Siegner, who is naturally slim, is halfway through his experiment, hasn't gained any weight and says his cholesterol, triglycerides and other such things are all still good.
Why's he doing this?
"We decided to take on a serious research topic, obesity, but we wanted to package it in an interesting way. Research doesn't have to read like a 10K," Siegner said.
[Post]
Oh, yeah. But Americans have an exaggerated sense of danger about New York City.
I'm also not a good person to ask, because my sense of what's dangerous is completely warped. People have stopped asking me for advice, because I encourage people to go anywhere. It really pissed me off, two summers ago, during the war against Hezbollah in Lebanon, when Depeche Mode canceled their concert in Tel Aviv. For security reasons!
I don't understand why more artists don't go and entertain the troops. I mean, hasn't Jessica Simpson been over there? I saw this documentary on Marlene Dietrich, and during World War II she was going out, right to the front lines. I think she was having sex with a lot of the troops, too. I'm not saying artists should do that. But she took supporting the troops to a level that few have since.
Mr. Khan continued to follow their careers in the pages of Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar, and his reading selections — along with the awareness of his formerly pampered lifestyle — made him a target of other prisoners and also guards.
“I was given the worst things to do, like scrubbing the toilets,” he said, “even though I was capable of helping G.E.D. students.”
Khan was deported to Trinidad at the end of his stint, with $10 to his name. An old friend eventually ran into him and ended up giving him $20,000 to get to Dubai. Now he "has been accepted into the society of wealthy expatriates and Saudi royalty" and is even designing his own jewelry line.
[Times]
[Photoshop Disasters, Go Fug Yourself, Stylefrizz]
There's no question that, in her heyday, Brigitte Bardot was a great beauty. These days, however, she seems to tempt nothing but trouble.
French prosecutors have charged the 73-year-old...
Britney Spears has apparently decided her body wasn't the only thing in need of a little fine-tuning.
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• Start off with a martini — with extra bitters. Drink every time someone says “Bittergate.”
• Swirl your Pinot Noir, smell its bouquet, sip, gargle, and say, "Hmm … it’s passable, but not great" every time a candidate says the word “elite.”
• Throw back a shot of cheap whiskey and chase with a full beer if a candidate tries to explain his or her humble roots.
• Gulp your significant other's drink whenever Hillary cites the successes of Bill Clinton's presidency.
• Chug your beer for every second a candidate continues talking past the moderator’s helpless, pathetic attempts to move on. (Chug slowly.)
• Finish your can and crush it on your forehead if Clinton comes up with another canned zinger like “change you can Xerox.”
• Shotgun your beer if either candidate panders to the pro-gun crowd.
• Drink a half-empty glass of beer if a candidate claims the economy will continue to go downhill.
• Sip some Manischewitz at every mention of Reverend Wright.
• Do a comedic spit-take if somebody makes an Obama-Osama slip-up. —Dan Amira
Does the opinion of Heidi Montag mean nothing to Bruce Springsteen?
In an open letter to "friends and fans," the rock legend said Wednesday he was backing Sen. Barack Obama for president.
"Like...
Sam Lutfi is further out of the picture than ever before.
Opting to not rock the boat, Britney Spears' erstwhile manager skipped a Wednesday court hearing pertaining to the temporary...
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Haven't you always wanted a fence around your calves?
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Pirate jokes never seem to go out of style, so we suppose these shorts are timeless.
—Kendall Herbst
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New York: Hi. I'm Tim from New York magazine.
Tom Wolfe: Hello, Tim. You don't do podcasts, do you?
[Brief pause for understandable disorientation.]
New York: No, but I do video stories. Why do you ask?
Tom Wolfe: Because I still don't know what they are. And I've never known anyone that ever watched one.
New York: You don't know what podcasts are?
Tom Wolfe: I have a vague idea. As far as I can tell, nobody ever watches them.
New York: They're just audio though.
Tom Wolfe: They check out, but they don't check in.
New York: [Mental double take.] Are you pulling my leg? You really don't know what a podcast is?
Tom Wolfe: To be honest, I don't know what it is. I know that you sit in front of a microphone and have a conversation, and some way or another, it comes out on a screen or…
[Pause for a brief explanation of the nature of podcasts and how, for example, one could download an interview with him and listen to it on an iPod or in while driving.]
Tom Wolfe: Oh, see, that part I didn't know.
New York: Do you think now that you know you'll try it out?
