Broadway Bares 19

Went to a party at Splash last night for the unveiling of this year's theme: CLICK IT! Internet hook-ups and sexy social networking.

Donate...attend...support.

P.S. You read it here first months ago...

Even more sub-lebrity spying

S. EPATHA MERKERSON. C train downtown. Reading "Women's Health." Sure, she's on some popular cop show, but she'll always be Reba The Mail Lady from Pee-Wee's Playhouse to me...

80s heartthrob siting!

John Hughes' movie fixture ANDREW McCARTHY. Yesterday. Rode the elevator with me in my Chinatown office building. Got off on the 7th floor...mebbe he had an interview with the Tribeca Tribune. An outer-circle Brat-Packer...still looks like he has a thyroid condition...

The Real Housewives of Henry VIII

Y'all KNOW how much I love the Bravo Network (Watch What Happens!), so I plug them at every opportunity.

Tomorrow night, 9pm ET, doe-eyed dreamboat Andy Cohen hosts the gold-plated gals of Orange County's Reunion Special. The 'wives of Atlanta are good for a giggle, the Manhattan mamas at least have a few brains between them, but those menopausal miscreants of California truly deserve a public flogging. Absentee mothers, money-grubbing spouses, conspicuously unreciprocating consumers...that's the sum-up. Here's the long-form laceration, straight from The New York Times.

More subway spycam!

KEITH CARRADINE, on the E train. Reading a script and mouthing lines. Yes, John's son and "Kung Fu" David's brother. Did you know in 1976 he won an Oscar and Golden Globe for the song "I'm Easy" from "Nashville"? He's got 3 new movies slated for release: Happy Together, Peacock and Winter Of Frozen Dreams.

Trailer Park

The Big O

Felt TOTALLY plugged in yesterday, watching the inauguration on TV while participating in Facebook Live Feed discourse on my Powerbook.

Highlights: CHENEY in the wheelchair (how ELSE should a lame duck travel?), MRS. BIDEN's miniskirt and go-go boots, A-SCREECH-A FRANKLIN's satellite dish millenary, our CHIEF JUSTICE forgetting his one paragraph, and that snooze-worthy instrumental intermission.

Photo above from my friend CERELLE CENTANO, a first-hand witness to the historic and 8-years-overdue swearing-in.

Renay of light

LIZ RENAY...exotic dancer...authoress ("My Face For The World To See")...actress (Muffy St. Jacques in John Waters' 1977 Desperate Living)...and ARTIST. Sadly she climbed that big stripper pole to the sky in 2007, but go see her paintings, along with wigs, costumes and sundry personal effects, on display all month at the Deitch NYC...

RIP Jett Travolta

Tragically, JETT TRAVOLTA, 16-year-old son of JOHN TRAVOLTA and KELLY PRESTON, passed away Friday while the family was vacationing in the Bahamas. He apparently struck his head in the bathroom after suffering the last in a series of seizures endured since childhood.

Travolta and Preston refuted a rumored diagnosis of autism, instead claiming Jett contracted Kawasaki Syndrome at the age of 2, a disorder affecting arteries. Bizarrely, on Larry King Live in 2001, Grease and Hairspray star Travolta claimed "obsessive carpet and house cleaning" may have been responsible for the onset of his son's condition 14 years ago.
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