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McCartney Crack-Up: Heather the Whore?

Sheesh. Those British tabloid animals have us almost feeling sorry for Heather Mills!

While the UK Sun, which has been doling out Heather nudie and "porn" photos this week, ups the ante with video of Heather stripping down in her “glamour model” days, the News of The World goes all out and says it has proof that Paul McCartney’s estranged wife was once a high-class call girl!

Who's behind the attacks? We checked McCartney’s website. No response. No clarification. No defense.

Only a couple of weeks back, he was going crazy with clarifications and attempts at spin control on innocuous stories about child custody arrangements and the like. But that was before Heather announced she might be doing a Lady Diana-style TV interview to reveal her side of the May-December debacle.

Once Heather’s teams began to position, someone slipped the porno shots to the Sun.

And now this: accusations she was a hooker for clients including Adnan Khashoggi and Arab princes. You think Macca’s people didn’t have the goods on Heather before the marriage? Could someone on his team be behind the latest revelations? Paul, hit that website and say it ain't so.

Amoral. Disgusting. Hollywood. LA Times.

How’s this for a deal: If you’re a director on a movie, and you’re directing a child as your star, and you molest the child-- you don’t get to direct another movie!

Not the case with Victor Salva, the Hollywood director who molested one of his child stars, yet continues to make movies with kids, thanks in part to his patron, Francis Ford Coppola, according to a sickening article that’s been on the LA Times' website for a couple of days before hitting today’s paper.

When Victor Salva made a movie back in 1988, he took time from setting up scenes to have oral sex with the movie’s star, a 12 year old boy. A director, whose power over ingénues and grown men alike can be scary enough, who wangled his way into a stage family and assured the parents he could be trusted to force their child to follow his directions-- had sex with the little boy. Stated simply: He blew the kid. Or had the kid blow him (these "oral sex" charges aren't specific). Salva is a troubled, disgusting, overweight pig. His victim was a child.

Salva was not executed by the State, nor shot dead by the parents. He was sent to prison. When he got out of prison, he was allowed to make another film. Powder was set in a high schoool full of kids. It told the story of a magical albino whom no one understands, sort of like Christ or Michael Jackson or a child molester.

Salva went on to direct the Jeepers Creepers movies. Now, in between therapy sessions for a problem he’s apparently still dealing with, the child molester director is pimping a new Nick Nolte movie, and getting a sympathetic hearing in the nonjudgmental L.A. Times, whose Patrick Goldstein bends over backwards to give "both sides of the story" :

'Powder' Director,
Convicted Molester,
Returns from the Brink
With "Peaceful Warrior,"
the director attempts
trades nightmares for hope.

The article (that's the mangled subtitle as it appears on the Times site-- webmaster's revenge?) includes an interview with Salva, who plays the victim while indicating he's trying to make himself more attractive to the little ones: "I made a terrible mistake, one I wish I could take back every day of my life," he said over lunch at an eatery in Beverly Hills. A bulky man with a scraggly beard and a soft-spoken manner, Salva only sipped iced tea, having recently undergone gastric bypass surgery to lose weight…”

You can gag on the rest of his sad story over breakfast. We’ll give you highlights from the Francis Coppola section:

Throughout Salva's tribulations, Coppola has remained his loyal patron. After Salva's release from prison, Coppola gave him $5,000, which he lived on for a year. When MGM was nervous about hiring Salva to direct "Jeepers Creepers," Coppola, then producing a slate of films at the studio, vouched for him.

"Someone had launched a campaign against Victor, saying, 'How can you give this guy a movie to make?' " recalls Coppola… “So I helped Victor get the job… My attitude is, he has a talent, and that talent in itself is good. We don't have to embrace the person in believing that their art is a contribution to society."

Coppola was on hand for some of the filming of "Clownhouse" — since it was made, in part, at Coppola's home in Napa Valley. "I didn't know of anything improper going on, although I witnessed some things that caused me to raise an eyebrow," he says. "Only in retrospect did things really add up. You have to remember, while this was a tragedy, that the difference in age between Victor and the boy was very small — Victor was practically a child himself." (Actually, Salva was 29 to the boy's 12.)

