It's no small feat to throw an impressive bash in Tinseltown. It's either been done before, or it's about to be. And let's face it, Angeleos are as jaded as they come; a "star-studded event" is as common as a double iced latte and a fat-free muffin around here. For...

Must-See Theater for Delegates

There is still room in the arts for troublemakers, and there are probably no better practitioners of political theater than the San Francisco Mime Troupe Democrats in Denver take note: a large white truck with the big red star is headed your direction.

The Mime Troupe...

"For a million dollars," Jay Leno asked Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., today, "how many houses do you have?"

"Could I just mention to you, Jay, that, at a moment of seriousness. I spent five-and-a-half years in a prison cell," McCain said. "I didn't have a house. I didn't have a...

Organizers of the Democratic Party's confab in Denver don't understand that politics is show biz.

Conventions are TV series, watched by people fleetingly, and must compete against better, more interesting programming.

And the fundamental flaw is that the Democrats seem to think that conventions are like university...

Many of us have our own personal mental highlight reel from the Beijing 2008 Olympics. But as often is the case, many awards still await to being handed out in the now-concluded Games. Here then are my own HuffPost awards:

Biggest Disappointment If It Didn't Win Gold: USA men's basketball...

This year, for the first time, the Wimbledon Championship offered equal prize money to men and women, joining the U.S. Open more than 30 years after that tournament recognized the importance of equality between the sexes. Unfortunately, neither tournament has joined the idea of equal pay between sexes with the...

There was one of those truly-wonderful Olympic stories last week that didn't get the attention it deserved.

Henry Cejudo won the Olympic gold medal in freestyle wrestling. It was a remarkable, emotional battle. Barely leading in the final round, he had to hold on when his opponent suddenly took...

If you are like us, you are a sane pop culture aficionado. This, of course, means you have been counting down the weeks, days, hours, minutes and seconds until September 1st - the premiere of Gossip Girl Season 2. It's been hard to live without our Upper East Side Princesses...

I just attended a showing of the much ballyhooed "The Dark Knight", and besides stepping in gum, found the movie as overstuffed as a Spanish olive. Though the late Heath Ledger's turn as the Joker transcends the rest...

On August 25th, Good Morning America officially announced the show's season seven celebrity contestants. They are:

1) Grammy winner Lance Bass;

2) TV Chef Rocco DiSpirito;

3) Olympic Gold Medalist (just crowned) Misty May Treanor;

4) Gold medalist sprinter Maurice Greene;

5) Broadway star and singer Toni Braxton;

6)...

What is the best way to dissect the recently concluded Summer Games in blovatious Beijing? Do you focus on the stars that came out each night on our television? They were abundant, far more than you could see in the China sky. Might it be better to recount the medals...

Everybody knows that this Olympics was supposed to be China's introduction to the world. What we didn't expect was that it would be the reintroduction of America.

We won the overall medal count, lost the gold medal count, and none of that really matters - not in...

Expensive, bloody wars for oil are not popular or easy fodder for TV, film and music. I could be doing myself a disservice by talking about the war so openly in my first single "Soldiers of Misfortune," but I absolutely believe in my heart of hearts that that's what I...

Just caught up with film critic Elvis Mitchell as he and renowned portrait photographer Timothy Greenfield-Sanders get ready for the television premiere of "The Black List: Vol. 1," their first journey as documentary filmmakers together (Monday, August 25th at...

Now that he's out of the pool, with no more races to win or records to break, Michael Phelps has a bit of a problem. Perched mightily atop the apex of modern athletic achievement, with the white hot light of International Superstardom now pointed directly at him, Phelps is in...

Between the corporate media circus coverage of the US presidential elections and the "security" arrangements in store for any prospective DNC and RNC protesters, it struck me that there is very little room for anything between spectacle and surveillance these days. Fortunately not everyone is taking this lying down.

The greatest thing that this country has exported since Rock And Roll is without a doubt WOMEN'S BEACH VOLLEYBALL! It has it all. Skill, competition, grace, majesty and girls hugging each other in their underwear in the sand! Who else could have come up with that? NOBODY BUT THE USA...

Boozoo Bajou
Boozoo Bajou is Nuremberg, Germany, duo Florian Seyberth and Peter Heider. Heider and Seyberth are also known for...