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"Comfortable" isn't our favorite track on the recently leaked Carter III (so far that honor belongs to either "Dr. Carter" or "La La"), but on an album half-packed with obvious, hit-ready singles, this Kanye-produced response to Beyoncé's "Irreplaceable" (which melodically declares that she, too, can be deposed) has the best shot at "Umbrella"-level ubiquity. In fact, we can't really foresee any future reality in which this won't get played on the radio; Wayne's short, curse-free (!) verses tone down the cleverness and roll back the misogyny, placing the focus squarely on the hook (easily the hippest thing Kenneth "Babyface" Edmunds has been responsible for in a decade and a half). It's got a hummable chorus, a theme everyone can relate to (being sick of Beyoncé), and the advantage of inclusion on what promises to be 2008's most-obsessed-over hip-hop album. Surely this will be at least a little inescapable, right?
Ford, Costa, and Burch.Photo: Getty Images
The award for menswear went to Tom Ford, chest hair restrained behind a fine, fully buttoned tuxedo. It's his first win in the category, though he's previously won for womenswear and accessories for his work at Yves Saint Laurent. So now he really has no reason to go back to the ladies (sniff). Kate and Laura Mulleavy, however, have every reason to stick to lady clothes: The much-lauded Rodarte design duo won the Swarovski award for emerging talent in womenswear.
In the wake of Yves Saint Laurent's passing, last night's attendees paid homage to the legendary couturier. Naomi Campbell wore a YSL sequined pantsuit from the fall '08 collection while CFDA president Diane Von Furstenberg looked smashing in a vintage black YSL jacket. She told WWD she made a last-minute wardrobe change after she had all her Yves Saint Laurent sent in from her country home. Oh, the life.
Find a full list of this year's winners and honorees after the jump.
Womenswear Designer of the Year
• Francisco Costa for Calvin Klein
Menswear Designer of the Year
• Tom Ford
Accessory Designer of the Year
• Tory Burch
Swarovski Award for Womenswear
• Kate and Laura Mulleavy of Rodarte
Swarovski Award for Menswear
• Scott Sternberg of Band of Outsiders
Swarovski Award for Accessory Design
• Philip Crangi
International Award
• Dries Van Noten
Geoffrey Beene Lifetime Achievement Award
• Carolina Herrera
Board of Director's Special Tribute
• Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg
Eugenia Sheppard Award
• Candy Pratts Price of Style.com
Some Enchanted Evening [WWD]
Related: A Closer Look at This Year's CFDA Award Nominees
Breaking: Yves Saint Laurent Dead at 71
Angie hearts Gossip Girl. Photo: Getty Images
Banking heir Matthew Mellon traded his fiancée and business partner, Noelle Reno, for designer Nicole Hanley. Cynthia Rowley was shot at Strand bookstore for one of the "Just Ask the Locals" ads, though the finished ad inexplicably hypes midtown's Kinokuniya Books instead. An extra ferry had to be brought in to bring some guests and horses to Governors Island for polo this weekend because a rain storm halted boat service. Mike Myers annoyed some of MTV's staff when hosting the Movie Awards because he's a "perfectionist" and thus "not easy to work with." The brother of Kazakhstan's president just bought a $20 million apartment at the Plaza Hotel. Selita Ebanks and Kanye West looked "cozy" at Tenjune and then left together. Ashlee Simpson is having a boy because she was spotted at a baby boutique in Vegas buying a onesie with the phrase "I'm just like my dad." New Jersey governor Jon Corzine had dinner at San Pietro with former U.S. Commerce secretary Bill Daley. (Wall Street deal-maker Joe Perella stopped by to say hello.) John Travolta sported a handlebar mustache while having brunch at the Brasserie, where he left a 30 percent tip. David Byrne thinks New York still has plenty of excitement, "if you look for it." Kelsey Grammer suffered a mild heart attack. Liz Smith blames Tatum O'Neal's drug arrest on her Oscar victory at the age of 10 and bad parenting.
O'Neal outside court yesterday.Photo: AP
TATUM TO COPS: THANKS! [NYP]
Earlier: Tatum O'Neal Busted Using Lamest Lines Ever
Photo: Getty Images
Howard Will Be Back: Bryce Dallas Howard is in negotiations to play Kate Conner in Terminator 4 opposite Christian Bale. She replaces Charlotte Gainsbourg, who had to bail owing to schedule conflicts. In response, Skynet has ordered that all T-800 model terminators be retrofitted with freckle detectors. [HR]
Molina Packs for Persia: Alfred Molina has joined Jake Gyllenhaal and Ben Kingsley in Disney's Prince of Persia. Molina will play Sheik Amar, friend and mentor to the prince. Get it together, Actual Middle Eastern Actors: You're zero for three with this cast! [Variety]
Helms Shovels it: Ed Helms is staging a box-office blitzkrieg. First up, he joins Mark and Michael Polish's indie comedy Manure alongside Billy Bob Thornton. He'll play a womanizing manure salesman in the sixties American heartland. Helms will also appear in Night at the Museum II, playing one of Ben Stiller's co-workers. And we're still taking bets he'll be starring in his own Office spinoff, but shhhhh — that's neither here nor there. [Variety]
Zide Wants Braaaaaaains: Warren Zide (American Pie) will produce The Harvard Zombie Massacre, a comedy from Dan Hernandez and Benji Samit, wherein "America's most brilliant minds fend off America's most brilliant zombies." It's just like Shawn of the Dead, except you'll be cheering for the zombies! [Variety]
Christopher Carter, the people's
hero.Photo:Nypost.com
STARTING TODAY
• Diane Von Furstenberg is marking up to 75 percent off apparel. Wrap dresses are $175, tees are $40, and oversize totes are $375. Through 6/7. 260 Fifth Ave., nr. 29th St.; Tues. (9–6); Wed. (10–8); Thurs. (10–7); Fri. (9–6); Sat. (10–3).
