Madonna is rumored to be dating a 21-year-old Brazilian model. Do you think of this relationship as real? Because I've read reports that he's just using her to gain fame and stardom....
LONG ISLAND CITY, N.Y., Jan. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- With more than 11 acres of factory operations housed in a cluster of century-old buildings in Queens, Steinway & Sons is... Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 24 Jan 2009 | 10:00 am
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AP - Authorities in the Bahamas have charged an island lawmaker and detained two other people in an alleged plot to extort money from actor John Travolta after the death of his son, police said Friday.
AP - Authorities in the Bahamas have charged an island lawmaker and detained two other people in an alleged plot to extort money from actor John Travolta after the death of his son, police said Friday.
Tonight’s episode featured the song “The ’59 Sound” by The Gaslight Anthem. Their second album (also called “The ’59 Sound”) came out in late August, but the band continues to gain momentum after being named to some best of 2008 lists like Rolling Stone and NME . After being selected as the Best Week Ever theme song this week, an appearance on Letterman next Friday, and an upcoming European tour, perhaps all the band really has left to accomplish is to play a presidential inauguration concert like Springsteen.
The Gaslight Anthem sometimes gets classified as a “punk” band, but that can be misleading. These days, punk just does not have the same cache it did before Blink 182 made it all TRL friendly. Nowadays, the punk moniker conjures up images of either whiney emo kids singing about being alone or hardcore mohawked dudes rebelling against God knows what. The truth is there are cool bands out there like The Gaslight Anthem playing genuine, honest rock music (see also The Hold Steady).
Check out more of The Gaslight Anthen ahead!While we fully recommend checking out ‘The ’59 Sound,’ this band was not a hard sell for me being that they are from Jersey. It is nice to see my beloved state get some recognition besides bad sitcom jokes about the mafia or the smell (I’ll have you know it only smells near the big highways… so does your state). Inevitably in any conversation about bands from New Jersey people will bring up Bon Jovi and Bruce Springsteen. Look, we get it. Nothing against Bon Jovi, but somehow his Jersey-roots cheapen any other group that comes out of the state. Do not dismiss this band just because you’ve heard “Livin’ on a Prayer” one too many times at a bar.
On the other hand, many people have noted The Gaslight Anthem seems heavily influenced by Springsteen. They both sing about driving old cars, reminiscing about summer nights and working the late shift. What do you think we do in Jersey? We drive a lot and only work at night (at some kind of dock, preferably). Also, everyone has a special girl back home named Wendy or Sally. But all Boss comparisons aside, The Gaslight Anthem is a solid American rock band that we wish we'd known about while cruising in our Camaro back to Jenny's house after unloading ships all night.
Watch their video for ‘The ’59 Sound’:
A gang member has been convicted of murdering a teen actress and a man during a two-day shooting spree in 2005. Damien Watts was found guilty Friday on two counts of first-degree murder... Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 24 Jan 2009 | 3:49 am
One of three suspects detained in an alleged plot to extort $20 million from a grieving John Travolta has been formally charged, while another is said to be cooperating with...
Reuters - After launching two entertainment channels in Texas last fall, Mexico's Grupo Multimedios plans to enter more Spanish-speaking markets in the U.S. Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 24 Jan 2009 | 3:33 am
Recording Artist, Reality TV. Star, Norwood Young Shares Two Minutes of Riveting Footage in hopes to Assist Government Investigation LOS ANGELES, Jan. 23... Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 24 Jan 2009 | 2:47 am
We're assuming Molly Ringwald thinks blue is just as pretty as pink.
The Breakfast Club princess is expecting twins—a boy and a girl—in August with hubby Panio...
NASSAU (Reuters) - Bahamas authorities are investigating a suspected extortion attempt against actor John Travolta, whose son died there this month, and a senator was under arrest, although Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 24 Jan 2009 | 1:53 am
E! Online - The Gossip Girl spinoff is gearing up. In case you haven't heard, the show will launch as an episode of the original series and, in episode 24, we'll travel to Los Angeles for a look back at the life of Lily Rhodes (Kelly Rutherford) when she was a lost young soul slumming around the Valley.
This week, BWE.tv has been both kinda animated, a lil' bit giffy, and extremely America-gropey:
Barack Obama was sworn in as our 44th President. But unfortunately, the day probably be most remembered for the grey wool gift-wrapping that gave America its greatest present yet: Aretha Franklin's head.
Sorry, what we meant to say was... Meet the WORST mother in the WORLD! Dear Little Hitler: One day you will grow up to either hate Jewish people or your own lineage. One thing is for sure: You will definitely kill someone with your bare hands in due time.
Tonight at 11 PM, there's an all new episode of Best Week Ever with Paul F. Tompkins! Make sure to tune in and mmmmhave a great weekendddd! Source: Best Week Ever | 24 Jan 2009 | 12:15 am
Som had, like most designers, submitted sketches. "I was kind of doing something that was white," he said, laughing. "I guess I was in the ballpark, right?" He'd planned on making a floor-length gown that showed off Mrs. Obama's "great arms." The disappointment in his voice was palpable. "That's kind of water under the bridge now," he said. "I have a whole four years to try to do something, so, knock on wood. And if not, I think in four years the girls will be ready to wear big-girl clothes." Sasha and Malia in Peter Som? Maybe things are starting to turn around, after all.
The Gossip Girl spinoff is gearing up. In case you haven't heard, the show will launch as an episode of the original series and, in episode 24, we'll travel to Los Angeles for a look back...
NEW YORK - To paraphrase Ronald Reagan, here we go again. The revelation that millions of people who saw the inauguration of President Barack Obama were actually listening to recorded... Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 23 Jan 2009 | 11:54 pm
CALABASAS, Calif. - "Little Big Planet" led all titles with 10 nominations for the 12th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards honouring video game achievement. The Sony Computer... Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 23 Jan 2009 | 11:51 pm
Drew Barrymore is ready to kick some ass again.
Ms. Barrymore just told me she's hot to make a third installment of her supersuccessful Charlie's Angels movie...
LOS ANGELES - A judge says Slash and his wife can pursue their lawsuit against the sellers of what they thought was a party-worthy Hollywood Hills home. The former Guns N' Roses... Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 23 Jan 2009 | 11:48 pm
As Morningside Heights–educated Barack Hussein Obama recited the (judicially garbled) oath of office to become the 44th president of the United States, it seemed like most of New York’s media, political, business, and Twittering classes had traveled to Washington to witness the historic occasion. Mayor Bloomberg hosted a pre-inaugural dinner for other big-city mayors at the Palm steakhouse, Times columnist Maureen Dowd hosted a jam-packed party at her Georgetown home (Bruce Springsteen, Tom Hanks, and Bill Keller were among those who couldn’t squeeze in), Craft restaurateur and Top Chef judge Tom Colicchio saved a cookbook author’s life with a well-executed Heimlich at a charity party, and Good Day New York host Greg Kelly, son of NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly, helped D.C. cops apprehend a crazed tourist who assaulted a McDonald’s employee during a late-night burger-run freak-out.
