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Forks, WA, Home of Twilight: Shooting for ENCORE Channel!

Spicy — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 07:40:34 +0000

Twilight fans in Forks, Washington

What an absolute FUN time I had in Forks, Washington on Sunday!

As some of you already know, I was asked to film a short piece for an upcoming show, “In the House” which debuts on the Encore/Starz channel on December 3rd. It will air internationally!

Myself, along with a group of other bloggers, were chosen to take part in the show, which revolves around movies, directors and basically anything to do with film.

Each week we will all submit a story to the producers, and depending on our stories and what the producers like, a couple/few will be chosen to air on the show each week. This week, the first of many, we were asked to come up with a short piece on the Twilight phenomenon. Being as I reside in Washington State, I figured my best take on it would be to discuss the small town of Forks, WA, where many of the Twilight landmarks are. I read my story to producers via SKYPE and they loved it. The executive producer asked that I actually go to Forks and videotape each location of interest. So I hooked up with a GREAT friend, Lucy, (who operated the video camera and directed) and we set off for a long day of driving through the Olympic National forest, drinking coffee and chatting throughout the 4+ hour drive (one way).

[Right: Trying on my outfit the night before - I skipped the flower in my hair this time!]

Now, I doubt many of you know this, but Forks is one of the rainiest places in the country. It gets a whopping 119.06 inches of rain per year, and I swear, we got the 9.06 just during the time we were there! So forget my hairdo, that went out the window almost immediately. Heh.

Once we got there we were like kids in a candy store. Going from one attraction to the next, hauling our umbrellas and cameras and trying (unsuccessfully) to dodge the rain. But the weather didn’t dampen our spirits, we laughed as we went along, joking about our amateur skills.

All in all, it was an incredibly fun adventure, and although producers say they want the footage for the premiere show (woot!) nothing is 100% until it actually happens. But I am hopeful. Of course I’ll keep you “in the know”!

The Twilight attractions we visited today:

Bella’s Truck:

The Swan House:

The Cullen House:

Dazzled by Twilight: Home of the Twilight Tour

Forks High School:

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Read more about “IN THE HOUSE” on these websites:

TheFutonCritic.com

Monstersandcritics.com

IMDb.com

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“The Gossip Queens”/ Spicy’s Hollywood Adventure!

Spicy — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:03:17 +0000

On the set of “The Gossip Queens”

Wow! What a great few days in Hollywood!

First off, I’ll just tell you that the taping of the pilot for “The Gossip Queens” went incredibly well, and I think I fell in love with the city while I was there. I have decided this is something I want to do more of. I plan on visiting Tinseltown often in the near future!

Some shots from backstage, on the set of The Gossip Queens. Sorry they really suck, but I could only snap pics with my cell phone, and was taking them from stage left..

I was more than impressed with basically everything. There was a gorgeous set, a live studio audience and Byron Allen was running the show. (For the record, he is a very nice man!) The show went above and beyond my expectations in every way possible. The behind the scenes staff and producers were a lot of fun too. No pressure, they made you feel comfortable and were extremely supportive. I have to admit I was a bit nervous to begin with, but once I got up there and dished in front of the cameras and the audience, I felt I was born to do this.

There were four hosts, all comedians that you absolutely know and love! Loni Love, Kym Whitley, Micah McCain and Alec Mapa!!! I instantly fell in love with Micah McCain, and not like that, he is GAY. (and fabulous!) But I felt like he and I had similar views on the celebrities I discussed.

I was SO THRILLED to meet two of my very favorite bloggers in the world, MK from Popbytes.com and Janet Charlton from JanetCharlton.com (you probably recognize her from E!) Of course I HAD to snap pic with them both! They too, were guests on The Gossip Queens.

Cross your fingers that The Gossip Queens gets picked up, because if it does, the producer said I could be a regular. How fun is that?!

Pics from The Ivy

Besides the show, I got to spend some time seeing friends, people watching and cruising town. One of the first places I visited was The Ivy, that famous restaurant where celebrities are always spotted. I went with a friend and had a couple of delicious Lemon Drops (no sugar!), calamari appetizer and the Lobster Ravioli (to die for). We ate on the patio and of course I decided to venture in using the bathroom as an excuse to check out the decor.

