In honor of the boy band-centric Turning Red , I am re-running a piece (compiled in The Joy of Trash) about disgrace boy band Svengali Lou Pearlman’s deranged and deluded memoir.
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In this re-run of a classic from The Joy of Trash, I write about Joan Crawford’s cult 1971 guide to the fabulous life, which is everything you’d want it to be and so much more.
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As his empire crumbled, world class grifter and disgraced boy band Svengali Lou Pearlman made a 20 million dollar vanity project that’s astonishingly bad and self-indulgent but fascinating for the insight it provides into Pearlman’s psyche.
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Boy band Svengali Lou Pearlman was on top of the world, until his fraudulent blimp con brought him crashing down to earth.
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Brands, Bands and Billions, disgraced boy band Svengali's memoir/business guide/wannabe The Art of the Deal offers fascinating insight into the gargantuan con artist's warped mind and crazed narcissism
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One of you kind sadists paid me one hundred dollars to watch and write about 1999’s Boy Wonderz, a hilariously inept direct to video exploitation cheapie that’s the Rapsittie Street Kids Believe in Santa of opportunistic boy band dramas. I mean that as both withering criticism and high praise.
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My column on the best comedy podcasts of all time returns with an instant classic episode of Punch Up the Jam that hilariously dissects and parodies LFO’s Nathan Rabin’s Happy Place-approved Summer anthem “Summer Girls.”
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Do you remember?
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Al is a one-man boy band in a tuneful, tech-savvy tribute to the game-changing online auction house.
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A look back at my aborted career as the songwriter-for-hire of would-be boy band smashes about Y2K, the O.J Simpson trial, pogs and other distinctly 1990s phenomenon.
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