C'mon Lily, SPILL!
You go first, then I'll tell you about "someone" having orgies with preppy boys in this back room (unfortunately for him) by the DJ booth at The Palladium.

I know most of you will say, "But Daddy, you couldn't possibly be that old" but I was the DJ for the opening of Top Gun. Tom Cruise was a creepy little weirdo then and I'm sure he is now. He just seemed like this hideous former child actor. His family was there and they were creepy too. The only one that liked him, besides the even more hideous LA people at the party, was Andy Warhol. Andy LOVED him. It wasn't like "Oh, he's great" which meant nothing but he was obsessed by him. I think he just knew that he was going to become famous.
And how dare Tom Cruise play Lestat...
Sacrilege!
There, I feel better now.

Perfectly self-therapeutic bile Daddy.

That's why I always avoided Andy Warhol in person. I didn't want him to see my future.

Lilly is a Holywood insider. You'll probably have to really back her ass up against the wall with one of her dark pecadillos to get her to spill.

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Or...
just give her one of those pills she likes to take and then buy her a couple of cocktails.
She'll spill.

For the three of you who haven't seen the Oprah clips yet, BRILLIANT snippets here:
The Bosh

The funny thing is that I think that they're right --

Hey.. how come nobody else has mentioned this...
Listen to the new Kelly Osbourne track... it is SO Visage - Fade to grey.. (gawd bless me ole mentor Steve Strange, bless im bless im xx)

This brilliant tidbit from The NY Times (and The Week). " Infections passed on due to poor hospital hygiene kills as many people in the US (about 103,000 a year) as AIDS, Breast cancer AND auto accidents combined."

Hummmmm interesting fact eh... especially considering I keep seeing all these shock tv tabloid shows telling folks never to go do 'cheap' plastic surgery abroad as its 'dangerous' .. i would say that FACT above is just as dangerous!

Wow! That's really interesting. I'd never heard that fact before. Makes me even more scared to go to the hospital.

Recently I went to Beth Israel medical center for an intestinal disorder. I went there specifically because stats show it is the hospital in NYC that commits the lowest incidence of mistakes. Well the doc asked for a stool sample. The next day when I called for results on their tests, I was told they lost my shit!

Cost to rig a microphone with a squirt gun: $5

Look on the face of Tom Cruise when you get him all wet: priceless.

Splish Splash

Bahaha!!
Now we have to make it our duty to play even more pranks on him...just to piss him off more, for not having a sense of humor.
Hes such a poo head.
I wish someone would duct tape his mouth shut.

Let's all move to Hebden Bridge.

Unlikely lesbian capital revels in openness

Sun Jun 19, 2005 05:51 AM BST
By Ben Blanchard

HEBDEN BRIDGE (Reuters) - Britain's lesbians are swapping their Birkenstocks for rubber Wellington boots. In fact, they have been doing so quietly for years.

No longer do they only live in urban areas, where gay men and women have long gathered for strength in numbers, avoiding the perceived rural bias against non-traditional households.

Hebden Bridge, a small town nestled in the valleys of the Yorkshire Dales, is the self-proclaimed lesbian capital of Britain, leading the way in gay small-town living.

For Sarah Courtney, looking for somewhere to bring up her children outside a city, its welcoming, alternative feel made it a natural choice.

"We wanted to move somewhere where we weren't going to be the only lesbians with children," Courtney said.

"It's just not an issue to be out here," she added, referring to being open about her sexuality.

QUIT THE CITY

Four years ago, she and her partner swapped the bright lights of London for the town, far from the throbbing clubs and bars of the capital's gay hub of Old Compton Street.

"It's a clean and safe place to have children, and women have children whether they are gay or straight," Courtney said as she prepared vegetarian food in Hebden Bridge's gay bar.

The town of 5,000 people, with its imposing stone buildings and genteel high street, has more lesbians as a proportion of its population than any other in Britain, according to academic studies and census figures.

Some Web sites even say lesbians outnumber their straight sisters by six to one, though most residents laugh at that.

Hebden Bridge has been a hippie retreat since the 1960s. Its left-wing, arty reputation was one the reasons so many lesbians began moving in.

Even today the town, which is less than an hour from Manchester, has an alternative feel to it, with organic, vegan restaurants and health food shops.

