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Poor Little Rich Residents of the Plaza Hotel
The NY Times' Styles section describes the lonely existence of new residents of the Plaza Hotel condos. Why lonely? Well, if you can afford the pricey digs ($6,400 per square foot!; an owner interviewed paid $5.8 million for a two bedroom), your neighbors are also rich people who probably have other residences and don't live there very often.
Braunstein on God, Darren Star and Joan of Arc
The Peter Braunstein trial finished the week with the defense reading parts of the journalist's diary, written while he was on the run after attacking a co-worker. The Daily News excerpted many parts yesterday, including:
"There are no 'innocent people,' God tells me repeatedly. 'There are no victims.' Either we're all victims, or none of us are. And none of us are.more ›
R.I.P. Aaron F. Spelling April 22, 1923 – June 23, 2006
Aaron Spelling, one of TV's most influential producers, passed on yesterday. Holding the world record for most prolific television producer, he was 83.
Beyond the Pants on Fire, Police Look for Liars
There are about a hundred police specialties but Gothamist loves the idea that there's a special group of police officers just dedicated to polygraph tests. Because then we'd get Law & Order: Polygraph Edition, with all the action in an interrogation room. The NY Post calls a group of police officers "The Truth Squad," and six of the officers are in the Major Case Squad (what L&O: Criminal Intent is about). We're not sure if the officers use polygraph machines or a combination of machine and CIA-spook style lie detection tells, but who knew that pregnant women couldn't take polygraph tests? Since the Post makes a big deal out of this being something new for the NYPD, our hunch (from L&O SVU) that most polygraphs were given by other experts, like from the FBI, was probably right.
The Donald Does Scripted?
City Review on Trump Tower and Curbed on Apprentice contest Jennifer C.'s firing. And speaking of television, some picks for the new season: Veronica Mars, Kevin Hill, and RW/RR Battles of the Sexes 2 (Chicagoist's Margaret Lyons points out Aneesa's bio: ) Plus Aaron at Out of Focus has been blogging the new season.
The New Fall Season
The new fall TV season has started, and it's almost as if Gothamist didn't notice. We can't say for sure if it's that we're used to the hundreds of cable channels that are catered to our whims, our love for DVDs, or spending too much time blogging, but the new fall season just seems like a formality. Seinfeld came on in the midseason, as did Twin Peaks; Melrose Place was the first big summer premiere in the 90s, and now HBO has taken the idea of seasons and thrown them out the door. Nah, what we liked best about the new season so far are the withering reviews, like this bit from Brian Lowry's Variety review of Jack and Bobby (registration required): "Jack, it becomes clear, will toughen Bobby, while Bobby's gentleness provokes warmth and protectiveness in his older brother. (This will come as news to younger brothers such as myself, who were regularly used as circus props and battering rams.)" Surprisingly, the Washington Post's Tom Shales liked Heather Locklear and Blair Underwood in LAX, calling it "good trash." Gothamist preferred low culture's take on other venues for airport TV drama.
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Ask Me, Ask Me, Ask Me
Morrissey is playing a few sold-out shows this week at the Apollo Theatre. I snagged a couple of tickets on eBay for about $20 above the box office price and had them sent to my dad’s office because I don’t have a doorman to receive packages. One of my dad's associates signed for it, but when I went to pick up the tickets today, they had somehow disappeared. We looked high and low, but they could not be located, and because the show is tonight I’m going to have to miss it. Regardless of why the tickets disappeared (Does someone in the office secretly love Morrissey? Could lawyers really be this careless?), does the associate owe me for the tickets? After all, it was his signature on the package receipt.
TV Sweeps Idea of the Week: Catfights
Other places catfights occur: Alleys, offices, sample sales.
It's Ross!
In an effort to thwart the still-in-development gay cable channel, Bravo continues to make stridest to be the gayest network on TV. No, not by airing America's Top Model or Sex and the City or Melrose Place in syndication - by signing Ross Matthews, Tonight Show intern, to his own show, "The Ross Show!," silly! Gothamist loves how Ross says "THE ROSS SHOW! is going to be the most fun ever. Are you ready? I am!" and lets you write into him to see if he can make your dreams come true. The show will made up of bits like his Tonight Show work (which is hysterical - see him call Scarlett Johansson a bitch) and out-of-the-ordinary situations. He's like a nicer Cojo, who is just male Joan Rivers. Expect to see Ross on the Today show stat.
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