Hillary Clinton was confirmed as the new secretary of State on day two of the new administration; New York Fed chief Timothy Geithner, after blaming his IRS oversights on TurboTax, was well on his way to becoming Treasury secretary. Caroline Kennedy surprised Governor Paterson, her friends, the rest of the state, and possibly herself by announcing she wasn’t interested in a Senate seat after all; Paterson announced late in the week that Congresswoman Kirsten Gillibrand would fill the spot. Recently retired Time Warner chief Richard Parsons was named chairman of Citigroup, which announced it would split itself in two.
Bank of America revealed a $15 billion fourth-quarter loss at its newly acquired Merrill Lynch subsidiary; former Merrill CEO John Thain subsequently lost the position he’d been given at BofA. The state’s strapped unemployment fund started borrowing $90 million a week from the Feds. The even-more-strapped New York Times Company made a deal to borrow $250 million from Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim Helú at a whopping 14 percent interest rate. And—after Chesley Sullenberger III became a national hero for piloting an avian-crippled US Airways jet to a smooth landing on the Hudson—the Post declared a war on geese.
Front Page: Rights go for around $3.5 million -- Anchor Bay has bought North American and Australian rights to David Mackenzie's comedy "Spread" starring Ashton Kutcher for around $3.5 million. Pic preemed this week at the Sundance Film Festival.
The CBS Evening News anchor, whose network-news star has risen in recent months thanks to the hardballs she fired at...
Model Jamie Burke wrote the new campaign anthem for the ads for the recently relaunched CK One fragrance. The TV spots premiered this week, but the marketing blitz also includes a print campaign shot by Steven Meisel and starring two of our favorite girls, Coco Rocha and Sessilee Lopez. We have some behind-the-scenes images of Jamie in the studio and Coco and Sessilee on set. See what models do when they're not posing (but kind of are, anyway), in the slideshow.
Tom Hanks isn't getting big love from some sectors of the Mormon community.
The Oscar-winner is softening his critique of Mormons after coming under attack by the Church of Jesus...
It's official: Former Merrill Lynch CEO, John Thain, the man once credited with "revolutionizing" the New York Stock Exchange and Goldman Sachs, is the new most-hated man on Wall Street. Across the board this week, coverage of his $1.2 million office redecoration and his subsequent forced resignation was infused with disgust. In review, briefly:
• "Mr. Thain's behind-scenes-lobbying for his own bonus turned into a public embarrassment. Most Wall Street chief executives, under fire for big mortgage losses, went without bonuses in 2008. But Mr. Thain lobbied his board's compensation committee for a multimillion dollar bonus, arguing that he helped repair Merrill and had engineered the sale to Bank of America." [WSJ]
• "This was symbolic of a pattern that has developed on Wall Street over this past decade of more and more extravagant, more and more lavish, more and more one-upmanship in all of these visible symbols. This may be the last vestige of a culture that we’re not going to see for many years to come.” [Bloomberg]
• "on par with Dennis Koslowski's shower curtains and Steve Schwarzman's stone crabs." [The Real Deal]
• Thain is "a national laughingstock." [Portfolio]
• Even Obama got in a dig today when talking about the stimulus package: "Taxpayer money should not go toward renovating offices." [DealBreaker]
• Oh, and he'll only get a "modest" $1.5 million in severance. [Investment News]
Yes, we all know that in the Academy's excitement over rewarding Harvey Weinstein for another job well done, they failed to recognize the hard work of Kate Winslet, Bruce Springsteen, and Wall-E — but who else got the shaft this week?
• When Jeremy Piven showed up to a Page Six Magazine photo shoot, he got things started off with, "This isn't my first time on the merry-go-round. You want mediocre? I can...
Founding Gawker editor Elizabeth Spiers suffered Flight 1549 flashbacks.
George Clooney is back in scrubs on the set of ER, and, despite the skeptics who said there was no way the superduperstar would ever revisit his old County ...
Buttoned-up British sportswear brand Fred Perry quietly unveiled its first Stateside store last week, bringing a preppy paradise of plaid, argyle, and tweed to Soho. In comparison to the similarly dandy Brit label Ben Sherman, whose flagship is just a few blocks away, Perry’s cotton piqué polos, checked button-downs, and wool V-neck sweaters are refreshingly affordable, with few items topping $100. (It's also down the street from the flashy new underwear store of fellow tennis great Björn Borg.) The label’s laurel-wreath logo — a nod to founder Fred’s three Wimbledon wins in the thirties —decks just about everything, from T-shirts to shoe buckles. When we stopped in, the business-casual crowd browsing the wares was all male, but a smaller collection of womenswear in back included skinny black jeans, canvas ballet flats, and prim button-downs. Though the racks emphasize the ubiquitous polo — the brand dubs it the “ultimate leisure shirt” and peddles it in 32 colors — we were more inclined to bypass the basics to admire the retro accessories: vinyl messenger bags, canvas-tweed sneakers, and nylon track jackets. Thankfully, nostalgic mementos from Perry's tennis heyday are minimal, limited to a couple of small black-and-white photos and a framed news clipping near the doorway.
Fred Perry, 133 Wooster St., nr. Prince St.; 212-260-4770
The Oscar pool might be a month away, but some top bookies ahve already got your stone-cold locks: Slumdog Millionaire and Heath Ledger.
The online oddsmakers at Intertops, the heads of...
Now that they have a home in New York City — a cozy, 11,000-square-foot triplex at Richard Meier’s 176 Perry — Hugh Jackman and family are spending more time here. They love all the glass and the views, the couple told us at the "Nomad: Two Worlds" exhibition opening on Thursday. That view includes the Hudson River. “I saw all the boats, I thought it was a regatta,” Deborra-Lee Jackman said of US Airways Flight 1549 that floated by after the crash-landing in the Hudson last week. “And then someone rang and told me what happened. It was right outside our place.”
Before selecting the Perry Street place, the family considered another place.
They looked at Julian Schnabel’s Palazzo Chupi. “It was amazing,” Jackman said. They still visit the pink Palazzo now that they’re in the nabe. “We went for a swim there the other day."
But other than that, Jackman insists, they’re just like us. “We do the subway, you know, we’re New Yorkers,” he said. “It’s quicker. Everyone knows that.” Maybe it’s the Wolverine-ish beard he’s sporting these days, but Jackman claims that people don’t bother him too much. “New Yorkers are very cool,” he says. “Sometimes it can get a little problematic with tourists, but New Yorkers themselves, they’re kind of like Australians, they’ll tell you what they think of your latest movie, good or bad, and then move right along, you know?”
In today's media news, U.S. News & World Report adapts to its new environment, while a Disney parenting magazine pays the price for, to paraphrase Darwin, increasing at a greater rate than its means of subsistence.
