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Exclusive: Eminem Talks New Album, BookEminem has revealed details of his long-awaited new album, "Relapse," in an exclusive interview with Billboard, conducted via email. The set is due next spring from Shady/Interscope.Source: Billboard.com | 12 Dec 2008 | 5:01 pm English town names streets after Stones songs (AP)
Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 12 Dec 2008 | 12:50 pm Report: Del Toro won't make another film in Mexico (AP)AP - "Hellboy" director Guillermo del Toro says he is unlikely to make another film in Mexico because his father's kidnapping 10 years ago left him fearing for his safety, a newspaper has reported.Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 12 Dec 2008 | 12:47 pm Kate Walsh's husband files for divorce after a year of marriage
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 Culpeper Star Exponent | Thousands brave cold to visit Virgin shrine in Des Plaines Chicago Tribune - By Kristen Kridel | Tribune reporter Coping with temperatures expected to dip into the teens and a chance of snow becomes almost a badge of honor for the tens of thousands who attend the annual feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Des Plaines. Faithful show devotion to Virgin of Guadalupe Our Lady of Guadalupe procession will draw thousands |
 Calgary Herald | Keanu Reeves falls to "Earth" in silly remake Reuters - By Kirk Honeycutt LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - The original 1951 "The Day the Earth Stood Still," which portrayed an ominous alien visitation, tapped into American fears of UFOs and Cold War tensions. It’s All Over, Earthlings (Don’t Flee to New Jersey) "The Day the Earth Stood Still" (1951), you'd never suspect |
Reuters - Bettie Page, one of America's most photographed pin-up girls during the 1950s, died in Los Angeles on Thursday from pneumonia, her agent said. She was 85.
Reuters - Before each performance of Puccini's "La Boheme" at the San Francisco Opera house this fall, company director David Gockley stepped through the curtain and delivered a grim message to the audience.
E! Online - Fake Idols aside (or not), the remaining members of the merged tribe—Nobag, it's called—carried on Thursday knowing that nobody, especially Matty Whitmore, was safe heading into Survivor: Gabon's final stretch.
E! Online - Although her body was mortal, Bettie Page's image is forever young and feisty.
AP - The accolades keep coming for Chris Brown this time, he's been named Billboard's top artist of 2008.
Fake Idols aside (or not), the remaining members of the merged tribe—Nobag, it's called—carried on Thursday knowing that nobody, especially Matty Whitmore, was safe heading into...
AP - Bettie Page, the 1950s secretary-turned-model whose controversial photographs in skimpy attire or none at all helped set the stage for the 1960s sexual revolution, died Thursday. She was 85.
The holidays arrived early this morning for 30 Rock as the show picked up three Golden Globe nominations for best comedy, best actress for Tina Fey and best actor Alec Baldwin.
But the...
Don't get enough snark on the Internet? Then try it in handy book form at approximately infinity times the cost! In his new book, Snark, David Denby has fun snarking on the snarkers. From what we've read by Denby in the past, we just don't see this turning out well for anyone. [SimonSays.com]
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Filed Under: Backlash, David Denby, Snark
Forget Tom Cruise's reaction to his Golden Globe nomination for his work in Tropic Thunder for a moment. Mr. Cruise can't help but think of how his foulmouthed alter ego, Les Grossman,...Not to be outdone by Chanel Iman, veteran Victoria's Secret model and new mom Alessandra Ambrosio just launched a YouTube channel. Because what's a model without a YouTube channel? Just a model. Who wants that? So far Alessandra has posted only two videos. In the first, she explains (which in itself is "the hardest thing I ever do in my life") why she's decided to launch the Internet's Most Important Video Channel. "Hi, YouTube community!" she trills. "Finally you guys are going to be able to watch a real life of a fashion model." She says her friend has been following her around with a video camera. "It's all about capturing, like, a real moment." Click ahead to see one such real moment in which Alessandra stands on a dock in St. Barts, jumps into the ocean, swims around, and gets back out and dances and sings. Riveting.
A Model's Life [YouTube via Made in Brazil]
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Filed Under: alessandra ambrosio, models, videos
Demi Lovato is a cut above this latest rumor.
Responding to an innocent musing from blogger Perez Hilton that Selena Gomez's BFF could be self-mutilating, a rep for Lovato tells E!...
This seems almost too silly to point out, but it does concern Derek Jeter’s appearance, which of course is of the utmost importance. The Big Lead today ran a screencap of Jeter from a World Baseball Classic press conference, and the reader who supplied it suggests that it looks like the Yankee captain has gotten some not-so-inconspicuous hair plugs. Consider us skeptical, to say the least, though we can’t say we’re experts on the things. (Honest, we’re not!) But you may as well judge for yourself. [Big Lead]
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Filed Under: baseball, derek jeter, hair plugs, sports, the sports section, yankees
Kate Walsh is spinning off once more…this time from her marriage.
