AP - "Desperate Housewives" star Eva Longoria Parker, singer Katy Perry and former Baywatch babe Pamela Anderson are in the Austrian capital for a star-studded gala to raise money for people with AIDS. Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 16 May 2009 | 1:36 pm
AP - "Desperate Housewives" star Eva Longoria Parker, singer Katy Perry and former Baywatch babe Pamela Anderson are in the Austrian capital for a star-studded gala to raise money for people with AIDS. Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 16 May 2009 | 1:36 pm
AP - "Desperate Housewives" star Eva Longoria Parker, singer Katy Perry and former Baywatch babe Pamela Anderson are in the Austrian capital for a star-studded gala to raise money for people with AIDS. Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 16 May 2009 | 1:36 pm
AP - "Ugly Betty" star America Ferrera is hoping her new film will inspire Americans to address the struggles soldiers face after they come home from Iraq or Afghanistan.
UMG Acquires North American Film Distribution Rights to the Highly-Anticipated Animated Release STUDIOCANAL, the European mini-major is handling worldwide rights... Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 16 May 2009 | 9:00 am
___ ABC's "This Week" _ Sens. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., and Jim Webb, D-Va.; Republican strategist Liz Cheney, daughter to former Vice President Dick Cheney; Steve Schmidt, adviser to John... Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 16 May 2009 | 8:47 am
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - The producer of a Danish reality-television show has apologized to Muslim-majority Malaysia for shooting a nude scene on a southern island earlier this month, a... Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 16 May 2009 | 5:43 am
Tonight's show features "Know Your Enemy” from Green Day’s new album 21st Century Breakdown hitting stores today. The song is a fiery punk rock anthem that has become synonymous with Green Day in the new millennium. In 2004, the band rolled the dice on a rock opera concept album, a risky move that could have banished them to a life of 90’s pop-rock obscurity alongside the likes of Sugar Ray or Lit. That gamble paid off big time, and now Green Day is bigger than ever.
They are back with 21st Century Breakdown, another rock opera full of anger and disillusionment still reeling in this post-Bush world. The band has left behind the eleven minute epics and wrote 18 tracks of big, high energy anthems and moody ballads. 21st Century Breakdown is not a cheap do-over of American Idiot, but a grand scale opus that makes it clear Green Day is still a force in American rock music. Pick up 21st Century Breakdown in stores now, because if President Obama does in fact pump this country full of hope, Green Day may not have enough spare anger left for a rebellious rock opera threequel.
For more from Green Day, visit their website. Check out the video for “Know Your Enemy” after the jump.
ACTON, Mass. - Max the Border Collie can roll over on command, herd crowds and sit still on a table while his owners eat. But Grace and Michael Ham want their dog to do more - like... Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 16 May 2009 | 2:58 am
MEXICO CITY - "Ugly Betty" star America Ferrera is hoping her new film will inspire Americans to address the struggles soldiers face after they come home from Iraq or Afghanistan. The... Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 16 May 2009 | 2:57 am
NEW ORLEANS - Actress Sandra Bullock was inducted Friday into a New Orleans high school's "Hall of Fame" after donating tens of thousands of dollars toward rebuilding the public school... Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 16 May 2009 | 2:57 am
Actress Sandra Bullock was inducted Friday into a New Orleans high school's "Hall of Fame" after donating tens of thousands toward rebuilding the public school heavily flooded by Hurricane... Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 16 May 2009 | 2:12 am
With all the California-centric beauty-queen action happening these days, it's been easy to forget that one young lovely was actually named Miss USA a couple weeks ago.
But Kristen...
Just in case you were worried that Britney Spears couldn't possibly afford to pay all those legal bills and lead her usual swanky lifestyle—fear not.
Sure, Spears' estate...
"Ugly Betty" star America Ferrera is hoping her new film will inspire Americans to address the struggles soldiers face after they come home from Iraq or Afghanistan. The 25-year-old is... Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 16 May 2009 | 1:43 am
Reuters - So far, it's been a long, dry 2009 for Latin music, without a single blockbuster release since Marco Antonio Solis' "No Molestar" (Fonovisa) last October. Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 16 May 2009 | 1:33 am
Reuters - So far, it's been a long, dry 2009 for Latin music, without a single blockbuster release since Marco Antonio Solis' "No Molestar" (Fonovisa) last October. Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 16 May 2009 | 1:33 am
Adam Lambert has the potential to "go stratosphere." But Kris Allen's a cool cat, too, according to Jamie Foxx.
"Watch out for him," the Oscar winner and recent...
Wayman Tisdale, who became a successful jazz musician after retiring from pro basketball, died Friday morning following a two-year battle with cancer, his agent said.
How closely were you paying attention to the events that happened in the pop culture universe this week? Here's a Friday afternoon evening pop quiz for you!
1) What famous film festival launched this week?
2) What will be the most popular summer song this summer?
3) Which popular television shows concluded their seasons this week?
4) What happened on Saturday Night Live this season?
5) Speaking of SNL, how much do the hosts make?
6) Who's got the smaller penis, McG or Shia LaBeouf?
7) Are all IMAX screens created equally?
8) What's the least convenient method of time travel?
9) Does the world really need a No Doubt comeback?
10) What does Ben Silverman look like topless?
Natalie Portman isn't one to Milk a rumor for publicity.
The 27-year-old actress is firmly denying rumors that she and reigning Best Actor Sean Penn are an item.
"Sean...
Despite the current legal threat to Michael Jackson's ballyhooed comeback, the King of Pop is pressing on with his $20 million production.
With Billboard estimating that...
Actor Rob Morrow — who's been in lots of movies and television shows but will now forever be known only as the cinematographer behind the video of a blues-singing, towel-wearing Ben Silverman that hit the Internet this week — has left a comment on Nikki Finke's blog defending his topless friend. According to Morrow, the locker room jam session, which featured Fisher Stevens on harmonica, was all in the spirit of charity.
"The bottom line is; we were trying, in that locker room, as we got dressed, to write/rehearse something for Fisher to do at a benefit for kids that was in an hour. Take a look at the entire video (go to youtube and search bppic.com). At the end Fish does a really sweet/funny version of what we came up with. It is unfortunate that this celebration of a very worthwhile charity had to be taken out of context and weaponized. Ultimately, mean spiritedness delivers no end and tends to go round and round…"
The benefit in question was one for Aspen Youth Experience, a charity whose stated mission is to "empower at-risk teens and young adults to over-come their obstacles and achieve their potential by providing transforming experiences." So before you watch that video again and laugh, it's probably a good idea to think about all the young lives affected by Silverman's shirtlessness. And just imagine what he could've accomplished if he'd dropped the towel!
Leigh Lezark is Matthew Williamson's new muse, according to rumors coming out of London. Leigh is, like Julia Restoin-Roitfeld, a hyphenate in denial. She still does D.J. gigs all over the world, but is increasingly focusing her energies on modeling. Signed with IMG, Lezark recently appeared in ads for Mango. Yet she doesn't commonly refer to herself as D.J. slash model. Lezark would be replacing Sienna Miller as Williamson's muse. Sienna's clothing line Twenty8Twelve really started taking off this year, so maybe she's too busy with that to hang out with Williamson in his studio. Or maybe Williamson wants to use an edgier face to diversify his boho customer base, now that the entire world is paying attention to him because of his H&M line. We don't mean to vex you with nagging, unanswered questions like this as you head into your weekend, but sometimes extremely important and significant news such as this happens on Friday evening.
