Westword’s Best of Denver issue came barging into town Wednesday, the paper’s annual salute to all that’s right in the Queen City of the Plains.
The most coveted honor, as far as I am concerned, is Best Hair on the TV Personality, Female and Male. It has been won in past years by such hirsute talking heads as Phil Keating, Jeremy Hubbard, Susie Wargin, Ed Greene, Angie Austin, Mike Landess, Tamara Banks, Libby Weaver, Marc Soicher, Kyle Dyer, Adele Arakawa, Tom Martino, Aimee Sporer, Bertha Lynn.
Last year, Fox 31 helicopter dog Dylan won for Best Hair on a Media Canine. And Fox 31’s traffic guy Ken Clark wins this year for Best Facial Hair.
But this year’s top mop-top honors go to (drum roll, please) Ch. 9’s Kirk Montgomery and Ch. 2’s Asha Blake.
Westword says Montgomery “understands the benefits of product. He may be reporting from Denver, but he’s got Hollywood hair.”
“I’m grateful and thankful that I have any hair left,” says Montgomery, “let alone have any style to it.”
Westword loves Blake’s locks. “She wears a thoroughly modern cut that looks like the work of a gifted stylist, not a groomer at Pet-
Smart.”
“What can I say?” says Blake. “I’m honored. All the credit goes to my stylist (Lisa Nichols at Posh). It literally takes me three minutes in the morning. Hair is no big deal to me.”
Maybe not to you – but to Denver viewers, well, it’s everything.
Trying out
Auditions for “The Apprentice” start at 9 a.m. Saturday at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House at the DCPA. And one block away, “Wheel of Fortune” is being taped in the Colorado Convention Center. We’re just like Burbank!
“Apprentice” casting producer Scott Salyers says he expects 300-1,000 people to show up. “Be yourself,” he advises.
In related developments: Bill Rancik, the first winner of “The Apprentice,” is in town Friday to speak to kids at Heritage High and give away money from Ace Hardware.
And don’t forget about Raj Bhakta, the bow-tied, cane-toting, Vail-based “Apprentice” of 2004 who is now running for Congress in Pennsylvania’s 13th District as a “Theodore Roosevelt Republican.”
The play’s the thing
A man rushes into the Avenue Theatre Saturday night 15 minutes before curtain. He says he’s never seen a live play before and really wants to and starts searching for $20 for a ticket. Before he buys one, two policemen rush in, cuff the guy and take him into custody. The play? “The Smell of the Kill.”
City spirit
We hear: NBC’s Campbell Brown (a Regis University grad) is set to get married at the Ritz-Carlton, Bachelor Gulch the first weekend in April … That Jake Schroeder, Opie for the band Opie Gone Bad, is set to run for City Council, District 7. And he’s down to sing country with Jim Dalton of the Railbenders on Wednesday night at Lannie’s Clocktower Cabaret … Head to the Oxford Hotel 5-10 tonight for a benefit for Rocky fotog Steven Nickerson in his fight against scleroderma. The work of more than 20 Pulitzer winners on sale … Sez who: “Eternity is two people and a roast turkey.” James Dent
Bill Husted’s column appears Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Thursday. Husted also appears Tuesdays and Fridays on “Good Day Colorado” on Fox 31. You can reach him at 303-820-1486 or at bhusted@denverpost.com.