Tom Wolfe: No. I never wear earphones in the car.
Now that conversation should be in Lapham's Quarterly. —Tim Murphy
So very wrong.Photo: BigTentBooks.com
• The L.A. salon Boom Boom Beauty Bar officially opens its New York branch next week but just couldn't resist flinging its doors open for Spa Week, going on now through April 20. The salon's clever menu includes a variety of waxes, including the "back, crack, and sack" for men. Yes, sack. [Gotta Spa]
• The new "technologies" unveiled at a personal-care-products conference in Amsterdam include Permethol, an ingredient that promises to slim tired, flabby legs and treat rosacea. Sounds doubtful. [Cosmetics & Toilettries]
FRAGRANCE
• This year is the first in which consumers can vote for their favorite fragrances to determine the winners of the FiFi Awards (the Oscars for fragrances). Since — let's be honest — it's unlikely people will visit the FiFi site to vote, they've set up voting stations on MySpace, Facebook, and other social-networking sites. [Lipstick Powder ‘N Paint]
• Vera Wang’s new Bouquet bridal fragrance falls into that category of perfumes that all smell the same. Oh, Vera, just because it's bridal doesn't mean it can't stand out! [Now Smell This]
The best way to reach a resolution in the case of the unauthorized Harry Potter guide? Make it disappear.
So says a Manhattan federal judge who is urging author J.K. Rowling and an American...
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Riedel's got a new target. Just as he did a few years ago when he decided that Bernadette Peters was miscast as Mama Rose in the most recent Gypsy revival — and hammered her over and over and over in print until the show was widely viewed as a failure despite its other acclaim — so has Riedel seemingly declared war on the upcoming revival of The Country Girl.
Last week Riedel reported that a six-page scene had been cut from Clifford Odets's original script by director Mike Nichols and adapter Jon Robin Baitz. Riedel also claimed that star Morgan Freeman couldn't learn his lines, and that Nichols spent most of his time telling showbiz anecdotes while his show fell down around him.
This week Riedel's back on the warpath, modestly pointing out that the producers, "stung, no doubt, by The Post's startling report," were reinstating the scene. But have no fear, Riedel's still all over The Country Girl: Freeman still can't learn his lines, producer Bill Haber is overspending, the box office is bad, and Nichols is yukking it up with Matthew Broderick at Bar Centrale and giving his underrehearsed cast days off. Reportedly!
And this is what's so great about Riedel: He's totally willing to roll up his sleeves and dive headfirst into a story. There will be more columns about The Country Girl's problems, fed by more and better leaks from inside the production. In the end, Riedel is totally covered. Either the show is a hit — because Michael Riedel saved it. Or the show is a flop — just as Michael Riedel predicted. The man's a genius.
The Play's Not the Thing [NYP]
'Country' Restoration [NYP]
Photo: Marty Davis - more available here.
"Not to be confused with that other annual "Red Dress" fundraiser, this is the "Red Dress Party," a mondo-alcohol-fueled dance party where nearly 2,000 gay men in various states of red dress undress (and several nearly naked straight men as well as one very colorfully decorated naked woman) invade a warehouse in Northeast Portland and dance their collective asses off to pounding disco music and the incredible Storm Large and her Balls (they were beyond fabulous)."
Um, Chelsea Clinton was in a room with "Storm Large and her Balls"? That may actually be the definition of the term "hot tranny mess."
Red Dress Party Photo Gallery [JustOut via Towleroad]
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STEP 7: ORIGINATE NEVER IMITATE [i-D]
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2. Kelis, "Milkshake (Choreo Re-metal)"
On German D.J. Choreo's remix, Kelis's milkshake is still bringing all the boys to the yard, but now they've all got hipster haircuts and skinny jeans. [Tuftsmania Shlog]
3. Bombadil, "Rosetta Stone"
Like the Lord of the Rings character from which they stole their name, Bombadil are exuberant and entertaining, but probably a bit too nerdy to star in a movie. [This Morning I Am Born Again]
4. Moron Says What, "Wikipedia"
Another in the rising tide of hipster kid bands, these guys are better than most, but we'd still recommend fact-checking anything they sing about. [Have Fun Club]
5. Busy P feat. Murs, "To Protect and to Entertain"
Busy P travels all the way from France to L.A. ("the land of scenesters, hipsters, sneakers and blogs") just to find a rave so he can make out with "a chick that his girlfriend hates." [DJ's Delight]
—Ehren Gresehover
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We watched the entire tape, only to hear Welch refer to his successor as getting his ass kicked for missing GE’s earnings expectations last week. "He apologized, he did get his ass kicked, and he'll never do it again," he said. Sigh. Dude needs to take few lessons from Jane Fonda.
