Photo: Getty Images, nytimes.com

Photo: Getty Images

Green Bird striped boat neck bamboo sweater ($160) and side-knit bamboo cardigan ($210).Photo: Courtesy of Bird

The Brooklyn Vintage Boutique Where Pat Field Shops

Vintage boutique Frock, an Orchard Street staple, opened a second outpost in Park Slope last week. The store is known for its versatile collection of high-end vintage designer pieces, curated by Alexandra "Lexi" Sacchi and Evan Ross. Designers shop there all the time, and just yesterday stylist Patricia Field pulled from the new Brooklyn store for Ugly Betty, which she styles. "Each piece at Frock is carefully picked for a specific reason — there is something about it, outside of its label, that elevates it in our minds," Sacchi told us. "This is why we are a true boutique, in the sense that the pieces are carefully selected and arranged." We peeked in the store to check it out and discovered the stock at the Brooklyn store more than holds a candle to its sister Lower East Side shop. Here are some of our favorite items:

Clockwise from top right, Teal Traina dress, Judith Leiber bag, Oscar de la Renta dress, Chanel dress, and Emanuel Ungaro dress.Photo: Courtesy of Frock

Judith Leiber Bag (eighties)
Price: $1,500
Why we like it: This clutch features red, gold, and black rhinestones on fabric with a gold frame closure, which shows the designer's incredible craftsmanship.

Oscar de la Renta Print Dress (seventies)
Price: $650
Why we like it: The print on this spaghetti-strap floral silk gown is bold and gorgeous.

Chanel Dress (seventies)
Price: $975
Why we like it: The pattern of speckled gold, bronze, and navy metallics is amazing on this long-sleeved red silk-chiffon dress and matching belt.

Emanuel Ungaro Polka-dot Dress (eighties)
Price: $385
Why we like it: This silk polka-dot dress is from the eighties but actually quite modern. —Sharon Clott

Frock, 274 5th Ave., nr. Garfield Pl., Park Slope, Brooklyn (718-499-2950); Tues.–Sun. (1–8), Mon. (closed).

Jason Giambi’s Mustache Has Been Vanquished!

Left: Jason Giambi. Right: David Wright. If you had to have that explained to you, you're only reading this post for the mustache content.Photo: Getty Images

All-Star Game [MLB.com]
Earlier: Jason Giambi's Mustache: Already Overhyped

Angry Brinkley divorce trial over

David Morrell's 'Captain America' a knockout (AP)

AP - "Captain America: The Chosen" (Marvel Comics. 168 Pages. $24.99), by David Morrell and Mitch Breitweiser: David Morrell has done something totally new: The best selling author of action thrillers has written a comic-book series. It all happened because a Marvel Comics editor suggested that Morrell, who created the famous character "Rambo" in his novel, "First Blood," would make a good pairing with another military icon, Captain America.

DJ AM Spins a Libel Suit

Antonio Banderas Returning to Broadway in ‘Don Giovanni’?

Photo: Getty Images

Once and for All: How Do You Pronounce MGMT?

Photo: Jon Bergman

We've enjoyed MGMT's album Oracular Spectacular since it came out last fall, but with the band playing at McCarren Pool later this month — and the subject of a profile in our own magazine this week — we realized we still don't know for sure how to pronounce the band's name. Is it "Management," which we've heard used to be their name before some other band laid claim to it? Is it just the letters pronounced in order — "Em Gee Em Tee"? Or is it some mumbled version of "Management" with the vowels removed ("Mij-mit")?

Some blog commenters claim it's one thing; others claim it's another. Rolling Stone says it's "Management." David Letterman says it's "Em Gee Em Tee." Time for some totally necessary Vulture detective work!

We called the band's label, Columbia, and a publicist told us it's definitely pronounced "Em Gee Em Tee." This seems to be confirmed by this video, in which MGMT's Andrew VanWyngarden pronounces it that way. But we wouldn't put it past these guys to change it again, to "Magma" or something.

Related: The Slow Burn [NYM]

Deputy Margaret Cho Performing Gay Marriages

Galliano Parties for Perfume; Did Arlenis Land the Lancôme Campaign?