Jeff Ament, bass guitarist for Pearl Jam, was assaulted and robbed in late April by three masked men, as he left his car outside of an Atlanta recording studio. And now there's video of the incident! Ament suffered a cut to the head and lost $3,000, his passport, and two laptops, and no arrests were ever made. If you recognize the ninjas in this security-cam footage, please contact the appropriate authorities. [Popeater via Buzzfeed]
Playbill - Berkeley Repertory Theatre's production of Amy Freed's Roman Empire comedy, You, Nero, begins May 15 in California, with Mike McShane, Jeff McCarthy and Danny Scheie fiddling around with ancient history. Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 15 May 2009 | 10:56 pm
It's tempting, at this time of the week, to consign your unread New Yorker to the pile of other unread New Yorkers and tell yourself that you will read all those long features in the future, on Sunday maybe, or when you go on vacation. But you really shouldn't miss Nick Paumgarten's feature on the financial crisis, which is so thoughtful, poignant, and genuinely interesting that even all you Tim Murphy types will find it readable. It's not online, so to tempt you we did some grunt work and transcribed a snippet that explains the ubiquity of those blue Commerce Bank pens.
A few years ago I was signing a check with a blue translucent ballpoint pen stamped with the logo of Commerce Bank, and I realized, suddenly, that these pens were everywhere. I wondered about it for a second and then let it pass. Commerce, a retail and commercial bank based in New Jersey, was founded in 1973 by Vernon Hill II, who had developed sites for McDonald's. He aimed to bring the brand loyalty of the fast-food business to the local bank. The branches, which he called "stores," stayed open seven days a week, often well into the night. There were no fees, and free lollipops and dog biscuits in the lobby. He aimed for what he called a unique brand of WOW." The bank was very successful. Hill built for himself one of the biggest private homes in the state of New Jersey. In 2006, the bank gave away twenty-eight million pens, which found their way into the kitchen drawers and jacket pockets, as well as into the collective doodad mind, of consumers up and down the Northeast Coast. The margins in commercial banking are fairly tight. Commerce paid low interest rates, but still, how was it able to afford the generous service and buckets of free pens? It turns out that the bank had on its balance sheet an unusually high number of mortgage-backed securities. The secret behind the WOW was M.B.S. The pens were, in a way, a precipitate of the shadow banking system, a by-product of securitization. Finding one was a little like stumbling on an empty crack vial in a public park. In 2007, after regulators took issue with business that the bank was doing with entities controlled by Hill's family, Hill was forced to resign, and Commerce was sold to TD Bank Financial Group. Commerce is gone. You may still come across a pen now and again.
Incredibly, Paumgarten fails to mention the fact that Vernon Hill owns a dog named Sir Duffy, which is hilarious, but hey, that's what we're here for.
Italian fashion group Aeffe SpA owns Alberta Ferretti, Moschino, and Pollini brands and produces collections for Jean Paul Gaultier among others. They're pretty broke these days, since they just lost $389,781 in the three months ended March 31. That doesn't sound like a lot, but in the same period in 2008 they enjoyed net profits of $9 million. So they're reacting "in a prompt and determined way" — with price cuts. They're also reducing the size of the collections and laying some people off. All this should save them about $13.6 million in 2010. But! Have they considered riding the Michelle Obama wave? The woman wears Moschino. If the stuff is getting cheaper on top of that, marketing that brand should be cake.
Reuters - Five years after "American Idiot" restored Green Day as a modern-rock powerhouse, the trio returns with an even riskier album. "21st Century Breakdown" mixes the pop-punk charge of the band's "Dookie" days with the political awareness of "Idiot," resulting in an arena-ready record with a sense of purpose.
Dream the impossible dream, people! Variety is reporting that the Fox network "is on the verge of renewing" Joss Whedon's latest creation, despite the fact that no one seems to be watching it. We won't know for sure until next week, but industry scuttlebutt has the show coming back for another thirteen-episode run on Friday nights. Wow! [Variety]
After the epic two-episode week, we've kind of had it up to here [hand motion] with the Real Housewives, but still we felt drawn, compelled, as moths are drawn to flame, to watch Kelly Bensimon discuss the show's portrayal of her with Plum TV: "To be honest with you, I am so incredibly nice that and all of the producers said to me, Kelly, you're so nice that you come across compared to them as just major foil. You know, you're just like, 'What's up, trippy bird!' Versus like, very, very catty." Okay, now we're done.
CANNES, FRANCE — One of Cannes’s most enduring scandals remains the maelstrom of laughter, boos, attacks, and counter-attacks destined to live on as L’affaire lapin brun. Sensing a ready punching bag in 2003’s The Brown Bunny, Vincent Gallo’s road movie with a literal climax, the critics pounced; notably Roger Ebert, who called it the worst film in the history of the festival. Gallo retaliated by putting a curse on Ebert’s colon. Ebert, upon seeing a recut version, revised his opinion, and the movie has gone on to some degree of cult respectability. But Gallo has more or less stayed away from the film world since.
He’s back as an actor this year, with the lead role in one of the most talked-about films so far — Francis Ford Coppola’s operatic, Buenos Aires-set family drama, Tetro, which opened the Directors’ Fortnight section last night. Gallo is mesmerizing in the film, in a part he was born to play: a tortured artist, thin-skinned and self-obsessed, charismatic in spite of himself. But he has kept a low profile at Cannes: We were told he wasn’t doing interviews and he skipped yesterday’s press conference (“Where’s Vincent Gallo?,” Coppola asked the moderator). To our surprise, he opted to sit in when we were talking to Coppola this morning.
Gallo, who seemed to be in good spirits, said he had every intention of walking out of last night’s screening. “I asked to sit on the aisle,” he said. “I’ve never sat through a film I’ve been in. When you see yourself on film, there’s mostly pain and regret, there’s never emotion.” But he said he found Tetro gripping: “I was very moved even by scenes that I was in, and I’ve never felt that way.” And what’s more, “There were a couple moments when I looked good.”
Coppola pointed out that Gallo was watching through his hands most of the time. He added: “Do you know how long it took me to cut his hair? Five visits. We had to do it a quarter inch at a time.” Gallo: “I had a photo of Clint Eastwood from Dirty Harry, and I was trying to keep it like that. We had Artaud and Clint Eastwood.” Coppola: “It’s fun to go to the barber with Vincent.”
Gallo is working on his next film as director, which he’s shot (on 16-millimeter black-and-white) and is about to edit. But he was content for now to keep the spotlight on Coppola’s movie. Not one for understatement, he went so far as to declare it the fulfillment of an eternal ambition: “The dream of my life was to be in one movie that I like.”
The "smart memory bra" is made with heat-sensitive foam. So when ladies become aroused and their body temperature rises, the bra pushes their boobs up. When they cool off, the foam relaxes and boobs retire to their normal resting place. Its makers say, "It’s healthier than an ordinary bra because it will always provide the perfect fit.” But what about the winter months? [Sun UK]
Just in case Anthony Weiner or William Thompson Jr. were getting any big ideas,
the Bloomberg campaign released its finance reports today, revealing that the mayor has spent a record $18.6 million of his own cash on getting elected to a third term. (As of March, Weiner and Thompson had only raised $10 million.) At this point in his 2005 campaign, Bloomberg had only spent $9.8 million, but if he's going to go for a third term, he's going to go hard. He also hadn't started advertising by this time in 2005, but this time around nearly half of the campaign's current spending is on television, radio, and print ads (speaking of, we've gotten at least two glossy Bloomberg pamphlets in our mailbox this week — really, one is more than enough, especially when you're using such quality card stock). And, of course, he's taking care of "small expenses" for staffers, like covering employees' parking tickets, and he's spent "tens of thousands of dollars" on food. Not that anybody cares.
