That fine, fine journalist Liz Crokin released yet another amazing article in the RedEye this week regarding the latest celeb-happenings in and around Chicago. Here's an excerpt:
Josh-ing around
Josh Kelley performed at Hotel Indigo last Monday night, and my intern, Julie Corirossi, got a chance to chat with the rocker, who plans to work on a new album this month.
Kelley talked about his recent vacation to Mexico with wife Katherine Heigl of "Grey's Anatomy." "It was awesome," Kelley said. "We ate a lot."
He said Heigl still is struggling to quit smoking. "I know eventually she would like to quit, but she will do it on her own time."
Heigl didn't make it to Chicago with Kelley--she has been filming "Grey's."
Sightings
I caught up with "Hancock" star Johnny Galecki at Underground's Rewind party on Thursday night. My friend and I asked him what it was like working with Will Smith, and he had nothing but nice things to say about him. "He's a fine, fine man," Galecki said. >> Barack Obama and wife Michelle recently had dinner at Spiaggia. ... Josh Kelley had lunch at Blue Water Grill on Tuesday. >> NBA star Chris Duhon celebrated Independence Day at Martini Park on Friday. >> Diddy was spotted at the Trump International Hotel & Tower on Saturday night. >> Jesse Jackson strolled down Rush Street on Saturday afternoon.
Wow, you guys. Wasn't that some startling information! Totally exclusive and hot! Not.
You might remember that I flipped shit on Liz's last Josh Kelley interview because it was offensively ALL about his wife, Katherine Heigl (who I personally, and I'm not alone here, think she sucks just as bad as Liz). Now, Liz's intern must be taking some serious notes on her mentor's intensive and hard-hitting journalistic style because, shock me shock me, she too embarrassingly asks Kelley about, not himself (absurd!), but HEIGL! How was your vacation with Heigl? Did Heigl quit smoking? Is Heigl in Chicago with you? Can my iron-fisted boss Liz bone your wife all night long while you wait outside your own hotel room and listen at the door?
Oh, and sidenote, Kelley is putting out an album later this month, but leave that for the fine print please.
Liz Crokin's RedEye articles are painstakingly dreadful and her lack of creative or unique Q&A ideas are a constant theme in her monotonous and boring weekly article. In fact, if you read an excerpt on the RedEye website, Liz doesn't even oversee the "Sightings" blurb herself; RedEye readers email Liz if they see an A-Z list celebrity in town...and then Liz reports it like she was at the clubs herself sharing bottles of Cristal with Diddy and dancing on tables with Paris. Oh, she isn't? She's at home thinking up funny nicknames for her 17 cats? Weird. (Mr. Fluffy I'm gonna call you...Mr...McFluff! No, Mr. Fluff-meister...no,no...Mr. Fluff-n-stuff! Ahahahaha! You're so cute, awww.)
Does the Trib pay her? I mean...seriously, do they pay her real money...not like Monopoly money or something? Here, Liz, here's a thousand dollars for that amazing interview. Go buy yourself a house on Baltic Avenue or perhaps a railroad. If they do pay her in official US currency, is it more than minimum wage? The Chicago Tribune just cut like 80 jobs and I hope, hope, hope hers was one of them. They could be saving $60 a day if they did!
It'd be well worth it.
