Return to Sender! These Celebs Might Want to Change Their Email Accounts

Drew Grant — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 12:14:19 -0400

Andrew W.K., Russell Simmons, and James Franco (via Getty)

Last March, we did a socialite-laden post about the dangers of accidentally CC'ing everyone on an invite list instead of using BCC. In most circumstances, you chalk the mistake up to a faux-pas and feel a momentary twinge of embarrassment. Of course, if you are a photographer to the stars, this might lead to more sticky situations.

Liam McMullan, son of famed photog Patrick and quite a shutterbug himself, invited us to his father's PMC Magazine/Maybeline party last night at the Dream Hotel in Chelsea. Unfortunately the rain combined with our stupid decision to wear leather flats to work, we were unable to make it. The moment we were about to reply to the Jr. McMullan's email (sent from his smartphone), we realized that he had sent the invite out to over 30 people en masse (message).

Glad we dodged a bullet and didn't press 'Reply All'! As we were congratulating ourselves on our Internet social skills, we noticed that some of the names of the list were definitely not for media eyes. Like say, James Franco's Gmail account. Or Andrew W.K.'s. Or Russell Simmons's personal email.

While we'd never be so gauche as to actually put these people's private information out there, as a public service to celebs and socialites, here's a list of people who might be wanting to change over to Hotmail pretty soon:

Socialite Cleo Coco Lettry Vauban
Socialite Anna Rothschild
Occupy Wall Street sympathizer Russell Simmons
Academy Awards host James Franco
Manager and producer Steve Paul
Musician/comedian Andrew W.K.
Magician and mind-freak Criss Angel
Model Sabrina Huls
Justin Timberlake surrogate and Napster creator Sean Parker
Socialite-rising and former Observer semi-star Stephanie Wei
Girls Loves Shoes stylist Zia Ziprin
Photographer Antoine Verglas
Izzy Gold aka Francesco Civetta
Artist/photographer Ohad Maiman
Catfish star Yaniv Schulman
Rapper/actor Chris Massey
Alterna-socialite Arden Wohl

Actually, strike what we said before: It's actually amazing how many of these cool kids have kept a hotmail/yahoo address. Or maybe that's just their "PR" address they give out in case a snafu like this ever occurs.

Must Disappear TV: Criss Angel Developing ‘Workplace’ Magic Comedy for NBC

Matt Haber — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:23:05 -0400

Last week, Vanity Fair's Matt Pressman interviewed Lee Eisenberg, a writer for NBC's The Office for the magazine's Culture and Celebrity blog.

Here's a snippet:

How did you [and writing partner Gene Stupinsky] end up writing for The Office?

Lee Eisenberg: Gene and I sold a pilot called Lonnie and Gordo, and [The Office executive producer] Greg Daniels got his hands on that.

What was that show about?

It was about two co-dependent magicians who live and work together. We were really happy with how the script turned out, but it didn’t move forward. But Greg read it and liked it enough to meet with us.

Mr. Eisenberg went on to explain, "I think the characters were incredibly heightened versions of us. We were living together at the time and, obviously, struggling with a creative endeavor. We started talking about a show about two guys who were living together. As it started forming, we decided that writing is much less visual than magic, so we decided to go with magic."

It's not the worst idea in the world—who didn't love Arrested Development's Tony Wonder arc?—but maybe what Messrs. Eisenberg and Stupinsky needed was a big-time Magic Celebrity, or at the very least, Criss "Mindreak" Angel, to push the project through.

Yesterday, Variety's MIchael Schneider reported that Mr. Angel and actor-turned-writer Chris Moynihan have somehow convinced NBC to give them a sitcom.

Per Mr. Schneider:

The Angel project is based on an original idea that the 'Mindfreak' magician conceived along with producers Dave Baram, Jason Verona and Adam Shulman. Moynihan has joined in to write the project, which was inspired by Angel's experience as an up-and-coming magician.

All four are aboard to exec produce the half-hour, which was pitched as a workplace comedy set in the world of magic.

Let's hope the show does better than Believe, Mr. Angel's Las Vegas show that opened on Halloween, which was described as "a train wreck" by a preview attendee quoted by The Las Vegas Review-Journal's Doug Elfman in September.

Earlier this month, The Los Angeles Times' Reed Johnson had a (slightly) different take on Believe:

If Criss Angel were blindfolded, straitjacketed, run over by a steamroller, locked in a steel box and dumped from a helicopter into the Pacific Ocean, he still might be easier to salvage from disaster than 'Criss Angel: Believe,' the gloomy, gothic muddle of a show that officially lurched into being on Halloween night like some patched-together Frankenstein's monster.

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Return to Sender! These Celebs Might Want to Change Their Email Accounts

Must Disappear TV: Criss Angel Developing ‘Workplace’ Magic Comedy for NBC