WEHT Bruce Bibby/Ted Casablanca?

"Bruce Bibby" sounds so familiar, as if I knew him before he became Ted Casablancas. Did he live in the Village in the '70s?

What does he do now? No one replaced him,

Poz. Lives in Palm Springs and has an art gallery.

He was on E! before the kardashians took it over. IT was during the Anna Nicole Smith year's.

OH THE GOOD OLE DAYS!!!!!!!

year's? CHRIST!

Kim Kardashians ass is going to eat R5.

I hate grammar Nazis!

Sorry, R6, this is the Datalounge and we love grammar Nazis. In fact, we insist on them.

Ted Casablanca is no fag ....and I'm the dame to prove it!

And it's Kardashian's ass, R6. God, you're stupid.

Jennifer Garner had him banned from the Alias set for snooping into her skank ways with Michael Vartan.

That's funny, R10, I used to feed Bruce stories about her skank ways all the time. First she cheated with Vartan and then she cheated on Vartan with Affleck. After she dumped Vartan he was still on the show and she treated him like shit. That whole guilty-people-hate-the-ones-they've-wronged.

You know how bitchy fags can be!

Slut's! All of them Slut's!!

Vartan is hot.

I love his adorable, teensy weensy eyes!

[quote]Ted Casablanca is no fag ....and I'm the dame to prove it!

r8, actually, that's what Ted says as well. He says he's bi and interested in women.

He always had pretty good info. Miss his column. They must've contracted him out of competition when he got fired.

He must be quite elderly by now. I wonder how he looks?

I agree that the year's error is unforgivable, even here.

Wilfred Beauty School dropout apparently.

[quote] He must be quite elderly by now. I wonder how he looks?

He's looking pretty good, R18, and claiming mid-50s.

Considering all if his verbal tics, I'm surprised he sells art.

Bruce: "If these walls could talk... Honey, they do. Let me share tea on the little number you're feasting your baby blues upon!"

Customer:"Shhhhhhhhh"

Who dat?

Wow, he's beautiful but I've never heard of him. Datedsine who kind of looked like him though--so cute

He was good in the late 70s when he signed all those disco acts to his record label. Kiss, Donna Summer, Parliament and of course the Village People.

Then when he signed crap people like Animotion, Stephanie Mills and get this Robin Williams you knew it was over.

Still has a nice body, although his place in Palm Springs is pretty tritely decorated.

Absolutely one of the worst "writers" ever. When he'd do a BI, you'd have to read it four or five times to even figure out what he was trying to say. He wrote in riddles that were not clever. A lot of people thought he was one of the Hollywood Kids, John. But no.

Like the net and Perez Hilton stole his career and he vanished.

Good idea to leave before he became a pathetic desperate hanger-on like Liz Smith.

Miss his blinds and miss the old E days prior to the Kardashian infestation and who the hell was Toothy Tiles anyway?

His career seemed to come to a halt after he ran a series of blind items about an actress that he dubbed "Fake à la Ferocity." Many blind item websites/forums began to allege that Angelina Jolie was the subject of the BI.

"Toothy Tile" was just Bubby's publicity gimmick. It didn't describe anyone, although it was designed to make you think it was about Jake Gyllenhaal, who was at the time the dream fuck of American gay men. Bibby had no intent on ever revealing who it was because it wasn't anyone really, but he knew if he kept playing everyone along and hinting it was Jake Gyllenhaal he would reap tons of attention (which he did).

I have no idea whether or not Jake Gyllenhaal is gay--but I do know the things Bibby claimed "Toothy Tile" was doing were complete fabrications.

Don't believe ANYONE who tells you "Toothy Tile" was a real person. He wasn't.

He just got married.

I wonder if he was surprised that so many people hated him and were glad to see him go once he retired. Don't miss you Bubby.

He had a charming attitude, but the weird lingo he invented was so annoying and off-putting.

How could you never have heard of him, R23? Turn in your gay card!

That video of him and the painter in his "studio" should destroy any claims that Bibby has ever been anywhere near a vagina. Some deaf, dumb, and blind could see he's as gay as a Christmas goose.

