Benicio Del Toro in CheCourtesy of Cannes

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From left, Swinton wears a Yohji Yamamoto jacket and skirt; she wears a Fendi mink and Jean Paul Gaultier calfskin skirt.Photo: Courtesy of W

Here Swinton wears an Escada blouse, a Dior suit, and a Louis Vuitton hat. We mean, what do you walk the dog in?Photo: Courtesy of W

And she looks like she'd have such normal friends!Photo: Patrick McMullan

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Rebecca Miller on ‘The Private Lives of Pippa Lee,’ the Novel — and the Movie

Courtesy of Farrar, Strauss

At the very beginning of the novel Herb and Pippa are having a housewarming party, and among the guests are a fiction writer, a poet, and a screenwriter. Does that scene reflect your own upbringing?
Definitely, to a degree. I think when you are around a certain kind of milieu, you learn about rhythm of speech. You almost absorb it. So I am sort of able to re-create that rhythm of speech and way of being in a very easy way. But it’s kind of a different vibe. My upbringing was much more bohemian and different from what Herb and Pippa are living.

Do you tend to draw on your own life in your work?
Like most fiction writers, I’m more interested in hiding; otherwise I’d be writing memoirs. And I always give myself to the most unlikely candidates, like 80-year-old men. You’re more likely to find me in male characters than you are female characters.

Where did the idea for the character Pippa come from?
I met up with someone I hadn’t seen in a long, long time, like twenty years or something, and she had really transformed herself as a person, going from being a pretty wild person to being remarkably stolid and a kind of calm, gracious woman. And I was like, What happened to this person? And I started to think about outer transformations, and to what degree our inner life is changed as well. And funnily enough, I got lost in an old people’s home.

That really happened?
That really happened. My brother-in-law made the joke that if we stayed long enough, we’d have to actually retire there. And I thought, Well, that would be funny. Writing the younger part was kind of hard, because in order to get that voice, I really, really had to hear it in my head as if I was thinking that way. As if I was sort of Pippa.

Is that why you switched to first person midway through for young Pippa to tell her story?
I think I shifted because I liked the idea of judging a person up to a certain point, and almost feeling like, Okay, I know who this person is, I sort of know her a certain way. And then to drop into someone’s real “I” — in other words, their true thoughts — would probably be a shocker because we have separate selves. I was just interested in dropping the bottom out of the book.

And when did you decide this would work for a movie?
I suppose it was when I was reading the very last draft of the novel. I began to have that double vision that I start to have when I start seeing it as a film at the same time.

Ever consider casting your husband?
No. He’s not really old enough for Herb, and he’s not young enough for Chris. It would be my greatest wish to work with him again. But it would have to be the right thing.
—Lori Fradkin

Is Victory Ford Coming Out With A Beer-Wench Line?

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Coney Island: Did you hear that two Russian-émigré ex-Marines who did time in Iraq got the shit kicked out of them by a (nonwhite, we infer) mob when they tried to rescue a girl who was being attacked? Maybe God thinks you need news like this to offset the euphoria of headlines like the 88th birthday of the Wonder Wheel. [NYP via Queens Crap]
Inwood: Maybe you can get whole-wheat pizza up here, but good luck finding a bike rack. Ah, that awkward semi-gentrified stage...every hood goes through it. [Streetsblog]
Forest Hills: If you're "American like me" in this diverse neighborhood, here's a primer of what's going on in China, Russia, and Central America to make conversations with people from those countries, "when your kids play with their kids on the slide." It's easy! "Just set them up and let them speak." [Forest Hills 72]
North Bronx: If the city blasts into Jerome Park Reservoir as planned, gazillions of rats will be unleashed into the area, says an enviro honcho. But Bloomberg says no worries: He'll dress up as the Pied Piper and lead them to Yonkers. Okay, we're kidding again. Damn it. We love that image so much. [NYDN]

Young Dannyhott Sings Things He Probably Shouldn’t

He doesn't mean to be age inappropriate. Young Danny Pacheco (his MySpace profile says he's 17, but he admits in one video that he's just turned 11) is just giving it his all in his series of YouTube videos, in which he sings sexy oeuvres by Britney, Janet, and Danity Kane. One unintentionally hilarious rendition of Mariah Carey's "Touch My Body" threw up too many red flags and was (sadly) pulled down.

