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Michael Musto: The Granddaddy of Gawk

January 24, 2007

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We live in a celebrity-crazed age where more Americans can identify Brad Pitt than the vice president. You know, what’s-his-name.

Don’t blame “the world’s most outrageous columnist,” Michael Musto.

Sure, he’s been dropping names with a glorious spatter since 1984—you know, back when The Village Voice was an edgy alternative weekly that people actually paid for at newsstands. He’s just feeding the hungry public what it craves. And now he's serving up a 344 page helping of his classic collumns in a new book, "La Dolce Musto" (Carrol & Graf).

Though he didn’t exactly invent gossip, Musto was the first to mash celebrity news tidbits, gay politics, snark, and shameless self-promotion into a stream-of-conscious chatter that is now the lifeblood of Gawker.com, Defamer.com, PerezHilton.com, and countless other shrill voices in the blogosphere.

If you need proof of his supremacy (or, at least, his age), look no further than his new book, “La Dolce Musto,” named for his caustic, long-running column in The Voice. It's a quirky collection of his favorite rants and packed with boldfacers like Madonna, Babs, Rosie, Teri, Jacko, Julia, Mel, Brad, Liza, Anderson, Paris, and more.

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