R31 spends his Decembers letting children know there's no Santa Claus.

R9 is old, fat, bitter, desperate, and alone!!

The E! Network has always had a reputation for hiring mediocre, sleazy, cocaine addicted personalities from the Los Angeles sleazy upscale crowd's. Look at what's on the channel now. E! Has always been a cesspool of rich low life LA trash.

I know this because I use to work there.

[quote]the Los Angeles sleazy upscale crowd's

the Los Angeles sleazy upscale crowd's [italic]what[/italic] , R38?

My ex worked for him. Major asshole.

He had the mind of a midwestern frau and was genuinely impressed by the celebrities he met. He thought meeting them made him something. His staff of New Yorkers jusst rolled their eyes.

He really believed that he was important. I wonder what it was like to discover that he was not.

[quote]That video of him and the painter in his "studio" should destroy any claims that Bibby has ever been anywhere near a vagina. Some deaf, dumb, and blind could see he's as gay as a Christmas goose.

r36, try telling him that, he's the one who says he's also into women. Did he just marry a man or a woman?

He just married his boyfriend.

He was fired because of a blind about a closeted gay actor that mentioned the subject (accidentally or intentionally) by name (Jeremy Renner).

Is that him at r25? Do I need new glasses?

He's one of those types who got attention ONLY because of his looks. There was nothing there otherwise. Think of things he wrote and said coming from an unattractive guy and what's there to like? He certainly wasn't witty or incisive.

he was originally the kept boy of someone vaguely famous but unattractive--either Bruce Vilanch or Harvey Feirstein, I forget which.

Bruce, I believe.

His gallery in Palm Springs is nice and quite a welcone addition to the area. The openings and shows are fun as well.

Here's the image from R25 cropped and brightened.

I think he's naked in your picture, OP.

Bottom feeder

Were his blinds legit, anyone know? Reading them gave me a headache, but they were always juicy.

He has aids tummy

I loved Bruce, so I miss his column.

No more gossip. Hollywood is full of losers...no stars anymore. 42 guys named Chris and they all look exactly alike.

My, how time ravages. He was stunning as a young man. Not bad now but nothing like what he was.

R53, middle age tummy more likely

R47, so both partners were name Bruce? How confusing....

He was Harvey Fuerstein's lover before he became a gossip columnist.

His gossip column was so stupid. He gave anonymous monikers to various celebs; Gwyneth Paltrow was "Fishstick" and Jake Gyllenhaal was "Toothy Tile." He had an inexplicable fondness for Courtney Love; he called her "Court-babe" and said that at some premiere she was looking "fab, fab, fab!" and that seeing her there with Frances Bean and Jim Barber (some record executive she was screwing at the time) "things are looking very Leave It To Beaver." Good Lord, what an idiot.

[quote]His staff of New Yorkers jusst rolled their eyes.

Well, if the NEW YORKERS jusst roll their eyes at him, there's no hope!

Lol, [R60].

New Yorkers always claim to never be starstruck and speak derisively of those that are, but curiously they *never* miss an opportunity to *tell you* how New Yorkers are never starstruck and go on and on about how unimpressed they are with celebrities, how they ignore them, how celebs are "just regular people", and how much they "don't care" about famous people...

If Bruce was with Harvey Fierstein back in the day, is that character in Torch Song Trilogy based on him? The one who is too hot and young to be believable as Arnold's boy friend (played by Matthew Broderick in the awful film version)?

Good detection, r62.

I'm a bit younger (actual mid 50s), but I used to see him around NYC and knew some of his crowd. So many of them acting"real", and "authentic", but all materially possessed strivers who were VERY impressed with THINGS, MONEY, and STATUS. All the types who keep jumping all over the place, chronically reinventing themselves, looking for.....something!

He was Harvey's "boy toy" - only after Harvey had become very successful.

Could be wrong but I think he and Harvey were together in the very early 1980s long before Harvey became a mainstream actor and writer.

Actually, it was kind of clever of him to use as his writing name a reference to Valley Of the Dolls, as that movie is so basic to gay culture.