I took my camera, of course, and decided I would shoot a few pics for my readers who have never been there and might like to see what the interior of the place looks like. Here are the shots I got before the waiters freaked and told me I had to tuck my camera away. It seems that even when celebrities aren’t in the restaurant they frown upon any pics in the joint. My bad. Lucky for me I got as many pics as I did! Of course I took one of the crapper too..heh.

On my last night I headed out to Hollywood Blvd. and met a friend for a couple cocktails at the legendary Roosevelt Hotel. I decided to have a dirty martini at the Dakota Bar inside the hotel. Thanks to my wonderful bartender, Geoffrey, for adding a little twist to an otherwise classic cocktail. A little ground pepper to add some spice to the martini. That’s what I’m talking about. Geoffrey also made me an extra special cocktail, his signature drink, a peach/grapefruit martini and let me tell you, it was so delicious I had two. If you stop by the Roosevelt anytime soon, ask for Geoffrey’s amazing drink. And tell him Spicy sent ya.

The inside of the Roosevelt was absolutely stunning. The architecture was jaw dropping. Here’s a shot of the lobby and of the ceiling. Too bad the ceiling shot doesn’t show the details of the chandelier, it was something else.

Just for fun, some shots of my solo trip to Hollywood Blvd. at night:

SO! To wrap this all up I am going to fill you in on a couple more opportunities possibly heading my way. Tomorrow I have a quasi-interview via Skype with the executive producer of an Encore production called, “In the House”. You can read a snippet about it here. I’ll let you know how it goes. Also, I will be speaking to a CBS radio exec about a possible Celebrity Smack radio show! How fun, right? Anyhow, lots of fun stuff to come, stay tuned…and wish me luck!

-xxoo SPICY

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Shooting in Hollywood!

Spicy — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:53:41 +0000

Helloooo Smackaholics! I know the site is MAJORLY lacking in post updates right now, but as you may have read below, I am in Hollywood right now and won’t return home until tomorrow afternoon.

I, along with a few other fellow celebrity gossip bloggers like MK from Popbytes.com and Sasha from EvilBeet.com, are shooting a television pilot series called, The Gossip Queens. And no, we aren’t the queens! I’ll fill you in more once shooting is done, but from what I know, each blogger gets time to sit and BS with the panel of “Gossip Queens” about current events. Should be a BLAST.

Look for a post later today (or tomorrow if I get carried away with Hollywood, which will most likely happen!). AND be watching for a post on my visit to the famous “The Ivy” restaurant to the stars!

Love you guys! – xxoxo Spicy

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Why is Tommy Chong Smiling?

Spicy — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:46:13 +0000

Why is Tommy Chong smiling?:

A. He made it past the drug sniffing canine

B. He just smoked a fat spliff in the airport bathroom

C. He’s going to Jamaica

D.He knows Spicy Pants is coming to Hollywood!

Yep, it’s true, bitches! I’m heading to Hollywood in a couple days to shoot a celebrity gossip show with my good friend, MK from Popbytes.com! (Whom I have known for, like, 5 years but have never met in person – party time!) Will fill you in on the trip next week, but I wanted to give you a heads up that on Monday and Tuesday it might be a little slow around here. Be sure you are following me on Twitter so you can follow my Twitpics & updates while in Tinseltown.

xxoo -Spicy

[Photo: ©BAUER-GRIFFIN.COM]

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Spicy Makes the NY Times

Spicy — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:39:51 +0000

So if you follow me on Twitter you probably already know that Ms. Spicy was featured in an article in the NY Times this past weekend.

Ok, so I wasn’t actually in the article, but rather included in a graph, complete with photo, among a myriad of celebrities who ‘Twitter’.

There are a few of us on the chart – like 3 – who aren’t actual celebrities, so I am pretty damn thrilled to have made the list.

Here’s a cropped version of the chart. It’s a little blurry, so check out the full Who’s Who of Celebritites on Twitter chart here.

It’s quite interesting actually.

And the original article:

The Celebrity Twitter Ecosystem

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By JOHN METCALFE, NY Times
Published: March 27, 2009

HONESTLY, does anyone care that Martha Stewart has a blog supposedly written by her French bulldogs, Francesca and Sharkey?

Snoop Dogg might, perhaps, because Ms. Stewart recently sent him a Twitter message urging him to visit “The Daily Wag.” “Yo Snoop,” she wrote, “check out MY doggies’ new doggie blog.”

