Get Me Home!

BUSTER ~ "Get Me Home!"

New York has been a whirlwind adventure.  I like to think of it as if New York and I were an item, having a good ole, hot, sexy time.  But I'm kinda like John Mayer; once I've gotten my rocks off, and things start getting real, I just want to dump the bitch and move on.

Its time for me to go back to the place I really belong, to that glamorous hooker of a town, Hollywood California!  Just like Hugh Hefner, I prefer to be surrounded by fake blondes with fake tits.  In other words, California Girls!

Now all I have to do, is get on a plane and go home.  But let's face it, flying in today's world sucks.  I mean that's definitely a "first world" problem.  Its easy to take for granted how convenient it is to just hop on a plane and get from New York to Los Angeles in just a few hours.  Back in the olden days, it would take people forever to travel across country.  I believe it would take Madonna several weeks to travel from New York to L.A. by stagecoach when she was just starting out as a young Italian girl, with a budding mustache and an actual last name.  (Ciccone, thank you very much.)

But even though flying is a modern convenience, the TSA has taken out almost all of the fun.  Its like how Seal is such a party pooper for Heidi and her bodyguard.

The TSA is a legality that just gets in the way of fun times.  I mean I want to fly safe and all, and honestly I don't even mind the pat downs.  In fact, an aggressive pat down by one of those big TSA mommas can be really titillating!

Its the long lines that are a drag.  For Lindsay Lohan a "long line" is party time, but that's not the type of line I'm talking about.

I'm talking about a line filled with angry, bored and stressed out travelers.

 I'ts just not a fun line, and I'd rather have Star Jones tell me about her day, then stand in it.

Then there's the stress of boarding the plane, which is usually packed like a sardine can, and then dealing with the stress of hoping we won't crash.  I swear, sometimes I stress out more than Pam Anderson at the free clinic!

But the ultimate torture of flying is the babies.  I think every flight, no matter what time of day or night, is required to have a least one baby, usually three, and they must scream the whole flight.  I swear, "plane babies" have amazing lung power.  It puts Adele to shame!  I can never quite see where the baby is, but I can sure hear it!  Listen I can barely survive a cross country flight with a crying baby, so I think I would implode if I had one of those things around me full time.  This is what makes me certain that the Octomom is insane.  She had six babies already, and then impregnated herself with eight more?!

I believe I can quote the great Maya Angelou when I say,  OH HELL NO! (don't quote me on this quote...)

Eventually, I'm able to act like Amanda Bynes behind a steering wheel, and just zone out.

After landing, and peeling myself out of the sardine can of a plane, I arrive at paparrazi heaven, LAX.  And being a big star, the paps are annoying and relentless with me.  Now I know why Victoria Beckham always has a look on her face like she was forced to smell Charlie Sheen's rumpus room.

After a long flight, dealing with all the "plane babies", and the TSA, the last thing I want to deal with is an annoying, pushy photog! 

Even still, I'm home in L.A. and I'm so excited and grateful!  New York was a wonderful chapter, but I'm ready for the next big adventure!

That adventure happens right here in Hollywood, and its a little show I'm creating, called Fox Views!

Thanks for going on my New York adventures with me, but now I'm so happy to say, again:

Love from Hollywood,

  ~ buster

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Enough with New York

BUSTER ~ "Enough with New York"

You know what Courtney Love and Lindsay Lohan have in common? 

They have both stayed too long at the party.  

You know what Charlie Sheen and I have in common? We know when the party is over, and that makes us "winning!"  

New York has been a wild and crazy party.  I've tried everything from occupying 30 Rock, 

to Loitering at Letterman.  

From auditioning at Radio City Music Hall,

to stalking the Wendy Williams Show, 

I've had a blast!  Hey, I even got to interview Rent star Anthony Rapp!  

Ive basically pulled the same shenanigans I do back at home in Hollywood, only the weather here sucks.  I traveled 3000 miles across country because I got fed up with being ignored by Jimmy Kimmel Live, 

only to be harassed by angry New Yorkers.  

