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Alec Baldwin wrote his NYU thesis on Al Pacino. Sex Pistol Malcolm McLaren is bringing porn back to Times Square. Beastie Boy Adam Yauch pissed of Nestle with his movie Flow in Nantucket. Someone else was supposed to write the music from The Graduate but said no and Paul Simon got the gig instead. Barack Obama worked out at Equinox in Miami.
BIRTHDAY BEHIND BARS [NYP]
Phony Financier Beau Hoped to Lure Anne Back With Bash [NYDN]
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Quinn and Hauer Get Motorin': ABC's Prince of Motor City is proving to be a veritable Katamari Damacy of a pilot; it just keeps picking up new talent wherever it goes, adding Aidan Quinn and Rutger Hauer to its already impressive lineup. As you may recall, it's been described as Hamlet in Detroit — easily accomplished, because something is already rotten there: Gary Sheffield's .234 batting average! [HR]
Mulgrew Rides Again: Kate "Captain Janeway" Mulgrew will next be seen in the Broadway revival of Equus. Let's hope she responds more calmly to Harry Potter's wang than Voldemort does. [Playbill]
Mandate Gets Close to Zaillian: Mandate Pictures has purchased Close Far Away from Swedish photojournalist Jens Assur, for writer-director Steven Zaillian to produce. Set all over the world, story follows "several characters put into vulnerable situations whose actions carry global consequences," which coincidentally is the exact same logline for Babel 2, X-Men 4, and every Robert Ludlum book ever. [HR]
Walden's Folly?: Walden Media has picked up the true story of a team of men and sled dogs who braved frigid temperatures to save an Alaskan town from an epidemic in 1925, called, um, The Cruelest Miles: The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race Against an Epidemic. That title makes us wish the true story were about men racing against the dogs- — may the best species win — and when the dogs bark they shoot lasers, and also there are arctic killer robots. Damn you, true stories! [Variety]
EVENTS
• The cast of Legally Blonde the Musical and Broadway star Laura Bell Bundy head over to the Union Square Dashing Diva salon today to host a Bend & Snap Competition. Prizes include tickets to the musical and free manis. 149 Third Ave., at 15th St. (212-228-9999); 4–6.
• Peruse the delicate jewelry from Design by Enise at her trunk show. Takashimaya, 693 Fifth Ave., at 54th St.,Main fl.; (212-350-0100); 10–7.
• The Akris trunk show ends today at Bergdorf Goodman. Bergdorf Goodman, 754 Fifth Ave., at 57th St., Fourth fl. (212-753-7300); 10–8.
• Meet designer Jillian Diaz as she presents her Luca Bella jewelry collection. Through 6/28. Henri Bendel, 712 Fifth Ave., nr. 56th St. (212-247-1100); 10–8.
• The free makeovers by the John Frieda Salon end today. His staff set up shop downtown with a mobile hair salon. Frieda himself will make an appearance, and celebrity hairstylist Harry Josh (does SJP, Fergie, Ellen Pompeo) will offer tips. Through 6/26. South Street Seaport, 10–6.
SALES
STARTING TODAY
• United Bamboo’s spring/summer 2008 collections as well as previous collections are up to 90 percent off retail. Through 6/28. 217 Centre St., nr. Grand St., Sixth fl. (212-925-3311); Thurs.–Fri. (10–7), Sat. (12–7).
• Williamson Showroom is marking up to 70 percent off the designers they carry, like Nili Lotan, Rodnik, and Gilded Age. Through 6/27. 119 Mercer St., nr. Prince St. (212-226-5507); Thurs.–Fri. (8:30–7).
• Clothes from Trovata, James and Sunshine, and Shadow are 50 to 80 percent off at Ylli's summer sale. Through 7/31. 482 Driggs Ave., nr. 10th St, Brooklyn (718-302-3555); Mon.–Sat. (11:30–8:30), Sun. (noon–7).
• The separates and accessories from Alice Roi are 25 to 40 percent off. Through 7/3. 27 Canal St., nr. Ludlow St. (212-673-5753); Mon.–Tues. (closed), Wed. (3–7), Thurs.–Sat. (4–8), Sun. (2–6).
