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"We only had about $50,000 worth of final touches [to go], and the wife called me last week and said stop," said [the designer,] whose work has been featured in Vanity Fair and Elle Décor. "She said they're not poor, and are never going to be poor. But their capacity for discretionary income for things like window valances just went out the window."
But everyone knows that valances are a crucial part of a well-dressed home! What's other home accents will be foregone in these terrible times? Sconces? Bookends? Stenciling? Will everyone go back to being minimalist? This is much more serious than we thought. It really is the eighties all over again.
Execs Bear-ly Surviving [NYP]
STARTING TODAY
• Denim goes on sale today at the SOS Sample Sale with men’s and women’s apparel 40 to 90 percent off. Brands like Seven For All Mankind start at $70, while Joe’s Jeans start at $55. Through 4/2. 264 W. 40th St., nr. Seventh Ave. (978-602-5585); 11–8.
ENDING TODAY
• The Benefit counter at Bloomingdale’s hosts a Brow Bar Party. Stop by for a free brow consultation to tame the arch. Bloomingdale's, 1000 Third Ave., at 59th St. (212-705-2000); 10–8:30.
STARTING TOMORROW
• Built by Wendy is unloading past seasons’ collections of tent dresses, carpenter pants, and gauze tops for 75 percent off. Through 3/29. 46 N. 6th St., nr. Kent St., Williamsburg (718-384-2882); 3/28 and 3/29 (11–8).
• Ananas handbags and GirlCat are teaming up and taking up to 80 percent off reversible silk charmeuse cocktail dresses (now $164), leather shoulder bags (the Isabel is now $115), and Delman shoes (now $120). 167 Elizabeth St., nr. Spring St. (212-219-1647); 3/28 and 3/29 (10–8).
ONGOING
• Saks offers “free money”: When you shop online and buy $400 worth of shoes at Saks, you’ll get a free $150 gift card with purchase. Just make sure you type in SHOES at checkout. Just in time for those perfect spring wedges. Through 3/30, online exclusive.
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Casting Bush's 'Rents: James Cromwell and Ellen Burstyn are set to play George Herbert Walker Bush and Barbara Bush in Oliver Stone's W, joining Elizabeth Banks and Josh Brolin. It's not that Cromwell will make a bad George H.W. Bush, we just desperately wanted the part to be a comeback vehicle for Dana Carvey. [Variety]
More Souls Entering Hell: Jessica Lucas, Lorna Raver, and David Paymer have joined the cast of Sam Raimi's Drag Me to Hell. Paymer's a bank manager, Lucas is Alison Lohman's skeptical roommate, and Raver is expertly cast as a creepy old lady. You might remember Lucas from a little movie called Cloverfield, unless you were too busy throwing up from motion sickness in the bathroom like we were. [HR]
Anderson Drinks His Milk: Tony nominee Kevin Anderson has joined Oscar-winner Olympia Dukakis in the cast of Tennessee Williams's The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore. Play is part of the Hartford Theater's Williams marathon, but since we know you're not driving to Connecticut anytime soon, you might as well watch Danny Devito's film version, Throw Momma from the Milk Train. [Playbill]
Stuart Bleeds History: Jeb Stuart, writer of Die Hard and The Fugitive, will direct Timothy Tyson's autobiographical Blood Done Sign My Name, the true story of "a black Vietnam veteran allegedly murdered by a white businessman," and the North Carolina riots that followed. Nate Parker (The Great Debaters) will star as a teacher who became a leader during the aftermath. It's a tough business, Jeb, but your fans demand you slip in a nice "Yippee ki-yay, motherfucker" for old time's sake. [HR]
Frankly, we're a little exhausted. Do we really need to know every last sordid detail of our politicians' sex lives (not to mention their drug histories)? Ever since the Clinton impeachment, it's not enough simply to catch them in the act — now the act must be described in vivid detail, too. There's a point in every scandal when you suddenly just don't want to hear any more. And so we've created a TMI Index for Politicians to chart the moments when titillation turns to revulsion. Click, enlarge, shudder. And then try to forget. —Jessica Coen
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Bulik... defended the offer as it was presented in the magazine, noting that the designers had written that a doctor had also told them to get in shape. She said she was surprised by the controversy, given that Anna Wintour, in her editor’s letter, had challenged designers to use healthier looking models.