Meanwhile, his only would-be challengers are Anthony Weiner, who might not even be running, and William Thompson Jr., who's fighting rumors of an imminent dropout. But if Bloomberg runs unopposed (it's a possibility, like it or not), will he continue spending at this rate? We want to say yes, just because the dude's a show-off — but if he does curb spending, you can bet that the lo mein dinners will be the first to go. Low-level staffers aren't supposed to be eating, anyhow.
Don't forget to tune in to an all-new Best Week Ever with Paul F. Tompkins tonight at 11! We'll recap a week of crazy season finales, a week of crazy Idol not-even-close-to-finales, and of course, Bill Hader will be there. Not to name drop or anything. But I just dropped the name "Bill Hader" onto you.
Meanwhile, the lemonade we tried to make from a week of crappy internet lemons:
Maybe the two greatest tv/music cameos of all time: DeBarge on Punky Brewster and Color Me Badd on 90210. The DeBarge clip is the funniest thing I've seen on the internet in months (including my own amazing jokes).
Even my internet standards, this birthing story make no sense / is vomit inducing.
And don't forget, the first-ever Best Week Ever Tweet-Up is this coming Tuesday in New York City, featuring Doug Benson, Chuck Nice, and Paul F. Tompkins! I'll be there too, humbled by technology.
The jazz cornetist Olu Dara has been playing music professionally for nearly four decades, but chances are you know him from the 2004 Nas single "Bridging the Gap," in which he turns in a cheery vocal performance alongside his son. Yep, aside from being a prominent member of New York’s avant-garde seventies jazz scene, Dara’s best-known achievement is siring one of hip-hop’s greatest. Dara, who plays Harlem’s Creole Restaurant tonight and tomorrow, spoke with Vulture about free jazz and little Nas.
How’d you end up in New York?
I got stranded in New York City. Well, I ran out of money. I wanted to go back to some of the places I had seen traveling in the Navy, and I stayed in New York a little bit too long…a few days too long…and I ran out of money. And here I am. That was 1964.
Eventually, you developed a reputation as a free-jazz musician.
I played in a lot of African bands, jazz bands, rhythm and blues bands, and when I decided to come across the river to Manhattan [from Brooklyn], that’s the first time I heard that kind of music.
You just happened to be really good at it?
Oh, I was very good at it. In those days, if you just had a horn, and hung around the music scene, you could get on a record and become famous! When I came to Manhattan to explore, I discovered how much respect a jazz musician could get.
How did you take the name Olu Dara?
A man who was an African priest, he had been reading his coconut shells through his deity. My name, in another world, in another life, was Olu Dara. That’s how I got that name, and I kept it.
Was Nas creative from a young age?
I had a lot of faith in him as an artist, since he was a child. He drew his own comic book, illustration and story, at a very young age. And I know he enjoyed the books I read — I had a lot of Eastern history and philosophy, and he read a lot about that. I remember always telling him, 'read these books, read these books, read these books…'
He raps about that on “Bridging the Gap."
He did? Okay. I should listen to the things he says. (laughs) So when he got a little older, things got rougher. The school system was bad and the community was getting real shaky, and so that was a hard period in his life. And so I decided to try and get him out of the system, and I told him, go make some money or whatever. Go west, young man! I knew he had enough talent to do what he wanted to do.
When you played on Illmatic’s “Life’s a Bitch,” did you have any sense of what kind of reception the album would get?
I had no idea. He called and said, 'come on down' — they turned the mikes on and they asked me to rap. And I said no, I’m not gonna be known as the oldest rapper on Earth. And he said, 'well just play the horn on something,' and that’s how that happened. As a matter of fact, we rode the subway there, and he left his lyrics on the train. He said, 'I left my lyrics, damn, I left my lyrics.' I knew that was his life’s work right there. I think he just got in there and just improvised. I had no idea it would be an iconic disc.
He also raps about you, most notably on “Poppa Was a Player.”
Oh, I heard that in the street one day. Years ago, I was walking down the street, and I heard his voice, and I asked the guys on the stoop, who is that? They said, that’s Nas! Looking at me like an old man, 'you don’t know about this shit.' They said, 'he’s talking about his father Olu.' And they kept listening. I said, 'I’m Olu.' And they looked at me like, 'get the hell out of here.'
So are we! Fortunately, frequent guest-host Justin Timberlake has loose lips. "It’s the best $5,000 you can make!", he told Entertainment Tonight, before adding "If I wouldn’t have been lucky enough to have the profession I have, I probably would have gone through Upright Citizens Brigade and tried to become a cast member on SNL." [ET]
Reactions to this week's Gossip Girl spinoff in the comments ranged from the positive ("I actually like the the crossover story last night more than the GG portion. I know, I know, FORGIVE ME BLAIR for I have sinned! - 15 for me!) to "It’s a hideous pus-filled pimple on the gorgeous forehead of Gossip Girl’s Prom Night." Now that we've had some time to mull it over, we've decided that, should this thing survive, we can let it into our hearts. We know, we know: There are obvious, tragic flaws. For instance, the fact that Brittany Snow and Krysten Ritter look nothing like each other cannot be allowed to just be dismissed with a casual "I don't see a resemblance." (Oh, by the way, a lot of you were upset about the disparity between Lily's California new-money upbringing and her Upper East Side Waspiness, but that totally happens.) But anyway. After reading your comments this week, we realized that having the ability to cross-reference the past and the future could make the Reality Index so much richer! What we're saying is: Think of it as making a contribution to science.
On a related note, we'd like to offer special honors this week in the field of Recap Science to Michele22, zroddy, ForeverlovinGG, DinosRock, and sarahnargle, all of whom remembered that Aunt Carol was actually mentioned in the pilot, when Lily tells Serena that post-suicide-attempt Eric is "With your aunt Carol, in Miami." Kudooze.
These are my (Intel Jessica) favorite comments from this week, because Chris is away and I darn forgot to ask someone else to do it. It was fun, though! And hard to choose! You guys are all awesome. (If if you'd like this unpaid but highly special duty in the future, e-mail intel [at] nymag.com, subject line I'M CHUCK BASS (otherwise it gets lost in the Inbox.)
• There was a horse drawn carriage in Blair's scrapbook. +20
Lily has begun calling Dan 'Daniel" in that condescending, cold tone exactly like Cece. Such a great touch. +10 —kdow3
• +3 for Nate's comment "Why are you talking in the past tense? We're still here" He smokes so much pot that he WOULD have trouble recognizing the implications of simple conjugations. Good character continuity. And an additional +1 for his obvious confusion about what the hell Blair is talking about and why she needs to be held but going along with it anyway. — idtapthatbass
• -5: There is no way Serena knows what a war of attrition is. —shayloveschuck
• And B deserves some points for the prom scrapbook, because that is the exact thing B would do, plan out her life all anal-style. And her gold nail polish + ring combo at prom was fabulous. —flickergrl
• What kind of a WASP name is Carol? Carroll, I could understand. But Carol is a 1950s Jewish Long Island name if ever there was one. The sister should be named Libby or Kricket. —uby
• Nate was clearly confused as to whether Blair was breaking up with him during their dance. Plus 3 for his obvious relief when she asked him to just hold her, because at least he knew what to do then. —PurpleandGreen
• Plus 2 for the side eye Dorota gives Blair when Blair says she never looks at her prom scrapbook. The look just screamed "bitch, please!" Minus 5 for Cece's "the boy from the valley" line. Season 1 already established Rufus was the bane of Cece's existence. There's no need to introduce a new "unworthy" suitor for Lily. — jnp1013
• +2 for the moment when Blair hears there will be a crown. Her eyes go dark and her hand instinctively goes to touch it is already being place on her head in an elaborate fantasy we don't get to see. — krissnw704
• -2 pts for depriving us of the image of Serena sitting in a jail cell sandwiched between hookers and… transvestite hookers. At least for the side-by-side comparison… —NurseLuvBass
• no points but wtf happened to Lilly's car and luggage in the flashback? —New_Blair
• -5 for the confusing No Doubt cameo. I would understand if it was supposed to be early-stages No Doubt (I think the timeline works), but they call them Snowed Out. Real-life bands exist in this show - we're always hearing about how Lilly got poked by Trent Reznor. This was just a crappy stunt because No Doubt is starting a tour soon. Also, minus a ton to the eds for not even mentioning this cameo. I mean, really?
