Welcome to my new and improved "In The News" page.  Scroll down, and you will find some new photos, and some fresh press that I

have gotten for my new book on Billy Joel.  Hope you enjoy the photos, and thank you so much for visiting my website!

Cheers,

 Mark

 

Mary Wilson and Mark at The Regency Hotel, June 19, 2007, where Mary headlined Feinstein's nightclub.
(Photo:Ê Derek Storm)

 

Jaid Barrymore and Bego have a reunion at Feinstein's, June 19, 2007.  (Photo:  Derek Storm)

 

Saxophone star Richie Cannata and Bego at The Regency Hotel, June 19, 2007.  (Photo:  Derek Storm)

 
 

Bego, Mary Wilson, Randy Jones, Derek Storm partying all night long, June 19, 2007.  (Photo:  Derek Storm)


 

 

Bego and Debbie Gibson at New York City's Culture Club, March 9, 2007.  (Photo:  Derek Storm)

Mark with Glenn Matlock of The Sex Pistols, March 9, 2007.  (Photo:  Derek Storm)

My Girl actress Anna Chlumsky and Mark in Greenwich Village, June 17, 2007.  (Photo:  Derek Storm)

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Celebrating the publication of Mark's biography of Billy Joel at The Palm West Restaurant in New York, June 4, 2007:  WPLJ DJ Race Taylor, Bego, Liberty DeVitto, Bobby Funaro, and Chris Gilman of The Palm.  (Photo:  Bobby Bank)


 

 

Salidor and Mark Bego have been working together since the 1980s.  In March of 2007 at Culture Club in New York City.  (Photo:  Derek Storm))

 

 

Billy Joel's not 'Movin' Out,' says Buddy

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Bego in world famous Page Six of NY Post.

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Article from The National Enquirer, 2007

 NEW BOOK BOMBSHELL: BILLY JOEL ATTEMPTED SUICIDE

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                                                      Derek Storm

Artist Mark Kostabi and Mark Bego, on the set of Kostabi's TV show, Name That Painting on May 12, 2006.


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Mark Bego with Diane Ladd on the set of the TV show Naomi Judd's New Morning on May 18, 2006.


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Mark Bego with Naomi Judd on the set of her TV show Naomi Judd's New Morning on May 18, 2006.


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On February 13, 2006, Mark Bego and LaLa Brooks of The Crystals ("Da Do Ron Ron"), hosted a Valentine's Day Eve Party at The Cutting Room.  Amongst the guests were Lou Christie of "Lightning Strikes" fame.

 


Article from The Improper, August 2005. 

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Article from The Oakland Press, August 21, 2005. 

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David Salidor
Hootie & Blowfish and Bego at The China Club in New York City for a special radio station WPLJ concert event, Sept 26, 2005


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Mark with Terry O'Quinn of the TV series Lost.  Mark and Terry went to central Michigan Univeristy, where they appeared in theater productions together.  They reunited at a Kentucky derby party in Louisville, May 6, 2005


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"Can we talk?"  Mark with Joan Rivers at The Cutting Room, October 11, 2005, following Joan's comedy act.  Bego appeared on Joan's TV show in 1990s.


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Two Wild & Crazy Guys!  Steve Martin and Bego at the premiere of The Pink Panther, New York City, February 6, 2006.  The film's premiere took place at the Zeigfeld Theater, with a party at Cipriani's restaurant.

 


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Blast from the Past:  Mark Bego and Andy Warhol at a press conference at Tavern on the Green in 1983.  At the time Mark was the Editor-in-Chief of Modern Screen magazine.


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Bego, Tammy Faye Baker, Randy Jones, and male model Kevin Talley get ready to go to the 2005 Barnstable Brown party in Louisville, Kentucky.  The hostesses of the party are the Barnstables sisters, who were Doublemint Twins in the 1970s.

 


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Mark Bego, LaLa Brooks of The Crystals, and May Pang at The Cutting Room for May's birthday bash in October of 2005.  Even Bego and Derek Storm ended up on stage during the ensuing jam session to celebrate the event!


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Bego wth Bobby Funaro, and Michael Imperioli of The Sopranos, at a film screening for Cutout, starring Funaro and Al Martino, February 1, 2006 in Manhattan.


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Mark Bego with Liberty DeVitto [drums] and Richie Cannata [sax], who are both famous for being an important part of Billy Joel's band.  And, they are two of the nicest guys in show business!  The Cutting Room, September 12, 2005.


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They just wanna have fun!  Rock singing legend Cyndi Lauper and Mark Bego at The Cutting Room, December 19, 2005.  A Cyndi biography in the works?

 


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Mark Bego and screen legend Celeste Holm at The Cutting Room, December 19, 2005.  The All About Eve and High Society star showed up to sing Christmas carols on stage a the rock club.


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Bego with Vince Gill at Carnegie Hall, February 1, 2006.  Vince was the subject of Mark's 2000 biography of the country singing legend.

 


Ann Watt
Mark and photographer Derek Storm at the party to celebrate the publication of Bego's Joni Mitchell biography, August 1, 2005.  The location was the bar at The Palm, 250 West 50th Street in New York City.


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David Salidor, 104.3 radio personality Mike McCann, Randy Jones, May Pang, Bego at The Palm, August 1, 2005.  The event was held to celebrate Mark's 48th published book:  Joni Mitchell.


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Mark, May Pang, and Micky Dolenz of The Monkees celebrate the publication of Bego's biography Jackson Brown:  His Life and Music, May 23, 2005, at Trattoria Dopo Teatro in Times Square.


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Randy Jones, Peter Tork of the legendary Monkees, May Pang, and Bego at The Cutting Room for Peter's concert appearance at the popular rock club in Manhattan, August 23, 2005.
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Jimmy Greenspoon of Three Dog Night, his wife Susie, and Bego backstage at B.B.King's nightclub in Times Square, September 1, 2005.  Mark wrote Jimmy's autobiography with him in the 1990s.


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Bego and Carson Kressley of TV's hit show Queer Eye For the Straight Guy, at a post-Kentucky Derby Party in Louisville, Kentucky, May 7, 2005

 


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An Evening at Martin Lawrence Gallery, Soho

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Randy Jones, Dusty Hill of ZZ Top, and Bego at the Barnstable Brown annual Kentucky Derby party, May 6, 2005


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Steve Walter of The Cutting Room, May Pang, Mark, and Sydney Biddles Barrow (aka The Mayflower Madame) celebrate the paperback edition of Tina Turner:  Break Every Rule, and Mark's Birthday.  Sept 22. 2005


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Master chef and restaurant owner Bobby Flay of TV's Food Channel and Mark Bego at a book release party for Donnie Deutsche, October 11, 2005