Studio exec Alex Young, the Private Practice star's husband of just 15 months, has filed for divorce, citing...
This morning, the Daily News reported that a deal that would have sent Melky Cabrera to Milwaukee for Mike Cameron was all but complete. And throughout the day, reports were that it was close, but not necessarily finished. Now, Ken Rosenthal is reporting that it may not happen altogether. It sounds like a straight-up Cabrera-for-Cameron trade was first proposed, then the Yankees wanted to expand it to include the Brewers’ Bill Hall. But the Brewers became hesitant to also pay some of Cameron’s salary, and somehow the name Kei Igawa got involved, and this, unsurprisingly, cooled things down.
It seems worth noting that both Cameron and Hall are good pals with CC Sabathia, to whom the Yankees just gave $161 million — and who has a clause in his contract that allows him to opt out in three years if he’s unhappy in New York. And though we should probably wait for him to at least throw his first pitch before beginning the opt-out speculation in full, it's good to at least see that the Yankees are making the effort to please him. (We suppose, technically, there are other reasons to acquire Cameron, namely defense and Cabrera's complete lack of improvement.) But the Yankees shouldn’t be so concerned with bringing Hall to New York, too. After all, we all know there’s only one friend of Sabathia whose coming here really matters. And, now that you asked, yes, LeBron James is quite happy that his pal CC is now pitching for his favorite team.
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Filed Under: bill hall, cc sabathia, melky cabrera, mike cameron, milwaukee brewers, sports, the sports section, yankees
• Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio have his & hers Golden Globe nominations for Revolutionary Road, an adorable Entertainment Weekly cover and a relationship where Kate calls him...
A former assistant to a top Versace executive has slammed her boss with a sexual-harassment suit. Fay Rodriguez says she was forced to deliver her boss Patrick Guadagno's "intimate" phone messages from his gay lovers. For example, one such caller told her that he left his glasses at her boss's apartment and alleged that Guadagno drugged and date-raped him. When Rodriguez complained, Guadagno told her to "grow up" and "be a big girl." Versace has issued a statement saying: "Versace takes these types of allegations extremely seriously and we are confident that when the situation is resolved the company will not be held responsible in any way." [NYP]
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Filed Under: lawsuits, patrick guadagno, versace
Ha, it's so funny with Ann, isn't it? She's always surprising us with her counterintuitive points of view. Just kidding. We thought someone had wired this broad's jaw shut. Alas. [Wonkette]
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Filed Under: ann coulter, Loudmouthed Broads
Though one Website conglomerate is making waves of layoffs, an important entertainment magazine might be going digital, and another Time, Inc. magazine has completely folded, today was a comparatively calm day in the media world. But that doesn't mean it wasn't still sad!
• CNET Networks is making rounds of layoffs, though CBS purchased the media company, which includes domain names like "tv.com" and "news.com," for $1.8 billion less than a year ago. [Valleywag]
• Time Canada is indeed folding, as we heard yesterday. In fact, this is the magazine's last week, so get your collector's copy now. [Masthead Online]
• If Google bought the New York Times, would Nicholas Kristof wear Cons to work? We may soon find out. [Splice Today]
• Yesterday, NPR's "Day to Day" hosts, Alex Cohen and Madeleine Brand, discovered that their show is being canceled in March, and they're being released along with it. Today's "Day to Day" topic? Job prospects for laid-off journalists. [NPR]
• During the third quarter of 2008, online ad revenue increased by 7 percent. Hopes were for an upswing a bit higher — last year, for example, it went up 17 percent. But in this economy, we'll take what we can get. [FishbowlNY/Mediabistro]
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Filed Under: cnet, entertainment weekly, media, media deathwatch, nicholas kristof, npr, time inc, time magazine
Dumas herself, dressed in a black shawl over a black dress that straddled the line between chic and funereal, didn't feel like discussing her show — "I've been talking such a lot," she apologized — but she walked though the galleries meeting well-wishers like Chuck Close and Vik Muniz, whose own show, "Rebus," which he curated as part of the MoMA's "artist's choice" series, was opening last night as well. Downstairs on the third floor, the exhibition was a thrilling series of classic and lesser-known works from the museum's collection that Muniz had arranged in puzzlelike order that the visitor was expected to follow — for instance, a bright-yellow Ellsworth Kelly leading to a Kiki Smith sculpture of an egg yolk to a milk-white Rodolfo Bonetto–designed timer to a Harold E. Edgerton photo of a splash of milk, etc. After the Dumas show, it was a blithely entertaining respite that made the viewer momentarily forget that he was looking at a Duchamp ready-made or a Picasso sculpture, so engaging was the conceit.