• -10 because (and I know this is an ongoing theme) no effing way, no effing how, would people be doing that much blow (especially in the 80s) and not ONE of them is smoking a cigarette. And screw parent groups for making the GG writers afraid to have cigs onscreen, but totally casual about line after line of blow. —UncreativeUsername
• Typically these high school relationships last until Thanksgiving of the freshman year of college, at which point the boy will dump the girlfriend he's been stringing along in favor of the girls he's been meeting at school. This is known as the "Turkey Dump." —eskandar_khan
• The "Graduate" reference, when young Lilly and Carol sat in the back of a public bus looking at each other with uncertainty, tied together the themes of 80s, youth rebellion and graduation. Plus 3. —SFsistah
• I do love that the prom queen tiara becomes Blair's headband of power for this episode. +5 —DCRed
-• 5 for how unnecessary it was when Owen Campos suddenly leans forward in the car to make the announcement "WE'RE HERE".— maleydaisy
• Just to clarify. Everyone seems to forget that before the hookup and all the angst Chuck and Blair were actually friends, and very close. They grew up together, people. And he is no Nate, so he pays attention. Chuck knows everything about her: her answer to the dean's question, that she wears her beret when she's spying, that her favorite flowers are peonies, the jeweler she goes to, her favorite movies, the scrapbook, her dress size and apparently what she's is going to wear because he always matches his outfit. Hell, he even knew about her pathetic sex life with Nate back in season 1. Of course it's stalkerish, he is Chuck Bass, which makes it even more endearing. Minus a 1000 for me knowing all of this. I need to get a life. —stiletto33
• I OWN PROM!!!
Sorry I just had to repeat it. —ForeverlovinGG
Oh, and confidential to Brooklynberry. All I have to say is: "WHAT ABOUT PROM, BLAINE. WHAT ABOUT PROM!"
That's Heidi with an H.
The artist formerly known as Heidi Montag and who is now—legally at least, Heidi Pratt—tells E! News exclusively that she wants to join the...
Despite recent negativity surrounding its redesign, Santiago Calatrava’s transportation hub still glimmers, altered but unbesmirched, in a future that might actually come. A lot has changed since the day in 2003 when the architect sketched a dove’s wings on a pad for an audience of besotted journalists and beaming dignitaries. The budget has soared, the asymmetrical wings won’t move, daylight will no longer flow to subway platforms, and the proportions of glass and steel have gotten much less transparent. But what’s extraordinary about the latest iteration is not how much has been edited out but how intact Calatrava’s original vision has remained. Even late, clipped, and costly, the station achieves nearly everything we loved it for in the first place. It ennobles the commute. It turns the roof into a façade (since so many people in surrounding towers will look at it from above). Beneath its vast, ribbed vault, it creates a public place of sacramental grandeur. And it raises the ante for a future Moynihan station. More than ever, we should be celebrating the marriage of architecture and transit and urging a great city to build spectacle into its daily life. The transportation hub remains the new World Trade Center’s lone gesture of unpolluted democracy.
In this animated rendering, Calatrava's soaring vision comes to life. Click to watch.
HAIR
• Jennifer Aniston didn't want to cut her hair for her new movie, Management, so she had hairstylist Chris McMillan create a $10,000 wig in the shape of a brunette bob. The set stylist expected backlash over the mousy look, but says there hasn't been any — yet. [People/Off the Rack]
MAKEUP
• Berry lips, fall's big beauty trend, are already starting to pop up on celebrities: Amy Adams wore a raspberry hue to the opening of Night at the Museum this week. [Beauty Counter/Style.com]
• Here is a sneak preview of M.A.C.'s new acrylic paints, which are currently in development. They're primarily used for body paint and dry opaque. [Robert Greene]
FRAGRANCE
• Catherine Walsh, senior vice president of the fragrance giant Coty, Inc. is only half-keen about celebrity fragrances: "You would be amazed at how involved many celebrities and designers are, to the point where you wish sometimes that they weren’t involved." Designers are a different story: "Everyone articulates their vision in a different way ... Marc Jacobs is superinteresting, but he’s not the most conceptual person, which is kind of shocking for a fashion designer." [WWD]
"JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon has made no secret of his desire to replay [sic] the TARP money, and according to people close to JP Morgan, he's likely 'to go batshit if Goldman is able to repay before he does.'" [Daily Beast]
At the CDC one imagines Frieden's power will be expanded to dangerous levels. Soon we'll all look like this! World, take it from us here in New York. Forget about stashing cash in your mattress, and start stockpiling Funyuns.
This week, we learned that Martin Scorsese will be helming aFrank Sinatra biopic. While many names are being thrown around -- including Johnny Depp, of all people -- it seems that there are 12 people in particular who were born to play the part. We bring you those 12 people here.
12. LEONARDO DICAPRIO.
The most obvious of the choices. DiCaprio has worked with Scorsese numerous times before -- often resulting in the actor's strongest work -- and playing a womanizing blue-eyed heartthrob isn't so much a stretch as it is a biopic.
11. ROBERTO BENIGNI.
We tried to think: Who is the most Italian person ever. The answer? Roberto Benigni, who beat out James Gandolfini by merely 200 pounds. Benigni may not look so much like Sinatra, but believe us: When the mob threatens to kill the guy, you'll believe it and sort of not blame them.
10. MICHAEL BUBLE.
Change the words for the song "Summer Wind" to "Summer's Eve" and get this velveteen throated motherf**ker on the phone.
9. SETH ROGEN.
He's a serious actor now, people. Seriously, serious. And if Sinatra found out a Jew was playing him, he might even reanimated himself in time for his 100th birthday!
8. JOE PISCOPO.
Piscopo's Sinatra impression rivaled no others (even the late, great Phil Hartman.) Plus, he needs the work.
7. TERRENCE HOWARD.
Want to break some barriers, Marty? Hire this suave bastard to portray Sinatra. Make Jamie Foxx Dean Martin, throw in some J-Hud as Ava Gardner, call it Dreamgirls 2, and we'll see you there.
6. ADAM LAMBERT.
You know he makes a fine blond. And his singing voice rivals no other. So why not Adam for Frank? We're sure the real Sinatra dipped his nib in the brown ink every now and again -- they all did, people -- so give the guy a shot.
5. HUGH GRANT.
The most piercing Ocular Indigo Laser-Beams in the business deserves at the very least an audition.
4. MATT DAMON.
Matt might actually have a shot at playing Frank. Certainly moreso than the world's most beautiful actress Jude Law.