Tha Doggfather received this dubious shout-out because Ms. Stewart follows him on Twitter — “following” being Twitterspeak for signing up to get someone’s musings delivered directly to your cellphone or computer. She is also following P. Diddy, Rachel Maddow and Jimmy Fallon and, in turn, is followed by Michael Phelps, Jane Fonda and nearly 200,000 other people; they were all alerted on March 4, for instance, when she had lunch with Ludacris, whom she found “just charming” and who “loved lunch — esp. choc cake.”

That Ms. Stewart recently broke bread with the artist behind “Pimpin’ All Over the World” is just one of the many weird bits of trivia that can be gleaned about famous people on Twitter. There are at least a hundred well-known actors, singers, business magnates, politicians and writers using the service, and their chitchat — most of it authentically written by the stars themselves, according to interviews with them or their publicists — is available for anybody to see. (Not to obsess too much over Martha, but just the other day she welcomed Emeril Lagasse to Twitter, sending him a note that said, “i am still loving the etouffee you made yesterday.” O.K., yes, she did buy up most of his franchise last year, but there you go.)

What is the sound of celebrities tweeting? Well, it might be Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails notifying Dave Navarro, a musical collaborator who now plays for Jane’s Addiction, that he’s “hanging on the bus.” Or maybe it’s Ashton Kutcher and John Mayer comparing notes on being 31 years old (from John to Ashton: “Let’s open a hip new restaurant together. ‘31 club.’ Where it’s always standing room only. It will fail but we will have had fun.”).

Most celebrities let anybody follow them on Twitter, but are pickier about whom they follow themselves. Mr. Kutcher, for instance, in addition to following his wife (Demi Moore) and a stepdaughter (Rumer Willis), follows a mix of boldface names from different walks of life, including Evan Williams (a Twitter founder), Soleil Moon Frye (remember “Punky Brewster”?), Maria Shriver and Ellen DeGeneres. (The latter two are not shown on the already-too-crowded chart below.)

It seems that — just like the rest of us — celebrities enjoy hearing about other celebrities, and Twitter lets them participate in a giant cross-disciplinary mash-up of a conversation.

To the delight of many, some celebrities expose themselves on Twitter in a way you won’t see in Entertainment Weekly. “I love it when they don’t talk with their publicists before posting things,” said Mario Lavandeira, who is better known as the gossipmonger Perez Hilton, “like Solange Knowles talking about how she was taking a lot of Nyquil and then ended up passing out at the airport.” (Erykah Badu and Q-Tip were among 23,000 people who received Ms. Knowles’s increasingly distressed alerts on Feb. 17, which culminated a day later with the tweet: “Woaah …How’d I end up in the hospital?”)

The accompanying chart shows a small and idiosyncratic sample of the celebrities who follow one another on Twitter. It represents a snapshot taken from March 18, and should be read with the caveat that allegiances can change quickly on Twitter (followers can drop follow-ees with a simple keystroke, and vice versa). Except for a few obvious fakes (Vladimir Putin), these accounts are all authentic, even if they might not seem like it.

By the way, are you following me on Twitter? I post links as stories go live on the Smack, chat and sometimes do a little drunk Tweeting. You just never know what you’re going to get!

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Brrrrrrrr……!

Spicy — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:45:04 +0000

Spicy is freezing up here in the Pacific NW, my indoor/outdoor sensor says it is currently 13 degrees outside!

Ok, so as I sit here working in my warm bed with my puppy at my side, a fire in my woodstove and a hot cup o’ joe, I am pretty toasty. So I am not freezing – but baby, it’s cold outside!

It snowed about 4 inches last weekend and has remained ever since. We are also due for more of the white stuff tomorrow and it’s not going to warm up much anytime between now and Christmas.

How are you all doing with your weather? Is it colder than Nicole Kidman’s tit where you are too? Let me know!

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It’s My Birthday/Anniversary Weekend – I’m Out!

Spicy — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:00:28 +0000

Hey kids, I thought I’d be updating today, but I was wrong.

See, it’s my birthday on Monday AND it’s my 5-year wedding anniversary the same day. So, Mr. Spicy and I are headed out of town today to the beautiful ocean with some friends. I’ll be heading home Monday and everything will be back to normal on Tuesday. I’ll see you bitches then. Until then, why not join in on the heated PETA debate a few posts below? Heh.

