It’s no secret that I’m not a huge fan of secretive, esoteric, spiritual communities that charge loads of money to reach higher levels of enlightenment (unless of course they involve cool decoder rings), so what I’m about to say is a bit uncharacteristic: Scientology, please help Jeff Conaway and Pete Doherty. Now, I don’t say…

Welcome back to the fifth week’s commentary, the halfway mark, on the Oprah Winfrey/Eckhart Tolle ‘A New Earth’ Worldwide Web Event. Monday night’s class, based on Chapter 5 “The Pain-Body,” is now available for viewing (at Oprah.com or here at Beliefnet). First off, I want to say that I was apprehensive about this chapter on…

Mighty Aphrodite! About eleven months ago, denizens of New York’s Lower East Side were tickled and surprised to see an iconic image of Woody Allen (from the film “Annie Hall”) being used in an American Apparel ad. (Idol Chatter covered it here.) Mainly, we were surprised to see the ad because AA is known for…

It’s difficult—if not a little depressing—to believe that the “Real World” franchise is now 15 years old. Love the series or hate it, it undoubtedly has influenced pop culture and had much to do with the boom of reality programming we have today. That is why MTV is celebrating with a TV special and numerous…

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