ENDING TODAY
• Bring out your inner girlie girl at Betsey Johnson’s sample sale. Dresses are down to $87 (orig. $345) and tops are $55 (orig. $220). Through 6/26. Millennium Broadway Hotel, 145 W. 44th St., nr. Broadway, Seventh fl.; Wed.–Thurs. (10–7:30).
• The Brian Reyes and Tashkent by Cheyenne sale ends today. Through 6/26. Tashkent Studios, 939 Eighth Ave., nr. 56th St., Ste. 501; Wed.–Thurs. (11–7).
• Elaine Turner handbags are up to 75 percent off. The Eva Sand Dollar beach bag was $150, now is $50 and python clutches that were $650 are only $195. Through 6/26. 320 Fifth Ave., at 32nd St., Ste. 1102. (212-239-8966).
ENDING TOMORROW
• Find up to 75 percent off La Perla’s sexy collection at their sample sale. Through 6/27. 260 Fifth Ave., nr. 28th St.; Tues., Wed., Fri. (9–6), Thurs. (9–8).
• With this three-day sale, you’ll only have to pay $5 to $60 for clothes from Soundgirl, or pay $40 to $60 for Shoes for Lovely People. Through 6/27. 1385 Broadway, nr. 37th St., Fifth fl. (212-730-0377); Daily (10–6:30).
• The Asmar Group Showroom opens their doors again this week to mark down men’s and women’s spring collections from Generra between 50 to 60 percent off. Dresses are down to $120 (originally $245), and a men’s cotton-blend utility blazer is $145 (originally $295). Though 6/27. 275 W. 39th St., nr. Seventh Ave., Fifth fl. (212-768-2868); Mon.–Fri. (9:30–7).
• Miguel Ases jewelry is 70 percent off at his annual sample sale. Here you’ll find fourteen-karat gold pieces and semiprecious stones, and, if you pay cash, receive an extra 10 percent off. Though 6/27. 150 W. 25th St., nr. Sixth Ave., Ste. 601; Mon.–Fri. (10–6).
Logan and Ware.Photo: Getty Images, Wikipedia
Baghdad: more boring than we suspected.
Anyway, the end result of all of this verbal vitriol and heterosexual humping is that Logan was promoted to chief foreign-affairs correspondent for CBS and moved back to Washington. This introduces a new Iraq exit strategy that we think Obama and McCain should consider. We can just sex our way out of there!
SEXTY MINUTES [NYP]
Reuters - Nelson Mandela uttered just four words
criticizing Zimbabwe's leadership, but they were enough to
resonate around the world.
 Indiana's NewsCenter | ALERT: Chance of Afternoon T-Storms, Hail WXYZ - THERE IS A CHANCE OF THUNDERSTORMS TODAY... WITH A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SEVERE WEATHER. THE HIGHEST CHANCES OF THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE ALONG AND SOUTHEAST OF A BAD AXE TO HOWELL LINE. 49 Storm Team Forecast: Steam bath continues Severe storms possible today |
 Boston Globe | 'WALL-E:' Pixar’s trash-compacting robot will be collecting hearts Chicago Tribune - By Michael Phillips | Tribune critic It's the surest thing in the infinitely malleable world of animation: Get the eyes right, and you're halfway home. 'Toy Story' studio keeps raising the bar Pixar's "WALL• E" is a charmer |
 Broadcasting & Cable | NBC settles 'To Catch a Predator' suicide lawsuit USA Today - NBC Universal has settled a lawsuit that was filed after someone swept up in the To Catch a Predator program committed suicide, according to newspaper reports. NBC settles lawsuit over man's suicide: report NBC Settles Suit Over Suicide of Alleged Pedophile Prosecutor |
AP - The devil may wear Prada but the pope does not.
AP - NBC Universal has settled a $105 million lawsuit brought by a woman who claimed a televised sex sting by "Dateline NBC: To Catch A Predator" drove her brother to kill himself.
