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Should a writer just give up and become a socialite instead?
For a while lately I have been complaining about my resilient state of glamorous poverty (that's right kids being a ...
Free Burma Alliance. The Humanitarian crises you never knew anything about.
Scallywag and Vagabond recently headed over to the Friars Club where the Free Burma Alliance was having a fundraiser for those individuals...
The demise of the Chelsea Hotel.
Anyone who has been anyone or is anyone has at some point stepped through New York’s Chelsea Hotel,...
And so it continues- Darren Bettencourt insists his client Jill Zarin is not a...
Media whores. That's one mouthful of a word, well strictly speaking 2 mouthfuls but that hasn't stopped publicist Darren Bettencourt who has...
The new breed of Coke Whore.
In its most derogatory sense a coke whore is a 'slut' who offers herself up to a man in exchange for the...
The deceitful tricks of pseudo celebrities.
It’s a Sunday afternoon and I get a phone call from a publicist who shall remain nameless who wants to know if...
CHILDREN OF WAR – Breaking the cycle
NYC. October 12, 2010, Children of War, Bryan Single’s award-winning documentary on the rehabilitation of Northern Ugandan former child soldiers was unveiled...
The dizzy and nasty rise of the NY Publicist…Welcome Alison Brod.
Let me say from the outset I have no malice towards Alice Brod and her public relations concern: Alison Brod Pr. That...
Son of South. The fight for racial equality…
Dr. MAYA ANGELOU WANTS THIS FILM TO GET MADE.
A movie should nourish you a little beyond its popcorn intake. In the stellar fundraiser...
Taxi Driver. An exploration of a ‘transient’ class.
Taxicab drivers are, according to the 2002 US Department of Labor, 80 times more likely to be robbed and 60 times more ...
Gasland: Light my (water on) fire…
There are certain things you can no longer afford to ignore. In the movie Gasland, opening today at the IFC, Josh Fox...
MONEY-TO-WEAR, Skanking it up in East Hampton.
Or how to wear 8 grand north of your flip-flops and still look like you were this close to getting cast on...
Ties to the Future: The new Breed of Gentlemen.
If one were to announce the imminent arrival of the sons of privileged families at your dinner table one would not...
How you became a modern day celebrity.
The word ‘celebrity,’ in and of itself has become ubiquitous in our culture. Trying to define it isn’t what many...
Meet KIKI, the preferred Decadent Girl.
Never mind the first decade of the new millennium, this is very much a fin-de siècle icon of our imminently doomed society, ...
