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Enjoyble: It's not because Enjoyable.com is taken by a domain squatter! It's because he's clever. Enjoyble is Jakob's "'good culture' blog" where he shares "stuff that I like." The first thing Jakob likes is a topless girl!
The Invisible Fist is a Tumblr Tumblelog Brand tumblog that promotes Jakob's brand of anarchocapitalist objectivism, mostly through quotes from some libertarian blogger and Ron Paul.
I feel like someone handed me a loaded gun!
Future Oscar hosts wary of pulling a Jon Stewart might consider following the example of Billy Crystal: Follow the money.
While Stewart's now down as host of the lowest-rated Oscars on...
The piper always comes calling for payment.
Mischa Barton was charged Tuesday with misdemeanor DUI and pot possession in connection with her December arrest in West Hollywood following a...
Pamela Anderson doesn't want to be married to Rick Salomon anymore. Then again, she doesn't want to divorce him, either.
Instead, the former "Baywatch" beauty filed for an...
"Don't give me any trouble, ya hear? This is Gucci!"Photo: Getty Images
J.Lo's Doctor Speaks: "She's Simply Overjoyed!" [Pagesix.com]
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1. The Velvet Underground, "I'm Not a Young Man Anymore"
This excellent, just-unearthed live track may be 41 years old, but its message (Lou Reed is old) rings truer now than ever. [Dead Flowers]
2. Common, "The Light (Just Blaze Remix)"
Just Blaze reworks this Finding Forever track with predictably phenomenal results. It's at least a million times better than the original — and we liked that version too! [Nah Right]
3. Supergrass, "Rebel in You"
Supergrass' brand-new sixth album leaked over the weekend. In case you were wondering, they're still great and they still like David Bowie. [Obscure Sound]
4. The Black Keys, "Strange Times"
Danger Mouse produced the Keys' upcoming fifth album. It doesn't sound quite as Danger Mouse–y as we'd hoped, but we like it anyway. [That Music]
5. LCD Soundsystem, "Big Ideas"
This new song from the soundtrack for 21 suggests the blackjack movie is going to be a lot more danceable than Kevin Spacey's other films. [Stereogum]
From left, Jeremy Scott, Yohji Yamamoto, Vivienne Westwood.Photo: Imaxtree
• The models at Undercover rocked an otherworldly, alien vibe, with future-forward fashions.
• Yohji Yamamoto takes that spare tire around your gut quite literally.
• Muted mustards and asymmetrical cuts floated down the runway at Maison Martin Margiela.
• Ankle-length braids and face paint at Vivienne Westwood almost distracted from the equally unsubtle clothes.
• Jeremy Scott showed dresses in bold, bright patterns.
• Balmain's collection would fit in nicely at Trash & Vaudeville.
• Androgyny is back at Bruno Pieters, where menswear looks dominated.
• Rick Owens' dramatic cuts resulted in jackets that looked as if they had wings.
• A.F. Vandevorst showed a covet-worthy silver down coat with double sleeves.
• Gaspard Yurkievich used sheers and satins in blues and yellows.
Eric Clapton may be going where no rocker has gone before: North Korea.
The government of North Korean dictator Kim Jung Il has extended a special invitation for Slowhand to perform in Pyongyang,...
