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Watchmen Settlement Coming Today? According to a joint filing yesterday from Fox and Warner Bros., who were reportedly "close" to a settlement in their battle over Watchmen's distribution rights, the studios have requested a hearing today at 3:30 p.m. "to report on a final resolution or, alternatively, to discuss how to proceed on January 20, 2009," which was the date a trial was (is?) to begin. [Film Esq. via The Beat/PW] Read more posts by Lane Brown Filed Under: dc comics, fox, movies, warner bros., watchmen Source: Vulture | 15 Jan 2009 | 2:15 pm "Slumdog Millionaire" leads BAFTA film nominations
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 WELT ONLINE | 'American Idol' Recap: 'Show me' the Talent Entertainment Weekly - As the audition train stops in Kansas City, MO, the producers decide to focus on (gasp!) good singing By Michael Slezak The economy is halfway between your toilet and your local waste-treatment facility. Idol Judge Kara DioGuardi Got Engaged in Her Pajamas American Idol 8, January 14 Recap: Follow the Yellow-Ticket Road |
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AP - Underdog-turned-favorite "Slumdog Millionaire" picked up 11 nominations Thursday for the British Academy film awards, Britain's version of the Oscars.
 ABC News | Cops Take Away 3-Year-Old Adolf Hitler ABC News - By RUSSELL GOLDMAN Police and child protection officials removed a 3-year-old boy named for Adolf Hitler and his two younger sisters, whose names also have Nazi connotations, from their New Jersey home. Young 'Adolf Hitler' and Two Sisters Removed From Home Washington & the Nation |
AP - A tabloid newspaper has apologized to Sharon Osbourne for a story that falsely accused her of overworking her rock star husband Ozzy.
Reuters - The year is getting off to a fruity start, with "Pineapple Express" topping the U.S. home video charts its first week in stores.
E! Online - We're two days into American Idol's eighth season, and theoretically we may have already seen who's going to be having a moment like this, the time of his life, her now, etc. when the May finale rolls around.
We're two days into American Idol's eighth season, and theoretically we may have already seen who's going to be having a moment like this, the time of his life, her now, etc. when the...
All we can ask for is that, at the end of all this, we get to see Watchmen sometime this year.
Lawyers for Warner Bros., which made the highly anticipated film, and 20th Century...
The juiciest story right now is what happened way back when.
Putting the not-happening rumors to rest, the CW has ordered up a pilot for a Los Angeles-set Gossip Girl...
Slumdog Millionaire has been generating buzz and racking up the awards this season. Even so, chances are you probably haven't seen the film yet, have you?
What do you call a film...
What are the chances your CW faves will survive for another season?
The official verdict won't come down until the upfronts in May, when the networks unveil their new fall schedules,...
Brendan Fraser needs Harrison Ford's help, badly.
At least he will in the upcoming drama he's planning to star in alongside Ford, based on the true story of biotech executive...
• This is what Amy Winehouse has resorted to at the fancy Caribbean resort where she is not allowed to be served liquor: "We keep catching her crawling past bars or hiding behind chairs....
It sounds like a rekindled romance between E and Sloan is a definite possibility in the next season on Entourage.
"We are back in each other's lives," says Emmanuelle...
Chace Crawford, watch out! That goes for you too, Blake Lively!
Office star Rainn Wilson wants to kiss both of you.
After presenting at the Golden Globes with Lively on Sunday,...
Tagline: “New model. Original parts.”
Translation: Tokyo Drift never happened.
The Verdict: Back in 2001, The Fast And The Furious was somewhat of a surprise hit; its domestic gross of nearly $150MM catapaulted Vin Diesel into the upper echelon of early aughts action stars. However, the remaining years haven't been kind to either Diesel or the franchise: Diesel's career went belly up when audiences figured out they vastly preferred the more charismatic and kid-friendly Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, and the franchise took a turn for the worse with two watered down sequels that were Diesel-free. However, Universal looks to have a possible hit on their hands with this Spring's Fast & Furious, which has been riding a wave of positive buzz ever since the kinda thrilling teaser trailer was released late last year. Not only does the film reunite the four stars of the original (Diesel, Paul Walker, Michelle Rodriguez and Jordana Brewster), but director Justin Lin has clearly been studying Paul Greengrass' work on the Bourne films. Clearly, this one isn't going to win any Oscars, but we're cautiously optimistic that it will turn out to be a sufficiently entertaining multiplex diversion come April.
