AP - Jordan Gilmer has a degenerative condition that eventually will leave him completely blind. But as a child, his teachers did not emphasize Braille, the system of reading in which a series of raised dots signify letters of the alphabet.
time he was the showcase. After nearly two years in retirement, the 85-year-old former game show host was invited to come on down to "The Price Is Right" to promote his upcoming... Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 26 Mar 2009 | 9:38 am
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., March 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Anaheim University Akira Kurosawa School of Film, a pioneering online film school, celebrated its launch with a... Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 26 Mar 2009 | 9:34 am
Reuters - Mom always said, "If you can't say anything nice, don't say anything." Here's the amendment for networks: "If you can't say anything new, don't say anything." Because when you do, you end up with a midseason replacement series like "In the Motherhood," a watered-down adaptation of the racier Web series. Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment Reviews | 26 Mar 2009 | 4:54 am
Fire pretty. Torture tree bad.
Lost went back to the bamboo grove tonight for more gen-u-ine Iraqi torture. As before, it was totally effed up, and yet kinda funny and sexy, which...
Front Page: Mangold to direct romantic comedy for studio -- James Mangold is attached to direct the untitled romantic comedy formerly known as "Wichita" and "Trouble Man" at 20th Century Fox. It's eyed as a potential pairing of Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz.
Front Page: Duo gear up 'Lovecraft' graphic novel -- Universal and Imagine Entertainment are gearing up for "The Strange Adventures of H.P. Lovecraft."
Front Page: International arm unveils foreign fare lineups -- Fox Intl. Prods. has unveiled its slate of local-language projects set into motion after the unit launched last May.
In addition to newfound fame, Shawn Johnson has acquired some new fans, for better or for worse.
The 17-year-old gymnast obtained a restraining order Wednesday against a man who was...
You probably knew that New Moon's wows-ville wolfboy Jacob, Taylor Lautner, lops off his locks for the Twilight sequel. Well, catch a first glance at his less-is-more look on the Vancouver set...
Here it is!
Your very first look at Padma Lakshmi's sexy new commercial for Carl's Jr. and Hardee's.
Didn't I tell you it was hot? I mean, the way she digs in,...
Marg Helgenberger is ready to cut the legal cord.
The CSI star has filed for divorce from her husband of 19 years, Screen Actors Guild president Alan Rosenberg.
The reason...
Natasha Richardson's legacy will be living on in more ways than one. The late actress' family has reportedly requested that her organs be donated.
An unnamed family friend...
The first substantial trailer for Where the Wild Things Are just snuck up on us and said boo. And yes, we're scared. The Maurice Sendak children's classic about a naughty boy who creates...
John Mayer and the Jonas Brothers have the same new woman—Jordin Sparks!
The American Idol winner is performing with Mayer tomorrow night at the One Splendid Evening benefit for...
Feed-bag maven Lauren Bush's clothing line Lauren Pierce debuts in Barneys today. (And you thought those gift cards Topshop's been handing out on the street were exciting.) Like the ubiquitous Feed sack, sales of which help feed children in impoverished nations, the Lauren Pierce line is also attached to a cause. Vanity Fair explains:
For spring ’09, she worked with Women for Women International, which teaches women in the Democratic Republic of the Congo how to hand-dye fabrics. The one-of-a-kind materials accent Lauren Pierce’s timeless cocktail dresses, double-sided capes, and perfect-for-spring skirts, and 10 percent of the proceeds from sales go back to supporting the artisans.
The charity supports women who hand-dye fabrics for the Lauren Pierce line. So the charity is essentially the line itself. Very clever, Lauren. Very clever.
Hachette Filipacchi is putting some of its special-interest publications, including Boating and Cycle World, on the market. Condé Nast and Hearst cut jobs, too, after the jump.
• Hachette Filipacchi is putting some of its special-interest magazines up for sale. The sale of Boating is unsurprising since no one can afford boats or the magazines that go with them, but Popular Photography and Cycle World? Yeesh. [Ad Age via MediaInk/NYP]
• NYT Co. unloaded a southern property: The Florence TimesDaily in Alabama was picked up by Tennessee Valley Printing. Maybe the South really will rise again. Get your carpetbags ready! [Romenesko]
• Senator Benjamin Cardin (D-MD) has introduced the Newspaper Revitalization Act, a bill that could help save some small papers. If passed, the bill would give some papers nonprofit status and allow them acquisition rights. The bill would not grant these privileges to major papers or conglomerates. [Reuters via Mediabistro]
• More layoffs at Condé Nast: Jobs were cut at Brides.com as part of the publishing giant’s plan to streamline their digital division. [FishbowlNY/Mediabistro]
• The Los Angeles Times cut 50 jobs and will merge its foreign-reporting department with that of the Chicago Tribune. [Mediabistro, Romenesko]
• Hearst continues its War on Newspapers by cutting 12 percent of their Houston Chronicle staff. [Romenesko]
• The Atlanta Journal-Constitution cut circulation and about 90 staffers. [Romenesko]
Groovy Atlanta-based vintage chain the Clothing Warehouse opened its first store in New York this week, bringing a stash of sixties and seventies dresses, pristine vintage boots, Western button-downs, and retro T-shirts to Nolita. Scuffed red flooring, exposed brick, and blue accent walls lend an all-American vibe. Standout pairs of red, violet, and aqua boots are mixed with more common cowboy styles. Roughly equal numbers of men and women were browsing the shelves when we dropped in — a testament to the impressive selection of plaid shirts, fifties workwear, and leather jackets. Though the store carries some true vintage accessories — drawers full of coiled leather belts and fifties Lucite bangles — the sunglasses are all new (as are, amusingly, slap bracelets touting Paula Abdul and M.C. Hammer). But the real draw is the dresses, just in time to brighten up your spring wardrobe: sequined eighties frocks, kitschy sixties prints, and neon minidresses for around $60 apiece. Click ahead to scope out the store.
For months Topshop has been teasing us senseless. First, Sir Philip Green promised the Soho store would open in October. Then it was March. Then April. Finally, after almost a year-and-a-half since rumors about Sir Philip signing a lease for the first New York outpost surfaced, the fast-fashion mecca will open its doors on Broadway and Spring one week from tomorrow. But after all these torturous weeks, will the store deliver? Can anything live up to that level of anticipation? Yes, Topshop is amazing and the London flagship has nearly brought us to our knees on more than one occasion. But Topshop has legitimate competitors in this city now, with the offerings at Zara and H&M improving rapidly. Also, we'll lose the caché of wearing Topshop pieces in New York that our friends couldn't buy. You know: "I love your dress! Where is it from?" "Topshop! In London. Where you can't buy it. Tra la la la la!"