See you next week.

xoxo

For All Your Gossip Needs:

Drunken Stepfather

Bastardly

Agent Bedhead

Webster’s is My Bitch

Evil Beet

Pop on the Pop

City Rag

Gabsmash

Bumpshack

Holy Taco

Allie is Wired

Hollywood Backwash

Right Celebrity

Daily Stab

The Blemish

Gabby Babble

Derek Hail

Geno’s World

*Spicy’s MySpace*

*Sidenote:

I am a sucker, I know, but I subscribed to the Big Brother 9 live webcam feed, and I have to say, it’s pretty cool. I’m a latecomer to the whole Big Brother show as I only started watching it last season, but I am HOOKED! Anyhow, if you are a huge fan, you seriously need to subscribe to the webcam. 14-day free trial, why not try it out? I am!

So, from what I have watched the past 24 hours, EVERYONE is pissed at Allison. They all know that she masterminded the whole thing with Sheila, claiming to be lesbians.

Joshua is especially irritated with her and is ready to GO OFF with his bad self , and in a bad way. Actually, he already did Wednesday night, after eviction. Pretty much everyone had it out with her that night…even her own partner.

You can bet she’ll be going up for eviction and voted out next.

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A New Superstar in My Life

Spicy — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 12:45:51 +0000

Meet Eddie. Eddie is a rescue dog that my husband and I adopted this weekend. He’s about 8 months old and is an American Bulldog mix.

Eddie was abused and used as ‘bait’ in dog fighting. He was found in a parking lot, nearly dead. That was a couple months ago, and he has since been nursed back to health by a rescue shelter foster family. For the first month Eddie refused to move or interact with anyone.

Eddie is doing much better these days and is loving his new home. He’s comical! He sleeps in goofy positions and is totally uncoordinated. He’s a little scarred up but fortunately has recovered nicely.

He needs a lot of training and love, but we have a lot of patience for this little guy.

Just thought I would introduce him since many of you already know my other superstar, Lucy Liu.

Wikipedia describes bait animals (scroll down to Bait Animals)

Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

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Taking Off for the Holidays

Spicy — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 19:29:51 +0000

Mr. & Mrs. Spicy (and Lucy Liu, of course) are heading out for a grand adventure this holiday season. I won’t be updating until after Christmas most likely – but Shark will be rocking an extra special year-end ‘Snark Attack’ on Saturday. So give him some love!

I need some time off from the celebrity drama y’all! The pregnancies, the lawsuits, the DUI’s! I’m just going to live in my own little peaceful world for the rest of the holiday season and not give a shit about what Hollywood is doing. Well, I am going to try anyway..

Until then – I have compiled this lovely list of kick ass gossip sites that I know you will love..

Agent Bedhead *Allie is Wired *Ayyyy! * Back Seat Cuddler * Bastardly * Bitten and Bound *Bumpshack *Celebrity Cosmetic Surgery* Celebrity Cowboy* Celebrity Dirty Laundry* Celebrity Dog Watcher *Celebrity Mound *Celebrity Puke *Celebrity Warship* City Rag* Crazy Days and Nights *Daily Stab *Derek Hail *DListed *Dotspotter* Drunken Stepfather* Evil Beet* Gabby Babble* Gabsmash *Geno’s World *Gone Hollywood *Gossip or Truth *Hollywood Backwash *Holy Candy *Im Bringing Blogging Back *Jackson Blue’s Celebrity Dirt *Jordan Is Your Homeboy* Ninja Dude* Pop on the Pop *Pop Bytes *Right Celebrity* Speed Monkey* The Blemish *The Meat Scale* TMZ *Yeeeah!

Also, these are some off-the-wall celebrity sites that are totally rad..

Distortrait *Gallery of the Absurd* Planet Hiltron *Pretty on the Outside

For those who aren’t my MySpace friend yet….get crackin’ bitches. Let’s be friends – add this ho. Then you can leave me gifts under my tree..or even text message my ass. Heh.

See you next week. xoxo

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I’m Back!

Spicy — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 15:56:08 +0000

Beach III -Kihei, Maui, looking towards Lahaina

Damnit, Jim!

Back to reality. Paradise was something else I tell ya. It was a little hard going from mid to upper 80s in Maui and coming home to the lower 30s! Anyhow, yes I had a fabulous time with family and friends in Kihei. Met a TON of cool people while there and I can’t wait to return.

Thanks to Joy A. from PoponthePop.com for taking over while I was away. She’s the best, and I love her. xoxo, Joy!

Anyhow back with more SMACK shortly!

xoxo

Spicy