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Alan Roth's Shaving Grace

Alan Roth has sported many different 'dos in his years as a South Beach player. But what he did over the weekend at the Beach Ball Festival beats even his mullett of some several years ago. According to Roth, Tommy Pooch and Buster dared Roth to shave his head  on stage to raise money for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. Participating restaurants and clubs started throwing in money, dying to see Roth go bald. After $1500 was raised, Roth said  he'd match the donation to avoid being Britney. No such luck. Several thousand dollars were raised, and Roth's  hair was, well, razed, by Michelle Pooch, who had the shaving honors. When we asked Roth how it felt to be like Britney, he said, "It's really cold out today." Stay tuned for a photo.

Bubba's in Town!

If you happen to run into Bill Clinton tonight at a certain well regarded Coral Gables eatery tonight, please send him our regards and tell him we'll be at Air in case he feels the need to come up for some.

Mmmmmokai....

So we couldn't believe our ears when we heard Mokai was actually opening for a 'friends and family' preview last night and just had to zoom over to check it out. We arrived at around 10:30pm to find owners Nicola Siervo and Karim Masri mulling in the street, on their cellphones, not looking happy. Siervo told us that the city once again was giving them permit issues because they got word they were open for business, which was not true according to Masri, who told us, "We are having a friends and family preview and are not open yet for business. I had Quattro open for ten days of the same kind of previews and had no trouble." For some reason, someone didn't want Mokai to open last night, if at all. Too bad. It did open, if a little later than expected. We didn't stay to go inside but we received a call from the place's publicist, Lindsey Cooper, close to 11pm, saying that the doors were finally open. At last! And what's up with all this underhanded, sneaky, I'm telling on you, behavior? It's so third grade. Grow up and embrace the competition, people!

Madonna's Tour de Prance

Madonna wrapped up her US tour last night in Miami and followed her performance with a stop at her official cast and crew after party at the Raleigh Hotel penthouse. The tireless singer made her way to the top without one single paparazzi shot, having been whisked into the elevator by intrepid staffers. DJ Tracey Young spun and Maverick Records honcho Guy Oseary personally checked every guest coming into the intimate, 30+ soiree. There were no crashers. While Young tried to bring in some of her pals, none were allowed in, despite how hot they may have been. Madonna arrived at 12:40 am.

On the Set of My Sexiest Year

Thanks to Jennifer, the self proclaimed 'lowly extra' on the set of My Sexiest Year, the film that's currently shooting in Miami starring Harvey Keitel and a random cast of quasi celebs, we have some behind the scenes scoop in case you were curious:

I was an extra on the set of 'My Sexiest Year' yesterday at Joe's Stone Crab and just thought you might be interested in what went on...

Frankie Muniz and Harvey Keitel were both very friendly and down to earth, although I had a difficult time getting over how teeny tiny Frankie actually is. The poor thing definitely gets his clothes at the Juniors Department, but he has beautiful clear green eyes.

As I was trying desperately to keep my eyes open (due to the 6:30 am call time) while waiting for the next scene to wrap up, who walked through the restaurant but the beautiful Amber Valetta - who is just as stunning without a drop of make-up, although I can't say much for her 'better-than-thou' attitude, less than formidable acting skills and canary yellow hair. There was a scary moment around lunchtime when the crew realized that Amber couldn't eat from the regular lunch buffet like all the other commoners and there ensued a frantic scavenger hunt for her demand of a fresh turkey wrap before she fainted from hunger... Needless to say, they got it to her just in the nick of time - phew. She laughed and kidded around with Frankie as they shot a scene involving a large ziploc bag full of weed (which looked an awful lot like catnip...) and fake stone crabs (alas, we extras were not fed fake stone crabs, but we did get to nibble on some scrumptious chocolate cake during one of the restaurant scenes).

As we took a break for lunch, I almost fell over with delight when I spotted my idol - Karolina Kurkova, who was loitering by the dessert buffet and stuffing her face with cake. Let me tell you, that girl deserves to be paid millions for being born with a body like that - she is superbly stunning. She also lurrvvvvvves to be the center of attention - breaking out R-rated poses for pictures with Director Howard Himelstein and his parents who came to visit him on set (he even put them in one of the restaurant scenes - awwwww...), and frolicking about in a Versace-type minidress that hardly covered her hoohaa (granted, the movie is set in the 70s so we were all dressed scantily in bold prints and disco attire). At one point she skipped through the room where all the extras were waiting, yelling out that we should be quiet, and telling us in a rather loud baby voice how cute we were... A tad strange - I thought she might have been drunk, but it might just be her need for constant attention.

All in all, an entertaining day and I was super pleased to see two of my favorite models in action. They did not disappoint and, to be honest - who are we kidding? If they acted like the rest of us it just wouldn't be as fun, would it?

Housewives Star in the Broom Closet?

in what can only be described as reverse goss-mosis, blogger Perez Hilton has sited our story about Desperate Housewives star Jesse Metcalfe in his ongoing crusade to prove that if Metcalfe requested the song Jesse's Girl, that girl would, indeed, be a boy.

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Wilma truly blew

Power, water, showers, who needs 'em? Just hit Lincoln Road at night, before curfew preferably, and you'll be amongst what seems like hundreds of skanky storm survivors looking for a little action. Last night on Lincoln was a mob scene with a few places open--David's Cafe, the ice cream joint, Spris, , the cute little muscles place, Tiramesu, World Resources and, of course, Score.

Without lights, it didnt matter how vile you looked, really. In the meantime, while all of this week's woulda been fabby events have been cancelled or postponned, we just spoke to Alan Roth, sheltering at partner Tommy Pooch's place, and he says the Bimbos and Muscleheads party on Sunday at The Raleigh is still on. So far it's the only one that's still on and frankly we can't wait to don our Hello Kitty pajamas and see if they'll let us in.