"I saw more of an emphasis on healthy eating and healthy fitness than an order, 'You’ve got to lose weight,'" Dr. Bulik said.
See? Big-hearted Anna Wintour really was just concerned. About healthy newstan... er, about health! Ya, that's it.
Times: A Bad Reaction to a Diet
Isa Chandra Moskowitz, a cookbook author, is among those who believe such images twist the vegan message. "As a feminist, I’m not keen on the idea of using women’s bodies to sell veganism, and I’m not into the idea of using veganism to sell women’s bodies," she said...
The issue of sexism in vegan circles is "extremely polarizing," said Bob Torres, an author of "Vegan Freak," a guide to living a vegan lifestyle, which generally means avoiding the use of animals for food, clothing or other purposes. Mr. Torres, like many vegans, disavows the “essential idea at the heart of some animal rights activism that any means justifies the ends," he said.
Not all feminists return the vegans' love in kind. Women's rights hero Susan B. Anthony, for example, loved a good porterhouse steak, which somehow seems very appropriate.
Below, a song by the Vegan Vixens, which sounds like it will advance the pro-animal cause about as much as the failed strip club:
åTimes: The Carrot Some Vegans Deplore
The other characters on the show, chronicling a summer in the life of New York professionals sharing a weekend place on Fire Island, include a delicate-looking handbag designer named Mary, who instantly develops a crush on K. J., who owns two health clubs. Alas, K. J. likes “ethnic” looks, as he tells the group; Mary is fair and blond.
According to FireIsland.com, Rambin looked like her "heat [was] crushed" by KJ's statement, but still put some moves on him in the second (and, uh, final) episode:
KJ, mister smooth, wheeled in some massive cooking apparatus to “cook Mexican” and was greeted with a kiss on the cheek from Mary. She is all over KJ, for sure, but he’s keeping his distance – either he has no interest whatsoever, or he’s working a Player’s opening gambit of seduction. Most likely the former, because Mary seems so smitten with KJ that no seduction strategy would be necessary.
First up Miki tells us about Mary, who designs handbags. Miki thinks she's a "Cool chick, but she's had her heart broken recently..."
You know, I know Usman is supposed to be the "shallow pretty boy" character we're supposed to love to hate on this show, but he's so over the top with this stuff it just makes me look at him with more of a bemused detachment than anything else. Mary however is having the opposite reaction. She can't stand him and is bitching to the other girls she can't take much more of him. So much so that we almost get our first fight of the show. Unfortunately it just creates a slightly tense exchange of words, instead of a big fight...
Mary looks on lovingly as when she sees KJ being nice to the 2 year old she realizes that this means he "likes kids..."
When Usman then asks Mary what her romantic plans are for the summer, she says she is "open to anything and everything that comes my way..."
Mary tells Miki that the guys she is attracted to are blonde and short. "So you're attracted to KJ?" she says. Well, yes technically physically he is her type and so on and so forth. God I love it when drunk people try to talk about romance and relationships...
KJ and Mary, you see, slept together last night. But not the kind of sleeping together where certain things were inserted into other things. It was more of the cuddling all night kind of sleeping together. At least as far as ABC has led us to believe.
The show opens with our voiceover narrator. But this week instead of the painfully stilted Miki, we hear from Mary, the blonde girl with a thing for KJ. And she is equally awkward at voiceovers. James Earl Jones she ain't. She gives us a little recap of the first episode which is basically Zack and Lauren fighting, Usman looking for some play, and Mary? "I'm here looking to find love" she says. "I kinda liked KJ at first, and then Lauren moved in"...
