Comment Box: Celebrity Memoir Redux

Months ago (maybe it was last summer??) you had a blog entry about memoirs or autobiographies by celebrities that you would recommend. Do you know where I can find that link? -- Zenya, via e-mail
Here you go, Zenya: Stars By the Book. Though since that post was written back in December 2006, we've been subjected treated to first person accounts from Motley Crue's Nikki Sixx, "90210" alumna and reality TV regular Tori Spelling and self-banished "View-ster" Rosie O'Donnell. And although I'm not sure I'd recommend it, "View" doyenne Barbara Walters is the latest entrant on the celebrity memoir scene with this week's release of "Auditions." Here's what The Post's Howard Kurtz had to say about Walters's revelations (including her admission that she helped Star Jones cover for weight loss surgery and her own affair with a married Senator):
"What emerges from the book is a tenacious 78-year-old woman who, despite occasional mistakes, has managed to overcome every setback in achieving her exalted status as veteran journalist, celebrity interviewer and world-class yenta."
Still hungry? Mark your calendar for 2009 tomes from one-time Wham frontman George Michael and 15-year-old Miley Cyrus's chronicle of her life so far (which, judging by the past week or so, could be more interesting than previously thought).
Comment of the Week (like you didn't see this one coming 10 miles away)
"Yo fatty, carm down." -- An anonymous tweener drops in to lay down the law during last week's Miley Cyrus throwdown.
Creative Captioning Winners: Quick Draw McGraw

(AP)
We asked you to caption this fey photo of country crooner Tim McGraw. As usual, you came through like gangbusters, making us all feel good like a cowboy (or girl) should. Without further ado, the five funniest captions:
I'm too sexy for my scent. -- Em
Country singer Tim McGraw reaches for another sample of the chief raw ingredient in his namesake cologne. -- byoolin
McGraw Cologne: Who says cowboys can't be metrosexuals? -- bahston
Just one drop behind the ear will render even the toughest music critic completely immobile for up to 24 hours. -- td
"Does the bottle make my but look big?" -- EricS
And, a bonus caption:
Yo fatty, carm down and try this here McGraw. -- jes
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May 7, 2008; 10:42 AM ET
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Posted by: h3 | May 7, 2008 10:44 AM
Thanks for the bonus mention Liz Kelly. It makes up for the 'history' smackdown I was given over on the TC post.
Posted by: jes | May 7, 2008 10:51 AM
Woohoo! Number 1! Finally my life has meaning!!! or something.
Posted by: Em | May 7, 2008 11:04 AM
Ok, this seems like a pretty benign post, maybe the crazy people will stay away. Though will make for a less than exciting afternoon.
Posted by: jake e. poo | May 7, 2008 11:11 AM
i'm going to spend the rest of the day wondering who the rokerfellas are and what they do with all the FLEAS they get from ATMs. flea circus? flea markets? it's quite perplexing!
Posted by: wats | May 7, 2008 11:31 AM
I don't want this on my work google history, but doesn't Rockafella Records have something to do with Jay-Z?
Clearly this means he and Beyonce are Scientologists.
Posted by: RiverCityRoller | May 7, 2008 11:41 AM
Yeah, that flea comment was a real head scratcher. eh heh. eh heh.
Celebritology commenters are great - mostly deliberately funny but sometimes accidentally funny. Promise that you'll never turn into Achenblog commenters, please. Achenbach = funny. Achenblog commenters = icky.
Posted by: epony | May 7, 2008 11:42 AM
Number 4! Yeah, baby! Thanks, Liz and congrats Em!
h3, I agree about Sana and "#1 hater." Was she the same commenter whom Byoolin kindly directed toward ESL class a day or two ago?
As for that "tenacious 78-year-old woman," I'm still reeling from the down-with-the-swirl comments the other day to risk reading what Howard Kurtz has to say about Barbara Walters now. (So someone will have to explain to me who qualifies as a "world class yenta" worthy of an audience with Babwa.)