Must Watch: Highly Energetic New Fast and Furious Trailer [First Showing]
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Filed Under: Fast & Furious, Paul Walker, Trailer Mix, Vin Diesel
Looks like Jack Bauer might not be invincible after all.
Not only did 24 executive producer Howard Gordon tell reporters he might very well "blow up the whole world" and Jack...
At a special celebration yesterday for the critical darling Slumdog Millionaire, Danny Boyle told us of his harrowing evening after winning a Golden Globe. “I spontaneously combusted inside, first of all. I do believe in spontaneous combustion, by the way. It does happen.” See who else was burning up the scene by clicking through our Party Lines slideshow.
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Filed Under: danny boyle, party lines
Roma, Pat, the beautiful and vivacious arts sleuth Stephanie Simon ... we love everyone at NY1. But no one more than mutant-caterpillar-browed red-carpet raja George Whipple. And now his likeness is on the wall with other celebrity mugs at Tribeca's Palm Restaurant. The eyebrows look like they'd be fuzzy to the touch. But perhaps they're not big enough? And we spotted another inaccuracy. See, George's mug is right next to Cindy Adams's. And Cin is smiling, looking ebullient and content. Now, that doesn't seem right. [NY1]
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Filed Under: george whipple, Neighborhood Watch, the palm
The media has many ways of battling budgetary issues, and in today’s mixed bag of media news, all of them are tested: merging newsrooms with websites, the popular layoff solution, the unpaid-vacation route, and the salary slash. But along the way, women are breaking barriers and D.C. is getting more Politico. The media fights back, after the jump.
• Two new managing editors at the Washington Post have been appointed to expedite the newsroom-online merger: The Wall Street Journal’s Raju Narisetti, and Elizabeth Spayd, the first woman to hold the position in the paper’s history. [WP]
• The Huffington Post has officially purchased the moderately popular but financially troubled humor website 23/6, but thirteen of the site’s staffers have been "released." [Mixed Media/Portfolio]
• To cut back on expenses, the Gannett newspaper company has given all of its staffers a weeklong, unpaid vacation. [Editor & Publisher]
• Someone is growing! D.C.-based Starbucks coffeehouses will be handing out copies of the print Politico and hosting monthly conversations about Capitol Hill’s happenings along with it. [FishbowlNY/Mediabistro]
• Garden & Gun magazine not only exists, but is still selling. The “Southern lifestyle” title, however, needs to find a new backer, as its publisher, Evening Post Publishers Co., can’t afford to produce it after March. [FishbowlNY/Mediabistro]
• Does citizen journalism break tax laws? A new story asks: “How can a web site like Huffington Post be worth millions to investors and at the same time all of its donated content be worth zero on an individual basis?” Good question! [Stinky Journalism]
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Filed Under: gannett, huffington post, media, media deathwatch, politico, washington post
Tomorrow afternoon Mayor Bloomberg will deliver his 2009 State of the City speech. He’ll devote plenty of time to policy, emphasizing happy statistics on crime and public-school test scores, and — in contrast to Governor David Paterson’s State of the State speech last week — Bloomberg is likely to be specific and blunt when it comes to the unhappy financial numbers engulfing the city. The mayor may even do the responsible thing and talk about the possibility of additional tax increases and municipal layoffs. But however much Bloomberg delves into the wonky and important specifics of his plans for running city government during the worsening downturn, there’s a greater political significance to Thursday’s event: It will be the first rally of the Bloomberg ’09 campaign.