Drew Barrymore has taken her 100th boyfriend. Photo: Getty Images
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Busey Apologizes: Class act Gary Busey called in to Ryan Seacrest's radio show yesterday morning to apologize for his outburst on the red carpet at Sunday's Oscars, calling Seacrest "an innocent champion of honesty." [Defamer]
iTunes Is No. 2: In 2007, iTunes beat out Best Buy and Target to become the second-biggest seller of music behind only Wal-Mart, meaning virtually everyone has stopped buying CDs. [Reuters via Idolator]
Noel Gallagher Still Pretty Awesome: Oasis' Noel Gallagher is selling his summer home in Ibiza because he can't stand owning property near James Blunt. Sounds perfectly reasonable to us. [NME]
Ugly People Needed to Play West Virginians: Shelter, starring Julianne Moore, is shooting in Pittsburgh next month and producers have put out a casting call for "inbred"-looking children to play characters from West Virginia: "Extraordinarily tall or short. Unusual body shapes, even physical abnormalities as long as there is normal mobility." "Regular-looking" need not apply. [Pittsburgh Tribune-Review]
More Ugly People Needed for The Road: In a separate casting call, producers of the upcoming film adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's The Road (also set to be shot in Pittsburgh next month) are looking for "people with minimal muscle tone, long stringy hair, and a starved, ravaged appearance." Good luck finding a date in Pittsburgh next month! [Pittsburgh Tribune-Review]
Paul Haggis Doesn't Know What Quantum of Solace Means Either: Paul Haggis has no idea what the title of the new Bond movie means, despite his having written the damn thing. [Movies Blog/MTV]
Left to right: Guerilla; Doubt; BlindnessCourtesy of Focus Features (Guerilla); Miramax
It's hard to believe that with a mere 364 days until the 2009 Oscars, no one in the awards blogosphere had peeked into his crystal ball. Happily, And the Winner Is's Scott Feinberg has remedied that travesty, as he is the first (as far as we can find) to make spitballed predictions for next year's ceremony. Even with all the proper caveats ("Not only have none of us seen the films, but some of them have not yet even gone into production!"), it's still a hilarious exercise, but one that gets us kind of excited about the coming year.
Among the films Feinberg highlights: John Patrick Shanley's adaptation of Doubt, starring Philip Seymour Hoffman and Meryl Streep; Steven Soderbergh's Che Guevara twofer, The Argentine and Guerilla (both starring Benicio Del Toro); Fernando Meirelles's Blindness, based on the Jose Saramago novel and starring Julianne Moore; and David Fincher's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. The one we're most excited about, of course, is Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche, New York, which we can pretty much guarantee (a) will be awesome and (b) will be nominated for Best Original Screenplay but not for Best Picture.
And after the unadulterated run of success that has been our Oscar predicting thus far (almost half of the awards right, baby!), who are we not to weigh in on the 2009 Academy Awards? Vulture's picks for Best Picture:
1. Doubt
2. The Young Victoria
3. Defiance
4. Some indie comedy no one's ever heard of yet, possibly from Sundance, definitely written by someone with a heartwarming and almost unbelievable story
5. Something terrible — maybe Sex and the City?
And So It Begins [And the Winner is…]
That profile! That sternness! That hard-edged East Coast attitude! Ohioans will hate him. Photo: Getty Images
Spitzer Sells Clinton, Says Driver's License Mess Didn't Hurt Her [NYO]
Update: According to the Sun, Spitzer stopped short of saying that he would stump for Clinton, but left open the possibility "if this continues."
Here’s a rare indie compilation perfect for geeks and novices alike: a two-disc collection of otherwise unavailable tracks from bigger-name bands as well as unknowns, and the first release on a label, Brooklyn’s Rare Book Room, that you’re well advised to get to know now. Buy it for new songs from Avey Tare (of Animal Collective), Deerhunter, or the Naysayer, or for the overall great tracklist, sequenced like a good, old-fashioned mix tape to smooth out the multiplicity of sounds.
Go on, sniff her.Photo: Getty Images
Janet Jackson hit the big 4-0 last year, but the lighter-than-air sex jams on her tenth studio album are still blush-inducing — which is not to say embarrassing. The disc drags through a saggy breakup ballad middle and oddball skits featuring a life coach/robot assistant called Keiko, but the club tracks serve notice that for a generation of R&Bers, Janet is still the mold. Not convinced she was ahead of her time? Now, as ever, she spells titles like she’s texting: “2nite,” “What’s Ur Name,” “LUV” …
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A bedazzled version of himself in Lustre: A Midwinter Trans-Fest at P.S. 122, Justin Bond, the performer best-known as Kiki of Kiki and Herb, sings and chats about Joan Didion, falling in love with a slightly retarded man, and the differences between Genet and JonBenet. The Tony-nominated downtown icon plays emcee to a hand-selected ensemble of trans- and queer-identified artists, from a stunning pianist named Our Lady J to a tap-dancing, stripping, and defiantly un-skinny drag king named Frank Anne. Bond spoke to Vulture about transgender politics, Tilda Swinton, and his fight with D'Angelo at Madonna's birthday party.
