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Salman Rushdie's novel won 36% of the votes

Report: Ethan Hawke, Pregnant Ex-Nanny Marry

'Clone Wars' to get Hollywood treatment

The land Richard Nixon left us

MultiVu Recognizes the Most Creative Uses of Multimedia, May and June 2008

Prize-Winning Pout Sought for Softlips(R) Third Annual Search for America's Most 'Picture Perfect Lips'

Rentrak Retail Essentials and Home Video Essentials Announces Top DVD Sales and Rentals for Week Ending July 6, 2008

Get the 3-D glasses ready for `Hannah Montana' (AP)

AP - The hit "Hannah Montana" movie will be nearly inescapable on television this month in every dimension.

MGM MIRAGE Management to Present at the Oppenheimer 8th Annual Consumer Growth Conference

Nordstrom Reports June Sales

Ross Stores Reports June Same Store Sales Gain of 8%, Raises Second Quarter EPS Guidance

Scripps to Report Second-Quarter Results; Webcast of Conference Call Available

As 'Cleaner,' Bratt helps addicts kick the habit (AP)

AP - Benjamin Bratt remembers first hearing the concept for "The Cleaner." It grabbed him, "however unbelievable I found it to be."

Salman Rushdie wins "Best of Booker" award

Cusack Suits Up Over Scuttled Flick

Documentary Exposes H'wood's Blacklist

'Hellboy II': Meet Luke Goss, the New Nemesis - Entertainment Weekly

The Gazette (Montreal)

'Hellboy II': Meet Luke Goss, the New Nemesis Entertainment Weekly - 3 hours ago He's sung in a boy band and acted in ''Grease'' on stage -- so how did he wind up as the creepy villain in Guillermo Del Toro's comic-book fantasy? Persistence pays off for "Hellboy" sequel Reuters Mignola lets go of 'Hellboy' Comics2Film New York Magazine - International Herald Tribune - eFluxMedia - USA Today all 382 news articles

Get the 3-D glasses ready for `Hannah Montana'

Parade.com Summer Pop Culture Poll Finds: Simon Cowell is Most-Obnoxious Celeb; Tyra and Ellen Crush Oprah for Talk-Show Queen Honors; Jon Stewart Would Beat Obama!

Movie producers set Aug. deadline for SAG contract - The Associated Press

Wall Street Journal

Movie producers set Aug. deadline for SAG contract The Associated Press - 4 hours ago LOS ANGELES (AP) - The major Hollywood studios have told the Screen Actors Guild that if the union does not accept its final contract offer by Aug. 15 any proposed wage increases would not be retroactive, the studios said Wednesday. 'CSI' Stars Register Support for Brewing SAG Strike BuddyTV The drama builds in Hollywood Reuters Los Angeles Times - E! Online - Hollywood Reporter - Variety all 884 news articles

Carla Bruni's music failed to impress British reviewers

Cocoa catwalk: sacks are sweet for Ivorian designer (Reuters)

Reuters - Cocoa runs in the family of Ivorian fashion designer Felicite Mai. It was her father, a tailor-turned-cocoa planter, who gave her her first sewing machine, a model dating back to 1952.

Stupid pet tricks sink "Greatest American Dog" (Reuters)

Hollywood studios set deadline for SAG

Robert Downey Jr. Is Sherlock's 100-Percent Solution

Ethan Hawke a Twice-Married Man

Heidi and Spencer: Armed and Ridiculous

Kate Hudson's Men Double Up at Tennis Camp

Going Up? Britney Hits the Elevator for Madonna Concert Video

Bromance—and More On-Set Oddity with Paul Rudd

Memoir says Madonna's true love is herself

‘A New Hive’ Buzzes Into Earnest Sewn Tonight

That's 3,000 bees.Photo: Peter Miszuk

Contrasting with Ruffian’s girlie, silk-draped bedroom display last month, the dark, newly designed space includes 3,000 bees in an observation hive, 25 pounds of sweet-smelling beeswax, and 250 jars of honey scattered among the wares. Still, if you're allergic to the little bugs, that EpiPen just may come in handy. See more photos after the jump. —Lauren Murrow