But maybe we're just overthinking this. Maybe Topshop can be all we've ever wanted it to be and more! Maybe it will be so amazing the throngs of tweens won't even deter us from going to shop on, like, the second day it's open. After all, the new store is supposed to have everything the London flagship has. Possibly more. The New York Observer reports:
[T]he new store will feature a Kate Moss boutique for the model’s line, which is produced four times yearly and will soon include lingerie. There will also be new collections by insidery British designers like Jonathan Saunders and Preen and areas for costume jewelry, shoes, maternity, petites, talls, men, hats and bags — a veritable department store of cheap, aggressively cool stuff! “We know that in New York there are a lot of brands offering great basics,” [a spokesman] said. “So ours will be a little more fashion-heavy, more fashion specialties per square meter in a way. We don’t buy huge bulk of any one style, we don’t buy millions or even hundreds of thousands; we might buy 5,000 or we might buy 50.”
Jonathan Saunders? Preen? We take it all back. We're pumped. Why would we shop at Zara when we could shop at Topshop? Next week is the beginning of the Rest of Our Lives.
The Farrelly brothers have lined up more than just a few nyukleheads for their next picture.
If the casting gods align, a bowl-cut Benicio Del Toro will be sticking his fingers in the...
Now, as much as people hate to admit it, Star magazine is usually right about things. But even so, we'll take their most recent, chilling story with a grain of salt because, well, it's just so hideous. According to a spy, Oscar winners Natalie Portman and Sean Penn were busted making out at the Sunset Towers in Los Angeles. The spy was returning from the bathroom when it happened. "I had to go through some curtains — and that's when I interrupted Sean and Natalie!" the source reports. "When they saw me, they were startled and quickly composed themselves." They composed themselves? What about us? We've never pretended to care about Sean Penn's personal life (don't tell us you really spent time wondering whether he really "thanked Robin Wright Penn in private"?), but Natalie? She's a young, smart, talented, beautiful New Yorker. She's just like us! And we would never, ever make out with Sean Penn (unless it was to make Madonna jealous). Just because she wants some of that Oscar magic really badly doesn't mean she has to try to get it to literally rub off on her. (Shudder.)
Like, what if Anne Hathaway made out with Philip Seymour Hoffman? That's no more gross. Or Zac Efron and Geena Davis? Dakota Fanning and Forrest Whitaker? Colin Hanks and Whoopi Goldberg? Mamie Gummer and Jack Nicholson? Scarlett Johansson and Benicio Del Toro? Wait, that last one happened. Anyway, regardless, it's objectionable. And if we have to imagine what it looked like, well, you should have to, too.
When 9 to 5: The Musical opens on Broadway on April 7, Megan Hilty will fill the role Dolly Parton made famous in the original 1980 movie — but will she also fill, um, everything else? Yes, according to William Ivey Long, the show's costume designer. We ran into him at the Savannah College of Art and Design Style Étoile Awards at James Cohan Gallery on Monday night, and asked him if Hilty had the ... physical attributes to play such an iconic character. "She does now!" Long told us. "Whoa! Not really my job ... you know what I mean."
So how big are they, really? we asked. "Well, it's in the script and it's a lyric," said Long. "She rhymes something else with 'my double D's.' So that I can say, because it's in the script. Otherwise I wouldn't admit it."
But how did Long actually accomplish such a feat? "It's all about structure and corseting, so you have to support it," he explained. "You push in and it pushes up." He continued: "I'll tell you the truth — we started out with artificial additions, but they were too heavy. So now we make sculpted foam so she can stand up. It was tipping her over, and she'd say, 'Oh my, it's too heavy.' It's like a sculpture."
Front Page: Cast includes Banderas, Brolin, Hopkins -- Nicole Kidman will star in Woody Allen's next film, joining the already announced cast of Antonio Banderas, Josh Brolin, Anthony Hopkins, Freida Pinto and Naomi Watts.
Playbill - Garth Drabinsky and Myron Gottlieb, the producers who gave North American theatre a shot in the arm with award-winning productions of Show Boat, Ragtime, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Barrymore and more, were found guilty of fraud and forgery carried out at their production company Livent, Inc., a Canadian court ruled March 25. Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 25 Mar 2009 | 10:06 pm
The good news? MTV has announced that it is planning on dedicating six hours a day to playing music videos! The bad news? Those hours will be from 3 a.m. to 9 a.m. [Idolator]
Score one for Brooklyn Law School. Andrew Ross Samuels, a 22-year-old student from Dix Hills, New York, filed an order in Nassau County State Supreme Court temporarily freezing the assets of Bernie Madoff's brother and office manager, Peter. Andrew lost $500,000 of his inheritance to Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme — his grandfather, who invested it for him, counted Madoff as one of his best friends. Peter Madoff has not yet been accused of doing anything wrong, but there are plenty of Madoff victims who have declared him guilty of incompetence and negligence. "He absolutely dropped the ball," Andrew's father, Howard Samuels, told Newsweek, which notes that others in his family lost money, and indeed a "Samuels Family Trust" is named on the list of victims. Not everyone has Andrew's crusading moxie, though. Andrew's mother, when reached by Intel, added simply, "I hate this," before passing on the message.
SKIN
• Underage orange people, your tanning-bed days could be numbered. A bill proposed in Texas would require anyone under 18 to obtain a doctor's note before using a tanning bed and have a parent present while tanning. Also, in Florida, lawmakers want to ban anyone under the age of 16 from tanning. [News-Press, USAT via Style.com]
NAILS
• Deborah Lippmann's latest nail-color collaboration with Zac Posen for spring 2009 is available. It's called Purple Rain, after Prince's song. [Casual Lavish]
HAIR
• Female performers in the upcoming Broadway revival of Hair will all have natural hair down south, and are not being fitted for pubic hairpieces, as rumored. [NYP]
• Los Angeles–based hairstylist Johnny Ramirez, who styles Whitney Port, is coming to New York, with a weeklong stint every month at the Serge Normant at John Frieda Salon in the meatpacking district. Right near DVF headquarters ... how convenient. [BellaSugar]
• MTV correspondent SuChin Pak is doing video tutorials for Redken. Because she can? [Coutorture]
Name: Jim Gaffigan Age: 42 Neighborhood: Northern Little Italy (lived there before it became
Nolita) Occupation: Actor/comedian. His King Baby special premieres March 29 on Comedy Central and his TBS sitcom My Boys starts new episodes March 31.
Who's your favorite New Yorker, living or dead, real or fictional?