Carla Knapp Wants You to Wear Something Decadent and Crazy

Knapp outside her studio.Photo: Melissa Hom

What’s behind the name Mischen?
It’s pronounced just like the English word mission. It means to mix in German. I liked how it sounded a bit androgynous and interesting, and it's the perfect philosophy behind what we do. Lots of layering, like our fabric work for spring. It’s definitely a mix.

This is your first presentation during Fashion Week. How’s it going?
It’s terrifying! We haven’t done castings. I think we have everything in place. We have a lot of really great people onboard. Friends are helping us. And we just had to do it this time around because look books are great, but we’ve been under the radar long enough.

What's the first designer thing you ever bought?
It was probably from a thrift or consignment store in Winnipeg. An eighties Chanel sweater.

It was 90 degrees when this was taken. Notice the scarf.Photo: Melissa Hom

What are some of your favorite vintage stores?
I used to love the Chelsea flea market. I got so many costume-jewelry pieces and thirties and forties slips, tap shorts, and jackets. It’s not so good anymore. Edith & Daha is cute. And eBay. That’s where most of the stuff I have is from.

Are there any trends you wish would go away?
Leggings. I think that’s sort of going away already. I saw a thing about leather leggings and no … And the love of jersey. I don’t know if that’s ever going to go away. When I start a collection, I never, ever think of jersey.

What designers do you love?
Balenciaga, love Marni, love Miu Miu. There are some really great men’s designers. I love Robbie Geller, love Thom Browne. I mean, I get really inspired by menswear too.

What’s one thing you really want to buy right now?
Besides an apartment? I really feel like I should treat myself to a couple pair of shoes. Or a vacation to Barbados.

Alexis Bledel wore this dress to a premiere. Fancy.Photo: Courtesy of Mischen

Decadent and crazy?
Prints. I think people should have more prints in their wardrobe. I think people shop for other people; they don’t shop for themselves like they should.

Do you think you dress for yourself?
Hells yeah! It’s way more fun that way. —Amina Akhtar

Will the Real MF Doom Please Stand Up?

But we're not 100 percent convinced that the dude awkwardly pacing the stage and being chased off by shouts of "Bullshit!" in the video above isn't Doom. True, the fellow at Rock the Bells seems slightly slimmer than the guy in other live Doom videos. But who's to say our man hasn't been hitting the treadmill? Is it possible that the MC's unhinged reputation has preceded him? Doom, if you read Vulture — in between bouts of spackling, we assume — let us know! —Amos Barshad

Fake MF Doom Performs at Rock The Bells [Exclaim.ca]

Serena Is Lying Again

You can't fool us, Van Der Woodsen.Photo: Getty Images

Everyone's Talking About Blake Lively [Cosmopolitan]
Related: Daily Intel's Prodigious Coverage of Soon-to-Return Show Gossip Girl

Joseph Mitchell, Master of the “Has-Been” Profile

Joseph Mitchell’s fascinating and delightful mid-century reporting — for the long-defunct Morning World, Herald Tribune, and World-Telegram newspapers, and, finally, for The New Yorker — has us yearning for his saltier, scrappier New York. Mitchell’s forte was in shadowing marginal characters (“…the would-bes and the never-wills and the God-knows-whats,” in the words of one profile subject Joe Gould) and expanding on their obsessions (whiskey, clam digging) at length, a format captured in these Random House reissues of three of his greatest works.

Britney Hoping For Another Shot at VMAs?

Artist Anya Gallaccio Sends You Dead Flowers Every Morning

Anya Gallaccio's Like We've Never Met (2003).Courtesy of Lehmann Maupin NY

Who Will Save the Tiny Women Stuck in Wonderbra’s Mosaic Cleavage?

We dare you to count the number of breasts in this picture. Photo: Wonderbra.com

Hundreds of boobs, one big Wonderbra ad [Adfreak]

Diddy Could Be a Sex Olympian

Now imagine this with the national anthem playing in the
background.Photo: Getty Images

Vanessa Hudgens Slapped With $5M Suit

"Hawaii Five-O" screen grab

'Fresh Kills' is superbly written (AP)

AP - "Fresh Kills" (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 326 pages, $24.95), by Bill Loehfelm: Junior Sanders, the narrator and main character of Bill Loehfelm's first published novel, is a bitter, angry man — and with good reason.

Diddy Picked His Assistant Last Night, and It’s Us!

