In a doubles interview in Parade magazine, tennis star Chris Evert tells how everything changed when she came to visit Martina Navratilova in Aspen: "When my first marriage was ending, I was kind of down, and Martina said, 'Come on up to Aspen' and taught me how to ski. We would ski from 9 to 2, play tennis for two hours, then be in the gym for two hours—and she showed me what she was doing with weights. We did this for a week. Not many people who are No. 1 and No. 2 competitors would do that.... [Andy Mill] was so cute. He woke up and said, 'I can’t believe I slept with Chris Evert in Martina Navratilova’s bedroom!' Martina was responsible for me meeting him, and he and I had a great 20 years, so I feel like I’m not a total failure in life!"
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Cameron: I spent the last five years making one movie to move the needle a little bit. "There’s a limit to its effectiveness because there wasn’t a specific message on specific problems with specific solutions. We spoke to people who were already predisposed to that message. "We need to reach people caught in middle and who think that climate change is a controversial topic.... The message is being framed incorrectly." We need to use media in a smarter way. Use media to calmly, clearly, emotionally and passionately get the message out there that this (care for the environment) is for your good, your children’s good. If you’re a parent and you care about your children, this is what you have to do."
"Thank you Kevin Costner and Exene Cervenka," writes new Post blogger maxc in comment #4. "Baddaymovie.com was a great little film . Nice to see Kevin when he was young."
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Nobody flinched to hear Rush Limbaugh was decamping down the aisle for the fourth time. Nor would anyone but an alien be surprised to hear America’s favorite talk show host might one day embark on the marital quinella.
He’s rich and she’s a babe descended from John Adams, star of the HBO mini-series—end of story.
Not so fast, Kemosabe. In the cocksure, cockamamie world of the Conservative Bowel Movement, the fourth time El Rushbo swore his fealty to his latest newly beloved the ceremony arrived with a peppermint twist. Rather than a siren song from the Evangelicals fooled into thinking he was one of their own, America’s favorite talkmeister turned to the tune of $1 million to piano man Elton John, last seen in the pages of Architectural Digest showing off his Los Angeles pied a clouds with his longtime and very male partner.
Continue Reading June 12th, 2010
As truly horrendous and reprehensible ideas go, the one that would put Charlie Sheen to work as a part-time expert on the craft of acting at Theatre Aspen will be hard to top, even in a town know for all-hours retching and wretched excess.
Continue Reading June 5th, 2010
Why can’t we be more like Canada?
They host the Olympics like they mean it. They smile. They play hockey and penalty-kill. They honor the indigenous people in their midst without trying to wipe them out. And they have the Canadian Mounties.
But most of all what they have is a kick-ass national anthem, a tune that says everything about they are—and about what we, as Americans, are not.
The 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver, British Columbia, was bristling with unexpected pleasures for the fan, but nothing compared to the way the Canadian people and their athletes sang “Oh Canada,” the national anthem, on the trips to the podium for the gold medal.
They sang it—they really sang it—the way we Americans almost never do with our “Star-Spangled Banner.” They sang it from the top of their lungs with no self-consciousness to speak of. They were joyful when they sang it.
Continue Reading March 1st, 2010
Yes, indeed, we have it on good authority -- an airport source -- that Tiger Woods deplaned from his private jet in Aspen Tuesday and decamped for parts unknow, most likely (we figure) to hole up in some gorgeous manse the hoi polloi (that would be us) are unable to penetrate.
What would you say to Tiger if you had the chance or had the notion?
January 5th, 2010
Well, fellow locals, we have not seen the last of Charlie Sheen, 44, last seen playing one of the full-blown men on my favorite CBS sitcom, "Two And A Half Men." Unfortunately for everybody, Sheen was last seen in Aspen in a Pitkin County Jail cell Christmas Day, after his arrest for menacing and variegated felony malfeasance, a state of wedded dis-bliss that followed a rocky Christmas morning in a house on East Hallam Avenue near the Aspen downtown core.
Continue Reading December 26th, 2009
Academy Award-winner George Clooney was seen Wednesday strolling around downtown stores in the midst of a tour of Colorado ski resorts.
If you see him, remember the unspoken rule about celebrities in Aspen: leave him alone.
There has also been a Brad Pitt sigthing as yet unconfirmed.
April 9th, 2009
History happened while your humble correspondent and a gazillion others were making ready to chow down just before halftime of the Super Bowl just past—history in the form of the greatest play ever in the history of pigskin’s game of games.
Lynn Swann me no Lynn Swann. Eli me no Tyree. On the final play of the first half, when James Harrison of the Pittsburgh Steelers—the NFL Defensive Player of the Year, no less—picked off a pass at the goal line from Arizona Cardinals quarterback Kurt Warner, the chase was on down the corridors of time.
Continue Reading February 2nd, 2009
Hmmm... let's see.... God-like cycling champeen and testicular cancer survivor Lance Armstrong announces his comeback, wins a bike race in Aspen--and puts in a bid for a house in the West End of Aspen.
Can it be true? Is it possible that our lonely outpost lost in a box canyon in the Rockies is about to get an injection of star power? Could this be the start of something big?
Continue Reading September 11th, 2008
The Con Man welcomes William McKeen, the professor of journalism at the University of Florida at Gainesville, who has just completed his second book on Dr. Hunter S. Thompson Jr., "Outlaw Journalist: The Life and Times of Hunter S. Thompson." Among the questions asked: was he destroyed by drugs and alcohol--or celebrity? And what's his place in the pantheon of American writers?
Click here for the complete "Con Games with Michael Conniff" for Friday July 18, 2008.
July 18th, 2008
Thomas Friedman, the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist of The New York Times, was officially christened as king of the world over the weekend in Aspen—and why the hell not?
He wore the mantle lightly at the Aspen Ideas Festival, in part because he married into the gazillionaire Buxbaum family, who have so far given tens of millions of dollars to the town, with the latest dollop a $25 million downpayment for a spanky campus at the Aspen Music Festival and School. But Friedman’s wallop at the podium has all but nothing to do with Bucksbaum bucks, and everything to do with his prescient ability to package the zeitgeist with the tidiness of a juice box—the kind that comes with its own self-piercing straw.
Continue Reading July 7th, 2008
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