Duquette, who died in 1999, was the first American with a one-man exhibit at the Louvre. He won a Tony for costume design for the original Camelot production on Broadway. Business partner Hutton Wilkinson took over the company when Duquette died, and continues to design and market the company's products.

So was this intentional, or was Kors just inspired? The resort collection is in stores now, so what does this all mean? If Duquette wins, will the clothes have to be pulled? Ugh, that sounds like such a headache.

Read more posts by Amy Odell

Filed Under: copyfights, lawsuits, legal issues, michael kors, tony duqette, trademark infringement

Source: The Cut | 27 Jan 2009 | 11:25 pm

Now Playing at Union Square Regal Cinema 14: Rats!

When Intel first spotted a large mouse making its way onto the seat of a neighbor at the Union Square Regal 14 recently, we shrieked and fled. Later we asked a manager if they had a rodent problem. “Probably,” he shrugged. "It's hard to get rid of all of them." Sure enough, a creature nosing around in the aisle during a later screening of Gran Torino kept us from paying attention during a particularly fraught scene. But this time, we thought of Fievel, Remy, Despereaux, and the other great rodents of film, and let our revulsion pass. Eric Ray Davidson, a photographer sitting nearby, also remained unperturbed, though for a different reason: “The city is already so filthy and disgusting, rats and mice don’t push it over the edge,” he said. “If you grab the subway pole, you’re already in worse shape.”

Read more posts by Fiona Byrne

Filed Under: Animanhattan, movies, rats, real estate

Source: Daily Intel | 27 Jan 2009 | 11:24 pm

"Rare and Extraordinary" Oscar Noms for Pollack, Minghella

Sydney Pollack and Anthony Minghella have received one of the rarest of posthumous honors. The prolific filmmakers, both of whom died last year, have been included as coproducers on the...

Source: E! Online - Top Stories | 27 Jan 2009 | 11:20 pm

Meryl Streep to Appear on 30 Rock, Win Another Emmy

When news broke that Alec Baldwin had successfully recruited Meryl Streep to appear on an upcoming episode of 30 Rock, we kind of groaned a little on the inside. Not because we don't love Meryl, mind you; it's more that we like our 30 Rock just plenty when there aren't guest stars mucking up the mix (we're looking squarely in your direction, Salma Hayek). But being the responsible and diligent bloggers that we are, we decided to do some research before just tossing off some silly post about what kind of accent she's going to use on the show (our money's on bridge-and-tunnel). And guess what we found out? Well, everyone already knows that Meryl Streep has locked up the most Academy Award nominations in history, but did you know that she has the same number of Emmys sitting in her living room (two) as she does Oscars? It's true! You see where we're headed with this. If Meryl Streep, under the direction of awards magnet Tina Fey, can get nominated for and then subsequently win an Emmy next fall, that means her awards shelf will officially have more Emmys on it than Oscars. And wouldn't that just be a hoot?

Alec Baldwin shows his Meryl Streep smarts [Gatecrasher/NYDN]

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Filed Under: 30 Rock, Emmys, Kudos, Meryl Streep, Oscars, TV

Source: Vulture | 27 Jan 2009 | 11:15 pm

Sebastian Barry poses with his award after wining the Costa book award

British author Sebastian Barry poses with his award after wining the Costa book award with his book The Secret Scripture, in London.
Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 27 Jan 2009 | 11:05 pm

Ben Silverman Vows to Shoot Viewers in the Face With Programming

"We have a sniper focus on 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. to drive a power audience flow." —Ben Silverman, on NBC's programming strategy for 2009 [TV Week]

Read more posts by Mark Graham

Filed Under: Apropos of Nothing, Ben Silverman, NBC

Source: Vulture | 27 Jan 2009 | 11:02 pm

Some of These Male Models Look Like They’ve Been Dead for Five Days

From left, John Galliano, Gareth Pugh, and Alexander McQueen.

Critics wouldn't stop complaining about how bleak and funereal the fall 2009 men's collections were. That aesthetic carried over to makeup, as well. Except, instead of looking like they were merely going to a funeral, they looked like they were the ones getting buried. Gareth Pugh, John Galliano, and Alexander McQueen — three critically heralded collections — sent out models that looked like they had been punched in both eyes and dead for five days. And it was fabulous, of course. It sort of reminds us of the goth trend on the ladies' runways for fall 2008. We had black lipstick, now dudes have black eyes. It all kind of goes with the economy, doesn't it? We're calling it "Zombie Chic."

Read more posts by Amy Odell

Filed Under: alexander mcqueen, fall 2009, gareth pugh, john galliano, menswear, three's a trend

Source: The Cut | 27 Jan 2009 | 10:55 pm

Pete Doherty Has Been Up to More Than Just Drunk-Dialing Kate Moss

Pete Doherty, formerly of the Libertines and Babyshambles, is coming out with a solo album this spring, and "The Last of the English Roses" will be its first single, in March. This radio rip of the poppy, deeply English song should remind Americans that there's more to Doherty than smoking crack and doing whatever he does with Kate Moss. Played at live shows and in the form of an acoustic demo, the newly finished track boasts spare, Kinks-y backing vocals and charmingly vague new verses about sneakers and, naturally, cigarettes. Just stay off the pipe, Pete!

Download "The Last of the English Roses": JP's Blog

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Filed Under: music, pete doherty, right-click

Source: Vulture | 27 Jan 2009 | 10:52 pm

Anderson: John Updike, Essayist

In 1955.

It’s hard to know exactly how to approach the monumental edifice of John Updike. He filled his 50 years of writing with probably seven or eight normal writing careers, mastering along the way basically every genre humans have invented. (This includes such comparatively rare forms as the "self-interview via a fictional alter-ego" and the "sonnet about one’s own feces.") His body of work is so large and thoroughly lauded, his achievements by now so familiar — the casual erudition, the inhuman rate of production, the pioneering application of top-flight, literary-descriptive prose to vaginas, breasts, penises, and bodily excretions — that it’s hard to see any of it fresh. It can be intimidating. Dipping into his work sometimes feels like going for a day hike on Mt. Everest. What’s the point?

In fact, Updike is the perfect author to dip into. He showed, with the Rabbit quartet, that he could go big, but his talent could also be very small, in the best possible way. I always go back, first, to his essays, which strike me as the purest expression of his personality: easy, sociable, curious, smart, funny, generous, and almost pathologically cheerful. He was, for my money, one of the greatest belletrists of all time — a master of the short, casual, elegant, whimsical, roving piece about absolutely anything. (It’s a skill that sometimes gets undervalued in a culture that fetishizes giant novels, political crises, and the news cycle.) He could take the fruits of high culture — obscure philosophy, art history, sociological scraps — and translate it, for a wide audience, into little miracles of focused thought, all written in an elegant verbal music.