Straight From the Gut [CNBC]
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Bikini Pants [Style Talk]
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Films LTD
Despite its many problems — the story, the actors, the dialogue, the special effects, the overall tone, etc. — Star Wars: Episode I will forever be remembered as a movie ruined completely by Jar Jar Binks, the computer-generated Gungan who generous critics found merely annoying and less-generous ones likened to a modern-day blackface minstrel. If Indiana Jones 4 does, in fact, turn out crappy, it's pretty obvious who'll bear the blame. And, hey, as we said, we like Shia LaBeouf; while some have expressed disbelief at his continued ability to be cast in tons of movies despite a deadly lack of charisma, we thought he was utterly believable in his Transformers role as a guy running from Transformers.
Still, if Crystal Skull stinks for any reason — because Lucas passed on Frank Darabont's screenplay, because it's 140 minutes long, or because Harrison Ford is unable to convincingly portray an archaeologist who can still walk without electric-scooter assistance — it's LaBeouf who'll be the easy scapegoat. And unlike Jar Jar who was a fictional character rendered in CGI (much like Hayden Christensen) and didn't have to worry about sustaining a career, Shia will have only his role in his other billion-dollar action-movie franchise to fall back on.
140 Minutes Plus [Hollywood Elsewhere]
Indiana Jones and the Two Hour and Twenty-Something Minute Sequel [/Film]
INDIANA JONES AND THE NUMB BUTT CHEEKS [Cinematic Happenings Under Development]
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Vander Ark burst into tears when asked about his relationship with the Harry Potter online fan community, which has mostly shunned him since Rowling filed a lawsuit against his publisher last fall. And that's not the worst — the worst was having his haircut made fun of in the New York Times. Which New York paper was the meanest to Steven Vander Ark?
Like a true fan, Mr. Vander Ark treated even Ms. Rowling’s assertions that he had made mistakes as wonderful revelations rather than embarrassments.When Mr. Hammer told him that Ms. Rowling had testified on Monday about the etymology of “Alohomora,” an unlocking spell, Mr. Vander Ark — who had been sequestered during her testimony — blurted, “Oh, really?”
In her testimony, Ms. Rowling said Mr. Vander Ark’s link between the spell and the Hawaiian “aloha” was “errant nonsense,” explaining that it actually had come from West African dialect.
“That’s exciting stuff for someone like me,” Mr. Vander Ark said from the witness stand. “Did she happen to mention which dialect?”
SOB STORY: 'JUST SHARING' POTTER MAGIC [NYP]
Harry Potter 'Lexicon' writer cries as he tells of flak over J.K. Rowling war [NYDN]
Sued by Harry Potter’s Creator, Lexicographer Breaks Down on the Stand [NYT]
Bay Ridge: Bean Post Pub–goers here are proud that one of their own, Billy DiCristina, was the one who slurringly called every number at the Post he could find when he heard the rumor about the buried Red Sox shirt. He'll never pay to drink here again! [NYP via Bay Ridge Blog]
East Village: It appears that a tsunami of protest (including from NYU students!) may keep NYU from closing the Met Foods that it owns on Second Avenue. [Jeremiah's Vanishing NY]
Gowanus: The city has picked a developer to build an ambitious mixed-income residential-retail project alongside the smelly canal. Can you imagine that life here will ever look this verdant and nontoxic? [Curbed]
Greenwich Village: In what may be a coup for preservationist protesters, city landmarks honchos told St. Vincent's that they may have to tweak their plan for a massive towering new hospital and nearby condos. Perhaps something lower but taking up more ground space? [NYS]
Harlem: The city's controversial plans to rezone 125th Street now reflect a compromise, involving lower buildings and half of new housing set aside as affordable, before the package goes before the City Council. [NYT]
Park Slope: The guy who owns the Ricky's costume stores is selling his redone brownstone here for $3 mil, less than a year after buying it for $1.3 mil and putting in toilets so fancy we didn't know they were toilets. [Gothamist via NYO]
Soho: So now there is an ad parodying the ad American Apparel did parodying Woody Allen, the one the director is suing the company for. This is now so meta our head hurts. [Copyranter]
Vogue is so cruel.Photo: Getty
Juno bulldozed its way to a Best Original Screenplay Oscar, but in any other year, the honor may have well gone to nominee Nancy Oliver for this tender, subtle story about a lonely young man (a masterfully restrained Ryan Gosling) and his romantic relationship with a sex doll. David Edelstein couldn’t get past the basic premise, but called it “howlingly funny.” We bought it hook, line, and sinker — and were fascinated to learn about the couple’s real-life love.