 Sioux City Journal | Alicia Keys, Chris Brown Best R&B Artists At 2008 BET Awards AHN - Los Angeles, CA (CNS) - Alicia Keys and Chris Brown took home top awards at the 2008 BET Awards held at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles Tuesday. Kanye West, Chris Brown Snag BET Awards BET Awards bring out the stars |
AP - The arrival of a new Pixar film also means the debut of the animation studio's latest short. And this time, the feature film has more in common with its short-film tradition.
The Hills rolled through trendy Fred Segal today, proving retail therapy can make gal-pals out of anyone. Even Audrina Patridge and Lo Bosworth, whom we last saw at odds for Lauren Conrad's...
Seeing the one-time Sexiest Man Alive appear, well, not at his sexiest while shooting the Informant in Hawaii has kind of put us at a loss for words.
While our blogger brethren over at...
Everyone loves a great romance, but who doesn't relish a knock-down, drag-out divorce, too? Oh, don't look at us like we're so horrible. Hamptonite supermodel Christie Brinkley's divorce from "architect" Peter Cook goes to trial next week, and she's requested that the proceedings be open to the public. Why do you suppose that is? Because she wants us all to know that Peter cheated on her with his 18-year-old assistant, Diana Bianchi, and allegedly did some other pervy things that will (a) embarrass the hell out of him and (b) titillate and delight the public. You see, she's doing it for us! Even pretty Christie knows we want to hear about the ugly!
Yes, love can be grand, but add wealth and status to the equation and you've got a nuclear love bomb waiting to blow off some tabloid editor's happy face. While the saga of Christie and Peter will no doubt provide some entertainment for a lazy summer on the East End, they have a lot to live up to — like the Perelmans, the Giulianis, and the Trumps. We've tenderly flipped through our scrapbooks to remember New York's most fantastic divorces, and arranged them in ascending order of awfulness. Let's take a walk down memory lane, shall we? Just watch out for the land mines. —Jessica Coen
Slideshow: New York's Ten Greatest Divorces
Marriage? Engagement? A baby? Kim Kardashian talks about her relationship with Reggie Bush, the next season (or two?) of Keeping Up with the Kardashians and a little secret she likes to call...
Clay Aiken believes that Somalia's children need a better future.
"There hasn't been much discussion of Somalia since the early 1990s in the U.S.," the UNICEF goodwill...
First, get used to that epic hair Jack Black and Superbad's Michael Cera are sporting on the set of next summer's time-travel comedy The Year One. Then you can focus on what they—and...
Nelson Mandela's 90th birthday bash isn't until Friday, but celebs are already flocking to London to fete the former South African president.
Will Smith (who's emceeing...
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• Karl Lagerfeld reportedly wants to hold his 2010 cruise-collection show in Venice. We can only imagine what he'll do to those canals. [FWD]
• Anna Wintour has been spotted throughout Milan Men's Fashion Week hanging out with Scottish actor Gerard Butler. [Fashionologie]
• Bee Shaffer is spending her Fourth of July in Ibiza. Party on, young thing. [FWD]
• Karl Lagerfeld gets driven around in a giant gray hummer. [Jezebel]
Here's something else for the couple to hang in their den next to Eva Longoria Parker's In Style, Glamour and Self covers.
After five stints as the face of pixilated basketball...
What happens at a movie premiere if the movie just totally sucks? Is there awkward silence and booing?
—Thunder Wolf
People booed at the Berlin premiere of J.Lo's...
AP - Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's love for children is by no means limited to their own: The couple has donated $1 million to help kids affected by the war in Iraq, the Education Partnership for Children of Conflict announced Wednesday.
From left: Fendi, Calvin Klein, Belstaff.Photo: Imaxtree
Fendi
Calvin Klein
Belstaff
Giorgio Armani
Byblos
Etro
D&G
Iceberg
Marni
John Richmond
Evisu
Alessandro Dell’Acqua
Marithe + Francois Girbaud
Those Tony Soprano fans sure love the big jerk, inside and out.
One avid fan—or a very sloppy dresser—paid a whopping $43,750 for the fake-blood-stained outfit James...
WE'RE NOT DATING.Photo-illustration: Getty Images
Or does he?