Back in our New York City years, we were working the 10 O’Clock News with Our Man Elli around the time Norman Mailer helped a convicted murderer named Jack Henry Abbott get out of prison because he showed talent as a writer. Abbott went down to the East Village and stabbed a waiter to death. Back then, people said Mailer had blood on his hands.

You don't have to be Sean Hannity or one of those other right wing lowbrows to get worked up over this one. You just have to be a parent or relative to a child. We're in the business. We work in Hollywood, noted for our hit comedy, Cloud 9. And we know the closed worlds of movie shoots. What happens when it‘s revealed that Salva blew another kid (or forced a kid to blow him) on one of his creepy movie sets? It's long been known that Hollywood embraces criminals and deviates. But what about the LA Times? Will the paper ever lose its attempt at hip distance and objectivity, and take a stand on practices within its hometown industry? We don't think so. Not as long as great artists like Roman Polanski, Woody Allen, Bryan Singer and Victor Salva agree to give them exclusive interviews in fancy eateries.

McDermott sighted, believed alive: Now what?

Patrick McDermott was basically confirmed to be alive and finally received media attention this week as Aussie reporter Nick Papps took Tabloid Baby’s map and instructions and ventured into the Baja Peninsula, where we’d reported that Olivia Newton-John’s missing "boyfriend" had been seen. So now what? Papps is still on the trail, reporting this morning that "a pink sun hat linked to Olivia Newton-John's boyfriend has been found in a Mexican restaurant... The hat contains some grey hairs and may help prove McDermott faked his death at sea off the Los Angeles coast last year." But here in the States, at least, the so-called “mainstream” news and tabloid media have not joined the hunt. They splashed the story for a couple of days, waited for more information to be dropped in their laps, then moved on. And in this time of terror alerts, unguarded ports and border hysteria, the U.S. Coast Guard has indicated that bringing McDermott home is not among its priorities. Too bad. Papps appears to be only days behind McDermott, who, as Tabloid Baby reported three months ago, had been sighted in and around the remote town of Todos Santos, despite his alleged drowning off a fishing boat last summer. In part due to Newton-John’s inaction, that apparent mishap was soon believed to have been a staged death (he owed alimony to his ex-wife, debts Newton-John could have covered if she and McDermott were indeed a couple). Don’t look to American television news or infotainment media to pick up the story. Tabloid shows like Entertainment Tonight won’t touch it because the facts are sure to bring embarrassment to Olivia Newton-John and possibly blow the lid off the Hollywood lies it regurgitates. Network news doesn’t have the imagination. Cable news outlets merely bring on talking heads to yap. Unless Nick Papps brings this story to conclusion, it will take a decent tabloid newspaper, an Australian news organization—or a publicity-seeking bounty hunter-- to take the step to bring Patrick McDermott back alive. (Should Mr. Murdoch or any of his rivals need an intrepid reporter to bring him back alive, Tabloid Baby has an experienced, award-winning contributor who’s rarin’ to go.) We’ll keep you posted.

100,000

100,000 visits! We arrived in the Tabloid Baby offices this morning to find our site has gotten more than 100,000 visits (and more than 207,000 page views) since we started keeping track at the end of January. Thanks to you (and Heather Mills, Patrick McDermott, those rock and rap stars who played the war profiteer's Bat Mitzvah party, and all the "mainstream" news outlets who've picked up our exclusive stories, whether they've given us credit or not). Spread the word!

Son of The Nutty Professor

This is the new Nutty Professor, if Jerry Lewis has his way and lives to turn his movie classic into a Broadway musical. No Eddie Murphy, no recognizable face this time around. Michael Andrew is a small-time big band tribute singer from Orlando who’s apparently buttered up old Jerry with a Nutty Professor segment in his act. (Andrew “Dice” Clay started his career doing that very same impression. No kidding.)