• The resort and spring 2008 collections from 3.1 phillip lim are up to 30 percent at his Soho store while supplies last. 115 Mercer St., nr. Spring St. (212-334-1160); Mon.–Sat. (11–7); Sun. (noon–6).
• Rebecca Taylor’s girlie frocks are reduced by up to 60 percent; beaded dresses were $380 but are now $150. Through 6/5. 145 W. 18th St., nr. Sixth Ave. (212-388-0339); Tues. (1–8); Wed. and Thurs. (10–8).
• Find 50 to 70 percent off the vintage-inspired feminine dresses and tops at the Secrets of Charm sample sale. A dress that was $350 is only $150. Through 6/5. 95 Horatio St., at Washington St., No. 706 (646-414-0052); Tues.–Thurs. (10–6).
• Also, for today only, Dunlin handbags are 40 to 65 percent off at the Secrets of Charm sale. Cash only. Through 6/3. 95 Horatio St., at Washington St., No. 706 (646-414-0052); 10–6.
• Overstock and one-of-a-kind men’s and women’s samples are up to 75 percent off at the Autumn Cashmere showroom; lightweight cashmere wraps are now $88. Through 6/6. 231 W. 39th St., nr. Seventh Ave., Ste. 924 (212-398-2244); Tues.–Fri. (9–7).
• The spring and resort collections at TSE are 40 to 60 percent off retail prices until stock runs out. 120 Wooster St., nr. Prince St. (212-925-2520); Mon—Sat (11–7); Sun. (noon–6).
• Luxury sleepwear and lingerie from Natori are on sale starting today. 102 Madison Ave., nr. 29th St., third Fl.; Mon.–Fri. (10–4).
STARTING TOMORROW
• Find 50 to 75 percent off three designers at this combined sample sale featuring jewelry from Page Sargisson, shoes from 80/20, and clothes from Body. Through 6/5. 315 W. 39th St., nr. Eighth Ave., Studio 1405 (212-629-7092); Wed.–Thurs. (11–7).
• Scoop up your favorite designers from 40 to 70 percent off at the Scoop sale starting this Wednesday. Check out all the city’s locations here.
• Handbags and clutches from Jennifer Alfano are up to 75 percent off. Snag some of her exotic leather collection at wholesale prices through Friday. Through 6/6. 257 W. 39th St., nr. Seventh Ave., tenth fl., Ste. 8 (212-730-4740); Wed. (9–7), Thurs.–Fri. (10–6).
• The maternity clothing from Cadeau Maternity is more than 50 percent off at this two-day sample sale. Through 6/5. 254 Elizabeth St., nr. Houston St. (212-994-1801); Wed.–Thurs. (10–7).
1) "Which movie mogul must rein in his overly flirtatious girlfriend, who's ticking off Hollywood wives? At a recent party in Cannes, the wife of a billionaire director/producer told the mogul, 'Get your girlfriend away from my husband'" [NYP]
2) "Which magazine editor evicted his hottie tenant from his downtown Manhattan pad because he suspected she was doing drugs and entertaining men for extra cash?" [NYP]
3) "Which up and coming actor, who is well known on the A-list party scene, has his Class A drug habit funded by his laidback dad? Father and son see no harm in doing a line or three together." [Mirror]
4) "A list film actor. Yes, A-list, no ifs ands or buts. Well, if he had stuck with what made him famous he probably wouldn't have made it to A-list but he adapted. Latest film. Not a great film. First day. Table reading. Our actor showed up for it and was so drunk he could barely stand. No one who was setting everything up would come near him because you could smell him a mile away. He kept stumbling and falling everywhere. Affectionate to everyone. Lots of hugs and kisses. Finally managed to get the actor in a seat. He then started mumbling incoherently and the crews were trying to figure out what he was saying. Then he takes a package out of his jacket pocket...it was a mushed up burrito. He held it up to one of the crew and said "look....what is this?" So she looks and tells him it's a burrito...with chicken...he couldn't comprehend this AT ALL. She went and got him a soda and a sandwich. She was trying to get him into some kind of shape for the reading. It wasn't looking good. Oh, did I mention that he rode his motorcycle to the place? Yeah...good...right? Well, everyone LOVED him...said it was one of his best readings ever...he was brilliant. On and on it went, even though no one had been able to understand one word that came out of his mouth." [CDaN]
But while they are not advertising as Ms. Austin has done, many legal owners are marketing nonetheless, with offers such as casino-style VIP programs that "comp" frequent customers and offer barbecues for truckers and other passersby. Explained Mr. Flint: "'Get your card punched, and the 10th visit is free.' Or free buffets, so you can come and have a nice roast beef dinner with the girls."Added Mr. Johnson: "We market Donna's as a home away from home for truckers. There's always free chili, ham and beans, and corn bread. And they respond to it. We'll hold a barbecue, and they're the ones who are flipping the burgers."
