David Gest to wail on "Dateline" Friday

[Auggie27]

Posted: 2/2/04 at 10:19am

Anyone else see this promo? Has anyone ever made a more ludicrous, uninformed decision to employ the media? The clip shows the stone-faced Stone opposite the fish-eyed Mr. David (revelation: he looks like the drawing on the Oil of Olay label -- picture him with his palms open, on either side of his cherubic cheeks) ... as he demonstrates how Wifey with a W used to smack him upside the head. Who does he hope to win to his side? What is his goal? Why would he do it? Who would MISS this?

Updated On: 2/2/04 at 10:19 AM

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 2/2/04 at 10:57am

I shuddered when he pulled his shirt up and showed the "scars" Liza gave him on his stomache.

Program the VCR's now! This one will be a keeper.

[MasterLcZ]

Posted: 2/2/04 at 11:02am

Were they drawn on with lipstick and eyebrow pencil?

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 2/2/04 at 11:29am

Actually, they looked more like stretch marks or lyposuction scars.

[JoizeyActor]

Posted: 2/2/04 at 11:33am

Conon O'Brian (Brien?) had a segment on last week where they showed a zoomed in picture, and then zoomed out frame by frame, and one of the pictures showed Liza punching David in the mouth once it was pulled back all the way. It was quite funny.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 2/2/04 at 11:37am

It must be a tough decision for poor David. Theoretically, he could sue her for commiting an anti-gay hate crime. Theoretically, if he happened to be gay. Which Liza assured us he most certainly was not, in happier times.

[TheaterBaby]

Posted: 2/2/04 at 2:31pm

I didn't see the tv promo, but it's mentioned in this week's People magazine. I can't wait to see him make an ass out of himself.

[newyorkuniq]

Posted: 2/2/04 at 2:32pm

he scares me...he looks like he's made out of wax.

[MyNameInLights]

Posted: 2/2/04 at 10:17pm

I hate him so very much...

[thirdrowcenter]

Posted: 2/3/04 at 11:22am

I have zero sympathy for him. I can't wait for Friday.

[broadwayguy2]

Posted: 2/3/04 at 12:54pm

maybe this is his coming out interview................

[MasterLcZ]

Posted: 2/3/04 at 1:05pm

He's as slimy and loathesome as Liza is stupid.

Yes, we all love Liza (the poor thing) but I'd LOVE to see some interviewer say to her:
"Girl! What the F*%% were you ON?!"

Updated On: 2/3/04 at 01:05 PM

[broadwayguy2]

Posted: 2/3/04 at 1:11pm

Mario Cantone can do THAT interview.. he be dressed as Liza while interviewing Liza. lol

[Auggie27]

Posted: 2/6/04 at 9:03am

The quotes are in (didn't we know the Post would get there first?), and aside from the traffic accident quality of all this, isn't this the most craven, unseemly, unchivalric behavior by a man ever?

Scanning the "top news" stories, it's clear our love/hate relationship with celebrity has never been more era-defining. Cutting from the Martha trial to the Jackson(S!) debacle(S!) -- Boydiddlegate and Tittygate -- and and now to the bruised Gest as the sweeps event du jour.

It's easy to laugh it off for the slice of lurid camp that is will be ... yet as it sinks in and one ponders this as a touted media event ... it's truly a new low in airing dirty laundry. It's February sweeps, and NBC "news" is pulling us in with a heretofore unknown (prenuptial) middle age man attacking a beloved entertainer, pre their divorce settlement. Forget Gest's bottomless pit of personal sleaze, THIS is a "news" show? With a "reporter," Stone Phillips, questioning this man as they walk along the beach?

One can't help but realize: Gest knew there would be a long list of takers, should he opt to whine "his story." The symbiosis between self-identified "newsmaker" and the media is stronger than ever.

It's two cannibals on a desert islend, slowly eating one another, one bite at a time.

Updated On: 2/6/04 at 09:03 AM

[EddieVarley]

Posted: 2/6/04 at 9:12am

Why NOT David Gest in Boy From Oz?!

[iflitifloat]

Posted: 2/6/04 at 8:30pm

It's like watching a train wreck...

[shermanslave]

Posted: 2/6/04 at 8:37pm

watching now. what an idiot. i just don't buy it.

Updated On: 2/6/04 at 08:37 PM

[iflitifloat]

Posted: 2/6/04 at 8:47pm

Damn. I already wanna hit him upside the head, and I've only been listening to him for 20 minutes

[thirdrowcenter]

Posted: 2/6/04 at 9:18pm

no way did she make those marks on his stomach

[Auggie27]

Posted: 2/6/04 at 10:26pm

I couldn't look away from the screen, but watching it made me want to take a shower. A cliche, in this case, that feels appropriate. Liza is well rid of this pathetic, pitifiul excuse for a human being.

More than anything, I found myself hoping for a Liza comeback, one independent of his Svengali manipulation -- a triumph the likes of which we haven't seen. I'm rooting for this woman to overcome her genetic predisposition for self-destruction; may her considerable inherited gifts trump her inherited weaknesses, and may those who would wish her ill will -- like this sad man -- be silenced forever as she soars again, perhaps as never before.

[iflitifloat]

Posted: 2/7/04 at 1:06am

Ya know...I never cared much about Liza one way or another...but after watching this sleezeball take his best shot at character assassination, I'm pulling for her.

[bwaylyric]

Posted: 2/7/04 at 8:22am

Gotta congratulate Stone Phillips on a great interview. He basically made David look like a fool. Mr. Gest is full of B.S. I don't think those nail marks on his flabby stomach were caused by Liza...but merely stretch marks. Did you see how stubby this guy is? He should've been cast in WICKED as one of the munchkins.

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 2/7/04 at 9:26am

OH MY GOD!! Thank you David, now I know how to get rid of my headaches!! BOTOX! I knew there was a reason I loved this man. Now we all have an excuse to get it.

[Auggie27]

Posted: 2/7/04 at 9:52am

Yes, Sueleen, but didn't this man have hair transplants? Look at the footage again (I KNOW some of you taped this, if not for posterity, at least to enjoy with cocktails.) That hairline is suspect. I think the poor man's head hurts because, as his plugs healed, the whole top tightened, like an ill fitting ... dare I say it ... rug?

And that weird back-comb effect, all the individual hairs sorta whisped upwards... Sometimes I think he can't be gay, because surely no gay man would wear his thinning hair like Squiggy on Laverne and Shirley.

[EddieVarley]

Posted: 2/7/04 at 11:20am

Aug, somewhere Michael Jackson let out a huge sigh of relief, finally someone topped his primetime network news appearance. I'm off for some botox as I've stubbed my toe, see you all in court!