| November 10, 2005 | Why Are All These Famous People Stalking Us? |
Neil from the Yahoo! News team invited bunch of us to attend the  International Women's Media Foundation (IWMF) Courage in Journalism Awards at the Regent Beverly Wilshire last Wednesday evening after work, and Laura and I met Maria Shriver and CNN's Judy Woodruff.Then yesterday Allyson met Bono at (of all places) the Yahoo! campus in Sunnyvale. She risked being fired to capture this photo, all for our enjoyment. And, don't let me forget -- Bethany met David Lynch this week at his talk on transcendental meditation. Honestly, this one makes me truly jealous. We all know how obsessed I am and have been with David Lynch. Labels: celebrities, davidlynch, famous, photos, yahoo posted by Jess Barron @ 1:26 PM 
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| March 16, 2000 | Viper Room, Part 2 |
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This email chain was in response to Allyson's email about our star-studded evening at the Viper Room's secret Cult show... -----Original Message----- From: Jess Barron [mailto:jessb@poprocks.com] Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2000 3:14 AM To: "Allyson" Subject: Viper Room Cult show reported about on Alloy.com Hey Allyson, I just noticed a report about our Viper Room/Guinness Toast party on Alloy.com. Go to: http://www.alloy.com/a2k/todayinalloy/newsandgossip/ and scroll down to the entry for March 6 where you'll see: THE GUINNESS WORLD RECORD Looks like all you need to do to get stars to participate in a publicity stunt for free is serve them beer - lots and lots of beer. At least, that worked for Guinness, the Irish beer company that organized a 60-city, 300,000 person toast to (what else?) the wonders of Guinness in order to make it into the 2001 Guinness Book of World Records in the category of "Largest Simultaneous Toast." Joining the L.A. toast party at the Viper Room were such celebs as Johnny Depp, Tori Spelling, David Boreanaz, Alyssa Milano, Edward Furlong, Donovan Leitch, Rose McGowan, Matthew McConaughey, Vince Vaughn, Steven Dorff, and Paul Rudd. Sounds like quite a kegger! If you scroll further down to February 11, you'll see a report mentioning Monica L's boyfriend Jeff (Boggs) who writes for the Tom Green show. I coulda scooped them on *that* story. He convinced her to go on the show, the night they were out at Lava Lounge with me... MONICA LEWINSKY TO BE ON THE TOM GREEN SHOW Think that the Tom Green episode where he gave his parents lawn, er, art was funny? Well, that's nothing compared to what he's got planned next: Tom, Monica Lewinsky, and a camera crew, all in Tom's hometown together. Check this itinerary: First night in town, make a late-night visit to Tom's parent's bedroom. Next day, have Monica pose for a an Ottawa Sun feature on local beauties. Stop for coffee. Steal coffee filters to wear as hats. Toy with reporters by promising to make "a major announcement" about Monica and Tom's status as a couple soon, even though Monica is already seeing Jeff Boggs, one of Tom Green's producers. (So THAT'S how she ended up on the show.) We can't wait for this episode to air! -----Original Message----- From: Allyson Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2000 9:53 AM To: 'Jess Barron' Subject: RE: Viper Room Cult show reported about on Alloy.com WE MISSED TORI SPELLING?!?! Ooops, I mean... WE MISSED JOHNNY DEPP?!?! Labels: allyson, famous, la, losangeles posted by Jess Barron @ 2:14 PM
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| March 15, 2000 | Ray Santamaria's "Starwhore" Email About our Scour Lunch |
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An email my friend Ray sent out after our starstudded Scour lunch today at The Newsroom: -----Original Message----- From: "Ray" Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2000 5:09 PM To: the Scour peeps Subject: Starwhore Newsletter #2 Circulation, 11 Dear Reader, I hope you enjoyed the first edition of the Star Sighting Newsletter, now titled, Starwhore Newsletter. In addition, please be aware that I spoke out of turn by providing the URL of Starwhore.com. Unfortunately, as luck would have it, it's taken. While I'm negotiating the purchase of Starwhore.com (I don't usually have $15 mil in my bank) you can reach us at Starwhore.org. Anyway, we have a fun filled Newsletter for you that I'd like to call "Five Finger Discount." Read on and enjoy! Ray Santamaria Editor In Chief, Starwhore.org Five Finger Discount It was all about five today. I checked my horror scope, but no numbers. What is the meaning of five today? My soul was searching for the truth as I hopped into the car with my four friends for our secret rendezvous at the inconspicuous Newsroom Cafe. As the five of us (hmmm, five...) walked in, my heart, among other things, began to pound as the first female I noticed in the place was none other than Superman's girlfriend herself, Lois Lane. No, not crazy Margot Kidder. She's off in an