It was a tone Updike inherited from E.B. White and the other golden-era New Yorker writers, and he mastered it so thoroughly, so young, that the magazine hired him right out of college. (In the same way Susan Sontag made critical theory hip and young, Updike refreshed dusty urbanity.) He had the prose equivalent of a perfect baseball swing: effortless, smooth, and with a very high rate of success. In his first "Talk of the Town" pieces, written when he was in his twenties, Updike attacked the city like an anthropologist. Once, as a kind of urban thought experiment, he set himself the ridiculous goal of walking from the Empire State Building all the way to Rockefeller Center without ever setting foot on Fifth or Sixth Avenues. He had to go directly up the middle of the blocks, sneaking through parking lots, crawling under fences, climbing through a basement window. (He wanted to avoid the avenues’ crowds.) Another time, he wrote a mock-scholarly analysis of pedestrians’ faces, the “one feature of the Manhattan landscape that we have never analytically described”:

They occur, with rare exceptions, in a narrow belt of space between four and six feet above the pavement. … One’s first impression, in scanning the faces, is of a sameness as striking as that of pigeons, wavelets, or bricks. Attentive examination, however, yields a multitude of distinctions. Not only do the faces of Manhattan vary in color and size but they differ even in individual expression. Some float with eyelids lowered; some stare straight ahead while the lips move rhythmically, producing a small snapping noise, possibly of chewing gum or sassafras bark, deep in the molars; some glance now and then nervously sidewise at a second face while the lips move spasmodically, forming words.

Updike’s essays — my favorite collection is Picked-Up Pieces (1975) — are as smart, funny, genial, and stylistically bulletproof as any essays have ever been. They’re so abundant, in fact, so springy and alive, that, reading them, it’s impossible to accept that he’s gone.

Related: Updike: Unpublished Thoughts on the Great Depression and Barack Obama

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Filed Under: books, john updike, obit

Source: Vulture | 27 Jan 2009 | 10:30 pm

Defendant Smears Feces On Lawyer, Jury; Hired To Write Epic Movie Sequel

From the "Any jokes I would make about this wouldn't be as ridiculous as the actual story" department comes this poo-filled courtroom debacle that even Law & Order hasn't thought of in eighteen seasons:

A mistrial was declared Monday when a home-invasion robbery suspect smeared human feces on his attorney's face then threw more at the jury. At the mid-morning break, McGowan produced a plastic baggie filled with fecal matter and spread it on Martin's hair and face, then flung the excrement toward the jury box, hitting the briefcase of juror No. 9 but missing the juror himself. "That juror didn't even see it coming," [prosecutor Christopher] Lawson said.

Just when you think poo jokes have totally run their course, someone takes it to an entirely new level of meta-art, and even gets rewarded with a mistrial. No word on whether James Cromwell or Tom Wilkinson will play the poo-flinging assailant in the Emmy-bound HBO movie Pootrial (executive produced by Tom Hanks).
Source: Best Week Ever | 27 Jan 2009 | 10:30 pm

Botox Could Cause Birth Defects; Moob Jobs Are on the Rise

The makeup at Christian Dior.

PLASTIC SURGERY
• Getting injections of botulinum toxin during pregnancy may cause birth defects in unborn children. Doctors in Australia linked a woman's use of the botulin called Dysport (which is not Botox) to her child being born deaf and blind in 2005. [Jezebel]

• "Moob jobs," or breast-reduction surgeries for men, are on the rise in Great Britain. They're on the list of the top five plastic-surgery procedures performed on men. [Daily Mail]

MAKEUP
• Makeup artist Pat McGrath was inspired by the Johannes Vermeer painting Girl With a Pearl Earring for the Christian Dior Couture show. Indeed, the models looked like painted dolls, as usual. [WWD]

SKIN
• The celestial maracuja bathing nectar by Molton Brown is "maddeningly divine." But doesn't the name "celestial maracuja" (whatever that means) imply as much? [Beauty Snob]

• University of Miami dermatologists recommend wearing Kinerase Ultra Rich eye cream under makeup. Think they were paid to say that? [Glamour]

Read more posts by Sharon Clott

Filed Under: beauty marks, christian dior, daria werbowy, hair, makeup, pat mcgrath, plastic surgery, skin

Source: The Cut | 27 Jan 2009 | 10:30 pm

The Office: Does Angela Have Designs on Jim?

Remember when Angela of The Office was just a meek accountant? How times have changed! After we quoted her character's immortal line, "I will respect the results of the duel," Angela...

Source: E! Online - Top Stories | 27 Jan 2009 | 10:20 pm

Scarlett Johansson Sings! (Yet Again)

Though we remain quite fond of Scarlett Johansson's debut album, Anywhere I Lay My Head, we're also of the opinion that less is more when it comes to her singing career. Holing up in the studios for a period of months with Dave Sitek? That's a great idea we fully support. Churning out an impossibly bland cover of Jeff Buckley's "Last Goodbye" for the He's Just Not That Into You soundtrack? Erm, not so much. [Stereogum]

Read more posts by Mark Graham

Filed Under: Scarlett Johansson, Wha?

Source: Vulture | 27 Jan 2009 | 10:12 pm

The New York Times May Have Outed Jason Wu

A writer over at Jezebel has heard from a reliable fashion-industry source that the New York Times unwittingly outed Jason Wu to his extended family. In the profile about the designer that ran in the paper last weekend, writer Eric Wilson mentions that Wu's boyfriend, Gustavo Rangel, who does finance for the designer's company, was waiting for Wu to finish a dress fitting so he could take him to a celebratory dinner. Apparently Wu's parents knew he was gay, but his other relatives did not, and his parents wish he could have been more "discreet." [Jezebel]

Read more posts by Amy Odell

Filed Under: jason wu, oh dear

Source: The Cut | 27 Jan 2009 | 10:05 pm

Today in Madoff: The Senate Banking Committee Confronts the Elephant in the Room

For a lot of people, Bernie Madoff taketh away, but for the news cycle, he's the gift that keeps on giving. After the jump, your Day in Madoff News.