A new houseguest is coming to town! ...After a brief shot of Mary, the small chested blonde, giving her a dirty look she tells everyone she is from Pennsylvania...
The US anthropologist, Dr Glenn Shepard, who met the film team on location, said he urged them not to make the "risky and distant" trip to the Cumerjali settlements, where isolated people were vulnerable to western illnesses.
In a written statement he said the film-makers complained that reality TV demanded that the groups filmed were not westernised. "Reality TV has caused production companies and TV channels to seek ever more dangerous, remote, extreme and exotic locales and communities."
In other words, the industrialized world has become so thoroughly saturated with reality television than no one has a sufficiently "real," original personality anymore. Reality television is becoming a big meta clusterfuck.
That actually would make for a wicked reality television show. Hopefully they got everything on tape!
Guardian: British reality TV crew accused as flu kills four in isolated Peruvian tribe
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It would be one thing if the N'Sync member Chace was palling around with was Lance Bass, who came out via People and a book named Out of Sync, and if it were a member of the Backstreet Boys, we might suggest he wants it that way. But it's not. It's JC Chasez, with whom Chace shares a manager. And! "For the record, we’re both straight,” Chasez declared to KISS-FM today. "We're not dating. The only time people usually see us together is in some type of photograph, so they just assume that it’s like that." Fine, but we think he's missing an important point. What this rumor is really about is not Nate's confusion about his sexuality, it is about America's confusion over members of N'Sync. We know it's been a long time since we've thought about N'Sync, so to refresh your memories, we have provided the below photos.
From left, Lance Bass: GAY; JC Chasez: NOT GAY. Photo: Getty Images
JC Chasez Is Not Dating Chace Crawford [Us]
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I'd put on her high heels and totter around the bedroom, catching glimpses of myself in the mirror. I particularly enjoyed the miniskirts. This gave me quite a sexual thrill … Then I graduated to her underwear. I loved squeezing into her knickers, especially the thongs. Also I would put on her bras; black was best. Sometimes I'd strut around the bedroom in bra, thong and high heels. I was always terrified that she would come in, but this added to the excitement.
Now 23, he's acquired his own stash of women's "gear," which will be difficult to hide in his new living situation. He's straight as an arrow and would like to come clean to his girlfriend but worries, naturally, she won't be so cool with it. He adds:
I don't want to change because I get so much pleasure out of cross-dressing. It complements the sex I have with Samantha, which I don't want to give up either. But nor do I want to keep a secret from the person I love. I'd hate to think that she had secrets from me.…I'm also now feeling the urge to “dress up” away from home. I'd love to go out in women's clothes and I'm frightened that one day I'll give in to this desire.
Even in these open-minded times, a man in a woman's clothes brings out the judgment monster in a lot of people, especially in a girl who's unknowingly dating one. This will not go well.
Family secrets: I want to wear my girlfriend's clothes [Times UK]
Apparently the Los Angeles Times should have Combed a little deeper before it reported on evidence contained in a batch of newly discovered FBI files that connected Sean "Diddy" Combs to a 1994...
Hugh Jackman is going Nowhere fast.
The X-Men star is looking to keep the fanboys happy by joining forces with Virgin Comics to carve out a new comic-book series called Nowhere Man.
Jackman—currently...A post went up this morning on Ain’t It Cool News purporting to pass on word from a South Park staffer who calls tonight’s new episode, “Major Boobage,” “one of the greatest things [he’s] ever seen.” South Park being one of the only shows that we actually wish we watched more often (as opposed to “I should watch more documentaries about the migrant-worker experience”), we’re intrigued.
Apparently the episode is an homage to 1981 cult-classic feature-length cartoon Heavy Metal — a series of sci-fi vignettes whose soundtrack features songs by Sammy Hagar, Blue Oyster Cult, Black Sabbath, Journey, and many more beloved/ironically beloved rockers. (It’s also voiced by a crew that includes John Candy, Harold Ramis, and Eugene Levy; the film’s Wikipedia page explains the project’s Canadian origins and also notes its “unusual amount of bloody violence, nudity and sexuality” vis-à-vis other cartoons.) Completely suckered by what may or may not be a clever marketing ploy, we YouTubed Heavy Metal so as to chuckle more knowledgeably tonight. The first five minutes are above.