3. CATE BLANCHETT.
Cate might be the most convincing Sinatra on this list, and hey -- you never know -- she could knock the performance out of the park and even earn a Best Supporting Actress nomination! Because The Oscars make no sense, and Sinatra would have wanted it that way.
2. JON HAMM.
Check out this GQ motherf*cker right here. Unfortunately, Jon is already playing Sinatra on a different project... called Mad Men.
1. CGI SINATRA.
Call it the Bipolar Express. If Scorsese really wants to convince people (convince = haunt their waking life), why not go the Pixar route for the project... CGI SINATRA. And why stop there... make it 3D! On Imax! Because if Celine F**king Dion could figure out a way to do it, so should Marty.
Or he could always dig up Sinatra's bones and make it a Weekend at Bernie's esque farce.
Let us know your picks in the comments. Source: Best Week Ever | 15 May 2009 | 8:41 pm
Bandeau-top bathing suit, $250, Two-piece triangle-top bikini, $225 and patchwork bathing suit with crisscross straps, $250.
Nothing signals summer quite like the arrival of bathing suits, and we have one more line to pick from this season: Phillip Lim. Just this week, his new swim collection dropped, along with the announcement of an upcoming lingerie line (out at the end of May) and a fall shoe line (out in July). There are three swim styles to pick from: a one-piece bandeau with a halter neck in floral print on ecru, a triangle-top string bikini in floral on black, and a low-cut tank with floral print on one side, solid navy blue on the other. We love the suits' cuts — they're almost enough to tide us over until the shoes hit in July.
Exactly how top secret are movie scripts, like the two found in the trash can in St. Louis, including New Moon? Are they freely floating around among actors, agents and managers?
...
(E! Online)
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Iman on being one of the first black supermodels: “I did feel a bit ostracized. You suddenly represent a whole race, and that race goes, ‘Well, that person does not represent our ideals of beauty.’ For lack of a better term, it becomes what it was like during slavery. One had the field n— and the house n—. There was this notion that I was chosen by white fashion editors to be better than the rest, which I am not. I did not like being thought of as the house n— whether it was spoken or whether it was understood. It always left a bad taste in my mouth. I call it ‘the politics of beauty’ because fashion can sometimes be an assault on one’s identity.” [Parade]
Reader Claire Jackson took this picture of the Sad Panda last Saturday, standing near the bull at Bowling Green. "He was taking pictures with tourists," she told us. "He seemed sad because the tourists were more interested in having their picture taken with the bull's testicles than with him." Reader Jen Kipley saw him in the same spot at about 11:30 this morning, and he was feeling no better. She reports he was "dejectedly covering his ears, as if to push out the sounds of the world around him." Existential. Apparently, this is his usual spot. Could it be that Sad Panda is the physical manifestation of the bear market?
"I'm not extremely well-endowed." —Shia LaBeouf [Playboy via NYP]
"So when I first wanted to get sober, I called him and spoke to him about it, because, you know, he's somebody who's in the business and can identify and relate to the lifestyle and how hectic things can be. He understands, like, the pressure and any other reasons that you wanna come up with for doing drugs. Me and him have had similar lives and stuff. So I reached out to him and told him, 'Look, I'm going through a problem, and I need your advice.'"—Eminem on seeking counsel from Elton John [Daily Express]
"He’s a great force of darkness, I guess, but how much acting goes on behind a plastic head? I’m not sure about it. It seems like his costume does more work for him than mine does for me. I should get handicap points, I think. —Lost's Michael Emerson on why he's a better villain than Darth Vader [AV Club]
"He's still a badass on the XBox. He can still play video games. He has the highest tolerance for pain that I've ever seen in a human being. He worked through the movie. I'm not kidding." —Megan Fox on Shia LaBeouf braving a broken hand [Starpulse]
"I didn't get into this thing for the money. I didn't get into this so I can live this glamorous lifestyle. Does that come with this career? It will. But my goal is so different and maybe didn't line up with the goals of what they see as a pop star. I'm OK with that. I want to have a movement with my music."—Danny Gokey clearly got into the music business for the wrong reasons [MTV]
"Absolutely, I'm just waiting for the right thing. I'm at a place where I feel I can breathe and make some choices that creatively stimulate me. I love acting, but I don't know if that's always going to be it."—What Jennifer Aniston really wants to do is direct [Female First]
Crosby suede woven sandal, $65, and Prince suede peep-toe wedge, $69. Both available at Maraisusa.com
Cute shoes that are budget-friendly and good quality are the holy grail of fashion — and generally impossible to find. But this Monday, a new label called Marais USA will be available online. The line of flats, sandals, and heels will offer nine styles in a range of bright colors (cherry red, eggplant purple, and cobalt blue to name a few) and classics hues (black and chestnut brown). Best of all, the shoes range in price from just $49–$65 for flats and sandals and $69 for heels. The designers, Catherine Chen and Haley Boyd, named the line for the famed Marais district in Paris, a neighborhood they fell in love with during a summer abroad together. The mission of the company is to create simple, versatile shoes for all us girls who can't afford to shell out $500 or more on a pair each season. In addition to selling the line on their website, Marais USA will also be carried at Built by Wendy, In God We Trust, and Otte. It's time to start collecting shoes again.
The Office finale was awesome, as we expected, capping about seven straight weeks of just top-notch episodes with great character moments, a legitimately interesting plot, and just laugh line after laugh line, reminding us all -- despite some disagreements we've had in the past -- why we spend time talking about this show every week.
Since my body is only capable of writing about 90,000 words of recappage a week, I'll just throw out my random thoughts on the episode:
-- Too many great parts to mention, but if I had to pick a favorite, the entire sequence of Dwight stalling just kept cracking me up, starting with "It just makes me SO MAD! AHHHH!!!! [Kicks ball] "I'll get it." [Walks really slowly towards the woods] followed by "How many people have to get hurt before we learn our lesson? One? Two? Three? Four? Let me finish...Five? Six?"
-- Close second: Michael's "Why don't you go to hell?" to Rob Huebel. "Hahaha...just kidding... I'll get you the best iced tea in the world!"
-- The Jim/Charles showdown in the volleyball game was reminiscent of the Jim/Roy basketball game from Season One; Charles also sort of crossed the line from being "believable, overly-corporate serious dude" to just being an outright A-hole. Rarely has Michael ended up being so right on his side of an ongoing argument.
-- I realize the show wanted to end with the plot twist, but who won the volleyball game?? I thought for sure the closing credits would be Meredith spiking the winner, but we received no such closure... I'll wait all damn summer, NBC...
-- Also, why was David Wallace playing in the volleyball game? He just talked about how he had to do damage control for the Buffalo employees and their families, but he didn't think it'd be a bit disingenuous to then go and enjoy-- wait, never mind, Michelle will kill me for even implying that David Wallace should ever not be doing something on the show, so I'll retract this paragraph.
-- On to less pressing matters...Pam's pregnant, huh? On paper, a go-to season finale plot twist, but the show never built it up, ads for the show never said "WAIT'LL YOU SEE THIS CUH-RAZZZY ENDING," they didn't stupidly dramatize it, and it ended up being a really nice, really fitting end to a season that really hasn't given Jim and Pam much to do comedy-wise.
-- The glances between Michael and Holly were really legitimately tense, because sitting there, you wanted him to kiss her because it's a tv show, but her boyfriend is there, they seem happy and they're designing a house together ("for who?"), and there was just nothing else Michael could've done that wouldn't have made the day awkward. Painful, believable dilemma that most of us can relate to (I really wanted to kiss Amy Ryan this one time...)
