Passion Party: Billy Joe Murphy
Billy Joe Murphy has the perfect style for downtown club Divano. With his lush, rhythmic guitar playing and ethereal voice, his music seems both as light and as heavy as smoke while he's playing a mix of originals and lovely covers such as 'Kashmir' and 'Wild Horses.' His weekly gigs at Divano, the bar above the restaurant Prima, draw an interesting clientele. There are the folks, like local musician Troy Pierce, who go up there just...
Passion Party: INSIDE NEW YORK
Alec & Kim, On Film Again Despite the disastrous results of their last collaboration, Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger again plan to hit the silver screen together. Sources report that the couple, who met and became romantically involved while filming a flop called "The Marrying Man," now plan to star in a remake of the Steve McQueen / Ali MacGraw hit, "The Getaway." "No Way Out" director Roger Donaldson will...
Passion Party: `SLUMBER PARTIES' BRING PASSION HOME
The fastest route to a spicier sex life may not lie between the pages of Cosmo.Try confiding in close friends - over glasses of white wine, potluck supper - and fruit-flavored edible body butter. That's the idea behind a 21st-century version of Tupperware parties. But instead of cold-cut keepers, soup servers and salad spinners, you find heat-activated lubricants, French ticklers and remote-controlled vibrating panties.The passion party industry has taken root in Charlotte...
Passion Party: USA Today, Liz Parties: Bashes Mean Business
Once upon a time, parties were fun, fun, fun. Now a great many glitzy, glamorous gatherings are simply business.Last week, paparazzi and personalities, publicists and prima donnas got to parade their stuff for two "product parties"--one razzle-dazzle night celebrating the fifth anniversary of USA Today, the other a more sedate but equally seductive event selling the new line of fragrances marketed as Elizabeth Taylor's Passion.Neither of the two was...
Passion Party: DICE MAN IS ON HIS WAY; O'CONNOR NOT ON THE BILL
The Dice Man Cometh. Tickets will go on sale Saturday for a March 7 performance by politically incorrect comedian Andrew Dice Clay at Carr Performing Arts Centre in Orlando. It was Clay's raunchy act that caused Sinead O'Connor to walk off the set of Saturday Night Live two years ago. Judging from recent interviews, Clay doesn't appear to have mellowed any. Tickets for the 8 p.m. show are $25.Tickets also will go on sale Saturday for a March 10 concert...