn the annual Jerry Lewis Labor Day Telethon into a six-hour primetime special on its Quest magazine website. The article made no mention of host Jerry Lewis, and ran with a photo of telethon subhost Jann Carl:MDA Labor Day Telethon Moves to Shorter Formatby Quest StaffThe 2011 MDA Telethon will run for six hours during prime-time viewing tabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-89243016882274937292010-10-07T15:25:00.000-07:002010-10-07T16:51:11.963-07:00The last minutes of the last telethonJerry Lewis' over-the-top emotional display at the conclusion to the 45th annual Labor Day Telethon led many of us to suspect that this year's telethon would be his last. As it turns out, with today's announcement, it was the last telethon for all of us. Jerry Lewis at 84 is the last man standing among the show biz pals who once gave great heat and excitement to his annual Labor Day telethons. tabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-29705510093643876082010-10-07T13:43:00.000-07:002010-10-07T20:56:53.438-07:00JERRY LEWIS TELETHON SLASHED!The annual 20-hour Labor Day Jerry Lewis telethon to raise money for the Muscular Dystrophy, a fixture of American life for forty five years, is dead.After the second year in a row in which Jerry and his surviving pals failed to top last year's total, the monumental annual television event is being downsized, slashed and shortened to a six hour prime time show.MDA spokesman Jim Brown announced tabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-63535666128182880122010-10-07T11:44:00.000-07:002010-10-10T11:18:45.031-07:00Chip Lightman says he hopes for "amicable" resolution to his lawsuit against "underhanded, devious, fraudulent and greedy" Donny OsmondAmicable???!!!!!Danny Gans' former manager Chip Lightman has made it very clear that Las Vegas blogger, New York Times stringer (who, interestingly did not pen the recent high-profile Times stories on the Vegas economic slump or Liberace Museum), Gay Vegas author, concert promoter and comp queen Steve Friess wasn't far off the mark when he wrote: "In Las Vegas, when left to our own devices, we dotabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-12942982095247511902010-10-06T17:55:00.000-07:002010-10-10T08:15:21.516-07:00Chip Lightman's lawsuit calls Donny Osmond "underhanded, devious, fraudulent and greedy"Chip Lightman knows how to hit Donny Osmond where it hurts: smack in the middle of his squeaky-clean Mormon image.Lightman, who made his reputation as manager and sidekick to the late local superstar Danny Gans, filed suit against the wholesome entertainer last week after Osmond announced he was dropping Lightman as producer of the Donny & Marie show at the Flamingo (Lightman and Gans-- who died tabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-74547837580234395002010-10-06T08:36:00.000-07:002010-10-06T08:37:30.639-07:00Ron Nasty performs for Lennon's 70thNeil Innes, star of the award-winning musical bio The Seventh Python, joins fellow stars of the Fests for Beatles Fans in New York City Saturday night for a 70th birthday tribute to John Lennon, whom he parodied wickedly in The Rutles.The October 9th benefit concert at the Society for Ethical Culture takes place six blocks from the Dakota building where John Lennon lived and was murdered on tabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-1212954857636478892010-10-04T18:16:00.000-07:002010-10-04T18:16:17.314-07:00Rich Little returns to scene of wife's funeral to say "so long" to Tony CurtisWeeks after the funeral of his wife, Marie, who committed suicide in July, legendary impersonator Rich Little returned to the Palm Mortuary in Las Vegas for the farewell to show biz pal Tony Curtis.The Palm Valley View Cemetery is also the final resting place for Little's fellow impressionist and George Burns impersonator Danny Gans.tabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-826944719466407462010-10-04T14:40:00.000-07:002010-10-04T14:44:07.771-07:00Steve Dunleavy sighted in New York CityTabloid legend Steve Dunleavy has been sighted in New York City, looking good-- and smoking!Dunleavy (center) was with bigshot political and journalism pals at the Water Club Friday afternoon, when he was photographed with a pair of ageless tabloid television veterans who've each racked up legendary status of his own. Frank Grimes and Steve McPartlin reportedly bumped into Dunleavy as he was on tabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-13901256749066708842010-10-03T08:40:00.000-07:002010-10-10T08:15:37.473-07:00Chip Lightman sues, threatens to write