Yet at the same time it was a name that wasn't really famous--does "Ted Casablanca" even actually appear in the movie, or is he merely mentioned?--and it sounded real enough to be his own.

And he really was very good-looking. Great smile.

What is he doing now? Anyone know?

Why did you bump this up, r67?

R67 - one article said that he moved to Sacramento with his partner in 2019.

So much hate towards Ted, don't really understand why. His blind items were fun to read whether true or not. After him the blind item field became way too saturated and these days you can rarely believe anything you read. That actually makes you wonder were the Hollywood studios and agencies themselves behind the oversaturation.

I still believe Jakey is Toothy Tile. He's clearly not straight.

did not understand his column but read it anyway

Bruce is a good guy. Not once, have I gossiped with him about celeb crap. And that was even back in the day, when we could have discussed Toothy Tile for hours on end. And for the reason that he wasn’t living and breathing this shit 24/7, I ended up really liking Bruce.

Hey Bruce, I know you’re on here, every now and then. Hi! Kisses, love. Hope you’re well! 😘

WHET to the Zarian boys? Haven’t seen them in ages. I grew up with them, interestingly enough. Have tons of photos stashed away somewhere when we were very beautiful teenagers.

Lawrence was my fave. Sorry Greg 😚

[quote] He had an inexplicable fondness for Courtney Love; he called her "Court-babe" and said that at some premiere she was looking "fab, fab, fab!" and that seeing her there with Frances Bean and Jim Barber (some record executive she was screwing at the time) "things are looking very Leave It To Beaver." Good Lord, what an idiot.

Matteo Lane describes this fondness of gays for messy women best.

He’s a sculptor now.

Guys like Ted C., Billy Masters. Michael Musto got pushed aside, because their publishing an "article column on a weekly basis" formula became outdated thanks to entertainment gossip blogs updating on an hourly or daily basis.

Love the times at DL when threads about Ted's BIs had a wonderful poster contribute a translation of Ted's BIs.

r75. That's very "Prometheus".

R77 Yes, and also, “I found a bodybuilder with a fat dick who let me suck it in exchange for playing into his ego, and here’s what you get out of it...a sculpture!”

R75, is this a joke or what? He's clearly stating in that Twitter post it's a sculpture by Jim Cox.

What does “Toothy Tile” even mean?

[quote] I think he's naked in your picture, OP.

And there’s no paper in the typewriter. Clearly a poser since early on.

I hated it Ted Casablanca, you could never tell who the fuck he was talking about in his gossip column. Totally useless.

R81 I agree. Live in NYC since 1990 & I still love seeing the celebs. I live in West Village & it use to be celeb fest until the whitney & highline opened. Last week It was Margaret Colin- which is pushing it but I don’t care. A movie stah!

R74 Matteo Lane's gay voice is cringe worthy.

[quote]What does “Toothy Tile” even mean?

Jake has such nice, flat white teeth, it never seemed like a stretch.

Can someone please put out an Amber Alert for me?!

Didn't Ted Casablanca have some talent/modeling agency or is that another Casablanca?

R87 You're probably thinking of John Casablancas.

R87 Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.

I knew who everyone was in Ted’s little riddles. Some where an amalgamation, and surely some were pure BS, but they were fun to read and he was the best at what he did. CDAN wishes it could be at Ted’s level of creativity.

He is a nice guy.

But anyone who fucks Harvey Fierstein has to be a whore.

I had a crush on him and on Jim J Bullock as a kid. I knew who I was and I have never been turned off by overt gayness!

"toothy Tile" was just a trick to get gay men to read his column. He knew gay men were at that time obsessed with Jake Gyllenhaal, so he made up this character and suggested it was Gyllenhaal, and then had the imaginary character do all kinds of sexy thngs to spur attention. It was prerry cheap an d became easy to see through.

I despised his childish nicknames (shitbag Donald Trump does the EXACT same thing) and since all his stories were highly exaggerated or outright lies, you could never tell what was true and what wasn't (more Trump gaslighting). He was a terror, like those evil cunts Hedda Hopper and Louella Parsons, who rejoiced in attacking gay artists in particular and threatening to ruin their careers, all the while making money of it. Fuck him.