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Filed Under: art, Marlene Dumas, news reel
PLASTIC SURGERY
• Vanity never dies, even when you're dead, as the latest plastic-surgery trend targets your ego postmortem. "We've had people mention that they want their breasts to look perky when they're dead," one funeral director said. "We'll inject tissue fillers into the lips, the nose, the cheeks, above the eyebrows, the chin, and the hands." [MSNBC]
MAKEUP
• Ellen DeGeneres's CoverGirl ads are out. "I’ve been practicing in my bathroom mirror for years," she said. "Now finally, you’ll all be able to see it." Aw. [Off the Rack/People]
FRAGRANCE
• Esteemed perfumer Francis Kurkdijan (he concocted Jean Paul Gaultier's Le Mâle and Lancôme's Miracle) is opening his own fragrance house, expected to launch in Paris by summer 2009. [Cosmetic News]
• Jil Sander's new fragrance Style Soft is a fruity scent with freesia, mandarin, and violet notes. Launching this February, it's a gentler version of the original Style scent by the label. [Now Smell This]
HAIR
• If you have red hair, here are seventeen ways to style it. Bear in mind there's absolutely no way these would work on blondes or brunettes. [BellaSugar]
Read more posts by Sharon Clott
Filed Under: beauty marks, ellen degeneres, fragrance, hair, jil sander, makeup, plastic surgery
Zooey Deschanel and Bay Area electro-soul band Von Iva make up “Munchausen by Proxy Syndrome,” a funny — but also quite good! — fake band featured in the upcoming movie Yes Man (which stars Deschanel and, ew, Jim Carey). Of the fictional synth-pop band’s two available tracks, “Yes Man” (which sounds suspiciously like Von Iva's “Do It”) is more likely to find its way into the film’s closing credits. The cool and shoegaze-y “Sweet Ballad” features hilarious but somehow essentially true lyrics about a woman who doesn't want to be a “late-night booty call” for the seventh time. She & Him, her fairly fabulous project with M. Ward, wasn’t a fluke — in a way, it was just a start.
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Filed Under: movies, music, right-click, von iva, zooey deschanel
It felt like spooky coincidence to Daily Intel when we came across the teaser for "Proof," a new Times blog devoted to alcohol and alcohol consumption, on the front page of the paper early this morning. We had just awoken nearly incapacitated from a dalliance with a large pink drink called the Bahama Mama, served at recession-friendly venue Dallas BBQ on the Upper West Side (Have you ever been there? Seriously, they serve their drinks in vats), and our heads were pounding. We soon got distracted by our quest for eggs and coffee, but just now we remembered to click over and look at Proof, and while we can report that the entries therein are entertaining and informative, we must also say they are a total buzzkill. Witness this sentence, from an essay by David Kramer that started out so enjoyably and then went so terribly, terribly wrong:
My bodily functions almost ceased. For days I couldn’t process anything. I slowly started to fill up with my own waste like a Port-a-John at a summertime rock concert.
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Filed Under: dallas bbq, drinking, hangovers, holidays, Ink-Stained Wretches
A curious item in WWD, of all places, addresses recently arrested Illinois governor Rod R. Blagojevich. Pundits are aflutter over the whole selling Barack Obama's–Senate–seat thing. But who cares about that when his hair is so dark and helmetlike and foofy, all at the same time. America's top hairdressers can't stand it.
“[T]here’s no name for that,” said Calvin Klein’s hairstylist Roberto Novo. “Ugh” — to gasp in horror.
“Jack Lord from ‘Hawaii 5-0’ called. He wants his look back,” said Chris McMillan, the man behind Jennifer Aniston’s famed shag. “It’s very dated,” concurred Sally Hershberger, whose clients have included Meg Ryan, Courtney Love and Hillary Clinton. “And it looks like a wig.” […] Marc Zowine of Chelsea, N.Y., pointed out that a rug is not exactly an act of honesty: “It’s a cover up. It says a lot about a person.”
Oh, never mind all that. The real issue here is that Washington is no longer Hollywood for ugly people. Consider how hot the main players in the presidential race were (or at least tried to be). Cindy McCain in her $300,000 outfit; John McCain in his Ferragamo shoes with a $5,000-a-day makeup artist; Sarah Palin in Valentino and with a $110,000 hair and makeup person; Michelle Obama in Moschino, Thakoon, and Narciso Rodriguez; and Barack Obama in his fashion-designer-approved slim-cut Hart Schaffner Marx suits. How, oh, how did Blagojevich not get the memo that if the people who do Ryan Seacrest's hair aren't doing his on the side, something's awry? And for the record, hair experts, his do looks the way Donald Trump's would if he fell down a coal mine, like baby Jessica or Carrie in Little House on the Prairie.