Mmmm, beans.
[Ad Age]
Uma Thurman's Stalker Gets Probation and Treatment People Magazine - After a post-trial diagnosis that found he has a psychotic disorder, Uma Thurman's convicted stalker has been sentenced to three years' probation and to undergo psychiatric treatment. Stalker's attorney: Uma was just acting scared Uma Thurman’s Stalker Sentenced to 3 Years’ Probation and Treatment |
 Entertainmentwise | Tatum O'Neal: Drug Bust 'Saved' Her Entertainment Weekly - (FROM THE NEW YORK POST) - Oscar-winning actress Tatum O'Neal told the New York Post that her arrest on Sunday for buying cocaine ''saved'' her from ruining her life. Tatum O'Neal is all laughs after night in tank on drug charges Tatum O'Neal Released, Future Looks Ominous |
 The Chronicle Journal | Yves Saint Laurent reinvented the clothing we live in Los Angeles Times - The designer and models after a show in February 1963. As one writer put it, Saint Laurent's fashion was “the antithesis of the haute couture school with its premise of buttressing and correcting the woman’s silhouette. Yves Saint Laurent remembered French fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent dies |
 LIVENEWS.com.au | Kelsey Grammer heart attack Boston Globe - The 'Frasier' actor had a mild heart attack on Saturday morning (31.05.08) and was rushed to hospital in Hawaii where he is now recovering. "Frasier" Star Kelsey Grammer Recovering Star of Frasier has heart attack |
 Daily Star - Lebanon | Godard Cancels Participation in Tel Aviv Film Fest eFluxMedia - By Jane Ivory French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard has canceled his participation in the Tel Aviv International Student Film Festival due to “circumstances beyond his control,” festival organizers said on Monday. Godard Cancels Visit to Film Festival in Israel Filmmaker Godard shuns Israel after boycott call |
 Canada.com | Bo Diddley, 79; rock legend's influence spanned generations Boston Globe - Bo Diddley, one of the founding fathers of rock 'n' roll, died of heart failure yesterday at his home in Archer, Fla., according to his publicist. Diddley 'changed face of music'  Comment by Dr. E. Michael Harrington, Professor of Music Music Management and Intellectual Property, WPUNJ |
AP - Tatum O'Neal has told a newspaper that she was distraught over the loss of her dog when she went looking to buy drugs from a Manhattan street dealer last weekend.
AP - Tatum O'Neal has told a newspaper that she was distraught over the loss of her dog when she went looking to buy drugs from a Manhattan street dealer last weekend.
AP - Francisco Costa, Tom Ford and Tory Burch were the big winners at Monday night's Council of Fashion Designer of America awards, the industry's top honor.
AP - Francisco Costa, Tom Ford and Tory Burch were the big winners at Monday night's Council of Fashion Designer of America awards, the industry's top honor.
AP - Prosecutors rested their case in R. Kelly's child pornography trial after a day of sensational testimony about alleged trysts, extortion plots and a duffel bag full of sex tapes.
AP - Prosecutors rested their case in R. Kelly's child pornography trial after a day of sensational testimony about alleged trysts, extortion plots and a duffel bag full of sex tapes.
AP - Prosecutors rested their case in R. Kelly's child pornography trial after a day of sensational testimony about alleged trysts, extortion plots and a duffel bag full of sex tapes.
Reuters - Yahoo Inc executives dismissed a
search-advertising deal with Google due to antitrust concerns,
one day before Microsoft Corp made its takeover offer earlier
The conspiracy goes like this: Entertainment Tonight ran its story past a personal assistant to Jolie and Pitt named Holly Goline, who used to work at CNN with one of its producers. The assistant "said she was there for the deliveries and everyone was doing well," according to AP, which reviewed the emails.
Jolie's attorneys said the emails came from a Goline imposter. But an anonymous Entertainment Tonight executive told the AP they had an email address for Goline dating back to Goline's time at CNN, where the executive worked with her.
If the emails are geniune, why would Jolie's people pretend they were fake? Said the AP:
Millions of dollars could be at stake. After Shiloh was born, Pitt and Jolie were at the forefront of a growing movement by celebrities to auction off exclusive rights to first public pictures of their babies (Pitt and Jolie donated the money to charity). Sometimes exclusive details on the birth come with these rights.
