See which of your friends is up on the latest scandal with the Celebrity Gossip Box of Questions! This game will put your tinsel town knowledge to the test and will definitely add some juicy conversation to any get together!- Fun questions like: Which celebrity personifies a meltdown?- Which celebrity couple has the cutest kids?- Which celebrity has the “it” factor? Read details »
A newly edited version of “The Myth of Valcia.” Selza and her sister Delthi are both admired and reviled for their beauty and talents amoung their beauty worshiping culture on the island of Valcia in the times of the ancient Greeks. Also included are New Poems. Read details »
Alaskan governor Sarah Palin launched onto the national political scene in 2008 when she was unexpectedly chosen as John McCain’s running mate. Soon after, her oratory foibles, shaky stance on political policy, and ignorance of national/world affairs became priceless fodder for journalists and comedians. Now New York Times best-selling human stupidity historian Leland Gregory sets his sights on everyone’s favorite rogue hockey-mom in You Betcha! The Witless Wisdom of Sarah Palin.
Whether she is bagging on the President at a Tea Party, waging war on Family Guy, or slandering Bristol’s ex-beau, one thing’s for certain–Sarah Palin adores to be heard. Gregory has hunted down Palin’s most cringe-worthy comments, including excerpts from the infamous Katie Couric interview, her acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention, and sketchy explanations for her resignation as governor. Death panels, helicopter moose hunting, and all of her magic maverick moments are included in this anthology of photos, quotes, and anecdotal material that is sure to keep readers laughing so hard they will want to cry. Read details »
IN THE END WE ALL FADE TO BLACK.
Pink-haired Hilda and oddball loner Benji are not your typical teenagers. Instead of going to parties or hanging out at the mall, they comb the city streets and suburban culs-de-sac of Los Angeles for sites of celebrity murder and suicide. Bound by their interest in the macabre, Hilda and Benji neglect their schoolwork and their social lives in favor of prowling the most notorious crime scenes in Hollywood history and collecting odd mementos of celebrity death.
Hilda and Benji’s morbid pastime takes an unexpected turn when they meet Hank, the elderly, reclusive tenant of a dilapidated Echo Park apartment where a silent motion picture star once stabbed himself to death with a pair of scissors. Hilda feels a strange connection with Hank and comes to care deeply for her paranoid new friend as they watch old movies together and chat the sweltering afternoons away. But when Hank’s downstairs neighbor Jake, a handsome screenwriter, inserts himself into the equation and begins to hint at Hank’s terrible secrets, Hilda must decide what it is she’s come to Echo Park searching for . . . and whether her fascination with death is worth missing out on life. Read details »
Meet twenty-two-year-old Cherry Pye (née Cheryl Bunterman), a pop star since she was fourteen—and about to attempt a comeback from her latest drug-and-alcohol disaster.
Now meet Cherry again: in the person of her “undercover stunt double,” Ann DeLusia. Ann portrays Cherry whenever the singer is too “indisposed”—meaning wasted—to go out in public. And it is Ann-mistaken-for-Cherry who is kidnapped from a South Beach hotel by obsessed paparazzo Bang Abbott.
Now the challenge for Cherry’s handlers (über–stage mother; horndog record producer; nipped, tucked, and Botoxed twin publicists; weed whacker–wielding bodyguard) is to rescue Ann while keeping her existence a secret from Cherry’s public—and from Cherry herself.
The situation is more complicated than they know. Ann has had a bewitching encounter with Skink—the unhinged former governor of Florida living wild in a mangrove swamp—and now he’s heading for Miami to find her . . .
Will Bang Abbott achieve his fantasy of a lucrative private pic session with Cherry Pye? Will Cherry sober up in time to lip-synch her way through her concert tour? Will Skink track down Ann DeLusia before Cherry’s motley posse does?
All will be revealed in this hilarious spin on life in the celebrity fast lane.
