Actress Pam Anderson may be a dirrrty girl, but at least, she smells good! Pammy took advantage of her early arrival for Saturday night’s Make-a-Wish Foundation gala in Miami to do a little selling. The former Baywatch babe, 42, hawked her own line of perfumes,  Malibu Day and Malibu Night,  at the W hotel on Fort Lauderdale Beach Thursday. The day juice is described as fruity floral with a hint of honeysuckle. The night stuff is more oriental, with black orchids and lotus. And animal lover Anderson says she made sure no animal was harmed during production. Malibu retails in chain drugstores and discount outlets.

Assailed by critics for his poor showing in previews of the Broadway play The Starry Messenger, actor Matthew Broderick (Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, The Freshman) spent the weekend in Fort Lauderdale. He appeared at the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival premiere of his new indie flick, Wonderful World, while his wife, Sarah Jessica Parker, is busy filming the Sex and the City movie sequel in Morocco.

Bueller! Bueller! Stop talking about yourself like that!

Juliette Lewis, circa 1990, when she starred opposite Robert DeNiro in Cape Fear

Well, you won’t believe what she looks like now! Check it out below or click (Read more…)

Technosluts, anyone? (Michele Sandberg/Special to Page2Live)

Now, here’s something you don’t see in Palm Beach County.

At least, not in public.

Fort Lauderdale’s swanky Voodoo Lounge throws “Technosluts” parties every few weeks.

Part Mad Max, part Saw with a dash of Escape From L.A., the wingdings are slowly growing into the area’s largest fetish gatherings.

And they are keeping it mostly clean! Check out Page2Live’s photo gallery below, by Michele Sandberg.

Promoter Joe Freedom (left) and rising porn star Jerrod Steed (right) at the W Hotel in Fort Lauderdale Saturday (Michele Sandberg/Special to Page2Live)

When it comes to the nightlife, the once gritty Fort Lauderdale Beach occupies a no-man’s land.

SoFla after-dark belongs to Miami Beach, Hollywood’s Seminole Hard Rock, the Clematis-CityPlace corridor in West Palm Beach and Palm Beach’s restaurants.

Somewhere in the middle, there’s Fort Lauderdale Beach.

So, the area is out to remind the tri-counties that its newer chi-chi hotels and clubs, too, are a legit nightlife destination — one where, like this weekend, you can find yourself hanging with former Miami Dolphin Zach Thomas at the steakhouse or porn star Jerrod Steed.

On the first three Saturday nights in August, vendors and bands are scheduled to line up the strip while hotels and restaurants and clubs are in “open house” mode.

And Page2Live caught the event’s first installment Saturday to check out what the buzz is about.

The findings? You no longer need to subject yourself to the stale-beer stench at the world-famous Elbo Room!

Between the avant-garde Tinseltown airs of the W Hotel, and the hushed luxury of the Ritz-Carlton, the modern elegance of the Atlantic Hotel and the social zoo at Exit 66, there’s plenty to occupy a night on da beach.

Check out Michele Sandberg’s pictures below.

Sierra's ministry

– Miss Florida 2008, Sierra Minott, has re-enrolled at Palm Beach Atlantic University. But it’s unclear how she’ll keep her head in the psych program at West Palm Beach’s Christian school. Minott, according to the university’s website, is working on a book for teens and developing her own talk show for a Christian TV network. Of course, the school also will squeeze Minott for all’s she got. She’s appearing on radio and TV commercials touting the institution (check them out here, here and here). “I’ve always been an advocate for inner beauty. Your beauty has to start from the inside out, not the outside in,” said Minott. The majority of her appearances as Miss Florida so far centered on youth, at churches and schools. “It was a ministry until the very end,” Minott said of her just-ended reign.

Jackson

– Big-deal SoFla restaurateur Jack Jackson is joining the Boca-based restaurant chain the BOVA Group as president, the group announced this week. BOVA is co-owned by Anthony Bova and Fort Lauderdale lawyer Scott Rothstein, aka Gov. Charlie Crist’s moneybags. Rothstein owns the lawfirm that employs rookie Palm Beach County Commish Steve Abrams. Jackson, meanwhile, is best-known as actor Burt Reynolds’ partner in Fort Lauderdale’s long ago destination restaurant Burt and Jacks. Jackson has owned a steakhouse named after him on Las Olas for a decade, and a nearby seafood place. Both are being gobbled up by BOVA as part of the deal. In addition to now owning four major eateries in Boca and Fort Lauderdale, BOVA is looking for more. It’s negotiating to take over another Boca place, the sports bar named after Miami Heat superstar Dwyane Wade that closed last year.

– Hightailing it outtahere: Four-time NFL pro-bowler Darren Sharper. The New Orleans Saints safety has put his off-season home in Aventura on the market for $3.3 million, according to South Florida Block Shopper. He bought the four-bedroomer two years ago for $2.8 million.

Like many Tinseltown old timers, Ed McMahon loved South Florida.

Rarely a year went by without an appearance here by the perennial sidekick of long ago late night TV host Johnny Carson.

Ill or not.

Jack Drury

Broke or not.

For business, and pleasure.

Always, it was partly to visit in Fort Lauderdale his best friend, Jack Drury.

A TV producer and public relations man and financial advisor with connections deep in the Hollywood of Bob Hope and Frank Sinatra, Drury talked to Page2Live hours after McMahon’s death at 86.

The cause of his passing wasn’t announced, but McMahon had been battling bone cancer and earlier this year was hospitalized with pneumonia.

“Ed was always an optimist,” Drury said. “When he started having financial and health problems, he told me that since he served in the Korean War, that stuff didn’t matter.

“He used to say: ‘When you’ve had to land on a carrier in the middle of the night and fly 98 missions, this is a piece of cake.’ “

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With dancing girls like this one, it should be renamed Exit 666! (Michele Sandberg/Special to Page2Live)

Tats, kitsch, American pop, flesh, pole dancing, mermaids, Peewee Herman wannabes — all meet up at the brand spanking new Exit 66, a nightclub that, if the recent grand opening is telling, will become a heavy-hitter in the Fort Lauderdale’s alternative nightlife.

Brought to life on the beach near the Elbo Room by the folks who opened Crobar in Miami Beach back in the days, Exit 66 officials claim the joint will “give the Bates Motel a run for its money.”

They weren’t kidding.

Check out Michele Sandberg’s other pix below (Read more…)

In name only, the guy picked from dozens of applicants to fight former baseball slugger Jose Canseco in Lauderdale June 27 is already a winner.

The promoters chose a Boca Raton writer named Christopher Gambino to go three rounds against the former Tampa Bay Ray.

Gambino

Canseco

This Gambino is cagey when it comes to his lineage and may not even be related to the notorious crime family, but he looks the part. He’s also 6-foot-1 and 215 pounds, three inches shorter and 40 pounds lighter than the former steroid user Canseco.

Promoters, by the way, are adding to the card: Former The Partridge Family star Danny Bonaduce; Michael Lohan, troubled actress Lindsay Lohan’s infamous dad; and former child actor Willie Aames, the financially troubled actor of Eight Is Enough.

Ok, ladies. Start lining up, and get ready for: “You’re wearing THAT?”

This guy to the right is coming to Boca Raton.

Tim Gunn, the co-host of Bravo TV’’s Project Runway and Tim Gunn’s Guide to Style, is scheduled to discuss fashion tips at Town Center’s kate spade store, 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. May 16.

Gunn, 54, is also scheduled to appear at Fort Lauderdale’s Galleria Mall a day earlier, also at kate spade, 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.