• The Senate Banking Committee held a hearing today to look into how Madoff’s scheme was able to escape detection, and talk about what regulatory changes they might make to avoid such a ghastly fuckup in the future. Several expert witnesses were heard, but none were as gloriously descriptive as Senator Charles E. Schumer, who slayed the SEC and its chairman, Christopher Cox, with an awesome metaphor: It was like, he said, there was a giant elephant standing in a small room next to the SEC for decades and “not only did they not see the elephant, they didn’t even smell the peanuts on his breath.” [DealBook/NYT]

• Also, the SIPC said Madoff’s brokerage firm owed customers $600 million in stock it didn’t have on hand. [Bloomberg]

• Spain's Banco Santander is offering a $1.8 billion settlement to its clients who lost money with Madoff, stepping up pressure on other banks and feeder funds to do so. [WSJ]

• Fashion fanatic Robert Jaffe will finally have to go to Massachusetts to meet with securities investigators there. [Bloomberg]

• Over at the Daily Beast, reporter Lucinda Franks, the wife of New York County District Attorney Robert Morgenthau, spoke to "key players" who believe Ruth Madoff may have played "a larger role than previously thought." Oddly, said players speak kind of like gossipy old broads: "She’s there all the time and her husband just blows it by her? They are a really tight couple, did he really keep this secret from her every day of their marriage?” In her sourceless piece, Franks also relates that "a person close to the case" says Madoff has admitted to law enforcement that his Ponzi scheme began more than 40 years ago — "much earlier than previously believed." [Daily Beast]

Read more posts by Jessica Pressler

Filed Under: ballsy crime, bernard madoff, bernie madoff, business, elephants, Made-off, the greatest depression

Source: Daily Intel | 27 Jan 2009 | 10:01 pm

Tom Cruise is rooting for Penelope Cruz in Oscar race

US actor Tom Cruise, seen here in Madrid, said Tuesday he hopes Spanish actress Penelope Cruz, a former girlfriend, will win the Oscar for her role in Woody Allen's "Vicky Cristina Barcelona."
Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 27 Jan 2009 | 10:00 pm

Updike: Unpublished Thoughts on the Great Depression and Barack Obama

When New York spoke to John Updike for a profile in October, the legendary writer shared his insights, gleaned from personal experience, on the Great Depression and the world of politics leading up to Barack Obama. Here are some previously unpublished excerpts from that conversation.

The Great Depression
“I was born in ‘32, when the Depression was at its worst. It's frightening: From one Depression to the next. Years ago I saw a psychiatrist for a couple of years, and when I'd done a couple sessions describing myself, he said, 'Oh, it certainly smacks of the Depression.' I'll tell you what was nice about being born in 1932: There were a lot of only children. Because people were pulling in there, they were scared. My mother wanted to have another child, I believe, but my father was out of work. He was thrown out of work and my father simultaneously lost his investments. They weren't enormous, but they were enough to sustain him and his wife in the nice small-town house where I grew up. The men combined forces, my father did get a job and scrape through, but it was a scraping-through, even relative to the other people in the town. A schoolteacher makes less than a full-fashion knitter, which is what a lot of the men did. But you've seen movies about that era, and there was a certain coziness, and a dollar went a long way, and people were kind of kind to each other. It was considered correct form to give a dollar to bums when they came to the back door, and when they did, we did. But … it was a very stable world for a child. Children don't like change, they don't like changing grades, or I didn't, [they don’t] love changing houses, but the Depression froze small towns. And then the war came along, and froze them additionally. So by ‘45, it was a world that hadn't really changed in fifteen years. Now, you get used to nothing looking the same and nothing being there that was there. It's a different world entirely.

"But the economic terror was very real. My father was a minister's son and a responsible man who was out of work and had no idea how to get work. And he never forgot that. Never stopped voting Democratic, too. My secret hope is that if it is a [new] depression, everyone will start voting Democratic again!”

Politics and Barack Obama
“It's very worrisome: I think if this country doesn't elect Obama, it will have blown an opportunity that will never come along again. I just think he's so much the superior candidate. Everything about him. But maybe I'm speaking like a teenage crush. Being the child of Depression Democrats, I've never had a great love for Republicans, although some of my best friends, etc., are Republicans. I've lived my adult life mostly under Republican administrations, mostly after LBJ — there was just Clinton and Carter. And this deification of Reagan, you mention Reagan, somehow the waves will part! I remember when people thought it was incredible that he'd be elected — as incredible as it is for Sarah Palin to become V.P., it was incredible for him to become president. He was charming, though, in a way. And he sort of convinced you — my mother once asked, how does he convince everyone that they're rich?

“I don't know if we're on the eve of a depression. It sort of showed us America at its best. The movies that came out of the Depression, they're wonderful in a way. The rich are rich! And nobody blames them for it. Houses in Long Island, and flighty daughters, and limousines — figures of gentle fun. It's funny to watch them, because they don't have the anger you'd think it would have called forth. But America is a place where everyone could become rich.”

Related: Anderson: John Updike, Essayist

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Filed Under: books, john updike, obit

Source: Vulture | 27 Jan 2009 | 10:00 pm

CAPTION THIS: She’s Still Got It!

And by "it", we mean "a circular blade through her head." God love Grace Jones.
Source: Best Week Ever | 27 Jan 2009 | 10:00 pm

Fox assembles 'A-Team'

Front Page: Carnahan, Scotts join remake set for 2010 -- Twentieth Century Fox has assembled a creative team to transform 1980s TV series "The A-Team" into a summer 2010 film.
Source: Variety.com - Front Page | 27 Jan 2009 | 10:00 pm

Yahoo announces $303 million loss

Front Page: Termination costs among quarterly lapses -- Yahoo launched the Carol Bartz era Tuesday by announcing a quarterly loss of $303 million due to termination costs and bad investments.
Source: Variety.com - Front Page | 27 Jan 2009 | 9:59 pm

Review: Nothing novel about `New in Town' (AP)

AP - Good people of Minnesota: Stand up! Fight back! Take back your state and your culture and your accent!

Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment Reviews | 27 Jan 2009 | 9:59 pm

Acad allows 'Reader' 4 producers

Front Page: Minghella, Pollack to be named as nominees -- The Academy announced Tuesday that Anthony Minghella, Sydney Pollack, Donna Gigliotti and Redmond Morris are nominated producers for best-pic contender "The Reader" -- the first time in a decade that the org has acknowledged that many producers on one film.
Source: Variety.com - Front Page | 27 Jan 2009 | 9:46 pm

Paris Men Are Fit to Be Tied

John Galliano.

The dandy men we saw in Milan landed in Paris this week, swaggering down the runways in refined looks. Their velvet blazers and tailored trousers may have romanced us, but it was the scarves — neck knots, pocket squares, and ascots — that reached new levels of fancy. Louis Vuitton used an indigo-blue pocket square to accent a gray blazer. Thierry Mugler's white ascot complemented a bold burgundy jacket. At John Galliano, where men wore garter belts and man-panties under satin robes, the silk handkerchiefs gave us somewhere to rest our eyes. For these and more scarves, click ahead for the slideshow.