John GallianoPhoto: Getty Images

• Van Cleef & Arpels jewelers is releasing a scent, and the packaging is very Lord of the Rings: A tall sculpture of a fairy on a branch for the cap tops a textured sphere. Execs say it will be one of the most expensive perfumes on the market. [Cosmetic News]

• Puma launched a men's and women's fragrance set: Free Flowing Woman and Free Flowing Man. The women's is floral, while the men's is citrusy and woodsy. Hippie spirit not included. [Now Smell This]

SKIN
• New commercials for skin-lightening creams in India are causing controversy. They star three huge Bollywood actresses and imply you need light skin to snag a man. The cream is made by Unilever, the same company that trumpets "love your body" in Dove ads. [Jezebel]

MAKEUP
• Rumor has it Arlenis Sosa, a new face in the modeling world, signed on as the next face of Lancôme. That's huge for a girl who started her career months ago. [Fashionista]

• Speaking of Lancôme, their new Maharani Jewels collection features a bronzer embossed with an elephant. It's quite fabulous. [BellaSugar]

• M.A.C's highly anticipated Electro Flash collection hits counters today. So go get some and get your rave on. Or something. [Makeup Loves Me]

• Wicked Lovely, Smashbox's fall collection, takes a darker turn with colors like sooty gray, pewter, and black. Oh, dark colors for fall? How surprising. [BellaSugar]

PLASTIC SURGERY
• There are less fake boobs and retinol-ed faces in the world this year: Plastic surgeons say business has slowed 53 percent. We guess it's one of the good side effects of no one being able to afford anything these days. [USAT]

Sandra Corveloni

A revival of 'Damn Yankees' hits a solid double (AP)

AP - Back in the Dark Ages (OK, mid-1950s) when the New York Yankees reigned supreme and the Washington Senators were perennial patsies, Broadway found musical-theater fodder in baseball.

tucker: summer, solved

I once read a reference to a study that claimed to show that children who grow up in cold climates do better on intelligence tests than those who grow up in warm ones; something to do with all the extra bits of clothing they have keep track of. Sounds dubious, but being Canadian and having been burdened with mitts, scarves, and various other layers of wool for most of my life, I didn't question it too closely. Come summer, however, I don't want to waste IQ points pondering any sort of complicated accoutrements. I want getting dressed to be effortless, the way putting on one of Gaby Basora's Tucker dresses or blouses is effortless. Throw on one of her signature patterned silk dresses or blouses and you need very little else to feel ready to head out the door. And that's something that even those of us accustomed to dealing with a whole lot more can easily get used to.

Staten Island Has a Turkey Overpopulation Problem

Gobble gobble.Photo:

Queens: Okay, once again, no identifiable hood here, but how could we not note that the good people of Q-boro want to do terrible things to the man who stomped on his own beautiful, fluffy, white Persian kitty, breaking her jaw, three ribs, and a hind leg? What neighborhood is that sick bastard in? [NYDN via Queens Crap]
Roosevelt Island: There aren't as many heavily armed cops on Segways here as there will be in Beijing for the Olympics, but there are some, just ready to nab you with that open alcohol bottle at your picnic. [Roosevelt Islander]
Tribeca: Would Edward Albee please stand up and protest the fact that a quotation of his about swine and truffles appears that it's being used to market a new condo? (Plus, in the East Village, try the new fro-yo joint 16 Hindles!) [Vanishing NY]
Williamsburg: A funky bowling alley is supposed to come to Wythe Avenue near the Brooklyn Brewery by year's end...and it'll include a rock venue and a "major food component." Yeah, we love food components—stttrrrike! [Curbed]

The Skinny on Jennifer Hudson's New Album

The Latest Spawn of Hanson

‘Ace Ventura 3’ Might Not Be the Masterpiece You'd Hoped

Why, Ace Ventura's son, Ace Ventura Jr.

And who could play him? Why, Josh Flitter, the kid who was Robin Williams's wisecracking sidekick in the truly terrible License to Wed. That's right — the kid who managed to come off like an overeager Virginia ham even while acting next to Robin Williams.