You and Tilda Swinton are buddies. How'd you meet?
I was playing at Fez, and my publicist brought her in the dressing room. It was immediate: We both discovered our spiritual twins, burst into tears, and starting hugging each other. I went out to her home in Scotland and spent the winter solstice before Christmas with her and her family. We see each other as much as we can.
In the show, you gave some alarming statistics about a national rise in violence against transgender people — like the 15-year-old Lawrence King, who was shot and killed in a high-school classroom two weeks ago. What accounts for that in this day and age?
The people that run organizations like the Human Rights Campaign are privileged white people. In all honesty, they're out for themselves and getting what they can get. When they have power, they'll look out for those who they consider to be less powerful or less important than they are. They don't represent me. They represent their own selfish interests as bourgeois white people who really are angry that they're looked down upon. I think they're disgusting sell-out pigs. But, hey, that's always been the split in the gay community: “Why don't you just put on some pants and be a man and go and get your rights, faggot!”
Downtown performance venues are dropping like flies. Are you worried?
Let's face it — we live in a city that clearly values commerce over culture. Today at brunch, I found out that the Barnes & Noble at 21st and Sixth Avenue is closing because the rents are going up so high. If Barnes & Noble can't afford the rent, who the fuck can? How the hell can the arts survive? It's very difficult to be a performer in the U.S. I spend a lot of time traveling over that ocean to be paid to perform in other countries. I'm not making a cent off this P.S. 122 show … it ain't for paying the rent, that's for sure!
I heard you're returning to perform at Banya, which is a gay bathhouse party. Is it hard to focus on your performance at a venue like that? I mean, it's hot and wet, and stuff is clearly going on in dark corners…
I don't think it will be a problem. I was at Foxy all those years at the Cock when it was on 12th Street — that was when they still had a back room. So, you know, people were two feet away from me, fucking and blowing each other, and I didn't really get distracted by them. I'm just immune to it all, I'm very jaded.
So, you performed at Madonna's 39th-birthday party, right?
Yes.
I read that you got into a fight with D'Angelo. What happened?
Well, first of all, let's ask, where is he now? And if you can find him, go ask him. —Justin Ravitz
Broiled SalmanPhoto: Getty Images
Salman Rushdie 'horrified' by security for Widener U. visit [Philly.com]
This is what cotton bales look like. Now you know.Photo: Getty Images
John Chiara's 48th at Land's End (2005).Image courtesy of the artist and Von Lintel Gallery, New York.
To produce his subtly poetic and immersive landscapes, San Francisco photographer John Chiara doesn't use a camera; he becomes a camera. Chiara's hand-built, room-size picture-taking device (which is mounted on a flatbed trailer) requires the artist to climb inside and push moving parts around himself. Chiara's work is up at Chelsea's Von Lintel Gallery through March 1. —Rachel Wolff
Gowanus: The Gowanus Village is on the market for $27 million, and Curbed has a photo gallery, including shots of the "beautiful canal waterfront." [Brownstoner]
Lower Manhattan: Today is the fifteenth anniversary of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. The visitor center down there will have a public program at 7 p.m. in remembrance. [WTC Visitor's Center]
Midtown: The Plaza's final opening date is scheduled for March 1. It starts at only $1,000 a night. But that comes with wireless! [NYT]
Park Slope: Coming soon to Bergen Street between Flatbush and Fifth: outposts for both tot emporium Gymboree and adult-entertainment chain Babeland. Hey, you can get toys at both… [Brownstoner]
Staten Island: Toll hikes on the three bridges accessing the Isle will go into effect Sunday. If you have a low-emission vehicle, you can get a discount Green Pass. [Staten Island Advance]
Washington Square: Look, you guys! This Starbucks wrote you a sweet love letter. Which will quickly turn sour when you go for your caffeine fix this afternoon and feel the sting of rejection. [Gothamist]
We're surprised too, Amy.Photo: FilmMagic
We're getting a bit nervous here. First hair-washing goes out the window, then this? What's next, giving yourself rashes in pretty patterns? Not brushing a tooth so it turns a lovely spring shade of yellow? No — Amy Winehouse may try to get us to smell like her, but no one will ever take our soap or toothpaste away from us.