In the early 2000s I saw him naked in the Locker Room at my gym. We were the only two in there. I had never seen a body like his. He was very fit but he had neglected to ever work out his glutes or legs, so his back was very broad and ass was teeny tiny. It looked so strange. He glared at me and didn't say hello back. Typical WeHo cunt.

His blinds that were supposed to be about the Supernatural acts were creepy. I don't care if they're gay or not, but he was obsessed with them at a level that was just uncomfortable.

That should be actors.

R94, you're seriously equating Ted Casablanca with Donald Trump? Jesus Fucking Christ.

I love people who read blind items and then scream about how blind items are all fake.

They both got a lot of mileage out of lying and gaslighting. All those oh so delicate "suggestions". Fuck them both.

Ted's blinds were a mix: some were likely total BS, some spot on, many were a mix of both (deliberately to obscure or otherwise). His column was a lot of fun to read either way, and entertaining.

I tend to believe he had a decent amount of inside dish, some of it hard hitting, given the airtight silence he's maintained since leaving E! Online years ago. That's a sign of an airtight NDA, accompanied by much $ changing hands. Who backed his expensive Palm Springs gallery all those years? He was getting paid.

He was supposed to have written a full length book, a roman a clef about what he knew about Hollywood, stuff he couldn't post at E!. It was nearly complete, he kept updating about it, then poof! nothing mentioned about it again. I'm sensing money changing hands there.

Oh, I read him regularly when he used to write all the time about Goop, whom he loathed and referred to as "Fish Stick." Then he met her and decided that he loathed her.

Ted's blinds were like storytelling. You needed to know who the players were because he repeated it over and over. He was fired for an editor's mistake. He would write his blinds with real names and then they would search and replace with his code names. Renner's name was left in a Blind and so he got fired.

I knew him in the 90's He was a nice guy but would fuck anyone guy who showed an interest in being a star and getting help from Ted.

Gossip columnist rely on information of third parties. Staff or crew members in hotels, restaurants, celebs' homes, movie / film sets, recording studios, sometimes chatty celebrities and agents, etc. The reliable ones wait for several sources to confirm the info and then post BIs about it. Guys like Perez Hilton, in his early days, let celebs like Paris Hilton manipulate him to post unflattering stories about her competitors or personal enemies without checking if they are indeed true.

What changed the gossip media landscape was when sites like Gawker let regular people post celeb sightings or Popbitch sharing personal encounters of regulars with celebs on a media publishing platform (instead of some gossip message board).

Hilton was never manipulated - he charged. They would pay him to promote people and write shit about others. Perez was also outing people left and right, and attacking celebrity's kids.

[quote]attacking celebrity's kids.

Hey now, only the ugly ones.

He was so annoying!

Plus, any man over the age of 25ish who takes shirtless selfies has some serious desperate-for-ongoing-attention issues.

R103 "Renner's name was left in a Blind and so he got fired. " - Tell us the details of this story. What was the blind item about? Who got Ted fired?

God, he's an idiot. He had some incredibly stupid column on EOnline. He called Gwyneth Paltrow "Fish Stick." He called Jake Gyllenhaal "Toothy Tile." He for some bizarre reason had a crush on Courtney Love, who he called "Court-babe." He always seemed like such an asshole.

Didn't he claim that Arnold Schwarzenegger had him beat up pretty bad for writing some blind item? They beat the crap out of his knees or something.

He married Jake Gayllenhaal. They have three kids.

I would have happily hit that over and over again,.

He's worth 14 mil.

[quote] Hilton was never manipulated - he charged.

Not at the beginning. He did a lot of ass kissing and did what celebs, like Paris H., said he should do to stay on friendly terms with them. Once he had enough connections he was for sale and disregarded and backstabbed friends and celebs who helped him at the beginning to raise his profile and brand value.

Ultimately, Perez Hilton was hired by Warner Bros. to do A&R. The deal was $100k/year plus a 50% commission as a finder’s fee for any artist he introduced. Very weird career trajectory from smalltime ass-kissing blogger to publicist to villain to major music executive to shameful relic.