Obviously the Ace Ventura trilogy is not the Godfather trilogy, so it's foolish to get all upset about the third episode spoiling everything. But seriously, this is the kind of movie parents will take their kids to but not stay for, where farting can be suggested, as long as it's not prolonged. Not since The Love Guru has a movie so firmly declared its intent to be lousy before it even gets out of the gate. Just watching the commercials is going to stiffen the resolve of the voluntarily childless. Look at all the posters! Animals! Shades! Animals wearing shades! Humping hamsters! We never thought we'd say such a thing, but, Jim Carrey, why have you forsaken us? —Linda Holmes

First Look: Ace Ventura 3 [/Film]

Fashionable Men Are Wearing High-Waters and Cutoffs This Summer

Flood pants by Thom Browne and cutoffs by Michael Bastian.Photo: imaxtree, Courtesy of Michael Bastian

Browne says the short pant is not actually meant to be as short as he showed them on the runways. He told The Wall Street Journal:

"Sometimes you see guys with their trousers and you wonder who their tailor is … they're way too long," he says. "I tried to play with that and do the total opposite." The perfect pant length, Mr. Browne adds, hits the top of one's shoe, with no break, or crease across the lower pant leg.

Going even higher up the leg, today's "Styles" section in the Times highlights the cutoff trend. Apparently men have gotten so comfortable wearing fancy shorts, madras shorts, shorts with embroidered lobsters, and plaid shorts, shorts had gotten stale, and a new trend was needed. Enter: cutoffs. Menswear designer Michael Bastian says they're one of his best sellers every season. Michael Macko, fashion director at Details, says they're "just cooler, more casual."

If you want to properly rock a cutoff (God help us), be extra careful if you have the zeal to make them yourself. They should neither be baggy nor so long that they resemble clam-diggers. And don't show too much thigh either. The shorts should rise one to three inches above the knee with probably about a seven-inch inseam. To achieve the perfect cutoff, measure your inseam while wearing your pants, then cut up the seams. Slightly cut the pant with a razor blade and then rip them off. Make sure the front and back are equal lengths. Apparently looking a bit sloppy is quite a complicated thing.

For styling suggestions, don't miss the New York Times' slideshow of a man wearing cutoffs the proper way while hanging laundry and eating pink ice cream. We mean, what do you do in your cutoffs?

The Sharpest Shorts Are Abbreviated Pants [NYT]
A Short Story: The Rise of 'Floods' [WSJ]

what rot: anya gallaccio and chantal akerman in london

Classic still-life painters used organic material as subject matter to capture the beauty and heighten viewers' awareness of the fragility of life. Anya Gallaccio achieves the same paradoxical ends by bringing products such as organic chocolate, sugar, and fresh fruit into the gallery. The juxtaposition of the decaying and withering of the natural materials and the steadfast nature of the precious metals and other conventional art media that Gallacio uses illustrates life's fleeting pleasures. Beginning tomorrow at the Camden Arts Centre in London, new work by Gallacio is paired with two installations and screenings of classic films by legendary director Chantal Akerman. Both artists are fascinated by the passage of time and our futile efforts to arrest it—catch this exhibit before the opportunity dies away.

Our IT Guy Is First in Line for the New iPhone

This is our IT guy. If Outlook crashes today, we're
screwed.Photo: Al Lee

• "A lot of people are stopping and asking if I can hold them a spot for when they come back around four. Or they're taking down my number to call later and see how long the line is — they wanna use me as a watchperson."

• "I just had a guy try to sell me a bootleg (Chinese) iPhone saying it's the new 3G one. He wanted $500 for it."

• "Four journalists have come up to me to write stories."

• "Why am I out here? I have no sense! I'm comfortable. I ordered food from SeamlessWeb. I've got my chopsticks. Japanese Fusion."

• "Tourists are taking video and pictures of me. Someone wanted to hold my hand and take a — wait, sorry, someone just asked me again if I could hold them a spot and they could call me."