This Andrew has done time at the Rainbow Room, at Merv Griffin’s Coconut Club and was in a scene in the Jennifer Love Hewitt movie, Heartbreakers.

He and his band have also done many sets at Rat Pack’s on the Avenue in Orlando. He’s got pictures of himself performing as Professor Julius Kelp on his website. And pictures of him with Jerry. You can hear him sing here. Pleasant voice, but we maybe would have thought of asking Harry Connick Jr. or Harvey Fierstein first.

Jerry wrote starred and directed the original. He plans to write the book and direct (he’ll hire songwriters for the tunes), a la Mel Brooks and The Producers. He wants to open at the Old Globe in San Diego next year, then hit Broadway in October 2008.

Except Jerry is 80… let’s hope he makes it.

(Jerry is God. Read the ultimate Jerry Lewis behind-the-scenes stories here.)

McCartney Crack-Up: We just like this headline

Heather's photo mate will talk about their sex acts after the shoot. Those British tabs really know how to write 'em.

Meanwhile, still no clarifications or sputters of outrage from the McCartney website, which adds to our suspicions his camp leaked the pix and has him tucked away in a room with a bale of marijuana.

The Sun's having fun doling out the photos. The latest are here.

And, all right, the original batch is here. Perverts.

Our Man Elli remembers the Beatles' man Billy

Our Man Elli in Israel, far-flung correspondent and subject of the documentary project Sex & Baseball, emails an appreciation of "Fifth Beatle" Billy Preston:

you know how they have lists of players who played for the yankees and mets, white sox and cubs, dodgers and angels? billy preston is in a league all his own: played for the beatles, stones, dylan, ray charles, little richard, aretha, and clapton. the all-time utility all-star.

That’s the ”baseball.” We, sadly, remember the sex. Interesting that his inititial obits left out the fact that he wrote “You Are So Beautiful,” and the bizarre episode in 1991, when Billy was arrested in Malibu for sexually attacking a 16-year-old boy and showing him dirty pictures. He pleaded no-contest to cocaine and assault charges and was sentenced to nine months in rehab and three months of house arrest. He later wound up in prison.

We remember seeing Billy perform with the Stones at Madison Square Garden in 1975. When Billy played his solo spot, Mick Jagger distracted the audience by swinging on a trapeze. Watching Billy perform from the front row at the New Haven Coliseum a couple of years earlier, we realized he was wearing an Afro wig.

A tip of the wig to Billy, and a tip of the Tabloid Baby hat to Our Man Elli.

McCartney Crack-Up: Who leaked Heather sex pix?

Paul McCartney’s estranged wife Heather Mills is back in the UK Sun newspaper in a second round of simulated sex photos dug up from a 1988 German love manual.

While her people dispute the Sun’s claim that the pix are “hard porn,” we can’t help but notice that Paul for once isn’t using his website to set the record straight.

Hmmm… with word that Heather is planning to reveal secrets of the broken marriage in a Diana-style BBC interview on the BBC, we’d venture a guess that McCartney’s people leaked the photos. Macca might be a wide-eyed romantic, but he's a thrifty one-- and she didn't sign a pre-nup.

(Meanwhile, see the photos here. The Sun claims the uncensored versions show Heather in the vicinity of a “sex toy” and “erect manhood.” If you have the originals that prove or disprove the “hard porn” claim, send them here.)

Tracking McDermott: The Tabloid Baby Timeline

Amid new sightings of Patrick McDermott, the alleged boyfriend of Olivia Newton-John suspected of faking his death and hiding in Baja Mexico, phone calls and emails are coming into Tabloid Baby from around the world, acknowledging our team’s leadership in the effort to bring him back alive.

Tabloid Baby was the first to report that McDermott had been seen in and around the town of Todos Santos on Mexico’s Baja Peninsula—three months ago-- but the story is only now receiving mainstream attention, as Australian newspaperman Nick Pappas plasters Aussie tabloids with his first-person accounts from the remote vacation region.