HAIR TODAY… [WWD]
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Filed Under: barack obama, cindy mccain, hair, hairy situations, john mccain, michelle obama, rod blagojevich, sarah palin
At this point, there is precious little left to learn of Vulture hero Ben Silverman. We already know of his love for white tigers, his disdain for showing up to work, his penchant for mildly racist jokes, and his utter contempt for videos of cats peeing in toilets. So how come it wasn't until just now that we realized he has one of the worst laughs we have ever heard? After the jump, pay witness to the most annoying laugh this side of Fran Drescher.
[via Joe Mande]
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Filed Under: Ben Silverman, Guffaws
-- So Bravo decided to make Eurostar Stefan into a reckless, egomaniacal, bullying villain? He's always been brash and overconfident, but he doesn't seem to be nearly as big a bully as Bravo makes him out to be. All the contestants kept agreeing that he was a bully, though, meaning either he's a lot worse behind the scenes, or the Bravo producers were pressuring chefs into characterizing Stefan as "the villain." Until Stefan shoots the dude from Nakatomi Towers, I'm not buying it.
-- Last week in my Recap, I typed "Ariane? Really??" This week, I will do so again but make the font larger:
Gail: I feel like the roasted corn hash doesn't really add much to the Chilean sea bass, it feels very obligatory, very forced. Bridal Shower Guest Who Isn't A Professional Food Critic: So, how 'bout this bridal shower?After the jump, more second-rate analysis including updated Power Rankings and the funniest analogy in Top Chef history: -- Bravotv.com bid a New York Post-like farewell to "Baba-booey" Daniel:
"I do feel like they made the wrong decision. But there's nothing I can do. It's out of my hands. There's wrong decisions in football games, you know what I mean? Barry Sanders runs the ball, the guy grabs the back of his jersey. The refs didn't see it, but all the fans saw it, so everybody's booing. You know what I mean? The ref makes the final call, and there's nothing you can do." (transcribed thankfully by EW.com)
What is this analogy even trying to mean? Daniel, a marginal cooking reality show contestant, is the greatest running back in NFL history, but he was "grabbed by the back of his jersey," meaning that his dish wasn't very good, but the "refs" (judges) "didn't see it" (meaning they saw that it was bad but it was actually good) and "everybody's booing" (meaning Daniel at home watching this episode air is booing his television). Makes sense.
-- Hosea's got some palate on him, huh? I wonder if he can taste my FIST IN HIS MOUTH. Wait, I have nothing against him. That just slipped out. He actually seems pretty cool.
-- Fabio talking to the ladies at the bridal shower:
Fabio: Greeting, all.
[Ladies laugh for 20 minutes]
Fabio: I cook-a the food.
[Ladies laugh for 20 minutes]
Fabio: You all look -- how you say? -- good.
[Ladies laugh and swoon for 20 minutes]
Fabio: Italy.
[Orgasms]
-- Every shot of Tom C eating the food by himself in the kitchen silently was a bit depressing and made me laugh.
-- This week's DVR fast-forwarding effer-upper with Stefan and Jamie was not actual content by any definition of the word "content." More happened during the actual commercials than during that segment -- I'm fast-forwarding through these things from now on. Con Sarnit.
UPDATED POWER RANKINGS:
1) Stefan - Still probably the most talented overall, but would Bravo be playing up his D-bagginess if he ended up winning?
2) Hosea - HUGE week for Hosea; he showed off his palatial skills (that's a word right?) and got a lot more airtime and praise.
3) Jamie - Rebound for Jamie, too, who's now been in the Top 3 four times this season. I apologize for mixing her up with Melissa in my Power Rankings last week and throwing her in the "No Chance" column; I printed a full-page retraction in this past Sunday's New York Times.
4) Jeff - Nice week for Jeff too, but he still seems prone to having one super-awful week, and that's all it takes in this bizzzz.
5) Fabio - He's messed badly multiple times now, and his attitude could get him in trouble at the judge's table. An accent can only get you so far.
On The Bubble: Leah, Radhika, Ariane, Gene, Carla, Melissa (next to go), Marquette
Episode Thoughts and Future Predictions in the comments, Top-Chef-Watching-Peoples!
We have nothing against cleavaluation — the art of evaluating a woman’s décolleté. In fact, we were on the edges of our seats this morning when the Today show discussed the supposed trendiness of what Kathie Lee clumsily called “the parting of the Red Sea.” Huh? (Our girl Hoda was all for showing it off; Kathie Lee believes in “a little mystery.” Yawn.) And after the spring runways, we're getting ready to see a whole lot more skin once the weather heats up. But you know what's a tad much? The Daily News slideshow of “Tinseltown's notable post-partum cleavage.” That’s right, Christina Aguilera has cupgraded (as it were) to an E, “thanks to breastfeeding her son, Max.” And “Jennifer Lopez’s bosum [sic] got a boost thanks to twins Max and Emme.” (Lesson here: If you want knockers, name your kid Max.) Though we're all for celebrating the curves of actresses (instead of rejoicing when they get back to size 0 two weeks after giving birth), this was a bit of a stretch. What's next for the Daily News? Upskirt shots?