• "Mac Geniuses are giving me a little grief because I'm on an IBM Thinkpad."

• "A police car just drove by, and the cop gave me a thumbs-up."

• "Whoopi Goldberg just patted me on the shoulder and said, 'Good job!'"

Does this mean Whoopi's an iPhone fan? We really can't see her fussing with the touch screen. —Jessica Coen

Earlier: Walking the iPhone Line

Defending Warren Beatty's AFI Award

Warren Beatty at the AFI presentation.Photo: Getty Images

Blauvelt claims that Duvall "has made almost 65 films" since 1978, to Beatty's eight. (The number looks suspiciously like the result of looking up "Robert Duvall" on IMDb, going down through 1978, counting all TV movies, video games, cameos, and other detritus). Kevin Bacon, using the same measure, has made 64 "films" in that period of time — and none of his are video games. Get ready for your AFI Lifetime Achievement Award, Kevin Bacon!

As to uneven quality? Blauvelt points out that, in addition to Bonnie and Clyde, Reds, and Dick Tracy, Beatty made Ishtar and Love Affair, which is a fair point. So fair that it almost pains us to mention Duvall's associations with Deep Impact, Phenomenon, and the Demi Moore version of The Scarlet Letter. (Forgot all about that one, didn't you?)

But the kicker is this: "Call me a film snob, but I'm even a bit of a skeptic when it comes to Bonnie [and Clyde]. Part of me thinks the film just rips off French New Wave movies that did it better, such as Breathless, Jules and Jim, and Pierrot le fou." As is explained in Pictures at a Revolution — written by Blauvelt's EW colleague Mark Harris — the Bonnie screenwriters explicitly set out to make an "American French New Wave film," and they doggedly (and almost successfully) pursued Truffaut to direct. The idea that connecting the finished product to the French New Wave would make you a "film snob" is endearingly self-deprecating, but not very realistic.

Look, Warren Beatty is, deservedly, a legend. Like every producer and actor, he's made his share of stinkers, but one of the reasons he's a legend is that for the most part he made the stinkers on the same terms he made his masterpieces: his own. That he was able to overcome the studio system that wanted to cast him as an empty pretty boy is why he's a legend. And Blauvelt better be careful; We kind of think Warren Beatty is going to show up with a bunch of thugs at the EW offices to shoot his ninth movie since 1978, What My Shoe Tastes Like, As Told by Christian Blauvelt. —Linda Holmes

Questioning Warren Beatty's AFI award [EW]

'Give Peace A Chance' lyrics sold at rock and pop auction for 790,00 dollars

Old Bag Uma Thurman Is Really Lucky She Found Someone to Marry Her

Grateful Uma.Photo: Getty Images

Why Is Uma Thurman Feeling So Insecure About Her Engagement to Arpad "Arki" Busson [Daily Mail]
Related: Ethan Hawke Marries Girlfriend Ryan Shawhughes [People]

Artist Michael McGarry Makes Spider-Man a Management Consultant

Michael McGarry’s Spiderman (2005).Courtesy of David Krut Projects

Michael McGarry’s Spiderman is part of a show of contemporary South African art at David Krut Projects, through July 30, which attempts to move beyond South Africa's pesky political past and inject a little humor into the air. We’re not so much seeing humor in this version of Spidey who seems to have moved from fighting crime to office work. Rather, in his nondescript suit and, well, that paper-bag helmet, he looks a little nostalgic for the days when he’d be swinging from this bleak roof. But with MJ at home with spider-baby, it seems everybody needs to make a living, even superheroes. —Emma Pearse

A Peek at the Comme des Garçons–Louis Vuitton Handbag Collaboration

Photo: Courtesy of Louis Vuitton

The collection will be available for special order exclusively at the Louis Vuitton pop-up shop starting September 4 in the Tokyo Comme des Garçons store. Good luck getting there and getting your paws on one.

Louis Vuitton celebrates 30 years in Japan with Comme des Garçons [Bag Snob]

Related: Comme des Garçons Partners With Louis Vuitton!