• Lynette Harrison left In Style after a "disastrous March issue," ad pages in Bazaar and Elle are down, and Disney is closing its Wondertime parenting magazine — despite the fact that it "had reached 650,000 circulation ... the ad market didn't keep pace." [NYP]
• U.S. News & World Report is going back to producing weekly issues, only now they're doing it online. [Mixed Media/Portfolio]
• CBS will air a special edition of Katie Couric's Evening News at 8 p.m. next Wednesday, instead of at 6:30, in an effort to boost ratings. But can Katie Couric compete with the prime-time extravaganza that is Paula Abdul on American Idol? [NYT]
• The bad news is that Forbes' list of the 25 Most Influential Liberals in the U.S. Media is mostly dudes. The good news is that one of them is New York's own Kurt Andersen. [Forbes]
For actress Kyra Sedgwick, it's the public's approval that makes it worth being away from her family for six months to tape her critically acclaimed series "The Closer."
We have to admit that, at this point, we don't really care which one of them is telling the truth. What we really want to see is actual footage from the film. While EW didn't really press Sommers for any details as to when a teaser trailer will debut, we do find out that the film is going to feature a cameo from Brendan Fraser (groan!) and a set piece that we're not exactly sure he has the chops to pull off. "I remember being in the theater for Thunderball and the big underwater battle at the end of that movie just blew my socks off," Sommers said. "In G.I. Joe, there's an underwater battle under the polar icecap that's Thunderball times 10!" Ugh, this one sounds less like "Yo, Joe!" and more like "Hell to the no, Joe!" to us.
"My hands are chapped from all that harmonica playing."
Rod Blagojevich, who is in the midst of an impeachment trial in the Illinois State Senate, plans to file a lawsuit to stop the proceedings because he says they lack "fundamental fairness" because he couldn't bring in witnesses to testify on his behalf. He held a press conference today to explain what he meant, helpfully using metaphors to demonstrate his case:
"[Under state Senate rules] if the cowboy charged with stealing a horse was charged with doing that in town, but in fact on the date and time that he apparently stole the horse in town he was on the ranch with six other cowboys, herdin' cattle and ropin' steers, and then he expects that when his day comes to go to court he can bring those six cowboys to say it wasn't him 'cause he wasn't in town, he was on the ranch herdin' cattle, even if he could bring those cowboys in to say that, under these rules, under 8B, it wouldn't matter."
Oh, we get it. He's just mad we got distracted by Loony Toons Caroline Kennedy and Governor Paterson, so he decided to go all Animaniac to get the spotlight back. Perfectly understandable.
Front Page: Studios hope for Oscar to induce profits -- The rift between box office performance and Oscar nominations prompts the question: Does commercial success have any influence on the awards process? Or have the Academy Awards become the engine that niche studios use to help drive the box office?
Front Page: Company veteran oversaw all marketing -- Variety chief marketing officer Madelyn Hammond is returning to the marketing and branding firm she formed in 2006.
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AP - What do musket-toting Minutemen, bare-bottomed barristers and the half-man, half-goat hybrid Pan have in common? They peopled indomitable British designer John Galliano's winter 2009-2019 menswear world, which drew inspiration from vastly varied sources but not the world economic crisis.
The "serious lady" who is the subject of the National's new song, "So Far Around the Bend," is trapped in place ("now there's no leaving New York") and in time ("praying for Pavement to get back together"). The band, however, is not. With a spring in its step and pastoral woodwind-and-string accompaniment, this track shows the eerily consistent Brooklyn quintet stretching out a bit, and the results are quietly impressive. The song appears on Dark Was the Night, an AIDS-benefit compilation curated by the band that marks both twenty years and twenty albums from the Red Hot organization. We're streaming it here, but not posting a charity-defeating download link. We have some standards.
The Sarah Palin Wardrobegate of 2008 isn't quite over. The McCain campaign promised months ago that Palin's $180,000 campaign wardrobe would be donated to charity. Though Palin has returned all the clothes to the RNC, they're just sitting in trash bags at the RNC office in Washington, D.C., collecting dust, mothballs, and more ire. Sources tell NewMajority the items are "in the process" of being donated. They say they plan to inventory them and dole them out to various charities but would not reveal when or specify the charities. Palin's office in Alaska can't answer questions because they don't comment on issues related to the campaign. Meanwhile, major campaign donors, already angered by the $180,000 apparel figure, continue to stew, in the dark about how their money was spent.
We know how it goes when you have a big pile of clothes to give away — they sit in an obnoxious pile in the corner for months until you force your cheap, lazy ass to cart them to the Salvation Army in a cab. Maybe some lazy interns at the RNC are avoiding this loathsome task. But why oh why are the brand-new designer clothes in trash bags? Valentino, Elie Tahari, Escada — we know that stuff comes with free hanging bags. Flimsy and plastic-y though they may be, using those is better than treating that stuff like dead leaves and refuse.
Lily has such excellent posture. That'll go when she starts getting fat with that baby inside her.
This week, many comments on our Gossip Girl recap complained of Teach for America inconsistencies, the sudden body-morphing of the headmistress, and Chuck's character growth into a gallant stepson. We got to see the return of Blair the schemer and Nate the horndog. Dan continued to think he is the center of everyone’s universe, and this new Rachel Carr looks like she is going to prove him right by giving him more than an A on his short stories. Meanwhile, Serena turned down Yale so she can get her hair dreadlocked at Brown. The comments of the week after the jump! This time, compiled by one of our own gossip girls, SarcasticMeow.
