Miscellaneous

Sleb Alert

By Anne Skove, Esq.

1. The Cruise of a Lifetime

Got summer plans? How about going on The Nation Cruise?

Judging from the full-page ad in the New York Review of Books, we believe that the Jackson 5 were all unavailable. How else to explain the double-bill of Jesse Jackson and Jackson Browne? Can Victoria Jackson be far behind?

The Jackson 2 are the Special Guests. Guest Speakers include Calvin Trillin and David Cole. No word on whether Celine Dion would be able to make it.

2. Better Than Miley's Memoirs!

Phone furor Alec Baldwin has a book due out in September. If that sentence alone doesn't make you weep, there's more: it's about his experiences in family court.

See Baldwin Details Celebrity Split, Carol Memmott, USA Today (May 10, 2008) (link is to Asbury Park Press); National Organization for Women Admonishes Media for Giving Alec Baldwin a Platform for Misinformed Theories, NOW press release (May 3, 2007); and Alec Baldwin and Parens Patriae, Stephen Baskerville (May 8, 2007).

3. Hearsay

See Man Claims Drugged Up O.J. Confessed to Murder, TMZ (May 10, 2008).

The Goldman family lawyer, though, accuses the person making the claim of "drinking the cocktail of celebrity and being intoxicated by Mr. Simpson's celebrity status." (Celebrity status?! He hasn't been in a Naked Gun movie in years.) See Goldman's Lawyer: Show Me the Money!, TMZ (May 10, 2008).

We've said it before and we'll say it again: what did we do before TMZ?!

Full post as published by court-o-rama.org on May 10, 2008 (boomark / email).