"She sent one e-mail to Reggie, who forwarded it to me," Obama said, referring to his 26-year-old personal assistant, Reggie Love. "I write saying, 'Thank you Scarlett for doing what you do,' and suddenly we have this e-mail 'relationship.'"
"Relationship." Ouch. We're sure the jab of those air quotes was like a sword plunging into Scarlett's heart. (Four swords? Whatever.) That the sarcasm in his voice stung like poison. But how can this be? she must be wondering. He’d told her he was a "huge movie lover" and "knows who every actor is." He'd said he'd followed her career. He'd said his favorite performance was her turn in Lost in Translation! Who would possibly have the temerity to send such e-mails to the blondest and most beautiful woman in America if not one of the most powerful and handsome men in the United States?
Of course the answer is staring her — us all — right in the face: It's clearly Obama's body man, Reggie Love. Oh, Cyrano. Is your cause a lost one?
Obama's Emails With Scarlett Johansson [Trail/WP]
Earlier: Love Letters From Great Men
You know you want that shirt.Photo: WireImage
Jackson's line will be sold exclusively at L.A. boutique Kitson. Owner Fraser Ross predicts the line will sell splendidly. "I think people will think it’s hip to wear his line," he told People. "Through all his ups and downs people still love him. He still has a huge fan base.” We wonder if he'll branch out into makeup...
Michael Jackson Turns Clothing Designer! [Off the Rack/People]
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2. The Faint, "The Geeks Were Right"
The Faint have seen the future, and apparently, "the geeks were right." If that's the case, then why does this song sound so tailor-made for mainstream radio? [Have Fun Club]
3. Beck feat. Chan Marshall, "Orphans"
You like Beck. You like Cat Power. You'll like this, we swear. [Pitchfork]
4. Lykke Li, "Can I Kick It" (A Tribe Called Quest cover)
Just to show that she really can do it all, Lykke Li covers both this Tribe classic and the Velvet Underground song it sampled. [Sheena Beaston]
5. The Mae Shi, "See You Again" (Miley Cyrus cover)
Perhaps upset over the sight of an uncovered Miley in Vanity Fair, the Mae Shi take matters into their own hands with this pop-punk take on her single. [Ear Farm] —Ehren Gresehover
Vivienne Westwood, Etro, Emporio Armani.Photo: Imaxtree
I hope in a small way that The Dark Knight can be a celebration of his work. Not like the hideous circus after he died, which I felt was an invasion of a private life. This movie is not a personal home video. This is what he did. I hope people will embrace that in the correct fashion.
From what we've seen of Ledger's brilliantly terrifying turn in that movie, we're certainly not going to want to do any embracing of any kind.
Christian Bale: It's All a Happy Accident [Parade]
Christian Bale is on Parade — Batman is Back! [JustJared]
Related: New 'Dark Knight' Trailer: Really, Why So Damn Serious?
Look! Sexy's back!Photo: Courtesy of Givenchy
• Josh Hartnett's commercial for Armani's Diamonds fragrance for men is out. He appears shirtless for a hot second so, yeah — we're sold. [Now Smell This]
• Kenzo’s adding five new scents to its travel collection. Each will retail for $29 and is small enough to carry on airplanes. [Beauty Addict]
MAKEUP
• Details emerged today about the M.A.C collaboration with Emanuel Ungaro designer Esteban Cortazar. The fourteen-piece collection was inspired by his feminine fall collection and will include lighter textures for the lipsticks, glosses, shadows, liners, blush, and mascara. [WWD]
HAIR
• Ashanti wore a retro cinnamon-bun hairstyle to the BET Awards. We're not really digging how it's all on one side of her head. [Bella Sugar]
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Spielberg Gets a Clue: DreamWorks has acquired the film rights to 39 Clues, an upcoming "multi-platform adventure series" being launched in the fall by Scholastic Media, with Steven Spielberg attached as a possible director. Clues is a ten-book series with an accompanying two-year online alternate-reality game in which players will compete for a grand prize of $10,000. Spielberg's movie will likely follow friendly aliens who arrive from Mars to laugh at people that spent two years competing for a measly $10,000. [Variety]
Lane to Grow Mustache, Snap Fingers: Michael Riedel reports that Tony winners Nathan Lane and Bebe Neuwirth will likely sign on to play Gomez and Morticia Adams (respectively) in 2009's planned Addams Family musical on Broadway. Perfect casting so far — but who will play Thing? [NYP]
Kanye Angry About Something: Upset over criticism of his recent set at Bonnaroo, World's Greatest Blogger Kanye West has responded with an impressive configuration of capital letters and exclamation points. [Kanye's Blog]
Dark Knight Reviewed: In a surprisingly lucid review, an Ain't It Cool News reader who's seen the film compares The Dark Knight to Heat and The Godfather 2 and says it feels more like a crime drama than a superhero movie. Sounds good to us! [Ain't It Cool News]
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Well, yes, he was: Follieri's rep told People that dude has been taking codeine, since he's had "a sinus infection for the past three weeks."