In fact, the McDermott mystery was the very first story covered by the new Tabloid Baby news, comment and Tabloid Baby links site, when the major journalists behind the revival of the syndicated television newsmagazine, A Current Affair turned it into a news outlet after the show’s cancellation by Roger Ailes (in part because the series was beating his Fox News on stories like this one).

The very first call to keep the McDermott story alive was posted on SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2005. Short, but to the point:

Scandal: No justice for Patrick McDermott
Here we have a Hollywood mystery with more twists and clues than a Michael Connelly novel, all in plain sight. So why did the media drop the story?

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 05, 2006
Where in the world is Patrick McDermott?
…It appears that Olivia Newton-John’s team has successfully put this scandal behind her. But what happened to Patrick McDermott? And why doesn’t anyone care?…

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2006
McDermott Mystery: Newton-John responds
Where in the world is Patrick McDermott? Olivia Newton-John’s spin machine has addressed Tabloid Baby’s questions about her behaviour regarding the disappearance of her “boyfriend” Patrick McDermott last summer. In a blitz of long-distance interviews with Australian news media yesterday, Newton-John refused to go into details about the case, but astonishingly used the mystery to promote her new album and concert tour! The questions remain: Where is Patrick McDermott, and what does Olivia Newton-John know about his disappearance?

The mainstream media was still too lazy to take our cue. So within weeks, the Tabloid Baby news team went out and did it themselves:

MONDAY, MARCH 06, 2006
EXCLUSIVE! "PATRICK McDERMOTT IS ALIVE!"
"Patrick McDermott, Olivia Newton-John’s missing boyfriend, is alive." Sources close to the case have told Tabloid Baby that McDermott staged his death because of financial troubles, and that he has been sighted numerous times since his disappearance, in the Baja California region of Mexico. This explosive news was uncovered over the weekend at the 60th annual Fred Hall Fishing Tackle & Boat Show in Long Beach, California, just miles from where McDermott was last seen on a charter fishing boat. “Oh, he’s definitely alive,” one source said. “There have been sightings. Lots of them. He’s been seen in the Baja. In Todos Santos.”

Website L.A. Observed ran with the story, but from the L.A. Times to Extra, the biggies were more concerned with Lindsay Lohan’s fender benders.

And then, acclaimed producer Michael Lynn of E! True Hollywood Story brought the story to the international forefront-- while Tabloid Baby went a step further and got confirmation: The U.S. Coast Guard considered Patrick McDermott to be alive:

THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 2006
Exclusive! New indications that McDermott lives!
E! True Hollywood Story tackles the Olivia Newton-John saga this weekend, and their reportage confirms what Tabloid Baby has been reporting for months now: Newton-John’s alleged boyfriend, Patrick McDermott, missing from a fishing trip since last July— is alive! This information is supported by interviews with the U.S. Coast Guard, the crew of the fishing boat Freedom, on which McDermott was last seen—and by Tabloid Baby’s source in the area where McDermott was allegedly sighted... “One person finds the face somewhat familiar,” reports our source in Todos Santos. “Let me just say, forget the Police..."

SUNDAY, JUNE 4, 2006
McDermott Lives: Media finally follow our lead...

Today, our investigators in Todos Santos remain on the hunt. In wake of the publicity, one emailed today, with a message that may explain why McDermott has been spotted recently—and why he’s remained hidden in plain sight for so long:

“Well most of the snowbird gringos have left TS now, so if this guy is around he should be a little more conspicuous….I think most folk down here would just not want to get involved. They came down here in an attempt to get lost and a lot of folk have re-invented themselves, so they may have some sympathy for McDermott.”

McDermott Lives: Media finally follow our lead

Patrick McDermott, Olivia Newton-John’s missing boyfriend, is alive. Sources close to the case have told Tabloid Baby that McDermott... has been sighted numerous times... in the Baja California region of Mexico... Tabloid Baby continues to lead the way in keeping the Patrick McDermott story in the public eye... In the spirit of Tabloid Baby’s original “Stories To Steal” site, (we) hope to open avenues of investigation for intrepid reporters and editors to take in the pursuit of the truth...
-- Tabloidbaby.blogspot.com, March 6

Three months after Tabloid Baby broke the story that Olivia Newton-John’s missing “boyfriend” Patrick McDermott had been seen alive in Baja California, an intrepid newspaper reporter has picked up our lead-- and is getting credit for the scoop.