My children.
What's the best meal you've eaten in New York?
Generally, I'm a big fan of expensive meals that my agents or manager pay for. Those seem to always be the best value. When I'm paying, the place has to be amazing or fun. Le Jardin Bistro was a favorite (it's gone, I think). [Ed: It's not, actually.]
In one sentence, what do you actually do all day in your job?
Try to find ways to make the mundane — laziness and food — funny.
Would you still live here on a $35,000 salary?
Yes. And I did about two years ago. I still believe it's hard to leave my apartment and not spend twenty dollars.
What's the last thing you saw on Broadway? The Lion King. We went with some friends and our kids, and the tickets were only $10,000. I don't even think it was a real lion. I think it was just some guy with a hat on.
Do you give money to panhandlers?
Panhandlers? Is that what we call the homeless now? How do I answer this without sounding naïve or cruel?
What's your drink?
Gravy.
How often do you prepare your own meals?
Um, never.
What's your favorite medication?
Sleep.
What's hanging above your sofa?
A painting of a top by my grandmother. She was an amazing artist.
How much is too much to spend on a haircut?
I think balding men like me should get free haircuts or a discount.
When's bedtime?
Typically 2:30 a.m. if I'm doing stand-up. Midnight if I'm acting. NYC is one of the few places you can stay up till 4 a.m. and not feel like a serial killer.
Which do you prefer, the old Times Square or the new Times Square?
The old Times Square for many reasons, but mostly because it was less crowded. I must admit that Olive Garden does have a strange appeal.
What do you think of Donald Trump?
He seems like a shy, modest man. Wait, is that the guy who dated Rosie O'Donnell?
What do you hate most about living in New York?
How it ruins L.A. for me.
Who is your mortal enemy?
The sun. The morning.
When's the last time you drove a car?
Yesterday. A rental. I could not tell you the brand or even the color.
How has the Wall Street crash affected you?
I will never get out of this five-story walk-up.
Times, Post, or Daily News?
I'm a fan of all of them, really.
Where do you go to be alone?
The night. The bathroom. A screening of Madea Goes to Jail.
What makes someone a New Yorker?
Anyone who watched Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and felt a desire to go to the Island of Misfit Toys. I've lived in NYC for twenty years and I still feel like a tourist. Occasionally I’ll get in a cab and the driver will ask me where I'm visiting from.
If your name is NOT Sidney Lumet, you can stop reading and go on to the next post. However, if your name is Sidney Lumet, we have two quick things to tell you: (1) We're big fans! and (2) Looks like you lost your Lifetime Achievement Award from the Savannah College of Art and Design somewhere in Brooklyn. Cheers! [New York Shitty]
According to Variety, Sean Penn, Jim Carrey, and Benicio Del Toro are in negotiations to play Larry, Curly, and Moe in the Farrelly brothers' long-gestating Three Stooges movie, due sometime next year.
Despite its cast's two Oscar winners, and the fact that non-winner Carrey hilariously plans to gain 40 pounds for his role, this won't be a dramatic biopic but a comedy loaded with eye-poking and nyuk-ing. As far as we can recall, this will mark the first time since 1982's Fast Times at Ridgemont High that Penn has attempted to be funny on film, and comedy may seem like a departure for Carrey to anyone who's seen any of his last ten movies. But we're most excited to see the movie debut of Benicio Del Toro's sense of humor, since, as far as we know, he doesn't have one.
When Dsquared2 set out to dress Britney for her Circus tour, their aim wasn't only to give the wardrobe a sadomasochistic twist. They had to ensure seamless sartorial transitions from traditional circus ring to sex-slave circle to leather-clad wrestling match. They also had to ensure that the clothes were safe. Designers Dean and Dan Caten tell the Moment:
You have to remember, we’re doing costumes for the stage — there’s a lot of limitations of exactly what the performers can do. Sadly, ideas do get chopped because they are too difficult. You have to keep in mind that they have to move and they have to do stuff. Especially with the more extreme stuff, you have to consider a safety element and a functional element — everyone has to see properly, for example. They could fall and they could hurt themselves, and no one wants that. You have to think a bit about everybody’s needs.
Suddenly we have new respect for the spiky corsets Rihanna wears. Yet all this begs the question: Why are models on the runway not given the same consideration as pop performers, but instead are increasingly stuffed into clothes and shoes they can't even walk in, then thrust into the spotlight like it's some sort of sport? The whole world might not know their names or care what they ordered at Starbucks on Tuesday, but it's a long way down, and they are fragile creatures.
As fast as the producers of The Real Housewives of New York City can drag some — any! — outside characters onto the show, the Housewives scorch them away with the blue fire of their own internal rage, like some sort of urban bug zapper. In this episode, real-life publicist Alison Brod is nearly thrown across the room after accidentally wandering between the dangerously standoffish Kelly and Bethenny. Flamboyant society fashion designer Zang Toi is untethered and allowed to float off after Jill has finished having him help her seem popular. We pitied the random women who agreed to co-chair Jill Zarin's fund-raiser for Alzheimer's. All that was left of them after the explosion of tension that occurred when Kelly declined to be named on the invite were smoldering lumps of metal and plastic. Collateral damage, we suppose. Because what were they doing there in the first place? By now, it should be clear to anyone that there is simply not enough room on this show to contain anything other than the insane, childish, sometimes frightening rage the women have for each other!
Such scorched-earth battles do not always produce a clear victor. But someone won this week's episode by playing fair and acting decent, for a change. Let's assess our players.
Jill: Mother hen Jill made a strong showing in this episode. She strategically showed up to Zang's studio in a white garbage bag so that when she tried on his dresses (some of which were lovely, and some of which looked like they had decidedly un-lovely giant pink caterpillars on them), she looked surprisingly skinny and glam. We were in fact a little surprised that his studio had dresses lying around that would fit her, and completely didn't believe him when he said one dress was a "runway size 2." His tiny Asian assistants could not keep their eyes inside their heads when Jill squeezed not one, but two enormous boobs into dresses that were meant for little-boy bodies like theirs. Jill also handled Kelly's monstrousness with a medium amount of grace, but she lost points when she undermined Bethenny during a confessional, indicated she was aware she was giving her daughter an eating disorder and then kept doing it, and asked for a Diet Coke because she "needed some sugar." Come on, hello?
