Armani unveiled David Beckham's latest underwear ads at Selfridge's in London today before thousands of people. And the crowd went crazy, as you can imagine. We're furiously fanning ourselves in our cube an entire ocean away. Although, is it David's best underwear ad of all time? We're not entirely certain. His campaign from a year ago featured him doing calisthenics on a beach in even skimpier briefs than you see here. The campaign that came out in February featured similarly skimpy briefs, but also a dark, mysterious atmosphere — a certain depth, if you will. The new image of David writhing in that rope like Tarzan on a vine is less complex. Spectacular, as always, just perhaps a tad less provocative.
While we initially felt like it wasn't worth giving any credence to the tabloid rumors that Nic Cage hired a voodoo priestess to ward off evil spirits on the danger-plagued set of The Sorcerer's Apprentice by writing a blog post about it, we do find it totally hilarious that Nic Cage is self-aware enough to recognize that a great many people would not put an act like this past him. With that in mind, Nic Cage issued a statement to HitFix denying this ever happened: "I did not hire a Voodoo Priestess to break a hex on the set. That's 100% false. And I don't know why tabloids don't call up and ask before they print this gobbly gook." Hmmm, "gobbly gook" sure sounds like witch talk to us! [HitFix]
Comme des Garçons designer Rei Kawakubo is gradually rolling out her temporary label, Black, around the world. Black in-store boutiques have already opened in two Tokyo department stores, and shoppers are insatiable: Black sales are already 50 percent higher than expected. The line sort of falls somewhere in between the Comme des Garçons' H&M diffusion line, and the regular Comme line. Prices range from about $84 to $147 for tees and about $350 to $623 for jackets — about half the price of the main Comme line. The Black collection includes some of the label's best-selling silhouettes in popular fabrics and the label's signature prints, like polka dots, gingham, and checkerboard.
A freestanding Black store will open in New York on June 22 (the location has not yet been announced). A two-week Black pop-up shop-in-shop will also open in Barneys. But how long will Black stick around? That's the best part: For as long as we need it. Many pop-ups only last a couple of weeks to a month, but (barring a miracle) not Black! “Rei said she wanted [Black] to last as long as the recession lasts,” the CEO of Comme des Garçons told WWD. “It’s turning morosity into positivity. We can’t just sit there and cry.” He's right. We have to shop. At Black. The marketing and retail strategies behind this could not be more genius or forward-thinking. Did we mention new styles are rolling out every six weeks? And the demand for Black is so fervent they might launch men's styles as well? We already feel our money disappearing. The Summer of Black is upon us! And it feels so good.
After last week's announcement that Frank Gehry would no longer be designing the Nets stadium at Bruce Ratner's Atlantic Yards development, now comes word that the internationally renowned architect will not be designing any of the structures in the complex. Over the past few years, his iconic design has been scaled back and simplified due to changes in the economic climate and legal and political hurdles. Now, Ratner says, the only building Gehry will continue creating for him will be Beekman Tower — in Lower Manhattan. “We remain extremely proud of our work on the Atlantic Yards master plan and on the original arena, which we designed in close collaboration with Forest City Ratner,” Gehry said in a statement. “While there are always regrets at designs not realized, we greatly appreciate our ongoing relationship with Bruce and his team.” At this point, critics of the Atlantic Yards development (and there are many) are likely to get even more enraged, now that the site's architectural value has been scrapped, its low-income housing pledges delayed, and it's office space set aside for now. According to the Times, even supporters of the project are turning sour on it. If the subsequent design comes out looking similar to the bunkerlike new arena plans, it won't be long before even proponents like Jay-Z (a part owner of the Nets and a Brooklyn native) become haters.