Read more posts by Sharon Clott

Filed Under: agnes b, designers, dries van noten, fall 2009, gaspard yurkievich, givenchy, hermes, john galliano, kenzo, lanvin, louis vuitton, miharayasuhiro, paul smith, scarves, slideshow, thierry mugler, three's a trend, trends, unity

Source: The Cut | 27 Jan 2009 | 9:45 pm

NATPE keeps its chin up

Front Page: Looking for silver linings at confab -- The gloomy economic outlook for 2009 is hanging over the NATPE confab heavier than the cigarette smoke in the Mandalay Bay Resort's casinos.
Source: Variety.com - Front Page | 27 Jan 2009 | 9:36 pm

Alexander Wang to Launch Men’s Collection

The joys of Alexander Wang's divinely cut, stretched-out tank tops won't be just for chicks much longer. Wang plans to launch a men's collection for spring 2010. We never liked sharing, but three cheers for fashion companies expanding in These Times! Might his $200,000 CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund prize have helped? Wang likes to road test the men's samples himself, so keep your eyes peeled downtown. [Style.com]

Read more posts by Amy Odell

Filed Under: alexander wang, mantasies, menswear, spring 2010

Source: The Cut | 27 Jan 2009 | 9:35 pm

New puzzle challenges come to PlayStation Network (AP)

AP - Two years into the lifespan of the PlayStation 3, Sony's online offerings are a mixed bag.

Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment Reviews | 27 Jan 2009 | 9:15 pm

Andy Pettitte a Little Poorer, But Still a Yankee

Andy Pettitte had some justifiable reasons to reject the Yankees' offer of a one-year, $10 million contract earlier this January. After all, the Yankees were throwing money at new free agents like they were propping up failing banks: a few hundred million here, a few hundred million there. Meanwhile, Pettitte — one of those few remaining vestiges of the nineties championship years — was being offered a $6 million pay cut. So he turned it down. But now, with spring training approaching, Pettitte has agreed to a new contract with the Yankees — at $5.5 million. Which, initially, looks like pretty poor negotiating ($5.5 million is less than $10 million, money is good, etc.).

However, the 36-year-old Pettitte has the chance to accrue up to $12 million in health-related incentives. If he pitches enough innings and stays off the disabled list, he'll come out on top. But even if it turns out that he gets hurt, it'll still be worth it to Pettitte. "I could have made an awful lot more money than what I signed for," he said. But when it came down to it, "I wanted to play for the New York Yankees and, you know, that was the bottom line. I wanted to be there. I wanted to play in that new stadium." And devotion like that you just can't put a price on is worth exactly $5.5 million, plus health-related incentives.

Pettitte, Yankees agree to $5.5M plus incentives for 2009 season [SI]

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Filed Under: andy pettitte, baseball, sports, yankees

Source: Daily Intel | 27 Jan 2009 | 9:15 pm

Bowery’s Amato Opera Will Remain a Theater

The Bowery's venerable Amato Opera, which announced recently that it had been sold for $3.7 million and would close in May, will remain a theater, says the broker for the new owner. But what theater will go there? How about the also-venerable Ohio Theater, which, since also being sold recently, may not last past June in its longtime home on Wooster Street? Just a thought! [Curbed]

Read more posts by Tim Murphy

Filed Under: amato opera, neighborhood watch

Source: Daily Intel | 27 Jan 2009 | 9:03 pm

Ben Brantley Just Thrilled About Jeremy Piven’s Mercury Poisoning

With Jeremy Piven hopelessly mercury-poisoned, sidelined from Broadway's Speed-the-Plow and confined to bed rest (save only for periodic appearances at awards shows and nightclubs), we've tried to keep positive, praying that he might one day recover and return to the New York stage. Not the Times' Ben Brantley, though!

"Is it too late to send a thank you note to Jeremy Piven?" he begins. Just a day after his hatchet job on poor Mary-Louise Parker's Hedda Gabler ("one of the worst revivals I have ever, ever seen"), the venerable theater critic reevaluates his earlier position on Speed-the-Plow, in the wake of Piven's departure and replacement by William H. Macy and Norbert Leo Butz. Brantley concludes that the actor's ingestion of toxic sushi was fortuitous, not because his stand-ins are better in the role of film producer Bobby Gould, necessarily, but because it gave Broadway audiences the opportunity to enjoy two more equally terrific performances:

"What truly impresses me is how each was able to provide a fully detailed, self-contained portrait that made me forget — at least for the length of the performances — all Bobbys past."

He also insensitively credits Piven's life-threatening ordeal with the increased confidence of Elizabeth Moss and Raúl Esparza in their roles:

"They were excellent when I first saw them, but they have acquired new confidence and insights as they adjust their characters' attitudes in relation to the latest Bobby in their lives."

We can only hope that Brantley never knows the pain of losing a loved one to a tuna roll.

With Piven Gone, ‘Plow’ Speeds Apace [NYT]

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Filed Under: ben brantley, broadway, jeremy piven, speed-the-plow, sushi

Source: Vulture | 27 Jan 2009 | 9:00 pm

Anyone Got A Spare $76,000 Lying Around? I’ll Pay You Back (With Hilarity!)

A couple Super Bowl luxury suites are still available on StubHub right now for the exceedingly reasonable luxury-box price of around $76,000 (plus tax and the StubHub surcharge, so probably more in the neighborhood of $95,000, if we reeeeeally want to split hairs): So....anyone want to man up and toss your good ol' BWE editor a tiny little Super Bowl loan? Seriously, I work my ass off day in and day out to entertain you by writing things that sometimes incidentally overlap with humor, and all I ask for in return from our loyal readers -- besides constant compliments and validation about my physical appearance -- is a measly 95-grand so I can pop into a luxury box, root for my hometown team from really far away, and enjoy a complimentary above-average cheese spread (I imagine that's included with the suite). I'll even spring for half my airfare out of my own pocket. In return, I promise to pay you back tenfold in the form of hilariousness (bad Photoshops count as $50,000; Top Ten lists count for $300,000). Anyone want to volunteer? Please?
Source: Best Week Ever | 27 Jan 2009 | 9:00 pm

Men Go Fur-Crazy on the Paris Runways

Thierry Mugler.

Fur ran wild on the men's runways in Paris. Gareth Pugh's first menswear show featured shaggy long-sleeve pullovers and vests. John Galliano showed hairy pants, while Ann Demeulemeester embraced knee-length fur coats. Thierry Mugler offered up several fur options, from a pelt with a head and tail still attached to a white Cousin Itt jacket. So come fall, willfully embrace your inner caveman. Just don’t forget to buy an extra comb for your sweater.

Read more posts by Sharon Clott

Filed Under: ann demeulemeester, fall 2009, fur, gareth pugh, john galliano, rick owens, slideshow, thierry mugler, three's a trend

Source: The Cut | 27 Jan 2009 | 9:00 pm

Pamela Anderson's Vivienne Westwood Campaign

The latest pictures of Pamela Anderson for Vivienne Westwood have been revealed and in typical Pammie style they just ooze sexiness.