“The mayor will say that the city, like the state and the country, is going through a difficult economic period,” a Bloomberg adviser says, “but that he’s already taken measures that have positioned us well for the downturn. He’ll say that New York has been through difficult times before but we’ve always come out stronger — and that he’s bullish on the city’s future.”
His reelection campaign doesn’t have an office yet, but it does have a message, and a tone: Bloomberg is a proven leader who can do it again, and he’s going to project optimism. In recent days, Comptroller Bill Thompson and Congressman Anthony Weiner have used the city’s subsidy of the new Yankee Stadium to take whacks at Bloomberg’s image as a smart financial manager, and they’ve scored some points (with Weiner once again showing his gift for getting under the mayor’s skin). Still, Bloomberg’s crew is confident it can win a campaign centered on economic issues; even if the mayor hasn’t been perfect, he has a more substantial management record than his rivals, and voters aren’t blaming the financial meltdown or its effects on him.
Yet. How the state of the city changes in the next nine months will be the biggest factor when it’s time to choose the next mayor. Already, though, Bloomberg’s approach has changed. “Everything we do in governing now will be calculated politically,” a mayoral aide told me not long after the term-limits battle ended. He said it regretfully; even though Bloomberg has long played politics far more than the mayor admits, the balance was shifting. And Thursday’s speech will be evidence of that, if only for its location: Instead of an overdue return to Manhattan, the Bronx, or Staten Island, for the second time in three years Bloomberg will deliver the State of the City in Brooklyn — the city’s most populous borough and home to the city’s highest concentration of middle-class black voters. That Bill Thompson is black and grew up in Brooklyn is, no doubt, merely a coincidence.
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Filed Under: anthony weiner, city hall, mayor bloomberg, mayoral race, politics, speeches, the third terminator, william thompson
Madonna's in at Louis Vuitton, Katie Holmes is in at Miu Miu, Claudia Schiffer's in at Yves Saint Laurent. It seems the slots for new faces in fashion advertising are vanishing like jobs in any other industry these days. But there's a new girl at Calvin Klein — 18-year-old rising star Anna Selezneva. The Russian sensation walked the Calvin show last season as an exclusive, which suggested she'd replace Suvi Koponen as the label's face. Fabien Baron shot Anna for the spring 2009 ads. Look for those mile-high cheekbones on the Fall 2009 runways next month.
Bits and Bytes: Anna S for Calvin Klein S/S 09 [Models.com]
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Filed Under: advertising, anna selezneva, calvin klein, campaign trail, models, spring 2009
We have never really been Days Of Our Lives fans — we were raised on ABC soaps, not the inferior NBC product — but we're glad the good folks over at Best Week Ever are. Otherwise, we would've never seen this hilariously long (nearly two and a half minutes!), candle-lit, softcore sex scene that aired on today's episode. Get another room, you two! [Best Week Ever]
Filed Under: Apropos Of Nothing, Days Of Our Lives, Soaps
Judging from your reactions, kind-hearted readers, there's just something about Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick that made them more sympathetic than your average rich Madoff victim. So it'll be extra sad for you to see Bacon putting on a brave face. He recently told a reporter, "We'll march on. We have to," while admitting that he now needs work "for obvious reasons." You know things are truly bad when even the guy with a role in every movie ever needs more work. [Life & Style via HuffPo]
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Filed Under: bernie madoff, kevin bacon, kyra sedgwick, made-off
AP - "Mrs. Lincoln / A Life" (Harper, 415 pages, $26.99), by Catherine Clinton: Mary Anne Todd was a petite version of the Southern belle: 5 feet tall, lively, well-educated, daughter of a prosperous slave-holding Kentucky family; perhaps a bit overripe for marriage at almost 24.
After saying last week that he planned to stay on as CEO despite a hormone deficiency that caused him to dramatically lose weight, Apple founder Steve Jobs just announced he will be taking a medical leave from the company. In a letter to Apple employees, he said the scrutiny over his health contributed to the decision, as did the fact that "the health-related issues are more complex than I originally thought." He said he plans to be out until June. Apple’s stock dropped in after-hours trading.