So the possibilities are:
Entertainment Tonight has pulled its story but refuses to issue a retraction. "We are waiting to see how this story plays out," the show's executive producer told AP.
It's good to see the American news media finally investing in some rigorous reporting and internecine fact-checking, and on a story so vital to the national interest.
[AP]
Yeah, time for a change and with Obama you get 57 states. foflmao!!
You see Ken you idiot As an American I am so fed up with people like yourself trying to push hussein obama on us.
Well, used to like Hillary...but what does God say—about murder??? Let's pray for her and this party. We still need a supernatural intervention to make us one in love and peace. Only Jesus is that power!
Ken, if you are so smart why are bloging? You are too dumb to be a brain surgeon or a rocket scientist. Guess you get your kicks putting other people down.
Here's my concern.... "I WILL STAND WITH THE MUSLIMS SHOULD THE POLITICAL WINDS SHIFT IN AN UGLY DIRECTION." Barack Obama Well I stand with the United States of America and I believe its high time those leaked to terrorist organizations are brought to justice. I don't care who they are or how many.
Ken,What was the purpose of your commentary?
WAS IT TO DEPRESS THE HELL OUT OF ME.
IT WORKED.
LOL
One would hope McClellan, given his former position, could make a more definitive statement about the administration's disclosure strategy, one way or the other. That he can't is one of many clues that the former flack is not the best person with whom to have a discussion of modern political ethics, as Stewart attempts to do in the following clip, by way of suggesting the administration may have committed war crimes.
After Friday's fairy-tale wedding, Charlie Sheen and Brooke Mueller soared down to Costa Rica Sunday morning on a private honeymoon jet. But instead of going someplace new, the newlyweds were...
For those who consider themselves more of a Charlotte than a Carrie, here's the line for you.
Joining Bitten designer Sarah Jessica Parker in the fashion biz, Kristin Davis has...
Here's a Hint: These bare feet belong to a star of a hit TV series about rich, spoiled kids in Manhattan. But at the Target & Converse after-party for the MTV Movie Awards, she proved she...
Who can resist the scent of Hollywood royalty?
Queen Latifah has signed up with Florida-based Parlux Fragrances to create her own signature scent, to be ready for spritzing and sniffing...
AP - Bo Diddley, a founding father of rock 'n' roll whose distinctive "shave and a haircut, two bits" rhythm and innovative guitar effects inspired legions of other musicians, died Monday after months of ill health. He was 79.
PURPLE HAZE: Cameron Diaz and Sean "Diddy" Combs, partying at Prince's L.A.-area home during a Grey Goose Citron-sponsored late-night bash for the Purple One's new 21 Nights...
While Gina Gershon lights up Broadway in the musical Boeing, Boeing, Gershon's rep is setting flame to Vanity Fair, accusing the magazine of "irresponsible journalism" in their article...
Hulk Hogan's son has had about enough of himself for now.
Nick Hogan, who after being sentenced to 8 months in jail has been cooling his heels in solitary confinement because...
Reuters - The Black Eyed Peas will
perform a private concert for about 700 people in Shanghai on
Tuesday to support Red Cross relief efforts for the victims of
the recent China earthquake, organizers said.
Joe Francis is looking to use Ashley Dupré's notorious profession to his advantage once again.
The Girls Gone Wild founder's legal camp has subpoenaed the aspiring singer...
Accidents do happen, some more destructive than others.
Los Angeles fire officials have determined that the blaze that tore through the Universal Studios backlot yesterday morning was...
Reuters - Tori Amos has ended her six-year
tenure with Epic Records, calling on her fellow artists to
"stop being dependent ... on any system that has become
undependable."
Reuters - Armed with a hot David Bowie sample
and a successful overseas track record, British R&B singer
Craig David is ready to re-invade America -- and says he's
willing to work to make the Yanks care about it.
AP - The Pinker Tones, "Wild Animals" (Nacional Records)
You've come a long way … or have you?Photo: Courtesy of Simon & Schuster , New Line Cinema
Sex Tips for Girls doesn’t seem like a book written 25 years ago, save Heimel’s references to Quaaludes and answering services. Much of the gospel about dating and sex is still achingly current, from the chapter titled “How to Be Good in Bed” (“Some girls spit sperm out, but this is not considered sporting.”) to her wry conclusions about the three-women-to-one-man point spread in Manhattan (“This makes every New York Man, even a pear-shaped, churlish bore, think he’s everybody.”)
So what did Heimel think of the latest paean to single life in Manhattan: Sex and the City, the movie? We asked her to see it, then report back. Her response:
“For God’s sake, how dare you make me watch that.”
“These were not the characters from the show,” she said, and this was not the New York she recognized. “I didn’t think it was even filmed in New York!”
“There was no grit,” she said. “Instead of celebrating the craziness, Miranda [looking for real estate in Chinatown] says, ‘Follow the white person!’ It betrayed everything that the TV show was about. It sold out single women.”