The unlikely pair met at Vivienne's Red Label show at London Fashion Week back in September. They got on immediately and the designer asked Pammie to be the face of her SS09 campaign.

Pamela does not have the typical look of a fashionable with her messy blonde locks, pencil thin eyebrows and heavily made up face, not to mention her larger than average boobs but putting her with such an eccentric designer seems to work a treat.

The Baywatch star flaunts her boobs and legs in a series of shots and pulls off a coy but sexy look as she poses in a knee length skirt and ankle socks while she sucks her thumb seductively.

Our favourite shot though is Pammie been pushed around a laundrette in a trolley by Vivienne and her boyfriend Andreas Kronthaler.

We've got to hand it to Vivienne she's certainly set her apart by using Pammie instead of the usual 'fashiony' celebs such as Victoria Beckham and Keira Knightly that other designers would opt for but the result is a fun, fresh campaign that is sure to be remembered.

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Source: Lepaparazzi - Celebrity News and Gossip Blog | 27 Jan 2009 | 9:00 pm

Kate Winslet's awards appetite

Kate Winslet is eating to overcome her nerves during the awards season.

The 'Revolutionary Road' actress admits the stress of being nominated for several prestigious accolades, including a Best Actress Oscar, has forced her to take comfort in food and steering clear of the gym.

Double Golden Globe winner Kate said: "To be honest with you, I'm more nervous through this award season than I have ever been before in my life. I'm still not used to it at all.

"I'm not exercising at all, and I'm eating whatever I like.

"Pressure? Gone! That's how I'm going to get through it."

The British actress - who strips off for her role in 'The Reader' - recently revealed she is happier with the way her body looks now and can afford to be less health conscious.

She said: "At a certain point, when you achieve a lot of your goals and you can be proud of your work, you start to relax more about who you are.

"And that includes your appearance and self-image - I don't think I look too bad for a mother of two."

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Source: Lepaparazzi - Celebrity News and Gossip Blog | 27 Jan 2009 | 8:56 pm

'Idol' helps Fox catch up to CBS

Front Page: Reality show propels network's season ratings -- Fox is making its midseason move, riding "American Idol" and good perfs for its dramas last week to an easy victory in key demos that has vaulted it into a tie with CBS for the season lead among young adults.
Source: Variety.com - Front Page | 27 Jan 2009 | 8:55 pm

Jennifer Aniston's dating dilemmas

Jennifer Aniston finds dating difficult.

The former 'Friends' star - who is divorced from Brad Pitt and currently in a relationship with John Mayer - says finding a partner is a struggle, even without the pressures of being famous.

She said: "I think it's just hard to date. It's not like we're kids. We're not dating.

"I love dates - when you're already with someone."

However when she does commit, Jennifer loves to surprise her boyfriends with romantic gestures.

She added to US TV show 'Extra': "Being surprised is good. I took a boyfriend to a hotel for his birthday and brought a massage table and gave him a massage."

Unlike Jennifer, her 'He's Just Not That Into You' co-star Drew Barrymore is currently single but insists she enjoys looking for love.

Drew said: "I like dinner. I liked to be asked on a date. I like tradition. Looking for someone is fun. I believe in love. I'm going to keep trying!"

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Source: Lepaparazzi - Celebrity News and Gossip Blog | 27 Jan 2009 | 8:53 pm

Mickey Rourke's stair help

Mickey Rourke had to be helped up stairs by his girlfriend after suffering so many injuries from 'The Wrestler'.

The 56-year-old actor - who recently won a Golden Globe Award for his role as Randy 'The Ram' Robinson in the movie -wasn't prepared for the effects the brutal fighting scenes would have on his body.

He said: "I had to try harder to get up in the morning. And because of my extra bulk a football knee from high school acted up again. Two hundred years later! And my woman had to get behind me and push me up the stairs. I was pathetic looking!

"So my knees wouldn't hold up, because of all the extra weight and the exercise. And all the injuries you get from being thrown down, you know?"

Mickey recently revealed he is planning to step into the wrestling ring for real, after WWE owner Vince McMahon got in touch.

Mickey said: "Now, Vince wants me to do WrestleMania in Houston. Chris Jericho, I'm coming after your a*s! You better get yourself in shape brother, I'm going to do it! You bet your a*s I'm going to do it!"

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Source: Lepaparazzi - Celebrity News and Gossip Blog | 27 Jan 2009 | 8:50 pm

Now Available for Your Viewing Pleasure: New Men’s Collections From Paris

From left, Walter Van Beirendonck, Armand Basi, Thierry Mugler

Did you know that Thierry Mugler showed eye patches in the fall 2009 men's show? Or that Walter Van Beirendonck made, uh, cowboy hats? See all that and more in our new runway slide shows of the men's collections from Paris.

Dior Homme
Ann Demeulemeester
Comme des Garçons

Raf Simons
agnès b.
Paul Smith
Miharayasuhiro
Lanvin
Thierry Mugler
Blaak Homme
Gareth Pugh
Rick Owens
John Galliano
Dunhill
Hermès
Emanuel Ungaro
Armand Basi
Christian Lacroix
U-NI-TY
Walter Van Beirendonck

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Filed Under: fall 2009, menswear, paris mens fashion week

Source: The Cut | 27 Jan 2009 | 8:45 pm

So Sarah Palin Started a Political Action Committee. What Does That Mean?

One thing you can bet the PAC won't pay for is new outfits.

This morning, Cindy Adams reported that Alaska Governor Sarah Palin started her own political action committee called SarahPAC. (She also "reported" that Palin wants to be president, but the former actually qualifies as "news.") According to Adams, SarahPAC was registered in Virginia and "patterned after Hillary [Clinton's] HillPAC. The website for the PAC is already active and has this to say for itself:

By supporting SarahPac, you will allow Gov. Palin to help find and create solutions for America's most pressing problems; priority number one is building a strong and prosperous economy that recognizes hard work, innovation and integrity by rewarding small businesses and hard working American families. SarahPac will support local and national candidates who share Gov. Palin's ideas and goals for our country.

A PAC isn't meant to be a slush fund for favors and increased standing, but that's usually what it turns out to be. If Palin is truly modeling SarahPAC after HillPAC, she'll use it for a number of things. She'll start by trying to gain favor among national politicians by donating to their reelection campaigns and pet causes. In her case, it will probably be Republicans that she'll appeal to. Unlike Hillary, Palin doesn't have a broad base of contacts, or anyone who is indebted to her (not even at home — the governor famously divorced herself from the corrupt local GOP establishment during her election). This is important for her since she's really coming out of nowhere. Also, she'll have less time than Hillary did; HillPAC was founded in 2001, the year she won her seat in the Senate. Hillary announced her run for president after five years of quiet Democratic lobbying with HillPAC. Palin will have, at best, two years of handshakes and donations (and without the bonus of being in Washington for work).

