September 3 - Ah, September. Back to school, back to work. Even back in time. This afternoon we traveled to the 1980s when Rosie O’Donnell and Boy George, collaborating on the upcoming Broadway musical Taboo, made their first public appearance together at Broadway’s first-ever Internet press conference. We were warned that only questions pertaining to Taboo would be entertained; the computer’s “delete” button would be liberally employed when other topics were introduced. Taboo is partly about Boy George’s early 1980s rise on the London scene, but in the stage production George portrays the late, equally flamboyant performance artist Leigh Bowery. Taboo was a hit in London; let’s see what Rosie’s infamous tyranny will do for the U.S. version.

That evening, people who were mere babes in the 1990s turned out to celebrate that decade’s decadence at the premiere of the indie film Party Monster. Macaulay Culkin, Seth Green Chloe Sevigny, Wilson Cruz and Natasha Lyonne all appear in the movie, along with some of the original club kids. Wilmer Valderrama is in the film, and his That 70s Show costars Mila Kunis and Danny Masterson joined Anne Hathaway, Rachael Leigh Cook and Rosario Dawson for the premiere and party at the club Plaid.