-- Comic Book Guy from the Simpsons might point out that Pam once attempted to play Kelly in a game of table-tennis and spastically couldn't get the ball over the net more than one time in a row. Obviously it's a different game, but hard to believe she'd be that dominant at one sport and completely inept at a simpler sport? (Are we supposed to believe this is some sort of... heh heh... magic xylophone?)
-- The whole Slumdog part was amazing; I loved Michael's "$250 is more money than I have ever seen in my life!" which isn't even a thing that anyone comes close to saying in the movie, but he just has this sort of vague idea of what the movie's about and what his fake impoverished sketch character would say. Note the Jaws and Back To The Future skit-suggestions -- BOTH rides at Universal Studios, and Universal properties, as is NBC. Alright, sorry, still thinking in Lost mode.
Finale thoughts, season thoughts, favorite lines, future predictions -- I know I'm sure you wouldn't if I didn't tell you this, but leave 'em in the comments! Source: Best Week Ever | 15 May 2009 | 7:45 pm
The saga of the innocent, maybe-gifted kindergartners at Public School 9 on the Upper West Side has come to a resolution, though nobody's going to like it. After the school misplaced the Gifted and Talented tests taken by 60 children (and parents rightfully got pissy), the Education Department has decided that the kids must retake the test. Cruel. But this is great news for the parents of a child who doesn't pass the test this time around: Given the screwy circumstances, any Manhattan parent worth her Maclaren should be able to argue their kid into a third or fourth try. Whatever it takes. [City Room/NYT]
There’s something about Grey’s Anatomy that taps into the primal, hormonal urge to cry, however cheaply won the effect might be. So why, then, in a much-hyped episode in which not one, but two of the main characters in the show come near death, did our eyes remain completely dry?
Katherine Heigl’s Izzie spent this entire season hallucinating sex with her dead lover Denny, only to realize (finally!) that the experience was sparked by a brain tumor. But Heigl’s public battle with Grey’s overshadowed the Izzie plotline; it wasn’t so much that she had cancer as the actress wanted off the show. So when she flatlines after experimental surgery, we already know it’s coming and want it over with as soon as possible. For a moment, our hearts go out to Alex (Justin Chambers), Izzie’s brand-new husband. But then we realize how much better off his life will be without naggy wife Izzie.
T.R. Knight’s George, meanwhile, got little to no screen time this season until the finale, where he signs up for the Army and is promptly hit by a bus. This plotline really disappoints: Shonda Rhimes claimed this episode would be true to the characters, but if you’re familiar with George’s five-season arc, his Army enlistment seems mighty suspect. He had just started his hard-won residency at Seattle Grace after failing his boards the first time around, so why would he leave now? And then he get hit by a bus. The only believable thing? No one notices George’s absence (since he was never around this season). The five minutes from when Meredith finally realizes that the no-faced man is George to when he shows up, ghost-like, in an Army uniform, is certainly not enough time to ready our tear ducts for the final farewell. No weepy goodbyes? No musical montages?
Which makes use wonder what, exactly, has kept us watching Grey’s for all these years. The parts that leave us teary involve patients at the periphery (kid with cancer, mom who loves him, family torn apart), not the ensemble cast. Perhaps it doesn't matter which star lives or dies, or how satisfying a finale turns out. There will always be those cheap, heart-wrenching moments to satisfy our need for cathartic crying jags. Season six, here we come!
Nanette Lepore opens her second New York store today at 958 Madison Avenue, an uptown complement to the original downtown store (at 423 Broome Street). The new 2,200-square-foot space will feature the designer's bohemian-inspired feminine clothes, accessories, fragrances, and shoes. It's the tenth store for the company overall. 958 Madison Ave., at 75th St. (212-452-3056); M–S (11–7), Su (noon–6).
Did you watch The Real Housewives of New Jersey and wonder how those women turned out the way they did? Perhaps it had something to do with how they spent summers in their twenties. Grab your hair gel and pump those fists, because PFT is taking you to the clubs of E!'s Jersey Shore Unleashed in this preview clip from tonight's Best Week Ever with Paul F. Tompkins:
Fashion Wire Daily - If you hadn't yet become savvy to the fact that pollen season has begun in New York City, then the "Tulips & Pansies: The Headdress Affair" fashion show fundraiser thrown by Village Care New York on Thursday, May 14, was a true spring awakening, merging fashion and flowers for a good cause.
Paulina Porizkova revealed on the Late Late Show this week that she was fired from America's Next Top Model. She said the producers made it seem like she was let go because her ego was too big. Now she's just one among this nation's heaving unemployed throng in an increasingly cutthroat job market. So she's using the best asset in her job hunting arsenal — which is not a neat sheet of white paper with previous jobs listed on it or a Monster.com profile. It's dirt on one of this country's most fascinating employed individuals, Tyra Banks. Paulina told Access Hollywood:
“I must admit I was having a little bit of an issue with Tyra being late for every judging,” she told Billy [Bush]. “It’s six hours later and I feel like I am being told my time is not as valuable as hers. They pointed out that I should shut up and be grateful for the job and that Tyra is really busy.”
But Paulina didn't make it to the "top" — and land a seat on the America's Next Top Model judging panel — by letting people walk all over her.
“I think that my little hissy fits about ‘Well, we are all here on time. Why can’t she (Tyra)?’ didn’t go over all that well,” added Paulina, who replaced the previous judge, supermodel Twiggy.
Access Hollywood, asking the hard questions as usual, wondered if Tyra was jealous of Paulina, as the only other woman on the panel.
“I don’t think that in Tyra’s universe that’s even a consideration. I don’t think she cares,” she said. “I’m not even sure she was aware that I existed way out there in Siberia, much like I am not sure she knew Twiggy existed.”
Translation: Paulina and Tyra didn't have slumber parties and paint each other's nails off-camera.
“I wouldn’t know [what kind of person Tyra is] because all I know of her is literally when we are on set talking to each other in front of the cameras,” the supermodel said. “That is the only time she would speak to me.”
Dishy! This is possibly the best fallout from a single job loss in the recession. Now we just have to sit back and wait for Tyra's rebuttal. She'll probably devote an entire episode of her talk show to it. Maybe she'll have Paulina on the show like that time she had Naomi Campbell on the show just to make sure everyone knew who the real enemy in this industry was. In case you forgot, it wasn't Tyra.
US singers Mariah Carey and musician Lenny Kravitz attend the photocall of "Precious" directed by US Lee Daniels, during the 62nd International Cannes Film Festival. Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 15 May 2009 | 6:17 pm
Which celebrity hates attention so much, she snapped and started chasing paparazzi around and swinging her white scarf at them?
Leave your guesses (/ jokes) in the comments - Answer after the jump:
Why it's none other than Janice Dickinson, the notorious low-profile keeper!
Those sycophants have a lot of nerve, giving her attention she doesn't deserve thus keeping her in the public consciousness and extending her livelihood. ANIMALS, these people. Hit them with a scarf, as you would do to ANIMALS.
And to ruin your erections for the weekend, here's Janice's "Sad Clown Pooping Icicles":
Fashion Wire Daily - Christian Bale was all smiles during his red carpet walk for the premiere of his latest action film "Terminator Salvation" held at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood on Thursday, May 14. No sign of that angry actor who so famously went off on the film's director of photography; instead, he hugged his wife Sibi Blazic to his side and behaved.
