Hollywood on Vice

Combover

Combover's Truth

This town’s just one big concentration camp! It’s sunny Auschwitz. But I am my own Nazi. I keep me here. Ambition. The sweet tastes of temptation are wasting me away. Spiritually emaciated. About to fall flat and just die. Full story

Skinema

Gimme a Fucking Break #4

Despite flunking out of six of the most prestigious institutions of higher learning in New Jersey in less than three years, I never got to experience the crazy beach rompfest marinated in cheap beer that is spring break. Full story

Let’s Apocalypse! A Discussion with the Anti-Banality Union

The ABU edits countless Hollywood popcorn films together, forming orgies of death and destruction at the hands of our society’s hopeless antagonisms. Drawing clips from such box office hits as 'Independence Day' and 'The Dark Knight,' they reveal the violence and chaos lurking ju… Full story

Nocturnal Submissions

Close to the Goodyear Blimp

1986, I’m somewhere off the 110 freeway close to the Goodyear Blimp in Gardena. I’m dodging potholes, spinning yarns in my head, thinking about all the things I’m gonna be someday. I drive slowly looking for models in the shadows, but what I see is a clump of mean- and bitter-loo… Full story

Off Hollywood - Denise Crosby

Denise Crosby, the 'Star Trek' actor who made Tasha Yar legendary, continues to appear in films and on television as heroines in all sorts of universes. I met her recently at a Star Trek convention and, surprisingly, we hit it off. A month later I found myself in her backyard dis… Full story

Combover

Dirty Laundry

This one’s difficult. Used to be my best friend. My mentor, really. Taught me everything I know about the business. Helped me get my first assistant’s job with Billy Wilder. Then the white dragon set him on fire. And before I knew it, I was his own personal ATM. Full story

Awkward Music I've Had Sex To

One of the four trillion problems with Hollywood is that it has made us all narcissistically convinced that there should be a meaningful and well selected soundtrack playing in the background of the miniscule events of our lives. Very rarely is this the case. Full story

Off Hollywood - Jeanne Basone

Not only did she wear fantastic outfits while smashing someone’s head against the turnbuckle in the ring, she put feminine stereotypes in a chokehold as well as Hollywood of Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling. Full story

VICE Meets

Karen Black

We were excited when Karen invited us to her home in LA for tea and a nice long chat about the art of acting, why she regrets starring in horror films, and her recent musical collaborations with Cass McCombs. Full story

The Day I Learned All of Hollywood's Biggest Secrets

With a bunch of other confused people taking the TMZ bus tour. Full story