Realer Than Chuck Bass Matching His Socks to His Sweater
• Nate's never heard of A Clockwork Orange. Of course he hasn't. Plus 1. —Martell
• Plus 2 for the outfits B & S wore to school ... I felt like I was back at Beverly Hills High with Cher and Dionne. —BK84 and others
• Plus 10 for "Normally, I'd tell you to get a room, but mine is right underneath yours. And I'd like you to remember that." Eric is the best! —MITZI30
• Plus 5 for Blair's B report definitely being in MLA format. —ForgetVermont
• Plus 100 for Dorota´s "Oh Oh Is it war?" Her supporting actress Emmy is only 8 months away! –Simonroma
• When Lily joins Chuck in his effort to oust Uncle Jack, she says that her 20% stake in the company must count for something. Um, yeah, probably about 20%. Which is way less than Uncle Jack's 51%. Plus 4 because any former groupie of Lincoln Hawk would struggle with a math concept as difficult as percentages. –sharpiepen
• Plus 5 for Dan and Serena really believing they are going to be together all four years of college. They are so naive they have no idea they are going to break up by winter break and then become casual sex partners for the rest of their lives! Just like their parents! —Misschristypoo
• Plus 10 For Uncle Jack telling Chuck to cancel the “young and unstable” order because he already ate. Eww and Ohh at the same time. – Teacup75 and others
• Was I the only one on the edge of my seat waiting for a nip slip in Serena's dress at the opera? I felt like at any moment it would just pop out. Plus 2, because Serena wouldn't dress any other way. —writerfashionista
• Plus 10 for how consistently and endlessly self-absorbed Lily always is: practically delighting in her children's discomfort with her sex life, flaunting her new boyfriend around in public, COMPLETELY FORGETTING she was going to adopt Chuck! – EMMYLOSER
• I loved Chuck's line about "the black market's just not what it used to be", but more, the dreamy, faraway gaze in his eyes as he uttered it. Plus 5. – Purpleandgreen
Faker Than a Prestigious Prep School Hiring a Teach for America Pubescent Greenhorn English Teacher:
• Minus 5 for the fact that Chuck Bass did not know the "family lawyer". Are you kidding me? Kid knows the code to his father's safe, but does not know the family lawyer? —Princess_peach
• Minus 10 for Lily suddenly acting like Mother of the Year with Chuck. Is this the same woman who ditched her kids for both a German Klaus and a Danish Claus, not to mention the white Christmas provided by her then-husband's blow? — Groundhog
• Minus 50. For sending Jack home without developing the Jack-Blair-Chuck scandal. SERIOUSLY? — urbanesque, cbassluv, doodie and others
• Minus 2 for "this is Rufus Humphrey, the man I’m seeing". puh-lease. —LNMAA
• Minus 2 for the resurgence of Nate's Season 1 Episode 1 slick back hair. We much prefer his man bangs! —yogurtonthesteps
• No one wants to freaking see Vanessa and Nate making out in a box where the rest of the audience can clearly see them. Nathaniel, put away your magic flute. Minus 5 —JMSTRAW
• Minus 10 for Lily controlling 71% of Bass Industries. I can't wrap my head around this. It would be more believable to me if zombie Bart flew in on a purple Pegasus and saved Lily from Jack. —Comfortablysmug
• I honestly expected Rachel to tear her face off and really be Georgina at the end of the episode, while screaming " I’m baaaaaaaaack!" so, Minus 5 for that not actually happening —chuckandblairplz
• Minus 10 years in prison for dating a student. —NYC04106
It’s been mostly photos and TV-thingies. This is the first day I’ve really interviewed all day. I am not bored or jaded. I’ve never really done very much of this. I am having an out-of-body experience.
You’re such a newcomer, I know next to nothing about you — sorry! Where are you from?
I was born in London, lived in Germany until I was 8. My father ran hotels. And then back. Now I’m just outside London. I acted all the way through school. My first job was Pride and Prejudice when I was 18 turning 19, and then I just carried on after that.
You’ve worked on stage and TV, but this is your first starring film role. How’d you nab it?
I got the job about five months before I started shooting, but I’d read it two years before. I felt like it’d just been going on for ever and ever and ever, and I’d wanted it forever. It’s so disheartening and sad when independent films collapse. So I tried to not get my hopes up. When we started shooting, I was like, “Really? Okay.”
Was there any advice from Susan Sarandon or Emma Thompson for the newcomer?
You learn a lot about how to handle yourself on a film set from people like Emma. At the end of the day, she bought three crates of wine and beer, and pizza for the whole crew, and I thought, “Now that’s a proper leading lady…”
Most people will assume you’re 16, but you’re really 23. How’d you tap into a teenage self?
Mainly it was just thinking about the awkwardness of being 16 and your inability to cap your emotions — your inability to stop yourself from saying what’s on the tip of your tongue. Then I watched it, and I was like, “I don’t think I look that young.” And when I am in a school uniform, I’m like, “I am a child, it’s so horrible!”
You don’t play a victim, and Sarsgaard doesn’t play a predator. But she’s clearly being taken advantage of…
I wouldn’t want it to be that sort of young girl, completely being taken advantage of — and I don’t think you’ve seen a film with this kind of dynamic. There are scenes where she initiates things, actually flips it round. He is not a bad guy; he is not a villain; there’s nothing sexual about what they have together. When it collapses, it collapses because he is just [such] a lost soul.
There’s been a bit of silly controversy in America over The Reader, since Kate Winslet’s middle-aged character seduces a teenage boy. Has that been on your radar?
I don’t know how an American audience would view it, but for an English audience, sex is consensual from 16. Sixteen or seventeen seems fairly respectable to most people, I think.
So what’s next?
I am doing Uncle Vanya in spring 2010. And I just finished this film with Jim Sheridan, my first time doing an American accent, improvising, whilst holding a 3-month-old baby. It was just intense.
Ah Fidel Castro: Brain in a jar, reanimated corpse, his brother with a beard... whatever you picture the Communist Cuban Dictator to look like, we bet it's not like in the above photo. Rockin' an Adidas track suit jacket, face all "And what?!", Fidel (or his body double a la Kevin Kline in Dave) has never looked better.
But there is one thing about the above photo that REALLY REALLY scares the sh*t out of us. Can you guess what it is? The answer and an obligatory Blingee after the jump.
THIS GUY:
It's like if Prince and Prince had a baby, and that baby was an inbred Prince.
And of course, let's kick this weekend off right:
An investigation is under way in the Bahamas into a report that someone has tried to extort money from John Travolta in relation to the death of his son, a Bahamian police official said Friday.
If you'd paid attention to investment adviser and thestreet.com columnist Doug Kass's "surprise predictions" for 2008 (and had a couple billion dollars of other people's money to play around with), you'd be as rich as John Paulson.
Along with observations that now seem mundane (such as "financial stocks fail to recover"), the Peerless Prognosticator of Palm Beach (as he is known to some) predicted "an unprecedented and abrupt drop in personal consumption expenditures" and "the housing depression of 2007 morph[ing] into the retailing depression of 2008."
And so far, it seems like he might be on target with his outlook for 2009. Consider this bleak entry:
"Madoff's lawyers disclose that he has cancer, and his trial is delayed indefinitely as he undergoes chemotherapy."
And this morning's "Page Six":
Several sources have told Page Six that Madoff himself has serious health issues. Some have even said the former money manager has pancreatic cancer.
As for the rest of Kass's 2009 crystal-balling, well, it's mostly — can you
believe it? — upbeat, with just a few pockets of terror. Kass understands that you can't surprise anybody these days by being pessimistic. According to his list, the housing market and the U.S. economy are going to stabilize quicker than people think, and the automakers will make peace with their unions and stay afloat. Wonderful! On the other hand, we also get the old media erupting in a "massive flameout," several major sports franchises going bust, and — here's the one to keep you up at night — "an act of cyberterrorism occurs that compromises the security of a major government."
It's going to be hard to make money off that one, but somebody will probably
find a way.
Jordan has been snapped looking slightly worse for wear on a night out. The glamour model, 30, partied at celeb hotspot Embassy yesterday evening before moving on to Movida with her sister Sophie.
Wearing knee-high socks, a PVC skirt and school tie, Jordan struggled to keep her balance as she grinned at photographers.