Derrick Cruz’s eighteen-karat-gold honeycomb pendants encased in a pyramid of sugar.Photo: Peter Miszuk

Artist Ryder E. Robinson’s hammer sculpture made of Steller’s sea cow and brass, and an EpiPen made of stainless steel and glass. Let's hope you won't need it.Photo: Peter Miszuk

Related: Derrick Cruz Has a Slight Bee Obsession

New Flaming Lips: 'John Lennon Meets Miles Davis'

Katy Perry Still Top 'Girl' On Hot 100

Metallica Boxes Up 'Death Magnetic'

Scrubs Finds a Friend

Brinkley divorce lawyers go head-to-head

Mary-Kate Olsen Eats, Shuns Booze, Befriends Stam

Mmm, meat!Photo-illustration: Everett Bogue;
Photos: Getty Images, FilmMagic, iStockphoto

Dressed in a long black sweater and high heels, we’re told a healthy and glowing Olsen was actually laughing (big surprise) and was a total social butterfly as she happily floated around with Stam and her girlfriends from NYU.

Interestingly, Olsen chose not to associate with the male party peeps.

We never heard Olsen had a social life connected in any way at all to NYU, but it sounds positive and healthy, so we'll go with it! Also, Olsen wasn't just glowing and laughing because of the delightful effects of alcohol. Au contraire, friends — she drank bottled water the whole night.

But while she might be well fed, sober, and happy looking for the first time in a long time, she still refused to let anyone photograph her. We wonder if interest will fade if she continues the healthy streak. You know how the media's sick like that.

Pop Tarts: Model Inspiring Mary-Kate Olsen to Ban Booze and Get Healthy? [FoxNews.com]
Related: Mary-Kate Surprises Us With Her Teeth

DealBook’s Andrew Ross Sorkin vs. DealBreaker’s John Carney

"I say this turf is small, but it's all we got, huh? Now
I want to hold it like we always held it, with skin.
But if they say blades, I say blades. If they say
guns, I say guns.… Okay, cats, we rumble."Photo: Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images

It seemed to us like the blogosphere's business as usual — everyone out here is always angry and paranoid about something. And then Sorkin actually talked back:

With apologies to Mr. Carney — whose point of view was shared by others — this argument is self-serving and, frankly, nuts.

Whoa! This never happens! It's like watching one of those movies where the jock taunts the nerd for the last time, causing the nerd to go ape shit and punch him in the face.

He went on:

The column did not suggest that investors could not come to an opinion about a company and share it. That’s free speech. What I’m taking issue with — and what, to me, seems awfully hard to defend — is the practice of market manipulation through rumor-mongering.… You’re free to share your view that Apple might blow through its earnings number or that Lehman Brothers is headed for trouble. But you’re not free to intentionally tell others that you know that Apple will blow through its numbers — with the intent of pushing up the price — when you don’t know that at all.… The focus should be on the originator of the rumor, and that person’s intent. That seems pretty reasonable, no?

Andrew, the practice of market manipulation through rumor-mongering might be awfully hard to defend, but it’s also awfully hard to identify and to prosecute. From a regulator’s point of view, unless and until you think you have a decent chance at doing both, you’re wasting your time, no?

Perhaps the most frightening thing about this entire debate is that Sorkin's column and Dimon's chat with Charlie Rose have almost certainly encouraged enforcement agents at various government bodies to open investigations. This is how they work over at the enforcement office of the SEC. Open the paper, read the headline, start an investigation.

Moving Markets With Rumors: A Response [DealBook/NYT]
The Wonderboy Strikes Back [DealBreaker]

Nike Launches Sportswear, Literally

The only things we like quilted are our bags.Photo: Courtesy of Nike

Now this we like. Easier on the eyes!Photo: Courtesy of Nike

The new Air Max 90.Photo: Courtesy of Nike

Nike Sportswear Website Launched [HighSnobiety]

Jesse Jackson Apologizes for Badmouthing Barack Obama Before We Even Know What He Said

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"For any harm or hurt that this hot mic private conversation may have caused, I apologize. My support for Senator Obama’s campaign is wide, deep and unequivocal. I cherish this redemptive and historical moment. My appeal was for the moral content of his message to not only deal with the personal and moral responsibility of black males, but to deal with the collective moral responsibility of government and the public policy which would be a corrective action for the lack of good choices that often led to their irresponsibility. That was the context of my private conversation and it does not reflect any disparagement on my part for the historic event in which we are involved or my pride in Senator Barack Obama, who is leading it, whom I have supported by crisscrossing this nation in every level of media and audience from the beginning in absolute terms.

