Gossip

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Yesterday’s Gossip is Today’s Post

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Most sites serve up a fresh plate of gossip every morning.  They are staffed by people whose job it is to cut and paste links into some sort of bulleted list, proper spelling and punctuation optional.  I have a real job, so you get the same bulleted list with slightly fewer typos, much later in the day.  And not every day.  I have a life to go with that job.

French Wench off the Bench?

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Sorry kidderoos.  I know you’ve been begging us to stop talking about her, but it looks like the world’s most literal famewhore is, once again, making it impossible for us to ignore her.

A true “brags to bitches” story – whether she is  getting in fights with her co-stars, sleeping in a coffin, or loosening her corset for every wealthy or influential man around, she does seem to find a way to stay in the news.   Although we have to give her some credit on this last point.  She doesn’t just “socialize” with the independently wealthy, she’s been known to “move the brush” for a hipster painter or two and serve as a muse for those that are particularly handy with a “pen”.  (Things aren’t so Misérables anymore are they?!)

But pretty (and flexible) finally seems to have paid off, slightly less literally, for her.  A new strategy!  Sleeping with the theatrical purse strings! Which has finally earned her a starring role.

That’s right boys and girls.  The  child of the slums, the thief’s daughter that has stolen our eyeballs (we wouldn’t keep writing about her if you didn’t keep reading it!) if not our hearts is about to travel the world playing a Queen!

So watch out all you real Queens out there.  Your husbands might get confused and bring her home.  (At least to find out why they really say she has a “throat like a flute.”)

The Crassting Couch: Masterclass

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This may or may not become an ongoing series, depending on what info I can get away with posting about showbusiness without blowing my anonymity or getting in hot water with industry types. I figured I’d start out with something quite tame: the great Bette Davis discussing the biz with Dick Cavett.

After the recent incidents with Spider-Man on Broadway with actors getting flung about like so many water balloons at a sugar jonesing 4-year-old’s birthday party, I do agree with Ms. Davis’ assertion that it is important for actors to be very firm in stating what they will or won’t do, otherwise producers will absolutely take advantage of you. I understand all too well the burning desire to land roles – any roles – but at some point you remember your dignity and begin to fear for your sanity and safety, and realize that it’s not worth sacrificing anything for what is sometimes only dubiously called “art.”

And isn’t the internet magical? Ms. Davis talks about late-night television giving her a second wave in her career. Now clips like this live online for as long as there is server space to keep the tide rolling.