‘Exclusives’ Archives
THE RAT
He ran one of California's biggest drug empires... ...complete with all the trappings -- Ferraris, strippers, tricked-out jacuzzis, and garish fake waterfalls – then, the Feds ran him. A star informant takes us through his personal hell... The first sign that something was wrong was when a car followed him onto his street – a one-way [...]
Scientologists Speak Out About What Katie Holmes Is Experiencing
In the 1993 legal thriller The Firm, Tom Cruise plays a junior member of a prestigious Memphis law firm that’s secretly steeped in corruption. After a midnight tryst on the beach during a weekend junket to the Cayman Islands, Cruise’s character, Mitch, is confronted by Wilford Brimley at his most unctuous, playing the firm’s enforcer, who [...]
DATELINE: MAY 22, 2012, STARBUCKS-LOS FELIZ – EDDIE DEEZEN STOLE MY CROSSWORD PUZZLE…
...and the greatest "nerd" actor of all time did the right thing. to: eddiehdeezen1 from: markebner59 Eddie - Please be advised that you are more than welcome to my crossword puzzle, but I challenge you to actually finish the one I'm saving for you on Sunday! Your long time fan, Mark Ebner - http://www.hollywoodinterrupted.com. PS: [...]
FRACKED UP!: Hollywood,Interrupted Visits America’s New Boomtown
Three hundred miles due north of Deadwood, South Dakota and roughly half as many years past its 1870s heyday, a new gold rush is threatening to give that storied spectacle of exuberant capitalism a run for its money. In a country with an unofficial underemployment rate of 20%, the tiny railroad whistle-stop of Williston, North Dakota near [...]
DEAD MONEY: Deep Inside the Biggest Celebrity Poker Games in Hollywood
Big Gamer Tobey Maguire gets more than his ego massaged “Listen, here’s the thing: If you can’t spot the sucker in your first half hour at the table, then you are the sucker.” -- Matt Damon’s first line in Rounders A high-stakes floating poker game starring Tobey Maguire, Leonardo DiCaprio, Ben Affleck, Matt Damon and a wealth [...]
Ebner Slams Scientology with Johnny Wendell on “Southern California Live”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIDIlJkFeJU
“WE HAVE YOUR HUSBAND”: ON SALE NOW!
In the mountains of Guanajuato, Mexico sits a picturesque community favored by artists and tourists. But for American-born Jayne Valseca and her husband Eduardo, son of a legendary Mexican newspaper publisher, it became a hell on earth when Eduardo was ambushed by strangers and kidnapped in the summer of 2007. Jayne knew that in Mexico [...]
CHARLIE SHEEN REWIND: PAYING WOMEN TO LEAVE SINCE THE NINETIES
Back in 1998, when entertainment journalism was fun, Details magazine commissioned me to track down and interview Charlie Sheen's ex-girlfriends - an assignment as simple as walking out my front door. Deftly navigating around the actor's history of violence footprints I found no shortage of women willing to get honest about their experiences [...]
The Fix!
TheFix.com has officially launched. The Fix is a new content site aimed at recovering drug and alcohol users. Though based in New York, its most arresting piece of initial coverage comes courtesy of Mark Ebner, the LA author and journalist normally parked at HollywoodInterrupted.com. Together with Walter Armstrong (and researcher James Patridge), [...]