Never Sell a Horse:Diane Lane will star in Secretariat as Penny Chenery, the owner of the 1973 Triple Crown–winning horse. Chenery was a housewife who inherited the horse from her father and was pressured to sell him as he started showing championship potential; she was adamantly against doing so and instead became “the First Lady of racing.” So the lesson here is one Vulture already passionately believes in: Never sell a horse. [Variety]
Go Speed Racer: From one champion to another: The Lance Armstrong biopic, in the works since 2006, is clicking into gear (sorry, The Hollywood Reporter already used "pedaling forward"). Seabiscuit writer-director Gary Ross has been hired to pen the screenplay based on Armstrong's 2000 book It's Not About the Bike, written after he won his first Tour de France (Matt Damon is rumored for the lead role). Producers wisely chose to avoid using the French translation of Armstrong’s book, the title of which reads something like It’s Not About the Bike … It’s a Little About the Doping. [HR]
Hail to the Chief: Triple threat Justin Theroux (Iron Man 2–screenwriter–Inland Empire–actor) will make his studio directing debut with Chief Ron. The comedy, about a con man who claims Mohegan blood in order to open a casino, is based on the true story of the suspicious Chief Ron Roberts, who was validated in court and is now building a casino in upstate New York. Attention, world: Now, in the post-Hangover buzz, is the time to get your Vegas-casino-wacky–bachelor-party movies green-lit. [Variety]
And Don't Come Back:Bryan Cranston and Ron Livingston have joined Rick Gomez on Robert Celestino’s indie thriller Leave, about a novelist and his presumably thrilling encounters on a road trip. There are no other details provided, so, Bryan Cranston and Ron Livingston fanboys — let your imaginations run wild! [Variety]
Back to the Roots: The Roots are planning their eighth studio album, How I Got Over, for a summer release on Def Jam. First single will be "I Walk Alone," with a video for the track having been shot yesterday. So, the big question: Does Jimmy Fallon get to drop a sixteen? [Billboard]
Scammed: Screenwriter David Hayter will adapt the comic book Deadworld as a potential franchise for Dark Hero Studios. The source material takes place four months after the apocalypse, with the living dead — led by King Zombie, a Harley-riding undead who resents the human survivors who had ostracized him in the past — ruling the world. Yeah, this is so far-fetched — wouldn't the zombies die of starvation once practically everyone was a zombie? [Variety]
Tord Boontje is better known for his intricate, nature-inspired home décor than for chic accessories. But the designer recently expanded his wares to include Charming by Tord Boontje. The jewelry line consists of four packages, each with three charms pre-strung on a black cord. Made from plated eighteen-karat gold and silver, the charms are a whimsical mix of woodland creatures and flowers. Large hooks make it easy to mix and match charms between sets, but the line looks equally fetching when piled on a gold chain to create a one-of-a-kind statement piece.
AP - Italy has failed to meet its commitments to reduce poverty in Africa and has lost credibility in its relationship with the region, an aid group backed by Bono and Bob Geldof warned Thursday.
AP - Italy has failed to meet its commitments to reduce poverty in Africa and has lost credibility in its relationship with the region, an aid group backed by Bono and Bob Geldof warned Thursday.
AP - Italy has failed to meet its commitments to reduce poverty in Africa and has lost credibility in its relationship with the region, an aid group backed by Bono and Bob Geldof warned Thursday.
• As appalling as a Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie without Joss Whedon sounds, how do you feel about the latest rumor that Sarah Michelle Gellar could be passing her sharpened stakes...
Winner of National Anthem Singing Contest to Perform Children's Citizenship Ceremony WASHINGTON, June 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is being... Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 11 Jun 2009 | 12:30 pm
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Fans of Sam Rockwell have often had to resort to limited glimpses of him in supporting, character-actor roles. In his new film, "Moon," that's far from a concern. Rockwell is very nearly Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 11 Jun 2009 | 12:26 pm
AP - Fans of Sam Rockwell have often had to resort to limited glimpses of him in supporting, character-actor roles. In his new film, "Moon," that's far from a concern.
AP - Fans of Sam Rockwell have often had to resort to limited glimpses of him in supporting, character-actor roles. In his new film, "Moon," that's far from a concern.
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Carrie Prejean has been dethroned as Miss California USA for "contract violations" including missing official pageants, according to state pageant spokesman Roger Neal.
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Reuters - The self-destruction of the German imperial fleet off the northern coast of Scotland 90 years ago forms the canvas for a colorful new pop art exhibition about the history of Prussia.
Give Robert Downey Jr. a suit made of metal, and lines will form around the block. But cast him as a columnist who befriends a homeless man and it's a different story. In the wake of high-profile dramas flopping at the box office, studios are increasingly gun-shy about making movies that don't offer pure escapism.
A mug shot of Phil Spector released Wednesday reveals that prison has been a hair-raising experience for the legendary music producer. Spector, known for his many elaborate hairstyles over... Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 11 Jun 2009 | 11:40 am
(Reuters) Reuters - Just days before the transition to digital television, 2.8 million households, or 2.5 percent of the TV market, are unprepared. Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 11 Jun 2009 | 2:59 am
California corrections officials released a startling new prison mug shot of Grammy-winning music legend Phil Spector, who is now a convicted killer serving 19 years to life in prison.