Man, everyone here in New York is in such a hurry!  It took this time away, for me to realize that sunny California is much more my speed. 

But it wasn't a waste of a trip.  In the New York hustle and bustle, I've learned about myself and my dreams.  I'm not going back to Hollywood hoping to get discovered by Jimmy Kimmel.  I'm going back to give him some competition!  I'm about to launch my own pop culture news show: Hollywood News Ginga Style!  I'll be reporting on what's happening in pop culture, all from my own Ginga point of view.  I also plan on giving a lot more celebrity interviews, like my stellar pieces with Anthony Rapp, and Bruce Vilanch.  I plan on eventually making these interviews, along with my Ginga News a part of a much bigger talk show.  Who knows...  It may take me back to New York!  For now, I can't wait to get back home to Hollywood, and to show Jimmy Kimmel that there's a new kid on the block!
 

p.s. I would LOVE to interview Courtney, Lindsay and Charlie, and ask each of them how they handle the stress of the entertainment business.  

 

I'm sure they'd each have a colorful answer.

Stay tuned friends to see how I manage to get home to Hollywood.

Love from New York (for now),
 

  ~ buster

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Loitering at Letterman

BUSTER ~ "Loitering at Letterman"

Just like Lindsay Lohan can't keep herself off of TMZ, 

I can't seem to keep myself from stalking late night talk shows.  I may be 3000 miles away from my sidewalk spot in front of Jimmy Kimmel Live, 

but NYC has the famous Late Show with David Letterman, and I'm determined to get on that show. 

I plan on camping out and being as hard to get rid of as those black shiny things that seem to multiply like crazy and you can't really exterminate.  

You know, I mean the Kardashians? (boy that little one is HAIRY!)

Besides, the Late Show is in the beautiful Ed Sullivan Theatre, on an awesome NY street, surrounded by Broadway Showhouses!  Jimmy Kimmel Live is also in a beautiful theatre, on a cool street, Hollywood Boulevard.  But instead of Broadway shows, it has fake Disney princesses and hookers!  Its like comparing Ashton Kutcher to Steve Jobs. 

They may look the same, and in the movie they'll have the same story, but in the end, one of them is just a cheep version that's all flash and no "isubstance."  Just ask Siri.

So here I am, loitering at Letterman, hoping I'll get discovered and put on the show.  At one point the crowd waiting for the show screams, and I naturally think they're cheering for me, because I tend to be as delusional as Ricky Martin was when he thought we were fooled by that closet door of his.

Stalking the Late Show with nothing but time and a wicked case of desperation is all too familiar. Here I am again, standing in front of the closed doors of a talk show.  This makes me start to really think about my life, and where I want it to lead.  It seems all too obvious.  I don't need to wait on David Letterman, or Jimmy Kimmel to discover me.  I don't even need janky Wendy Williams! 

I want my own talk show.  I'm obsessed with showbiz folk, and it is a dream of mine to be able to chat up to their over inflated egos for a living!  And if I'm really lucky, maybe one day some nutty redhead will loiter in front of my show, plotting and planning to get discovered by me! 

Stay tuned to see how I manage to pull of getting my own talk show!

Love from New York City,
 

  ~ buster

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Broadway's a Bitch, Baby...

BUSTER ~ "Broadway's a Bitch, Baby"

They say the neon lights are bright on Broadway.  They say there's always magic in the air.  

But I must say, Broadway can be a real bitch!  Especially if you're just trying to 'break in".  I learn just how big of a bitch it can be when I try to audition for a slew of shows, and end up getting my ass handed to me!

My big Broadway push was such a bust.  New York hasn't seen a flop this bad since Rosie O'Donnell tried to make a Boy George Musical or when Julie Taymor's Spiderman took a nose dive.

Ok so maybe I have limited to no talent as a singer/dancer/actor, I like to call myself a zero threat, but that hasn't stopped any of the Kardashians from being superstars.  Of course they aren't trying to be in Broadway shows, but Kim does currently has a gig acting on Drop Dead Diva!

