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Trending topics

Posted on August 8, 2012 | Leave a comment

Dear Celebrity Reader (and I hope I have at least one):

If you ever find your name under ‘trending topics’ on Twitter, one of three things has occurred:

  1. You are the victim of a death hoax.
  2. You are dead.
  3. You were arrested for DUI.

If you are trending due to reason #1, congratulations!  You are popular enough to be hated by a significant portion of the population.  The rest of the Twitterverse will jump to your defense…or at the very least be reminded of your presence on this earth.

Either way, you’ll score a ratings bump.

If you are trending due to reason #2, you will also get a ratings bump.  “RIP” will start trending, too.  Sadly, you won’t be around to enjoy the good will…but your ancestors will enjoy the associated bump in sales.

If you are trending due to reason #3…

YOU ARE AN IDIOT.

This is one instance where celebrities are NOT ‘just like us.’ Regular people would hire a car if they could afford one, day in and day out.  But celebrities with their ginormous salaries and homes?

Nope.  They drive drunk and wasted and get DUI after DUI after DUI.
You know who you are.  And if you don’t…

Check Twitter.

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Trading places

Posted on May 31, 2012 | Leave a comment

Celebrities — they’re just like us.

Not. Even. Close.

While watching reruns on television last night — yes, it’s that very sad time of year — I was treated to not one but two commercials that referenced Alec Baldwin’s infamous inflight meltdown.

You remember — he was playing Words with Friends after the plane door had closed and had a very heated exchange with the American flight attendants.  Then a very heated Twitter tirade about same.

Then he closed his Twitter account.

Months later, his Twitter is open.  He even made fun of the account on a surprise appearance on Saturday Night Live.  And now not only Capitol One has referenced the incident in their latest ad — starring Baldwin, of course — but also a commercial highlighting the inventors of…

Words with Friends.

Yep, stuff like that happens to me all the time when I have travel mishaps.

Not. Even. Close.

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Super Sonic

Posted on March 27, 2012 | Leave a comment

Turns out teeny tiny songstress Kristin Chenoweth and I have something in common.

It’s not our singing ability — which I’m sure was your first thought — and it’s certainly not our size.  (I have shoes bigger than her.)  And while it’s true we both love musical theatre, I’m talking more ‘guilty pleasures’ here.

Kristin and I are both fans of chain restaurants.

She waxed poetic for her love of ‘em on Conan last night — Olive Garden, Outback Steakhouse, Applebees.  He called her a ‘cheap date.’  I call her a comrade in arms.

One of her favorites and mine?

Sonic Drive-In

Grilled cheese on Texas toast, tater tots, and a grape slush is my favorite meal at Sonic.  But we don’t have Sonics in Manhattan.  Apparently LA doesn’t have them, either.  So Kristin and I both suffer their national ads.  And dream.

See?  Celebrities are just like us.

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