Their cups runeth over [NYDN]
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Filed Under: Body Issues, breasts, Christina Aguilera, daily news, Jennifer Lopez, pregnant
Your Intel editors Jessica and Chris may be wise and all-knowing, but both of us have only been at New York for a little over a year, and neither has lived in the city much more than five years. In fact, Chris didn't even know there was a New York Magazine until he moved here (your thank-you note is in the mail, College Career Services). So it should be forgivable that all day today we've been totally riveted by the archives that are now on Google Books. The magazine is participating in the first wave of the project, and now you can search through the first 30 years of issues. It's actually (and we can say this because we had nothing to do with it) really cool. If you want a place to start, try these great pieces:
• The Birth of the New Journalism [February 14, 1972]
• Appraising the Most Expensive Apartment Houses in the City [May 20, 1968]
• Seven Steps to Gain Control of General Motors [March 24, 1969]
• Von Bulow: Instant Replay [April 29, 1985]
New York Magazine [Google Books]
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Filed Under: archives, history, it's historicool, magazines, media, new york magazine
Ladies and gentlemen, it is my GREAT PLEASURE to bring to you the following infomercial sent to us by reader Greg E.: "Cheers to You!", a CD of straight-up applause and praise. For the low, low price of $24.95, just pop this CD in, put your headphones on, sit back in your jizz-stained La-z-Boy, and pretend it's YOU hitting that homerun out of the Yankee Stadium; pretend it's YOU winning the Best Actor Oscar; pretend it's YOU finally earning the love and respect of your father, who never once said "I love you, son."
At first, I was all "25 bucks for a CD? No thank you." But then I was all "Oh snap! That sh*t comes with affirmity tokens?!?!? Yes, hello, operator? I'll take three, yo!"
That, or I'll just play this video from :25-:28 on loop FOREVER.
PLEASE WATCH THIS.
In Keanu Reeves's new movie, The Day the Earth Stood Still, he plays the stone-faced representative of an alien race planning on destroying the planet — perfect casting for an actor famous for his otherworldly impassiveness. Ha-ha, you might say, Keanu Reeves is playing another role where he doesn't have to emote. But those who joke about Keanu and his immobile face haven't been paying attention.
Well, we have! Twenty-plus years of Keanu have acquainted us with every emotion he can portray, from confusion to consternation to happiness to pure, unfettered rage. That's why Vulture's proud to present our official field guide to the facial expressions of Keanu Reeves — complete with our patented Kean-u-meter™, which measures Keanu's facial elasticity from zero (The Matrix Revolutions) to ten (Bram Stoker's Dracula). If you're not afraid of spoilers for old Keanu Reeves movies, check out our exclusive (and comprehensive!) slideshow, after the jump.
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Filed Under: a scanner darkly, a walk in the clouds, acting!, bill and ted's bogus journey, bill and ted's excellent adventure, bill teds bogus journey, bill teds excellent adventure, bram stoker's dracula, bram stokers dracula, chain reaction, constantine, hardball, johnny mnemonic, keanu reeves, little buddha, movies, much ado about nothing, my own private idaho, parenthood, point break, rivers edge, something's gotta give, somethings gotta give, speed, street kings, sweet november, the day the earth stood still, the devil's advocate, the devils advocate, the gift, the lake house, the matrix, the matrix reloaded, the matrix revolutions, the replacements, thumbsucker, whoa, woah
New census data confirms that parts of Brooklyn that feel seriously gentrified are exactly that. In that swath of brownstone-y hoods west of Prospect Park (including, of course, the Slope), median household income is up 23 percent (to $77,784) in eight years, while a fifth of black and Hispanic families have left. The area is now 62 percent white, a 13 percent increase from 2000, and the median income of white families is $92,000. In Williamsburg, there are 80 percent more college grads than in 2000, while in the Slope, Carroll Gardens, and Cobble Hill, 30 percent of residents have master's degrees or higher. Meanwhile, Bay Ridge, Dyker Heights, and Bensonhurst have been becoming more Asian; did you know they're now calling Avenue U the city's fifth Chinatown? [Brooklyn Paper]
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Filed Under: brooklyn, carroll gardens, cobble hill, gentrification, Neighborhood watch, park slope, red hook, white people
Hedi Slimane spent four days scouring London for teenagers who best represented the city to shoot for Dazed & Confused. They cast people from places as varied as nightclubs and coffee shops and even found a couple willing to pose topless together. Oh young, restless love. You can see the entire spread online. [Dazed Digital]
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Filed Under: dazed & confused, hedi slimane, tear sheets
Ooh. Assistant U.S. Attorney Jonathan Streeter got a little carried away today at the bail hearing for Marc Dreier, the Park Avenue lawyer who was arrested this week for allegedly bilking hedge funds out of hundreds of millions of dollars by selling them phony debt. He actually sounded pretty impressed by the defendant: “He is the Houdini of impersonation and false documents,” he announced, adding that that the people Dreier conned were “very sophisticated investors.” Wow. The Houdini of impersonation. If we were Dreier, we'd be feeling pretty cool right about now. On the other hand, poor Sam Israel. He's like the Criss Angel of impersonation and false documents.