Obama has shown a certain level of tough love in his analysis of the African-American community in a few speeches, notably the one on Father's Day directed at black dads. We can't wait to hear what Jackson called Obama. We have a guess, but it's not something white people are allowed to say unless their father's brother is named Thomas.

Jesse Jackson apologizes for comments critical of Obama [CNN]
Earlier: Jesse Jackson Touts Obama’s ‘Clear Vision’

Update: Apparently he said Obama is "cutting off his nuts" with blacks. CNN has Jackson apologizing on air.

CK One Might Come Back With Aggy; Britney Goes Über-Blonde

Agyness Deyn and Kate MossPhoto: Getty Images

• Ferragamo Parfums is set to release a citrusy, floral, woody fragrance called Tuscan Soul in September. They call it a "lifestyle beauty project" and hope its success will pave the way for Ferragamo-branded spas. Imagine: a fashion spa! [WWD]

SKIN
• Meredith Vieira says she's against plastic surgery. Her secret to a youthful look is not having a secret. Why don't we quite believe it? [People]

• Clinique's Moisture Surge Face Spray contains aloe and comes in travel-size bottle, so you can bring skin refreshment wherever you go. It's not like you'll look weird walking around spraying yourself in the face or anything. [Daily Cookie]

HAIR
• Lookie! Britney Spears is really blonde now! [Off the Rack/People]

• The Warren-Tricomi salon that opened at the Plaza Hotel three weeks ago is going to expand again at the end of the summer when they'll offer full access to the hotel's concierge service and room-service menus. There's nothing like a $16 club sandwich when you're getting your hair cut. [Style.com]

• The Epicare So Easy ($17) is a facial-hair-removal tool that looks like a long, thin pen. Its tightly wound coils grab hair at the root. "So Easy"? Right, we remember the Epilady. And we say: Ow. [Beauty in Real Life]

Carla Bruni Anticipates Criticism of Her New Album

Carla BruniPhoto: Getty Images

Bruni wrote eleven of the fourteen tracks on the album, Comme Si De Rien N'Etait (which ironically translates to Simply). She's not planning a tour (boo) but is happy she decided to keep up her singing career after her marriage. AFP reports:

"It is 2008. Women often keep their jobs when they marry, even when they marry someone with such an important job as my husband," she said, pointing out that Cherie Blair kept working as a lawyer throughout her husband's term as British prime minister.

Bruni added she "would be lucky" if she managed to write another album before 2012 when her husband leaves office, since she expects to spend all her time fulfilling official First Lady duties. And in accordance with this responsible behavior, she's donating all royalties from the album to charity.

Carla Bruni will 'understand' if public scorns new album [AFP]

Related: Carla Bruni: ‘My Guy, I Roll Him Up and Smoke Him’

Obama’s Family Problems: How Hillary Clinton Fits In

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But the person who is causing Obama the most awkward friendly-fire problems these days is Hillary Clinton. The Journal reported over the weekend that her donors are still too angry to give money to Obama. And today the Times points out that the reverse is true — despite repeated pleas from Obama, his donors remain unwilling to help her pay off her $23 million in campaign debt.

All of which made us realize: Hillary Clinton is Barack Obama's political mother-in-law!

In life, your mother is allowed to say all the nasty things she wants about your boyfriend or girlfriend, mostly because she thinks she knows what's best for you. Some moms hold back, though, because they're afraid that you will marry that person, and then whatever they've said will be this terrible elephant in the room for the rest of your lives. In this metaphor, Hillary Clinton isn't that kind of mother. She's the mom who excoriated your significant other, telling you he or she isn't good enough for you, and doing everything she could to prevent you from committing to that person above all other potential candidates.