Susan Homer’s Ginger Cookies and Bird (2008)Courtesy Metaphor Contemporary Art
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Bill Clinton: Older voters too savvy to fall for Obama [Boston Globe]
Clinton Backer Says of McCain: 'It's No Old Man's Job' [NYS]
Cameron Diaz is in mourning.
Production has halted on her current film, My Sister's Keeper, as the actress has cleared her schedule to regroup with her family following the loss of her father.
Emilio...
The title is out there.
Sci-fi mastermind Chris Carter has revealed that his franchise's much-anticipated big-screen sequel has been dubbed The X-Files: I Want to Believe.
"It's...
"But you're not supposed to drive without a valid driver's license!"Photo: Courtesy of FX
Edenfalls Cost of Living Index: Li’l Buddies Edition
With brother-buddy Cael on the run, DiDi is bored. For kicks, she convinces a smitten security guard to break into other Edenfalls homes and snoop around. Someone’s dog poops. And so we too became bored.
Cael is on the road again, hustling Color of Money–style at a pool hall. He’s rescued from a nasty fight by fellow Travelers in a Winnebago: an older couple and their widowed, Gretchen Mol–look-alike daughter-in-law. Turns out these folks were tipped off to Cael running away by Dale and deliver him right back to the base camp from which the Malloys escaped before their suburban-sham adventure began. Scary ex-con Eamon Quinn, in cahoots with Dale, eyes Cael menacingly.
That $150 million, secretly reprehensible Bayou Hills development can't get built without a special zoning variance from the mayor. So Wayne's lovably sleazy boss, Hugh, decides to run for mayor with Wayne as his “Turd Blossom,” or Karl Rove. It was only a matter of time before a show about con artists involved politicians.
To appease her new parole officer, Dahlia is working at a greasy spoon and sleeping in a flophouse. (She keeps this secret from Wayne and family, claiming she's out late “triple-bagging” AA meetings.) The bad news: She's carjacked and nearly jumped by thugs. The good news: She manipulates her P.O., who has a crush on her, and escapes punishment for driving without a license.
Adorable, cross-dressing pre-tween Sam half-wittingly helps Dad and cousin Dale cover up the murder by stealing a bloody towel from a private investigator's hotel room. But he's protecting the family and still has Dad's unconditional love! “I will never abandon you, ever,” Wayne tells him. “I know, Dad, I trust you,” Sammy replies. There’s his first mistake. —Justin Ravitz
No, this is not a bordello.Photo: The Fug Girls
From left, a $37 "dress," a pink tank for $27, and a zebra monstrosity that would get you blacklisted at S Bar.Photo: The Fug Girls
This does not count as an inseam, people!Photo: The Fug Girls
There's a reason, by the way, that we only photographed Montag's designs looking unattractive on the hanger and not on ourselves: No self-respecting grown woman should allow herself to be seen in these garments. Only two of the twelve items have sleeves, and just one — a pair of jeans — extends past mid-thigh. In fact, only one other thing extends past the upper thigh: a dress that would have been mildly acceptable had it not been made from the kind of cotton you usually only see on Target’s discount panties. At one point, we faced each other: One of us wore black short-shorts with a one-inch inseam (half a thumb, for real) and a zebra-striped tank with a faux-chiffon back bow; the other, a white-denim, butt-cleavage-baring skirt with a backless teal top that's baggy in the bust and tight at the gut — perfect if you haven't eaten pasta in ten years and have ginormous implants (sound familiar?). The stuff was the complete opposite of flattering. We looked like rejects from Rock of Love II with Bret Michaels; stick us on the hood of a car and Whitesnake would've appeared, guitars in hand.
Clearly, Heidi's already grasping at post-Hills career straws, but unfortunately she's stirring the wrong drink with them. We look to her for gossip and drama, not style. Instead of playing in L.C.'s sandbox, she should write a juicy tell-all or how-to — say, 50 Ways to Leave Your Spencer, or Scalpel of Regret: Surgery Ruined My Face. After all, when you can hoodwink the Times into calling you a feminist hero, surely you can find something better to do than hawking overpriced, crappy hot pants. —The Fug Girls
Related: Spencer and Heidi Scream All Over 'The Hills'
For more of the Fugs, check out their complete archive.