The only new artist I remember him actually foisting on the public was a French person called “Sliimy,” who went nowhere. But his blog introduced me to both Regina Spektor and Lady Gaga.

r110 that was probably due to the blind he ran about Arnold and Vanessa Williams having a fling on the set of Eraser. He ran a lot of Arnold-related items. Everyone did, back in the 90s.

r115 Perez campaigned HARD to be an American Idol Judge, then X-factor judge, then AGT judge hell he would have settled for BGT. He got that ar job because he promoted himself as having discovered Gaga, which she says he had nothing to do with. Their falling out and his obsession with her is crazy. I think he actually moved into her building in New York at one time.

I'm having a flashback. Didn't Ted write about someone named Harry Tuchus? I always assumed that was Jake G. because, well, anyway Toothy Tile also fits.

I remember reading the blind about Renner on CDAN, years ago. It talked about an Avengers actor who politely asked a guy at a party to go home with him. At some point the nickname (whatever it was) mistakenly said “Jeremy”.

And I never saw a Casablancas blind ever again.

Ah, Lawrence Zarian. I do like those Armenian men.

r119 yup that was it. He got fired right after that.

I was surprised when Casablanca disclosed that he's into men and women. I had always assumed that he was gay.

R116 I remember there being vague rumors that Williams got the role in Eraser via the casting couch.

When I watched Eraser, the two leads "chemistry" was pretty obvious.

Whatever happened to those two gay gossip guys that were always on Tv in the 90s, They called themselves the Hollywood kids or something like that.

Wasn’t he the originator of Toothy Tile?

Did gay men end up being professional gossips because it was one of those societal pockets in which being effeminate and flamboyant was allowed? Or are we naturally into gossip and “shading” people?

I’ve always kind of been intrigued by celebrity gossip, but in my personal life, I don’t want any part of gossipy shit. I avoid people who like to carry on about scandals and salaciousness.

R127: I think your first guess is the right one, but then we have to remember that while the gossip column was more or less invented by the now forgotten O. O. McIntyre, it was the ultra-straight Walter Winchell who habilitated it.

And then think of Louis Sobol, Ed Sullivan, and so on. It was a straight man's world, though by the time Ted Casablanca got into the business, it had indeed become flamboyant and "gay."

Wasn't Ted the originator of the nickname McBongo?

r128: You seem to be forgetting the powerful women who ran gossip columns, like Louella Parsons, Hedda Hopper, and Dorothy Kilgallen.

What was his thinking behind all the made-up slang and nicknames? They were so difficult to decipher--I was the one on DL who was the Ted Translator back in the day, and I had to really work to make any sense of his columns.

I phrased that historical stuff badly.

I meant that, among the male columnists, only the ultra-straight guys were acceptable back in the old days, as opposed to flamboyant characters such as we later enjoyed. (Although O. O. McIntyre was pretty fey in his own way.)

I didn't mean to leave out the ladies, though that's how it read.

Bruce it specifically, Ted’s blinds were better sourced and more reliable than Perez’s or anyone’s.

Let’s not forget Perez spent several years taking “meetings” at the Coffee Bean on Sunset and Fairfax. JFC. Bruce had an actual office, and his sources were damned good. How do I know.? Because I was living and socializing in his neighborhood, and in the same Bruce was, and these stories were no secret. All Ted had to do was go out to a club, or send his assistant to Rite-Aid, or the Beverly Center, and boom, there was a story. His contacts in the industry at that time, were legit, behind the scenes players an A List publicists. These weren’t former Disney queens, buying a latte at CB. His sources were real, and he played by the rules, and kept quiet if asked to keep quiet.

Hollywood is tiny. Everyone knows everyone. Perez was always known as a grade a cunt, and while I have no personal issue with Perez, he was never trusted enough to keep secrets. He fucked over Stephanie, or GaGa, I should say. There was zero reason for him to do what he did to her, and Bruce never pulled that shit in anyone. He was a real pro.

Hollywood

[quote] I was the one on DL who was the Ted Translator back in the day, and I had to really work to make any sense of his columns.