Earlier this week, she revealed she and husband Peter Andre, 35, are moving to LA for three months.
A new analysis shows that Tishman Speyer, not having yet profited on their $5.4 billion deal to take over Stuyvesant Town, may burn through its remaining $127.7 million in cash reserves on the property in the next six months. That could lead to one whopper of a real-estate default. Already there are reports that much of Stuy Town's massive staff has been laid off. [NYO via Gothamist]
Penelope Cruz didn't realise her new movie was a comedy until filming had finished.
The 34-year-old actress - who has been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of gun-wielding maniac Maria Elena in 'Vicky Cristina Barcelona' - couldn't understand why people were laughing during screenings of Woody Allen's latest project.
She said: "When we were in the middle of shooting, I felt like I was doing the most intense and disturbing drama I ever did in my career.
"I never laughed until months later, when I saw the movie with an audience. At the beginning, I remember feeling like, 'Why are they laughing?'"
The Spanish actress - who was nominated for an Oscar in 2006 for morbid drama 'Volver' - recently finished filming musical movie 'Nine'.
Penelope plays Carla, a beautiful seductress who at one point performs a sexy song while swinging on ropes.
It was a role that left the actress blistered and bruised, but she loved every minute of it and was in tears on her last day of shooting.
She said: "You carry on and forget the pain, and at the end of the day you see all the blisters and bruises."I couldn't stop crying, because I had been doing dance classes and rehearsals for so many months. It's in the film and it will be there for ever, but I don't get to do it again. I was addicted to it!"'Nine' - which also stars Daniel Day-Lewis, Nicole Kidman, Kate Hudson, Fergie, Judi Dench and Sophia Loren - is due for release in November.
Heath Ledger's New York City apartment has been completely sealed off by its owner - one month after he pulled it off the real estate market.
The Brokeback Mountain star died of an accidental overdose of prescription drugs in the SoHo loft last January (22Jan08), aged 28.
The building's owner, millionaire philanthropist Donald Burns, took the apartment off the market in December (08), after failing to attract a tenant with rent listed at $26,000 (£18,905) per month.
According to the New York Post all furniture, including the bed where Ledger's body was found, has been removed from the three-bedroom home.
A source tells the newspaper, "It's completely empty. Everything's been taken out. Nobody is allowed up there."
Heath Ledger was awarded with a posthumous Oscar nomination yesterday for his performance as the Joker in The Dark Knight that marked the one year anniversary of his death. Source Source: Lepaparazzi - Celebrity News and Gossip Blog | 23 Jan 2009 | 9:14 pm
Mariah Carey was left "furious" after being told she wouldn't be sitting with US President Barack Obama's family during his inauguration.
The 'Touch My Body' singer - who performed at a ball to celebrate Obama being sworn in - was left aghast when she discovered she had to sit with other celebrities during Tuesday's (20.01.09) ceremony.
A source said: "Mariah was in the VIP area, where every celebrity, like Jon Bon Jovi, Mary J. Blige, Alicia Keys and Bruce Springsteen, was seated. But somehow she thought she'd be up with the Obama family. When she realised she wasn't, she bailed."
Rapper P. Diddy - who was so delighted to see Obama become America's first African-American President he blew kisses at him as he was being sworn in - was also said to be unhappy with the ceremony, because he wasn't asked to perform while rapper Jay-Z was.
However, a spokesman for Diddy, real name Sean Combs, has denied the allegations, saying: "It was one of the greatest moments of his life. Sean was invited to the inauguration and was seated third row, with Jay-Z, at the ceremony."
As avid fans of frightening imagery and adult situations, we were quite disappointed to learn earlier this month that Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince would carry a PG rating, especially after the previous two movies scored PG-13's for scenes of intense, childhood-scarring fantasy violence. Happily, though, this new Japanese trailer makes the film look as dark as we'd hoped (and not just because of the crappy video quality), with all Death Eater attacks intact, fiery, totally scary-looking. That's the last time we let a negligent MPAA ruin our anticipation!
SKIN
• Kristin Davis will star in Dead Sea–lotion brand Ahava's new ad campaign. She said swimming in the Dead Sea is "like being on the moon with water." In the ad above, doesn't she look like she's about to unleash mystical moon magic on us? [WWD]
• Fergie spent over $1,000 on facial treatments at Sonya Dakar's Beverly Hills Skin Clinic before her wedding. Keeping the economy alive one, celebrity wedding at a time. [Daily Beauty Reporter/Allure]
MAKEUP
• More pictures of Scarlett Johansson's Dolce & Gabbana makeup campaign emerge. They're exactly what you would expect them to look like. [Off the Rack/People]
FRAGRANCE
• Diesel's launching a men's fragrance called Brave. The woody, leathery scent comes in a bottle meant to look like Diesel founder Renzo Rosso's tattooed hand. He's a hand-bottle hand model! [WWD]
NAILS
• The founders of Dashing Diva nail salons are launching a polish collection inspired by Manhattan. Shades include Red Carpet (red), East Village (chocolate), NYPD Blue (navy), and Central Park After Dark (plum). We get East Village, but how is Central Park after dark plum? [Daily Obsession]
Front Page: Unscripted TV has become all-too predictable -- In its infancy, reality TV seemed edgy, even dangerous. CBS' "Survivor" and "Big Brother" made a splash because it was unclear exactly how far they would go in conducting their "social experiments."
Almost everyone is agreeing that this year's Sundance was one of the best in recent memory, and many of the filmmakers would be well justified in giving themselves pats on the back. But it appears that at least one film will be leaving Sundance with its pedigree significantly tarnished. And it's breaking our hearts, because we were convinced this was going to be the best thing ever. Alas, the the Michael Cera–Charlyne Yi faux-documentary-love-story-but-actually-kind-of-not, Paper Heart, did not turn out to be the greatest movie ever made. Indeed, the film — which features Yi interviewing various kooky subjects about the nature of love while falling for Cera, with various anecdotes crudely enacted by handmade puppets — spawned an ongoing parlor game among critics trying to one-up each other in finding new descriptors utilizing the word “twee.” We overheard one wag at our screening whisper the words “When Twee Attacks” as he was leaving. David Fear of Time Out wrote that the film tests “your tolerance for tweeness … beyond the limits set by the Geneva Convention.” Another anonymous critic friend said it put the “twee” back in “Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum.” That was kind of harsh, but not harsh enough for his friend, who called it “a holocaust of twee.” After that it just got too painful, so we covered our ears, started singing nursery rhymes, and sped away on our Big Wheel.
I felt pretty confident that the Steelers were gonna beat the Ravens last week after studying this real-life photograph of Steeler-Godzilla shooting a raven with its eye lasers.