tell-all book about Donny & Marie OsmondDanny Gans' former manager Chip Lightman has declared war on Donny and Marie Osmond, filing a lawsuit against them and threatening to reveal the secrets of the Mormon siblings in a "tell all book."Lightman struck out on his Twitter account in response to the Osmonds' announcement that they were bouncing him from his role as producer of their show at the Flamingo Hilton.Gans and his longtime tabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com23tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-82650145846171597692010-10-01T10:11:00.000-07:002010-10-01T10:18:39.023-07:00Art Vargas is returning to Las Vegas"I saw Las Vegas future and its name is Art Vargas!"--Sam PetersThe man who should be a Strip headliner returns to his swingin' stompin' grounds at the Rampart Casino, October 15, 16 and 17.Beat a path off the beaten path to catch Art Vargas before the big bookers, promoters and agents catch on and place him a theatre with big ticket prices.tabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-57193686070800884202010-10-01T06:14:00.001-07:002010-10-01T06:37:23.769-07:00Man of Many Cars: Danny Gans collection brings in $500,000 at auctionDanny Gans' car collection raked in more than half a million dollars when they were put up for bid last weekend as the highlight of the annual Barrett-Jackson auction at the Mandalay Bay.The three children of the late Las Vegas musical impressionist and superstar were there to watch the nine vehicles and Harley Davidson motorcycle go on the block. Son Andrew brought down the hammer on each tabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-5219184023135762832010-09-30T15:29:00.000-07:002010-09-30T15:41:46.876-07:00You're invited to Tony Curtis' funeralThe public is invited to attend funeral services for Tony Curtis, who died yesterday at home in the Las Vegas suburb of Henderson, Nevada.The farewell is scheduled for 11 a.m. Monday at the Palm Mortuary in Las Vegas.The Palm Mortuary is located in the Palm Valley View Memorial Park at 7600 S. Eastern Avenue, where Las Vegas superstar Danny Gans, who died suddenly at his Henderson home in May tabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-21453309986480181172010-09-30T06:42:00.000-07:002010-09-30T06:51:11.348-07:00Cat's in the bag and the bag's in the rivertabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-45647028985893341472010-09-30T06:28:00.000-07:002010-09-30T06:31:37.699-07:00Bernard Schwartztabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-23891331976072141092010-09-29T15:06:00.000-07:002010-09-29T15:43:21.471-07:00Greg Giraldo is latest comic dyingWe hear Greg Giraldo follows Robert Schimmel as the latest quick-witted, very funny filthy comedian to die days after being rushed to a hospital. With Schimmel, it was a car accident; Giraldo overdosed on prescription drugs over the weekend, reportedly "accidentally." Too bad. very sad. Artie Lange should remember that life is precious. And we recall that as a judge on Last Comic Standing this tabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-22387038354344774022010-09-29T11:37:00.000-07:002010-09-29T12:34:39.161-07:00At least they didn't add mouse ears: Disneyland customizes worker's Islamic head coveringDisneyland, known for its strict dresscode for its "cast member" workers, is allowing a company intern to wear her religious hijab headscarf to work, after first banishing her to the stockroom.But it's a special, Disneyfied hijab.Noor Abdallah was hired as a vacation planner over the phone. When the 22-year-old arrived at Disneyland for orientation, she was asked by she didn't mention the hijab (tabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-35300159899461884442010-09-26T17:40:00.000-07:002010-09-26T22:05:37.459-07:00Watch David Hull's first solo music videoForty years after he jumped from rocking high school gymnasiums in suburban Connecticut to worldwide fame as a the teenage bass player for The Buddy Miles Express, David Hull has released the music video for the first single from his first solo album. Pay Some Attention can be found on Soul in Motion, which can be found at Amazon and iTunes among other outlets.Troll the Tabloid Baby archives to tabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-42344598207481086682010-09-25T08:40:00.000-07:002010-10-10T08:15:51.550-07:00Donny & Marie boot Danny Gans' managerChip Lightman, the longtime manager of late Las Vegas superstar Danny Gans, has been bounced as producer of Donny & Marie Osmond's show at the Flamingo.Gans and Lightman brought