[Bits/NYT]
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Filed Under: An Apple a Day, Good Apples
FRAGRANCE
• After Twilight released a perfume that looked suspiciously similar to Nina Ricci's, Nina Ricci (owned by Puig) announced today that the label is taking legal action against the Twilight makers. So vampires can get away with bloodsucking, but not trademark infringement? Got it. [Now Smell This]
• The campaign for Burberry's new unisex fragrance The Beat features boys frolicking in skinny pants. [Fashionisto]
• Cintra Wilson visits the Soho Sephora for this week's Critical Shopper column. One sales girl tells her she can't live without dry shampoo because you "never know where you might wake up." Speak for yourself, sister. [NYT]
MAKEUP
• A new study says that people in Denmark, Brazil, and Malaysia are more inclined to spend money on beauty products than people in Great Britain and the United States. That must mean our societies aren't superficial at all, right? [BellaSugar]
NAILS
• If you've been waiting for the next Blue Satin from Chanel, it's here: Vendetta, a deep, shimmery purple. [All Lacquered Up]
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Filed Under: beauty marks, chanel, fragrance, lawsuits, makeup, nails, nina ricci, twilight
AP - "Baptism by Fire: Eight Presidents Who Took Office in Times of Crisis" (Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 292 pages, $26), by Mark K. Updegrove: U.S. leaders from Washington to Ford have confronted myriad difficulties as their terms began.
For the last few days, network television suits have been wooing TV critics out in Los Angeles during a bi-annual event known as the Television Critics Association press tour (or TCA, for short). We're still a little miffed that our invitation got lost in the mail, but we pushed past our hurt feelings long enough to run down the highlights from panel discussions that occured over the last 24 hours or so. Enjoy!
• United States of Tara creator/executive producer/writer/brand-new redhead Diablo Cody has confirmed that she's set to appear on an upcoming episode of 90210. She's not exactly sure of what kind of role she'll be playing in her cameo appearance, but we can only hope that those homefries over at the CW let her write her own totally boss dialogue. Or, at the very least, let her slip some Euphoria in Kelly Taylor's coffee. [BuzzSugar]
• Although we won't get any official word from NBC on the closely guarded details of the new Amy Poehler show until tomorrow, Korbi Gosh of Zap 2 It is reporting that the show will be shot in the familiar style of a one-camera documentary and is "set in the parks & recreation department of a local city government in some podunk town. Poehler will play a delusional employee, totally unaware that she doesn't work in high ranking politics." Sounds like hilarious yet familiar territory, seeing as how she played a similar character in cult fave Wet Hot American Summer (just swap "theater director" for "parks & rec employee" and whammo! Instant show!). [Zap 2 It]
• Unlike the rest of America, CBS wasn't the least bit scared by the Rosie O'Donnell variety show that aired last Thanksgiving. To wit, they just announced plans to move forward with their long-rumored John Mayer variety show. No air date has been set yet, but a backdoor pilot (which isn't nearly as dirty as it sounds) will be taped this spring. [TV Week]
• In other CBS news, the network has officially offed the seventies swinger series Swingtown. Man, Steve Miller is gonna be so pissed. [Ausiello Files/EW]
• The breakout hit of this winter's TCA seems to be Ryan Murphy's upcoming comedy/musical show for Fox, Glee. Set in high-school and scored with today's hottest Top 40 hits, it seems like it'll basically be American Idol, only scripted. [Live Feed/THR]
• Speaking of Fox, Entertainment chairman Peter Liguori said that he was "not satisfied, but pleased" with the 30.1 million people who tuned into the season eight premiere of Idol last night. [TV Week]
• And lastly, Mr. Paulie Bleeker himself, Michael Cera, is said to be the lone remaining cast member from Arrested Development who has yet to commit to the proposed film version. It can't be any worse than working all day in a frozen banana stand, can it? [Fancast via Defamer]
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Filed Under: 90210, American Idol, Amy Poehler, CBS, Diablo Cody, John Mayer, NBC, TCA, Tube Junkie, TV
Well, we've decided that it's kind of a good thing that the president-elect sat down for dinner with conservative columnists like William Kristol, George Will, Charles Krauthammer, David Brooks, and Rich Lowry. And we've also just learned that it was silly of us to assume he would only meet with the enemy. Just this morning, he sat down for an off-the-record lovefest with leftie scribes Frank Rich, Maureen Dowd, Gerald F. Seib from The Wall Street Journal, Ronald Brownstein from the National Journal, Andrew Sullivan from the Atlantic, and E.J. Dionne and Eugene Robinson from the Washington Post. He also included Rachel Maddow in the meeting because, let's be honest, he's a little gay for her, too. Now, not all of these guys are far-out liberals, or even liberal at all, but they were all a good deal more friendly to Obama than the dudes he met with last night. In all probability, he wants to keep it that way.