alley somewhere bumming Prozac. I'm talking about sexy, anorexic Terri Hatcher. I had no idea who the dweeb was, but who's looking? For a split second we looked at each other. There was something in our gaze. Something unsaid passing between us. I don't think she really knew it was me who farted. In my starstruck haze I realized I left my wallet back at HQ. Drats! A starwhore's worst nightmare! One of my cohorts said he would cover me. No problem. We went to sit down. But wait! Was this the day of Super Heroes? Wonder twin powers, activate! Make me into the shape of...Batman! Against the back wall of the cafe was none other than Batman himself, Michael Keaton! Wait a second! Michael...Terri. Does Superman know about this? Sure, they were at different tables, but c'mon! Coincidence? At the table, another peep of mine mentioned the Jack Frost movie that Michael Keaton did. I punched him and threw ice down his shirt for even bringing that up. I told him he should go apologize to Michael for even seeing the movie. Whatever. But, Jesus, he is losing his hair isn't he? Blah, Blah, Blah. Yeah, I forgot, that punk rock kid from Son of Sam was waiting next to us for a table. Adrian Brody. What's he done lately? He was waiting for a table just like us. Puleeeeeze. So, my secret agent team and I enjoy our meal and try to hide our identities by not looking around the room too much. The key to being incognito is to avoid eye contact. It was working till I noticed a young man in dark sun glasses and a tacky suit. He looked like he was in the mob, or even in the CIA pretending to be in the mob. My crew and I pondered the possibilities only to realize its Michael Imperioli (loose cannon "Christopher" on the Sopranos). Wow. He really gets into character, doesn't he? Didn't he have something to do with Son of Sam? Another colleague says he was a writer.Hmmm. Coincidence? We also saw Michael on the way out of the garage. He got into the back of a Nissan Altima. Hmmm. His character recently got shot. Coincidence? Just when you think it's over, it's not. We're eating. Having a good conversation. There's this woman at the table across from us. She's facing me. Why won't she look at me?Ê I'm wearing Maharishi! I put product in my hair this morning! What gives? Probably a dyke! Whoa! It is! It's Sandra Bernhart! I won't hold it against her. As you can see, it was a very exhausting lunch. Five secret agents who had their privacy invaded by five stars (and two Internet geeks).What can you do? I'll tell you. Get your lunch for free, beeeee-aaaaaahtch! Labels: famous, la, losangeles, scour posted by Jess Barron @ 6:00 PM
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| March 1, 2000 | Allyson's Email Following the Secret Cult Show |
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An email Allyson wrote to her friends after her weekend in LA, where I took her out to the Viper Room for The Cult's secret show (thanks to Ray): _______________________________ From: "Allyson" To: everyone CC: jessb@poprocks.com Subject: LA Story Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 01:16:12 To all my celebrity stalking friends -- I was so fortunate to arrange a visit to LA this past weekend and to have plans with one JESS BARRON, the very same day she did secure two spots on the VIP GUEST LIST to a suprise Cult show at none other than LA's infamous Viper Room where the not-so-fortunate RIVER PHOENIX did pass his last moments on this here earth. Needless to say we experienced multiple celebrity sightings covering the worlds of music, film and television... With the highlight of our evening being my exchange with Mushmouth-style hat-donning FIONA APPLE: Me: Watch out, it's wet there. (As Fiona Apple sits next to me on a couch where someone had spilled a drink.) Fiona Apple: Oh! You're right. Me: I think someone spilled a drink. Do you want me to move over? Fiona Apple: No, I'm fine. I'm just happy to sit down for a while! (smiling, sweet) ME: Okay. Furthermore, below is the complete list of stars witnessed by Jess and myself, in no particular order: 1. DAVID BOREANAZ 2. MATTHEW McCONAUGHEY 3. FIONA APPLE 4. MARILYN MANSON 5. ROSE McGOWAN 6. ERIC ERLANDSON (from Hole) 7. TOM PETTY (possible) Not a bad take for one night out. Many thanks go to Jess for showing me the best possible of times in the world's capital for GLITZ, GLAMOUR and, as she aptly pointed out, DETACHED and UNAFFECTED Hollywood WANNABES. Long live the Viper Room, free Guinness, and waify little singers. THE END Labels: allyson, famous, la, losangeles, music posted by Jess Barron @ 9:08 PM
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| November 15, 1999 | Meeting Monica Lewinsky |