We know you're looking at us, Diddy. Photo: Getty Images

Diddy agreed to a one-on-one sit-down in his sixth-floor boardroom, away from the party on the third floor to chat with us about the line. Ahem. He already wants to see us alone? We're on the fast track to success! This was the perfect opportunity to convince him our biceps are big enough to carry the twenty-pound bags filled with BlackBerry chargers, an Apple laptop, hand lotion, Mott's applesauce cartons, and three iPods that he makes his assistants lug around 24/7. And when he arrived, he opened up the doors of the boardroom into his private office, a peachy-white carpeted haven with a wooden desk and white chairs. We could get comfy here, we thought. Diddy sat down in his gray pants and white crewneck tee, mere inches away from our face. We saw his white boxer-brief underwear, too. But really, who hasn't?

We got all the other questions, like how's the line, what's your inspiration, congrats on the new I Am King fragrance, blah blah blah, out of the way just in time to ask the almighty mother lode: After knowing us for eleven minutes and participating in somewhat of a staring contest without breaking eye contact for the entire duration, would he hire us? "I would let you be my assistant. I can feel your energy," Diddy told us, staring into our eyes, sans sunglasses, his signature cover-up to hide emotions. The eye lock lasted a little too long, though, and for a hot minute we forgot we wanted to be his assistant, not his twentysomething arm candy. But he wasn't playing us, he actually added more: "You've been looking at me in my eyes this whole time so you're not afraid of me. You don't seem like you let people push you over, and I need my assistants to be like that."

Read between those lines, suckers. It takes eye contact and energy for this man. And, in more or less words, he offered us the job. Peace out, New York Mag! We have Aubrey O'Day's schedule to manage. —Sharon Clott

Related: Wherefore Art Thou This Fashion Week, P. Diddy?
Nelly's New Underwear Ads for Sean John Revealed

Manning vs. Brady: Battle of the September Magazine Covers

Manning's Men's Vogue piece includes a scene from his apartment in Hoboken (yep, still Hoboken), in which he points out a wooden wardrobe he bought while antiquing with his mom. Later, his wife — whom he refers to, without irony, as "the missus" — mentions that they can use their high-powered telescope to spy into Manhattan buildings across the river, a statement that completely embarrasses poor Eli. The keywords here: Hoboken, antiquing, and missus.

Then there's the Esquire profile of Brady, where the writer wonders, from the back of the limo they're riding in, whom Brady might be leaving behind at his (presumably huge) L.A. home. He speculates that it might be his girlfriend, supermodel Gisele Bündchen, but he doesn't ask Brady. Why? Because he's been told the following by Brady's agent about including mentions of his girlfriend or son in the article: "They will not appear in the story. If you ask about his son, they'll stop the car and drop you on the fucking 405." The keywords here? Limo, supermodel, and the fucking 405.

And there's plenty more like that: Manning is described as "a joker — not a one-liner comedian but more of a prankster." Brady, meanwhile, is "the master and commander, the alpha and the omega, the cock and scrotum, the very living tissue of everything Patriot, the sine qua non of the National Football League." Well then. Eli may have his Super Bowl ring, but no number of magazine covers will make him the rock star that Brady is. Which is exactly why we love him. Manning, that is. —Joe DeLessio

How Eli Manning Took Over an American Football Dynasty [Men's Vogue]
Tom Brady Interview [Esquire]
Related: Eli Manning Wins One for the Geeks

Dozens protest at 'Tropic Thunder' premiere

Meredith Whitney Eyes Goldman After Stock Drop

FINANCE
• Sharp-tongued analysts Meredith Whitney and Mike Mayo are ganging up on Goldman Sachs now, after their stock dropped 4 percent this morning: "In short, Goldman is no longer as much in the right place at the right time, at least compared to the past year," Mayo wrote. [Reuters]
• UBS gave into shareholder pressure and agreed to separate its investment bank from its wealth-management arm — but it insists it's not going to sell off parts of the business. [Reuters]
• Meanwhile, Lehman Brothers could bank between $6.5 billion and $13 billion if it spins off its Neuberger Berman asset-management unit, a cash infusion that could boost the firm's balance sheet as it dumps mortgage-backed securities at a discount. The only problem? If Lehman sells off the entire unit, "then they'd run out of bullets," one analyst says. "How do you know you won't need more cash four to five months from now?" [Bloomberg]
• Oh, also? Pretty much everyone has lost faith in our banks: 60 percent of institutional investors think there'll be another major financial-firm failure within six months; 15 percent more think the failure will be within six to twelve months. And, as you know, if enough people believe it, it starts to come true. [FT]

