La Dolce Musto: Writings by the World's Most Outrageous Columnist

by Michael Musto

For over 20 years, Michael Musto ("the Hunter S. Thompson of snark") has written the popular entertainment column La Dolce Musto. The outrageous weekly column has pioneered gay issues in celebrity news and politics and has long been a mainstay of pop culture as well as a cutting edge chronicle of the hip and hopeful.
In this fabulous collection, Musto includes a sampling of his star romps, from a hilarious column describing his night out with the Kids in the Hall to a scathing catch-up session with onetime Fellini beauty Anita Ekberg. Along the way, celebs like Sandra Bernhard, Madonna, Lindsay Lohan, and Anderson Cooper provide much juice and dazzle. Also included are biggies, from Brad Pitt to the Hiltons.
The first openly gay gossip columnist, Musto encouraged closeted celebrities to come out for years before it became okay to address performers' sexuality in the daily columns. He was reviled, called a "gay Nazi" by Rosie O'Donnell, but ultimately vindicated. Included are his views against then-closeted Rosie, and Ellen DeGeneres.

368 pages, Paperback

First published December 12, 2006

About the author

Michael Musto is an American writer who began his professional career at The Village Voice, where he writes the weekly La Dolce Musto celebrity and gossip column. He is an Italian American and a graduate of Columbia University, where he was a theater critic for the Columbia Spectator. He is the author of Downtown and Manhattan on the Rocks. A selection of his columns has been published as La Dolce Musto.

Reviews

[Michael Martin · Rating 1 out of 5]

Dated, mean-spirited, and not all that funny. The last forty pages, of non-specified trash talk about unnamed celebs, is pointless. There are far funnier columnists out there.

[Christophlaw80 · Rating 4 out of 5]

Catty and full of dish, like me!

[Carter Herrington · Rating 2 out of 5]

I seldom abandon books, but I gave up on this one. 10 years ago, when the material was fresher, I probably would have enjoyed it more. The first several chapters are fun, but then it quickly loses steam, unfortunately.