These Are The Only Gals That Count -

I don't care about anyone else at those awards - Farrah Fawcett, Kate Jackson and Jaclyn Smith have been cryogentically resurrected.

Its great to see these gals together again after all these years. Aaron Spelling persisted with CHARLIE'S ANGELS despite horrendous reviews when it first aired back in 1976. Now they are here to pay their respects at the Emmys - lucky, because if it were up to that nut case Tori or her cheating - present wrapping room Mom - Candy, we would be left in the dark about what Spelling meant to us all.

58th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards - Red Carpet Arrivals

I'm not really sure what Calista Flockhart and Harrison Ford are up to but they look like they're still together despite their union being completely toxic for their careers.


Ellen Pompeo from GREY'S ANATOMY is the new millennium answer to Calista Flockhart.

What's happening to Lorraine Bracco? I'm sure she needs to let one go (one of my favorites in THE SOPRANOS by the way).

Felicity Huffman is turning up without her husband William H. Macy again Miss Litzi, I think you're on to something. I saw TRANSAMERICA the other night and thought her performance was magnificent despite the script having some major flaws - it started off so well and then bombed.

Hey, who could forget Joan Collins? Not me, no way. She's looking great here (rumor has it that she took 2 months to get ready - but who cares!)

30th Anniversary Screening of JAWS at Guild Hall

Look, I have a lot of respect for Steven Spielberg (because he car pools not because of all his films) and Roy Schieder but out of any film that both of these guys has made why commemorate JAWS? The impact it made all those years ago was wild - enough to make anyone sick to the stomach to go swimming and enough to practically make anything with a fin extinct. Have you seen it lately though? Its really not worth sitting through (only if your really sick in bed and you can't manage to flick the remote). But look at these guys, they're looking great (Schieder should put some socks on though because only Julio Iglesias gets away with those shenanigans).

Yes Schieder was hot in a sort of twisted way in JAWS, but what about MARATHON MAN? If you want to revisit anything in your career you would have to pull out the good stuff - wouldn't you?

An unforgettable moment between Lawrence Olivier and Dustin Hoffman - Hoffman being a devout follower of The Method would work himself up into a frenzy to shoot these scenes - Olivier would simply remark; "Just act!"

How can I tie in Cruise's recent departure from Paramount Pictures you might ask? Simple. It was the above incident that started his slow demise from their friendly coffers. Steven Spielberg was on the phone during the show begging Tom to promote the abysmal WAR OF THE WORLDS - Cruises mantra was just 'Katie, Katie, Katie'. Oh yeah and all that rubbish about how no one should take anything for post-natal depression.

HFPA Annual Installation Luncheon

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association donates about a million bucks in financial grants to film schools and non-profit organizations. These awards were announced during the Association's Annual Installation Luncheon honoring its 2006-2007 slate of officers at the Beverly Hills Hotel, California. Actors attending the event to boost their profiles included Felicity Huffman (master of ceremonies), Annette Bening, Bill Condon, Jenna Elfman, James Franco, Dustin Hoffman, Lisa Kudrow, Diane Lane, Jack Nicholson, Edward James Olmos, Christina Ricci, Mark Ruffalo and Forest Whitaker. See I don't know if this is a big secret or what but the HFPA is a corrupt money making bunch of grannies and grandpas from the old country wanting to rub shoulders with celebs - if you think The Golden Globes has any credibility your nuts. I have to say though that their choices beat The Oscars any day.

How do these guys do it? I remember reading once that Marilyn Monroe used to turn herself on when she wanted to look like 'Marilyn' - these guys must be taking a few pages out of her book (all three by the way were taught The Method by Lee Strasberg)

Christina Ricci is here with a couple of grandpas from HFPA. She needs a bit of a boost in her career (I saw her recently on Grey's Anatomy)

Annette Benings career took quite a nose dive when she married Warren Beaty.

And here's the master of ceremonies Felicity Hoffman and Mark Ruffalo (who was fantastic in Jane Campion's In The Cut and keeps getting hotter) and another guy with a cheque.

Comedy Central Roast Of William Shatner

William Shatner and Farrah Fawcett arrive at the Comedy Central Roast of William Shatner held at CBS Radford Studios, Studio City, California.

William Shatner is definitely in the limelight at the moment with all his Star Trek commitments and then this roasting. He must be feeling hot, hot, hot (pig on a spit comes to mind again). Anyway here he is with Farrah who is letting him know about her latest bout of surgeries. This keeps her occupied and also in the limelight. I really wanted to look like Farrah when I was a kid (I made mum buy the Farrah Fawcett shampoo so that my hair might look something like hers but you know how far fetched that was being - oh yeh, and it was about the same time I had a crush on William Shatner - so there's two dark secrets for you). Good luck to the both of them!