I know this because thanks to Ryan Seacrest, I'm Keeping Up with those damn Kardashians.  That, and Drop Dead Diva is actually a really good show.  Ironically the star Diva, Brooke Elliot was herself a Broadway star before becoming a TV star.  Even MORE Ironically, she starred in Rosie O'Donnell and Boy George's failed Broadway show Taboo!

Another famous guest star on Drop Dead Diva has been the lovely and hilarious redhead Kathy Griffin!

Kathy Griffin with Drop Dead Diva star Margaret Cho

Kathy has been a Broadway star herself.  But even better than that, she has her own talk show on Bravo!

Let's face it, funny redheads make great talk show hosts!  So the lesson from this story is, I'm not cut out for Broadway, but I'm definitely cut out to host a talk show!  New York has been screaming at me to do it!

Stay tuned friends, to see how I manage to make this happen, and to see what else New York wants to scream at me.

One thing is for sure, I'm not gonna ask Rosie to produce my show!

Love from New York City,
 

  ~ buster

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Rapping with Anthony Rapp...

BUSTER ~ "Rapping with Anthony Rapp"

Every once in a while I catch a lucky break, and get to meet a celebrity.  I get to have dinner with them, and they grant me an interview. 

Ok maybe I crash in on them having dinner, and then won't leave them alone until they grant me an interview.  You've all seen my stellar "shminterview" with Bruce Vilanch back in L.A.

BUSTER ~ "Buster, AKA Fox Michaels, interviews Bruce Vilanch!"

Well, now I'm in New York City, and I have the good fortune of spotting Broadway star Anthony Rapp about to have dinner at this little deli on 44th street!

I've been a fan of his ever since I was a kid watching him have Adventures in Babysitting!

In High School it was fun to watch him get Dazed and Confused, 1970s style.

And of course it was a thrill to see him try to come up with the RENT on Broadway.  (He did it on film too, but no one holds it against him.)

In fact the first question I ask him when I see him is if he's still having trouble paying the RENT.  That's when he asks for security.  And that's when I know it's time to ask a hard hitting question before I get shuttled away.  I ask him why he loves redheads.  Being the brilliant actor he is, he internalizes the question, and says he doesn't think that HE is a redhead.  Trying to keep the conversation going I tell him I think he is, and that's when he comes up with a perfect actor response.  He says that if that's the case then he loves redheads because he loves himself.  Such words of wisdom!  I hope you all got as much out of that interview as I did, my dear readers.

Of course as soon as I get that answer, I then get escorted away from Mr. Anthony Rapp, by the restaurant's Maitre 'D/Busboy.  And as I sit on the Manhattan sidewalk where I land after that busboy throws me out, I contemplate my fame-seeking journey so far.  It really has been a "Season of Love" like the RENT song says.  With five hundred, twenty-five thousand, six hundred minutes of me trying to "make it" in entertainment from L.A. to NYC.  Ive just had trouble figuring out what "making it" has really meant.

I'm still gonna give it a Rachel Berry-esq try for Broadway stardom.

But in my heart I realize after the thrill I get from "interviewing" Anthony Rapp, that I've discovered my calling.  I want my own talk show, where I get to talk to all these famous people who have "made it" themselves.  I left L.A. because I got tired of waiting for Jimmy Kimmel to discover me.  And I realize now that I don't need him to put me on his show, I can be my own talk show host!  And I'm gonna ask every celebrity in the biz the same question:

Why do they love redheads!

Meanwhile, I'm still here in Manhattan, I might as well see if I can make it onto a Broadway show.  If Anthony Rapp can do it, so can I!

Thank you Anthony Rapp for granting that interview.  You helped inspire the superstar talk show host inside of me!

Stay tuned friends, to see if I get a Broadway show, or my own talk show.  Either way, stay tuned for the show.

Love from New York City,
 

  ~ buster

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