OMG, I soooooo remember that. I couldn't understand his babblings and really appreciated your translations. TY!

I thought Tom Cruise was Toothy Tile, due to his mega-watt smile. Guess I’m misremembering.

I seem to remember that if he had a story using a nick name like Toothy Tile that he would always reference the person somewhere else in his column, to narrow it down.

I used to send him gossip from sets.

[quote]Wasn't Ted the originator of the nickname McBongo?

I always thought that was a DL thing.

And arose not from wit, but from an inability to remember how to spell McConaughey.

r133 - Perez was not afraid to out people. post really shitty gossip and he would cover b,c and d list celebs like they were A list. It worked for him. Ted only covered the A - List and yes his contacts were legit. His problem was once he exposed Renner he lost all credibility in being able to keep a secret. Kiss of death for a gossip columnist.

but...let's talk about the real stuff - anyone had him? top? bottom? Hung? He seemed so smug I would suspect he threw a mean fuck

R139 Anyone who has dated Harvey Fierstein has to have been a top -- at least for a while.

[quote]Wasn't Ted the originator of the nickname McBongo?

[quote]I always thought that was a DL thing.

Nah. I heard "McBongo" before I discovered DL. "Toothy Tile," too. I remember reading about Toothy hooking up in a WeHo parking garage with some guy in one of their Jeeps. And DL was still a couple of years away for me.

I had heard that Toothy Tile actually is McBongo and the whole claiming it wasn’t MM was to throw people off the trail for liability purposes.

Some of Ted’s BI were absolutely true and others were PR payroll bullshit. The Jolie being on methadone during the twin pregnancy was absolutely true.

[quote]Nah. I heard "McBongo" before I discovered DL.

So we couldn't come up with things until you discovered us? OK...

The only blind item I remember is Toothy Tile having sex in a car in the parking deck at Beverly Center.

r145 yes...yes he did.

Dear Ted: Love your column; you are one of the few that can gossip in a good-hearted way. I wanted to know if Topher Hairy-Tuchus is Colin Farrell. He fits all the clues you have given, and if this is the correct ID then the identity of the "hunky minuteman" should also be interesting. —Skywriter

I found the sin an old chatroom. I forgot how interested people were in Ted's blinds. Younger readers, before Facebook and Instagram, there were chatrooms.

Topher Hairy-Tuchus is Bradley Cooper.

Toothy tile was Jake G are we disputing that? I though it was mutually agreed upon on DL.

I never pictured anyone else, r149.

Friend worked at a 90's pre Grindr gay dating/hookup company called Adam & Steve. The office was on Santa Monica Blvd in the heart of WeHo. For your membership of $100 bucks you were guaranteed referral of a dozen "compatible" hook ups a week. Guess who was in the office every day bitching about the "quality" of his referrals?. It got so bad that my friend refunded Miss.Bruce Bibby his lousy Franklin and told him not to let the door hit him in the ass on the way out.

r151 odd he needed that - I mean he was semi famous for the time - on TV - I would figure he could have his pick of star fuckers.

You'd think so, R152. But some famous people like to skip the flirting phase and just order up their partner.

Gore Vidal was famous for hiring escorts, even when he was in his prime. It saves time, I expect. Though his explanation was if he was paying for it he didn't have to worry about pleasing his partners.

yeah, the Renner thing and a few other things really got hi in hot water. Bruce would have done better working for Pecker at the National Enquirer. Because the political fallout on E! got him fired. E1 was sleaze for sure, but they sort of transitioned and cleaned up and he was part of the trash they got rid of. Now they're Kardashian Central, and Seacrest rules. But back when Ted Casablanca was an attraction he went too far, and yes, he made up a lot of shit. When the PR agencies and publicists refused to book their talent on E! because of offenses given, E! started dumping people and Bruce Bibby was number one on the hit list.

So was Toothy Tile & Grey Goose a delusion of Brucie's?. Nichols is married with a kid and Jakey G is well... dating in Europe? Think where there is bedhead smoke there was fire?

Gyllenhaal is supposed to be dating someone right now. She seems very young. She's a model. ...I know.

People here can't write.