MEDIA
• Wrap-dress designer Diane Von Furstenberg is set to pen a column for Departures magazine. [WWD]
• Speaking of! Is her husband, Barry Diller's nemesis and Liberty Media Group chairman, John Malone, interested in purchasing AOL? [Reuters]
• Here's a new revenue model for bloggers: tipping. Salon's "Open Salon" allows members to tip one another with real money. [CNET]

REAL ESTATE
• The New York Police Department plans to make the new World Trade Center site super-secure. [Curbed]
• The Spider-Man who climbed the New York Times' building last month says it was "the biggest mistake" of his life. He says he didn't think his climb would cause a big stir, even though he hung an Al Qaeda banner from the building. [NYDN]
• TriBeach, a 37-story hotel and apartment project on Eight Avenue that was originally fast-tracked, has been put on the back burner. [NYP]

LAW
• JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley, and Wachovia are now in Andrew Cuomo's line of fire. The attorney general plans to begin "immediate" settlement talks with the banks regarding the never-ending auction-rate-securities mess. [NYP]
• Countrywide gets called out by the Justice Department. [NYT]
• George Clooney might be returning to the big screen as a lawyer: His production company, Smokehouse, bought the rights to the book about the Salim Hamdan trial, and Clooney is believed to be interested in playing the role of Hamdan's attorney, Lieutenant Commander Charles Swift. [WSJ]

Disability Groups Stealing Stiller's 'Thunder'

summer loving

Come August, summer's early sensuality turns into a Cole Porter chorus of "I ain't up to my baby tonight, 'cause it's too darn hot." Happily, L.A.'s Jancar Gallery offers an antidote to humidity-induced apathy with "Narratives of the Perverse: No One Under 18." The show's ten participating artists offer up erotic paintings and drawings, including scenes from Ignacio Noe's graphic novels, Sherie' Franssen's Cecily Brown-inspired abstractions laced with saucy sex scenes, and Amanda Church's pornographic paintings, brilliantly disguised as benign colorful shapes. Roger Herman even sexes up his charmingly wonky ceramic bowls and mugs with images of limber young ladies in unladylike poses. And Katina Huston's doodle line drawing looks dirty, too, though you can't quite say why. But maybe that's just the heat getting to your head.

Video: Mary-Kate Olsen’s British ‘Elle’ Cover Shoot

mk's cool, weathers hot [Lola London]

New '90210' not going to be 'cheese fest'

Hayden Panettiere's Parents Call Arrest Big Misunderstanding

A Peek at Comme des Garçons’ H&M Line

Comme des Garçons line for H&M.Photo: Courtesy of W

…[A] range of tailored jackets, many deconstructed, along with cropped pants, baggy shorts and a variety of skirts in stretch wool. On the perkier side are polkadot knits in jersey or merino wool, colorful shirts—some with dots—and a “showpiece” coatdress decorated here and there with dense Victorian ruffles.

We dare say we are amenable to all of that. However H&M wasn't quite so into Comme des Garçons designer Rei Kawakubo's initial advertising campaign ideas, since she didn't want to show any clothes in the images. Her usual pictures of robotic dogs by underground artists might draw in the well-heeled folk who shell out upwards of your rent for her Comme des Garçons duds just to get their edge on, but broke folks need a touch more incentive. Learning curves, Rei. Learning curves.

Comme and Go [W via Shophound]

New York Art Kids Skip Internships, Start Their Own Gallery

Photo: Nysun

Would you like to gently throttle them yet?

"I thought it was a great idea," Mr. Blaichman said in an e-mail message written in all caps. "Instead of working for someone else as summer interns they would get real life experience building, organizing, and running their own gallery."

Patrons of the gallery are "a combination of our parents' mailing list and our mailing list," Genevieve, the daughter of the painter Judith Hudson and the writer Richard Price, told the Sun, although making money is of course, "not a goal." The gallery is altruistic, in a way, and though the artists are mostly their friends, they also include a 52-year-old Romanian "outsider" artist, Ionel Talpazan, who claims he was abducted by aliens and whose paintings reflect that experience. "He doesn't have a phone or a computer, so we got his address and just showed up at this door in Harlem," Caroline Copley (grandfather: William) told the paper.

Anyway, it is mostly for fun.