Lawyer Dreier, ‘Houdini of Impersonation,’ U.S. Says [Bloomberg]
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Filed Under: Ballsy Crimes, criss angel, marc dreier, sam israel, sam israel III
Nagisa Nakauchi’s capped boy squats amid a mosh pit of fluffy bears and flattened dolls, all of them looking terribly bored with the whole situation. Nakauchi’s sprawling wallpaper paintings are on view at Ivy Brown Gallery through December 24.
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Filed Under: art, art candy, nagisa nakauchi
Given our well-documented fondness for Anna Wintour and her mysteriously, persistently unpainted toenails, this unsettling period of retirement rumors — and whispers of imminent coups by nearly every foreign Vogue editrix — has set our hardened hearts aflutter. What, exactly, would we do without Lady Bobbington? At Fashion Week, on whose lap would we fear to fall? Under whose gaze would we melt into a puddle of carbs-eating shame? And how the hell else will we ever get into the same room with Roger Federer?
More important, what would A-Dubs do without all that? As impossible as it is to imagine the Vogue-ettes without their fearless leader, we can think of a few other professions and pastimes that could benefit from the unique talents, steely gaze, and aura of fear that combine to make Madam Bobsworth such a potent human cocktail. Here are our suggestions:
Director of Homeland Security. Sure, her lack of experience might prove to be a stumbling block here, but just think about it: Would you want to tangle with A-Dubs? We suspect fear of her wrath is a worldwide phenomenon, thus easily ensuring our national safety. Plus, she and Hillary might have fun shopping for pantsuits together.
TV Superstar. Many programs would benefit from a dash of The Bob. For example, she’d make an intriguing third trainer for The Biggest Loser. While Bob and Jillian teach their teams about diet and exercise via hugs and shouting, respectively, Anna would spur her charges to weight loss via chilling silences and disgusted glares. Or she could headline The Apprentice: Wintour Wonderland, which would be like Stylista, except good (and authentic). And there’s the obligatory Gossip Girl cameo. It wouldn’t surprise us if Chuck Bass were into older, powerful British cougars.
Author of Kids' Books. Rumor has it, children are our future, and if the state of the world is any indication, they will need to be fierce at an early age. And heck, if Madonna can write for tots, A-Dubs should be a natural at crafting stories that convey important morals to our next generation of leaders. Imagine the semi-autobiographical truths she could pour into, say, Dubbie the Dragon Goes to Couture Week, Bobby and the Rogue Rice Grain, or the especially moving Why Is Mommy Holding Last Season's Bag?
NFL Coach. Anna loves athletes. Anna likely loves taut dudes in tight pants. And Anna probably loves bossing people around; ergo, it's a perfect fit. The soft San Diego Chargers, for one, need a cruel taskmaster who can instill fear along with a killer pass rush; plus, she'd get along swimmingly with star tailback LaDainian Tomlinson — one of the few, if not the only, players in the league who insists on his helmet having a dark-tinted visor. They're practically soul mates.
Counterfeit Queen: No one is more familiar with "It" bags and designer sunglasses than Anna Wintour. So who better to up New York's knockoff game by hanging out on street corners with alarmingly accurate fakes? Her designer friends might not appreciate it, but a girl’s got to pay the bills. Bonus: The truck of her Town Car will easily hold most of her inventory.
Vitriolic Songstress. Imagine the buzz if Anna released a video of herself prancing around in hot pants while crooning the parody, "Stupid Lady (Put a Ring on It)," dedicated to her nemesis: Roger Federer's girlfriend. Be still our hearts.