Carrie Prejean just ran out of second chances.
The embattled Miss California, a controversy-magnet for her outspoken opposition to gay marriage, has been forced to turn over her tiara...
The storied romance between Paris Hilton and Doug Reinhardt has come to a sudden, sad end, her rep confirms to E! News.
Too bad Doug didn't get the memo.
After hearing...
All aboard! Season five of So You Think You Dance rolls out its top 20 finalists tonight, and you do not want to miss this hot tamale train!
Since judge Adam Shankman invented a new...
Front Page: Dark Hero, Pandemonium team on feature franchise -- Dark Hero Studios partners David Hayter and Benedict Carver have joined with Pandemonium's Bill Mechanic to turn the comicbook "Deadworld" into a zombie feature franchise.
Front Page: Randall Wallace set to direct Disney film -- Diane Lane is set to star in "Secretariat," the Disney film about the relationship between the 1973 Triple Crown-winning racehorse and his owner, Penny Chenery.
Reuters - Simon Russell Beale leads a splendid British and American cast in William Shakespeare's "The Winter's Tale" and Anton Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard" as the Bridge Project -- which began at the Brooklyn Academy of Music -- arrives at the Old Vic. Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment Reviews | 11 Jun 2009 | 1:15 am
Reuters - There are many terrific productions running in London's West End but none better than the revival of "Arcadia," which is probably Tom Stoppard's finest play. Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment Reviews | 11 Jun 2009 | 1:13 am
"For nearly 10 years, hipsters have settled in our energetic, vibrant, slightly mean metropolis: young women with Feist haircuts and droll expressions, wearing bunchy blouses and carrying huge tote bags; pale, tiny-waisted boys wearing skinny-leg jeans, lopsided hair, droopy cardigans and fedoras, also carrying huge tote bags. Hipsters have been accused of decimating the city, chewing away at its delicate coolness like locusts. This may be true, or this may be a false construction, but it’s time we put our grievances aside ... So, hipsters: go ahead and crowd the city in your cute outfits and messy hair. Just smile more often, and maybe stop wearing those deep V-neck tees. They’re gross." Amen. [NYT]
Front Page: Says one distrib, 'The only medicine is time.' -- The first batch of summer tentpoles may have a hard time making up for lost B.O. revenues in Mexico after their launches were delayed because of the swine flu and consequent theater closures.
When we caught up with author Michael Pollan at the screening of Magnolia Pictures’ Food, Inc. at the Angelika Film Center last night, we wondered if he agreed with the Obamas' food choices for their new vegetable garden. "They do have arugula," he told us. "I thought that was a bold decision, considering Obama mentioned arugula in Iowa and he got a lot of shit from the media, who seem to consider arugula elitist, despite the fact that you can get it in any Olive Garden." View our Party Lines slideshow for foodie insights.
Justin and Jessica and Kanye and Amber at the Met gala last month.
God bless Justin Timberlake. Though every celebrity and their unborn child is tweeting, he still enjoys the vintage thrills of blogging. Now, Justin's blog had flown under our radar until a recent post of his about his favorite street-style blogs made the rounds on the Internet today. Kanye West has admittedly sated much of the blogosphere's appetite for the musings of male musical artists, the Cut's being no exception. But consider that for a moment. What does Kanye have on Justin? Both have clothing lines, both are stylish, both have eye-catching girlfriends. Has the fashion community unfairly placed more significance on Kanye's Internet presence than Justin's? To answer that question, we've created an index to assess the merits of each.
PERSONAL STYLE Kanye: Enjoys wearing pieces of marching-band uniforms; carries his Louis Vuitton monogramoflage bag almost everywhere; always keeps facial hair under control; loves Balmain T-shirts. Justin: Wears questionable hats when trying to be incognito, including beanie and plaid newsboy styles; has a fondness for long silver necklaces; appreciates a well-tailored three-piece suit; sometimes too lazy to shave. Winner: Kanye. Beanies and unkempt facial hair only make a person look homeless.
EYEWEAR Kanye: Wears sunglasses at night; used to wear clear, thick-rimmed glasses in his nerd-chic style phase. Justin: Wears thick-rimmed glasses on occasion. Winner: Kanye. Justin should have realized the nerd-chic ship filled with guys who wear glasses for style rather than necessity has sailed.