Tonight, a shadow shall fall over the universe. Evil will grow in its path. And death will come from the skies … to Comedy Central at 10 p.m. —Ben Mathis-Lilley
Tonight!! Major Boobage!! [Ain't It Cool]
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2. Laura Gibson, "All the Pretty Horses"
Gibson (currently on tour with the Decemberists' Colin Meloy) turns in a lovely version of this old lullaby. But before you rip it to your baby's iPod, keep in mind that this is the sort of lullaby that Cormac McCarthy would name a novel after. [Oregon Live]
3. Estelle feat. Kanye West, "American Boy (Danger Remix)"
French producer Danger makes a really great remix, but just not for this song. [Gee Wizz]
4. Panda Bear, "Comfy in Nautica (XXXChange Remix)"
Noah Lennox becomes more of a dancing bear with this radical remix of his stuttering hymn from Person Pitch. [FiftyOne:FiftyOne]
5. The Last Rapes of Mr. Teach, "Help Me"
To stand out from all the other French bands playing Appalachian country rock, they gave themselves a name that makes Fuck Buttons seem respectable. [Walrus]
—Ehren Gresehover
Meta!Photo courtesy of Meghan O'Rourke's Facebook page
Steve-O's legal issues have been put on hold while the Jackass star continues to work on cleaning up his act.
The 33-year-old stunt purveyor, whose real name is Stephen Glover, was absent...
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Is it because McKellen spent a lifetime as a venerated stage actor before breaking through to Hollywood? Is it because he elevates everything he does, from the cartoonish X-Men series to the pretty terrible Bryan Singer misstep Apt Pupil? Is it because he seems to be having such a damned good time as an unlikely, late-life movie star, whether it’s hosting SNL, showing up at the Oscars with his studly young boyfriend, or generally being totally, loudly, proudly gay in a town of fake hair and real-life beards?
We’re so generally in awe of Sir Ian that we propose a new verb: to McKellen.
McKellen (v) (m
k k
l´ ln´´)
Definition: When a distinguished actor sells out late in his/her career in a way that feels earned and great and non-reprehensible because he/she is awesome and totally deserves it.
Usage: Let’s say Dame Judi Dench accepted the role of Hippolyte, Wonder Woman’s mother in a Wonder Woman film. (Don’t get excited, fanboys, we’re just blue-skying here, though we now expect to see this rumor on Ain’t It Cool by Friday.) You can say, “Yes, I heard she’s McKellening the role.” Or, “She’s reportedly McKellening it over.” As for Sir Ian, we’re ecstatic to hear that he’ll once again be McKellening the white-bearded wizard. —Adam Sternbergh
Hard Hobbit to break: McKellen set for return as Gandalf [Guardian]
"The Body" is now The Face (of Revlon)Photo: WireImage
HAIR
• Just because a hair-color product calls itself organic doesn't mean it is. Technically none of them are organic — berries from the forest or sunflower petals alone won't perma-color your strands without some chemical help. [Beauty Brains]
• Alterna makes hair-care products with things like caviar, Champagne, and white-truffle oils. Now that ought to bring out some luscious (or delicious) locks. [Daily Obsession]
• Whitney Port attended The Hills premiere with a voluminous Farrah Fawcett–esque do. [BellaSugar]
NAILS
• Chanel's galloping away from the satin craze. Its latest limited-edition nail lacquer, Antelope, is a pearly beige and costs $19. [Blogdorf Goodman]
FRAGRANCE
• If Sarah Jessica Parker fragrance and lotion isn't impressive enough for Mom this year, the actress' Mother's Day gift set also comes with a pair of tickets to Sex and the City: The Movie and a chance to win two tickets to the film's red-carpet premiere. [Shake Your Beauty]
Photo illustration: Hulton Archive/Getty Images;
Courtesy of New York State
Councilman Goes to Bat For 'Gotham City' [Runnin' Scared / VV]
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The con man is rap fan James Sabatino, who TSG describes as an "accomplished document forger" — yeah, that sounds about right, considering he forged the FBI documents on which poor Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter Chuck Phillips based his story. Sabatino's a real gem, of course:
[He] created a fantasy world in which he managed hip-hop luminaries, conducted business with Combs, Shakur, Busta Rhymes, and The Notorious B.I.G., and even served as Combs's trusted emissary to Death Row Records boss Marion "Suge" Knight during the outset of hostilities in the bloody East Coast-West Coast rap feud. [He] has long sought to insinuate himself, after the fact, in a series of important hip-hop events, from Shakur's shooting to the murder of The Notorious B.I.G.. In fact, however, Sabatino was little more than a rap devotee, a wildly impulsive, overweight white kid from Florida whose own father once described him in a letter to a federal judge as "a disturbed young man who needed attention like a drug."
