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James Franco takes a ghost tour

Kevin Allman — Mon, 14 May 2012 16:36:50 -0500

James Franco seems to be Arianna Huffington's latest addition to her vast collection of human celebrity curios — or, as she puts it, "fresh takes and real-time analysis from HuffPost's signature lineup of contributors."

Franco, who is shooting a movie here and staying on "Charters" Street, has taken to the cluttered HuffPo salt mine to write about his recent French Quarter ghost tour with "Nana (my trusty hair woman, raised in Japan) and Iris (my production consultant, raised in Mexico)." First, though, he has a note about economic development:

Our driver told us that there are more restaurants in New Orleans now than before Katrina.…
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A brief history of celebrities who have run afoul of the NOPD (now with Russell Brand mugshot)

Kevin Allman — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 17:06:00 -0500

1993: Mr. Eddie Vedder, the smooth-jazz superstar of the Spokane-based R&B group Pearl Drops, allegedly spits in the face of another gentleman during an evening of high and low jinks on Decatur Street. Somehow Jack McDowell of the Chicago White Sox was involved as well. Mr. Vedder is detained by the New Orleans gendarmerie and booked with disturbing the peace and public drunkenness.…
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Jackass star Bam Margera says he was hauled in by NOPD officers during Carnival

Kevin Allman — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:38:18 -0600

At a press conference this afternoon, Mayor Mitch Landrieu ticked off an impressive list of bold-face names who were in town for Mardi Gras (Will Farrell, Mark Ruffalo, Harry Connick, Jr., Mariska Hargitay, Hilary Swank, Andy Garcia, Jesse Eisenberg, Daryl Hannah, Camryn Manheim, Isla Fisher, Brooke Shields, Melanie Laurent, David Morse, Wendell Pierce, Jon Seda, and Dave Franco), but he omitted one person: Jackass star Bam Margera, who was, it seems, taken into custody by the NOPD on Lundi Gras, though he says he was released the next morning and never charged with a crime.

According to Margera, the trouble began when NOPD officers ordered him to get out of a hotel swimming pool due to the fact he was swimming with clothes and shoes on — whereupon he ignored them and continued to do the backstroke.…
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