In 1990 I DJ’d a big college graduation party for John Stamos’s sister at Paula Abdul’s top-o-the-Hollywood Hills house. Stamos and Abdul were dating at the time and she had a big spread with outdoor tennis courts, so it was an ideal spot for a party. People think Abdul’s cheerleading …

I have been somewhat surprised by, and even admired, the way Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie have maintained their rather sweet girlish friendship that is at the heart of their The Simple Life series. But, alas, all good things must end, and SOMETHING Nicole did — besides losing weight and …

Controversy continues to swirl around Sheffieldgate, which began at Fenway last Thursday as Yankee Gary Sheffield ran along the 3-foot high right-field fence chasing a hit by Boston’s Jason Varitek. Red Sox season ticket holder Christopher House reached over the fence with a sweeping motion and appeared to make contact …

Carrying on the tradition of gentile temporary bohemia is Jam Cruise 4, sailing on the Italian cruise line’s MSC Lirica, leaving port from Ft. Lauderdale on January 7, 2006, floating for six days and six nights with stops in Ocho Rios (Jamaica), Grand Cayman (Cayman Islands) and Cozumel (Mexico). This …

Still flapping like roused chickens after the Janet Jackson Super Bowl exposure of over a year ago, the American public is up in arms over sex, violence and indecency in entertainment, but is extremely conflicted over what to do about it, according to the results of a new poll released …

Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, 78, of Germany, a doctrinal conservative, was elected the 265th pontiff Tuesday evening, choosing the name Pope Benedict XVI. Gay Catholic groups are bumming. Gay groups: “Gay and lesbian Catholics are going to be very hurt by this election because Cardinal Ratzinger was the lighting rod for …

Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, 78, of Germany, a doctrinal conservative, was elected the 265th pontiff Tuesday evening in the second day of the first papal conclave of the 21st century. He chose the name Pope Benedict XVI. Video here. (“THE HOLY FATHER The Roman Pontiff, as the successor of Peter, is …

Remember when ABC’s Monday Night Football was an EVENT? When you built your day around meeting the gang for happy hour and variously watching Howard Cosell, Don Meredith, Frank Gifford, Fran Tarkenton, Dan Dierdorf, even O.J., pontificate on the floodlit vicissitudes of the game with palpable electricity in the air …

um, satire: In a jaunty recreation of an Olsen twins film plot, LaToya Jackson showed up as the defendant at Michael Jackson’s trial yesterday, injecting a little levity into the fourth day of Janet Arviso’s stream-of-consciousness testimony and lead defense attorney Thomas Mesereau Jr’s incessant witness badgering. Judge Rodney Melville, …

Though Tom Snyder, 68, has always been a bombastic blowhard, he’s my kind of bombastic blowhard, full of enegy, life, opinions, self-assurance, but willing to laugh at himself as well. I haven’t watched him in years but I am sad to hear he has leukemia. He blurts that, and several …