Debra Messing

Tuesday

June 18, 2024

Cockburn

Trump’s crush on Debra Messing

Long before he called Taylor Swift “unusually beautiful,” it was Debra Messing who had Trump utterly entranced. According to a new book giving a behind the scenes look at The Apprentice, Messing’s “beautiful red hair” captivated Trump since they first met in the early 2000s and still continues to due so. A longtime critic of the former president, the Will & Grace star now has Trump caught between bitter resentment and desire. Apprentice in Wonderland: How Donald Trump and Mark Burnett Took America Through the Looking Glass, written by Variety co-editor-in-chief Ramin Setoodeh, chronicles Trump’s complex feelings for the actress.

Monday

July 6, 2020

Cockburn

Biden’s half-baked celebrity world

Remember how all those celebrity endorsements worked out for Hillary Clinton in 2016? In the end, it seems, even a Beyoncé and Jay-Z concert wasn’t enough to warm voters to HRC. Or perhaps people just don’t actually much care what famous people say about politics. Team Biden is not about to run away from the avalanche of star support coming its way as we approach November. But Biden 2020 likes to think itself more socially media savvy than most commentators have realized. Fame has been democratized, after all, and we now live in an age of ‘influencers’. It’s not about A-listers anymore. It’s about followers and engagement. So brace yourselves for #TeamJoeTalks, a new effort to engage potential voters through their smartphones, which will launch today at 3:30 p.m.