Another thing Palin won't be able to do with SarahPAC is employ her old Washington cronies. In 2002 HillPAC was already under scrutiny for how much money it spent on legal fees and salaries for old Clinton White House employees. Since the only cronies Palin takes along with her are pals from Wasilla, don't expect her to spend much political capital maintaining those alliances. But she can solidify her base of support in her home state, the way Hillary did by creating HillPAC-NY to fight for Democratic causes. And, as a bonus, unlike Hillary, the Republican Palin won't have to spend so much energy targeting one particular testy group of allies: the superdelegates.

So basically, SarahPAC will be sort of like HillPAC and sort of not. What Sarah Palin really needs to watch out for, though, is whether it is more effective than HuckPAC.

PALIN'S GOT PAC AND VIP STATUS [NYP]

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Filed Under: 2012, early and often, fund-raising, hillary clinton, hillpac, politics, sarah palin, sarahpac

Source: Daily Intel | 27 Jan 2009 | 8:34 pm

David Beckham: Walking Armani Ad

This paparazzi-gold photo of David Beckham receiving ass-patting congratulations from his teammates was snapped at his most recent match: On the surface, it appears to be standard, impromptu ass-slapping praise, but I watch enough Top Chef to know how shrewd advertisers have become with their product placement, and I'm wondering if this pic was actually a super-subtle plug for Beckham's Armani Underwear campaign? Sure, go ahead and laugh. Just don't act surprised when you flip past this ad in a future issue of Vanity Fair:

Source: Best Week Ever | 27 Jan 2009 | 8:15 pm

Stephanie March Fends Off Pervy Dads

Last Sunday's episode of Flight of the Conchords featured Bret and Jemaine as prostitutes. At an HBO viewing party last night, Stephanie March told us her strangest job was as the Fairy Princess at Marshall Field's during Christmas. "I would walk around wearing a giant pink prom dress and some wings and sprinkle fairy dust on kids while they made Christmas wishes," she explained. "Sometimes the dads would slip me some money. And, you know, I wasn't the Fairy Prostitute. I was the Fairy Princess." Get more on-the-job tales by watching our Party Lines slideshow.

Read more posts by Alisa Gould-Simon

Filed Under: flight of the conchords, party lines, stephanie march

Source: Daily Intel | 27 Jan 2009 | 8:12 pm

Bruce Springsteen’s Album Art Leaves Something to Be Desired

Although critics seem to be torn as to whether Bruce Springsteen's new album is a five-star masterpiece (Rolling Stone) or "the most underwhelming Springsteen studio release" (Chicago Tribune), most would concur that the Boss should be delegating the responsibility of picking out his album covers to someone else. This amusing essay, entitled "I Wish I Was Blind," takes a walk through the (often terrible) cover art of all 22 Springsteen albums. [Snake Oil]

Read more posts by Mark Graham

Filed Under: Apropos Of Nothing, Bruce Springsteen, Music

Source: Vulture | 27 Jan 2009 | 8:12 pm

WATCH: Film Fashion Takes Center Stage

Source: ABC News: Entertainment | 27 Jan 2009 | 8:10 pm

CAPTION THIS: Paris Hilton Says Hi To Her Old Friend, Brandon Davis

Mmmmziiinnnnngooooo!
Source: Best Week Ever | 27 Jan 2009 | 8:00 pm

Artist Loie Glasser Instructs You on Where to Sit

Loie Glasser's Be Seated (2008).

Not all of Loie Glasser's miniature armchairs are quite so ladylike; some of them are, frankly, a little rough, like the tattooed one with her legs all flung out. But, hanging on the walls of Washington Square Windows through April 13, there are dozens of little ladies inviting us all to "Be Seated," the political implications of which we have chosen to ignore.

Read more posts by Emma Pearse

Filed Under: Art Candy, Be Seated, Loie Glasser

Source: Vulture | 27 Jan 2009 | 8:00 pm

Suspect in Hudson killings returns to court

Jennifer Hudson's estranged brother-in-law, charged in the killings of the actress-singer's mother, brother and nephew, is returning to a Chicago courtroom Tuesday.
Source: CNN.com - Entertainment | 27 Jan 2009 | 7:55 pm

William Dudley, the New President of the New York Fed, Lives in New Jersey

Now that Tim Geithner is in charge of the entire economy, his deputy of two years, William Dudley, will be replacing him as New York Federal Reserve President. But who is this man that we can only find a very small picture of, and is he the right man for such an important position? After the jump, we judge him based on our limited knowledge.

• Worked at Goldman Sachs for two decades. (Because even though there is probably a massive conspiracy afoot, at least it's not, like, Citigroup's conspiracy.)
• Lives in New Jersey.
• Slept on the floor of his office during talks with Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers, according to Bloomberg. (Because this is being sold to us as dedication, which bugs us, since please: We've slept on our office floor before, and it's not dedication, it's laziness.)
• Donated money to Democrats in 2004 and 2005.
• Dudley "is one of the main architects of the emergency credit programs the Fed has introduced since December 2007, and has overseen most of them. The initiatives have more than doubled holdings on the central bank’s balance sheet to a record high of more than $2 trillion."
• Predicted in October 2007 that subprime-mortgage losses “probably will ultimately turn out to be in a range” of $100 billion to $200 billion.

Verdict: Meh.

Dudley Brings Crisis Experience to Job as New York Fed Chief [Bloomberg]

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Filed Under: bear stearns, business, lehman brothers, Rush to Judgment, subprime, tim geithner, william dudley

Source: Daily Intel | 27 Jan 2009 | 7:31 pm

V Remake Set To Bring Mouse-Munching Back in Vogue

Everyone knows how much Ben Silverman loves to recycle ideas, so it comes as no surprise that NBC has placed a pilot order for a remake of famed eighties mini-series V. Whereas the first incarnation featured a lead character who was a male photojournalist, this modernized spin will focus on the actions of a female Homeland Security agent. Our only question: Does this mean that the mouse-eating lizard people will now be stand-ins for Al Qaeda, or will they stick with the whole Nazi allegory from the first go-round? [HR]

Read more posts by Mark Graham

Filed Under: Everything Old Is New Again, Mouse-Eating Lizard People, NBC, Reboots, TV, V

Source: Vulture | 27 Jan 2009 | 7:28 pm

Wacky Editor Poses Nude for Bushwick Art Class

Brooklyn Paper editor Gersh Kuntzman posed naked for Bushwick's "Drink and Draw" art class, where the students do just that. "Am I a pleasure to draw?" the Rubenesque Kuntzman asks one student, who responds tactfully, "You're not not a pleasure." Another student says he has "child-bearing" hips. Delightful! Though he went too far telling us he has icky toenails because of a medical condition. We so didn't need to know that. [Brooklyn Paper]

Read more posts by Tim Murphy

Filed Under: art, bushwick, gersh kuntzman, Neighborhood Watch, real estate

Source: Daily Intel | 27 Jan 2009 | 7:20 pm

NOOO: Who Will Evan Rachel Wood Make-Out With Next?

