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Title: La Dolce Musto: Writings by the World's Most Outrageous Columnist
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Author: Michael Musto
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Review of La Dolce Musto: Writings by the World's Most Outrageous Columnist

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• Posted on 2007-12-28
  Pleasant, Naughty Distraction
  
  Often self-consciously tawdry and sneering, Mr. Musto's gossipy tome remains a good airplane book, or one for the beach-- easy to set aside now and then, easy to pick up again, and occasionally challenging: giving us awful bits of slander about nameless Broadway luminaries lifted from his newspaper columns.
  
  Richard Green
  St. Louis
  
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• Posted on 2007-06-28
  A Disappointment
  
  A ragtag collection of columns -- some of them vaguely amusing, a couple of them making some interesting comments and observations, but too many of them far too involved in the intricacies of 1990's NY nightlife. I'm sure that many of these articles were interesting and clever at the time if you had been to last night's party at Limelight but now they're just obscure and/or dull. Musto specializes in commenting on the day-to-day ephemera of celebrity, a topic which does not age gracefully. A decade or more later, it's hard to care much about his observations on things like the Madonna/Sandra Bernhardt faux-romance, a Reagan inaugural ball or Andy Warhol's funeral.
  
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• Posted on 2007-02-09
  Dirty, Dishy, and Delightful
  
  Michael Musto should write his memoirs next. This man has been mingling with a pantheon of celebs, from Kitt to Pitt, for over twenty years and this book only hints at the dirt this guy could dish.
  
  He doesn't talk much about himself in this book -- I would've liked to have heard about him younger, you know, hanging out on the stoop in Brooklyn -- but he does provide a short biographical sketch, albeit in the third person:
  
  "She's an omnipresent party girl with beet-red hair, bulbous lips, and the winningly woozy demeanor of an inflatable doll who only comes to life when a camera's in the room. Floating from soiree to soiree with a silicon smile . . . exuding a good-natured alien appeal, like a top-heavy escapee from a sci-fi porn comedy."
  
  Wait! That's Musto's description of Amanda LePore. Sorry
  
  This is himself:
  
  "I couldn't exactly pass for straight. And so I gayed it up like crazy, mocking all the bold-faced liars, screaming at anyone who held back the fight against AIDS, and relentlessly promoting gay talent, from drag queens to porn stars, while wearing a fetching assortment of my own braids and boas. I was stunned that the queer community didn't instantly crown me queen."
  
  Well, persistence has paid off, and Musto is butcher than he thinks he is. In my humble opinion, nobody does irony better on television. Musto is the only reason I watch MSNBC (Keith Olberman, great show) and his self-effacing remarks do nothing to alter the fact that he is, and has been, considered one of the top gossip columnists in NYC, alongside Liz Smith, Cindy Adams and Page Six, for years now. Musto is the best thing in the Voice too. These columns will have you laughing out loud, guaranteed.
  
  Five Stars. Get the book!
  
  
  
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• Posted on 2007-02-07
  HARD TO DESCRIBE (BUT HEAR THE LAUGHTER!)
  
  VERY funny man. Got this as a travel gift for my wife,
  & we'lll test "drive" it on the flight to NYC this
  Friday. Good price, fast delivery. Thanks!
  
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• Posted on 2007-02-02
  Fun to Read
  
  I love Musto's appearances on Keith Olberman's show, which is what lead me to purchase this book. Each "chapter" is one of his pieces written for the Village Voice over the years, which makes a chapter the perfect size for reading over your coffee in the morning to start your day off laughing. But, of course, he is not just funny, he is also very clever and a master of the pun.
  
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