Posted by: td | May 7, 2008 11:46 AM
I already "giggled" about this over on the TC comments, but I'd like to officially nominate "Well, the weather's colder in Canada so that might help out with the flea problem." for comment of the week!
Posted by: tl | May 7, 2008 12:29 PM
Okay, folks, we lost comment of the week to someone from Booby Kennedy Day. We are slipping here. Surely, surely, with our brain power and grammar abilities, we can be funnier than tween texter?
Posted by: ep | May 7, 2008 12:34 PM
It is actually quite warm in southern Ontario where the fleas can get quite large and start damming rivers.
Posted by: Mr. Hinterland | May 7, 2008 12:42 PM
OK I'm a bit low on snark today so I have an inquiry instead: Has anyone read that Julie Andrews memoir?
Posted by: PGM | May 7, 2008 12:42 PM
Ummmm, ep, I think you posted to bit about the cold weather and fleas. On the TC post.
I have finally read all of them and I have to say I should have focused on my work because now I'm trying to make sense of it all and my brain hurts.
Posted by: petal | May 7, 2008 12:43 PM
ack i am so pissed i missed the tom cruise comment show yesterday! where was i? liz gave us a heads up and everything. so disapointed in myself. i will say though that the comments make for good reading. (much better than babwa's book i'm sure.)
Posted by: melissamac1 | May 7, 2008 12:45 PM
I'm glad Liz Kelly mentioned the Baba Wawa book, if only because it gives me an excuse to quote from Scott Feschuk's blog at the Macleans website:
"[W]e shall somehow find a way to stop thinking about Barbara Walters having sexual intercourse....
".... The trick is distraction. You need to focus your mind on less harrowing imagery, such as pretty flowers or John Goodman eating corn on the cob while shirtless...
"Is the process painful? It sure as hell is. But consider it useful practice for the future release of Dan Rather's memoirs."
Posted by: byoolin was happy just to have been considered, and honoured to have been selected. | May 7, 2008 1:06 PM
Was [Sana] the same commenter whom Byoolin kindly directed toward ESL class a day or two ago?
Posted by: td | May 7, 2008 11:46 AM
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Actually, td, the "Yo fatty, carm down" post was the one I translated. (And so the circle is complete.)
Posted by: byoolin | May 7, 2008 1:12 PM
Ah, so it is. Thanks.
Posted by: td | May 7, 2008 1:14 PM
(in tweener speak) OMG, I just went to check out the Miley comments, they go through to yesterday. That's just crazy man, just crazy. I wonder how long we can get the Cruisefest comments to go. I say 10 days.
Posted by: Anonymous | May 7, 2008 1:18 PM
Liz Kelly, the Lovely Mrs. byoolin just pointed out to me that I stole one of your lines and used it in my comments in yesterday morning's post: you described Mrs. Cruise as wearing "traffic cone orange," and I later described her as looking like a "six-foot tall traffic cone."
Mere words cannot describe my shame, so I am spending the rest of my day wearing an expression not unlike that of a dog that was just caught in the act of soiling a carpet. (That look ought to make my two o'clock meeting with that sales rep interesting.)
Posted by: byoolin embarrassé lui-même | May 7, 2008 1:31 PM
i'm still puzzling over what that roker fella's got to do with the fleas on my dog....
that and how we can convince baba wawa there is such a thing as too much information.
Posted by: b | May 7, 2008 1:41 PM
Oooops, I just realized what ep was referring to my bad.
Posted by: petal | May 7, 2008 2:13 PM
I'll let you it go ... this time, Petal.
Remember, never tick off a lawyer (or a soon to be one). The whole city of DC is now being sued by the Pants Judge. So ya'all better be nice to me.