There is a plethora of lesbian-run businesses, from coffee shops and juice bars to trades such as plumbers and builders.

WILD LAVENDER

The United States has seen the phenomenon of gay men and women moving out of the cities to places like Provincetown, Massachusetts, and Palm Springs, California.

The shift to the countryside in Britain was pioneered by Wild Lavender, a housing cooperative formed in 1980 by a group of gay men, though they never got further than Leeds, 40 km (25 miles) east of Hebden Bridge.

"Women could come up from London and for very little buy a terraced property," said Jo Turton. She moved to the town next door, Todmorden, with her partner a quarter of a century ago and runs a "straight-friendly" cafe and bar.

"It's a different pace of life."

Notice boards in Hebden Bridge's cafes offer same sex civil partnership ceremonies, which are due to be legalised in Britain later this year, while the gay pride rainbow flag proudly flies outside gay-run venues. Showings of lesbian films are advertised in local shops.

There is even a lesbian bird-watching society and hill-walking group.

That is a big change for a town abandoned decades ago by people who lost their jobs as the industrial economy crumpled under the weight of competition from Asia.

There are no abandoned factories with broken windows or rows of grim terraced houses today. They are more likely to have been converted into chic apartments with wind chimes and Mediterranean-style kitchens.

The area is even starting to attract a larger crowd of gay men, more usually more drawn to big cities.

"You don't feel as isolated as you would in some small towns," said Chris Furminger, 34. "It makes you feel a bit more comfortable now with more gay men moving in."

The transformation of Hebden Bridge has not been without its critics.

"We go to this pub regularly and you couldn't move for lesbians," said Judith Inman, 52. "It makes me feel awful, really uncomfortable."

But many others from outside the gay community have been more welcoming.

"They helped bring jobs to a dying area," said Gareth Richards, who remembers the area before the lesbian influx.

"Everybody just gets on with their lives here. It's a very tolerant place."

© Reuters 2005. All Rights Reserved.

Shark!

Something the residents of Hebden Bridge need not worry about...

The recent news reports from Florida's Gulf Coast and the current spate of hot weather in the North East have definitely brought the subject of shark attacks upon summertime swimmers to my mind.

I recently saw a documentary on the History Channel that was utterly fascinating. It was on a series of shark attacks in New Jersey waters in the summer of 1916 (ah I remember it well!) Though some of the attacks occurred at the beaches, the most astonishing thing is that two or three took place in the Matawan Creek, which travels about 11 miles inland and is partly fresh water. Archival film footage included the townsfolk desperately attempting to "get" the maneater using shotguns and dynamite! And the eventual construction of iron "cages" around bathing spots to make them shark-proof. Not that any of this did any good. The alleged shark in question was apparently caught later by a fisherman well offshore, complete with all the evidence in his stomach.

Supposedly it was these events that inspired Peter Benchley to write "Jaws", 50 or so years later...

Anyway, it was noted that shark attacks appear to be cyclical and occur during periods of warm, humid weather-- beach weather, as it were. But whether or not these cycles are caused by changes in shark behavior or those of the human kind is still unknown. And it may very well be that a single shark is responsible for attacks in a series and that usually a shark will prefer the easier, surer prey with fins.

The doco even had the then-director of the American Museum Of Natural History initially saying that sharks do not ever attack humans, and then sheepishly eating his words (pun intended.)

The Matawan Man-eater

Not that it will make anyone feel any better, but they do tend to pick out lone or smaller bodies as their choice of entree, though large crowds of bathers do tend to attract 'em. And they do come really close to shore, even where the sea is only several feet deep; they occasionally ground themselves while lunging at prey.

I just think we should keep this in mind while enjoying surf and sun this summer. After all, the sea is really the shark's turf and not ours.

And just when you thought it was safe...

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I got bit by a shark once...but then it turned out he was married to a famous actress who had a worse bite than his. Any guesses?

CandyGram.

Angela Lansbury?

Mary Pickford?

I just saw this on gawker... and I did see her on tv an actually thought to meself that smth was a bit odd... mariah carey had 'painted on abs'.... wait a sec can someone help me with this sharpie pen too?

I think Gawker got that wrong, it is a photo of Mortemer Carey.