Heimel bemoaned the fact that there was very little sex or dating in the film. Even with two characters (um, spoiler alert) on the outs with their significant others for a good six months, nary a contender crosses the heroines’ paths, even as a lark (couldn’t Carrie have taken time out from bonding with J-Hud to go on one Match.com coffee date?). The girls instead bide their time modeling belted frocks, gobbling guacamole, and pining over soul mates lost to miscommunication.
“Sex had nothing to do with the movie,” says Heimel. “When Miranda is having sex with Steve and she says ‘Get it over with’? That’s not what the show was about.” It may, however, have been the thought on audience members’ minds, say, two hours and fifteen minutes into the film. “It went on forever! And it was cynical, this bloated movie where they all get married at the end.”
Most offensive of all to Heimel was Carrie’s reaction to her profile in Vogue. After she’s jilted at the altar, Carrie finds the issue with her photo inside and can’t even bear to read its humiliating caption aloud for all of Duane Reade to hear: Carrie Bradshaw is single and living in New York City.
Heimel was aghast. “As if that were the worst thing!” —Julie Klausner
Reuters - John Lennon's sons and widow, Yoko
Ono, on Monday lost a battle to block the use of the song
"Imagine" in the documentary "Expelled: No Intelligence
allowed."
Photo: Aharon Rothschild/Metro New York/Courtesy of Creative Time
In this week's issue, New York's classical music and architecture critic, Justin Davidson, reviews a work that's right in his wheelhouse(s): the Battery Maritime Building, where David Byrne has rigged up a building-size musical instrument for visitors to play. Architecture is classical music! Meanwhile, Jerry Saltz reviews David Altmejd's installation at Andrea Rosen Gallery, noting that the large sculptural figures have a lot going on — and when they fail, they fail spectacularly. John Leonard revisits the seventies in his review of CBS' Swingtown. And David Edelstein raves The Go-Getter and Operation Filmmaker.
Speaking of critics, Harvey Fierstein has a problem with them — he thinks they're ruining theater. Santogold's critics have mostly been nice to her, but she's got a problem with the press anyway: “I’ve been watching people clamber over themselves to try to place some sort of label on me.” Danny Elfman annotates his score to Twyla Tharp's new ballet Rabbit and Rogue, in which he creates the kinds of moments they never let you write in film scores. And Emma Rosenblum inexpertly (but hilariously) diagnoses the crazy ladies of reality TV, using DVR and the DSM-IV.
E! Online - Like the rest of us, Yoko Ono has to live in a world that's one with the fair-use doctrine.
Photo: Getty Images
McCain Almost Took "One-Term" Pledge [Atlantic]
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2. Metallica, "Master of Puppets (Autodidakt Remix)"
The winner of a Metallica remix contest reimagines their 1986 track as a song about an evil disco robot that wants the human race to dance itself to death. There are worse ways to go. [One More Disco]
3. Abe Vigoda, "Abe Vigoda's Dead"
Both their call to arms and a slantwise cover of Bauhaus' "Bela Lugosi's Dead," this song's shambling "blue-haired widows" are all out of luck, because Mr. Vigoda is still very much alive. [Einstein Music Journal]
4. Capcom, "A Prayer for Kevin Garnett (Willy Joy Safe Journeys Remix)"
A dedicated Timberwolves fan chops up Journey's "Separate Ways" to show that he doesn't hold any grudges against K.G. for taking the Celtics to the finals this week against the Lakers. Frankly, K.G. will need all the help he can get. [Cream Team]
5. Jimmie Reign, "Make You Wait"
Newcomer Jimmie Reign provides the perfect accompaniment to the SATC movie with this song about balancing lust with not wanting to settle. If people catch on, Reign could rule the radio this summer. [First Up]
AP - "The Fidelity Files" (St. Martin's, 422 pages, $13.95), by Jessica Brody: At first, this debut novel reads like a feel-good story for women who think men are scum.
Clockwise from left, silk haute couture evening dress, $8,665; silk jacket with organza fringe, $620; cashmere wool coat, $810; and pearl, crystal, and cabochon necklace, $1,125.Photo: Courtesy of YOOX.com
Clockwise from left, organza haute couture evening dress, $9,900; sunglasses with glazed resin frames, $135; dress with matching jacket, $1,210; and brooch with cabochon stones, $440.Photo: Courtesy of YOOX.com
The spirit of Sam Phillips’s sublimely resigned new album is summed up in the chorus to the first song: “No explanations / No more explanations.” Phillips here offers a glimpse of life on the wiser side of the romantic-
existentialist divide (this is her first album since her divorce from the producer T-Bone Burnett). While the latest songs are as raggedly tuneful as ever, there’s a new, rigorous economy to them that, considering their deeply confessional nature, is to be admired.
No more golf for Melvyn Weiss.Photo: AP
That place doesn't exist. No golf. No tennis. No lobster. No nice meals — unless you consider the bologna soup we had a couple of weeks ago a nice meal. I live in an open-air cinderblock building. Sleep in a triple-decker bunk bed. There are six toilets. Seven showers for 78 men.