See David Gordon Green’s Early Short Film ‘Physical Pinball’ Before Getting Baked at ‘Pineapple Express’

Next week BAM will present All the Real Americans: The World of David Gordon Green, an awesome retrospective that will present not only all of Green’s features, but also films selected by the director himself that he considers influences on his work (Picnic at Hanging Rock, The Last Picture Show, etc.). The series will end with a highly anticipated sneak preview of Green’s latest, the Judd Apatow–produced action-comedy Pineapple Express on July 24. (You can read an interview we did with Green back in March here.) In honor of this retro, we figured we’d present Physical Pinball, one of the terrific shorts Green did while a student at the North Carolina School of the Arts. Set in the southern junkyard milieu familiar to anyone who’s seen the director’s feature debut, George Washington, it’s a coming-of-age story about a young tomboy who realizes she’s turning into a woman, and about how she and her fast-talking auto-mechanic father try to deal with it. Displaying all the warmth, humor, and improvisatory poetry of Green’s best work, it makes quite clear that its creator was headed for some sort of greatness. —Bilge Ebiri

Physical Pinball: Part Two

Who Is Alicia Marie, A-Rod’s ‘Muscle Gal Pal’?

Alicia Marie and her boyfriend, John Rocker, last year.Photo: Getty Images

Alicia Marie once admitted to me that she had set up an interview with Rocker partly because “he’s so cute.” She called him an “athletic Adonis” in a March 2006 article, and within weeks they were dating.

Six months later, I interviewed Rocker and his now-serious girlfriend at a Lower East Side bar, in which he famously claimed, “I'm not Republican in everything — I mean, look at my girlfriend.” Alicia was smiling and playing along — she has a neuroscience degree from the University of Connecticut and referred to her parents as “the only black Republicans on earth” — and sent me an e-mail the next day to thank me for “being so nice to John.”

After I included the interview in my book, Alicia told me, “I feel famous!” I sincerely hope she liked the feeling, because she's certainly famous now. —Will Leitch

Downey Jr. to play supersleuth Sherlock Holmes

words to live by from the duchess of windsor

Linda Evangelista, photographed by Steven Meisel, is cast as the Duchess (of Windsor) in the July issue of Vogue Italia. The pug-loving, Mainbocher-wearing former Mrs. Simpson had a way with words—her classic "You can never be too rich or too thin" quip has spawned thousands of needlepoint throw pillows. Here, we match some of her lesser known bons mots with tears from the shoot.

"Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches."

"I'm nothing to look at, so the only thing I can do is dress better than anyone else."

"All my friends know that I'd rather shop than eat."

"Forgive me for not writing but this man is exhausting."

Holmes vs. Holmes: Will Robert Downey Jr. or Sacha Baron Cohen Make a Better Sherlock?

Photo-illustrations: Getty Images, istockphoto

It's the Battle of Baker Street! Robert Downey Jr. and Sacha Baron Cohen will face off as rival Sherlock Holmeses in upcoming films: Cohen is lined up for a Judd Apatow comedy, with Will Ferrell as Watson (More-Funny Sherlock Holmes); Downey is in discussions to appear in the Guy Ritchie comic-book adaptation (Less-Funny Sherlock Holmes).

So which Holmes will emerge victorious? We've taken a close look through the magnifying glass, and it's got to be Downey.

Downey is going to be the one in the deerstalker; Cohen is going to be the one in the tweed thong. Downey will surely explore Holmes's cocaine addiction; ten bucks says Cohen and Ferrell make out. Downey is probably the coolest movie star in America right now; Cohen is still duping the riffraff into behaving exactly the way everyone watched them behave in Borat. And while we'd ordinarily pick Judd Apatow over Guy Ritchie any day of the week, we have a hunch that Apatow might be getting a little complacent in his success, while at this point Ritchie must be good and mad, right?