Kudos to Australian newspaper reporter Nick Papps for getting his editors to pay the tab for him to follow our information to the town of Todos Santos in Baja California, where sources had told Tabloid Baby in March that McDermott had been sighted.

As Tabloid Baby operatives have been doing for the past few months, Papps has been showing McDermott's photo around, and now reports that three separate witnesses say they’ve seen McDermott in the remote region as recently as ten days ago. McDermott vanished from a fishing boat last July. All along there were suspicions he faked his death to escape debts and possible jail time over thousands of dollars in unpaid child support.

Equally suspicious was Newton-John’s failure to report him missing or acknowledge his disappearance for more than seven weeks-- until the media picked up the story.

Several Tabloid Baby contributors were on the story from the day it broke, scooping the world for the television show A Current Affair. They worked closely with Papps, and featured him on the show. After A Current Affair’s cancellation, Tabloid Baby remained the only major news outlet to stay on the McDermott story and break new leads.

Papps’ enterprise casts shame on the United States news and tabloid entertainment media, which scoffed at Tabloid Baby’s digging. Already, Fox News is trumpeting the “exclusive.” Watch as the American media jumps on the story (and look here to see why). Propaganda outlets like Entertainment Tonight and Good Morning America, which folded McDermott’s saga into the Newton-John “tragic diva” myth, will revert to scandal mode, though few are expected to use the story as an avenue into exploring Hollywood relationships of convenience.

OJ Simpson's sex tape surfaces

Back in 2001, one of Tabloid Baby’s surveillance expert contacts called us to report they’d been approached by OJ Simpson’s team to help made a sex video. The video would star OJ Simpson and two women. It would be shot in a hotel room in the Caribbean. The surveillance team would rig the room with hidden cameras, so the tape could appear to have been made without Simpson’s knowledge.

Simpson was supposedly promised a million dollars for the one-off performance.

A few months later, The Globe tabloid reported that an OJ Simpson sex tape was indeed made, with his girlfriend and a former Penthouse model at the Mutiny Hotel in the Coconut Grove section of Miami. It was a “hidden camera” sex tape, that could have been made without Simpson’s knowledge.

The tape never surfaced.

The story faded. Until now.

Apparently the tape is out, on sale at BadOJ.com, advertised as a three-way sex romp, allegedly featuring Simpson, “his ex” and “a prostitute” “secretly filmed” with a “hidden camera,” bringing two very unique tabloid scandal genres together: the celebrity sex tape and the celebrity wife murder; and inducting OJ Simpson into yet another Hall of Shame.

Oddly, the distinguishing characteristics that are said to confirm Simpson as the man in the video are his gimpy knees.

(For the behind-the-scenes story of the OJ Simpson murder case,the story of how Tabloid Baby's author made a major break in the case-- and more for more celebrity sex tape stories, check out Tabloid Baby, the book! And for some glimpses at the OJ tape, click here.)

Piloh Shitt

We haven’t seen anyone yet pick up this item, and until now would never think of doing a story about Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s baby, so we must give props to popbitch, the wildy irresponsible, most readable and copied of all gossip resources, for pointing out the wild irresponsibility and long-term implications of the couple's baby-naming decision.

How out of touch can they be?

How, after all the planning, the spin mastery that turned their narcisistic clinch into UNICEFian world service, the flight to Namibia, the personal assistants, nannies and the rest, could they skip on the basics?

For our part, we'd spent weeks settling on names for our tabloid babies, vetting each choice through the future-schoolyard-taunt meter: “Smelly Nelly,” "Anna Banana," "Enos Penis," “Elvis Pelvis,” “Muhammad Muhammad Ali The Black Superman,” "Dick"-- you get the idea-- so forget Britney Spears, aside from Brad Pitt being heavily back into the Anistonian-era pot habit, how could ET’s wet dream be so careless?