I'm feeling even more confident going into the Super Bowl, though, after watching the following video of a group of 11-13 year-olds covering a Steeler-ized version of Pat Benatar's change-the-radio-station-indicator "Heartbreaker," detailing all of the reasons why the Steelers will inflict "shame" on their opponents and "take their rings." Also, the band is called Pop Rocks, which is perfect:
(This video already has over 120,000 views on Youtube too -- I didn't realize there were that many moms in the country who knew how to email video links) Source: Best Week Ever | 23 Jan 2009 | 8:30 pm
Hard to believe it happened so quickly, but Sexman has now been posting videos on YouTube for one full year. As good as 2008 was to the pint-size media critic, we have a feeling that 2009 will treat him even better. Even as we type, we're giddy with anticipation to find out what he's gonna say about Friday the 13th. [Videogum]
Front Page: Original's Jennifer Saunders will exec produce -- Fox's Americanized take on famed Britcom "Absolutely Fabulous" has been ordered to pilot.
Jenny Laden’s delicate watercolor lady, seemingly spun like an old-fashioned candy cane, has the dashing angularity of Nefertiti. She and other appealingly unreal ladies are on view at Heskin Contemporary.
Is Anna hyping a Michelle Obama March Vogue cover with this ditty?: "It wasn’t just that [Michelle's] choices projected a simpler, streamlined, more modern attitude, rejecting the ridiculous idea that the only way for a First Lady to dress is in the dreaded White House standard-issue uniform—the boxy, anonymous suit that always managed to look as appealing, and as comfortable, as armor. Instead, we have a woman who is as happy in newer, less obvious designer choices like Wu and Toledo (both, incidentally, Vogue/CFDA Fashion Fund finalists, which made my heart swell that little bit more with pride) as she is in J.Crew and the Gap. It’s inspiring to see our First Lady so serene and secure in her personal style." [Vogue.com]
AP - The king of Goth just got darker. Riccardo Tisci delivered a strong, kinky menswear collection on Friday that was infused with a medieval S&M sensibility. Source: Yahoo! News: Fashion News | 23 Jan 2009 | 7:59 pm
I stopped watching Grey's Anatomy when it got ridiculous (midway through the title sequence of the pilot), but every so often I'll overhear what happened on a particular episode either from reading blogs or hearing co-workers talk about it or having Katherine Heigl blurt it out while we're banging each other in a medical supply closet (usually it's this one), and the plots always re-confirm why my decision not to waste seconds of my life on this show was 100% justified.
Last night, Grey's continued its ongoing experiment to see just how far over a shark you can sail, when the Eric Dane "McSteamy" character BROKE HIS PENIS:
What do I mean, he broke his penis? I mean, he was having sex and he BROKE HIS PENIS.
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, this is the same network that brings us Lost each and every week. And perhaps I'm a hypocrite for loving a show that's full of island polar bears, time travel, teleporting cabins, and other borderline-magical activity that far surpasses the pseudo-medical nonsense on Grey's, but I counter that hypothetical argument with this:
(And for the record, they're now 38.5 miles past the shark and still airborne, though 24 is closing ground quickly) Source: Best Week Ever | 23 Jan 2009 | 7:45 pm
As if it wasn't embarrassing enough that John Roberts flubbed the presidential oath during the inauguration of Barack Obama on Tuesday, now comes word that Yo-Yo Ma and Itzhak Perlman lip-synced mimed their performance. Apparently, it was too cold for their Stradivarius instruments to stay in tune, so they were forced to employ a backing track to avoid sounding like Poindexter in Revenge of the Nerds. Well, at least they didn't blame it on acid reflux! [TMZ]
One of the most exciting performances at Sundance this year came from a newcomer whose (last) name will nevertheless sound familiar: Stella Schnabel, daughter of Julian Schnabel and his first wife, Jacqueline Beaurang, is at the center of Ry Russo-Young’s improvised, mixed-media feature, You Won’t Miss Me, which tells the fragmented story of a twenty-something actress recently released from a psychiatric hospital. The film and the character were developed by Schnabel and Russo-Young together over the course of a year. We spoke to Schnabel, who also carries a co-writing credit on the film, about improvising scenes with non-actors, the difference between acting and real life, and her famous father.
How did you and Ry meet?
I’ve known Ry since I was 5 years old. She was my sister’s best friend growing up. We all went to the same schools. My sister and Ry made a movie together when they were in high school. And a good friend of mine was in her first feature, Orphans. We hadn’t seen each other in a while, but we bumped into each other one day, and we said, “We should make a movie together.”
And the two of you developed this script and this character together?
Yes. I think what actually happens to the character was something I’d always had in my mind. We both had ideas for scenes, some of it based on real life, some of it based just on ideas we threw out there. For example, I don’t have crushes on people, but I invented a story about kind of liking a guy in a band and then going to Atlantic City to see him play, accompanied by a stranger.
That is a great scene, by the way. Was that improvised?
It wasn’t scripted or anything. That was spontaneous for me. I only knew a little bit about Carlen, the girl I was going with. I know Ry said things to her, to get her going. So we wind up in this situation where it’s already three in the morning, and I want to hang out with my friend who’s in the band, Donald, whom I know really well. But he’s passed out, and Carlen wants to hook up with this other guy. She’s really teasing him and leading him on. He’s calling my phone to hook up with her. I got annoyed with that, and the scene just developed. I was really pushing it with her.
You’ve had a lot of training as an actor. Was it tough working with non-actors?
Sometimes; it can be very hard. I don’t want to say mean things about other people, but sometimes you have to pull things out of them. And you wind up saying things to get them to react, but afterwards you have to make sure they’re okay: “I wasn’t saying this to you. I was saying it to your character!” But some of them were great. Simon O’Connor, who is actually a musician in a band called Amazing Babies, was great.
Do you think you ever go too far in terms of losing yourself in your character?
I hope there isn’t any “acting” in the film. But I also don’t want people to think this is me. It was done in such a way — we were doing it ourselves, shooting in our own homes. And I’d never done a movie before. So I was a little freaked out that people might think that I’m just like this character. When I was doing it, I was thinking, “No one’s going to watch this. Everyone’s going to hate this character. I would hate this character.”
What do you think of this character today, now that it’s been some time since you shot the film?
I don’t really know how to watch myself. I guess to look at myself physically is a whole other thing. I find some of the things she says very funny. And I’m happy with the acting in the film.
Your father is a great director of actors, and you’ve actually had parts in a couple of his films. What have you learned from him?
To just be as natural as possible. To ask yourself: “What would you do in this situation? What would you really do?”
Has he seen the film yet?
Neither of my parents have seen it. My dad really wants to see it. A number of people have seen it and told him good things, so he’s curious.
You'll be relieved to that know Kanye West realized his lifelong dream yesterday. The ten-time Grammy winner is officially a fashion designer. The sneakers he designed for Louis Vuitton walked in the men's show in Paris yesterday. Like winning his ten Grammys, these sneakers were the product of lots of hard work and dedication. Louis Vuitton creative director Marc Jacobs told WWD, "I think Kanye goes to the office more than I do. He’s really, really into sneakers." The shoes were ingeniously conceived. Quoth Kanye:
We started from the sole. We made it lighter weight and flexible, so you can bend it…. I was inspired by the movie “Dune” because, as you know, I love sci-fi…. The collection had all these jackets that were very padded. They looked like maybe they had hockey pads in the jacket, and there was one where the collar came up really high. I took that element and I put that on the back of the shoe. It’s like the opposite of the tongue. Usually you have the tongue at the front. [This is] like a tongue at the back.