Cohen and Apatow certainly might make a serviceable Holmes project, in which Holmes will sniff the butt of the dog that didn't bark, and maybe Verne Troyer will play Moriarty (the Napoleon of Crime, get it?), and maybe "elementary" will be the punch line to some joke about schoolgirls. But unless Downey manages to melt down before his project gets made (what are the odds?), we'll take our missing jewelry and mysteriously dead relatives to him, thank you very much. —Linda Holmes

Anne Hathaway Gets Her Chic Revenge

Poor Anne Hathaway. As if it weren't tough enough to promote Get Smart in the wake of dumping her skeevy jailed boyfriend, she had to grapple with last weekend's spate of splashy tabloid headlines about her love life: "The Princess and the Con-Man" on People's cover, and the touchingly subtle "BURNED BY A LOSER" from Us Weekly. If we'd had a month — or even a week — like that, we'd be on day eight of watching Ocean's Eleven while eating only ice cream and not brushing our hair. Instead, Anne has risen from the ashes looking like the proverbial $21 million bucks her ex needs to post bail. Take a look at her fashion from the past few weeks; we think you'll agree that Ms. Hathaway is the perfect poster child for how looking hot really is the best revenge.

The Revenge Haircut!Photo: Getty Images

The icing on the cake, though, is Anne's delicious Breakup Bob. Usually we warn people away from running to the hairdresser after a catastrophic event and screaming, "JUST CUT IT ALL OFF," because, well, look how well it worked for Britney. But we love the shorter length on Anne — especially the slightly tousled version up on the right. It says, "Why, hello there, Tragic Ex. Doesn't this look like sexy-time bed head? For ten bucks, I'll tell you if it is. OH WAIT. You're in hock to your lawyers until the end of time. What a SHAME."

Who's sorry now, Follieri?Photo: Getty Images

Anne’s dressier looks are likewise very smart. She must have been tempted to whip out the ol' cleavage — who doesn’t want to remind her ex that he no longer holds the key to Boobs Manor? — but went instead for classic, feminine, and refined. Conveniently, the whole Beautiful But Demure look is also an excellent way to reinforce the idea that she could not possibly have had any inkling what her asshat ex was (allegedly) doing. Does this look like a woman who would approve of lying about the Vatican? Certainly not!

Not that Anne looks prim (although she does seem like she might be a bit hungry, but that's another column). The Breakup Bob is as sexy curly as it is straight, which is the mark of a very good haircut indeed, and the black Rita Hayworth–esque gown accompanying it is super slinky without drifting into Slutsville. And while Anne’s white concoction could easily have turned into something a bit too virginal Disney Princess (it’s white! It’s frothy!), the construction is interesting enough to keep it adult.

So, congratulations, Anne. Not only for persevering in the face of a very embarrassing public breakup without bursting into tears on the red carpet, but for doing so without resorting to stumbling around in Cheetos-stained sweatpants and flip-flops, or even an endless series of interchangeable black dresses, à la Jennifer Aniston after that whole Brangelina thing. Maybe she really should teach a class. —The Fug Girls

Read all of our coverage of Anne Hathaway and Raffaelo Follieri.
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Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama Are Like ‘Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers’

There's no question about who leads anymore.Photo: Getty Images

“Anyone who voted for me has so much in common with those who voted for Barack,” Hillary said. “And it is critical that we join forces because the Democratic Party is a family — sometimes a dysfunctional family — but it is a family.”

As for Obama, he pretty much seconded everything Hillary said and expanded on it — after, of course, lavishing praise. “As someone shouted in New Hampshire when we were there,” he said, “she rocks.”

So did the crowd buy it? “It looked like Clinton-Gore up there to me, but better," said Ali Muney. "They looked like a real pair. I’d like to see them running on the same ticket.” Muney, like most of the people there, has been an Obama supporter since the beginning. But a handful of Hillary fans also came out to warily show their support.