The lengthy explanation of how Sabatino actually created the false FBI documents and then got them into the hands of the Times such that the whole thing was believable is pretty complicated, enough so to make our heads spin. But that's nothing compared to how lightheaded Phillips is probably feeling right now. —Jessica Coen
Big Phat Liar [Smoking Gun]
The Hills is hotter than a hot curling iron.
Monday's return of the reality-esque soap opera, featuring international drama from the fashionable climes of Paris, Beverly Hills and Colorado,...The Counting Crows’ first studio album in six years not only splits itself between driving rock and softer balladry, but also between the slightly smug self-confidence and overweening insecurity Adam Duritz gives off these days in interviews. In a sense, the band is more comfortable in their itchy skin than ever — and certainly not rehashing “Mr. Jones.” We love the quieter second half for capturing Duritz’s sweetly escapist view of New York.
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Frankly, this threatening-Chinese theme worries us. Not for political reasons; neither book is said to be jingoistic. Rather, it’s because we’re concerned that “the coming war against the Chinese” is going to replace “the coming war against the machines” as our leading fictional-future-war trope.
The inevitable apocalyptic battle against machines has long been a fruitful topic in books (Philip K. Dick, Isaac Asimov), film (The Terminator, The Matrix), and shit-shooting bar discussions. (We personally believe that simple machines pose an underrated threat; how are we going to lift and move heavy objects when the automaton rocket-blasting helicopters, appealing to intra-machine solidarity, convince levers and pulleys to turn against us?) And this business with the Chinese is a dangerous distraction — a second front, if you will, in a time when America doesn’t have the resources to fight two imaginary future wars at once. In fact, we suspect “Alex Berenson” and “Colin Harrison” are actually Undercover Models AB-246 and CH-391, robotic novelist-simulating fifth-columnists.
In summary, the Times book section is actively working toward a future in which humans are kept alive only so robots can imprison them in cages and harvest their fingernails, which they use to make decorative chess pieces. Need more proof? The Times has resolutely refused to review How to Build a Robot Army, by Daniel Wilson, Ph.D., which — if not solving the problem of an eventual robot uprising — does at least offer humans guidance in co-opting the violent tendencies of robots for our own purposes. Review this worthy book, New York Times, and then we can talk about "balanced coverage" and "not letting our robot masters drive the agenda."
Please share this information with everyone you know. —Ben Mathis-Lilley
The China Card [NYTBR]
Review of The Finder [NYT]
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Bay Ridge: Newsday may be reporting that stained-glass windows at the Fourth Avenue Presbyterian Church, blown out by a tornado last year, are all patched up, but people who walk by every day say, um, not so much. [Bay Ridge Blog]
Bedford-Stuyvesant: Sales volumes here as well as in East New York, Brownsville, and Ocean Hill are in the toilet, falling by more than 64 percent. Realtors are blaming the dive on the high concentration of subprime mortgages in the area. [Crain's NY]
Soho: Reality interpreter James Frey is extending the roots he's already got down here, plunking down $985K for the condo next door to his current address at 505 Greenwich Street address. Now's probably a good time to lock up your tales of addiction and novocaine-less dentistry. [NYO]
Katharine McPhee's recent glow may not be entirely due to her newlywed bliss.