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Inside the strange mind and brilliant rhymes of the most exciting
rapper of his generation Lil Wayne has two primary passions: making music and smoking weed. Tonight, those have come into conflict. Wayne is sitting on his tour bus in New Orleans, having come back to his hometown for two concerts. He'd like to head into a studio to do some mixing for Tha Carter III, 2008's most anticipated rap album. But there's a problem. Wayne isn't allowed to smoke in the studio. So he stays on the bus, lighting blunt after blunt and watching Animal Planet on the TV. He'll sleep there tonight... |
Photo illustration: Everett Bogue; Photos: Getty Images
At about 11pm I was walking with some friends on 6th street. When we got to 6th and 6th Avenue we ran into a group of about 10 kids ranging in age from 14 to 18 years old. They told us to give them money and when I refused one of them pushed me over a fence into someone’s flowerbed. The owner of the house came out and started screaming at me (?!) for destroying her flowers. The kids all thought it was a big joke and just egged her on. Luckily, we saw a cab and jumped into it but not before one of the kids took a swing at me and punched me in the face. If that lady hadn’t come out to yell at me or if we hadn’t been able to grab that cab I don’t know what would have happened.
Well, at least he can thank his lucky stars that the burg's most notorious gang didn't show up, the Hip Mommies. Then he might have been smugged to death!
Attacked on 6th Street [Brooklynian via Gowanus Lounge]
OK, so maybe Simon Cowell does know what he's talking about, after all.
The Cowell-sanctioned Leona Lewis just rewrote chart history as her debut album, Spirit, opened at No. 1, making her...
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An hour before Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood take the stage at Madison Square Garden in February, Mike Barnard (not his real name) is examining the security guards outside the arena. Many look carefully inside people's bags and pat the fans down, but an older female guard seems distracted. Engaged in a conversation with a co-worker, she's hardly looking at the throngs pouring past her. Barnard quickly makes his move. She barely glances inside his book bag as he calmly passes through the ... |
Tautou: not pregnant.Photo: WireImage
Do you ever wish you had a son to pass on your wisdom to, to continue the Chanel heritage? That's the last thing I want. I hate all children. For other people, it's fine, but not for me. I was born not to be a family person.
And then it hit us: Nicole Kidman is highly pregnant right now and will soon be bringing a loathsome child into this world! So, yeah, maybe the Chanel folks are casting Tautou because she's starring in the upcoming Coco Chanel biopic, or maybe Lagerfeld is repelled by Kidman's life choices. Yes, he says it's "fine" for other people, but can you imagine the Kaiser mingling with (a) a pregnant woman or (b) a baby? Oil and water, friends.
Fashion Scoops: A New Number [WWD]
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"When a woman does nudity in a movie, men immediately switch into a sexual mode. For women, from what I understand, it's not like that. They see a naked, out-of-shape man crying and it's funny — something weird, disturbing and disgusting we can all laugh at." —Jason Segel on the power of his wang to amuse and disturb [LAT]
"They all look and smell and — I imagine some of you will find out — taste like rock stars." — Motley Crue's Nikki Sixx, discussing the lineup for Crue Fest and totally grossing us out [Reuters via Yahoo]
"I'm not done with reality TV, but what I'm trying to do now is get to the movie screen. The sitcom stuff is a good way to get you there, because people see you reading lines, remembering lines and acting. Right now, I have a feeling your boy Flavor Flav is doing one hell of a job." —Renaissance man Flavor Flav on his new MyNetworkTV show, Under One Roof [NYDN]
"We don't need Sean. I'm old enough to play my own father. I would have loved to have had Sean back. But I think he prefers golf to acting nowadays and probably makes more [money]." —Harrison Ford on Sean Connery's absence from Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. [WENN via Entertainmentwise]
Earlier: The CMT Awards: Where Snoop Dogg's Fancy Turns to Thoughts of Love
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How Gnarls Barkley's maestro discovered the soundtrack for a new
America Brian Burton didn't get much sleep last night, and it's all Beck's fault. On a Wednesday morning in early March, Burton is trudging toward a Starbucks near his Los Angeles recording studio, where he wrapped up a session for the next Beck album just a few hours earlier. "Some of it was fun, some of it wasn't," is all he will say about the evening's work. Inside the coffeehouse, Burton — who is better known as the virtuosic, boundary-breaking producer Danger Mouse — orders a... |
Photo: Patrick McMullan
Call Him Goldfinger [NYO]
Here's one happily ending Sex and the City sequel.