the show to the Strip venue two years ago, reviving Donny & Marie's Las Vegas career. There have been rumours for weeks that the Osmonds were severing ties with surviving producer Lightman (and the Ganslight company), tabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-1264177171160552492010-09-20T16:24:00.000-07:002010-10-04T11:33:14.455-07:00Leonard SkinnerHigh school gym teacher and basketball coach Leonard Skinner died today in Jacksonville, Florida. He's the guy who who inspired the name of the band Lynyrd Skynyrd.He was 77 and had Alzheimer's disease. He also outlived most of the band.Singer Ronnie van Zandt, guitarist Steve Gaines and backing singer Cassie Gaines were killed in a plane crash that seriously injured the other band members on tabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-79840672825329008012010-09-17T11:41:00.000-07:002010-10-10T08:16:03.806-07:00Donny Osmond to host another Danny Gans memorial runDonny Osmond will once again host the Danny Gans Memorial Champions Run For Life when it on Saturday, October 9, 2010.The event benefiting the Nevada Childhood Cancer Foundation will be take place at the Paseo Verde Park in Henderson, Nevada, where Gans lived and died unexpectedly on May 1, 2009. It includes a 5K run, a fun run and walk, live entertainment, food and plenty of family fun.Donny tabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-9661250955102100002010-09-15T11:28:00.000-07:002010-09-15T11:28:55.553-07:00Tabloid Baby's Mitzvahpalooza photos help convict war profiteer in fraud caseTabloid Baby has aided in the conviction of body armour mogul and Iraq war profiteer David H. Brooks on 17 counts, including insider trading and securities fraud, stemming from what prosecutors described as corporate looting and stock-trading schemes that made him more than $190 million.The multimillionaire from Long Island was found guilty yesterday of looting his business to fuel a lavish tabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-22954264957254746712010-09-14T15:31:00.000-07:002010-09-14T15:33:53.318-07:00Meattabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-73506716897586937372010-09-12T09:31:00.000-07:002010-10-01T12:27:58.772-07:00Liberace who?"When this started 30-some years ago, Lee was still a name. Keeping that brand alive has been very difficult. When Liberace passed away, no one really did what they did with the Presley estate. If you turn on XM Radio, you're going to see a Sinatra station, you'll see an Elvis station. When you look at Liberace, his music is well-played, interpreted by a real talent. But it isn't kept alive the tabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-56228461049463015542010-09-11T14:21:00.000-07:002010-09-11T15:43:05.250-07:00Liberace Museum closing after 31 yearsThe Liberace Museum, tucked into a strip mall of East Tropicana Avenue two and half miles from the Las Vegas Strip, will close on October 17th, after 31 years in business.The announcement came on Friday, the week in which a performer known as Prince Poppycock moved to the America's Got Talent finals after performing in a red-white and blue shortpants outfit that was surely a tribute to Liberace'stabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-83243818168129322172010-09-11T10:43:00.000-07:002010-09-11T10:56:23.100-07:00A major recording slipped out this weekJerry Lee Lewis is not only hanging in but still rockin. Mean Old Man was released on Tuesday. We're listening to the empathetic and rootsy duets album this morning. Nineteen tunes! Download it and send us your review.tabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-56993835583802438952010-09-11T09:06:00.000-07:002010-09-11T10:33:48.790-07:00Beverly Hills Trader Vic's more prudish than Dubai! Our exclusive report that the Trader Vic's bar at the Beverly Hilton hotel in Beverly Hills is covering the bare breasts of cartoon Polynesian women on its iconic cocktail menu has caused uproar around the world. The story has been picked up from Los Angeles to London and is sure to be fodder for late night talk show monologues and editorial debate.Amid the hoopla over the defacement of the pop tabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-73796995680385360962010-09-08T18:21:00.000-07:002010-09-09T10:11:51.229-07:00Topless coverup at Trader Vic's!We at Tabloid Baby, as much as anyone, have been delighted by the recent revival of the Trader Vic's brand. Years after our halcyon days in the basement of the Plaza Hotel, we've celebrated many an office party at the late, lamented Las Vegas location and the spectacular