Also, we've learned something from this story. It is in fact possible for Rachel Maddow and Maureen Dowd to be in the same space without the entire sexuality broadband of female America melting down. This is a good thing, and probably only averted by the neutralizing presence of Obama in the room. Let's not risk this again.
Obama meets with liberal columnists [Politico]
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Filed Under: andrew sullivan, barack obama, early and often, ej dionne, maureen dowd, media, politics, rachel maddow
Not that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences notices things like this, but Rotten Tomatoes has named Pixar's Wall-E the most critically beloved movie of 2008 in wide release, beating The Dark Knight (No. 2), Iron Man (No. 3), and Ghost Town (No. 10, unbelievably). [Rotten Tomatoes]
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Filed Under: movies, pixar, wall-e
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announced today that Jeff Beck, Little Anthony & the Imperials, Metallica, Run-DMC, and Bobby Womack are this year's performing inductees. Artists nominated but snubbed include the Stooges, War, and Chic. Additionally, despite his incredible legacy, Weird Al Yankovic inexplicably continues to go unrecognized. [RRHOF]
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Filed Under: bobby womack, irrelevant institutions, jeff beck, metallica, music, rock and roll hall of fame, run-dmc, the imperials
We furrowed our brows when we didn't see Boudicca on the schedule for the upcoming couture shows in Paris. Not another missing show! But now we know why they're M.I.A.: Designers Zowie Broach and Brian Kirkby are launching a website during the dates of the couture shows (January 26 through January 29) that will focus on the progression of making the clothes. "When they were invited to show at couture, they realized what they love is the process — the process is as important as the show itself," the spokesperson told us. "So this time around they decided that they would explore that. It loosens the boundaries a little bit, because they're much more about dialogue." The site will feature everything about the development of couture in a digitally visual way, through music, art, collages, and essays. Hey, if Viktor & Rolf can go online-only, then why not everyone else? Okay, just not Marc. Or Dior. Or Karl ... never mind.
Boudicca Changes The Course Of Couture [JC Report]
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Filed Under: boudicca, brian kirkby, couture 2009, couture week, fashion designer, fashion show, zowie broach
New York City Opera will announce the appointment of George Steel as its general manager as soon as this evening, two sources with insider knowledge of the situation told Vulture today. Steel, the former director of Columbia University's Miller Theater and the current general director of the Dallas Opera, has been NYCO's rumored choice since mid-December, but has denied being offered a job by the company.
Bloomberg News first reported Steel's association with the job, but was then forced to retract its story after Steel denied it. When we spoke with him on December 23, after learning from former City Opera executive director Mark Weinstein that his appointment was still likely, Steel denied it again: "Have I ever spoken with them?" he said of his contact with NYCO board members. "Of course. Am I in negotiations with them? No." But we're already over it — welcome to New York, George!
(Neither Steel nor board chairwoman Susan Baker could be reached for comment.)
Update: Confirmation from the Times.
Earlier: Has New York City Opera Found Its New Director?