In the courtroom they said that he had tested positive for opiates, and it's not the case. He was on a prescription and cough medicine from his doctors that contained codeine before retiring to bed that night. Therefore that is what his doctors told me caused his urine test to be positive.
A sinus infection, eh? Isn't that what Lindsay Lohan had last year?
Anne Hathaway's Ex Hospitalized After Hearing [People]
Earlier: Raffaello Follieri Disheveled, Dumb, and Possibly Drugged Out in Hearing
Sean Avery. Photo: Getty Images
Sean Avery met the managing editor and got a company e-mail address and his very own desk on his first day.
Elizabeth: "I was not treated nicely. It was very fast-paced. It was just kind of a walking-on-eggshell environment."
Ashley: "The company e-mail address doesn't exist with interns. Also meeting the managing editor is out of the question. We didn't have desks or a chair or anywhere to sit. There was one computer and one chair — that was basically the general intern and computer chair. If you had to print out pictures or do a return on the computer, you had to wait to use it. I felt that we were just a big army. At any time in the closet there were about fifteen of us. For the most part, people didn't know who you were individually."
Sean Avery's tasks include guest-editing mensvogue.com and flying to L.A. to help with special projects.
Elizabeth: "I was out a lot in town cars picking up items, returning items. I was sent on ridiculous errands. Not so much that the errands were ridiculous, but they would send me out in noontime traffic and they'd call me an hour later and be like, 'Where are you?!' and I had eight places I had to be."
Ashley: "Our tasks for the day were anywhere from returning samples for products that were too expensive to be sent via messenger to reorganizing the closet — that was a big one."
Sean Avery attends meetings with senior staff and checks in weekly with the managing editor.
Elizabeth: "I had to run little errands for the senior staff."
Ashley: "There was no such thing as a meeting with senior staff. We were never invited to, like, go to meetings. We interacted with the assistants. I do have to say the highest-level people like André Leon Talley were always very, very sweet. We didn't have meetings with them but they were always very nice to the interns."
Sean Avery eats enormous lunches in the cafeteria and gets away with spilling them on people.
Elizabeth: "I never got lunch. I didn't get lunch breaks. We had to eat in the closet."
Ashley: "I was able to get lunch. It was like, very quick, go down get your lunch, eat it, and come back up. There was a sense of having to get permission for a lot of things. I don't remember if we had to tell them we were going to the bathroom, but that could've been possible."
Sean Avery goes to photo shoots and helps style them.
Elizabeth: "I went on some photo shoots but it wasn't at all glamorous — I was doing all the packing up, bubble wrapping products. I never styled — I steamed clothes."
Ashley: "We dropped off trunks for photo shoots. A large part of it was packing the trunks for the photo shoots and unpacking them."
Sean Avery hangs out in the closet with no shirt, shorts, and sneakers.
Elizabeth: "I was told to wear heels a lot but after a while I stopped, with all the running around."
Ashley: "We had a meeting in the very beginning of the summer and they were like, 'We're not going to tell you you have to go buy a whole new wardrobe and buy expensive clothes, but it's a high-fashion magazine — you should dress the part.' It was kind of hard to wear heels — we would bring flats in our bags, and everyone would change into them when we got really uncomfortable."