But you did. And now your spouse is forced to deal with this awkward family situation, where everybody knows how the mother-in-law feels. But everybody has to pretend that they all love one another, in public and in private. They have to act as though none of the name-calling and tearing down ever happened and that they can work together in the future for the sake of the family. Because like it or not, your mother-in-law is on your team, and someday you may have to take care of her, like that time Miranda had to give Anne Meara a sponge bath on Sex and the City.

In plenty of families, this lie goes on and on, energetically repeated, until it vaguely becomes the truth. Obama and Hillary certainly seem to be doing their best: They're appearing together in New York tonight at an Obama fund-raiser at the Grand Hyatt and tomorrow at a finance breakfast at the Hilton Towers. We'll be at the breakfast with them, and you can be sure we'll be watching to see whether Hillary makes any comments about the softness of Barack's French toast.

Next week: Bill Clinton as grampy!

The Obamas Sit Down for Their First Family Interview [Access Hollywood]

Cello Player Crazily Invites Wrath of Kanye West

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2. Dizzee Rascal, "That's Not My Name" (Ting Tings cover)
England's Minister of Grime drops by Live Lounge to remake the Ting Ting's wallflower anthem as an angry track about hate speech. [Mixtape Maestro]

3. Man Man, "Doo Right"
Man Man leader Honus Honus sings, "I want to hold you until the mountains turn to sand," but settles for "until his keyboard runs out of power." [Pitchfork]

4. UNKLE feat. Josh Homme, "Chemical"
James Levelle gets help from a Queen of the Stone Age on this paranoid (and pretty good) track off his new record. [Swill Merchant]

5. Anoraak, "Talking in Your Sleep" (Romantics cover)
Anoraak somehow manages to make this cover sound even more retro than the original. [Culture of Me] —Ehren Gresehover

A husband explores 'Life in a Marital Institution' (AP)

AP - James Braly's one-man show, "Life in a Marital Institution," seems on the surface to be about his marriage and his wife, Susan — although it's really all about him. Braly seems to know that, though, which makes his storytelling about the "tantric conflict" between him and Susan even funnier, as he often laughs along with the audience.

On the Net: YouTube videos play with reality (AP)

We’ve Got Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Inglorious Bastards’ Script

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…and it is exactly as batshit over-the-top insane as we hoped.

The copy we acquired includes a handwritten cover page which we think might actually be in Tarantino's handwriting, reading, "INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS." This misspelling of "bastards" continues through the screenplay, suggesting we were right when we guessed Tarantino was writing really, really fast. He doesn't even have time to spell-check if he's gonna get this movie turned around by Cannes!

The Bastards' and Shosanna's stories intersect when a gala premiere of a Goebbels-produced propaganda film is put on in Shosanna's theater, with Hitler and most of the German High Command scheduled to attend. Both the Bastards and Shosanna launch plots intending to end the war a little earlier than anyone expected.

The script's divided into five chapters:

Chapter One: Once Upon a Time … Nazi Occupied France

Chapter Two: Inglorious Basterds

Chapter Three: German Night in Paris

Chapter Four: Operation Kino

Chapter Five: Revenge of the Giant Face

The first chapter, set in 1941, introduces Shosanna and the film's antagonist, a Nazi officer named Landa who's known as the "Jew Hunter." The second chapter introduces the Bastards and their tactics: They kill Nazis on sight, take their scalps, and — when they let one go — carve a swastika into his forehead. The third chapter, set in 1944, reintroduces Shosanna in Paris ("This whole Chapter will be filmed in French New Wave Black and White"). The fourth sets up the Bastards' attack on the theater. And it all comes together in Chapter Five, which plays fast and loose with history, to say the least.

The script is definitely the ur-text of Quentin Tarantino's career up to now; it combines his love of old movies (war movies, Westerns, and even prewar German cinema), his attraction to powerful female protagonists, his love of chatter, and his willingness to embrace the extreme — visually and in his storytelling. (The flashbacks have particularly Tarantinoian flourishes: a thought bubble pops out of a character's head to introduce one, while another is shot spaghetti Western style.) All in all, it reads like Kill Bill meets The Dirty Dozen meets Cinema Paradiso.