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“I took the job as an actor on the soap LIFE TO ITS FULLEST just to help out my family. My dad was in a tailspin since he lost his gig and I just wanted 6 or 9 months on the show, then would go back to my real life. There had been a lot of speak about a new actor the producers had brought from LA who was supposed to be so talented, so edgy. My father’s an actor and after seventeen years with him, I was immune. Or so I thought. When Fitch walked across the set, and sat down next to me, closer than he had to, all rational thought was wiped from my mind. He was four years older. How could he be serious about me, a high school senior? Just the thought we were having lunch together made my mom crazy. When he was fired, I thought Fitch would go back to LA and resume his life with young women his own age. The last thing I wanted was to make a fool of myself, clutching at him like any female in her right mind would. I played it like I was happy he got a gig playing Lucentio in Taming of the Shrew. Playing it like a sophisticate with no emotion at all, I proved I was a better actor than I imagined. I convinced him I thought we had just been friends.”–Kate Rafferty
“She’s the kind of girl who has no idea how beautiful she is. It makes no difference to her that the crew practically falls over themselves when she walks into the studio. In that way she has no self-awareness, no ego. I crossed the soap opera set that first day, saw her and my life as I knew it was over. Five minutes before I didn’t want to be on this show, didn’t want to be in New York. Working in LA, where I grew up, was where I belonged. But all that changed as I got to know Kate. I decided to stay in New York until she was old enough to make up her own mind about what we would do. It wasn’t about a TV show anymore, it was about our real lives. Then I got fired and she seemed okay with me going back to the West Coast. I was not okay with it.”—Fitch Cooper
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A Guide to an Amazing New You is a motivational and inspirational guide for teenagers and up. It has direct tools and information on how to make your dreams a reality right now. There is details on how i started my life over and started living my dreams instantly. You will learn how to let go of past relationships, baggage and other things that are holding you back from your true potential. You will learn how your words and thoughts have a direct affect on your current situation. It includes full examples, steps and tools for all areas of life. This book will truly add to one’s personal growth. The saying Ask Believe and you shall Receive continues to ring true. You will learn how in this Amazing book. Read details »
Create an entire earring wardrobe—no stylist required
Stephanie Wells’s unique, trendsetting Double Happiness earrings have been regularly spotted on Oprah, Alicia Keys, Rachael Ray, and Beyoncé. Here, the award-winning designer shows you how to make 40 of her signature earring styles—without sacrificing time or budget.
You’ll learn basic jewelry making skills, as well as Double Happiness techniques for making frames, wrapping wires and beads, and connecting multiple wraps. Whether your style is chic, glamorous, rock-and-roll, or bohemian, you’ll find easy-to-make earrings that will revive—and revolutionize—any outfit. Read details »
She counts Hollywood superstars and senior politicians among her closest friends. She’s walked with wild lions in Africa and through the corridors of power in London’s Houses of Parliament. Her philanthropic contributions have helped kids in Third World countries learn to read, and exposed on-going brutal atrocities against endangered huge game by a former US President. She’s piloted light aircraft, acted as special consultant to the British Government on an eleven billion pound per annum legislative reform, planned covert missions with ex Special Forces commandos into Africa, brought Saddam Hussein’s personal pilot together with an ultra orthodox Israeli Rabbi in a peace initiative, dated multi-millionaires, authored the authorised biography of Australia’s most private man, the original wild man and wildlife warrior Alby Mangels, dived with sharks, and survived the crazed assault of a “fatal attraction” psycho. Lynn Santer aka “Auntie Lynn” has indeed led an unbelievable life, so much so she rarely speaks about it for fear people, well, would not believe her. Never before has she openly spoken about the intimate details, and exposed all the evidence to back up her stories, as she does now to close friend and fellow author,Sandra L. Rogers. Read details »
One day I’m a food stylist in California and the next day I’m back in Connecticut creating a catering business to get my sister out of debt. That’s not a bad thing. The bad thing was to learn our first job was catering a hunt breakfast for the new girlfriend of my ex-boyfriend. Yes, him. Atty at Law David “I Can Act Nice, But Not Be Nice” J. Resnick. The same David I left Connecticut for in the first place. What could I do? I couldn’t help myself and the theme of this hunt club breakfast became Blood and Guts. Sure, Bel, as a pastry chef, wore surgical gloves during the preparation of this feast. She did not want to touch it or look at it. But she since went to Cordon Bleu in Paris, she can make cardboard delicious. The hunters loved it—the tripe piccata, the stuffed hearts, the blood orange salad, and the ubiquitous Bloody Marys. They were practically licking the heating trays. Not the super-lawyer up from the city, though. That would be Joel Bernstein. He’s a younger, cuter, sexier and could be smarter Alan Dershowitz type. He starts flirting with me. Why? Then he wants me to go out to dinner with him because he couldn’t eat breakfast. Under duress from my sister, Bel, I went. And yes, Joel was very appealing but here’s the thing. I swore off men after David. You would have, too.
My life was spinning out of control between these two guys. Within days of getting a rave review in the local newspaper, Joel calls and announces I’m being sued for defamation of character. He’s the lawyer and David’s the plaintiff who’s claiming I put him up for ridicule in front of the whole county.
I’ll have you know *I* am the wronged party! And ridicule is a small portion of what David deserves after all he is done.
Somehow, even now I’m not quite sure, while lecturing some single women about how to find a guy (as if my track record is so impeccable), I begin speaking about how your relationship is not low maintenance, that you have to make it the first priority in your life. Suddenly I become the Mating Maven—what the heck is that, I’d like to know—I’m on TV, the radio, I have a book deal and I’m in demand.
All I really know is that I’m in love with Joel, the lawyer who’s going to take me to court and grind me into the ground for my ex-, who’s thinking “some people need dying” and I’m probably at the top of David’s list.
All together now. Draw a circle in the air. Make a slash through it and state “Not Low Maintenance.”—Viva Miller