Cynthia Nixon has revealed she was diagnosed with breast cancer a year and a half ago but opted not to announce her diagnosis before...
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As Eric, the unhinged copy-shop manager, Segel was psychopathic, preposterous, and perfect. He was technically a secondary character, but his primary subplot — a running feud with main character Steven, who was desperately in love with Eric's girlfriend, Lizzie — was responsible for many of Undeclared's finest moments. Apatow & Co. recognized Segel's virtuoso talent as well, turning the show's final episode over to Eric's point of view. So, on the eve of Segel's potential star-making moment, we present this YouTube tribute to his greatest role to date. —Amos Barshad
1. Eric's Idea
2. Danger
3. "How Was Sexual Intercourse With My Girlfriend, Steven?"
4. The Fight
5. The Evite
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The best live band in rock played its greatest concert ever on June 17th, 2006, at the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival. "The performances are brilliant," says Radiohead bassist Colin Greenwood, "because they are so relaxed." At Bonnaroo, Greenwood, singer Thom Yorke, drummer Phil Selway, and guitarists Ed O'Brien and Colin's brother Jonny covered every extreme in their studio catalog, from the violent double-guitar clang of 1995's The Bends to the haunted electronics of 2000's Kid... |
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On their audacious new album, Evil Urges, My Morning Jacket veer between funk-metal grooves, Nashville crooning, classic-rock guitar heroics and more — sometimes all in the same song. The album, out June 10th, is the latest evidence that MMJ are aiming higher than almost any other band of their generation. And if their music is increasingly hard to categorize, that's the point, according to frontman Jim James. "People looked at Radiohead when they started, and were like, 'Oh,... |
Um, could you cause any more drama, Joe?Photo: Getty Images
1. They cast contestants by plucking the cutest people they could find from the streets and from retail jobs around the city. Clearly, actual experience in the fashion or publishing industry doesn't matter, if you have good skin and admit to behaving shamelessly when drunk, like any good reality contestant should.
2. Tyra Banks is producing it, which means whoever wins is not going to be the next top anything.
But what's bad for Elle could be television gold. So while we really do feel for the talented, industry-driven souls at the mag who have to put up with this crap at the expense of the fashion we all love, our crude, television-loving id suspects the show will be awesome. Forgive us, fashion gods. But we're already drawing up Tyra Mail–themed invitations and stocking up on granola bars for the premiere party at our apartment.
Doing a job on Elle [NYDN]
MEDIA
• As we bid adieu to the Real Housewives of New York, we luckily have something to look forward to: the Real Housewives of New Jersey! [NYO]
• Not enough staffers at the New York Times have taken buyout deals so the broadsheet is probably going to have to resort to layoffs. [Radar, NYT]
• Traditionally for a story to be considered breaking news, the story had to actually, well, break news with something fresh and new on the record. But is that notion changing as more articles are driven by speculation and gossip floating around the rumor mill? [NYO]
FINANCE
• Wall Street's crisis hops the pond: London's stock market is bracing itself for 40,000 sackings. Meanwhile, the Swiss-based UBS is expected to cut paychecks by 10 percent. [NYP]
• Have you noticed an influx of foreigners pulling out plastic around the city? You aren't imaging it. Foreigners are keeping New York's economy afloat. [NYT]
• JPMorgan Chase's topped earnings forecasts as the bank raked in $2.4 billion in the first quarter. [CNN]
LAW
• A New York law firm calls for a BlackBerry-free zone. [WSJ]
• Skadden partner Joe Flom says that calling people back in under an hour is one secret to success. If things were that easy, everyone who is unemployed and actually has the time to call people back would have a job. [WSJ]
• A lawyer gearing up for the trial of a mental patient that hacked a Manhattan psychotherapist to death with a meat cleaver says his client is going to plead insanity. [NYT]
REAL ESTATE
• The meatpacking district isn't just a nighttime playground anymore. New corporate tenants move into the hood. [NYT]
• A 15 Central Park West condo was purchased for $13.8 million — twice as much as the seller paid for the apartment. [Real Deal]
• The Red Hook Ikea is opening June 18, earlier than many expected! Ektorp! [Racked]
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So, how to make the bull rage once more? "CAA Agent" suggested that De Niro's fatal error was in forsaking "the Nicholson route — very selective, very particular, protect the brand." But if De Niro were the kind of guy who'd choose to act in only six movies over ten years, he never would have co-starred in Godsend. Let's face it: The man likes to work. So the issue becomes, how can he work smarter?