Ramona: Ramona had been doing so well this season. But she fell off the righteous path when she couldn't just laugh at Simon the way everyone else does, and instead took him seriously by saying what she Really Thinks, which is never good. We know Simon has no depth and is feminine. That's why the producers showed him checking out one of the male model's asses at the fashion show and included the awkward bit where he said "I'm certainly not getting you pregnant" to Alex and then awkwardly tried to pretend it was because of a vasectomy. Anyway the point is that judging the people on the show is the viewer's job, not the cast's. Also, the spastic wiggle that she does at the beginning of the show, when they introduce the cast, is starting to give us a headache. (What is that? Is her heel broken?)
Alex: In this episode, Simon claimed to have broken free from his wife, becoming his own man. "I'm no longer Mr. Alex McCord!" he crowed. This, of course, is bad for him and good for Alex, as now we don't tar her with the same brush. We liked that Alex knew about Brooklyn design team Christopher Dean and Sophia Eugene because she found them by walking around her neighborhood. Unfortunately, Simon's weirdness in this moment and in many subsequent others overshadowed Alex and her poor, if brave and interesting, fashion choices.
Bethenny: Oh, Bethenny. She usually does so well at this game! Unfortunately, this week she was unable to control her simmering anger over a time two years ago when Kelly ignored her at a party and hit on her photographer ex-boyfriend. Hello, have you seen the way Kelly talks? If she doesn't flirt, she seems weirdly mopey and blinky. Had Bethenny not aggressively frozen out Kelly at the Jill Stuart fashion show early in the episode, her anger at the charity-board meeting would have seemed righteous, not bitter. And although her conversation with Jill about the placement of Kelly's boobs was hilarious, Bethenny's line that she's "not fabulous enough" for Kelly indicated that the problem was actually hers. Which is a shame, because Kelly definitely deserves to be bitch-slapped by a worthy opponent.
Kelly: Without question, Kelly is the loser of this show. Near the end, Chris's boyfriend woke up from his slumber on the couch just long enough to ask, "Why does her skin keep changing color?" But it wasn't just her physical problems, which could have been ameliorated by the mere glimpse of her fantastic legs in the Malo store. It was everything that came out of her mouth, too. Like:
• When she said she didn't like to put her name on charity lists because she's "a very private person." We wonder if the Bravo reality crew who follows her around all day had to re-record that line because they burst out laughing.
• Or when she implied that she made a living on her "journalism," which apparently consisted only of writing her occasional column for Page Six Magazine, a publication that no longer exists and that, in its heyday, could not possibly have paid her more than $1,000 every three weeks.
• Or when Jill told her that Allie, her daughter, has arthritis, and Kelly responded, "Oh, that's so cute."
• Or when she told LuAnn that she didn't have enough time for her "own charities," and then when LuAnn asked her what charities she worked with, she said she didn't work with any, because she was so busy. (See above re: not having a real writing job.)
• Or when she didn't say anything at all but just mimed a conversation with two unaware people beside her at the fashion show so she wouldn't have to join the fight between Ramona and Simon. (Well, that was kind of awesome.)
• Or when she caused a scene about not wanting her name on Jill's charity event. She says she goes to parties for a living. Doesn't she know "Honorary Chairpeople" don't actually have to do anything?
• Or when she said "I'm not in this business to be cunning." Really?
LuAnn: The Countess took us by surprise this time around, mostly because she didn't do anything gaudy or stupid. She tolerated Kelly's unwillingness to do anything fun or interesting, but did not cut her any slack when she tried to bullshit her way out of the charity discussion. She looked better in that wrap sweaterdress than Kelly did, but let her take it. She even looked less shiny than normal. Thus, we declare her the winner of the episode! Yay, LuAnn!
Auxiliary Winner: That old lady behind Bethenny and Kelly at the Jill Stuart show who was wearing a crown and holding a scepter.
As seen on The Ellen Degeneres Show today... here is Ukranian band Los Colorados improving upong Katy Perry's hit single "Hot N' Cold". Only, when they sing it, it almost sounds like a Russian torture song... and a catchy one at that!
Front Page: Writer making Broadway directorial debut -- David Mamet will make his Broadway directing debut next season with the world preem of his new play "Race."
It's been five whole months now since we last heard from Don Draper and the staff of Sterling Cooper, so we've been desperate for any scraps of information on Mad Men's upcoming third season. Luckily, we ran into Bryan Batt the other night at a reading of James Kirkwood's Legends at Town Hall, and, though he doesn't actually know what will happen yet (this year's thirteen episodes won't begin shooting until May, and won't air till July), he was more than happy to speculate.
Will the closeted Salvatore Romano ever leave his wife? "No, I don't think he'll leave his wife for a while," Batt told us. "I hope not — I love working with her! It's an honest story line, and that's what [closeted] men did. They stayed with their wives until their children were grown up and went away to college. We have great writers, so I trust them to write something realistic."
But will he ever come out? "No, Sal won't come out. There's going to be more torture in his story," he said. "There's too much story left for him to come out. He's in America, he's younger, he's Italian — Sal is embedded in his myth. And he has no one to come out to. Who would he come out to?" We don't know — does he think anyone else on Mad Men is closeted? "No, I think they're pretty clear about that," he said.
Then, just because we figured he'd have a funny story, we asked Batt, a Broadway veteran, about his most embarrassing onstage moment. He did not disappoint: "When I was in The Scarlet Pimpernel, my pants ripped," he recounted. "They split down the middle right onstage! I had to use a girl's shawl to cover them up, and I had a sword fight to do. I almost broke into 'America' from West Side Story."
If Bernie Madoff is unhappy in the Metropolitan Detention Center, he's going to be really unhappy when he goes to actual prison in June. So says ex-con Anthony Papa, who tells him what to expect in this week's Detroit News: "Your identity will be taken away when you are stripped naked and ordered to bend over and spread your butt cheeks. You will be forced to comply." That said, Papa's sentence ended in the nineties. As we understand it, everyone just knits shawls now. [Detroit News via Clusterstock]
Paris Fashion Week ended weeks ago, but Hamish Bowles just got around to blogging about the Fendi party where Beth Ditto performed (maybe he's been busy partying?). He blogs: "Having brought the house down with the spectacular 'Standing in the Way of Control,' Beth decided to execute a celebratory stage dive, a move that I can only describe as ill advised with a mosh pit comprising various supermodels and sundry fashionistos in aching want of a square repas[t]. In fact, as far as I could determine, there was a parting of the waves as the svelte and deeply panicked hordes flung themselves out of the oncoming path of the potential weapon of mass destruction that is la Ditto, and there was something closely resembling a resounding thud in place of the expected slap of flesh on expectantly upraised palms." [Vogue.com via Fashionista]
If you happened to be driving a forklift near Tompkins Square Park yesterday, you could have nabbed the greatest dumpster-dived home furnishing in human history. [Slum Goddess]
Still looking forward to the Spike Jonze/Dave Eggers Where The Wild Things Are adaptation, and all the screenshots still look amazing, but wow, this first trailer is pretty em effing epic. Hopefully it's just an extra-bombastic trailer, because I have no idea how a three-page book could be adapted into a film that makes Braveheart and Gladiator look like single-camera student films of someone whispering in the dark, but I'll again give them the benefit of the doubt and retain my anticipation:
The Downturnaround is anything but an isolationist. When it comes to the global economy, we are practically a Buddhist. We believe that the fortunes of all nations are interconnected, and each are dependent on the others. Nobody, except maybe a few hedge funds, profits from sovereign failures. Nations are not pitted against each other — we are all potential trading partners, and the stronger our partners, the stronger we are. Why else do you think the entire world's stock markets have surged since Geithner's plan was announced? It's not necessarily a sign that the plan will work, but it most definitely indicates people everywhere are desperate for dramatic and powerful leadership. Say what you will about the world dreaming of the humbling of the United States. The markets say something different. And while it's true that some bad things are still happening overseas, in our travels across the world wide web we've also seen a lot of evidence of the global economy finding its footing.