Shiloh Pitt? Shiloh Pitt?

Sez Popbitch: “Poor baby, how long will it be at school before Shiloh Pitt gets nicknamed Piloh Shitt?"

Couric promises CBS Tabloid Evening News

As Katie Couric prepares to plop into Dan Rather’s old chair, she says ready to take the homey bully pulpit and turn it into tabloid feeling fest. She said so, in her own words, as she dropped into Las Vegas yesterday to give a perky pep talk to the suits from the CBS affiliates, in speech that was taken right out of the landmark book, Tabloid Baby, and could well have been the call to arms Peter Brennan gave the A Current Affair troops twenty years ago.

From The Hollywood Reporter:

Couric hopes to bring a "humanistic, more accessible" approach to her job.

Couric predicted that the “pretentious era" of the evening-news anchor is going to be a thing of the past.

"The audience is more sophisticated than we give them credit for -- they don't want a mechanical Ted Baxter… I'm a serious, caring, compassionate person. I hope that comes out. ... People want a multidimensional (news anchor) and not someone they can put in a box…”

Couric said she thinks that the media are "held captive by spin," choosing to repeat "two separate spins" rather than search for the facts in a story. She also said the news has become somewhat inaccessible, seemingly being programmed for inside-the-Beltway policymakers and other reporters rather than for at-home viewers.

"We need to be more level with viewers and explain the issues in a plain-spoken way," she said.

To top it off, CBS boss Leslie Moonves told of how he wooed Couric to the network, by going out for drinks, then taking the party to the rec room!

"We probably drank more bottles of wine on my couch -- don't worry, my wife was in the next room!"

We knew Les was out to destroy the liberal, powerful CBS News, but getting drunk with the star while wifey (the lowly employee he hit on, banged in an extramarital affair, then married) sleeps on the other side of the wall? That’s right out of the Tabloid Baby playbook! (And we're not talking about Maury Povich. Maury's a class act. We just like the couple comparison...)

We know Katie’s read Tabloid Baby. The week the networks banned Tabloid Baby’s author from their shows, a copy was delivered to her former valet/producer Jeff Zucker while he was in the hospital. So quit wasting time. read the book and see what we mean.

TV Land Shame: Sex show theft was deliberate!

"This is virgin territory for us. TV Land thought long and hard about this title."

Virgin territory. Long and hard.

Shame on TV Land! And a public dressing down to its press flak, who used a smutty, double entendre quote to defend the formerly family-oriented network’s decision to steal the name of the acclaimed, high-quality sex series, My First Time, for a new show about TV debuts.

Tabloid Baby broke the story that the nostalgia channel changed the name of My Big Break to My First Time, set to debut June 28. The New York Post’s esteemed Page Six column runs the story today:

TITLE OVERLAP
TV Land is in for a whopping embarrassment with its new series, "My First Time," in which actors talk about their big breaks. It turns out the family-oriented show will be up against the DVD release of the steamy Showtime series of the same name which re-enacts first sexual experiences and features porn stars like Buffy Sinclair and Lexington Steele. "There will surely be confusion in the marketplace," a source close to the adult series tells tabloidbaby.com. "TV Land made a big mistake when it filched the name." But a rep for the retro network insisted the title is staying, adding cheekily: "This is virgin territory for us. TV Land thought long and hard about this title."

“Expect fireworks before the Fourth of July,” says a source close to the original series. “There’s only one ‘My First Time’ in the current TV marketplace-- and all media, for that matter. The DVD release could very well be accompanied by an injunction against TV Land show. It sure doesn’t help their case that their spokesman admitted the theft was premeditated.”

McCartney Crack-Up: Hello? Goodbye!!!

Signs of Paul McCartney’s post-marital breakdown have bubbled back to the surface.

