Idolator

While all the NYC cool kids were out at the Rapture show Tuesday night, the real music fans were kickin' at 61st and Park, where they caught the soulful song stylings of a certain well-bronzed renegade. From today's near-drooling New York Times story:

"I went to Falcon Crest University," Lorenzo Lamas said at Tuesday's opening-night show of his cabaret debut at Feinstein's at the Regency. In fact this 48-year-old Hollywood show dog was its only student to rack up a perfect attendance record. According to the International Movie Database, he appeared in all 227 episodes of that nighttime soap opera. That's some sort of accomplishment. And he can sing too....

In the show's comic high point he brings out two priceless camp artifacts: vintage fill-in-the-blanks LPs that invite the listener to "co-star" with the voice on the disc. Mr. Lamas demonstrated, stiffly reading the role of Rick delivering the "we'll always have Paris" speech, to the recorded voice of his mother playing Ilsa. Maybe one day those who attend this engagement will say, "We'll always have Feinstein's." Or not.

That fence-straddling, cred-killing conclusion, by the way, is what we in the biz call a "kicker." Or not. Either way, this is the least skeptical Times review we've read since Judith Miller's coverage the WMD marathon back in 2003. We understand that the paper wants to treat every artist fairly, but the fanboy reverence reads like a post on OLorenzO.org. At the very least, they should have thrown in a reference or two to Lamas' hip-hop past.

Remembrances of Life and Love From a Well-Versed Heartthrob [NY Times]