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A Very Real Housewives Independence Day
Courageous Guest of a Guest blogger Doug braved the unthinkable this weekend: Jill Zarin's 4th of July party in the Hamptons. The Real Housewives of New York City star and her husband hold an annual backyard soirée at their landed estate, and Doug was (un)fortunate enough to receive an invitation. Everything just farted class, from the salmon and lobster salad to the lychee martinis to the "Team Jill" dessert cookies. And look, even RHoNYC costars Bethenny and Countess LuAnn (wearing flamenco water wings) were there, teetering about in all white, mistaking the event for an actual party (sort of) worth covering. A humble and grateful guest, Doug doesn't really dish any dirt, but there are photographs, so you can make up your own tragic stories. Some select few await you after the jump. More »
disasters
Alex McCord and Simon To Continue Misguided Climb Up Ladder
Do you remember Alex McCord? Of course you do. She's the Real Housewives of New York City reality show star with the sorta-gay husband who likes to pose nude a lot. If she was one of your favorites on RHoNY, fear not. She and hubby Simon and their two poor bastard fake French children will be stomping around Boerum Hill for the show's second season. Never mind that the pair were painted as status-hungry buffoons on the first season; filming begins soon for the second, and Silex are excited: More »
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New York City Urged to Ban Plastic Bags
[The ladies of both "Real Housewives of Orange County" and "Real Housewives of New York City" at Bravo's first annual A-List Awards (to be broadcast on June 12th) in New York last night; image via WENN] More »
celebrity science
Real Housewives Star Overfreeloads At The 'Gifting Suite'
Ramona Singer, the aspiring fashionista on Bravo's awful reality show Real Housewives of New York City, was spotted by Page Six acting boorish at a goodies junket, since her show and fellow cast members weren't embarrassing enough already. Singer was stopped at a "gifting suite" at the Ritz-Carlton "demanding four pairs of Luxxotica sunglasses and more than $6,000 of Lia Sophia jewelry. When she was denied, Singer screamed, 'Well, do you want press or not?'" Oh, Ramona. Sigh. If you're going to successfully run a jewelry and clothing company you have to understand there's a hierarchy to celebrity freeloading, and unsympathetic monsters starring in a basic cable reality show are very near the bottom. Also from Page Six, Housewives' "Countess" LuAnn de Lesseps who is married to a French aristocrat, was maybe snogging with a younger dude: More »
urban anthropology
Why New Yorkers Ignore Celebrities on the Street
The New Yorker's Joan Acocella explains in May's Smithsonian what effect living in close quarters, often in public, has on the behavior of New Yorker. "They act on the street as they do in private. In the United States today, public behavior is ruled by a kind of compulsory cheer that people probably picked up from television and advertising that coats their transactions in a smooth, shiny glaze. New Yorkers have not yet gotten the knack of this." She also totally knows why we ignore celebrities when we see them in the street (no, it's not 'cause we're jaded): More »
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Alex McCord's Artsy (Non-Nude) Video
Before I run away into the sunshine, here is a video called Alphabet Garden: Letter A, which is described as such: "Alphabet Garden" is divided into eight segments...letters A through H. Each "letter" is culled together from footage improvised by the actors...in this sequence, Sean Guinan, Alex McCord ("The Real Housewives of New York City") and Andy Gorecki, upon the Merchandise Mart el platform in Chicago. These improvised sequences were photographed by Joshua Eckhardt. The musical number at the climax of this segment was written by Sean Guinan and Peter Wirengard. Watch the reality show monster (and perpetually naked person) cavort, and be amazed/saddened.
Look Away!
Crazy-Pants Socialite Divorcee Heading to Real Wives
Tricia Walsh-Smith, the psycho-eyed spurned ex-wife who made this video and this video about her sexually unpleasing Broadway mogul ex is said to be joining the cast of crows for season two of Bravo's Real Housewives of New York City. More »
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Scores Strip Club Sues New York for Police Corruption
Oh, Scores! They've just filed a lawsuit against the city of New York and the State Liquor Authority, saying that the police are corrupt! Actually, it's Scores West, the slightly trashier cousin of Scores East, the famous Howard Stern-patronized rumored-to-be-mobbed-up strip club, where some working gals were busted for prostitution last year. (Anecdotes I've heard from former Scores dancers confirm its place in hell.) The police probably are corrupt, but this is the same place that openly tolerates prostitution, and even had secret rooms in the Scores West location specifically for that purpose. More »
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The Real Housewives of New York City Want You!