new nitery at the LA Live complex.We are, therefore, quite disheartened by the censorship of the iconic Trader Vic's cocktail tabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-28709947747176605562010-09-07T18:45:00.000-07:002010-09-08T07:24:59.905-07:00Comedy vet stirred by Jerry Lewis displayJerry Lewis fans the world over were taken aback and moved by his display of emotion and mortality at the close of the 2010 MDA Labor Day Telethon.Among them is Dave Sinker, the Emmy-winning comedy writer, comedian, actor, Second City vet and genius behind the legendary, acclaimed Comedy Shrine outside Chicago.Dave writes:It has been so easy for people to belittle this man, to poke fun at him, tabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-5661401778014114022010-09-07T15:30:00.000-07:002010-09-12T09:31:52.329-07:00Jerry Lewis' last telethon? His wife says not. "Unless we're putting him in the ground."The spectacle of 84-year-old Jerry Lewis losing his composure during the finale of his 45th national Labor Day Telethon was the kind of reality television that cut right through the canned, faked standard TV fare. It was uncomfortable and unpredictable-- in its own way like Jerry during his sweaty, gassed-back Percodan jag heights of the Sixties and made even more urgent when producers in Los tabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-4518071863005451862010-09-06T16:58:00.000-07:002010-09-06T17:08:32.054-07:00Jerry Lewis just criestabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-41260447893403853112010-09-06T16:36:00.000-07:002010-09-07T07:19:54.048-07:00Not seen in Los Angeles: Jerry Lewis just cries his way through "You'll Never Walk Alone" in an awesome ending to the 2010 Labor Day MDA TelethonLos Angeles-area viewers were cheated out of out on what turned out to be Jerry Lewis' most emotional, powerful and memorable-- and quite possibly last-- closing song of the Labor Day MDA telethon.Just watch.UPDATE: As it turns out, programmers had second thoughts and ran the finale more than 90 minutes later, at 4:49 pm, the end of the local version of the telethon. Was it due to viewer tabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-58695925675961121182010-09-06T16:10:00.000-07:002010-09-06T16:35:21.467-07:00What? No "You'll Never Walk Alone"?At least one report claims Jerry Lewis did indeed end his 2010 Labor Day MDA Telethon with the traditional singing of "You'll Never Walk Alone," but viewers in the Los Angeles area didn't see it, leaving us to suspect that someone connected to the LA MDA telecast feared the subpar final tote might lead to fewer donations in the ninety minutes of local telethon programming that are now following tabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-3653165008632635322010-09-06T15:35:00.000-07:002010-09-06T22:33:56.048-07:00Jerry, what happened?A weepy Jerry Lewis went to the tote board for the final tally and an emotional finale to his 45th annual MDA telethon shortly before 3:30 pm as scheduled when-- something happened. Jerry was heard to say "That's not the final--" when they cut to commercial with no explanation.One reason for the blackout experience in LA and possibly elsewhere could be the final tote of $58.9 million, which, tabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-60476059874786377132010-09-06T07:45:00.000-07:002010-09-06T08:19:19.567-07:00Just like 1989: Documentary crew is following Jerry Lewis at the telethonHistory's being made, or at least repeating itself, at the Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon taking place right now at the South Point Casino ("just minutes away from the famous Las Vegas Strip") as a documentary film crew is following Jerry behind the scenes.As far as we know, this is the first time camera crews have been allowed to follow Jerry through the MDA Telethon rehearsals and broadcast since tabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-56552295792178852402010-09-04T08:01:00.001-07:002010-09-05T08:04:00.063-07:00That's life: A car crash, not cancer, cirrhosis or a wife, kills Robert SchimmelRobert Schimmel has been fighting non-Hodgkin lymphoma, cirrhosis and demons for a few years now. None of them could kill him. A car crash could. Schimmel died last night from injuries in an accident Thirsday on Highway 10 in Phoenix. He wasn't even driving. His 19 year-old daughter Aliyah was. She swerved and lost control. She's in stable condition.Schimmel was a "dirty" comic and frequently tabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-84369664451102648482010-09-03T19:10:00.000-07:002010-09-03T19:14:55.075-07:00Labor