We wondered at times if this script was a fake, and it's still possible that it is — but if so, it's such a skillful fake that the author has even mastered Tarantino's ability to write moments that seem almost like parodies of his own tastes. Such as, for example, our favorite moment in the screenplay, with a mix of fetishism and inspired comedy that feels authentically alive. Late in chapter four, the Nazis are preparing Shosanna's movie theater for its big premiere, and Goebbels tells her that he appreciates "the modesty of this auditorium." Then he suggests sprucing the place up a bit, with a chandelier from Versailles and a couple of Greek nudes from the Louvre scattered around the lobby. A quick montage shows this happening, and then Tarantino describes the result:

We see Workers trying with incredible difficulty, to hoist the huge, heavy, and twinkingly fragile chandelier, in Shosannas auditorium, which now resembles something out of one of Tinto Brass's Italian B-movie rip-off's of Visconti's "The Damned".

If anyone is crazy enough to fund it, this movie is gonna be awesome.

Related: Brad Pitt’s Imminent Paternity to Further Complicate Timely Completion of Tarantino’s ‘Inglorious Bastards’?
Quentin Tarantino Finishes ‘Inglorious Bastards’ Screenplay, Needs Money to Make It Into Movie

Derrick Cruz Has a Slight Bee Obsession

Cruz in his hive.Photo: Melissa Hom

So your installation revolves entirely around the disappearance of honeybees. What’s with the bee fixation?
I was doing some research about bee mythology a few years back for some limited-edition necklaces I was creating for BBlessing. That was when I found out about colony collapse disorder (a recent phenomenon in which honeybees are abandoning their hives en masse) and became obsessed with the little critters. If bees disappear, we won't be able to eat. Every third bite of food we take is something that has been pollinated by bees. Your entire Happy Meal is gone. No more cream soda for you.

And bees also fit into your accessories?
I was visiting the hives, and I found this abandoned honeycomb. I took it to my studio, cleaned it up, and cast directly from that wax into eighteen-karat gold to create pendants. I recruited the caramel artisans from Papabubble to insert the necklaces in a 25-inch hivelike pyramid made of sugar. There are pieces of gold in crevices filled with honey. You have to crack through the hive, stick the pieces in your mouth, and suck off the honey to get to the gold.

Yes, that's a 25-pound block of beeswax.Photo: Melissa Hom

What item of clothing is essential to your wardrobe?
The black T-shirt. I like Earnest Sewn T-shirts because they’re supersoft. And honestly, I wear Gap T-shirts.

What was the first designer item you bought?
I just started caring about shoes when I started dating my current girlfriend. I recently bought some Cloak shoes. I’ve been lusting after these shoes for a while — they’re black-on-black suede. They’re kind of casual posh; they even look good with shorts.

What trends do you wish would go away?
Louvered sunglasses. Why are they on the street? Why is that happening?

Where do you shop?
I like BBlessing and the Cast for printed T-shirts. And I really love Assembly on Ludlow. I spend a lot of time on the Lower East Side because my studio is down here, and Greg from Assembly is bringing in really great curated vintage stuff.

Do you have favorite designers?
Right now I really love the menswear designer Cory Gomberg. Also, I have darker, goth tendencies so I always loved Cloak.

What staple item should every man have in his closet?
Underwear and socks. I don’t think there is any one thing that everyone should have.

Do you wear your own jewelry?
No, I don’t, actually. I’ve made myself a ring or two and that’s about it. Necklaces make me feel like I’m choking, rings make me feel like my blood’s not flowing, and trinkets make me feel like I’m going to get caught on a cab and get dragged down the street.

How did your accessories end up on Gossip Girl?
Our friend Meredith is the stylist for the show. She was like, “I need to make these kids look rich and hip at the same time.” It was kind of weird to see my jewelry on that kind of show. But then they had the rock-and-roller dad wearing my ram's-head stickpin, and I thought, Well, at least they gave it to the legit dad. —Lauren Murrow

"A New Hive," Earnest Sewn, 821 Washington St., nr. Gansevoort St., 212-242-3414; 7/9–7/31.

