Michael Musto

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Michael Musto is an American Manhattan-based writer who began his career at The Village Voice, where he writes the weekly ([1]) La Dolce Musto celebrity and gossip column. He is an Italian American and a graduate of Columbia University. He is the author of Downtown and Manhattan on the Rocks. A selection of his columns has been published as La Dolce Musto (ISBN 978-0-7867-1879-5).

He is considered by some to be a media gadfly. Musto is a recurring guest on several TV shows including as Countdown with Keith Olbermann and others on the E! channel. He is openly gay and is published regularly in several gay publications, including Out Magazine and ShowPeople. He appeared as a drag queen in a blue dress in the music video for Cyndi Lauper's single "Hey Now (Girls Just Want To Have Fun)", and as a reporter in the film Garbo Talks.

Musto was named Best Gossip Columnist in a poll conducted by nycsidewalk.com^{[citation needed]}, and in 2002, a UPI profile of Musto called him "one of the wittiest stylists in the English language" [2].

His book is a collection of his columns from the Village Voice through the years.

[edit] External links

• Michael Musto at the Internet Movie Database