When a reporter visited the gallery on a recent afternoon, the atmosphere was low-key and familial. Ms. Hudson-Price and Ms. Copley were wearing outfits more suited to, say, riding bikes down to the beach in Amagansett than manning the front desk at Gagosian. Ms. Hudson-Price was wearing a ripped tie-dyed T-shirt, shorts, and artfully mismatched earrings; Ms. Copley was wearing a strapless sundress.

One of the artists in the current show, Sebastian Bear-McClard, dropped in. "Nice tan, Caroline," he said to Ms. Copley.

Wow, so they've gotten tans and and work experience that one could consider extremely valuable, as long as they never have to work with anyone else, ever.

Three Friends Start a Gallery (With a Little Help) [NYS]

A Chinese delivery man using his mobile phone while sitting before an Olympic poster in Beijing

Plum Sykes to Write NBC Comedy ‘Mogulettes’

Plum Sykes.Photo: Getty Images

Also, Sykes has never been shy about putting real people into her fiction before, so let the guessing games (and cameos) begin. Who, for instance, inspired "Eva, the beautiful and brilliant leader of a cosmetics empire"? Olivia Chanticaille? Aerin Lauder? See — it's already fun. The only thing the Variety story doesn't tell us is whether the show will be set in Manhattan. Somehow, though, this doesn't really strike us as a Seattle-type sitcom. —Lori Fradkin

NBC developing 'Mogulettes' [Variety]

Madonna to wear Givenchy for Sticky and Sweet tour (Reuters)

Reuters - Madonna has chosen French Haute Couture house Givenchy to design clothing for her new "Sticky and Sweet" world tour which starts in Britain this month, the fashion firm said on Tuesday.

Kate Moss Dropped From ‘Grazia’ Best-Dressed List

Agyness Deyn, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Sarah Jessica ParkerPhoto: Getty Images

4. Carla "Could Not Be Anymore Fabulous" Bruni
5. Daisy "Pink Tutu" Lowe
6. Maggie "Stylish Style Schizo" Gyllenhaal
7. Elle "Champion of the Flat Shoe" Macpherson
7. Uma "We're Back to Paying Attention to Her Clothes" Thurman (yes, No. 7 is a tie!)
8. Natalie "Champion of the Vegan Shoe" Portman
9. Kate "Forever Wispy" Hudson
10. Dasha "Roman Abramovich's Girlfriend" Zhukova (okay, that one's not very clever — but would you have known who she was otherwise?)

Moss dropped from best-dressed list [ITN]

vocabulary lesson: stall to steal

Ask any old fashion assistant, those lowly magazine trolls who work 12-hour days for twenty-something thousand dollars a year, about the ethics associated with accidentally forgetting to return a sample and accidentally taking it home with them, and most will tell you it's mere income augmentation (the publicists in charge of tracking those samples might have a different perspective, however.) At a recent cocktail party in New York, we stumbled upon a new phrase for this practice, something much kinder than "thieving." "Stall To Steal" is an expression many use to describe the editorial song and dance between editors and their press contacts wherein a variety of excuses—"that dress is stuck in customs," "those shoes were assigned to another shoot," "a celebrity wanted to wear that diamond ring out one evening" are some frequently used examples—are used to distract publicists from the obvious fact that the garment or accessory in question is clearly in an unmarked bag under their desk. Now you know.

What We Can Learn From the Clinton Memos

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• Chuck Todd and friends say the memos "paint a picture of Mark Penn as someone who just doesn't seem human...[and] show Hillary Clinton as shockingly paralyzed." It's clear that Clinton's management problems would have been an issue whether or not John Edwards had run, despite Howard Wolfson's revisionist claims. [First Read/MSNBC]

• Josh Marshall concludes that despite the "clucking about whether the campaign's message just accidentally stumbled on to charged words and association," it's clear now "that the people in charge of the message weren't sloppy and unlucky but rather what you would expect, professionals following a detailed plan." [Talking Points Memo]

• Marc Ambinder doesn't get the sense from the Obama campaign that they are "particularly troubled by the revelation" that Mark Penn wanted to portray Obama as "foreign." [Atlantic]

• Allahpundit thinks the "real surprise" of the piece is that there's "no evidence of any malfeasance by the Clintons. Incompetence aplenty, to be sure, but all the dicier stuff comes from Penn." [Hot Air]

• Ben Smith finds this Penn line — "He may be the JFK in the race, but you are the Bobby" — "a bit ironic in light of the late-in-the-day RFK flap." [Politico]