Weiss will be 73 when he begins his sentence, by the way. Let's hope he gets the bottom bunk.
Trader, Father, Veteran, Convict [Fortune]
Plaintiffs' Attorney Melvyn Weiss Is Sentenced to 30 Months in Prison
Tagline: "Report back to me when … I dunno … when it makes sense."
Translation: Finally, a Big Lebowski sequel!
The Verdict: And in 1996 the Coens made Fargo, and lo, it was good. And Fargo begat The Big Lebowski, viewed by many as a shallow, goofy disappointment after the dark majesty of the Oscar-winning Fargo, but actually a sneaky cult favorite superior to its predecessor. And so, ten years later, the Oscar-winning No Country for Old Men begets shallow, goofy comedy Burn After Reading. And it shall be good. The Burn After Reading trailer confirms what we thought reading the script last summer: This ersatz spy movie is actually another in the Coens' oeuvre of moron epics, complete with big Brad Pitt hair, a slow-talking Frances McDormand, a bearded George Clooney, and — best of all — J.K. Simmons out-Coening everyone else with his deadpan performance as an aggravated CIA chief. We're pretty sure we're gonna love this.
Earlier: So How's the Script for the Coen Brothers' ‘Burn After Reading,’ Starring Pitt and Clooney?
Photo: WireImage
• Tory Burch is also working on a fragrance. She likes Vetiver by Guerlain, but no word on what top notes her signature scent will feature or when it will hit counters. Oh, how will we sleep at night? [LAT via BellaSugar]
• The makeup brand Benefit will release B Spot in mid-July, with top notes of freesia, mango, black currant, and tangerine to keep it citrusy for summer. Beats rubbing yourself with orange peel, but the name sounds just as sexual. [Kiss and Makeup]
HAIR
• Angelina Jolie poses with a totally unnecessary green wig in the July issue of Vanity Fair. Apparently this styling was her idea. Sigh. [Jolie Nadine]
• In Britain, a new technique called “follicular cell implantation” uses cell therapy to clone hair and regrow it for prematurely balding men and women. Only 100 hairs are needed to produce thousands more. [Times UK]
SKIN
• Neutrogena’s ads for their new Wave (an electronic device that scrubs skin) are upsetting people with “strict morals.” See, the copy says “turn me on” and the ad features Vanessa Hudgens of Disney-cum-naked-Internet-picture-scandal fame. We'd think people would have better things to worry about. [A Girl’s Gotta Spa]
AP - Yoko Ono lost her legal bid Monday to stop the playing of a 15-second excerpt of John Lennon's song "Imagine" in a film challenging the theory of evolution.
Photo: Getty Images, WireImage
LEROY HOAXERS IN FALLING-OUT [NYP]
Related: Who is the Real JT LeRoy? [NYM]
The designer in his store.Photo: Courtesy of Steven Alan
Related: Breaking: Steven Alan Brooklyn-Bound [Racked]
Designer Steven Alan Hungers for Cowboy Cookies After Jellied Squash
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We know better than to count out Hillary Clinton, and we know it's possible for a seemingly simple sentence from Bill to mean a dozen different things. Either way, now all we can think about is what the living room of that house will be like tomorrow evening, as those potentially devastating primary results come rolling in and the press begins their inevitable pile-on. For the tenth time. Many people would probably wish to be a fly on the wall, but for once, we don't think we're one of them.
Bill Clinton Hints at End of Wife's Campaign [AP]
Earlier: So NOW What Is Clinton Gonna Do?
From left, the political lunch, from far away; Hodgman, close up.Photo: Boris Kachka
Two of the authors seemed to be on strike, too: Michael Moore, who never made it because of bad weather in Michigan, and John Krakauer, who couldn't be here to promote his coming book on Pat Tillman because he failed to finish it on time, forcing its removal from fall catalogs. Moore's scab was the equally caustic though considerably more presentable Arianna Huffington, while Krakauer's chair was left respectfully empty. The fact that NBC correspondent and War Journal writer Richard Engel had just flown in from Baghdad put the other writers' difficulties in perspective.
It was Daily Kos' Markos Matos Zuniga, though, who made things a little more exciting with a few strange barbs. "I didn't have money to buy my way in," said the wildly popular lefty blogger. "I didn't have a rich, powerful famous family for me to trade off of" — at which point all eyes turned to Huffington. Then he turned on BEA's keynote speaker, Thomas Friedman. "Five years ago, as of yesterday, he got on to Charlie Rose and he talked about how Afghanistan wasn't enough. America needed to send a message to the Arabs. Fourteen times he told us that in only six more months things were going to turn around in Iraq. And he's been so wrong. He was wrong, but he sells a lot of books and this convention honors him."