Speaking of tongues, just after the Louis collection launched, a rumor came out that unsettled Kanye. He blogged his pain:
YOOOO WHY WON'T YOU LET ME BE GREAT!!! I HAD THE TWO GREATEST DAYS OF MY LIFE AND WHEN I GET BACK FROM THE LOUIE SHOW I READ SOME SHIT CLAIMING I SAID I'M DOWN TO DO PORN AND SOME BISEXUAL PORN!!!! I CAN'T BELIEVE THE AVN WOULD POST
Ah that's better. Reading his normal speech in which WWD spelled "Louis" correctly for him was throwing off our Kanye UniverseCity. God, we spend too much time on the internet.
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" was the big name when the Academy Award nominations were announced Thursday. But it's "Doubt" that leads the pack going into the 15th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, which will take place Sunday night.
1. In case you haven't read "The Lorax," it's widely recognized as Dr. Seuss' take on environmentalism and how humans are destroying nature. Loggers were so upset about the book that some groups within the industry sponsored "The Truax," a similar book -- but from the logging point of view.
Five seconds into this video, my jaw dropped. Ten seconds after that, it dropped even further. For the rest of the video, I had to keep dislodging my jaw so it could drop further and further, until it finally dropped completely 360 degrees around and became my normal mouth again.
Wh...whaa......
The only part I did laugh at was the shopkeeper admitting "We get both sides of the fence," as if to say, "Yeah, most people hate them, but this one racist dude thought it was cool, so you know, to each his own."
(via Gothamist) Source: Best Week Ever | 23 Jan 2009 | 6:45 pm
Yesterday we learned that Istithmar was considering selling Barneys, which it purchased less than two years ago for $942 million. The company doesn't want to lose money in the sale, however, and insiders estimate that Barneys would only fetch $300 to $400 million now. Chief executive Howard Socol, who resigned in May, hasn't been replaced. Also, the steady stream of customers willing to spend $300 on a T-shirt has dried up. On the upside, retail analysts say the Barneys brand still has caché. [NYT]
Patrick Swayze is planning to write a book of his memoirs along with his wife (I imagine she'll be typing on the computer while "Unchained Melody" plays and his hands slowly slide down over hers...)
As a certified expert on Awesome Autobiography Pun Titles, I've compiled this list of the 10 Most Likely Titles For Patrick Swayze's Memoirs, mostly because I want to track this thing down the second it comes out and rush-deliver it to my desk. As usual, feel free to leave your own title suggestions in the comments:
1) Nobody Puts Baby In The Corner: The Patrick Swayze Story
2) Nobody Puts Swayze In The Corner
3) Life Is A Road House
4) In The Corner Is Where No One Should Put Baby
5) Ghost Dad
6) No Movie Puts Swayze In The Corner (Of The Shot)
7) All The Gusta You Can Musta
8) Breaking Point
9) ...In The Corner: The Patrick Swayze Story. Also It's Where No One Should Put Baby.
10) I don't know, something from Black DogOther Swayze Memoir titles in the comments, por favor. Source: Best Week Ever | 23 Jan 2009 | 6:15 pm
On February 6, 2009, ovaries around the country will burst open with anticipation as He's Just Not That Into You, a movie about how sad women are as a gender, is released in theaters. The movie, based on the book of the same name (Chapter 6: If he doesn't call you back, he's just! not! that! intoyyy-- (GUNSHOT)(body thud)(awkward looks around)(slow dialing of 911)(ringing) "Yes, hello? We lost another one." -- Betty FriedanEl fin.) features an impressive cast of Hollywood A-listers, and a smattering of token B-listers (Justin Long, we're looking at you.)
In an effort to promote the film, three of the male leads -- Kevin Connolly, Justin Long, and Bradley Cooper -- have teamed up to bring you the following promotional video, titled "10 Chick Flick Cliches That Are Not In He's Just Not That Into You." I highly recommend watching it, if only to remember what it feels like to be extremely ashamed. We're hoping the film's production value cost roughly $27 million, 9 hundred and 99 thousand, 9 hundred and 99 dollars more than the cost for the below video shoot, which seems to have set them back $1, Trading Places style.
That man in the beard? Yes, that IS an unrecognizable Bradley Cooper. We'd tell him he's better than this sort of thing, but the emptiness in his eyes signals that he already knows that.
(See you in the theaters, gals!) Source: Best Week Ever | 23 Jan 2009 | 5:33 pm
AP - Belgium's Kris Van Assche got creative with the black jacket, serving up 28 variations on the old menswear staple at his Paris show Friday. Source: Yahoo! News: Fashion News | 23 Jan 2009 | 5:27 pm
Anyone familiar with Abe Vigoda's many appearances on Conan through the years shouldn't be surprised that he showed up to the Today Show in person to contest the claim that he looks like an older version of Matt Lauer, but man, for 109, this guy's absolutely still got it.
Also, I love the Today panel's patronizing reactions to everything Vigoda says. He doesn't need your manufactured validation, Today Show -- he's Abe Vigoda.
The 81st Annual Academy Awardnominations were announced yesterday. And guess who, for the first time in modern history, couldn't give a care? That's right, it's me.
Here are 20 Noms More Interesting Than The Oscars:20.
Bruce Springsteen is about to release a new album and play the Super Bowl XLIII halftime show, but there's another project in the works that will be received joyously by fans: a deluxe reissue of 1978's "Darkness on the Edge of Town."
Front Page: 'Grey's' wins demo but `CSI' nabs total viewers -- In the week following William Petersen's departure from "CSI," nearly 7 million people who had watched the crime procedural a week ago before turned away from the skein Thursday night, according preliminary Nielsen estimates.
The Raconteurs' feverish Bonnaroo 2008 set, which is now streaming on Bonnaroo.com, will be the first of a host of content to go live on the site in the weeks to come under the mantle Bonnaroo 365.
Singer Kelly Osbourne, the daughter of rocker Ozzy Osbourne, checked herself into "a medical facility to address some personal issues," her London publicist confirmed Friday.
With digital sales still robust for her two breakthrough singles, Katy Perry will launch her first headlining tour Jan. 23 at the Showbox in Seattle. "I'm indulging my obsession with fruit and cats and designing all different outfits," she tells Billboard of the show.
Fashion Wire Daily - There was a sense seeing Thursday's Louis Vuitton menswear fall 2009 collection, the first by the luxury giant for the masters of the universe since the economic meltdown unleashed, that these clothes were dedicated to the adaptable traveler, but one of somber horizons.