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Filed Under: Anna Wintour, New York Fugging City, roger federer, vogue
The Dark Knight fans went hog wild on Tuesday, snatching up nearly 3 million copies of the film when it was finally released on home video. Nearly 20 percent of those purchases were of the Blu-Ray variety, a format which looks to really be catching steam even as we suffer through these dire economic straits. Looks like the bootleggers on Canal Street are gonna have to step up their game! [LAT]
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Filed Under: Figures, The Dark Knight
We're sorry, but these pansies in the White House and Treasury who keep giving anonymous quotes about how they "distrust" FDIC head Sheila Bair because "she always seemed to be pushing her own agenda" when her agenda is helping people are seriously getting on our nerves. If you have something real to say, then say it to her face, bitches. This whole thing is starting to smack of sexism and cronyism and we do not like. And we'll tell you something else: No one trusts a gossip. Now go to your rooms. [NYT]
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Filed Under: Sheila Bair, The Greatest Depression, tim geithner, treasury department
The more publications distill themselves into purer versions of what they can best offer, the more the ones whose strength is straight news reporting will have the chance to shine. Or so the optimistic logic goes. The pessimistic logic says that we stand to lose a strong competitor in the newsweekly market and the magazine will flounder without its supermarket readers. Either way, having strong brands like the Monitor or Newsweek test these waters first — by jumping in, not tiptoeing — makes us feel as though we might finally be starting to figure all of this out.
Newsweek to Cut Back Staff, Slim Magazine in Makeover [WSJ]
Read more posts by Chris Rovzar
Filed Under: in other news, media, newsweek
"You know when you're young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they're trying to be old men and they have no idea what that's like? It's just that stupid the other way around." —Clint Eastwood on why he won't play younger characters [NYT]
"Well, my dad would swing by every 10 days or so, and he would drop off beer and eggs and cheese — basically things I couldn't hunt." —Bon Iver (Justin Vernon) on living in the woods in Wisconsin while recording For Emma, Forever Ago [Sound of the City/VV]
"I will half watch it while I'm working on the computer, and I'll look up, and Katherine Heigl is banging a ghost. Or there's a kid encased in cement for the love of a girl. There's not enough sharks for these people to jump." —Rob Corddry on Grey's Anatomy [Defamer]
"The quote that came out on the BBC about the Grammys made it sound like I didn't want to win a Grammy, and that I didn't need to win a Grammy. But what I meant is that a Grammy is like an Oscar. You win an Oscar when you give the performance of your life. I just hope that this isn't the performance of my life." —Adele [Pop & Hiss/LAT]
"Golf is like a woman. One day everything is cool. Next day, you be like, 'What happened?'" —Scarface [MTV]
"I'm a junkie. I'm addicted to success. There's no rehab for success, or I'd go check in right now." —50 Cent [MTV]
Read more posts by Stan Park
Filed Under: 50 cent, adele, bon iver, clint eastwood, quote machine, rob corddry, scarface
Proenza Schouler's sample sale starts today, and a commenter who visited this morning writes: "MUCH less stock than previous years, and not as good of deals either. NO bags and no shoes (only the same OLD shoes from last sale). A few boxes of sweaters and tees from 80-120, and some straggly belts and sunglasses. Only a very few real samples. For clothes, dresses in the $300-1000 range, coats mostly $400 and 500, and some blouses around $175-$300. Lots of pants and skirts, but mostly tiny sizes." Thank God there are millions of other sales to choose from. [Racked]
Read more posts by Amy Odell
Filed Under: proenza schouler, sale sadness, sales, shopping
Hi there! You look familiar. Have we been properly introduced? No, not yet? Oh, my bad. Well then, my name is Mark Graham, and I'm your new co-editor of Vulture! And by "new," I mean I'm on my ninth day here. That's still new, right? Well, either way, it's a pleasure to meet you! Because we're friends now, I thought it might be appropriate for me to tell you a little bit more about myself. Prior to joining the team here at Vulture, I spent a stretch under the employ of Gawker Media overlord Nick Denton as the managing editor of the fearless Hollywood gossip blog Defamer, and, prior to that, I served some time in the digital-media trenches of Video Hits One. There's also an off-chance that you might know me better as Uncle Grambo, the proprietor of the puerile, patois-spewing blogspot Whatevs (Dot Org). But much like the gritty Emilio Estevez–Craig Sheffer thriller from 1985, that was then and this is now. Nowadays, I am absolutely thrilled to serve alongside the incomparable Lane Brown as we do our darndest to pick the carcass of pop culture clean each and every workday. Don't forget, if you have a question, complaint, or free stuff you'd like to give me, you can always reach me via e-mail (markDOTgraham AT nymagDOTcom). And, with that, it's back to the grind!
Read more posts by Mark Graham
Filed Under: Introductions, Vultures
Fashion Wire Daily - Still reveling in the successful opening of her downtown New York boutique, despite the economic odds stacked against it, Vera Wang presented a Pre-Fall 2009 collection on Wednesday of diverse, yet cohesive separates and fashion jewelry that signalled how cogniscent she is of the kinds of pieces that women will consider adding to their wardrobes come summer, when the collection will hit stores.
