Farrah Fawcett

Norman Rockwell's Boy Scouts, Updated

You Can't Keep an Old Punk Down

Alana Stewart Chats About Her New Memoir and Her Marriages to Rod Stewart and George Hamilton

Alana Stewart has been an international model, actress and talk-show host. She added filmmaker (Farrah's Story) and bestselling author (My Journey With Farrah) to her résumé when she set out to document best friend Farrah Fawcett's battle with cancer, which Fawcett eventually lost.Stewart's life s ... More >>

Life of Ryan

Anna Bjorn, Miss Iceland 1974 and Hollywood B-Lister, Outed Whitey Bulger for $2 Million

Oh, Santa Monica -- where former Boston mobsters and Iceland beauty queens go to co-retire in the lovely sea breeze. The Boston Globe is reporting that Anna Bjornsdottir, Miss Iceland 1974 turned graphic designer and yoga instructor (so Santa Monica), was neighbors with most-wanted crime boss James ... More >>

Atlas Shrugged

Stage Raw: Fairy Tale Theatre: 18 & Over

NEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Circle Mirror Transformation and Me, As a PenguinCOMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSPUZZLER​Padraic Duffy's noir drama of East German Spies opens this weekend at Sacred Fools Theater Company. Photo by C.M. GonzalezFAIRY TALE THEATRE: 18 & OVERJ. Michael Feldman's ... More >>

Theater Reviews: Chinese Coffee, Daddy, Love, Sex and the IRS

Also, Fatigued, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Greedy and more

Sammy Davis's porno, Linda Evans's androgyny & other jewels from Rona Barrett's cavalcade of celebrity non sequiturs

​Each Monday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets around Los Angeles. Rona Barrett's Gossip Super Special Summer Annual Author: Rona Barrett and, presumably, her staff Date: Summer, ... More >>

Saint John's Health Center Will Pay $5.25 Million to Settle Civil Fraud Investigation

​Saint John's Health Center of Santa Monica, hospital to the stars, will pay $5.25 million to the U.S. government to settle claims of over-billing Medicare. In doing so, the hospital acknowledges no wrongdoing. The hospital, which is where Farrah Fawcett died, had been under investigation fo ... More >>

Seinfeld Actor Jed Mills met "creepy" alleged Dating Game Serial Killer Rodney Alcala in ABC's green room

ABCJed Mills on "The Dating Game"​In September of 1978, 37-year-old actor Jed Mills took a one-day gig that paid well. His role was playing Bachelor Number Two on the ABC hit "The Dating Game." Although Mills wasn't picked by bachelorette Cheryl Bradshaw, he did make a fast $400. The winner ... More >>

Former UCLA Health Worker Pleads Guilty To Accessing Celebrities' Medical Records

UCLAUCLA Medical Center.​Fomer UCLA Healthcare System researcher Huping Zhou has pleaded guilty to violating parts of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act and could be one of the first people in the country convicted under the law, federal authorities announced Friday. Afte ... More >>

Sean Duffy: Signs of Intelligent Life

Set the tricorder to temporal disruption mode, Mr. Spock

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Vanity Fair's Sad Farrah Story

Vanity Fair.com​The new Vanity Fair can't make up its mind which show business tragedy to focus on, and so comes with two covers -- one featuring Michael Jackson and the other, Farrah Fawcett. One posthumous Farrah anecdote in Leslie Bennetts' profile involves a little funeral confession from Fawc ... More >>

He’s Out of Our Life ... Not

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

May Day Cops Dodge Bullet No LAPD officers involved in the 2007 May Day melee in MacArthur Park will be fired, although Chief Bill Bratton had called for four terminations. L.A. TimesCut the Comedy Birmingham High School administrators will be disciplined for allowing Sacha Baron Cohen to use the sc ... More >>

Over the Weekend: Air Sex Championships, Electric Daisy Carnival, Graffiti Muralists Celebrated at Crewest Gallery

Saturday and Sunday provided a much needed break from our laptops and TV screens after the media frenzy over the death's of pop culture icons Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson, plus the loss of Seeds frontman Sky Sunlight Saxon, all in one day on June 25. For those who opted not to participate in a ... More >>

Farrah Fawcett, 1947-2009

ABC/APThose teeth, that hair -- these trademarks and a wildly popular bathing-suit poster printed in the 1970s came, in short order, to define actress Farrah Fawcett. Before long, it was clear, these features had also chained the Charlie's Angels star to a sterile image of plastic, unreflective beau ... More >>

Farrah Fawcett and Ryan O'Neal to Wed

"Till death do us part."Those words will weigh heavily during the planned vows that will be exchanged between troubled actor Ryan O'Neal and longtime companion Farrah Fawcett, whose health is deteriorating from terminal cancer. In a segment of ABC TV's 20/20 program to air Friday, O'Neal, who has ha ... More >>

Fire Sale: Farrah Fawcett's Bathing Suit to Be Auctioned?

By now it may have occurred to Farrah Fawcett that she should have modeled for her famous 1976 poster in the nude. That way, like Marilyn Monroe's red-satin spread that would grace a thousand calendars, the image's value would have resided solely in the woman -- and not have triggered a ghoulish auc ... More >>

What Would Crass Do? Jeffrey Lewis Interprets England's Crustiest Punk Band

Hardcore (re)contextualized

Examining Farrah

The D-Lister’s Guide to Reality-Show Happiness

Kathy Griffin, fan and foe to countless reality celebs, puts her own life before the camera

Deconstructing Prophets

A Considerable Town

Ranking the Museums

Most Overrated Art Shows

Knick Knack Paddy

Nudes Ascending: Farrah’s Naked Art Special, Version 2.0

Velvet Goldmine

Edited by Kateri Butler

Yukking Like Rabbits

LAPD Fiction

How a detective made up evidence and got away with it

The Ghosts of Dogtown

A quarter-century later, the Zephyr Competition Skate Team still rules

Head Trips

Charlie’s Angels and The World’s Greatest Sinner

Babes in Armor

Tia, Cleo and Bruce