Writing
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pdxmagazine - Fashion Generator Betsy & Iya |
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Just Out - All in the Family - Dan Guerrero performs "Gaytino!" |
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Just Out - Bless the Beasts - PICA's TBA Festival presents Fritz Haeg |
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Just Out - Life's a Butch - PCS JAW Preview |
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Just Out - PICA's TBA presents Ryan Trecartin |
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Portland Monthly - The Stiffer Picker Upper |
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Portland Monthly - Swing and a Miss. And a Mister. |
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Shameless Pandering |
I was reorganizing my clip book last weekend and realized I have 11 years of a sometime freelance journalist's clips.  They go all the way back to the Dawn of the Internet, when I started working for an entertainment Web site out of Encino thanks to my long lost pal Shelly Lyons. If we think internet journos are little suspect now...try being one in 1997. We got a lot of cable press packets, and were courted by the very worst publicists (Shelly said they were what happened to cheerleaders when they grew up). A vivid memory was going to the Emmys in a vintage sheath dress - it had this A-line lace overlayer that I decided I didn't like a half hour before I was supposed to be there, so I hacked it off. We sweltered on the red carpet at 3:30 p.m. I also remember driving my somewhat beater car to celeb hangouts and even houses -  Harry Hamlin's was hard to find. You know in person he really looks as though his face is made out of clay. It was a thrill, considering the nights I'd spent on the couch with mom watching "LA Law." Kari Wuhrer, the first MTV game show personality famous for "Remote Control," spent the whole interview talking to other people in the restaurant and decided to get a puppy from a litter being given away. Then I somehow erased the recording of our interview. We met again at Chateau Marmont, where there was a naked Smashing Pumpkin. Or at least semi-nude.
 It was my big mouth at the Ritz Carlton in Pasadena that caused me to meet Hugh Hart, a great Tribune Media Services editor and mentor who it seemed couldn't resist meeting the girl who'd called out Ciachi when Scott Baio was trying to launch a new show. I couldn't resist, it was the elephant in the room. SOMEbody had to say it. It was because of Hugh that I met Kari - and Camryn Manheim (she was a phoner), Wendie Malick, the chick from "That 70s Show," and most of the other TV celebs.  ...worst moment: either doing undercover background (being an extra was Hugh's idea) on an ABC Friday night tween show (if I say the name you'll have forgotten it) for a story; or innocently calling Christina Applegate's newest leading man, Bruno Campos, (now on Nip Tuck?) "a nuevo Ricky Ricardo"  to his face. He didn't like that at all. I thought it was a compliment! Fast forward...Portland, 2005. I have the opportunity to write a short piece for Portland Monthly, and I have the perfect subject: Jordan Sage, who rents an address from my work and works 24/7 transporting dead bodies to the hospital.  For my fellow "6 feet Under" fans out there, you will understand the thrill I felt to go to Holman's on Hawthorne. Another favorite worst moment: after turning in my first draft, which I thought was rather droll, then Editor in Chief Ted Katauskus said to me, "Well, is there anything funny about him?" I'll save the polyamory research for another post. :) - and the high arteests I got to meet last year for Just Out's coverage of TBA and JAW. Cliffhanger! |