The cynical Buckley seemed gracious by comparison, but his phoned-in one-liners demonstrated that satire doesn't always translate well on the rubber-chicken circuit. ("Everybody needs an editor. Even Hitler!") It almost made us wish we hadn't skipped that night's BEA benefit, featuring Lewis Black, who — whatever you think of him — at least has some fire in his belly. Funniest guy we saw? John "I'm a PC" Hodgman, who at a forum at 8 a.m. Sunday managed to blow every other humorist out of the water. "I still have a fondness for books," said the onetime literary agent. "Many a time I will be antiquing, and I'll say, 'What's that old-timey curio over there? What is that, a candlestick telephone, one of those old pull-chain toilets? Oh no, it's a book. I used to help make those things! I will buy it and use it to decorate my chain of casual family-dining restaurants.'" —Boris Kachka
AP - Ashanti, "The Declaration" (The Inc./Universal)
Mom-to-be?Photo: Getty Images
[Campbell] also revealed yesterday that she has had an operation so she can have a baby and is prepared to become a single mother.
We really don't understand why they didn't write this article in reverse and elaborate on this point. Who cares that her new contract is worth more than $400,000 when she very well could have been artificially inseminated with sperm from a bank? Who cares that Kate Moss "feels no animosity" toward Campbell for replacing her when Campbell's pregnancy and/or childbirth could occur in jail if she's convicted of the assault she was charged with last week? Our heads are about to explode. Is prioritized reporting out of style or something?
'I'm blessed and grateful to be back at YSL,' says Naomi (as her old chum Kate gets the boot) [Daily Mail]
Related: Step Aside, Actresses: The Supers Are Back
Breaking: Naomi Campbell Charged With Assault!
And what a pretty head it is.Photo: Getty Images
Marine Park: Don't you just love those cute little Henslow's sparrows? Oh, wait, you haven't seen one lately? Gee, maybe that's because they've barely been spotted here in more than a decade. But that isn't stopping the city from dropping $15 mil on this Brooklyn habitat for them. [NYP]
Park Slope: Sidewalk money-raisers for Greenpeace and other lefty nonprofits are driving liberal Slopies to madness with their cloying overtures of "Do you have a minute for the environment?" and the like. [Gowanus Lounge]
Sutton Place: Scarlett Johansson, with all your money and class, how could you leave Tribeca for a postwar here? We predict that the landscaped wraparound terrace and enclosed sunroom will not mitigate this faux pas. [NYO via Curbed]
Williamsburg: You need to talk to God, do ya? Well, don't e-mail. Knee-mail! [Newyorkshitty]
Cameron Hayes’s By the time they opened the first Museum of Rap in Fatehpur Sikri no-one could taste, smell, feel, hear or remember it anyway (2006).
Click to open a larger version in a new window.Courtesy of Ronald Feldman Fine Arts
AP - Amy Winehouse gave her jailed husband loving glances when he appeared in an east London court on charges of assault and conspiracy to obstruct justice.
AP - Jewel, "Perfectly Clear" (Valory/Big Machine)
Reuters - French fashion designer Yves Saint
Laurent has died at the age of 71, hailed as a 20th century
cultural innovator who revolutionized the way women dressed.
"Well, I'm off to float aimlessly in space. See ya!"Photo courtesy of Sci Fi
Love Boat Galactica
No matter how much he acts like a hard-ass, Adama is deep down a hopeless softy. Here he allowed his concern for one person — Roslin, who was captured by the Cylons last episode — to overshadow his responsibility to protect the entire fleet. His decision to relinquish command and stay behind in a lonely raptor while the fleet jumped away was both incredibly romantic (he can’t bear the thought of losing her) and astoundingly stupid (uh, dude, you know you’re gonna be floating in space all by yourself, right?). But ultimately it was a shocking twist that still felt true to his character.
If only everyone else was acting like himself.
They Have a Plan
We get that Tigh is attracted to the Caprica Six prisoner — he keeps seeing his dead wife in her face — but now he’s sleeping with her? And she’s pregnant? Can Cylons even procreate with one another? Tigh’s not himself since he found out he’s a Toaster, but what the frak?
Meanwhile, with Roslin captured, Lee Adama has been charged with finding candidates for interim president. Lee and sleazy lawyer Romo Lampkin go through a bunch of names without Lampkin ever saying, “You know, Lee, you’re a heroic, honorable guy who we see a lot of: Why don’t you be interim president?” Instead, Lampkin came to that conclusion at show’s end, at which time he decided to deliver the good news by pointing a gun at Lee and announcing that he must kill him because … Lampkin's wife died during the Cylon strike and he still has their dead cat in a bag.
Why the sardonic Lampkin would transform into a violent lunatic is a question not even the Hybrid could answer. The scene was an extraordinarily clumsy way to set up Lee's 100th “We as a civilization must have faith in our basic decency if we want to survive!” sermon, which, by the way, isn’t as moving as it used to be even if it did earn him the presidency.