It’s been 40 years since Tom Wolfe’s game-changing feat of New Journalism bluster, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, introduced the world to Ken Kesey and his roving band of LSD-taking, Day-Glo drop-outs. Wolfe himself was joined by novelist Rick Moody and actor René Auberjonois at Symphony Space last night for a conversation that was partly about the book’s legacy, and partly about Paris Hilton, the Beach Boys, and how to pretend one knows what it’s like to be high on acid (hint: Throw around terms like “the perspective flash” and all the real heads will believe you). As for Wolfe’s eight-week experience with the Merry Pranksters? “It was not fun,” said the white-suited scribe. "I was so far from being on the bus."
Wolfe revealed that an infamous Hell’s Angels gangbang scene in Kool-Aid had been vouched for by Hunter S. Thompson himself, who'd sent him tapes of the affair as proof, then shared a story about a sixties encounter between novelist (and ex–Waffen SS member) Günter Grass and Allen Ginsberg, who was mouthing off about America’s descent into Fascism. Grass didn’t appreciate the comparison. Wolfe said he set them all straight — "We’re in the middle of a happiness explosion!" Then, he told us about how emblematic the Beach Boys were of the best part of the decade — all “fun! fun! fun!” thanks to Brian Wilson, “one of the great composers of the twentieth century.” From there it was off on another tangent about how no fictional account could ever accurately depict the sixties: “The subject is novel-proof,” Wolfe intoned. “Fiction has to be plausible — and so little else does.” Like Paris Hilton, for instance ("I think she is beautiful"), whose unlikely sex-video-to-TV-star transformation would never play in novel form, he claimed. (Perhaps there’s a role for her as a vacuous hippie in Gus Van Sant’s upcoming film adaptation of Acid Test.)
Read more posts by Scott Indrisek
Filed Under: books, brian wilson, gus van sant, movies, the beach boys, the electric kool-aid acid test, tom wolfe
The Jil Sander spring 2009 collection won us over with its gorgeous fringed dresses. But the sophisticated yet modern earrings that Raf Simons paired with them made us fall in love. (If love can happen in the quick swish of a model's walk.) Luckily for us, we got a chance to see them in person at the Soho store last week and they exceeded our every expectation. The earrings —a limited-run collaboration with Damiani — are long, delicate spears in white, yellow, and pink gold that go all the way through the earlobe and attach on either side with stones (aquamarine, onyx, smoky quartz, citrine), Tahitian pearls, or diamonds (there are bracelets as well). Dangerously sexy and, yes, fierce. They look beautifully classic when worn as a pair, but we prefer to rock just the one. Click through for more earrings.
Photo: Courtesy of Jil Sander
Photo: Courtesy of Jil Sander
$4,500–$10,000 at Jil Sander, 30 Howard St. at Crosby St. (212-925-2345).
Read more posts by Doria Santlofer
Filed Under: damiani, first looks, jil sander, raf simons
Today's economic wasteland has unsurprisingly managed to support the very rich. However, unlike the olden days, when being deep-pocketed wasn't quite as loathed and the rich could spend lavishly and freely in daylight in the open plain, lately they've taken to shopping in hidden enclaves. Secret underground shopping parties that take place in hotel suites, private showrooms, or rich people's abodes are proliferating so the species can shop without feeling — perish the thought — embarrassed about their money. Eve Goldberg, owner of diamond dealer William Goldberg, just opened one such secret salon. “People are saying: ‘It’s that time of year; I want to buy something, but I feel a little weird,’” she told the New York Times. “Often they tell me, ‘I don’t want to be out there making an announcement with a big bag that says Harry Winston.’”
Not only are they avoiding public shame by purchasing, according to the Times, crewelwork pashminas and pavé-diamond pet collars only among each other, these rich people are also having fun doing so. Consumer psychologist Eric Spangenberg calls these secret spending parties "the high-end equivalent of a Tupperware party." Secret-shopping-party organizer Joan Horton notes the rich people enjoy "the camaraderie and social experience." They get an even bigger kick out of the whole thing when organizers donate a portion of the proceeds to charity.
The rich must be quite ashamed of their innate need to spend lots of money, because attendees of these underground shopping fests didn't even give quotes to the Times. But naturally, a few of them had no problem posing for pictures for the story while shopping.
Even in Recession, Spend They Must: Luxury Shoppers Anonymous [NYT]
Read more posts by Amy Odell
Filed Under: 'tis the season to be rich, shopping
AP - I've played dozens of driving games over the decades, from arcade classics like "Pole Position" to this year's addictive "Grid," but I've never come across an interesting character in a virtual racer. That's because cars are the stars of this genre. If you play a deep racing simulator like "Gran Turismo," you get to know your vehicles better than most of the human heroes you might meet in other games.
AP - Considering that Clint Eastwood's most iconic roles have been serious ones, it's easy to forget that he can be funny that he possesses terrific timing with his sly sense of humor.
AP - For a film about moral ambiguity, "Doubt" does an awful lot of hand-holding.
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