E! News has learned the erstwhile American Idol also-ran has signed a two-year endorsement deal with Neutrogena...
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Battlestar Galactica Propaganda Posters [ThinkGeek]
Marc and Austin at a good momentPhoto: Michael Wright/WENN
We live in New York, so we understand finding nice, normal guys to date is about as rare as Hillary Clinton wearing Heatherette. But "Page Six" has an item today about your shenanigans with your new "friend" Austin A, and we're a little concerned. It's not because you kissed him and another guy who looked "just like" your ex, Jason Preston, at the same time. If threesomes float your and Austin's boat, that's totally cool by us. May you have them safely to your heart's content. And if you acted a little crazy while you're at it, like they're saying you were, more power to you: Who doesn't party in the singles arena after a long-term relationship? We want to see you celebrating your freedom and having that weight off your nicely toned shoulders.
What's worrying us, however, is that you and Austin are already having screaming matches (at the Beverly Wilshire? So embarrassing). Isn't that why you stuffed your ex onto a separate jet when your Turks and Caicos vacation came to a brutal halt? Are you really interested in another bottomless on-again-off-again sundae sprinkled with ugly fights? No cherry on top is going to sweeten that unappetizing deal, and you know it.
Anyway, we love you. Enjoy singlehood. You look fabulous. Ciao!
XOXO,
The Cut
One Guy's Just Not Enough [NYP]
Photo: Elena Olivo/Courtesy of NYU Center for Publishing
Perhaps it was because Weisberg’s The Bush Tragedy just hit the Times best-seller list this week, or maybe it was an homage to Simon & Schuster’s David Rosenthal’s presence on the panel, but much of the discussion focused not on the campaign but on the candidate's literary careers. Rosenthal noted that Obama, McCain, and Clinton’s books all charted while poor Edwards wasn't a best-seller: "You all know where he is now, trading bad one-liners with Leno.” Leno? Harsh. The panel unanimously agreed that Obama was the most prolific writer; Alter went so far as to suggest that, should he win the presidency, Obama would be on writerly par with Lincoln. Again with the Obama-Lincoln comparisons…
At the close, panelists were dutifully called upon to make their various election predictions, and Weisberg jumped in: “Hillary is walking dead. It’s Barack-McCain,” he declared, before calling Barack the take-it-all winner. To which the other panelists heartily agreed and Rosenthal called out, “It’s over.” See? The media isn't biased toward Obama; they just love him. —Lauren Salazar
Brandon Nastanski’s Cabin of Curiosity (2007)Courtesy of the artist
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*Just an HBO contract and an "i" away from being Charlotte York!
Photo: Michelle Heimerman
What inspired this book? Are you a secret comic-book obsessive?
[Laughs.] Comics are not among my obsessions. I’m not telling you what the real ones are. I’ve always been interested in this stuff, but it wasn’t until I got deep into the work on my second book that I started to realize the deep significance of early comics and the drama of what happened in the forties and fifties. This was largely a fight not over the content of comics, but over the very idea that kids are entitled to have their own taste and their own opinions and points of view. It was a fear on the part of the prevailing Establishment and the parents who embodied that Establishment. I think there’s still a very deep-rooted fear that our kids are going to turn against us like Dobermans.
There was a great scene you wrote about in which a group of boys participate in a comic-book burning but hide a bunch of particularly juicy ones from the flames…
The Jungle Girl comics! The Jungle Girl comics were historically about shapely white blonde women in leopard-skin bikinis who protected the African population from pirates. So this guy and his friends set aside their Jungle Girl comics and snuck them home instead of submitting them to the fires. And he was going to hide them, but when he lifted up the couch cushions in the living room, he found his father’s cache of detective comics there. Back then, everyone was reading comics.