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Filed Under: city opera, george steel, new york city opera, news reel
A couple of Port Authority guys pulled over and offered Tom Brady a ride to keep him from freezing his tootsies off, TMZ filmed it, and now the Post is probably going to get them fired. Well done, everyone. [TMZ, NYP] UPDATE: Oh, it's all okay now. The director of the Port Authority investigated this incredibly serious matter and found that no one did anything improper. Close call.
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Filed Under: airport, port authority, The Most Important People in the World, tom brady
As the godfather of grunge, itself past its heyday, you'd think Neil Young would be feeling his age a bit — and boy, would you be right. On "Fork in the Road," his new song just posted on HuffPo (where he is a guest blogger), he's older and grumpier than ever, mumbling the line, "'Twist and Shout' on the radio. Those were the days. Bring 'em back." ("Now where are my damn glasses?" he doesn't add.) But the shaggy blues-rock shuffle still raises a credible ruckus, and Young's politics put his cranky streak to good use, taking shots at "this fucking war" and the "bailout coming" for "all those creeps watching tickers on TV." Ever the perfectionist, Young thinks the recording "sounds like shit," but we think he's just being ornery. The video, meanwhile, is charmingly lo-fi — or perhaps we should say, like something a kid shot and uploaded to YouTube.
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Filed Under: music, neil young, right-click
A second judge has denied another bid by prosecutors to jail Bernard Madoff before his trial, and the Ponzi schemer is headed back to his plush apartment for another Top Chef marathon right now. But the picture at right, which Chris's dad forwarded to him today, proves that while Madoff may have been able to avoid jail thus far, he cannot avoid the anger. [NYP]
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Filed Under: ballsy crime, bernard madoff, bernie madoff, business, Made-off
Valentino Garavani and business partner Giancarlo Giammetti have been fined $39 million in Italy for tax evasion. Authorities allege they moved their residence outside of Italy while keeping their business there and didn't report their earnings. The managing director of their London office told WWD the pair "moved their residence and all their interests to London more than 10 years ago, since the sale of their Maison." He added Valentino and Giancarlo would cooperate with authorities, though their positions had already been "deemed entirely legitimate and regular."
Italian tax law happens to be a weak point in our vast expanse of knowledge (Posh Spice takes up a lot of room — what can we say?), but we imagine these two will be fine. Dolce & Gabbana got in trouble with Italian tax authorities for moving their business outside of Italy, but paid most of it off and should stay out of trouble. And Roberto Cavalli was recently cleared of tax evasion charges filed in 2002 related to a $3.2 million remodeling job on his Tuscan villa. Only a six year headache. No big deal.
Valentino, Giammetti Cited in Tax Probe [WWD]
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Filed Under: dolce and gabbana, fashion gods, giancarlo giammetti, roberto cavalli, valentino
AP - The biggest crime of all in "Paul Blart: Mall Cop" is not the bank heist that goes down at a New Jersey mall on Black Friday, the busiest shopping day of the year. Rather, it's the egregious way in which Kevin James' innate likability goes to waste.
Now 82, the New York–based artist Nancy Spero has been plumbing the totems and taboos of the human (especially female) psyche for more than a half-century, and her early work on view at Galerie Lelong still retains much of its primal, evocative power. The earth mother in this painting, for instance, holds two figurine-like children in an ambivalent clutch. Is she
cradling them, or using their bodies to shield herself? The mystery deepens — could it be Kate Winslet practicing her Oscar speech?
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Filed Under: art candy, nancy spero
We knew Topshop wanted to have a D.J. booth in their forthcoming Soho outpost, but we didn't know they wanted a bar. That store can't get any better, right? Wrong. They were denied the right to serve liquor at last night's community-board meeting. Racked reports that older community residents showed up to speak against a Topshop liquor license. However, the Topshop folk (a.k.a. Arcadia Group) didn't show up to fight them. A correspondent who attended the meeting reports:
No one from "The Arcadia Group" was there so what ended up happening was the community board reassured the residents that they were going to deny them not only because they were a no show but also because of the zoning in the area: Buildings on Broadway are not able to serve liquor on their first floor. Although I did not completely understand because isn't Topshop going to have multiple floors? Couldn't that mean they could apply for a liquor license for another floor? It sounded complicated but they were denied anyway.