To see more of Sean doing the job a million girls would kill for, check out the slideshow of him prancing around the Vogue office. It looks like he's working so hard he doesn't even have time to keep his desk neat.
Related: Lookie! Sean Avery Blogs!
The Diary of ‘Vogue’ Intern Sean Avery
Suburban Glamour is out now from Image.
Suburban Glamour, by Jamie McKelvie
Cobble Hill: Boy, the new Ikea sure has a friend in "Steve," this commenter who defends the Ikea buses commandeering the streets here and in Carroll Gardens en route to the store. They're better than lots of Ikea-bound cars! "Steve" points out cheerily. Could "Steve" be, oh, um, well, an Ikea flack? [Streetsblog]
Harlem: Oprah's charity wing gave a $100,000 makeover to the community center of an affordable-housing complex for seniors here. Oprah, you put the O in SRO! [Uptown Flavor]
Greenwich Village: Some folks want to landmark NYU's Silver Towers, designed in the sixties by I.M. Pei, largely to stop the school from building another tower on the site. [NY1]
Northwest Bronx: Locals in this way-poor area won't support megadeveloper Related's plan to convert the massive Kingsbridge Armory into a $310 million shopping mall unless they get guarantees of wage and hiring standards, plus space for athletics, cultural programs, and social services. [NYT via Curbed]
Prospect Lefferts: Are some locals protesting a glassy, twenty-story condo planned for Lincoln Road because it'll drive up rents in the hood or just because it's too tall? [Hawthorne Street via Brownstoner]
South Slope: What is that loud, annoying beep that keeps going off "at one minute intervals. (I timed it!)" on 16th Street between Seventh and Eighth? Doth the beep augur evil? [Gowanus Lounge]
Upper East Side: A big-ass, six-story townhouse once owned by a deceased BMW heiress and descendant of Nazi honcho Joseph Goebbels just sold for $37.5 mil, one of the biggest townhouse deals ever in New York. [NYO]
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These days you’re on Dave Matthews’ ATO Records. What’s your relationship like? He seems so chill, while you’re a bit more high-strung…
Never underestimate my shortness; I may be really high energy and aggressive, but he’s a big man, and guys who are bigger tend to find me funny because they’re not particularly threatened. They’re like, “Look at that, she’s so cute, just yappin’ away!” That’s how it works out.
How does it feel going back to the material on Exile for the rerelease?
Listen to what’s on my car radio right now [turns up “Dance of the Seven Veils”]. I need to relearn all this stuff. I don't know that it's ever going to come out of me the same way, but when I listen to the record, I can feel that vibe coming over me — I can feel where I was at. Back then my life was so simple. I just lived in this state … it wasn't a particularly happy state, it was a kind of pissed-off, fuck-the-world, separate-from-the-world state. I didn't engage in the world. I could barely make it to the grocery store. So that's a challenge for me — getting back into that singular point of view.
In the documentary, John Cusack says he saw you as “the wrath of the repressed.” Did you feel like that when you were making the record, and do you still?
I did, and I still do occasionally, though it’s much different now. At the time, I was seething at the surface. I was a boiling hot tub of oil ready to scald if I could, ’cause I pretty much spent my youth trying to be perfect for everyone in a very preppy sense, and then abandoned that and went all the way to the dark side. I rejected everything and everyone I'd ever known before. Now I get pissed off about the most random things. I have this kind of knee-jerk feminism that comes out in ways I don't even understand — it's fucked up!
Like how?
Well, I was at a dinner table at an L.A. restaurant, and a nice one, and I reacted in a very strange way to the whole Obama-Hillary thing. I think Obama's amazing, and I wish he'll be president and she'd be V.P., but I was voting for Hillary, and people who are Obama supporters I felt were just really fucking aggressive, ripping her to pieces. I was like, "You know what? She's done a hell of a lot more than you have!" It was like it was me they were shredding. All the gender prejudice I've felt in my life. And I became this person I didn't even recognize. Someone was like, "Well, my mom worked on the Dianne Feinstein campaign, so I think I'm qualified to say…" and I did this thing where I, like, stuck my thumbs up in his face like, "Grrrrreat!" and the whole table went silent. It was so immature and weird.