Posted by: ep | May 7, 2008 2:17 PM
Oh Tycoon Byoolin, what do you intend to do with all the billions in fleas that you earn from the ATMs? Are you going to start a chain of poutine outlets in Quebec to compete that nasty Anglophile, Tim Horton and his doughnuts?
Posted by: Sasquatch | May 7, 2008 2:26 PM
The thread of Thomas Cruise Mapother IV comments that continued from last night into this afternoon reminds me of the time I got one of the neighborhood kids to through rocks at a hornet nest.
And Liz, about that "bagging" of you've been accused......does Mister Liz know?
Posted by: Sasquatch | May 7, 2008 2:30 PM
ep writes:
"Remember, never tick off a lawyer (or a soon to be one). The whole city of DC is now being sued by the Pants Judge. So ya'all better be nice to me."
ep, ya better learn the rules around here:
No DC Bar tickee, no washee.
Posted by: Sasquatch, doing his best Jack Nicholson from The Departed | May 7, 2008 2:32 PM
it's kind of quiet here today. is this the carm before the storm?
Posted by: wats | May 7, 2008 2:49 PM
i think my brain just jumped out my head in protest over byoolin's comment about baba wawa having sex. ack, even the sweet, sweet, mental images of hugh jackman shirtless are not enough to get of this. help!
Posted by: melissamac1 | May 7, 2008 2:55 PM
Hey, no complaints about the quiet here lest we be invaded by the TC/ENDGAME Pirates again.
Posted by: Bored @ work | May 7, 2008 3:16 PM
melissamac1, that Baba Wawa image is entirely Feschuk's fault. He's a very disturbed individual. (http://blog.macleans.ca/2008/05/07/an-affair-to-remember-unwillingly/)
As for Sasquatch's question about my plans for a chain of poutineries in Quebec, here's an amazing true fact: in that province, you can buy poutine at your friendly neighbourhood KFC, which are called PFK (Poulet Frite Kentucky) there. Pretty tasty, they are.
I cannot take the name of Tim Horton in vain, though: his hometown is a couple of hours north of mine, and one of his namesake restaurants - a treasured link to the True North Strong And Free - is only a few blocks from where I live now. And a Tim's doughnut is infinitely superior to a Crispy Creme.
Posted by: byoolin | May 7, 2008 3:22 PM
byoolin i hate to be a stickler but Krispy Kreme is spelled with a K. and i know this because i am a good southern girl and krispy kremes are a staple of my diet.
as for naked baba wawa, i don't care whose idea it was it still was/is disturbing. but thanks to the hotness that is colin firth the image is gone. my brain is still not back though, now it is protesting working.
Posted by: melissamac1 | May 7, 2008 3:35 PM
Byoolin praises Tim Horton doughnuts:
"And a Tim's doughnut is infinitely superior to a Crispy Creme."
Indeed it is. However, Dear Byool, the inferior product is spelled Krispey Kreme. The inferior product originated in North Carolina, where it was known as "KK" for short. The third "K" was silent.
Posted by: Sasquatch | May 7, 2008 3:35 PM
byoolin, it's Krispy Kreme. Yum. (drools) Doughnut.
Posted by: sunnydaze | May 7, 2008 3:35 PM
Um, yeah, who's surprised about this one?
Winehouse arrested in drugs probe
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7388721.stm
Posted by: WDC 21113 | May 7, 2008 3:36 PM
No 3! I knew I missed the creative caption contests. Give us more! Although like the others the recent entries that have brought the wrath of the crazies that apparently lurk on the post website has been pretty entertaining.
What happens Liz if your blog and chat gets bigger than Gene's chat?
Posted by: bahston | May 7, 2008 3:36 PM
And Sasquatch may well be correct about the Ks. NC still has it's share of problems, but we just voted for Obama, so maybe there is light?
Posted by: sunnydaze | May 7, 2008 3:37 PM
mmmmm, poutine. My arteries are hardening just thinking about it.