Yes, Topshop will have multiple floors. We suppose it's better for our bank accounts to not get tipsy before we shop. There's also the matter of our social lives — we'll need a reason to leave the store, after all.
Topshop Tries to Booze on Broadway [Racked]
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Filed Under: drinking, topshop, topshop watch
Ninety billion people emailed me this story, which I'd obviously already seen, but I thank my friends and readers accordingly for knowing me on a threateningly intimate level.
Anywayz... On the eve of the Pittsburgh Steelers / Baltimore Ravens AFC Title Game this Sunday, the mayor of Pittsburgh -- one unfortunately-named Luke Ravenstahl -- has decided to pull a personal "Freedom Fries" and change the "Ravens" portion of his name to "Steelers" (not "Freedom," though that'd be funny too):
Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl, at least for this week, wants to be known as Luke Steelerstahl. "On behalf of the Steelers Nation, I've decided to remove the word 'Ravens' from my name just like the Steelers will remove them from the AFC Championship," he said, referring to Sunday's playoff game against the Baltimore Ravens.Whoa, check out the wordplay from Mr. Steelerstahl! He oughtta change his name to Oscar Wilde-stahl after that "remove" comment! The thing most of you non-Pittsburghers probably don't understand is, 90% of the people in the city aren't going to view this as a lightly amusing novelty story, but, rather, as a very serious and necessary political decision that'll surely boost Steelerstahl's approval rating into the upper-hundreds. It will also top the KDKA 6 o'clock news coverage before any mentions of murders or drug activity or triple-digit company layoffs, though when they finally get around to those stories, they'll likely ask the laid-off workers how they feel about the mayor changing his name, and they'll all unironically break into "here we go, Steelers" chants. Also, all French fries will be called "Steeler fries" for the f*ck of it.
Last week we learned relatively unknown model Nicole Trunfio would replace Niki Taylor as Tyson Beckford's co-host on Make Me a Supermodel. Turns out Niki's pregnant with her first child with husband Burney Lamar, which probably explains why she's dropping out. We're not bump watchers, but while we're at it: She's having a girl. There. If you want a bump watch you're on your own. [ET via Jezebel]
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Filed Under: babies, make me a supermodel, model tracker, nicole trunfio, niki taylor, tyson beckford
While other designers are making moves to scale back, Polo Ralph Lauren is taking on a new luxury market: watches. The American label will release a line of upscale timepieces under an agreement with the Richemont Group, known for making fabulous watches by Cartier, IWC, and Officine Panerai. The new line debuts in Geneva later this month, at the Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie. Sure we're all in the economic doldrums, but the luxury market still exists. In Geneva. [Luxist]
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Filed Under: polo ralph lauren, ralph lauren, timepieces, watch out
Source: Rolling Stone: Features | 14 Jan 2009 | 6:30 pm Ricardo Montalban dies at age 88Front Page: Actor starred in 'Fantasy Island,' 'Star Trek II' -- Ricardo Montalban, the actor best known as the white-suited “boss” Mr. Roarke of “Fantasy Island,” died Wednesday in Los Angeles. He was 88.Source: Variety.com - Front Page | 14 Jan 2009 | 6:23 pm Remembering the Stylings of Denise Huxtable Brittney Taylor is a student at Tufts, and her friend Christina Monteith works in retail. The day our Video Look Book camera caught them, Brittney described her style as "Denise Huxtable." "I went with the cummerbund because I had, like, the man pants on with the pleats," she said. Christina's outfit was also eighties-inspired. "I love eighties music. My vest is like gold sequins — that’s just me being in my eighties thing. Really shiny, really razzle-dazzley," she said. Watch the Video Look Book and find out where they shop. Read more posts by Sophie Donelson Filed Under: denise huxtable, video look book Source: The Cut | 14 Jan 2009 | 6:15 pm Metallica, Run-DMC, Jeff Beck Lead Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's Class of 2009
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