It was interesting to learn from the documentary that you were pretty surrounded by guys on the making of Exile.
I really was in Guyville. When I went back to the documentary, the one unifying thing with the guys is, they all talk a really long time, and then I get a tiny little word in edgewise. They were all like, "This is what's good," "This is what you should like," and I was like, [sing-songy] "fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you fuck you."
One amusing instance of which was the shooting of Exile’s cover photo…
That was so funny. I turned in a still from a friend of mine's student film for the cover of the CD — it was an orgy of Barbies floating in a pool. Matador was like, "What the FUCK is this?!" They called up Nash [Kato, of Urge Overkill] and asked him to help. So he comes to me and goes, "Lizzy, listen, the record's great, but they're not digging this. Why don't you go into the photo booth, take off your shirt, leave on your necklaces." And before I went into the bathroom, he was like, "Oh, and remember to put lipstick on your nipples," because I have very light-pink nipples, and I figured it was some weird porno thing he knew about. Like, "Wow that’s why the nipples always look so good!" So I went in the photo booth, and for the first couple of shots, I was sort of shy. He really wanted me to just be like sex.
And you were down with that?
Oh, completely. I was always game to try fun and somewhat reckless things. And the last shot was just sort of wow — and that became the cover. And that one little nipple showed, which was a big deal later on — over the years various major labels recropped it. But it's back! Now you can enjoy the nipple. —Rebecca Milzoff
"You know how I knew John Kerry was going to lose the last time? There was a Q&A in GQ, and the first question they asked him was the kind of thing that a candidate should have knocked out of the park. Plus we endorsed him, so I wanted him to win. And I read this Q&A, and it was the kind of thing that a candidate should have been able to do in his sleep. One of the questions was, Who's your favorite rock-and-roll person? And he's a boomer, he has every right, he says, well, Bob Dylan is one of them — maybe it was Dylan and the Beatles, Dylan and the Rolling Stones. And the interviewer asked, "Well, what's your favorite Dylan song?" And he really can't think of any. And then he says, "Blowing in the Wind," which is a great song but the uncoolest answer you could come up with.
It's true — Kerry was impersonable, if that's a word (and spell-check is telling us it's not), and when he tried to seem "normal," it never seemed genuine. Remember that terribly awkward staged hunting expedition?
So it was with great interest when we read that Barack Obama's playlist would be in Rolling Stone next week.
Below are some of the artists that Obama confessed to liking:
Stevie Wonder
Bob Dylan
Rolling Stones
Sheryl Crow
Ludacris
Miles Davis
John Coltrane
Charlie Parker
Bruce Springsteen
Jay-Z
Elton John
Earth, Wind & Fire
As Radar pointed out, it's good music but not particularly edgy. But that's the thing — it's so safe that it feels completely normal. He's a 46-year-old lawyer from Chicago! If it's criticized by anyone, it will be because it's unexciting, not because it doesn't seem genuine. When pressed on which Dylan songs were his favorite, Obama had a solid response, unlike Kerry. He likes the album Blood on the Tracks, and "Maggie's Farm" is one of his favorite anthems "during the political season." He explains: "It speaks to me as I listen to some of the political rhetoric."
How fitting, when you think about the closing lyrics of the song:
Well, I try my best
To be just like I am,
But everybody wants you
To be just like them.
Whether it's because his staff learned from the mistakes of the Kerry campaign and was careful to craft a public human being out of Obama in advance, or whether it's because he genuinely digs Dylan, it works. Almost too well.
Inside Barack Obama’s iPod [Rolling Stone]
Courtesy of NBC, Miramax
Remember how cute Ellen Page was in Juno? All spunky and adorable and, you know, pregnant? Who wouldn't want to be just like her? And wouldn't it be awesome if all your friends were like that too? You could talk for hours on your hamburger phones about morning sickness and baby names and the like. Sigh. Well, as you may have heard, some high schoolers in Gloucester, Massachusetts, made the dream a reality — by making a (now-denied) pact to get pregnant together. "Some girls seemed more upset when they weren't pregnant than when they were," principal Joseph Sullivan told Time. Debate unsurprisingly is raging about the "Juno effect" — i.e., did Hollywood make these girls think pregnancy is fun and fabulous? (No way, says Juno actor-but-not-really-"actor" Jason Bateman.)
