Things got surprisingly violent at a party after Saturday's Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards in L.A. Three guests were shot while attending a mysterious party. According to the AP, the party was thrown by someone who attended the Awards but was not a celebrity, and the party "had no celebrity guests." Luckily, the injuries were not serious, but still! What kind of people go to an event like that and then get into gun fights? Were they arguing over whether Dakota Fanning deserved to win Favorite Actress? Were there religious Harry Potter detractors horrified that the HP series won for Favorite Book?
The whole idea of a Kids Choice Awards after-party is just strange to me, but I guess some of the Nickelodeon stars are teenagers and probably do their share of drinking and drugging. How horrifying, though, to imagine my favorite Pete and Pete stars from the past doing coke in the Hollywood Hills! My innocent memories of TV fun are being thrown into question now, and I'm not happy about it.
The saga of the anatomically correct chocolate Jesus sculpture is still ongoing. After it was removed from its Manhattan location due to protests, people are apparantly dying to buy the piece, "My Sweet Lord," from artist Cosimo Cavallaro. His website includes other conceptual art, including an installation where he coated an entire house in Wisconsin with cheese.
I have to say, the American public is so uptight about art involving nudity or religion! It's ridiculous that you can go to a museum and see all this great old art with tons of violence and nudity, but if someone is evil enough to make a new artwork exposing Jesus's penis, it's the end of the world. Near my hometown in Iowa, there's another town that has an annual potato festival, Tater Dayz, and every year there is a Tater Queen who gets her sculpture done in mashed potatoes. One year it looked like her left nipple was exposed, and everyone in three counties was freaking out for weeks! People, it's art, and get over it!
It's a good old-fashioned mob trail here in Chicago! The story sounds like a bad movie, with characters like "brutal loan shark" Frank Calabrese Sr., Frank "The German" Schweihs (a hitman), James "Little Jimmy" Marcello and top mobster Joseph "The Clown" Lombardo, among others. They robbed jewelry stores, killed people for mob hits, and are known as the Outfit killers. The crimes also involve illegal Asian gambling, making it a true multi-cultural story worthy of Scorsese.
The witness, who own restaurants, adult bookstores, and other stereotypical mob businesses, will probably tell terrifying stories, and hopefully not wind up sleeping with the fishes themselves! Now, to be honest, I'm surprised something like this is going on in Chicagoland. When people think about Italians here, they think of Chicago-style pizza, not mass murderers! At least I hope so! Anyway, it will be interesting to see how this trial plays out. If it's on Court TV, I'm definitely heading down to the nearest Lou Malnati's to watch it with a slice and a cold Italian beer or glass of chianti.
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