The book-burning scenes were really alarming.
I interviewed quite a few of the kids who were involved in those ritual burnings. It’s really unnerving to think of these events taking place just a few years after the book burnings in Nazi Germany. The kids were building bonfires of comic books and marching around them and reciting incantations. One of the pictures in the book came from a high-school yearbook — the school was so proud of having done this that they devoted a full page to it and they ran this lovely atmospheric description of the event. Meanwhile in the picture you can see the fear in the eyes of some of these kids.
Speaking of pictures, our only beef with the book is that there are only four pages of them! Why so few?
That was my decision. My editor wanted more. To me, I didn’t want people to pick up the book and mistake it for a coffee-table-ish thing about fun comics of the fifties. I wanted the seriousness of the issues involved to come across. I wanted the book to look kind of text-y and grayish; for a long time I also wanted a somber black-and-white photograph on the cover. That one I lost! And I’m really glad I lost it because the Charles Burns cover is great.
It seems like it would make for a great movie. Have you been approached?
I think it would make a great movie — as long as I don’t have to be involved. Hollywood scares me more than book burnings.
[Anti-comics crusader] Fredric Wertham was particularly memorable. Who would play him?
It would have to be someone who could convey multiple dimensions. An earnest and well-meaning person who was working on fallacious assumptions and ended up doing terrible harm. Someone imperious and chilly. Sting!
—Sara Cardace
Good help may be hard to find—good spouses are apparently even harder.
Robin Williams' wife of nearly 19 years, and the former nanny of his kids with wife No. 1, has filed for divorce,...
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But Ripsters being hipsters, they have to talk to someone about their feelings, and so today, some of them let it all out to the Observer about how hard it is to be buff and a nerd. Anonymously, of course.
You don’t want to be the guy in the gym with the 200-pound bench-press guy. Not just because those guys are generally assholes, but doing that kind of workout is going to make you look like one of those assholes. It’s maybe embarrassing to admit that degree of self-consciousness about it, but even in college I tailored my workouts to look like the guy who looks fit but doesn’t spend too much time in the gym.We'd say that local gyms should capitalize on the Ripster trend and offer something along the lines of “Shoegazer Spin Classes." Except no one could ever be seen at one of them. And you know, once the Observer gets ahold of something, it's totally over anyway.
Nerds Of Steel [NYO]
Sobriety can't seem to strike a chord with Richie Sambora.
The Bon Jovi guitarist was busted for driving under the influence in Laguna Beach late Tuesday, just nine months after checking into...
Banks: Sayonara models! Hello pols.Photo: Getty Images
“She’s really throwing all her weight behind her talk show,” according to a source familiar with “The Tyra Banks Show.” “She’s putting lots of pressure on her staff to keep her show on the map. She had Barack Obama on, she had Hilary Clinton on — she got a taste of playing with the big boys and now ‘Top Model’ seems to detract from her big plans.”
We wonder if her big talk-show plans will include having the cast of the Bad Girls Club back on the show, or perhaps Naomi Campbell for a second go? You know, the "filler" between the political stuff.
Banks is supposedly looking for a supermodel to replace her on ANTM. After the jump, we've compiled a list of models we'd like to see in that center seat on the judges' panel.
1. Gisele: She might be a bit too classy for the CW, but she's always pleasant and smiley. We can't see her acting as mushy or nasty as Tyra does, but we can certainly see all the girls vying to be her BFF. Also, she can talk Tom Brady into a cameo.
2. May Andersen: We've no doubt May would enhance the drama factor. We picture her taking the girls to dinner where they all get tipsy and dance on tables. Considering her assault-charge ridden past, things could get pretty interesting if anyone acts out of line.
3. Agyness Deyn: Who doesn't love Agyness Deyn? She can teach the girls and the world how to put together outfits with wild abandon and still look fabulous. And maybe she could give the show a little edge.