Front Page: Network greenlights medical drama -- NBC is serious about finding a new medical drama, picking up the pilot "Trauma." Dario Scardapane wrote the project, which revolves around the high-energy world of medical emergencies out in the field.
Fashion Wire Daily - Where else to stage a show in the first menswear fashion season since the financial bloodbath began than in the French Communist Party (PCF) headquarters, as Dries Van Noten succeeded in doing on Thursday night in Paris.
AP - With models pounding up the runway dressed as 19th-century English lords, WWII fighter pilots and even a yeti, French label Thierry Mugler's show Friday looked more like a costume party than a proper menswear collection.
Watching Iain Softley's motley, jewel-toned adaptation of "Inkheart," the best-selling 2003 young-adult novel by Cornelia Funke, I had the distinct sensation of being a young bookworm again, falling into a world as vividly real as it is impossible.
"Franz Ferdinand" singer Alex Kapranos (right) and guitarist Bob Hardy on stage in July 2008. The third album from the Scottish art-rockers goes on sale worldwide on Monday, and is set to surprise fans... Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 23 Jan 2009 | 1:13 pm
Writer and director John Cameron Mitchell and actor Parker Posey at the premiere of "Shortbus" in New York in 2006. South Korea's Supreme Court on Friday overturned a ban on the movie, a US film set in... Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 23 Jan 2009 | 1:06 pm
French cellist Daniel Cuiller plays a newly-found score by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart on January 22. The score is to get its first public performance next Thursday, in western France, where it lay undiscovered... Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 23 Jan 2009 | 12:51 pm
Actor and teacher Francois Begaudeau, seen here in September 2008 in Paris, stars in "The Class." The film which scooped top prize at the Cannes festival last year and has been nominated for an Oscar,... Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 23 Jan 2009 | 12:45 pm
Veteran Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan, seen here on January 3, said he has cleared the air with the British director Danny Boyle over his perceived attitude to the film "Slumdog Millionaire". Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 23 Jan 2009 | 12:35 pm
Madonna is rumored to be dating a 21-year-old Brazilian model. Do you think of this relationship as real? Because I've read reports that he's just using her to gain fame and stardom....
Tonight’s episode featured the song “The ’59 Sound” by The Gaslight Anthem. Their second album (also called “The ’59 Sound”) came out in late August, but the band continues to gain momentum after being named to some best of 2008 lists like Rolling Stone and NME . After being selected as the Best Week Ever theme song this week, an appearance on Letterman next Friday, and an upcoming European tour, perhaps all the band really has left to accomplish is to play a presidential inauguration concert like Springsteen.
The Gaslight Anthem sometimes gets classified as a “punk” band, but that can be misleading. These days, punk just does not have the same cache it did before Blink 182 made it all TRL friendly. Nowadays, the punk moniker conjures up images of either whiney emo kids singing about being alone or hardcore mohawked dudes rebelling against God knows what. The truth is there are cool bands out there like The Gaslight Anthem playing genuine, honest rock music (see also The Hold Steady).
Check out more of The Gaslight Anthen ahead!
While we fully recommend checking out ‘The ’59 Sound,’ this band was not a hard sell for me being that they are from Jersey. It is nice to see my beloved state get some recognition besides bad sitcom jokes about the mafia or the smell (I’ll have you know it only smells near the big highways… so does your state). Inevitably in any conversation about bands from New Jersey people will bring up Bon Jovi and Bruce Springsteen. Look, we get it. Nothing against Bon Jovi, but somehow his Jersey-roots cheapen any other group that comes out of the state. Do not dismiss this band just because you’ve heard “Livin’ on a Prayer” one too many times at a bar.
On the other hand, many people have noted The Gaslight Anthem seems heavily influenced by Springsteen. They both sing about driving old cars, reminiscing about summer nights and working the late shift. What do you think we do in Jersey? We drive a lot and only work at night (at some kind of dock, preferably). Also, everyone has a special girl back home named Wendy or Sally. But all Boss comparisons aside, The Gaslight Anthem is a solid American rock band that we wish we'd known about while cruising in our Camaro back to Jenny's house after unloading ships all night.
Watch their video for ‘The ’59 Sound’:
One of three suspects detained in an alleged plot to extort $20 million from a grieving John Travolta has been formally charged, while another is said to be cooperating with...
We're assuming Molly Ringwald thinks blue is just as pretty as pink.
The Breakfast Club princess is expecting twins—a boy and a girl—in August with hubby Panio...
This week, BWE.tv has been both kinda animated, a lil' bit giffy, and extremely America-gropey:
The Gossip Girl spinoff is gearing up. In case you haven't heard, the show will launch as an episode of the original series and, in episode 24, we'll travel to Los Angeles for a look back...
Drew Barrymore is ready to kick some ass again.
Ms. Barrymore just told me she's hot to make a third installment of her supersuccessful Charlie's Angels movie...
Tom Hanks isn't getting big love from some sectors of the Mormon community.
The Oscar-winner is softening his critique of Mormons after coming under attack by the Church of Jesus...
• When Jeremy Piven showed up to a Page Six Magazine photo shoot, he got things started off with, "This isn't my first time on the merry-go-round. You want mediocre? I can...
The Oscar pool might be a month away, but some top bookies ahve already got your stone-cold locks: Slumdog Millionaire and Heath Ledger.
The online oddsmakers at Intertops, the heads of...
Patrick Swayze is planning to 
5) Ghost Dad
6) No Movie Puts Swayze In The Corner (Of The Shot)
7) All The Gusta You Can Musta
8) Breaking Point
9) ...In The Corner: The Patrick Swayze Story. Also It's Where No One Should Put Baby.
10) I don't know, something from Black Dog
Other Swayze Memoir titles in the comments, por favor.
On February 6, 2009, ovaries around the country will burst open with anticipation as He's Just Not That Into You, a movie about how sad women are as a gender, is released in theaters. The movie, based on the book of the same name (Chapter 6: If he doesn't call you back, he's just! not! that! intoyyy-- (GUNSHOT)(body thud)(awkward looks around)(slow dialing of 911)(ringing) "Yes, hello? We lost another one." -- Betty Friedan El fin.) features an impressive cast of Hollywood A-listers, and a smattering of token B-listers (Justin Long, we're looking at you.)
In an effort to promote the film, three of the male leads -- Kevin Connolly, Justin Long, and Bradley Cooper -- have teamed up to bring you the following promotional video, titled "10 Chick Flick Cliches That Are Not In He's Just Not That Into You." I highly recommend watching it, if only to remember what it feels like to be extremely ashamed. We're hoping the film's production value cost roughly $27 million, 9 hundred and 99 thousand, 9 hundred and 99 dollars more than the cost for the below video shoot, which seems to have set them back $1, Trading Places style.
That man in the beard? Yes, that IS an unrecognizable Bradley Cooper. We'd tell him he's better than this sort of thing, but the emptiness in his eyes signals that he already knows that.
