Video captures McKinnie getting his freak on

The makeover guy could have used a shave.

Christopher Hopkins, of ReVamp! Salon-spa, has a new book: "Staging Your Comeback: A Complete Beauty Revival for Women Over 45."

The cover's nice, but what are those light and dark specks on his cover photo? "Oh my," he said, laughing, after getting the joke. "I didn't want to look too effeminate with the makeup brush and scissors in my hand. I'm gay enough; do I need to look pretty without a beard?"

Wouldn't call him pretty (but his brown eyes are), but handsome. And wouldn't necessarily call that a beard. Here's a novel thought: Hopkins should have consulted a makeover expert before going with rumored facial hair on a cover photo of something with a Library of Congress catalog number.

"I'm having a goatee right now since I can't get a chin implant and cover up my jowls," he said. Let me get that down verbatim. "Oh, I'm being quoted? Nevermind."

All of the women in the book are from here, and the makeovers are fabulous!

None of the before photos was staged. That's hard to believe seeing Gail on page 268.

"She sent me a [before] picture and I said, 'That's perfect.' I thought she was kind of kidding, trying to get in on the book, making it worse than it is. When she came in for a makeover, she still looked like that. She's a flight attendant; she's looked like that for years."

Gail's magnificent transformation takes her from Elvira to Rene Russo. "And she's pretty," Hopkins said.

They made page 320 All of the women in the book came from a casting call to listeners of FM107's "Lori & Julia Show."

They are such total publicity hounds that I know they have worried Christopher Hopkins to death, whether he admits it or not.

"Every time I was on the air, they said: So are you going to write a thank you to us in your book?" Hopkins allowed.

Whut? No mention of Lori and Julia in the dedication? "In the back are the acknowledgements on page 320," Hopkins said.

Surely there will be copious complaining about that. "I couldn't have done it without them," he said, "but you know how they are."

Lord, have mercy, yes. There is Lori, who is well read, and Julia, who is not, and blissfully proud of how dim-witted and ill-informed she sounds on the radio.

In addition to complaints about being in the back of the book, they will probably whine about their last names being omitted and how future generations will not know precisely who they are. "You're probably right," said Hopkins, who "suspects they will page through it briefly."

Hey, that book is so full of graphics and photos, there is a chance Julia might actually try to read it.

Sportsbybrooks.com has a video -- it needs a parental warning -- showing the Minnetonka sex cruise lieutenant, who in February got arrested after an alleged Miami street fight (he pleaded not guilty on Monday), engaged in some very aggressive dance moves. This video was purportedly shot at a Minneapolis nightclub. The scene is dark, grainy and nasty, but you can pick out the enormous McKinnie in the raunchy crowd. There's also a nightclubber doing something with a plastic bag. She may be regurgitating as a result of the motion-sickness-inducing music or the inappropriate language on this undercover video.

When I last saw McKinnie at Winter Park, I asked him with whom he'd be claiming he had an imaginary relationship.

"Deelishis from 'Flavor of Love,'" he called out.

Sounds like McKinnie has given up on nice women like Venus or Serena Williams (and I now doubt he ever dated either one) for seriously tacky types who can't spell.

How's the view? Sportbybrooks.com also has video of Lakers coach Phil Jackson "mackin'" on sports reporter Michele Tafoya (www.startribune.com/a4147).

Angela's in Big surprise: Angela Davis has been named co-host of the WCCO-TV morning show, replacing Karen Leigh, who went to Denver.