Lady Gaga is playing the Fontainebleau in Miami Beach on New Year's Eve, and has sold over $1 million in tickets:"The 'Poker Face' singer is said to be getting about 300,000 dollars for the show. Based on sales through website http://www.newyearseve.com/, tickets for the singer's performance to ring in 2010 are almost non-existent, with only a few 25,000-dollar tables left and some general admission seats at 425 dollars."
Guy Trebay pays tribute to Gaga in an end-of-the-year column:
"Although Andy Warhol died just a year after Stefani Germanotta came into the world, and decades before Lady Gaga was willed into being, he was correct as usual in forecasting a time when there would be 'new categories of people' being 'put up there' as stars. Those people, he wrote in 'The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again),' would be made up of parts. And their fans, freed from the obligation to idolize a 'whole person,' could choose which dimension of a star they wanted to love. Lady Gaga is rigged for that stardom: her persona is an amalgam of surfaces, faceted though not truly 3-D, addictive in the way video games are."
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