We all love the "ultra-stylish" Real Housewives of New York City, don't we? Oh. The women are all horrible monsters (except Bethenny) who probably smell like calamine lotion and bitters? Fine, but the show's coming back anyway so you may as well be on it, right?. Hey New York housewives and other ladies! They want you! Just as they did with the original Orange County version of this Bravo series, the producers are adding more characters to the upcoming season. They would like to talk to you if you are "a high rolling social butterfly juggling the ups and downs of family life along with a high-powered career and a social calendar to die for?" You're rolling and being a butterfly and juggling all at the same time!! You must be ambidextrous or have several arms. Are you the goddess
critical stalker
Real Housewives, Especially LuAnn, Embarrass Us All
You know who my least favorite character was on Bravo's visitors guide to the new New York City, Real Housewives of New York City? Countess LuAnn. A countess named LuAnn? Isn't that a contradiction in terms, you may ask? Exactly. It's as if someone put googly eyes and a tiara on a soiled trash bag. And then set it on fire. And then threw up on it. And then it got run over by a poor family on their way to Disney world. And then a
urban anthropology
Times Square's Lost "McDonald's of Porn"
Of all the porn stores, video peeps, and live-girl peepshows in Times Square, Show World in its original incarnation was the most notorious. (Now, it's up for lease or sale and may close, reports the Post.) Its bright layout anesthetized the pornography it housed; it was often referred to either as the McDonald's or Wal-Mart of porn. At its peak, thirty-two live girls per shift worked 24-7 behind glass on stages and in peepshow booths. The glass separating the girls from the customers came and went according to the vice laws of the time; the glass went back up for good around 2000. There was even a trannie stage! More »
parochial news
A Vision of a New York That Never Was
While adolescents and adolescent-at-heart adults across the nation anticipate Grand Theft Auto IV and its slightly skewed New York, we pause to remember the richly detailed and intriguingly off-kilter New York of the 1984 Activision classic Ghostbusters. A New York where Park Avenue runs alongside Church St, and they both go crosstown. A New York where Zuul may be found on the corner of Union and 3rd (3rd Ave? Street? Who knows!). More intriguing video game visions of New York, courtesy The Bowery Boys, below.More »
reality tv
The Real Housewives Finale Is Only the Beginning
So the first season of Real Housewives of New York City, Bravo's brilliant car wreck of a reality series (that will soon have an across-the-Hudson spin off...), came to an end last night. What a short run we had! But how much we now know about these truly terrible women! In the finale episode, Jill naturally took the opportunity to throw her money around and had a big party for all the ladies and their families. The big question was, of course, whether Ramona should be pardoned for her past offenses at Bethenny's little dinner party. In the end, the crazy blond dynamo (who also spent the episode shooting botulism into her face) was forgiven, but (oops!) she showed up terribly late and was as awful as everyone expected. More »
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Why Does Alex McCord Keep Being Naked?
Alex McCord, one of the stars of Bravo's strange and upsetting reality series Real Housewives of New York City, continues to be nude. In a recent interview with In Touch magazine (a publication as prestigious as Parade magazine if someone pooped on Parade magazine), the square-headed fame grubber spoke out about the photos, saying "it was a celebration that a new mom can be in great shape." Um, OK. Fair enough. But riddle me this, Ms. McCord: Why did the photographer you mention, James Demaria, recently email us and describe these photos as a Playboy audition? (A slightly NSFW image follows) More »
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It's 10pm. Are Your Housewives at Taco Night?
I don't quite know where to begin. Last night's penultimate episode of Real Housewives of New York City was at turns so vile, appalling, oddly likable, and deeply hilarious that I'm again tempted to just post the whole damn episode without comment. This grand opera of vanity and inanity needs very little introduction or analysis. It simply is. But! That's not what I get paid for, so here goes. Maybe it's best to do this by character, as each had their own little arc. More »
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Housewives: They're Just Like Us
An excited tipster got a pleasant yet sobering view of the world last Friday, when she spotted someone so peculiar, so beguiling that it changed her very idea of reality TV celebrity. There, on the 6 train just like everyone else, was Ramona from Real Housewives of New York City. She looked tacky and desperate of course, but also a bit more human, rumbling through the tunnels with the masses. Full Stalker report after the jump. More »
Real Naked
Ew. Who likes Alex McCord, from Real Housewives of New York City? You know, the one whose head looks like a Thwomp and has the gay husband and makes her kids learn French? Yeah, she's awful. Do you want to see her naked? Of course you do. Apparently she posed nude some time ago, while pursuing an acting career (natch). Here's the Safe For Work version. You can go to the unsafe version from there. Happily, both images involve masks. And bitter regret.