• Mexico may be beset by drug wars, and the tourist business isn't looking super-swell these days, either. But if we're willing to believe that the disgraced ratings agencies, particularly the one that's owned by Warren Buffett, have upped their game, then our southern neighbor is holding its own. [Bloomberg]
• Chile, too, saved for a rainy day, and is looking as strong as any emerging market, despite the commodities crash. [Bloomberg]
• At a moment when "futurists" like Ad Age's Bob Garfield see nothing but fire and brimstone for the media as we know it, it is useful to be reminded of forecasters who once worried "How Will Google Ever Make Any Money?" [Business Insider]
• Homeowners in the Hamptons can't be thrilled that in an online auction, some houses went for as little as half their asking price. But here's the thing: It shows buyers will step up if the prices are realistic. And if the whole "summering" thing doesn't work out they can always plant potatoes. Since... [NYP]
• Not all real-estate prices are cratering. Farmland is doing great! [Economist]
• And there's been a bounce in factory orders! [NYT]
• Compulsively reading the great hordes of digital doomsayers as we know he does, Paul Kedrosky is moved to wonder, "Has the Econoblogosphere Decoupled?" From reality, he means. [Infectious Greed]
• There's increasing noise out of China these days that the world's next superpower is dissatisfied with the dollar and wants alternatives to it as a reserve currency. This, we are led to believe by the catastrophist club, would be, well, catastrophic. The Downturnaround agrees, but differs in the sense that we see the catastrophe as largely befalling China, not the United States. Which is precisely why, despite all the bluster, the Chinese are likely to do their best to keep the dollar strong. As the eminent Paul Volcker put it, "They hold all these dollars because they chose to buy the dollars, and they didn't want to sell the dollars because they didn't want to depreciate their currency. It was a very simple calculation on their part, so they shouldn't come around blaming it all on us." [Calculated Risk]
Spotted at the corner of St. Marks Place near Third Avenue: A truck that says "Everybody Loves Topshop" with a woman giving away gift cards for up to $500. The store opens April 2 — one week from tomorrow — and this is possibly the best store-opening promotion ever. We're not sure how long it will last, but we suggest you put on your sneakers and start running.
Student Yo Kjaergaard didn't know where any of her clothes were from the day our Video Look Book cameras caught her. She wore a $2 giant yellow-striped cardigan, a yellow knit "Marge Simpson" hat, a leopard-print skirt, and sneakers. “I’m not very much into fashion," she said. "So I just basically take what’s weird and what you don’t see everybody else walking [around] in. I guess. I just express with my style that I'm not very much into how I look." Watch the Video Look Book to find out why she prefers style in New York to her native Denmark.
Whoooo lawwwd! After a slow start, this season of The Real Housewives of NY is really starting to pick up steam. We've already made up our minds about new, horsey piece of beef jerkey Kelly Killoren Bensimon... in that we f**king hate her as much as an urn full of Hitler's ashes. Kelly is a classic case of an attractive person who starts confusing things and somehow gets the idea that she might be a smart person, even though she's a through-n'-through rere. You can just hear it in the way she addresses people, her cadence -- just because she knows how to ride a horse doesn't mean she can finish the TV Guide crossword, or even, heaven forbid, a beginner's Su Doku puzzle. Do not be fooled by her gams, America: Kelly is an idiot.
As though this weren't insult enough, and as yet more proof that KKB is an unworthy human being, she goes ahead and picks a fight with Bethenny, hands down our favorite "housewife" thanks to her wit, smarts and genuineness. Last night's episode delivered delicious drama -- check out Videogum's recap if you missed it -- it looks like next week is where the laxatives hit the bowl, as Kelly asks Bethenny to drinks... to tell her that they're "not friends." This one minute preview will leave you salivating for a heap of drama you're not a part of at all! i.e. The best kind.
See you next Tuesday, Kelly! Also, is it to uncool to still call "Teams"? It is, right? F**k it: TEAM BETHENNY. Source: Best Week Ever | 25 Mar 2009 | 7:34 pm
Tagline: "Inside all of us is hope. Inside all of us is fear. Inside all of us is adventure. Inside all of is ... a wild thing."
Translation: Inside all of us is a burning desire to see this film as soon as humanly possible.
The Verdict: You've no doubt heard all the scuttlebutt about this film's troubled post-production process, so we won't bore you with a rehash now. Instead, you should go pour yourself a glass of warm milk and cuddle up with the first trailer from Spike Jonze's wildly anticipated Where the Wild Things Are. Don't forget to bring your blankie, too, as there are a few moments in this that might just disturb you enough that you'll want to pull it over your eyes. We're relieved to report that the footage looks to be just as magical and wondrous as we had hoped, and Vulture would like to award five brownie points to the person who, while cutting this together, decided to score it with "Wake Up" by the Arcade Fire. Is it October yet?
AP - "Dear Husband" (HarperCollins, 336 pages, $24.99), by Joyce Carol Oates: "I'm drawn to failure," Joyce Carol Oates once famously told an interviewer. "I feel that I'm contending with it constantly in my own life."
Musician Bono of U2 performing in February 2009. The veteran Irish band proved again they are among the megastars of rock when all 90,000 tickets for the Barcelona launch of their new world tour reportedly... Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 25 Mar 2009 | 7:15 pm
Front Page: City aims to keep film, TV productions in town -- There are no tax credits in there yet, but the Los Angeles City Council has approved a package of incentives aimed at keeping film and TV productions in Los Angeles.