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From: "Jess Barron" To: everyone I know Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 11:02:52 PST Subject: I hungout Monica Lewinsky Saturday night Sorry, but I just *had* to share this. I'm still in a state of shock. Everyone who is familiar with my articles from last year at WildWeb will be aware of my ongoing curiosity about/ fixation with all things Monica Lewinsky. (I hope you won't find it annoying, because it's my favorite LA story so far. I have many more gory details for those who are interested.) I went out Saturday night with a high school friend (Betsy Jordan, for those of you who went to Algonquin) and we ended up hanging out with Monica Lewinsky at this Hollywood bar called the Lava Lounge. We didn't just see Monica, or run into her. We hung out with her. How the hell did this happen? It turns out that Betsy's friend Tammy (also from Southboro, MA) is good friends with this guy named Jeff Boggs who writes for "The Tom Green Show" and who is Monica's current object of infatuation. He's not the type you might imagine Monnie would be into. He's not extremely powerful; he's not the President. In fact, according to this guy Jeff, Monica told him she likes him "because he reminds her of Chandler on 'Friends.'" Egad. So, we were out with this guy Jeff having a few drinks at this bar called Lava Lounge talking about how he's dating Monica, and how she is completely obsessed with him. Of course, I wanted to meet her and I also wanted to be sure he wasn't bullshitting us, so I teased him, "OK, if Monica is so obsessed with you, call her up and have her meet us here." Jeff has her in his speed dial on his cell phone (of course) and he calls her up. Her answering machine picks up and he leaves a message for her to meet us at Lava Lounge. I got all disapointed because I figured she was out for the evening and wouldn't get the message until later, and we would miss our chance to meet her. Within 30 minutes she showed up at the bar. She must've been either screening her calls or religiously checking her messages for his call. She saw Jeff right away, and approached our booth. It was so surreal. She looked exactly like you would expect her to. Black pantsuit. Not too hip looking. Kind of big poofy hair like she had on the Barbara Walters show. Jeff introduced Betsy, Tammy, and me to Monica as "his friends," and she shook each of our hand. It was bizarre. We were trying to be so nonchalant and act like she was this totally normal person, but it was soooo hard to keep from cracking up. After a few minutes of feigned normalcy, Betsy and I excused ourselves for the ladies room and, once inside, started giggling uncontrollably. The plan was were were going to get her to come out to Mel's Diner with us after the bar closed, and then we would all go back to my apartment, which is only four blocks from Monica's building. Betsy reminded me that I would need to surreptitiously and quickly remove the "Being an Intern Sucks" Clinton scandal magnet from my refrigerator so that Monnie wouldn't see it. Alas, when last call was announced, it turned out that Monica wanted Jeff to go home with her (alone, of course), and that she had no interest in hanging out with this gaggle of girls who were Jeff's "friends." We tried to convince her to come to Mel's with us, but she just wasn't into the idea. Jeff told her he was coming out to get food with us, and she ended up going home alone around 2am. Some Monica-related deets I gathered during our evening drinking with this girl: 1. She is living near me in West Los Angeles. 2. She does nothing all day. No job or anything like that. 3. She is moving to New York in December, so I only have a few weeks to completely befriend her. 4. She is extremely uncomfortable/jealous around girls, and very touchy-feely with boys. This is another obstacle to my becoming full-fledged friends with her, but I will overcome it. So be it! 5. She actually admitted to us that she is kind of sad that the media hub-bub around her has died down. Can you believe it? This girl is certifiably crazy. 6. She took an immediate dislike to Tammy who works for "Politically Incorrect" -- a show which has slammed Monica left and right. Jeff also filled us in on the more physical aspects of his (just 5 dates, so far) relationship with Monica. Not too much has happened so far. In fact, at one somewhat intimate moment, she said to him (and I find this disturbingly hysterical) "I know what you want, and you're not gonna get it yet." And the sickest, thing is we all know exactly what she was referring to. Yikes! Ya gotta love LA. (Or not.) So far, I'm finding it to be exactly like living inside a cartoon. I can't ever stop laughing. Your friend (and soon to be Monica's -- so you'll only be one degree away from her), Jess -----Original Message----- From: "Raj" To: jessb@poprocks.com Subject: Re: I went out with Monica Lewinsky Saturday night Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 15:04:12 EST you rock my world, JB Raj-Jess-Monica-Bill I think that's how people should sign their name from now on. With their most famous degree of seperation. Labels: famous, la, monicalewinsky posted by Jess Barron @ 2:52 PM
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