Pay to look as good as Amy [The Sun]
Bless her cold heart, Lauren kept right on going. Does she steal from work? Yes. Was she in love with someone else on her wedding day? Yes. Has she ever cheated on her husband? You better believe it! At this point, she'd accrued $100,000. But then, in what will likely be remembered as one of the all-time greatest moments in reality-show history, she lost everything on a throwaway question (turns out she doesn't actually believe that she's a good person), thus rendering her marriage-ruining confessions totally pointless. Maybe it's time to start TiVo-ing this show again! —Amina Akhtar
Naomi Campbell is clearly a fan of the Brazilian...health care system.
The British supermodel was hospitalized in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Monday night, when she underwent a minor operation to have...
Fresh off her latest gig as an Oscar presenter, Miley Cyrus is ready to try her hand at hosting an awards show.
The "Hannah Montana" star and her father, Billy Ray Cyrus, will serve...Tagline: “I'll tell you a story…”
Translation: “…about how this film, from that one-named guy who directed The Cell, nearly got buried forever and has only now been resuscitated by David Fincher and Spike Jonze.”
The verdict: Remember The Cell? The hallucinogenically beautiful and vaguely nonsensical 2000 serial-killer movie starring Jennifer Lopez and Vincent D’Onofrio? Well, here comes The Fall, another hallucinogenically beautiful and potentially nonsensical movie from the same director, Tarsem Singh. The film, which the mono-named Tarsem shot in exotic locations by piggybacking on commercial shoots (!) and which he financed out of his own pocket (!!), premiered at the Toronto Film Festival way back in 2006. Grumpy reviews scared off distributors, and it’d been gathering dust — until David Fincher and Spike Jonze threw their collective cred behind it to secure a limited release. Now: Behold the colorful marvels of Tarsem’s world! Gasp at his visual acumen! Wonder if the story, which here looks like a mash-up of The English Patient, Pan's Labyrinth, and 300 (right down to that dude booting that guy in the chest in slo-mo), actually holds together in any cohesive way! Or if that even matters! And download the haunting music (Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 in A major) from iTunes, pronto. —Adam Sternbergh
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Who's your favorite New Yorker, living or dead, real or fictional?
Fanny Brice.
What's the best meal you've eaten in New York?
Empire Diner's roasted-chicken plate.
In one sentence, what do you actually do all day in your job?
Think and/or worry.
Would you still live here on a $35,000 salary?
Does anybody live here on a $35,000 salary?!
What's the last thing you saw on Broadway?
The Year of Magical Thinking.
Do you give money to panhandlers?
It depends on what's in my pockets.
What's your drink?
Bracco Wine, duh.
How often do you prepare your own meals?
In the city, almost never; Bridgehampton, all the time.
What's your favorite medication?
Nothing, I just suffer.
What's hanging above your sofa?
A collection of rare Marilyn Monroe photographs.
How much is too much to spend on a haircut?
I don't care about the money; it's the time in the chair that kills me.
When's bedtime?
Depends on whom I'm with.
Which do you prefer, the old Times Square or the new Times Square?
The new Times Square, except when I'm driving — can't keep my eyes on the road. That's a problem.