The hapless romantic and penny-pinching control freak returns with another (apostrophe-free) website message, trying in vain to take the wheel of the speeding media express he's ridden comfortably for close to fifty years and control the spin on coverage of his embarrassing separation and probable divorce from the lovely former nude model Heather Mills:

MESSAGE FROM PAUL
01.06.2006 I continue to be dismayed by inaccuracies in the media. I have seen the story in Hello magazine regarding custody arrangements for Heathers and my daughter, Beatrice, which is simply not true. We both have agreed to work at all times in Beatrices best interest, but no decisions have been made yet.

This latest communique comes after a ten-day, hopefully ganja-filled, break following six rapid-fire demands to get the story straight. We guess it didn't work, because when even a check-writing celebrity ass-licker like Hello! magazine is screwing you over, you’ve got troubles indeed. But again, with a billion in the bank, why does he care? Maybe it's because he didn't make the cover.

Carolla Mystery: Who is this woman?

Who is this woman? Is she alive... or dead?

That's the question people are asking the Tabloid Baby staff after we posted the above photo that appears on the new "Deaf Frat Guy" website, promoting and marketing a "character" featured on the Adam Carolla Radio Show, the grating broadcast that replaced Howard Stern in Los Angeles and other markets. The website is a ripoff of National Lampoon's Animal House and High School Yearbook parody from the Seventies.


The photo, which depicts a comatose or dead woman who has apparently been vomited and urinated upon, appears on a page marked "Buzz of the Week."


The photo caption reads: DFG NOTE: Moose tagged this chick at a family reunion and found out she was his cousin. 'Kin' I get me some of dat?

The site asks readers to send in additional witty captions for the photo. What's not known is the identiy of the woman, whether the picture was sent in by a fan of the Carolla show, whether she is dead or alive, or the reaction to the shocking photo from Teresa Strasser, the actress, TV host and Emmy-winning writer who joined the Carolla team as a newsreader and female foil around the time the site appeared.


If you have any information, Email us here.

Adam Carolla vomits on a coed

“…And when we come back, the Deaf Frat Guy will be here…”

Jesus Christ! It happened! Yesterday, around nine a.m. on morning radio in Los Angeles: Howard Stern’s replacement actually promoted one of his dead air “characters.” Going into a commercial break, he teased a “bit” that actively forces listeners to seek another station-- as if it’s something to look forward to.

Incredibly, the dunderheads behind the Adam Carolla Show think they've hit on a winner with their time-killing ridicule of the powerless (conveniently, this group can't hear the show). They've even launched a “Deaf Frat Guy” website that manages to rip off National Lampoon’s Animal House and classic High School yearbook simultaneously, while including photos like this:

A supposedly comatose young woman, splashed with vomit (and possibly urine), “tagged” by a fellow frat guy at a family reunion. A staged “gag” shot, or a photo sent in by a Carolla fan? It’s worth an investigation.

Howard Stern gave us strippers and lesbians. Adam Carolla vomits on a coed. This is Howard’s revenge for all the years of abuse at the hands of the FCC: the dull, droning loudmouth Adam Carolla and his slugs, including the grating “sportscaster” who beats to death a bubbling “fishtank”/American Idol Dog Pound joke, and a new news girl playing it straight and obedient, giving Carolla the set-up lines to launch his numbing “rants.”

Hey, we may have led the charge, but Tabloid Baby‘s not alone. Rabid entertainment columnist Nikki Finke has joined the cause, bemoaning “what we're stuck with now: Adam Carolla, that unwitty slow-talker who's not just a panderer but also a punishment to listeners.”

But Nikki has discouraging news: “We have ABC's lame late night talk-show host Jimmy Kimmel to damn for Carolla's presence: Mr. Smug is not just the show's creative consultant but he's also the ‘advisor’ -- and I use that term loosely -- to develop new talent and show ideas for Infinity (and make guest appearances on Carolla's program). So I'm told that, as long as Kimmel's contract is ironclad, Carolla stays put.”

Here’s an idea: Let’s give Johnny Wendell a shot.