Day weekend is Jerry Lewis weekendThe 2010 Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon starts Sunday at 6 pm and wraps up on Labor Day at 3:30 pm. Check your local listings.Click here to help Jerry and his kids.PHOTO: STEVE MARCUS/LAS VEGAS SUNtabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-42829078356473767342010-09-03T07:33:00.000-07:002010-09-04T08:45:20.753-07:00Steve Friess rips off our Pete Rose storyLas Vegas blogger, New York Times stringer, Gay Vegas author, concert promoter and comp queen Steve Friess, always hustling for an article idea, has found his latest inspiration here at TabloidBaby.com. Yes, the media figure who attacked us publicly and attempted to have this site shut down because we asked for answers about the mysterious and untimely death of local superstar Danny Gans (and tabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-22302383240926826112010-09-03T07:25:00.000-07:002010-09-05T08:04:27.044-07:00David Hull is releasing his first solo albumThe sudden late-in-life rock star resurrection of local teenage hero David Hull that we first chronicled four years ago to this day (September 3, 2006) has reached a new apotheosis with the release this month of his first solo album.Soul in Motion is available for pre-order on i-Tunes and Amazon.com and will be celebrated with a release party on October 14th at the House of Blues in Boston. Davetabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-49632344378717083152010-09-01T21:18:00.000-07:002010-09-01T21:38:28.372-07:00With Hague, life imitates Little BritainBritish Foreign Secretary Norman Hague is a regular Sir Norman Fry, defending his marriage and denying his homosexuality after admitting sharing a hotel room with a young male aide who's since been forced to resign.Hague admitted: "Whilst campaigning before the election we (he and a 25-year-old member of his "Tyke Mafia" of young aides who share his Yorkshire roots) occasionally shared twin hoteltabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-17217730710485349362010-09-01T06:56:00.000-07:002010-09-01T08:08:11.292-07:00Video: Michael Douglas reveals he has stage four throat cancer; blames cigarettes, alcohol and stresstabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-83751996372558421202010-08-31T06:58:00.000-07:002010-08-31T07:04:21.221-07:00Las Vegas Review-Journal finds Paris Hilton coke bust more newsworthy than the death of Danny GansEditor Thomas "McCloud" Mitchell and the gang at the Las Vegas Review-Journal must be proud this morning. A look at their website and a scan of their archives reveal that they've posted more stories about Paris Hilton's cocaine arrest in the past three days than they'd posted about local superstar Danny Gans in the three days after his sudden, shocking and untimely death.Las Vegas Review-Journaltabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-27121185342967865112010-08-30T21:22:00.000-07:002010-08-30T21:34:45.181-07:00Disneyland's fire-breathing dragon snuffedWe reported in June of last year that the debut of Maleficent, the 40-foot-tall, 10,000 pound mechanical automated fire-breathing dragon from Sleeping Beauty, in Summer Nightastic, Disneyland's big summer update of its spectacular Fantasmic light, water and fireworks show, would be delayed for weeks because its head fell off and its neck snapped during rehearsals.Today Disneyland officials tabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-90002479368400632782010-08-30T01:08:00.000-07:002010-08-30T12:33:21.270-07:00Somebody book Art Vargas for Jerry's telethonThey're talking in Las Vegas about Art Vargas killing at the Bootlegger Bistro Saturday night with a swingin' show, a packed house and a wild, cheering crowd that went even wilder when Vargas was joined onstage by Louis Prima's daughter Lena for a version of Old Black Magic. The gig was the latest showcase for the old school showman and topnotch singer that could soon have him headlining in his tabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-14646616647389097172010-08-30T00:57:00.001-07:002010-08-30T08:01:45.239-07:00Summer readingOur readers while away the summer with the guys who kicked the hornets' nest.Send your Tabloid Baby photos here!tabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-37566508905253681952010-08-29T09:06:00.000-07:002010-08-29T14:21:52.218-07:00Las Vegas Sun features Tabloid Baby video clip in Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon previewThe Las Vegas Sun has posted a clip from the Tabloid Baby YouTube channel as