What do you think of Donald Trump?
Who dat?
What do you hate most about living in New York?
Not enough closet space.
Who is your mortal enemy?
Time.
When's the last time you drove a car?
Yesterday.
Who should be the next president?
Mike f---ing Bloomberg.
Times, Post, or Daily News?
What, no Wall Street Journal?
Where do you go to be alone?
The stairwell in my building.
What makes someone a New Yorker?
Attitude.
The Terminator has been assigned a new target: May 22, 2009.
That's the date Warner Bros. has scheduled to unspool its heavily anticipated "Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins,"...
Photo: WireImage
Update 2:20 p.m. Her U.K. reps tell us Naomi was admitted to the hospital last night (February 25) to "have a small cyst removed" and that it was a "successful procedure." Well, that's good! Except, um, if that's all it was, why was Naomi being treated by an infectious-diseases specialist? Yeah. Ugh.
Model Naomi Campbell Hospitalized [CNN]
No, Derek, I don't think it's necessary for you to 'monitor' her in the shower."Photo: Courtesy of Fox
Mother Issues
Sarah's search for the defeated Terminator's missing hand leads her to Ellison's home, where she discovers videotapes of her time in a psychiatric hospital. She steals one; son John sees it and learns she once agreed to relinquish custody of him. She gets a little teary; he gets the chance to brood handsomely. It turns out she changed her mind and escaped from the hospital that very day, and all is now well in the Connor household — but first this subplot gives our fatherless savior the chance to confide in Uncle Derek.
Derek is now at the center of the family dramas. If his sister-in-law Sarah isn't threatening to bust his head if she ever catches him cleaning his gun (ahem!) in her room again, she's reminding him that in this family they eat at the table. And when Derek isn't hinting that Sarah's ex-boyfriend Charley might need to be eliminated, he's glowering at John's sisterly guard Cameron.
Robot Issues
Cameron couldn't find the hand, but she finds a solid lead on her ancestor, the missing chess-playing computer known as the Turk. To track the Turk's chess teacher, Dmitri, she stakes out his sister's dance class — conveniently giving actress Summer Glau the chance to show off her body, er, background, and grants us a one-liner about how Cameron has (ha-ha) a mechanistic upper body. Cameron bribes Dmitri to tell her who bribed him to throw the Turk's last match. Then, since there's no human family around to moralize about this, she lets a Russian gang kill Dmitri and his sister.
Agent Ellison hid that hand where everyone stores dismembered pieces of flesh-covered endoskeleton: in the freezer. He and the hand visit Dr. Silberman, who supervised the institution that once held Sarah. They're both ready to recognize her as a prophet, or at least realize that she's not crazy. Between references to the books of Matthew and Revelations, Silberman stabs Ellison to see whether he's a robot, then tries to burn him alive anyway. Sarah saves Ellison and retrieves and destroys the hand; Ellison has Silberman committed.
Cue Sarah's weekly portentous voice-over, telling us that machines can't commune with God, create art, or appreciate beauty. Meanwhile, Cameron performs ballet alone in her room. Or not quite alone, since Derek — disgusted? Terrified? A little turned on? — is watching from the doorway … —Kristal Hawkins
Phil Griffin would like to know if you are going
to San Francisco. Photo Illustration: Courtesy of MSNBC; Getty Images
Kory Apton and Phil Griffin, then her boyfriend, walked into Joe's Fish Shack on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, for a plate of seafood. But as soon as they arrived, a Caribbean band started playing ''Here Comes the Bride.'' To her shock, Ms. Apton, wearing a blue catsuit, was the bride. Mr. Griffin had planned a surprise wedding for her.
Actually, we later learn she was wearing a blue velvet catsuit and a gold lamé jacket. Also, that every Mother's Day Griffin gives his wife a bikini, "her favorite article of clothing," that they never celebrate their wedding anniversary "because that would be too unsurprising," and that Kory's test for whether or not a marriage is happy is this: ''At the end of the day, do you want to jump into that person's arms and make out?'' Okay. There's a fine line between good, earnest hippie and gross, exhibitionist hippie, and, um, we think this might have spilled over somewhat. But we still love you, Phil! Keep on truckin'.