ARM CANDY Kanye: Has been dating Amber Rose since February Fashion Week. Amber's many, brilliantly hued leggings have yet to disappoint. Justin: Has been dating Jessica Biel for about two years. Biel has struggled to define her style and become a fashion star. Winner: Kanye. Well, obviously.
CLOTHING LINES Kanye: Has spent many moons hyping his sneaker range for Louis Vuitton and his own clothing line, both of which we've seen so little of, we almost don't believe they're happening. Justin: Fronts but does not profess to design the William Rast label, which sells well. Anna Wintour attended his Fashion Week show. Winner: Justin. Mostly because he gives so much credit to his design team, which most celebrities with fashion lines don't bother to do.
INDUSTRY INFLUENCE Kanye: Sits on the front row of countless fashion shows, yet some of those designers, including Vivienne Westwood, don't even know who he is. Justin: Co-chaired the Met gala along with Marc Jacobs and Kate Moss. Stays off the front rows. Winner: Justin. Co-chairing the Met gala is the ultimate industry honor.
BLOGGING STYLE Kanye: Enjoys all caps all the time; has possibly single-handedly devalued the exclamation point and the question mark by overuse. Justin: Uses proper punctuation and grammar. Winner: Kanye. His in-your-face style and run-on sentences are impossible to ignore.
WEBSITE DESIGN Kanye: Uses lots of color, like hot pink, on the homepage. Obnoxiously inserts "WHERE ARE YOU YEEZY???" talk bubbles on posts about ladies he finds foxy. Justin: Simple, with few colors, yet the pages load so slowly you'd think it's the year 2000. The most eye-catching thing about his blog page is, arguably, the little animated box of his face in the top-right corner under the heading "Latest Status" that reads "Ever feel bloated?" Winner: Kanye. The "Ever feel bloated?" thing is inexcusable. If Justin wants to be immature, he may as well go all out.
TOTAL WINS Kanye: 5 Justin: 2
Whew! We haven't been wasting our energy on Kanye. But we'll add Justin's blog to our RSS, so he won't go home empty-handed.
Stereogum-premiered “The End Is Near” comes from I’m Going Away, the new Fiery Furnaces album, out later this month, and it’s a head-scratcher. Not in the regular, make-a-concept-album-about-our-grandma Fiery Furnaces way, but in that it’s actually straightforwardly delightful sounding. In the past, the Fiery Furnaces have been willing to sound straightforwardly delightful for song segments and the occasional full track (the jokey “My Dog Was Lost,” for one), but this upcoming album will be all delightful: “70s sunshine-glazed piano pop, filled with cascading note slides, head-nodding grooves,” according to the label, Thrill Jockey. Of course, it’s not really all sunshine — the lyrics here are ominous and bleak. But we accept this on its surface level, as this is exactly how we want to enter the black night: lulled into a false sense of security.
When a girl gets pregnant, her girlfriends take her shopping!
"Kendra and I are already talking about going baby shopping as soon as she knows if it's a boy or a...
Baptiste Giabiconi accompanied Karl Lagerfeld to a dinner held in the Kaiser's honor on the eve of Art Basel in Switzerland. He looked ultradapper in a three-piece suit with his hair combed back from his face.
Considering that Heroes remains near the top of the list of most DVRed programs on television and that marketers rank it alongside Lost as one of the most valuable franchises on television today, NBC had some decent rationale for renewing the show for a fourth season. Still, that doesn't mean that showrunners aren't working overtime figuring out ways to goose the show's falling ratings. To that end, NBC is promoting Days of our Lives actress Rachel Melvin and casting her as the college roommate of Claire (Hayden Panettiere), one that will — and we quote — "share sleeping quarters (and maybe more) with Claire." And while we don't have any sources in the Heroes writing room, we've been around long enough to recognize that this tantalizingly ambiguous "and maybe more" phraseology likely means that NBC is at least considering scenarios in which the cheerleader might engage in a little same-sex experimentation in order to drive ratings next fall. If this stunt comes to fruition, we will only have one comment: Congratulations, Fox, you're no longer the most deplorable network on television!
This man is single-handedly holding your state government hostage.
After over three hours of buildup outside the locked Senate Chamber doors in Albany, the brewing confrontation between Republicans, who hoped to convene a session today, and Democrats, who hoped to stop them, doesn't seem like it's come to pass. The reason appears to be Hiram Monserrate, who (along with Pedro Espada) rebelled and joined the Republican caucus on Monday in an attempt to shift power, but who is now expressing regret. According to Elizabeth Benjamin at the Daily News, Monserrate was in talks with Democrats this morning, but those broke down and he went back to meetings with the Republicans. Just now, he emerged from a conference room and addressed the assembled throng alongside Espada and Republican leader Dean Skelos. He assured the crowd that he was still caucusing with the GOP, but that he'd asked them to resume session tomorrow.
