Angelyne on the line...

 

Madonna slew at The Billboard Music Awards, arriving in an outfit that was giving me The Blue Angel, Sex and Dick Tracy flashes...and that was also giving me flasher flashes, considering she skipped pants.

Madonna at 35 or 36 in 1995's Four Rooms...

...and 18 years later, age 54!

Growing old "gracefully" is for people who could not wear this and look this good.

Kibitzing with Celine Dion!

Oh, and Keith at Billboard gets his Madonna moment, interviewing and posing with Madonna in one of her most memorable get-ups:

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It's Monsoon season!

The Drag Race queens do their best RuPaul impersonations.

Jodi Arias = guilty. Duh.

Zachary Quinto gets dirty.

College football star Kevin Grayson comes out.

Wallflowers: Episode 4. (With a new "Bryce!")

Straight People: A Spotter's Guide to the Fascinating World of Heterosexuals. Looky!

Nick Lachey doesn't miss Papa Joe Simpson.

Psychic Sylvia Browne told Amanda Berry's mom she'd died.

Two more states on the verge of marriage equality.

Boy Scouts of America officials to "vote their conscience" on gays.

Nintendo game allows same-sex marriage.

Macklemore: The str8 white rapper who wrote hip-hop's 1st gay anthem.

A  50-year gay love story.

Love in bloom.

Talk about a graphic novel!

Blisteringly erotic gay comic released.

Walk Off the Earth cover Madonna's "Material Girl."

Most at the Met Ball ignored the "punk" theme. Who looked best?*

Jesus Luz goes shirtless for Junior.

Hot 97 DJ Mister Cee: "I am not gay."

Chris Pine would play gay.

In Minnesota, marriage equality advances.

Getting picked up by Ryan Gosling.

Air Force's Sexual Assault Prevention & Response Office head assaults woman.

NYC couple attacked in broad daylight near MSG.

Gay vs. lesbian with AARP as the weapon.

Use these self-publishing moms for inspiration to make bank.

Pat Robertson: Gays like murderers,  rapists, thieves.

ABBA museum. Suggested donation? "Money, Money, Money."

You know I'll be attending this:

Str8 ally Chris Kluwe dropped by the Minnesota Vikings.

Jimmy Wright's drawings of NYC's gay meat market.

Helen Mirren vs. drummers.

Fuck, yeah, Ryan Phillippe.

Pet Shop Boys compare new album to Madonna.

Christina Crawford on her mom's rumored affair with Marilyn.

A Portrait of James Dean: Joshua Tree, 1951 avail for digital download today.

Come back to the five and dime, Jimmy Peen, Jimmy Peen (#bulge).

*Dakota Fanning, Anne Hathaway, Madonna, Rooney Mara, Gwyneth Paltrow, Sarah Jessica Parker, Aubrey Plaza, Amanda Seyfried & Kerry Washington can all get it.

Above, see all the stars as they appeared then...and as they appear now!

At the most recent Hollywood Show, held at the Westin Los Angeles Airport, I was discussing with one of my A-hound (that's "autograph") buddies just how long we could continue coming to these shows, considering so many of the attendees are people we've already met, and other potential guests are dropping like flies.

Not even kidding—this hearse was in front of the hotel as I first drove up!

Don told me, "Oh, I'll be here in 20 years in my Rascal, scooting around for Lindsay Lohan's autograph." He was joking, though. He couldn't care less about LiLo or most modern stars. For him it's Jane Withers through about Dallas, Don and most of the others who attend these shows can't be bothered. When does it end? I guess, as with life, it ends when it ends, so have fun while it lasts.

This was my shortest show. I only spent part of the first day and a few minutes on the second, since I had the GLAAD event and other stuff to do. But I couldn't not come, not with Angie Dickinson, Earl Holliman and Mamie Van Doren in the mix.

Here are my interactions, in order as they occurred:

This is, and is not, about Madonna.

The Internet is great and freedom of speech is great, but not every writer who makes use of one or both is a great writer.

Case in point, Angela Cheng, described as "a recent Communication Media Studies graduate of the University of Oklahoma," where she was her school newspaper's pop music writer. Charming. She's obsessed with Justin Bieber, but can't spell his name. You know this girl. Everyone knew a girl like this in college.

At any rate, she doesn't care for Madonna very much. Good for her. Taste is subjective. Not going to argue with her over her inability to appreciate Madonna as a singer or even as a dancer. (Well, maybe briefly I will: "Lady Gaga is a real dancer...[Madonna] has the coordination of a snail." Lots of people might prefer Gaga to Madonna, but anyone arguing that the former can outdance the latter is delusional. And for the records, snails have lots of coordination. They're not too quick, but they know what they're doing.)

What's so repulsive about her "Top reasons to dislike Madonna" article published yesterday at the high-class Examiner.com isn't her taste or even her lack of writing skills, which is generously on display, but stuff like this:

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Above, President Obama's first speech regarding the Boston Marathon bombing.

Person of interest in bombing is 20-year-old Saudi.

Patton Oswalt's response to terror: Love.

Marriage-equality vote delayed in Ireland.

Louis C.K. conflates gays with pedophiles.

"Day of Dialog" = gays suck.

The struggle of gay seniors.

Hi Fashion's warped video for song "Eighteen."

Justin Bieber bares his breasts.

San Jose Earthquakes player Alan Gordon sorry for slur.

Gay man denied partner visitation gets defense fund.

This poop is on fire.

The source of the below Tony Ward/Sex by Madonna image is (Work Unfriendly):

He's a good (water) sport.

Besedka Johnson, a woman with no acting experience who was recruited to star in the indi film Starlet at the age of 85, has passed away due to complications from a bacterial infection. She was 87.

She sounds like a really smart lady, and she also sounds really thrilled to have had this late-in-life opportunity. See her speak about the film after the jump...

Thirty-one '90s rockers then and now. As my pal Scott said on Facebook, they all seem to look better now.

Mamie Van Doren, 82 and eerily flawless, is showing up in person at a screening of her films Untamed Youth (1957) and High School Confidential! (1958) in Santa Monica in early April. I am scheduled to meet her later that same month, along with Angie Dickinson.

Lori Nelson (79) and Don Burnett (84 are also still alive from this one)

It promises to be a day filled with emotional...peaks.