| Lo Fun Fact #1 |
| "Lolita Files" is my real name. It is not a pen name, as incredible as that may seem. There are plenty of Files family members and people who have known me for years capable of validating this. As for the "Lolita" part, my mother named me after the movie based on Nabokov's book, although she saw or read neither. For as long as she lived, she had no idea there was anything sexual or seedy about being called "Lolita". |
| Lo Fun Fact #2 |
| I love fried chicken and fabulous shoes. If you ever want to get on my good side, send Popeye's or Mr. Chicken (my favorite spot in Cleveland) and a pair of
Christian Louboutins. |
| Lo Fun Fact #3 |
| Never show up unannounced or without a Pepsi (preferably Pepsi Jazz Caramel Cream). Better yet, how about not show up at all? |
| Lo Fun Fact #4 |
| I hate the telephone. Don't get mad if I don't call you. I don't call anyone. Don't call me asking why I don't call. Just don't call, okay? |
| Lo Fun Fact #5 |
| I love the internet!!! I love communicating through the internet!!! You can e-mail me and odds are I'll e-mail you right back (if I'm not in the middle of a major project). Makes up for my hangup about the phone, doesn't it? See, I'm not so bad after all!!! |
| Lo Fun Fact #6 |
| I can't stand IMing. Please don't IM me. You will get the cold shoulder. I don't like giving people the cold shoulder, so please don't put me in that position. |
| Lo Fun Fact #7 |
I have four five six wonderful, slap-happy dogs, a bird (some kind of dove/pigeon mix), and a cat, all of whom I love to pieces. If you meet me and ask me about my dogs, bird, and cat, we'll be instant friends. If you meet me and ask me why the f*ck I have four five six dogs, a bird, and a cat, see the above fun fact for how I will respond. |
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| Celebrity Books: Not Just For The Remainders Table Anymore |
| Thursday, December 15, 2005 |
 You can just save that $4.98 you were going to spend on that deeply-discounted copy of Valerie Bertinelli's memoirs. Go on, buy yourself a mochachoca-latte something-or-other from Starbucks instead. Because now you can have your painfully short-shelf-lived celebrity books and your high-priced coffee too, thanks to the Bravo channel.
In a programming maneuver that teeters somewhere between stupid and stupendous, the basic cabler will air a show tonight called Celebrity Autobiography, produced by Eugene Pack. The premise? Stars doing readings from the autobiographies of other stars.
I'm already loving this, just for the fuctitude factor, if nothing else. It's a potential self-sucking celebrity moment of meta proportions. Celebrities reading about celebrities...out loud? Revisiting events in the faded lives of stars most people have long since stopped caring about or can't even remember without an assist from IMDB? Huh? Some of the books being read from are fairly recent, but the bulk of them sound like they're straight from the has-been bin.
Per the story in The New York Daily News:The show, tonight at 10 on Bravo, has actors including Cheryl Hines, Jay Mohr, Kevin Nealon and Doris Roberts reading from the autobiographies from the likes of Joan Lunden, 'N Sync, Madonna, Kathie Lee Gifford, Sylvester Stallone and David Cassidy.
Talk about being hoisted on your own petard.
"You couldn't make this stuff up," said Pack.
And yet it is rather unbelievable to know that Stallone wrote meticulously about the contents of his refrigerator, or that Lunden thought readers would like to know her technique for laying out her clothes the night before or that Gifford deemed a poem to her unborn son Cody worthy of mass distribution. ("His little boy thoughts are a mystery to me, Long before I know him, my little Co-dy.") C'mon now. This one's strictly niche, people. For Hollywood castoffs and downsliders and the starf*cking folks who care about them. And people like me, who love a good train wreck when we see one. Plus there's that whole book factor thingy, and I am an author, after all.
That said, I'll tune in, just for sh*ts and limited giggles. Who cares if this isn't for The Simple Life crowd? Besides, who needs Paris Hilton when you can hear Jay Mohr reading about Red Buttons in a geriatric three-way?
New York Daily News - Daily Dish & Gossip - Making book on celeb bios
bravotv.com: Celebrity Autobiography |
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