Since Michelle Obama wore a dress by Jason Wu at the inauguration, the designer has received offers for tell-all book deals and even a reality-TV show. But he's humbly turned them down to focus on growing his label. "I don't want any of the fame bit to go to my head. I'm only ever as good as my last collection," he tells British Vogue. He plans to launch makeup and shoes within the next two seasons and hasn't ruled out branching into menswear eventually. Barack Obama might be spoken for (he wears Hart Schaffner Marx suits), but Tim Geithner might welcome some help.
And as for the fuss over MObama's bare arms? "I was amazed by that — was it really an issue? I mean, we're not living in the past — and it wasn't as if there was a high split in her skirt or she was showing cleavage," Wu says. "And anyway she has great arms so show them off!"
It's been exactly 50 days since we pledged to stop showering in preparation for Bonnaroo 2009. And while our siblings over at Daily Intel continue to give us weird looks in the hallway, our excitement for the four-day festival just continues to grow, especially now that they've announced that their comedy lineup features acts such as Jimmy Fallon, Kristen Schaal, and Aziz Ansari. Man, we can't wait to get baked with Triumph the Insult Comic Dog! [Bonnaroo]
Yesterday, by some freakish twist of fate, Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal was once again giving a speech on the same night as Barack Obama. The last one, you may recall, didn't go so well. But last night, at a Republican fund-raising dinner, Jindal tried to just laugh the whole thing off. "I have just learned that because of President Obama's opposition to torture, it is now illegal to show my speech to prisoners at Gitmo," he cracked to the 1,200-person audience. Okay, not bad. A little self-deprecation always goes a long way. Of course, for that joke to make sense, Jindal is also implying that President Bush was not opposed to torture, which is true, but not according to themanhimself. Nevertheless, Jindal really found his voice last night defending those who want President Obama to "fail," most notably Rush Limbaugh.
See, Jindal isn't going to fall into the "gotcha game" the media has been playing by asking Republicans if they agree with Rush and want Obama to fail. Anything other than "'Why no sir, I don't want the president to fail,' is treated as some sort of act of treason," Jindal claimed. "My answer to the question is very simple," he continued. 'Do you want the president to fail?' It depends on what he is trying to do." Actually, that's a perfectly reasonable position. Just because he's the president doesn't mean you have to root for him all the time. For example: Obama trying to complete a crossword puzzle? While it wouldn't really be nice to want him to fail there, it's not exactly treacherous either. Or how about Obama's March Madness bracket? We're all competing against each other, so it's fine to hope for his failure there too.
Then again, when Rush Limbaugh (who, it should be noted, said he never, "ever again" wanted to hear from anyone who criticized Jindal's State of the Union rebuttal — a group that now includes Jindal) said he wanted Obama to fail, he was referring to "the Obama presidency," which, we imagine, hinges on fixing the greatest economic collapse since the Great Depression. Which means that when Republicans are asked if they agree with Rush, maybe the answer should be, "Why no sir, I don't."
"No one that works for me or with me in any capacity has received any word from anyone that works for Lindsay Lohan. So I don't know what happened there." —Seth Rogen on not deliberately ignoring Lohan [MTV]
"He hopes to make it the most spectacular gig ever. For the jungle section, he wants to ride out on an African elephant with panthers led on gold chains. Parrots and other birds will fly behind him." —A "source" on Michael Jackson's plans for his London gigs [Contact Music]
"So, I just threw my little idea out, and they told me all the reasons why it couldn't be done. I pitched a Western as well, and they said, “We don't do dust pictures.” —Matt Groening on his first Hollywood pitch meeting [AV Club]
"They wanted to make me sound more like an action hero, like Arnold Schwarzenegger or Sylvester Stallone ... They had to take me out of the (sound) booth and show me Bruce Willis movies." —Reese Witherspoon on manning up for Monsters vs. Aliens [Female First]
"So it wasn’t about getting high — it was about being an artist. About waking up in the morning at 10:30 and doing a bunch of lines and writing a bunch of music, and staying up for three days on a creative whirlwind and then panic-attacking for a week after. It was one of the most difficult times in my life, but it was important for me to experience, since it unlocked parts of my brain." —Lady Gaga on the inspirational powers of cocaine [Idolator via Too Much Awesome]
"For two years, I had to spend most of the time with my jaw sticking out, and I started to have a problem. I had to have dental work. You know the thing that attaches your gum to your lip ... I f**ked it up from doing that. I had to have work done on my jaw." —Michael Sheen on his oral sacrifices for Frost/Nixon [Female First]
Voting is open on the third Bracket of 90s Movie Madness:
Remember, the question is "WHICH MOVIE IS MORE 90s?" not just "which movie is better" - Vote away after the jump and leave your arguments in the comments!
(Ed Note: The past two comments sections for this tournament contained some of the most passionate, articulate arguments in the history of online commenting - you should all form a debate team and stick it to those Harvard kids from that Denzel Washington movie)
Complex magazine got caught Photoshopping almost everything on their current cover girl, Kim Kardashian. In one of the "online exclusive" photos they posted yesterday, Kardashian posed in a belted blue leotard, with natural curves, veins, and all. The photo was then replaced with something noticeably airbrushed, shaving inches off her stomach, chest, and waist, and smoothing out her legs. The screengrab shows the difference before the photo was removed entirely off the site. Why is being curvy this complex?
Today, we honor one of Hollywood's grandest dames in history... the classy act that is Angela Lansbury. Even though Ang-Lanz is 83 years old, she's still going strong, starring in Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit on Broadway. So as a thanks to Angela for lighting up the stage and screen for all these years, let us return the favor and light her up, Blingee-style.
You know the drill: We've provided some photos of Ang-Lanz after the jump. You may use one of those or find your own, then head over to Blingee.com, decorate them to your hearts content, and link your work of art in the comments. You can also e-mail us your blingee at blingeeweds@gmail.com. On Friday, we'll post our favorites! We look forward to your creations.
Initially, the L.A. Times' Patrick Goldstein was skeptical of our theory that blog outrage last week prompted Sylvester Stallone to "un-cast" 50 Cent in his upcoming ensemble movie The Expendables. Then he spoke with Expendables producer Avi Lerner!
After [Forest] Whitaker dropped out over scheduling issues, Stallone met with 50 Cent. "They had a good meeting and we all thought Sly liked him," Lerner explained. "But the next thing I knew, Sly changed his mind. I don't know what happened — maybe someone put some doubt in his head."