Maybe Bill had the right idea: Better to chill out in space and wait for everybody else to come to their senses. —Tim Grierson
From left, Sarah Jessica Parker at the Sex and the City premiere in New York; Lauren Santo Domingo with Olivier Theyskens at the Met ball.Photo: Getty Images
Sarah Jessica Parker acknowledged, “In the big picture, this is not important … but what they did was so short-sighted. It’s just unethical and disappointing." Classy of her to note that, yes, it's just a dress. But remember that time you got upset because a girl was wearing the same dress as you at a party? This is kinda like that, only the entire world saw.
Mario Grauso, president of Puig, the company that owns Nina Ricci, tried to defend the house essentially by saying Lauren isn't really a celebrity. Horyn writes:
He explained that when Parker and her stylist asked if the dress had been photographed, he had no reason to mention Santo Domingo, a socialite who worked at Vogue and who recently had her wedding photographed for the magazine. “Is Lauren a celebrity?” Grauso said. “It depends on how you look at it.” He said he and Theyskens mainly thought of her as a friend. He then asked—somewhat incredulously, I thought—“Does everybody look at Style.com?” Santo Domingo’s picture (with Theyskens) appears on the site for the Met.
Maybe she's not a celebrity, and maybe everybody doesn't look at Style.com. But Lauren is a socialite, making her New York famous, and Style.com certainly gets a good bit of traffic. Not to mention Lauren wore the dress to the Met ball which she attended with the designer. Which we'd say would count as being "photographed."
Where have I seen that dress before? [On the Runway/NYT]
Related: Pink-Carpet Fashion at the ‘Sex and the City’ Premiere
Photo: Barbara Nitke
Who's your favorite New Yorker, living or dead, real or fictional?
Fiorello La Guardia, because his airport is closest to New York and I fly a lot.
What's the best meal you've eaten in New York?
Brunch at Pastis is as close as you can get to a quintessential New York meal.
In one sentence, what do you actually do all day in your job?
I make sure that we market the best talent in the industry to the best clients in the industry.
Would you still live here on a $35,000 salary?
Are you kidding? I lived here on a $16,000 salary.
What's the last thing you saw on Broadway?
A Chorus Line about six months ago (which, funny enough, was the first thing I ever saw on Broadway twenty years ago).
Do you give money to panhandlers?
Only if I’m trying to impress a date.
What's your drink?
Vodka, soda, splash of O.J.
How often do you prepare your own meals?
Does a cocktail count as a meal? If so, then every night.
What's your favorite medication?
Vodka, soda, splash of O.J.
What's hanging above your sofa?
A painting by Roc-Roussey.
How much is too much to spend on a haircut?
Men need a good haircut, and good style has no price.
When's bedtime?
When people out west stop texting me and/or my Ambien kicks in.
Which do you prefer, the old Times Square or the new Times Square?
Definitely the old Times Square.
What do you think of Donald Trump?
He’s a real New Yorker and hilarious to watch in action.
What do you hate most about living in New York?
Sometimes it takes you an hour in a taxi to get somewhere that it took you only ten minutes the day before.
Who is your mortal enemy?
The list is too long for this piece.
When's the last time you drove a car?
Three days ago.
Who should be the next president?
Hillary Rodham Clinton, but alas, it looks unlikely.
Times, Post, or Daily News?
Post on weekdays. Times on Sunday.
Where do you go to be alone?
Alone? Who likes to be alone?
What makes someone a New Yorker?
Feeling like a New Yorker is the only requirement. There are people who live here for ten years who never feel it. Conversely, I felt like as much of a New Yorker on the first day I lived here as I do now, eighteen years later.
Photo: AP
Uma Thurman Stalker Gets Probation [NYT]
Fashion Wire Daily - As Universal Studios burned just over the hill on Sunday, destroying sets
from some of Hollywood's classic films, a happier scene played out on Hollywood
Boulevard at Grauman's Chinese Theater, as "Kung Fu Panda" premiered.
Goodie! A-line skirts!Photo: Courtesy of New Line Cinema
The apparel line is full of A-line skirts and dresses, blouses and other pieces that easily can be taken day to night or casual to evening. The pieces include feminine details like flowers and jewels, and the fabric weights are sensitive to the South's milder climate. The line is offered in sizes 2 through 14. "I don't even wear a zero, so they're not allowed," Davis said.
Davis said she wanted to design for Belk because she's from Columbia, South Carolina, and used to save her allowance to shop at the store. Guess the actress shares only her style sensibility, not a life full of ponies, with her character, which totally makes us like her more. The Kristin Davis line will debut in August in 126 of Belk's 307 stores and cost from $30 to $240. But dressing just like a Sex and the City character? Priceless.
Southern Style: Kristin Davis Does Line for Belk [WWD]
FROM STYLE ICON TO FASHION BRAND: "SEX AND THE CITY" STAR AND BELK TO LAUNCH EXCLUSIVE KRISTIN DAVIS LINE THIS FALL [Belk.com]
Fashion Wire Daily - Yves Saint Laurent, the designer who revolutionized fashion by first putting women in pantsuits, died Sunday in Paris of cancer after a long illness at the age of 71.
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