Oh, Evan Rachel Wood. The only reason we even know your name is because you famously banged Marilyn Manson and were part of that 3 hours train wreck known as Across the Universe. But apparently, she is not even close to finishing her "Make Everyone On Planet Earth Barf Forever Tour", as Fox News is reporting that Wood's latest fling is with her MOVIE DAD whose name you might recognize because it is MICKEY ROURKE. THEY WERE SEEN MAKING OUT:

21-Year-Old Evan Rachel Wood Busted Making Out With Movie Dad Stranger things have happened - after all, this is Hollywood. Evan Rachel Wood, 21, hit headlines last year after she started dating Marilyn Manson (19 years her senior) but since their split in December has she now moved on to 56-year-old veteran actor Mickey Rourke? The two attended Grey Goose’s Official SAG after-party at the Shrine on Sunday evening but were spotted leaving together enroute to the later after party at the Four Seasons Hotel. According to Pop Tarts spies, the actress went upstairs with Rourke (whose second marriage ended over a decade ago) when he suddenly grabbed her for a lip-lock in the outside area of the swanky five-star hotel.

OK, OK, let's figure this out. If Marily Manson was Wood's last squeeze, and she was spotted M'O-ing with Rourke, who could possiblty be next? Our guesses ahead. In no particular order, here are our guesses for who Evan Rachel Wood will makeout with next: Edited to add:
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Chase No Face Leave your guesses in the comments.
Source: Best Week Ever | 27 Jan 2009 | 7:03 pm

So You Lost Your Newspaper Job. Now What?

Ah, the freelance life.

A recent unscientific survey by the American Journalism Review polled people who said they had been removed in one way or another from newspaper editorial jobs last year. Of 595 respondents, they say about 36 percent found new jobs after less than three months (and the number climbs to 53 percent if you count full-time freelancing as a new job). Likewise, fewer than ten percent said it took them more than a year to find a new gig.

The bad news is that only about 6 percent went on to work at another newspaper. Everyone else found work in a different medium. Additionally, most people who reported their current and previous incomes said they took a pay cut. And, in doing this, many of them learned something:

While the overwhelming majority — 85 percent — say they miss working at a paper, they are often happier in their new jobs. Sixty-two percent tell us they had been satisfied in their old newspaper jobs; 78 percent report being satisfied in their new jobs.

This we understand — the coffee in any other type of office is better than the crap they have in the bullpen of a newspaper. That's at least 16 percent of job satisfaction right there.

Is There Life After Newspapers? [AJC via Romenesko]

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Filed Under: ink-stained wretches, journalism, media, newspapers

Source: Daily Intel | 27 Jan 2009 | 6:51 pm

SAG's interim director pleas for unity

Front Page: David White urges Guild to 'work together' -- Aiming for a truce in the Screen Actors Guild's brutal internal battles, David White has begun work as SAG's interim topper with a plea for unity -- even with president Alan Rosenberg continuing to blast White's backers.
Source: Variety.com - Front Page | 27 Jan 2009 | 6:29 pm

PETA’s Latest Pathetic Attempt At Controversy: The “Vegetable-F*ckers” Super Bowl Ad

I didn't want to post PETA's REJECTED SUPER BOWL AD OMGGGG SO CONTROVERSIALLLLL!!!! because it's obviously a calculated attempt by PETA to say "check out this commercial we made that THE MAN refused to air," even though they clearly had no intention to actually pay for Super Bowl airtime -- it would be like me sending NBC a 30-second tape of hardcore porn with "bestweekever.tv" scrolling along the bottom, then posting on our site "check out our Super Bowl commercial that was just TOO HOT for the NERDSQUARES at NBC!!!!" Anyway... I'm posting the ad because it's pathetic and hilarious. I also don't buy that 'studies claim vegetarians have better sex,' but I do buy the logical assumption that vegetarians 'have way sh*ttier meals.' Or are these women literally f*cking the vegetables? Why does PETA still exist? This is nonsense.
Source: Best Week Ever | 27 Jan 2009 | 6:25 pm

Chanel slams "bling-bling" in haute couture show (Reuters)

Reuters - Chanel prescribed boxy white jackets and white wool skirts as a cure for boomtime excesses at its haute couture show on Tuesday, calling for a new asceticism in a ballroom crammed with celebrities and wealthy clients.

Source: Yahoo! News: Fashion News | 27 Jan 2009 | 6:02 pm

'Star Trek' Creator, Wife to Have Remains Shipped Into Space

Celestis Inc., a company that specializes in 'memorial spaceflights,' said Monday that it will ship the remains of Gene Roddenberry and Majel Barrett Roddenberry into space next year.

Source: FOXNews.com | 27 Jan 2009 | 5:42 pm

NBC adds 'Think' to spring slate

Front Page: Genealogy-themed reality show to bow in April -- NBC has added the genealogy-themed reality skein "Who Do You Think You Are?," based on the British series of the same name, to its spring lineup.
Source: Variety.com - Front Page | 27 Jan 2009 | 5:38 pm

Report: Paul McCartney to Wed for Third Time

After last year's notorious divorce from Heather Mills, former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney has told friends he will wed new girlfriend Nancy Shevell.

Source: FOXNews.com | 27 Jan 2009 | 5:32 pm

Chanel: Paper Chase Couture (Fashion Wire Daily)

Fashion Wire Daily - With the luxury industry scrambling for responses to retail blues and the prospect of a long downturn, it was instructive to attend Chanel's spring 2009 haute couture collection on Tuesday, an entirely black and white affair, composed of lots of paper and redolent of Hollywood glamour of the 1930s, the last time we had a fully-fledged depression.