But could that doubt have really come from the reaction in the blogosphere? "I think the answer is yes and no," Lerner said. "Maybe it was what the bloggers were saying. Directors are always worried about how people are going to react to their choices, so they're always influenced by reaction, whether it's from fans, bloggers or critics. I think they're in a very vulnerable place when they're trying to make these decisions, so you never know what's going to influence them."
Until this week, we truthfully never imagined that 50-directed blog bile was powerful enough to actually torpedo one of his projects. Does anyone at his record company read blogs?
Front Page: 'Idol's' absence boosts other nets -- President Obama's hourlong press conference Tuesday night averaged 40.35 million viewers on nine broadcast and cable networks, according to Nielsen estimates.
The 'Umbrella' singer - who has been looking at multi-million dollar mansion in the Hollywood Hills area of Los Angeles - is planning to set up home with Chris as soon as she chooses a property.
Gossip website X17Online reports: "Once Rihanna moves in to her new pad, Chris Brown will be joining her!"
Rihanna, 21, was spotted looking at properties in the exclusive area - where celebrities such as Leonardo DiCaprio, Nicole Richie and Cameron Diaz live - on Monday (23.03.09). Among the houses she viewed were a $6.5 million four-bedroom, four-and-a-half bathroom property with glass walls, a swimming pool, outdoor theatre and a large garden.
The singer also visited Christina Aguilera's former home, which boasts four bedrooms and seven bathrooms and costs $6.9 million.
Her next stop was Jerry Seinfeld's old house, which is on the market for $6.2 million and has three bedrooms, five bathrooms, a gym and swimming pool.
Real estate agent Russ Filice said: "The house has incredible views, a contemporary pool and is very private.
"Rihanna has just started her search for a house. She was in a great mood. Her questions were centered around her lifestyle in the house - how she could entertain, how private it is." Chris has been charged with felony assault and making criminal threats following his alleged attack on Rihanna last month.
He is yet to enter a plea and is due in court for an arraignment hearing on April 6. If convicted, he faces up to four years in prison. Source
Nick Cannon wants to give his wife Mariah Carey a "bald eagle".
The US rapper - who married the 'Touch My Body' singer last April - has revealed he is planning to give his wife a surprise gift for her 39th birthday on Friday (27.03.09).
But Mariah might be in for a shock, because as well being an endangered species, a "bald eagle" is also a slang term for someone with shaved pubic hair.
When asked what he was going to buy Mariah, Nick laughed: "I think I was going to get her a bald eagle or something. Yeah, they sell them bald eagles still right?"
Impressed by his own quip, Nick, 28, has named himself the "chairman of comedy". He laughed: "Here's how we do it. I'm the chairman of comedy. Like any joke, I get money off of anybody telling jokes, from any joke ever told."
Nick is set to host the upcoming series of US TV show 'America's Got Talent'.
Just recently we heard how Jennifer Aniston is single once again after dumping her toyboy lover John Mayer who, it seems, would rather spend time on Twitter than with her. We heard how he had been avoiding her – ignoring her calls and shunning her emails. And just when we thought Jen had finally found someone who could begin to match up to Brad Pitt. How wrong could we be?
As the woman who brought us the loveable Rachel Green in Friends, we couldn’t help but feel happy for her when she married Brad in 2000 – even if we were all green with envy. We watched their fairytale romance progress and then sadly crash and burn. Hollywood’s golden couple were no more.
When Brad and Angelina Jolie became official in 2005 after first meeting on the set of Mr and Mrs Smith, our hearts went out to Jen; even more so when Ange announced that she was pregnant with their first child Shiloh Nouvel. Seeing pictures of the happy family plastered on every magazine going must have hurt.
Jen seemed to turn a corner when she met Vince Vaughn while filming the ironically titled film The Break Up. Talking about him at the time she said: “He literally brought me back to life. My first gasp of air was a big laugh. It was great.” However, as bad luck again would have it, the pair split in 2006 after more than a year together. Jen said that the relationship had ran its course. In 2008, she met musician Mayer, 31, at an Oscar party. We had high hopes for her, but after a whirlwind romance, it looks like Jen’s desperation to be a mum gave Mayer cold feet. At 40, Jen feels her biological clock is ticking at a rapid pace, with sources saying that she regrets not starting a family with Brad when she had the chance.
Experiencing such heart-ache has made Jen much more aware, if a little cynical, of relationships. Speaking to Vogue in 2008, she said: “Whoever said everything has to be forever, that's setting your hopes too high. It's too much pressure. And I think if you put that pressure on yourself—because I did! Fairy tale! It has to be the right one!—that's unattainable." Source
Let's just say Bruce Willis is very hands on when it comes to casting his movies, as well as his leading ladies Source: FOXNews.com | 25 Mar 2009 | 4:54 pm
It's a hold-steady kind of week on the Billboard 200 as Kelly Clarkson's "All I Ever Wanted" (S/19/RCA) remains at No. 1 for a second frame, shifting 90,000 (down 65%).
Rapper on crossover backlash and finding out a Bush crony had
karaoked his tune
Twenty summers ago, Young MC's "Bust A Move" was inescapable, a
G-rated funk-bomb integral to hip-hop's eventual mainstream
acceptance. Fueled by a sample-heavy production, Flea's popping
bassline, and infectious rhymes written in a University of Southern
California dorm by economics major Marvin Young, "Bust A Move"
helped usher in the era of pop-rap — songs squeaky clean
enough for the whole family and infectious enough to bombard
Billboard. Hot on the heels of Tone Loc's "Wild Thing" (a...
Are you looking for a smooth jam to play on your stereo as you make long, passionate love to your lady while eating lobster drizzled in butter sauce by the light of the moon? Look no further, because it is our sensual pleasure to introduce you to Ladomour. Who is Ladomour? We're not really sure. But judging by his soon-to-be-hit single "All That We've Been Through", we're going to guess Ladomour is one of God's army of angels sent to impregnate women the world over, using the notes as his seed and our ears as his vessel. In other words: Ladomour is a national treasure.
If you find that you don't have over 5 minutes to spare for the entire video (side note: How dare you?), we suggest fast forwarding to 2:48 and spending at least a minute marveling over the special effects used in conjunction with Christina Applegate's ponytail in Don't Tell Mom The Babysitter's Dead. Then, pop a Plan B in each ear. You can never be too safe, girls.
Front Page: Studio nabs rights to stage play -- Lionsgate has acquired feature rights to the stage play "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf" and signed video director Nzingha Stewart to helm from her screenplay adaptation.