This is proof that if you look from a distance and squint your eyes, Farrah looks hot!

Carrie Fisher turned up and I have to say she is one of my favorite character actresses - great in When Harry Met Sally, Hannah And Her Sisters and Shampoo.

Here's George Takei looking like he hasn't aged a bit and giving that lovely Star Trek Salute - 'Nanoo Nanoo, George' or whatever they used to say.

And last but not least Nichelle Nichols - glamorpuss personified.

Andy Warhol Museum Hosts ~ The Downtown Show: The New York Art Scene, 1974-84

The decade from 1974 to 1984 is the subject of The Andy Warhol Museum's exhibition - The Downtown Show: The New York Art Scene, 1974-84, which is on view until the 22nd of October, 2006. This is the first substantial retrospective of ten critically important years in the artistic development of New York's downtown district - postmodernism was emerging and Reaganism was lingering. Artists showing will include Vito Acconci, Karen Finley, Cindy Sherman, David Wojnarowicz, Kiki Smith, Jenny Holzer, Nan Goldin, Patti Smith, Nam June Paik, Keith Haring, Richard Hell, Carolee Schneemann, Robert Mapplethorpe, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and many others. Punk, minimalism and techno will feature also (this sounds like paradise). You can get more information here. Because I find Warhol so fascinating - I'm going to indulge and just show pictures of him.

Its great to see pictures like this of Warhol. He was a trail blazer of sorts in the 'production' of art. Having a team of willing fans to do your prints and so on was how his factory was run. Seeing him hands on is rather rare.

Warhol had many admirers and he definitely returned the favor. Here he is with the eighties uberbitch, Joan Collins.

Warhol's famous wig recently was sold at auction for US$10800 (if only).

This one's for you Stocking Face.

Star Treks 40th Anniversary On TV Land

William Shatner promotes the 'STAR TREK 40th Anniversary On TV Land' at the Four Seasons Hotel, Los Angeles, California.

Its just great how William Shatner can keep promoting Star Trek after all these years isn't it? To me now he just looks like a pig on a spit but back in his hey day he was funky - and yes I did have one of my first TV crushes on him (dark secret). He recently had a kidney stone removed and wanted to sell it on Ebay but I think that they won't let you sell human body parts there so he had to sell it elsewhere. Good on him for having a go!

Leonard Nimoy looks surprisingly well preserved.

I always found Dr. Spock (Leonard Nimoy) to be one of the most intriguing characters on the show and it wasn't because of those pointy ears or that endearing greeting he would flash up with fingers parted, it was because he was complex, misunderstood - a true character of the future - robot like - wanting to be human but like the tin man, missing a human heart.

Where do I fit in life's great game?

These two still get on like a house on fire!

"Hey, you were the greatest!" - "No you were" - "Hey you still look great after all these years" - "No you do" - "Lets get out of here" - "We've got too much to talk about!"

MIFF 2006 - Geoffrey Rush In Conversation

Geoffrey Rush poses before a stage conversation as part of The 2006 Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) at The Forum theatre, Melbourne, Australia.

Geoffrey Rush is one of those character actors that pleases the senses despite having the occasional mediocre script. He shot to international fame playing David Helfgott in SHINE. I don't know why but I can't stand that film (can I just indulge for a moment and add that my six degrees of separation from him is that the real David Helfgott came up to me out of the blue at a book launch and planted a kiss on my cheek - if you're familiar with the film you will know that this happens to anyone in close proximity to him) anyway, he went on to far more superior roles in ELIZABETH, QUILLS, THE LIFE AND DEATH OF PETER SELLERS. One role that I would have loved to show a photo of is his guest spot on ABC's KATH AND KIM (now that would have been the icing on the cake).

With Lyn Redgrave in SHINE

QUILLS

Playing Peter Sellers (could have done with a meatier script).

Back!

After drowning in my own phlegm for a few weeks with the flu and drifting off into la la land, the intricate web of tangents that my mind is prone to led me from forgotten memories of the past (which included a lucid flashback of being at an ACDC concert and lamenting that I wished I'd seen them before Bon Scott choked on his own spew and died) to one cherished film - FANTASTIC VOYAGE. Surely the only way that I would be rid of this devilish affliction would be to shrink a team of scientists down to a microscopic size and then inject them into my body to laser the gunk out of there.

The ship that would take the scietists on their microscopic journey

When that didn't happen, I just realized why this planet is such a beautiful place. Its artists like Nike Savvas that do crazy things with balls of color (50,000 spray painted balls to be exact) that makes life look so silly and magnificent at the same time.

"Atomic: full of love, full of wonder" by Nike Stavvas is part of a sculpture project called ADVENTURES WITH FORM IN SPACE at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, opens 9th of August 2006.

Sick