part of a feature story tribute to Jerry Lewis as his 45th annual Jerry Lewis Muscular Dystrophy Association Labor Day Telethon approaches.The clip depicts Jerry in full throttle mode in the final hour of the 2009 MDA telethon, which added $60.5 million to the cause. The Sun's reliance on material posted by the Tabloid tabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-24682014054562450682010-08-27T07:09:00.001-07:002010-08-27T07:59:07.184-07:00Funeral for Farrah Fawcett's fatherFuneral services are taking place this morning for Farrah Fawcett's father, who joined his Angel on Monday.The Houston Chronicle reports that that James Fawcett died Monday at 92. After the 10 am service at the Brookside Champions funeral home in Houston, he'll be buried in the Houston National Cemetery.James stood tall at his daughter's funeral in June 2009.(TOP PHOTO: Studio 54, Sept 17, 1978tabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-91988122465960574482010-08-26T06:43:00.000-07:002010-08-26T14:16:36.654-07:00Missing woman found dead in her housePolice in Las Vegas have been looking for Billie Jean James since she went missing on April 22nd. They used helicopters with infrared technology to search the surrounding desert, while volunteers fanned out and highly-trained search dogs sniffed through her two houses, which were cluttered and packed to the rafters with junk, because 67-year-old Billie Jean was apparently a compulsive hoarder. tabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-85648232529432838342010-08-25T06:54:00.000-07:002010-09-01T07:03:43.917-07:00Vegas is coming up Vargas!"Swingin'!" "Smokin'!" "Great!"Those were only a few of the superlatives tossed toward entertainer Art Vargas after last weekend's triumphant return to Las Vegas in a showcase bound to get the singer and his classic, retro-flavoured act his own showroom on the Strip where, among magicians, impressionists, tributes and comics, there is definitely a lucrative niche awaiting.The heat from the tabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-78944859586722969752010-08-23T07:38:00.000-07:002010-08-23T09:52:07.419-07:00Karen Carpenter book is pop culture classicLittle Girl Blue: The Life of Karen Carpenter stood out on the shelf of Book Soup and seemed like a good summer read. The details of the Seventies star's death scene seemed promising enough, but we admit we expected the book to be a camp clip job hagiography written by a fan.As it turns out, Little Girl Blue is finely-written, exhaustively-researched and nothing less than a classic rock bio tabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-22265903823313702202010-08-22T12:00:00.000-07:002010-08-23T12:54:34.780-07:00Dreary, dumpy & dank: Steve Friess insults Los Angeles architecture in reheated cover story for LA WeeklyGuess who wound up with an LA Weekly cover story? Las Vegas blogger, New York Times stringer, Gay Vegas author, concert promoter and comp queen Steve Friess, that's who, with an article on the death of Mike Penner, the Los Angeles Times sportswriter who went public in a column as a transsexual and returned to work as Christine Daniels in 2007, changed his mind about the process and resumed his tabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-12120768803188461382010-08-22T10:50:00.000-07:002010-08-22T12:14:54.714-07:00CBS News loses another black starCBS News has lost another of its prominent African American stars with the death this weekend of 48 Hours reporter Harold Dow. Dow reportedly died unexpectedly yesterday at 62. He'd gotten his start in television in Santa Monica, and had been based in New York since 1982, when we worked with him at the CBS Nightwatch overnight show. He was a hardworking, genial colleague.Dow's death makes him tabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-43889199712344250632010-08-20T09:36:00.000-07:002010-08-20T09:37:26.690-07:00tabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-87616996984805393752010-08-20T06:46:00.000-07:002010-09-01T07:04:05.640-07:00Art Vargas returns to Las Vegas tonightSinger and entertainer Art Vargas returns to Las Vegas tonight for a three-night stand that could give him to move, as the late, great Danny Gans put it, from Cleveland to "playing for the Yankees."The engagement at the Rampart Casino in The Resort at Summerlin, is miles from the center of the Las Vegas action, but is seen as an opportunity for bookers, critics, columnists and trendsetters to tabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-45614941537662683792010-08-19T16:34:00.000-07:002010-08-19T16:38:34.951-07:00The