• Greg Sargent thinks it's interesting "just how far off Hillaryland's radar that guy from Illinois was." John Kerry, Edwards, and Al Gore all got their own entries in one of Penn's early overviews of the race, while Obama was bunched in with Chris Dodd, Tom Vilsack, and Joe Biden. [Talking Points Memo Election Central]

• James Fallows takes note of how "the perfection of the technology for spreading and sharing written material has made writing weirdly less useful for conveying private thought," as anything you e-mail "could turn up somewhere unexpected months or years or decades later." [Atlantic]

• Nate Silver is surprised that in Penn's discussion of important demographic variables in the race, he "gives short shrift to the most important demographic variable of all, which was race." The 100-point swing in support she suffered among black voters "translates to a 20-point swing among all voters. And that, essentially, was how the primary was lost." From the memos, it's clear "that the Clinton campaign had very little idea this was coming." [Five Thirty Eight]

• Taylor Marsh wonders if, in light of the Edwards affair and now these memos, "the stars" are "converging to sabotage the Democrats," or if Democrats are doing it to themselves. [Taylor Marsh]

• Mike Allen thinks the "juiciest" memo is Penn's New Hampshire–strategy memo testing which negative messages about Obama were most effective at making voters less likely to vote for him. Allen calls this "McCain's Blueprint." [ Politico] —Dan Amira

For a complete and regularly updated guide to presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain — from First Love to Most Embarrassing Gaffe — read the 2008 Electopedia.

Lawsuit Accuses Paris Hilton of Lax Movie Promotion

we (women, that is) are now amused

If the family that prays together stays together, it stands to reason that the menswear brand that works collectively on everything from developing prints and patterns to making lookbooks will eventually, in like spirit, launch womenswear together, too. Such is the state of affairs at Modern Amusement, a fashion house so committed to its kibbutznik principles that creative director Mossimo Giannulli would prefer never to be mentioned by name, much less speak on behalf of his team. "Our girl has been stealing her boyfriend's Modern Amusement for a few years now," he explained, bowing to necessity, when asked why the label had decided to branch out into womenswear. "Adding women's pieces really rounds out the brand." Beyond that, the clothes must speak for themselves: Inspired, notionally, by a squadron of muses including Lou Doillon, Annie Hall, and Françoise Hardy, the debut collection riffs less on its references' particular styles than on the insouciant chic they all share. Ruffled minidresses, pleated party skirts, and vintage-inspired blouses are all femme; standout items stolen from the boyfriend closet and duly tweaked by the Modern Amusement team include slouchy wool trousers, cropped blazers, and V-neck cardigans. The couples that dress together do, apparently, look best together.

Bruce Dickinson of band Iron Maiden

This video grab from AFPTV shows The Dalai Lama (C) saluting the crowd

dana davis' sole comfort

Dana Davis, a West Coast philanthropist and teacher, knows what it means to have sore feet. For years, she was unable to find shoe options that got the green light from her foot and ankle specialist, Dr. Bob Baravarian. Undaunted, she decided to launch her own footwear line, engineered by Baravarian and handcrafted in Italy. Her 14-piece, comfort-oriented Spring '09 collection doesn't include any towering stiletto heels, but we're not talking Earth Shoes, either. Instead, think mid-level heels in slick styles and colors, including orange, jade, and silver. For more information, see www.danadavis.com.

Givenchy to help dress Madonna for her world tour (AP)

AP - The upscale French fashion house Givenchy will help dress Madonna for her upcoming "Sticky & Sweet" world tour, a spokeswoman for the label said Tuesday.

Jerry Orbach's First Wife Defends Son, Disses Second Wife

Bernie Mac: America's King of Comedy

Creditor Sues Ed McMahon for $275,000

Mariah Carey Admits What She Does Best

friends indeed

Sadly, those friendship bracelets you made at summer camp all those years ago aren't really appropriate for the office. But Sunday's Best has come up with an alternative that you can wear anywhere: gold vermeil and oxidized silver versions that are cast from the real thing. Minus the fraying edges and loose threads, of course.

Tila Tequila Has New Shot at Love

Elvis and Priscilla Wedding Barbie Dolls Unveiled

Pop Tarts: Vanessa Hudgens Sued for $5 Million

Rush on book inspired by Edwards' mistress

Mental Disability Groups Protest 'Tropic Thunder'

Judge Settles House Dispute in Hasselhoff Divorce