Gucci's Cool Cruise On Rome's Highest Hill (Fashion Wire Daily)

Fashion Wire Daily - Gucci took its cruise 2009 collection to the top of Rome's highest hill, the Gianicolo, on Tuesday night, where under umbrella pines and before an audience of Hollywood, politico honchos and coolly haughty Italian aristos, designer Frida Giannini staged probably her best show to date for the house.

Sex Pistols Chronicler Does Joe Strummer a Good Turn

It’s only appropriate that Julien Temple, the London-‘77 scene hanger-on that captured the Sex Pistols on film in The Great Rock-n’-Roll Swindle, would do the same for the great Joe Strummer: It was the Sex Pistols’ sound that pushed Strummer to quit his pub-rock band the 101’ers and turn the volume up. Temple’s film lovingly illuminates the hectic Clash years with archival footage, animation, and interviews with everyone from Jim Jarmusch to John Cusack to Mick Jones.

Meet Emporio Armani Underwear’s First Asian Model

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This isn't Kaneshiro's first high-fashion gig; he was a spokesmodel for Prada in China in 1998. He has also shilled products for SonyEricsson, Pocari Sweat soft drink, and Morinaga chocolate, among others. The half-Chinese, half-Japanese actor has appeared in more than 30 films, and Time magazine calls him the Asian film industry's Johnny Depp. We'll just call him eye candy.

Emporio Armani's New Man [British Vogue]

What Will the David Cook–Endorsed Sneaker Look Like?

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Photo-illustration: istockphoto, Getty Images

David Cook Laces Up Shoe Deal [E! Online]

Settlement Less Likely in Brinkley Divorce

Artist Robert Therrien Could Probably Use a New Dishwasher

Robert Therrien’s No title (Pots + pans II) (2008).© Robert Therrien. Courtesy Gagosian Gallery

Memoir: Madonna's True Love is Herself

Lebanese star singer Elissa performs in 2007

Even an Ironclad Prenup Can Be Broken

Even Eddie Murphy Can’t Bear to Watch ‘Meet Dave’

Courtesy of 20th Century Fox

If, like us, you assumed that Hellboy II was the only movie opening this weekend, you were wrong! It turns out that the execrable-looking Eddie Murphy comedy Meet Dave also comes to theaters this Friday. Based on the trailer, which we saw before Wall-E — and which only the existence of Beverly Hills Chihuahua saves from being the worst trailer ever to be paired with a future Oscar-winning film — it's about a tiny Eddie Murphy alien who lives inside a huge Eddie Murphy robot who is socially inept and wears a white suit. It's like The Jerk meets Borat meets an Ed Wood movie. It looks horrible. And apparently it is horrible — so horrible that even Eddie Murphy doesn't want to watch it!

Murphy, the retired-then-not-retired star of Meet Dave, canceled his appearance at his own movie's premiere an hour and a half before showtime last night, leaving co-stars Elizabeth Banks and Gabrielle Union to pick up the pieces. An angry publicist (we bet) vented on Datalounge, asserting that this kind of behavior is exactly why Murphy is hated in Hollywood and didn't win an Oscar. Maybe so! We'd always thought it was because of Norbit — speaking of which, oh God, could this be worse than Norbit? Wow, maybe.

THIS is why Eddie Murphy lost the Oscar. [Datalounge via Defamer]

Bill Kaulitz of the teen rock ban "Tokio Hotel"

Christie Brinkley prays for settlement

Celebrity psychic knows a good deal

Hit comic: 'I don't really know what I'm doing'

17-Year-Old Spears Had 'Perfect' Pregnancy

Gisele, World's Top Supermodel Bares All

What's Worse: Affairs of the Heart or Flings?

Strike Threat Lifted? AFTRA Signs Deal

Jessica Simpson 'Deeply Hurt' by Anderson

New mayor seeks to restore fashion glory for Rome (Reuters)

Reuters - Rome's new right-wing mayor says he wants to turn the ancient city into a modern hub for budding fashion designers, dismissing criticism that the city's rich art and culture credentials will take a beating under his command.

Jamie Lynn Spears poses with baby