“I was with Clinton all the way, but now I’m with the Democratic candidate all the way," said Shirley Hurwitz, visiting from Lexington, Massachusetts. "Her support helped me make the switch.” Could she see an Obama-Clinton ticket? “Yeah…yeah,” she said hesitantly. “It seemed wacky a while ago, but now I think it could work.” —Kelly Marages

Brooke Hogan: 'I Feel Like I'm 40'

Kidrobot's New Jewelry Line Is Full of Angry Bunnies

So many colors!Photo: Courtesy of Kidrobot

Following up Kidrobot's recent colorful, toy-inspired handbag line, the new collection includes necklaces, bracelets, earrings, charms, rings, and wallet chains that all feature a Kidrobot character, plus Tarantino's signature Swarovski-crystal embellishments, Lucite beads, pearls, silk ribbons, and cast-metal pendants. We're eyeing the drop earrings with angry-looking bunnies smoking cigarettes and sticking out their tongues. Aww, cute and tough! See those and more after the jump. — Sharon Clott

Photo: Courtesy of Kidrobot

Photo: Courtesy of Kidrobot

Matthew Weiner Has the DSM-IV to Thank for ‘Mad Men’

Photo: WireImage

"I said to [Carlton Cuse] the other day, 'Do you know where this is going?' He says, 'Kind of!' I said, 'Okay, that's good enough!'" —Cheech Marin on Lost [IGN]

"I will occasionally listen to music. Or stuff that all sounds a little bit similar, like Feist. I'm a huge fan of two or three of her songs. I'm the same way with Cat Power, which I know is blasphemy, but I feel like it all sounds — it all hits this weird note. If you listen that stuff too much, you find yourself writing The Bell Jar Redux." —Sloane Crosley [A.V. Club]

"Absolutely truthfully? I fucking hate it. When I hear dum dum-dum dum-dum … I'm out the room." —Grease veteran Luke Goss on hearing "Summer Nights" on the radio [EW]

"If I get tickets to the All-Star Game out of this, the record will be a success." —Steve Wynn on his new band, the Baseball Project [Soundboard/LAT]

Miss Washington Embarrassed by Internet Photos

Brinkley Gets the Kids, Cook Gets $2.1M

Tim Russert As Guardian Angel: Is the Media Going Too Far?

Photo: Getty Images

Okay. We're happy for Bicks and all, but is this maybe getting a little out of hand? The blanket coverage of Russert's death and memorial service and the long television tribute montages that some critics thought were too much (Jack Shafer accused the media of canonizing him as a saint) — all that, we could understand. Russert's death was jarring: He was a rare figure in political journalism that everybody liked. But now it seems like we're moving on from sainthood and turning him into a miracle-working angel. It started with the rainbow over Washington during his memorial service. We know he was Catholic, a wonderful man, and friends with the Pope — but we don't see any altars set up to Russert. Yet.

A journalist like Michael Bicks would logically have Russert on his mind when he had mysterious pains. As would a Washington resident like the woman who had a similar experience, chronicled in the Washington Express. But let's be honest — hordes of men across the country rushing to the hospital to get checked out? That seems like a little bit of a stretch. Maybe if the president died. Or Brad Pitt or Donovan McNabb. We can't help but think some journalists are making way too much of this because they're having trouble letting go. For Tim's sake, isn't it time to just let his accomplishments speak for him? The ones from while he was alive, we mean.

Is Kanye West’s New Viral Campaign Too Viral for Its Own Good?

Photo: Joe DeLessio

But then we saw the above ad for Be Kanye tablets on the 1 train yesterday, which also only mentions Absolut’s name in passing (we didn’t even see it at first), and we got to thinking: Kanye West is a genius. He’s gotten a liquor company to pay for ads promoting not an album, or a tour, but simply how awesome he is. Most 1 train riders will never even know who’s behind the ads, since that would require either reading the ad's copy carefully and making a connection to what an “Absolut World” might mean or going to the advertised Website or calling the number — which, let’s be honest, your average straphanger won’t bother to do. (Especially because, thank God, cell phones still don't work in subway tunnels.) And unlike most viral ads, which pique your curiosity for what exactly is being advertised, you could safely assume this was just an ad for West. It would seem that this is a pretty bad strategy for Absolut, but then again, we just mentioned their name four times, so maybe it’s not so dumb after all. —Joe DeLessio

Jourdan Dunn and Karlie Kloss Star in Topshop’s New Campaign

Jourdan Dunn and Karlie KlossPhoto: WireImage

Dunn and Kloss have already made pretty big names for themselves, and the Topshop spot will only bolster their fame. Past Topshop models Lily Donaldson, Lily Cole, and Caroline Trentini have gone on to star in campaigns for Gucci, Prada, and Oscar de la Renta, respectively.