MSNBC Serves Political News With a Side of Opinion [LAT]
Photo: Courtesy of Marc Jacobs
Bitch is the New Black [Jezebel]
Ashley Olsen: Full-time Rower.Photo: Getty Images
The Row's fall '08 collection includes 110 looks — an impressive boost from the spring '07 collection's 18 — including fur outerwear. The sisters collaborated on the designs, but Ashley works on the line full-time every day while Mary-Kate focuses on acting. "I don't want to expand too far too fast," Ashley told WWD of the Row. "I just take it one day at a time. There is endless opportunity, and I want to make the right choices. I don't see why it can't grow further and further." The Row's commercial director, Rae Miles, chimed in, "We really had a good time. Ashley was surprised. The women were really chic. A lot of them had such great style. And we didn't expect there to be so many women like that."
These women are Olsen's target customers, right? How flattering, then. And the door hit Miles and Ashley's asses on the way out.
Ashley Olsen Touts Virtues of The Row [WWD]
Anthony Ricco, who is defending Gescard Isnora,
one of the cops who allegedly killed Sean Bell.Photo: Newscom
Ricco is at heart a moralist, with strict old-world beliefs about the proper behavior of black folks. I wrote about Ricco in the aftermath of the tense, racially polarizing trial of the black man who killed white teacher Jonathan Levin; Ricco’s most agitated moment came not in repeating the arguments for his client, but when he spotted a black woman with dyed-blonde hair walking down the street. He believed the woman was foolishly betraying her proud racial history. So, yesterday, when Ricco described the strip joint where Bell held his bachelor party as a place “where women shake their booty and fulfill a sense of twisted sexual prowess,” and asked, “Who is attracted to such a place?,” he was making a useful argument on behalf of his cop client. But Anthony Ricco was also pressing a point about what he sees as right and wrong on a much larger scale. —Chris Smith
Tony Ricco Sleeps Very Well, Thank You [NYM]
Related: A Bad Night at Club Kalua
FINANCE
• Ah, so that's where all the G5s on the Teterborough tarmac were headed! The private-equity world descends upon Munich for the annual spectacularly named Super Return conference. [DealBook/NYT]
• Vagilante Scott Galloway and Harbinger Capital Partners raise their stake in the Times to just over 19 percent. [NYP]
• Hey, everyone! Hedge funds are a risk to the entire financial system! No duh. [Business Week]
MEDIA
• Manhattan is the "nation's capital of bedbug journalism." Also, this story is awesome. [WP]
• It's out with the old and in with the new over at Brant Publications. [WWD]
• Note to the interns: That grande sugar-free soy latte with extra foam is going to have to wait. Every Starbucks in the country will be closed for three hours today, beginning at 5:30 p.m. [CNN]
LEGAL
• Cha-ching! Money is what drives people to want to be lawyers. [WSJ]
• Except actually the money is not as good as it used to be. [Legal Blog Watch]
• Jury convicts four from General Re Corporation, a unit of billionaire Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway, Inc., and an employee from AIG, finding them guilty on sixteen counts, including conspiracy, securities fraud, mail fraud, and making false statements. [WSJ]
Obama defers to the orb of energy on his right.Photo Illustration: Everett Bogue; Photos: Getty Images
• Rich Lowry asserts that Obama is fearmongering on NAFTA, telling people what they want to hear. [National Review]
• Christopher Beam proposes a truce on NAFTA, since both Obama and Clinton are actually ambivalent on the issue. [Trailhead/Slate]
• Jonathan Martin finds it curious that Obama failed to mention Clinton when discussing NAFTA in a speech yesterday in Ohio. [Politico]
• Andrew Leonard concludes that Obama’s anti-NAFTA rhetoric shows him transitioning into politics as usual. [Salon]
• Aswini Anburajan and company report an ironic twist in the NAFTA tit for tat, as Ohio union representatives claim Clinton’s NAFTA mailer on Obama is dishonest. [First Read/MSNBC]
• Jonathan Cohn publishes a letter, signed by health-care experts, blasting Obama’s characterization of Clinton’s plan, and agrees that Obama’s critiques aren’t very accurate. [Plank/New Republic]
• Ezra Klein thinks Obama needs to “cut it out with these damn mailers,” which he calls reprehensible and misleading. [American Prospect]
• John Dickerson, in a piece on the tendency of politicians to take excessive umbrage this campaign season, said Clinton came off as a little too outraged over Obama’s mailers, though she may have had a legitimate gripe. [Slate]
• Jacob Hacker believes Clinton and Obama are fighting over technical differences on health care, but also finds Obama’s attacks disappointing. [LAT] —Dan Amira
For a complete guide to presidential candidates Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and John McCain — from First Love to Most Embarrassing Gaffe — read the 2008 Electopedia.