As actress Farrah Fawcett's health continues to deteriorate, the public seems to grow more and more fascinated by the all-American iconic beauty. Source: FOXNews.com | 15 May 2009 | 5:21 pm
It's been three years to the month since Dan Brown's book "The Da Vinci Code" hit theater screens, becoming a worldwide blockbuster. Now "Angels & Demons" puts Brown, Tom Hanks and Ron Howard together again. They had a co-star: the city of Rome, with all its activities.
There is a lot to understand in the following Page Six item about magician Criss Angelstealing someone's cat in Las Vegas. Because there is a lot to absorb in this item, we'd like to read it alongside you (creepily of course), line by line.
MAGICIAN Criss Angel is accused of stealing Jeff Beacher's cat. And Beacher, the midget-loving impresario behind Beacher's Madhouse revue, is threatening to sue to get his pussy back.
I'm not going to touch that pun with a 10-foot-vagina, but can we discuss what one must do in life to be known as a MIDGET-LOVING IMPRESARIO? I was sure that title was reserved for the producers of Little People, Big World and Pee Wee Herman exclusively, but I guess not. Though, as this video culled from the archives of Buffalo Bill will prove, Mr. Beacher has certainly earned the title. It continues:
Beacher's lawyer, Robert Reynolds, wrote to Angel: "After both of Mr. Beacher's parents passed away due to cancer [two years ago], his family's cat ("Hamlet") was bequeathed to him by will. At the time, Mr. Beacher was residing at the Hard Rock Hotel [in Las Vegas]. Accordingly, he allowed his friend Jennifer Madden to temporarily care for the cat until he moved out of the hotel.
Well, that would certainly explain these posters seen around Vegas at the time:
It continues...
"Soon thereafter, while still grieving over the recent loss of his father, my client received a phone call from [Angel] stating, 'I took your cat. He lives with me now' . . . This action was against the will of Ms. Madden and Mr. Beacher. I also understand that you made further bizarre allegations, including, 'The cat no longer likes you' and 'The cat and I have become close friends.' "
PLEASE, CRISS ANGEL, IF YOU WANT US AS A FAN, PLEASE CREATE A SHOW CALLED CAT MINDFREAK. Where you read CAT BRAINS. Because frankly, it's gonna take some sweet cat mind freaking to make us realize that you're not, in fact, THE Ed Hardy.
The article goes on with some more legal mumbo jumbo, but ends with this bombshell:
A rep for Angel, who once falsely claimed to have dated Cameron Diaz and actually did date Hugh Hefner ex-girlfriend Holly Madison, didn't return calls.
Wait, wait... he didn't date Cameron Diaz??? Oh sh*t, y'all... I think my mind just got freaked y'all.
Despite having just given birth to twins and not quite back to her pre-baby body, actress Rebecca Romijn says she feels as sexy as ever Source: FOXNews.com | 15 May 2009 | 4:54 pm
Critics and Catholics were quick to denounce Ron Howard's faithfully irreligious film of Dan Brown's "The Da Vinci Code" when it was released almost exactly three years ago. They may take to "Angels & Demons" more kindly.
Italian actress Monica Bellucci, seen here in March 2009,will star alongside Nicolas Cage in a modern-day tale of magic and sorcery set in New York, it was reported Friday. Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 15 May 2009 | 4:35 pm
Tryouts for the Lingerie Football League took place in Freeport, New York yesterday, with scouts and coaches evaluating prospective league participants based on the following criteria:
1) Boobs
2) Waist/Ass
3) Frequency Of Bending Over
4) Willingness To Sleep With Scouts, Coaches
5) Face
6) Size, Frame (of Boobs)
7) Provocativeness of Ball Holding
8) 40 Time
9) Projectability
10) No Seriously Boobs
After the jump -- Things. Get. Booby! (That's the slogan of the league, actually, I'm just obligated to mention it). More pics:
Alright, #11, you slant right and get pantsed; Other #11, you watch her being pantsed, and appear to enjoy it. I will then tickle you both for three hours. Ready? BREAK.
...You're both on the team. Congratulations! Oh, you've only been here for eight seconds? Well, go run around a little and then you're on the team.
Filming some Cinemax B-Roll in the locker room:
Better technique than Braylon Edwards:
As this injury reminds us, the Lingerie Football League isn't all just boobs and boobs:
The afternoon concludes with the filming of an Axe commercial:
A night view of Prague. A new photo book published Friday shed light on the scale of communist-era "Big Brother" surveillance by secret police in the former Czechoslovakian capital of Prague. Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 15 May 2009 | 4:27 pm
A scene from Africa's first political puppet show, 'XYZ' during a recording session in Nairobi on May 14. Africa's first political puppet show is set to launch Sunday on Kenyan television, in a "Spitting... Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 15 May 2009 | 4:13 pm
It’s been one of the most hotly anticipated albums of 2009 since it was first announced: “Dark Night of the Soul,” a collaboration between the producer Danger Mouse (Gnarls Barkley, Gorillaz, The Black Keys) and critically acclaimed psych-rock act Sparklehorse (a.k.a. Mark Linkous). Due to unspecified legal issues with EMI, though, the project’s official release has been either scrapped altogether or put on indefinite hiatus.
American Idol's Adam Lambert is hot piece of unicorn A, no matter which way you slice it. Is he everyone's cup of tea? Well, let's just say if you think you'd be attracted to Kate Gothelin, then yes, you're probably teabagging some decaffeinated Lambert as we speak. But we always wondered: What if Lambert had gone a different path? The path of the keg partying, football playing, drink drugging, Girls Gone Wild purchasing, date r-ing kind?
Well, thanks to this post over at ONTD, now we know: Here is Lambert dressed up as a "straight":
Our verdict? Mmmmnooooo we'll keep our Lambert the way he is now: Genderless, and from Mars. Source: Best Week Ever | 15 May 2009 | 3:45 pm
Front Page: Show gives ABC edge in total viewers for night -- On a night that all but wrapped up Thursday's portion of the 2008-09 primetime season, "Grey's Anatomy" was the dominant force, powering ABC to an easy victory among adults 18-49 along with a narrow edge in total viewers over CBS, according to preliminary nationals from Nielsen.
Reminder to all BWE Fans-- The Best Week Ever TWEET UP is less than a week away! Mark your calendars, cover your computer in post-it notes, or bedazzle the date in to your Snuggie. Either way, don't miss this event.
As mentioned, BWE panelists and show producers (they're letting us out to face the public) will be there drinking and Twittering-- or, more likely, be standing around watching American Idol finale which will be shown on the TVs there. So, please join us on May 19th, next Tuesday, in New York City for an event that surely will not soon be remembered!
Where: Professor Thom's, 219 2nd Ave (at 13th Street), East Village, NYC.
When: Tuesday May 19th, 7-10 pm.
How Much: FREE and there will be lots of drink specials and Best Week Ever swag.
RSVP: Not necessary! Just take your Twitter fingers and show up. Must be 21 or older to attend.
Who Is Definitely Attending: Paul F. Tompkins (@pftompkins), Doug Benson (@dougbenson), Chuck Nice (@nicechucknice)...and some fancy surprise guests!
Follow @bwetv on Twitter for more info, and check out the fancy color invitation after the jump.
Stars go to all kinds of lengths to hide their body ink, but there's not much you can do when you're sporting a teeny weeny bikini. Source: FOXNews.com | 15 May 2009 | 3:12 pm
Farrah Fawcett, the actress known worldwide for her beauty and her role on "Charlie's Angels," is reportedly seriously ill and may be close to death after a long battle with cancer.