Posted by: new england | May 7, 2008 3:47 PM
This is what comes from mixing work with Celebritology: outed by my own wife for plagiarism and then littering the internet with egregious spelling errors.
That is why, after serious and thoughtful reflection, discussions with my family, and the unsolicited prayers of many of you, I have made the difficult decision to enter a rehab facility. I will take a brief sabbatical beginning Friday.
Rumours to the effect that I'm taking my daughter to tour Pitt's campus on Friday and then going to an airshow on Saturday are probably untrue.
Posted by: byoolin is not having a good day. | May 7, 2008 3:47 PM
What happens Liz if your blog and chat gets bigger than Gene's chat?
Posted by: bahston | May 7, 2008 3:36 PM
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Well, when John Lennon announced that The Beatles were bigger than Gene, people burned their records.
Posted by: byoolin | May 7, 2008 3:49 PM
Sunnydaze, as my friend and I listed to Andy Kohut (with a K) go over the exit poll results last night -- background noise while doing drywall work-- I took note of the analysis that the 30% or so of the voters who said that race was a factor, probably overlapping the percentage who said that Jeremiah Wright was a factor, did not rise to significance as a variable that was tied to the primary results.
To put it more bluntly: Those voters -- mostly white blue collar socio-economic status --who cited Jeremiah Wright as a factor were merely using him as an excuse. They can't bring themselves to vote for a person of color. Indeed, they'd rather vote for someone who's net worth is more than $100 million, because, apparently as a white person, she understands them better than her opponent, who grew up in a one-parent, food-stamp household. Apparently, to people from this background, the color of the candidate's skin trumps all other factors.
HOWEVER, to give North Carolina its due, there are relatively speaking, fewer of these people, politely called "Bubbas", in NC than in IN. Racism is alive and well in 21st century America. The difference is that much of it has migrated from the Old South to the Mid Atlantic, the Midwest and the Sun Belt.
We now return you to our regularly scheduled Tom Cruise Programming.
Posted by: Would-Be Pollster Sasquatch | May 7, 2008 4:05 PM
Um, Byoolin? Does Angie know your daughter is "touring Pitt's campus?"
Posted by: possum | May 7, 2008 4:25 PM
byoolin because this is celebriology i can also assume by pitt you mean brad pitt and you and the missus are hoping he and angie adopt your daughter to help ease college expenses. at least that's the way it plays out in my head, but remember, right now my brain is marching somewhere around the mall.
Posted by: melissamac1 | May 7, 2008 4:57 PM
Look't at the Karl (with a "K", as in Krispy Kreme) Rove chat dis mornin'.
'at boy's a hoot, ain ee?
Posted by: Curmudgeon | May 7, 2008 4:59 PM
Mmmmmm....donuts.....
I have a weakness for donuts and now I really want one, why are there no Dunkin Donuts in town!!!!!!
Posted by: michael | May 7, 2008 5:02 PM
I am publicly admitting I didn't know what poutine was and had to look it up on wikipedia.
For me, swap the cheese curds for chili & cheese and I'm so there!
But I would first give the traditional dish a try (or so I'm saying here).
Posted by: jlr | May 7, 2008 5:15 PM
Poutine is the Quebecois counterpart to grits.
Our wonderful POTUS was punked several years ago when he was told that he had received an "endorsement" from Canadian Prime Minister Poutine. Read the story to find out how other US politicians were punked on their ignornance of the Great White North:
http://dewit.ca/archs/poutine/index.html
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I think it's a shame only to excerpt that one line from the Y.F.C.D. comment, so in the interest of completeness, I present:
Yo fatty carm down miley ain't all urz, anywayz i don't know why miley is doing this, she is a dirty young adult and know she is getting less fans! Miley i used to be ur #1 fan but now i am ur #1 hater
From Sana
Posted by: Sana | April 30, 2008 9:30 AM
Need I note that Sana also came up with the "#1 hater" line? That's really a comment for the ages.