Step 1. Work With the Greats. Scurrilous Internet rumor has it you turned down the Martin Sheen role in The Departed. Bobby, bubbeleh: Take the next role Martin Scorsese offers you, even if it involves wrangling Keith Richard's giant scarf. Reuniting with Heat director Michael Mann in the upcoming Frankie Machine is a good first step. Now let's see what the Coens, or Spielberg, or a reteaming with Alfonso Cuarón would do for you.
Step 2. Work With the Young. Analyze This and Meet the Parents got the box office, but De Niro's most adept comic role was actually as the terminally slow-witted Louis in Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown. There is a generation of directors like Tarantino who grew up worshiping you. Find the most promising ones — the millennial Michael Ciminos — and take what they're selling. It would be a different movie, granted, but if you had starred in Tom McCarthy's The Visitor instead of Richard Jenkins, you'd be a lock for an Oscar nomination — and the movie would have opened in more than four theaters.
Step 3. If All Else Fails, Make a Sequel to Midnight Run. We've said it before, we'll say it again: Grodin's due for a comeback.
Good luck in the movie business, pal.
Santo sees concrete in his future.Photo: Getty Images
[Berlusconi] has promised four of his 12 ministers will be women and a likely candidate is the blonde, slim Sicilian Stefania Prestigiacomo. Her appointment no doubt would give the Italian press plenty of fodder given Berlusconi’s renowned eye for the opposite sex.
So the Italian government has a Donatella look-alike, the French government has a supermodel First Lady, and we've got HRC, who's afraid to look too "alluring" in Vogue. God bless America, or whatever.
Fashion Scoops: Vote for Versace [WWD]
William and Stephen in 1998, around the time when
Stephen was playing "McGayver Smoker" in Half
Baked.Photo: WireImage
I asked him, "Do you think a gay couple should be married? And if not, do you think they deserve access to the same rights on a federal level and state level that you do? And if you don't — are they some lesser form? Why don't they deserve the same rights and privileges that you do?" [And he responds,] "Because God said and the Bible says that marriage is an institution that exists solely between a man and a woman blah blah blah," and he falls behind that crap.
And I said, "Well if you had a choice — if you and your wife were to die and your kids were still young and you had a choice between your children being in foster care and potentially being physically and emotionally and sexually abused as opposed to being adopted by a loving, healthy, caring lesbian or gay couple, what would you rather have?" He couldn't really answer, and I said, "Thank God Dad isn't here on this earth right now, because he would be so devastated and so horrified."
If you've ever imagined, as we're sure you have at one point or another, what the Baldwin-family dinner table is like, this is probably a little preview. Kind of less annoying than you thought, huh?
Not His Brother's Keeper [Out]
This is what mulling looks like.Photo: Getty Images
• LVMH announced a 12 percent increase in first-quarter sales, reminding us that while Ann Taylors are empty, Louis Vuittons are booming. [British Vogue]
• Jenna Bush's bridal party will wear dresses designed by Lela Rose in the colors of Texas wildflowers. Her maid of honor, Barbara Bush, will wear a dress dyed blue to match her eyes with — get this — an antique silver belt. And the bridal-gown suspense continues. [WWD]
• Victory! Gucci won a lawsuit against a Chinese shoemaker who copied its interlocking "G" logo. [Guardian]
• Miucca Prada will bring Tilda Swinton as her guest to the Met's Costume Institute gala. Maybe she'll dress her in something everybody won't hate to death. [WWD]
• Diane Von Furstenberg: “It would be pretty depressing to dress only rich people, because they don’t always look so good.” Awomen. [WWD]
• What does Madonna eat for lunch? A single boiled egg. So, that's how she does it. [British Vogue]
• The Sartorialist decided to make over a poorly dressed fan of his. Then a bunch of his readers got upset so now he has to defend himself and actually write stuff. Man, the guy's just trying to spice it up a little, people! [Sartorialist]
• Chace Crawford wore a "happenin'" hoodie when he was shopping in Chelsea with Rihanna yesterday. [NYDN]
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