A Christie's employee looks at a painting entitled 'Man in Blue VI' by artist Francis Bacon at Christie's auction house in London, February 2009. A major retrospective of British artist Bacon opens next... Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 15 May 2009 | 2:29 pm
Olivia Wilde burst onto our small screens several years ago as Mischa Bartons lesbian love interest in "The O.C", but the 25-year-old "House" hottie has aroused even more interest since locking lips with co-star Omar Epps. Source: FOXNews.com | 15 May 2009 | 1:43 pm
The adage is all publicity is good publicity, and publicity equates to sales. But according to Billboard data, this isn't necessarily the case. When nude photos of artists Cassie and Rihanna leaked earlier this month, the numbers prove that while there was indeed a huge increase in internet buzz chatter there was no affect on sales.
British actor Ben Wishaw attends the press conference of the movie "Bright Star" directed by Jane Campion of New-Zealand, in competition at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival. Fifteen years after taking home... Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 15 May 2009 | 1:04 pm
Director Jane Campion of New-Zealand speaks during the press conference of the movie "Bright Star" in competition at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival. Fifteen years after taking home the Palme d'Or at Cannes,... Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 15 May 2009 | 1:04 pm
A snail is pictured on the red carpet at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival. Behind the scenes at Cannes, a small army of "shadow workers" toil by night in projection rooms to keep the action rolling at the... Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 15 May 2009 | 12:10 pm
Tonight's show features "Know Your Enemy” from Green Day’s new album 21st Century Breakdown hitting stores today. The song is a fiery punk rock anthem that has become synonymous with Green Day in the new millennium. In 2004, the band rolled the dice on a rock opera concept album, a risky move that could have banished them to a life of 90’s pop-rock obscurity alongside the likes of Sugar Ray or Lit. That gamble paid off big time, and now Green Day is bigger than ever.
They are back with 21st Century Breakdown, another rock opera full of anger and disillusionment still reeling in this post-Bush world. The band has left behind the eleven minute epics and wrote 18 tracks of big, high energy anthems and moody ballads. 21st Century Breakdown is not a cheap do-over of American Idiot, but a grand scale opus that makes it clear Green Day is still a force in American rock music. Pick up 21st Century Breakdown in stores now, because if President Obama does in fact pump this country full of hope, Green Day may not have enough spare anger left for a rebellious rock opera threequel.
For more from Green Day, visit their 
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Despite the current legal threat to Michael Jackson's ballyhooed comeback, the King of Pop is pressing on with his $20 million production.
With Billboard estimating that...
That's Heidi with an H.
The artist formerly known as Heidi Montag and who is now—legally at least, Heidi Pratt—tells E! News exclusively that she wants to join the...
Exactly how top secret are movie scripts, like the two found in the trash can in St. Louis, including New Moon? Are they freely floating around among actors, agents and managers?
...
Paris Hilton and Doug Reinhardt are lovers, not fighters.
Reports that the PDA pals got into a screaming match on Reinhardt's driveway last night are "not true at all,"...
• Apparently, Ewan McGregor hasn't seen Transformers or any recent magazine covers since he's totally clueless when it comes to Megan Fox. Although, you almost have to...
The Office finale was awesome, as we expected, capping about seven straight weeks of just top-notch episodes with great character moments, a legitimately interesting plot, and just laugh line after laugh line, reminding us all -- despite some 
-- Close second: Michael's "Why don't you go to hell?" to Rob Huebel. "Hahaha...just kidding... I'll get you the best iced tea in the world!"
-- The Jim/Charles showdown in the volleyball game was reminiscent of the Jim/Roy basketball game from Season One; Charles also sort of crossed the line from being "believable, overly-corporate serious dude" to just being an outright A-hole. Rarely has Michael ended up being so right on his side of an ongoing argument.
-- I realize the show wanted to end with the plot twist, but who won the volleyball game?? I thought for sure the closing credits would be Meredith spiking the winner, but we received no such closure... I'll wait all damn summer, NBC...
-- Also, why was David Wallace playing in the volleyball game? He just talked about how he had to do damage control for the Buffalo employees and their families, but he didn't think it'd be a bit disingenuous to then go and enjoy-- wait, never mind, Michelle will kill me for even implying that David Wallace should ever not be doing something on the show, so I'll retract this paragraph.
-- On to less pressing matters...Pam's pregnant, huh? On paper, a go-to season finale plot twist, but the show never built it up, ads for the show never said "WAIT'LL YOU SEE THIS CUH-RAZZZY ENDING," they didn't stupidly dramatize it, and it ended up being a really nice, really fitting end to a season that really hasn't given Jim and Pam much to do comedy-wise.
-- The glances between Michael and Holly were really legitimately tense, because sitting there, you wanted him to kiss her because it's a tv show, but her boyfriend is there, they seem happy and they're designing a house together ("for who?"), and there was just nothing else Michael could've done that wouldn't have made the day awkward. Painful, believable dilemma that most of us can relate to (I really wanted to kiss Amy Ryan this one time...)
-- Comic Book Guy from the Simpsons might point out that Pam once attempted to play Kelly in a game of table-tennis and spastically couldn't get the ball over the net more than one time in a row. Obviously it's a different game, but hard to believe she'd be that dominant at one sport and completely inept at a simpler sport? (Are we supposed to believe this is some sort of... heh heh... magic xylophone?)
-- The whole Slumdog part was amazing; I loved Michael's "$250 is more money than I have ever seen in my life!" which isn't even a thing that anyone comes close to saying in the movie, but he just has this sort of vague idea of what the movie's about and what his fake impoverished sketch character would say. Note the Jaws and Back To The Future skit-suggestions -- BOTH rides at Universal Studios, and Universal properties, as is NBC. Alright, sorry, still thinking in Lost mode.
Finale thoughts, season thoughts, favorite lines, future predictions -- I know I'm sure you wouldn't if I didn't tell you this, but leave 'em in the comments!
There is a lot to understand in the following Page Six item about magician Criss Angel 
1) Boobs
2) Waist/Ass
3) Frequency Of Bending Over
4) Willingness To Sleep With Scouts, Coaches
5) Face
6) Size, Frame (of Boobs)
7) Provocativeness of Ball Holding
8) 40 Time
9) Projectability
10) No Seriously Boobs
After the jump -- Things. Get. Booby! (That's the slogan of the league, actually, I'm just obligated to mention it). More pics:
Reminder to all BWE Fans-- The Best Week Ever TWEET UP is less than a week away! Mark your calendars, cover your computer in post-it notes, or bedazzle the date in to your Snuggie. Either way, don't miss this event.
As mentioned, BWE panelists and show producers (they're letting us out to face the public) will be there drinking and Twittering-- or, more likely, be standing around watching American Idol finale which will be shown on the TVs there. So, please join us on May 19th, next Tuesday, in New York City for an event that surely will not soon be remembered!
Where: Professor Thom's, 219 2nd Ave (at 13th Street), East Village, NYC.
When: Tuesday May 19th, 7-10 pm.
How Much: FREE and there will be lots of drink specials and Best Week Ever swag.
RSVP: Not necessary! Just take your Twitter fingers and show up. Must be 21 or older to attend.
Who Is Definitely Attending: Paul F. Tompkins (@pftompkins), Doug Benson (@dougbenson), Chuck Nice (@nicechucknice)...and some fancy surprise guests!
Follow @bwetv on Twitter for more info, and check out the fancy color invitation after the jump.
