MEET THE PARENTS; * WE TAKE THE ‘GUESS WHO’S COMING TO DINNER’ THEME, DRAG IT INTO THE 2000S AND ADD A FEW MORE ‘OTHER’ CATEGORIES
Matthew Stanley of San Francisco still gets teased by his seven brothers and sisters for the boyfriend he brought home one Thanksgiving. The eldest son had been out for a number of years, so the fact that he was gay wasn’t the issue. “What threw my family for a loop…
MADONNA, RITCHIE MAY BE ENGAGED OR NOT
If the British tabloids are trustworthy and we know they are then The Sun should have it right: An interview published Wednesday quoted Madonna as being engaged to movie director boyfriend Guy Ritchie. So read this and see if you came to the same conclusion we did: “Guy has asked…
A MATTER OF RACE; LANDMARK BOOK HAS ROOTS IN OAKLAND
A STUDY of 600 years of the “misadventure of race” began with a bewildered 11-year-old’s pain of losing his “preracial” childhood freedom. It was in the ’70s, when Scott L. Malcomson was growing up in the Fruitvale district of Oakland, that he first noticed his friends were changing. Instead of…
METAMORPHOSING GRINCH TO BIG SCREEN PROVES NO CINCH
Who could rain displeasure on a Christmas tale that tries to be sincere, yet still seems to fail? Why, a Grinch, that’s Who, and that would be me, to tell you there’s too much shtick from Jim Carrey. The costumes astound, the sight gags abound, but the heart, oh the…
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Harrisons’ attacker was “possessed”; judged to be innocent Innocent by reason of insanity was the verdict for Michael Abram, who broke into George Harrison’s mansion Dec. 30 and almost killed him by stabbing him repeatedly. During the two-day trial, three psychiatrists testified that the defendant believed he was possessed by…
PLAYING DUMB COULD MEAN TROUBLE IN THE NEXT ELECTION
CONGRATULATIONS on a deception well-executed. The votes are in (and were still being counted at press time) and we can now shed our masks of indecision. Vengeance is ours for all those times the Three Ps (pollsters, politicians and pundits) decided the outcome before election day, declared winners before the…
HOW’S YOUR CUBICLE’S CHI TODAY?
Feng shui has always been part of my upbringing, like eating won ton noodles and burning incense at the ancestral altar. My family never practiced Chinese geomancy formally. We didn’t arrange our furniture according to where the sun rose, and we didn’t run around our condo high-rise with a divining…
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Simone says she’s never coming back to the States EASY RIDER Lauren Hutton still has to take it easy, but the model-actress was released from a Las Vegas hospital Monday after an Oct. 21 motorcycle accident. Hutton, featured in this Oct. 18 file photo, suffered multiple fractures in one leg,…
HOLIDAY CRAFTS FAIRS; QUILTS, DOLLS, POTTERY GET ALL YOUR SHOPPING DONE
Math comes into play big-time during the holidays. There’s the list, with its subset of recipients who range from deserving mind-blowing gifts to just obligatory acknowledgment. Then when the Christmas Club account matures, the money is divided up in a complex formula involving the aforementioned variables. All this, and the…
HEROINES ON TV
Here’s a timeline of TV’s fightin’ femmes: Gail Davis, “Annie Oakley,” 1954-’56: Anything you or I could do, she could do better. During the glut of Western shows, Davis elbowed her way into the men’s corral with her own real talent of riding and trick shots. Gene Autry showcased Davis…