At 19, the girl's Dunn good: New London sensation Jourdan stars in campaign for Topshop [Daily Mail]

Gucci gala livens up Rome fashion scene (AP)

AP - Just when fashion in Rome needed a dash of inspiration, Gucci's Frida Giannini comes along and throws a big party in a villa overlooking the Eternal City.

Jessica Alba: I 'Never Felt Less Sexy' Than Being Pregnant

tracy reese paints it quartz. and teak and graphite.

When Karl Lagerfeld sent models down the runway back in 1994 sporting berry-black nails, he forever altered nail polish's status in the fashion world. Chanel's Vamp became an instant classic, and a good manicure earned a spot on every designer's to-do list for a successful runway presentation. "I've always felt nails were such an important accessory for my runway shows and for the completion of my looks in general," Tracy Reese concurs. Hence the designer's decision to collaborate on a line of nail lacquers with beauty-industry monolith Sally Hansen, to debut in August. Inspired by actual fabric swatches from Reese's Fall collection, which includes shades of graphite, quartz, and teak, the ten new polishes offer a direct link to her clothing. It's essentially like buying ready-to-wear for $6 a pop, from a drug store near you. And no dressing-room drama.

Giving up gardening

Making it big

topshop's top denim

Topshop's new high-end denim area: One more thing to wait impatiently for.

Arden Wohl has always loved her accessories, but as Ralph Lauren learned in the Hamptons this weekend, it turns out makeup is her fave way to make a statement.

Fashion glossies aren't the only things subject to harmless, truth-bending Photoshopping for appearances' sake. Turns out Iranian missiles also like a little enhancement before hitting the newsstands. Looking good, Revolutionary Guard!

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Though the fall merch will soon be hitting shops, there are still a few summer items I'd like to have in my closet—like these woven Sigerson Morrison wedges, which are both cleanly graphic and sinuously curvy. The only downside? They're not on sale. Yet.

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chris benz's mykonos diary

Arriving on the tarmac at Mykonos airport, you're instantly transported to another decade, when Jacqueline Onassis would wander the streets in bug-eyed sunglasses and a head scarf. I've been coming here every summer for the past five years, and I always stay at the Belvedere Hotel, a super-chic 30-room hotel located at the top of chora (Greek for "town").

Mykonos has loads of hidden beaches all around the rocky coastline, and the best daytime adventure is to rent ATV four-wheelers and race around the island in search of the next great beach. This summer, I love the Psarou Beach and Nammos Beach Club. It's a gorgeous full-service beach with tan waiters in white cargo shorts, a hopping restaurant, and even an outpost of the venerable Athens style outpost Luisa.

Come nightfall, my fellow guests and I organize large group dinners at the restaurants in town. These loud, family-style events can run for hours, with the venue eventually resembling more of a nightclub dance-off than a restaurant! By the end of the meal, the tradition is for everyone to do rounds of ouzo or masticha shots, eat watermelon, dance on tables, break plates, and twirl around with napkins.

hot town, summer in the city

Unfortunates stuck in a hot metropolis this summer will appreciate London's Mumford Fine Art's effort to make cities seem cool. "The City," on view at Mumford's Soho Rooftop Gallery, includes three artists from three different urban centers who make a strong case for the beauty of a glittering, pulsating, even steaming cityscape. Robert M. Swedroe's "Cyber" collages use interior-decorating samples and architectural illustrations to show off the vibrant Pop potency of Miami. New Yorker Stephen Canino depicts the Big Apple's manic energy through exuberant abstraction. And Notting Hill-based photographer Emily Anderson's triptych "An Eye View of Trelick Tower (London)," which she shot from a ladder perched on the tower (which brought her to a height of 332 feet from the ground), first ran in Matchbox magazine, which declared that the work makes one "proud to be a Londoner." Hamptons: your move.