answer is "D"The Las Vegas Weekly is filling summer pages with The Vegas IQ Test.This is Question #10:tabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-72494882667543093282010-08-19T16:17:00.002-07:002010-08-20T09:42:19.034-07:00Gypsies are now referred to as "Roma"We were intrigued by a headline that appeared on the New York Times website this afternoon that read :Expulsion of Roma Raises Questions in FranceRoma? Did they mean residents of Rome? Romanians? The lead didn't provide any answers:LA COURNEUVE, France — About 100 French riot police swooped down on an encampment of Roma here at 7 a.m. Thursday, taking names and filling out expulsion orders.We tabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-91667453915143662082010-08-19T06:34:00.000-07:002010-08-19T09:52:25.257-07:00Amid fight over mosque, Disney girl challenges The MouseDisneyland refers to its employees as "cast members," with a dress code that's been relaxed over the past fifty years but remains relatively strict. The "Disney look" is meant to ensure all teh guests feel comfortable around all the cast members. Female cast members can wear small stud or smaller hoop earrings; men may not wear earrings. Fingernails that are long, dirty or painted in a color thattabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-3117367596850288392010-08-17T14:49:00.000-07:002010-08-17T14:56:41.281-07:00The shot heard 'round the world“There’s a long drive ... it’s gonna be ... I believe —the Giants win the pennant! The Giants win the pennant!The Giants win the pennant! The Giants win the pennant!“Bobby Thomson hits into the lower deck of the left-field stands!The Giants win the pennant,and they’re going crazy, they’re going crazy ...“I don’t believe it, I don’t believe it, I do not believe it!”Russ HodgesOctober 3, 1951tabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-48110897685102404192010-08-16T10:57:00.000-07:002010-10-01T06:35:13.967-07:00Danny Gans' garage emptied for auctionThe family of the late Las Vegas superstar Danny Gans is selling off the entertainer's car collection.Ten vehicles owned by the The Man of Many Voices, who died suddenly in May 2009, will cross the block during the Third Annual Barrett-Jackson Las Vegas Collector Car Auction, which runs from September 23rd through 25. The Gans fleet will be sold during a SPEED television broadcast billed "as a tabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-25600770922295932362010-08-13T06:58:00.000-07:002010-08-27T07:06:22.420-07:00Redmond O'Neal completes drug rehabFarrah Fawcett's drug addict son Redmond O'Neal has completed a year-long court-ordered drug rehab program.Redmond O'Neal's father, the troubled actor Ryan O'Neal, was not there to watch the 25-year-old graduate yesterday from the hardcore treatment.Redmond was among a "class" of seventeen drug or DUI convicts in Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michael Tynan's courtroom. He hugged the judge tabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-27676877058229574342010-08-12T10:59:00.001-07:002010-08-12T11:09:01.013-07:00Why are we making a hero out of this asshole?The image of flight attendant Steven Slater telling JetBlue passengers to f--- off before sliding down an emergency slide with a couple of bottles of beer in his hand made him an obvious tabloid figure, but it's surprising to see that this example of airline arrogance and incompetence has been turned into some kind of working class hero when he's more a symbol of all that's wrong with air travel tabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-208963609472879092010-08-12T10:21:00.000-07:002010-08-13T06:13:10.149-07:00Readers back Donald Duck groperA woman from Pennsylvania is suing Disney, claiming she was groped at its Epcot Center by a cast member dressed in a Donald Duck costume.We like the responses the story got from readers of The Daily Mail in England and Orlando's Channel 13 website. Not a lot of sympathy for the plaintiff:UK:I would have just smacked his beak and stamped on his webbed feet. - Sugarbell, Wolverhampton Did she evertabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-36522251599413664272010-08-04T10:28:00.000-07:002010-08-04T10:43:56.504-07:00Hitchens' cancer presents no ironiesVANITY FAIRAtheist Christopher Hitchens wrote the book God Is Not Great in 2007, and, while promoting his followup, a memoir, in June, was stricken and diagnosed with cancer of the esophagus that has spread to his lymph nodes.He writes on VanityFair.com that "irony is my business and I just can’t see any ironies here," yet