Luckily, here comes The Baby Borrowers to deglamorize parenthood all over again!
This NBC reality show, a social experiment in which five teenage couples must "fast-track to adulthood by setting up a home, getting a job and becoming caring parents first to babies, toddlers, pre-teens and their pets, teenagers and senior citizens," starts tonight and might encourage high schoolers to think twice before getting, um, knocked up. The pressure is on couples like Sean and Kelsey (who, by the way, "subsists on a diet of maple syrup and M&Ms" — hey, it worked for Beyoncé, right?) to deal with "typical 'terrible twos' behavior, including pouty tantrums, potty training and other messes."
Potty training? Oh, wow, count us out! Lesson learned. Unlike some New Yorkers, we will be totally responsible in all intimate encounters. —Lori Fradkin
Test-Driving Parenthood Is Teenage Wake-Up Call [NYT]
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Eventually Reed set everything up: an interview with Clinton and a photo shoot with Annie Leibovitz. Bill Clinton had even told Reed, who's interviewed Hillary several times over the past couple of years, that one of his favorite pictures of Hillary was a shot taken by Leibovitz for Vogue a while back. It all sounded promising — so what could go wrong? WWD reports:
After thinking everything was set, Reed months later was informed the deal was off. She said she was told, "We already have the women's vote in the bag," and that Wolfson said, '"We thought we were going to be in a bigger dogfight. We don't need you anymore.' This was right before Iowa. What an idiot!"
We thought Wintour's editor's letter on the matter was harsh enough, but now this? We'll go out on a limb here and take it Vogue isn't used to rejection.
Memo Pad: IF ONLY HILLARY HAD DONE VOGUE... [WWD]
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We can already imagine the fantastic movie this story would make, but if you're having trouble seeing it, just check out the Times' accompanying video feature, which is basically an amazing ten-minute short in and of itself. Whichever studio buys this better not screw it up.
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"Arrested Development played late at night in England, so I got a lot of
coke addicts and meth freaks. Great. So you've seen me but you just don't remember me." —Jason Bateman on international fame [Times UK]
"You know when you're drinking those smoothies you've got in America, and you're like, 'I think I can taste papaya.' That's what we're trying to do: make musical smoothies. We'll have a Kanye West influence here, a Beatles influence there." —Chris Martin on Coldplay's new album [Maxim]
"I'm not sure when I'll come back with another record. I feel like I've done everything I can do with this set of tools." —Maybe John Mayer should start making smoothies, too [USAT]
"I just wanna say that we are so incredible, we are such an incredible people. We are so beautiful and fly, and everybody wants to be like us." —Alicia Keys, giving a modest acceptance speech at the BET Awards [E!]
Demelza Reveley.Photo: Courtesy of Foxtel
When they measured us at the start on the show they told us we should be around 36 (inches) but I have done my research and I know all the good models are usually around 34 inches so that is my ultimate goal and that would make me happy.
Reveley's efforts have apparently paid off — next week she heads to the season finale of the show. Naturally, this is all very upsetting to people who feel teen models are put under too much pressure to be thin.
Model agent Priscilla Leighton Clarke will represent the winner of the show for a year, and — surprise! — she is not one of those people upset by this. She told the Herald Sun:
It [modelling] is cut-throat at the best of times, so it is really imperative that when girls go to castings . . . they feel 100 per cent about how they look," she said. "That is what modelling is all about how you look. You have to be in shape to be a model - simple as that.
Some things never change.
Teen model Demelza Reveley loses 10cm from hips [Herald Sun via modelsblog]
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Reuters - Italian designers showed that next
summer will be all about chilling out for men, with slim-look
tops and loose trousers epitomizing a relaxed feel to
collections.
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