Source: Yahoo! News: Fashion News | 27 Jan 2009 | 5:31 pm

Oasis' Noel Gallagher performing

Lead guitarist of British rock band Oasis Noel Gallagher performing in 2006. The re-emergence of rockers Oasis as a major force in the British music scene was bolstered Tuesday when they were nominated...
Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 27 Jan 2009 | 5:30 pm

Berlin Film Festival director Dieter Kosslick

Berlin Film Festival director Dieter Kosslick, seen here addressing the press, said that star-studded premieres and gritty dramas on the ravages of capitalism and globalisation will dominate the line-up...
Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 27 Jan 2009 | 5:07 pm

The ravages of capitalism and globalisation will dominate the line-up of the 59th Berlin Film Festival

Placards advertising the Berlinale film festival line a street near Berlin's Potsdamer Platz. Star-studded premieres and gritty dramas on the ravages of capitalism and globalisation will dominate the line-up...
Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 27 Jan 2009 | 5:07 pm

Penn pleased honors bring visibility to 'Milk'

Sean Penn says the best person to play Harvey Milk would have been the pioneering gay politician himself.
Source: CNN.com - Entertainment | 27 Jan 2009 | 5:05 pm

Captain Obama: Time for a Black Comic Book Hero?

Obama's rise to the presidency has many people in the business of creating heroes hoping that a black superhero will finally break into mainstream pop culture.

Source: FOXNews.com | 27 Jan 2009 | 5:05 pm

Review: Springsteen's amazing new album

Since reuniting the E Street Band in concert in 1999, Bruce Springsteen has brought that lineup back into the studio to record two widely praised albums.
Source: CNN.com - Entertainment | 27 Jan 2009 | 4:56 pm

Lindsay Lohan Surviving on 'Candy and Red Bull?'

Could Lindsay be heading back to the days when she was dangerously thin?

Source: FOXNews.com | 27 Jan 2009 | 4:44 pm

'Milk,' 'Brothers & Sisters' Get GLAAD Noms

Sean Penn movie and ABC TV series nominated for portrayal of gay characters.
Source: ABC News: Entertainment | 27 Jan 2009 | 4:30 pm

Jurors To Tour Spector Home Despite Objections

Music producer Phil Spector's second jury will tour his Alhambra, Calif., mansion where actress Lana Clarkson died of a gunshot wound, just as the first jury did, despite prosecution objections.

Source: Billboard.com | 27 Jan 2009 | 4:14 pm

Writer John Updike dies at 76

Front Page: Won two Pulitzers for 'Rabbit' series -- John Updike, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and erudite chronicler of sex, divorce and other adventures in the postwar prime of the American empire, died of lung cancer Tuesday at a hospice near his home in Beverly Farms, Mass. He was 76.
Source: Variety.com - Front Page | 27 Jan 2009 | 3:55 pm

Katharine McPhee Signs With Verve

Former "American Idol" star Katharine McPhee has signed a new deal with Verve, Billboard.com can reveal. The artist is recording her label debut, due before the end of the year.

Source: Billboard.com | 27 Jan 2009 | 3:44 pm

Neil Gaiman's 'Graveyard' Book Wins Newberry Award

Oh, the horror: Neil Gaiman has received the top prize for children's literature: The John Newbery Medal.

Source: FOXNews.com | 27 Jan 2009 | 3:39 pm

Dick Van Dyke tells 'Mary Poppins' stories

Decades after it was released in movie theaters, "Mary Poppins" is also a hit stage show, with excerpts of the Broadway production featured on a new 45th-anniversary DVD. Dick Van Dyke took a few minutes to talk about the film, his much-maligned Cockney accent and Michelle Obama's fondness for his old TV show.
Source: CNN.com - Entertainment | 27 Jan 2009 | 3:23 pm

Producers Take Lil Wayne To The 'Prom'

Infamous and Drew Correa wound up with three tracks on "Rebirth" and say Wayne deserves credit for shifting gears. "He's done everything he can with hip-hop and has proven himself," says Infamous.

Source: Billboard.com | 27 Jan 2009 | 3:23 pm

WATCH: Jessica Simpson's Bigger Look?

Source: ABC News: Entertainment | 27 Jan 2009 | 3:14 pm

Springsteen North American Tour Starts In April

As expected, Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band will tour North America this spring in support of their new album, "Working on a Dream," out today (Jan. 27) on Columbia. The trek begins April in San Jose, Calif.

Source: Billboard.com | 27 Jan 2009 | 3:13 pm

Chanel sends out icy spring-summer collection (AP)

AP - Winter snow hasn't melted for Chanel. The venerable French house sent out crisp, ice queen looks in frosty whites at its Tuesday spring-summer haute couture collection.

Source: Yahoo! News: Fashion News | 27 Jan 2009 | 2:49 pm

Shmuger, Linde stay with Universal

Front Page: Duo re-ups contract for another four years -- Marc Shmuger and David Linde have signed on for another four years at Universal. The pact keeps them as chairmen through 2013.
Source: Variety.com - Front Page | 27 Jan 2009 | 2:30 pm

Lawyers give Oscars deal a thumbs down

Buy a $175,000 package to attend the Oscars and you might buy yourself trouble, lawyers for the Academy Awards warn.
Source: CNN.com - Entertainment | 27 Jan 2009 | 2:20 pm

Paris Couture: Armani Pagoda Prive (Fashion Wire Daily)

Fashion Wire Daily - Giorgio Armani went east on Monday in his latest couture collection, a whirlwind tour taking in Noh theatre and geisha girls from Japan, and colors and even marquetry from China.

Source: Yahoo! News: Fashion News | 27 Jan 2009 | 1:52 pm

Hilary Duff Eyeing 'Bonnie And Clyde' Remake

The story of Bonnie and Clyde is getting a retelling, with pop star Hilary Duff and Kevin Zegers in negotiations to play the infamous 1930s bank robbers.

Source: Billboard.com | 27 Jan 2009 | 1:28 pm

Opera singers perform "Boris Godunov" at the Bolshoi Theatre

Opera singers perform "Boris Godunov" at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow in 2007. The renowned Russian theatre has cancelled a tour and a major opera premiere due to budget cuts forced by the financial crisis,...
Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 27 Jan 2009 | 1:19 pm

The Bolshoi Ballet performs Swan Lake

Ballet dancers from the Bolshoi Theatre perform Swan Lake in July 2008. The renowned Russian theatre has cancelled a tour and a major opera premiere due to budget cuts forced by the financial crisis, its...
Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 27 Jan 2009 | 1:19 pm

Some 300 public spectators are allowed into the Oscars' ceremony

Oscar statuettes displayed on Times Square Studios in New York. Organizers of next month's Oscars have filed a complaint against a firm they claim is trying to sell illegal tickets to the star-studded...
Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 27 Jan 2009 | 1:08 pm

PHOTOS: Stars Battle Addiction

Click here to see which rocker's daughter checked into rehab for a third time.
Source: ABC News: Entertainment | 27 Jan 2009 | 12:56 pm

PHOTOS: Stars' Guilty Pleasures

Even Hollywood screams for ice cream, and other treats in between.
Source: ABC News: Entertainment | 27 Jan 2009 | 12:24 pm