4. Kate Moss: She'd be way too cool to party with the contestants, but the episode about "how to bounce back from a scandal" would be epic. Also, she'd upstage Twiggy, who was never as interesting as we'd hoped.
5. Naomi Campbell: Aside from the fact that we know she's capable of quick changes like Banks, wouldn't it be brilliant if Banks's arch-nemesis came on and ratings spiked? Then she could go back on Tyra's talk show and they could tackle a whole new batch of Banks's hard feelings.
6. Tyson Beckford: He's going to be out of a job when Make Me a Supermodel ends. Plus, all the contestants would fall all over themselves in his smokin' hot presence. Or he could host some sort of America's Next Top Male Model spinoff, the idea of which makes our heads dizzy with delight.
7. Karlie Kloss: We'll do anything to see this girl teach someone the runway walk Banks so rudely mocked.
No more ‘Top Model’ for Tyra Banks? [MSNBC]
Chest hair concealed!
The clothes he designed at Gucci may have been fabulous, but working there? Not so much:
"…having to design 16 collections a year and make a lot of silly stuff I really didn't care about. Leaving Gucci taught me a lot about who is a real friend and who is a friend for business. The Gucci experience was horrible. I was burnt out from working too hard and I was exhausted from the experience and a certain disillusionment and an inability to see my future."
Ford will have a kid in 2008 with his partner, Vogue Hommes International editor Richard Buckley:
"Richard knows I've wanted this for a long time. He's just resisted it. He would be a spectacular father. It's going to give his life new meaning … It will be biologically mine. I mean, I'm a lot younger. If things follow their natural order he'll [Richard] probably leave the planet ahead of me and I can't not have had something I've wanted forever. I've always wanted kids. I don't want to get to 75 years old and just have made a lot of dresses, done some houses."
He thinks penises and vajayjays are "beautiful":
"I don't find the human body offensive. I don't find a guy's **** or a woman's vagina offensive; in fact, I find them beautiful. I would put them on an ad with a perfume bottle if I could get away with it."
He doesn't really give a damn about Paris when it comes to retail expansion:
"[We'll have] about 50 stores in the next two years. Except Paris. Paris is not a priority. Our stuff is not aimed at tourists coming in and taking a lot home — and Parisian men don't know how to dress!"
He was really ridiculously good-looking as a pubescent teen:
"I didn't play American football [when I was 12], so I wasn't so popular. At fourteen or fifteen all of a sudden I became very popular because — and I'm not saying this in an egotistical way — I became good looking. I wasn't even aware of it but other people were all of a sudden aware that I was handsome. I was having sex with girls when I was 14, and that was because they were pouncing on me. I wasn't even aware that I preferred men."
He's not going anywhere anytime soon:
"I will not retire until I literally drop dead."
Fantastic Man Spring/Summer 2008 : Tom Ford by Jeff Burton [Fashion Spot]
Last night at Heatherette’s launch party for their new M.A.C cosmetics line, Jada Yuan and our cameras captured all the pink, bubblegum action. Learn about the proper use of ironic glitter; why unicorns are Heatherette’s favorite mythical beast (“everybody’s horny, right?”); and who considers Richie Rich and Traver Rains to be her “second moms.” If you’ve needed a Heatherette fix since they skipped last Fashion Week, watch the video. Then snort some glitter!
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“The pair were in a bar looking very loved-up. Kate was so excited it looked like she had just accepted his proposal there and then. She was very happy.“She came out giggling and seemed a little bit tipsy. Lots of fans were taking her picture on their mobile phones. She told them, ‘I’m getting married.’ One girl asked her when, and she said, ‘Soon’.”
She supposedly also told a fashion journalist in Amsterdam's Cafe Tabac the same thing, so unless Kate just has an affinity for getting tipsy (or, you know, whatever one does in Amsterdam) and waxing about marriage, this might not be utter blather. We're keeping our fingers crossed it's true because, well, remember what she wore to her birthday party? We could totally go for a marriage-themed sequel to that outfit.
Kate Moss: I'm getting married [Sun]
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