Remember back in middle school in the 90s (were you even born then?), when piercin' the ears/body parts was all the rage? I do. I remember showing up in the school library one morning and hearing about how all the "cool" girls (=sluts) pierced their own belly buttons the night before using a safety pin. I looked down at my own belly thinking "Would putting a metal bar through this old thing make me appear more sophisticated?" But before I could answer my own question, I was promptly punched in the face by "fill in the blank here".
Where was I? Ah yes. Kate Moss apparently got the "cool girl" memo a chock full of years too late, as she was seen exiting a piercing parlour in England sporting no less than 6 mini gypsy-hoops going up her ear. Next week, Moss will probably end up making out with her local pot dealer at the Rusted Root concert if I know where this is going. Source: Best Week Ever | 25 Mar 2009 | 4:27 pm
We here at BWE.tv have always regarded Zac Efron as something of a mystery. His face is what we imagine Suri Cruise to eventually look like; his hair that of an Indigo Girl's; his body the stuff Thai fantasy packages are made out of. We certainly don't hate the guy... we just never got it.
But after watching the trailer for his upcoming movie 17 Again... we still don't really. That being said, we can't help but think that this movie looks adorable. Let's start with this: Zac Efron plays Matthew Perry as a teenager. (Cue us slowly counting out 10 single dollar bills and placing them in our 17 Again Ticket Piggy Bank.) Thanks to some magical movie science, the 37-y.o. Perry wakes up and is all of a sudden a hot teenager, who gets enrolled in his daughter's high school. It's all very Back to the Future, what with the incestual mistaken identities and whatnot, though it seems Efron is NOT the hottest kid in school. Which is total bulsh! In real life, you know his own daughter would totally be crushin' on him at the local rainbow party...
Isaiah Washington is the latest 'Greys Anatomy' cast member to be down on his luck these days, as he is reportedly on the verge of being evicted from his Los Angeles home. Source: FOXNews.com | 25 Mar 2009 | 3:12 pm
I'm gonna do my best to see The Dirty Garage early enough so I can still brag about having seen it, as opposed to later when it catches on and it's not longer cool/possible to like it. Either way, "It's like spending 90 minutes in an actual dirty garage" sounds like it can't-miss:
Police have appealed to the public for help in finding a woman who disappeared six weeks ago, describing her husband as 'less than helpful.' Source: FOXNews.com | 25 Mar 2009 | 2:54 pm
Green Day will release its eighth studio album, "21st Century Breakdown," on Friday, May 15, the group announced today. The long-awaited album, Green Day's first full length since 2004's "American Idiot," is produced by Butch Vig, known for his work with Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins and his own band Garbage.
When 2003 "American Idol" winner Ruben Studdard returns to the show this week (March 26), he will perform his new song, "Together." The Stargate-produced track is also the lead single from Studdard's fourth album, "Love Is." The set will be released May 19 through Hickory Records/19 Recordings Ltd. and distributed through RED.
Oscar-winning French actress Juliette Binoche, seen here on March 12, 2009, said Wednesday she is planning to work with feted Chinese film director Jiang Wen after her six-month world dancing tour ends... Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 25 Mar 2009 | 12:51 pm
Forensic evidence in music producer Phil Spector's murder retrial proves he is not guilty of the shooting death of a Hollywood actress six years ago, his lawyer told the jury on Tuesday.
The Prodigy, Afrika Bambaataa, Bassnectar, Derrick May, Carl Cox, Francois K, Z-Trip, Rick Wade, Carl Craig and Kevin Saunderson are among the more than two dozen more performers named for Movement 2009, the annual electronic music festival that takes place each Memorial Day weekend in Detroit.
The Indigo Girls navigate the challenges of today's recording environment with their new two-disc album, "Poseidon and the Bitter Bug." After being dumped by their former label, the folk-rockers decided to release the album independently -- and they recorded it in a mere three weeks.
Next week's Billboard 200 albums chart will find a pair of albums perhaps vying for the top slot. Both Walt Disney's "Hannah Montana: The Movie" soundtrack and the "Now 30" compilation (UMe) are on track to start with more than 120,000, but it's too early to tell which album will triumph. The "Hannah" set led Nielsen SoundScan's Building chart released on March 25.
Fire pretty. Torture tree bad.
Lost went back to the bamboo grove tonight for more gen-u-ine Iraqi torture. As before, it was totally effed up, and yet kinda funny and sexy, which...
In addition to newfound fame, Shawn Johnson has acquired some new fans, for better or for worse.
The 17-year-old gymnast obtained a restraining order Wednesday against a man who was...
You probably knew that New Moon's wows-ville wolfboy Jacob, Taylor Lautner, lops off his locks for the Twilight sequel. Well, catch a first glance at his less-is-more look on the Vancouver set...
Here it is!
Your very first look at Padma Lakshmi's sexy new commercial for Carl's Jr. and Hardee's.
Didn't I tell you it was hot? I mean, the way she digs in,...
Marg Helgenberger is ready to cut the legal cord.
The CSI star has filed for divorce from her husband of 19 years, Screen Actors Guild president Alan Rosenberg.
The reason...
Natasha Richardson's legacy will be living on in more ways than one. The late actress' family has reportedly requested that her organs be donated.
An unnamed family friend...
The first substantial trailer for Where the Wild Things Are just snuck up on us and said boo. And yes, we're scared. The Maurice Sendak children's classic about a naughty boy who creates...
John Mayer and the Jonas Brothers have the same new woman—Jordin Sparks!
The American Idol winner is performing with Mayer tomorrow night at the One Splendid Evening benefit for...
The Farrelly brothers have lined up more than just a few nyukleheads for their next picture.
If the casting gods align, a bowl-cut Benicio Del Toro will be sticking his fingers in the...
Whoooo lawwwd! After a slow start, this season of The Real Housewives of NY is really starting to pick up steam. We've already made up our minds about new, horsey piece of beef jerkey Kelly Killoren Bensimon... in that we f**king hate her as much as an urn full of Hitler's ashes. Kelly is a classic case of an attractive person who starts confusing things and somehow gets the idea that she might be a smart person, even though she's a through-n'-through rere. You can just hear it in the way she addresses people, her cadence -- just because she knows how to ride a horse doesn't mean she can finish the TV Guide crossword, or even, heaven forbid, a beginner's Su Doku puzzle. Do not be fooled by her gams, America: Kelly is an idiot.
As though this weren't insult enough, and as yet more proof that KKB is an unworthy human being, she goes ahead and picks a fight with Bethenny, hands down our favorite "housewife" thanks to her wit, smarts and genuineness. Last night's episode delivered delicious drama -- check out 