Johnny is the Boston rocker turned L.A. hipster and music writer who suddenly turned up on L.A. radio one weekend and exploded like a smart bomb over Dullsville. Johnny’s the real blue collar sage, a talker with real wit and facts to back up his outrage. He knows radio, he knows pop culture, he's got real balls, and he doesn’t look down at his audience as a bunch of beer-swilling, belly-bearing yingyangs who denigrate women and foreigners. Johnny makes you laugh and encourages you to think. His monologues might sound like tirades, but they get listeners reaching for the telephone, not the dial. He speaks to listeners because he’s one of us. And he doesn’t wear undershirts in LA.

For the past seven weeks, Johnny has been talking up a storm afternoons on 106.9 Free FM in San Francisco—another station where the Kimmel/Carolla machine has its hooks into the morning hours—and he’s been doing it a whole different way.

Carolla and company are sucking morning radio into a big black hole. Until Howard Stern returns with a packaged, simulcast version of his satellite show, mornings will only get darker.

In New York, they saw the writing on the floor and yanked David Lee Roth when they realized he wasn’t working.

So howzabout giving Johnny Wendell seven weeks in the morning?

Give Carolla and crew the summer off to work up some new “bits” and some interviewing lessons so the show can attract some real guests.

In the meantime, we won’t have to be fumbling with the radio dial on the drive in to work. It's getting dangerous. Carolla could kill someone.

Sexclusive! My First Time DVD vs. TV Land series!

The family-oriented TV Land network is in for the biggest embarrassment in its history. Tabloid Baby has learned exclusively that its upcoming series, My First Time, will have to compete with the DVD release of the acclaimed sexually-themed series of the same name!

We first reported earlier this month that the six-part TV Land series, premiering June 28, went through a name change from My Big Break to My First Time, despite the fact that My First Time is the name of the recent, racy, 26-part Showtime docudrama series that re-enacted women’s first sexual experiences (in explicit, flesh-baring detail). We also revealed that many of the actors featured in the Showtime series are major porn stars.

WPOE Entertainment plans to release the first My First Time DVD the last week in June. That means consumers will be confronted simultaneously with two very distinct My First Time products and ad campaigns: a sexually-oriented, adults-only series that already has a history and fans; and a family-oriented show that “looks at the roles that changed the lives of Hollywood’s biggest names.”

“There will surely be confusion in the marketplace,” says one source close to the original series. “The original My First Time series got swift brand recognition when it first aired, and its legend and mystique have only increased as fans demanded that it be released on DVD. TV Land made a big mistake when it filched the name.”

The original My First Time series, subtitled “True Stories of Love & Sex,” features not only the first and only mainstream performances of top porn stars like Monique Alexander, Dru Berrymore, Rhiannon Bray, Katie Morgan, Buffy Sinclair, Lexington Steele and Justin Slayer and Lexington Steele, but the very first performances of future adult stars like Dick Smothers, Jr., Buffy Sinclair and Allison Whyte.

The My First Time DVD collection will also feature-- for the first time-- the never-seen pilot to the series, notable because it stars three women who would become top names in the adult entertainment field. Jessica Drake and Aurora Snow team up with TJ Cummings in one segment. Nicole Sheridan and her husband Voodoo show up—and show all— in another.

Will TV Land change channels, look back nostalgically and go back to the more apt title, My Big Break? Stay tuned…

Our Man Elli hits a holiday home run

Our Man Elli in Israel sends us a piece of baseball history to enjoy over Memorial Day Weekend.

Just click here. Then, as Elli suggests, “enjoy it and have a great holiday weekend.”

You can read the story behind Elli's gift here.

And catch Our Man Elli by clicking here and then clicking ENGLISH TV NEWS. The veteran newsman from New York City is now in the hot zone as a TV news reporter for the Israel Broadcasting Authority.

But he still insists that Baseball Is Life. (And we were there this week to see the Royals blow a three-run lead and lose to the Tigers at home. The evening game in a classic ballpark, about 11 games into a 13-game losing streak, was another piece of baseball history. This weekend, they face Elli's Yankees-- and lost 15-4 today...)