"He's taken a beating," Republican senator Dale Volker told New York. "People threatened him." According to reports, everything from the Working Families Party to SEIU/1199 to the Queens Democratic Party have tried to strong-arm Monserrate into rejoining the Democrats. Al Sharpton even held a rally in his district. There were no reports that Queens District Attorney Richard Brown, who is a part of the borough Democratic machine, made any calls today, but it can't have been lost on Monserrate that Brown will be overseeing his fate in the case of his alleged slashing of his girlfriend, for which he has already been indicted.
"He's not wavering," Skelos insisted to the present reporters, who were very unruly by the time he, Espada, and Monserrate emerged. "Show us the keys!" one journalist shouted, apparently doubting that they'd have even been able to enter the Senate Chamber in the first place. Espada waved a set of keys before getting heckled even more. As the trio departed back to the conference room, a woman in a clown costume hooked up with them. "Can I join the circus with you?" she asked merrily. She turned out to be an employee of the New York Post.
HAIR
• If you have a patchy highlight job, follow Fergie's example and wear your hair wavy to hide the dye. Brilliant, we know. [Beauty Counter/Style.com]
• Comedian Zach Galifianakis doesn't like to groom himself, and hasn't trimmed his beard in three years: "I'm dying to shave this beard off now. But if I shave, I look like a fat Jodie Foster." [NYDN]
• Clairol cast The Office's Angela Kinsey in its new commercials for Nice 'n Easy at-home hair color. [Ad Week]
FRAGRANCE
• Pepper & Tanky just launched a new line of hypoallergenic, paraben-free fragrances for dogs, with names like Big Dawg and Vanilla Woof. Sounds better than dousing pups with Febreze ... not that we do that. [Now Smell This]
MAKEUP
• American Idol runner-up Adam Lambert doesn’t mind that he's high maintenance — he needs two kinds of eyeliner to achieve his man-makeup look. [Daily Beauty Reporter/Allure]
As part of a Congressional inquiry into Bank of America's acquisition of Merrill Lynch, Representative Edolphus Townes subpoenaed Bank of America and the Federal Reserve for e-mails exchanged about the deal, and found evidence of what looks like a highbrow Internet flame war. According to the Journal:
"Fed attorneys called the bank's arguments "not credible" and a top examiner said Mr. Lewis's own position "seems somewhat suspect." The emails confirm Mr. Bernanke was willing to threaten Mr. Lewis's removal as CEO if he reneged on the Merrill deal and later sought assistance. They also suggest Fed officials had a dim view of bank management, with the Fed's top lawyer noting at one point that Mr. Lewis "can be reckless."
See, this is why we always say that if you're going to threaten someone you should do it in person, in an area that has been swept clean of recording devices. What is even the point of working for the United States government if you cannot take advantage of the CIA's infrastructure for this stuff? The full e-mails have not been released yet, but we imagine when Bernanke's whole "Don't you know who I AM? You and me, we’re fuckin’ DONE professionally" rant hits the Internet he's going to be mighty embarrassed.
AP - Two years ago, Francis Ford Coppola returned to filmmaking with the small, self-financed "Youth Without Youth," about an elderly professor who gets younger after being hit by lightning.
Ever since it leaked in April, the Dirty Projectors’ Bitte Orca — the Brooklyn band’s sixth album, officially out yesterday — has been so thoroughly salivated over, we have to ask: Will they be the next Brooklyn band to make the Leap?
Brooklyn hipsters take their share of ridicule, but the scene they belong to continues to birth a remarkable string of nationally successful, and awesome, rock-and-roll bands. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs got the streak started when they went from local sensation to a national one after the release of “Maps” as a single in early 2004. They passed the baton to their buddies TV on the Radio, who had an auspicious 2004 debut but officially made the Leap with 2006’s beloved Return to Cookie Mountain. Later that year, the Hold Steady broke out with Boys and Girls in America. In 2007, the National released Boxer, and went Leaping themselves.
What, exactly, does making the Leap constitute? It’s not the type of thing that can be quantified in record sales (although those do jump, as well), but rather in the slice of the national consciousness the bands take up after making it, as manifested in big-festival sets, late-night–TV appearances, and national-magazine features. If your mother could theoretically bring up the band in conversation without you spitting out your O.J., they’ve made the Leap.