concludes that aiding his admittedly slim chances at survival are not onlytabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-27251152902584516522010-08-04T06:52:00.000-07:002010-08-04T06:53:22.016-07:00Bobby Hebb and The Beatlestabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-10758737299617810352010-08-03T14:42:00.000-07:002010-08-03T14:51:40.996-07:00All the Elvis master recordings for $763.99One thousand numbered sets of The Complete Elvis Presley Masters are now on sale for $763.99. The three-box set includes every Elvis recording, digitally remastered, in chronological order, from 1954 through 1974: 30 CDs, 711 master recordings, 103 additional rare recordings, more than 35 hours of Elvis music-- and a 240-page hardcover book. The set ships in October.tabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-56723271097692189912010-08-02T13:25:00.001-07:002010-08-02T13:26:45.124-07:00Mitch Miller was still alive?The enemy of rock 'n' roll is reported dead at 99.tabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-44706917901073160122010-08-01T10:16:00.001-07:002010-08-01T10:29:13.554-07:00See Hines, Hines & Dad at 5:05 on this clipWith the death of Maurice Hines Sr. at 88, Maurice Hines is the sole survivor of the classic entertainment act Hines, Hines & Dad. The brilliant Gregory Hines, (featured in Chapter 9 of Tabloid Baby, "Dead Heat On A Maury-Go-Round-- or Sammy's Glass Eye") died seven years ago August 9th. Go to 5:05 on the above video clip to see the team in action in their glory.And how many of us confused Dad tabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-42530480080819280202010-07-31T11:51:00.000-07:002010-08-01T10:22:05.444-07:00Hines, Hines & Dadtabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-65107408859305513492010-07-30T10:10:00.000-07:002010-08-04T06:54:22.380-07:00tabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-6117480992614341972010-07-28T09:06:00.000-07:002010-07-28T09:18:58.637-07:00Lewis Bailey saw Gene Watson last nightTabloid Baby pal Lewis Bailey writes from Bailey Mountain:"Just saw Gene Watsonat The Georgia Mountain Fair. 9 pm show.Tore the damn doors off the building.Wow.Have you ever heard him live?He is the real thing.Country lives!I am going to have some greens and cornbread."And how about that Rhonda Vincent?tabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-40279006755115843332010-07-25T20:30:00.001-07:002010-07-26T06:35:56.911-07:00Zooma zooma! Louis Prima gets his starTwo of Louis Prima's kids-- singer Lena and punk rocker-turned-Prima tribute artist Louis Prima Jr., were on hand this morning to unveil the New Orleans artist, master showman and Las Vegas giant's long-overdue star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in front of the Montalban Theatre on Vine Street.December 7th will mark Prima's 100th birthday.tabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-37393412232026320452010-07-25T10:07:00.001-07:002010-07-25T10:18:43.152-07:00Louis Prima gets his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame today; Keely Smith got her star in 1998KEELY SMITH ON THE WALK OF FAMECategory: RecordingUnveiled: 22 September 1998Star rank: 1473Address: 7072 Hollywood BlvdPosition: 3 tiles from the curb, facing east(south side between Marshfield and SycamoreGPS location: 34.101414, -118.344281tabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-45360808834449782632010-07-24T14:15:00.000-07:002010-07-24T14:25:08.187-07:00And they decided the circumstances of his death were not worth investigating..."Here's a legacyof the late Danny Gans:Las Vegas may never,ever again be withouta singing impressionist."-- Mike WeatherfordJune 23, 2010, Las Vegas Review-Journaltabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-74097973992671473972010-07-23T18:03:00.000-07:002010-07-23T18:17:57.583-07:00The Prima torch is passed to Art VargasLouis Prima gets his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Sunday and Art Vargas will be at the Rampart Casino August 20, 21 and 22. Bookers for showrooms on the Strip, from the Imperial Palace to the Tropicana, and lounge stages from Cleo's Barge to La Cabaret, should be on hand to book this Vegas veteran with a show that mixes vintage Vegas swing with modern hipster cachet.tabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18810056.post-53174416127640622782010-07-23T12:51:00.000-07:002010-07-23T12:53:54.681-07:00Louis Prima with Keely Smith & Sam Butera & The Witnessestabloidbabyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04665220369368767483noreply@blogger.com0