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This May I wrote a column titled “This Shit Is Bananas,” in which I made fun of the baffling lyrics of Gwen Stefani's “Hollaback Girl.” It was a silly column about a silly song, but both the column and song proved to have surprising longevity. “Hollaback Girl,” after approximately 90 million weeks on the charts, …
A long time ago—1968 to be exact—in a galaxy not so very far away, there lived a little movie called The Producers, in which beleaguered impresario Max Bialystock (Zero Mostel) and impressionable accountant Leo Bloom (Gene Wilder) conspired to produce the biggest sure-fire flop in the history of Broadway, a Nazi-loving musical called Springtime for …
If Homayan Bakhtar murdered Andrea Nelson, then he committed what prosecutors call the “perfect” crime—one that looks suspicious but lacks sufficient evidence to prove in court. On Jan. 27, 2003, Homayan Bakhtar, 45, brought 20-year-old Nelson to Hoag Hospital, saying she had passed out in her car. Nelson, who had a lethal amount …
Wednesday, Dec. 7 John Campbell wins a special election in the 48th Congressional District to replace former Congressman Christopher Cox, who disappeared several months ago and is presumed either dead or head of the Securities Exchange Commission. Campbell, who on a good day can pump himself up to ordinary, is less than an impressive candidate, …
If Homayan Bakhtar murdered Andrea Nelson, then he committed what prosecutors call the “perfect” crime—one that looks suspicious but lacks sufficient evidence to prove in court. On Jan. 27, 2003, Homayan Bakhtar, 45, brought 20-year-old Nelson to Hoag Hospital, saying she had passed out in her car. Nelson, who had a lethal amount …
I’m a big fan of OC misses’ increasing reliance on the slice-and-dice plastic-surgery industry, seeing as how it pretty much pays my rent. Yes, as a matter of fact, I do think your labia are looking a little tired, and you absolutely should have that vaginal rejuvenation procedure! Go for it! Bombs away! Carrie Yury’s …
Wednesday, Nov. 9 Well, well, well, well, well: Who's the homosexual now?! We wake up to find that all four of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's ballot initiatives were defeated in last night's completely useless election. Schwarzenegger appeared at the end of the evening and, as if none of this had ever happened, started talking about how …
MINI-KISS V2O, LONG BEACH THURSDAY, OCT. 27 The little people anti-defamation league might not want to hear this, but there is a certain percentage of the population that believes anything anyone can do could be done with more entertaining results by somebody no taller than four and a half feet. And then there are some …
Historically, hip-hop and Latin music have meshed about as well as the Aztecs and Corts. Hip-hop is NAFTA at its ideal, but in Latin America, the music (like the actual NAFTA) travels only from north to south: the hemisphere's rappers import the latest East/West Coast beats but curiously don't incorporate Latin music's influence. And so …
They (“Ellen Griley”) call La Palma the Luxembourg of Orange County: with only 1.9 square miles in area (much smaller than Disneyland), only 15,000 residents (fewer than the visitors to Disneyland each day) and only one bar (luckily less exclusive than Club 33), it's almost a scale model of the giant bedroom communities next door, …
Irvine's official website says God raised the curtain on homo erectus irvinus about 12,000 years ago, but that it took 10,000 years—100 centuries—for that group to do anything; Irvine's done more today in the time it took me to write this sentence. I don't want to impugn the integrity of our forebears—I'm not making an …
New York and Toronto can keep their mega-huge The Lord of the Rings musical, their new Bob Dylan musical, and the reunion of Matthew Broderick and Nathan Lane in Neil Simon's The Odd Couple—and Los Angeles can sit on its rendition of Wicked; also the curiously timely Bauhaus reunion. Orange County has enough meritorious theater …