Julie Christie (left) and Paul Haggis believe in ribbons that match.Photo: Getty Images
"[Celebrities] get asked to do so many things for so many causes," she explained yesterday. The ACLU may have asked regular people "to wear T-shirts with the Close Guantanamo symbol." But ask Helen Mirren to wear a T-shirt? Horrors! No, the celebs must be handled as delicately as a Nothing Bundt Cake (also in the swag bag this year!). "I like to ask things that are simple and specific," says Walker. "The ribbon campaign is a very trusted sign in the artistic community."
Walker took out a full-page ad in Variety in January asking stars to wear the ribbon, which Christie's friend and ex-manager saw, and soon Christie was onboard — but the Oscar nominee had already settled on a red dress and the color coordination worked like stripes on a zebra. So what to do? At this point, we'd suggest the ACLU reconsider their color choice, but so. much. work. Next year, just go with a freaking black ribbon and keep it simple for everyone, m'kay?
Oscar Swag From the Do-Gooders: The Orange Ribbon [WP]
• Jack is now dating Top Chef contestant Dan Levitski, whom he met on MySpace.
• Sweet P, Kit, and Jillian had house parties in their room with — gasp! — beer and cigarettes.
• Christian and Kit built a "faux karaoke machine," and the hit song it faux-played was, we assume, "A Whole New World."
• When Victorya moved in with the party girls after her roommates got kicked off, she almost had a fight with Sweet P. Snap.
A signature Galliano fedoraPhoto: Getty Images
• "Never forget the woman," a line from a Dior press release in 1961, was included in the notes for John Galliano's show. Cathy Horyn writes the phrase "probably sounded creaky in 1961; today it invites a drag revue." And she gave it to him. [On the Runway/NYT]
• Hilary Alexander thought the models at Galliano's show looked like characters from Peter Sellers flick The Party. [Telegraph]
• The heavy eye makeup at Dior made the models look "glazed" like Stepford wives. [Times]
• Meanwhile, Yohji Yamamoto's collection would have gotten him booted off Project Runway, but his leather jackets were divine. [Heard on the Runway/WSJ]
• Juno screenwriter Diablo Cody refused to wear a $1 million pair of Stuart Weitzman stilettos when she found out she was being used for free publicity. She wore flats with her leopard Dior dress instead and posted a rant on her MySpace page. [NYP]
• Barack Obama was the inspiration for a photo spread in Paper magazine of young, hot black men in suits. Robin Givhan asks, "A politician has a 'look' worth celebrating? Has the Earth shifted on its axis? Or have the standards of cool sunk terribly low?" [WP]
• Knocked-off Oscar dresses are coming soon to a store near you, just in time for prom! [WWD]
• Karl Lagerfeld is having his muse Amanda Harlech research a book project for him. She says, "It's about a fictional character, born in 1919, who marries five times." [WWD]
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