Smart money was on Vivian Girls, the sunny punk-rock trio, to be next in line, and not the proudly odd Dirty Projectors (their 2007 album Rise Above was supposedly a reimagining of Black Flag’s Damaged, an album that lead Projector Dave Longstreth hadn’t heard in over ten years). But the really-fucking-good (and accessible!) Bitte Orca shook things up. So, is the Leap imminent? Vulture breaks down the Projectors’ position.
General Strategy: Very sound. After a string of releases on small indies Dead Oceans and Western Vinyl, the band jumped to the higher-profile Domino for Orca. Longstreth has also solidified his lineup around the guitarist/vocalist Amber Coffman and keyboardist/vocalist Angel Deradoorian, and the lovely pair are featured on the cover of the album.
Critical Reception: Bitte Orca's currently enjoying an 87 score on Metacritic, including a Best New Music tag from Pitchfork. More important is the way critics are talking about the experimentally inclined band: “stepping away from left field,” “bright pop center,” “enjoyable.”
National Exposure: The band is getting national shine via NPR and Pitchfork’s regular New Music Monday spot on ABC. Which means even straightlaced World News Sunday anchor Dan Harris knows there’s “huge buzz on that album.”
Elder-Statesmen Approval: Much like David Bowie co-signing TV on the Radio before them, the Dirty Projectors have gotten the seal of approval from David Byrne, who collaborated with them on "Knotty Pine” and then raved about them in typical Byrne fashion: “Their music … often sounds like pop music by someone who has read about the form, but never heard it.”
Peer Approval: They also have contemporary friends in the right places: On the Domino site, Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig, who toured with the Dirty Projectors at some point earlier this century, declares that Bitte Orca is "not Physical Graffiti for 2K9; it’s 2K9’s Physical Graffiti.”
X-Factor: Are they still too weird? The only band mentioned above even close to being as out-there is TV on the Radio, and it’s not all that close. Is Bitte Orca actually accessible? Or does it just feel that way next to the rest of Longstreth’s strange body of work? Also, another, perhaps less important, X-Factor: An orca whale is another name for a killer whale; people love whales!
The Determination: Does all this add up to a Leap? Probably not — despite the raves, we just can’t picture the fundamentally different Dirty Projectors awkwardly glad-handing with Jimmy Fallon … as much as we’d like to.
Teresa Giudice can't wait for next week's finale of The Real Housewives of New Jersey. She promises we'll finally find out what caused her to flip a table aimed for fellow Housewife...
For the June issue, French Elle put out eight different covers featuring celebrities like Monica Bellucci, Eva Herzigova, and Sophie Marceau wearing no makeup. The response was enormous and positive, so it's no surprise that Scarlett Johansson wears almost no makeup on the July cover. You know what else she doesn't wear inside the magazine? Pants, naturally. Check out the images on Runway to Retail. [Runway to Retail]
With only two more weeks before their giant robot movie opens, Transformers 2 stars Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox are already starting to run out of fresh personal anecdotes to share with...
At the Apollo Theater's 75th Anniversary gala, Bethenny Frankel wore a black halter jumpsuit that, the Huffington Post discovered, was kind of see-through on top when confronted by flashbulbs. Fashion disaster, or genius marketing for strawberry Skinny Girl Margaritas? Discuss. [HuffPo]
My sketch group, A Week Of Kindness, is performing THIS THURSDAY NIGHT at 11:00 at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in New York. You can reserve tickets here -- the show's only an hour, and we're sharing the set with a group called Murderfist, who are also ridiculous and funny and handsome, so I guarantee you'll get some of your money's worth!
FYI, our group doesn't do many shows together these days, mostly because I dry up every ounce of my creative man-juice to entertain you insatiable pop-culture gluttons, so consider this live appearance as though it is literally a Beatles reunion, only funnier and with better performances of Beatles songs and more black-and-white girls screaming.
UCB has sketch shows running constantly from Thursday through Saturday this week as part of SketchFest NYC -- check out the SketchFest website for the schedule and ticketing info. I promise, you won't BEE disappointed!
I forgot to mention, there are bees in our show. That's why I said "Bee" instead of "be." Just realized it didn't make sense. Go back and read it now, knowing that. Awesome, huh? Yeah.
You can check out a comprehensive preview of the show after the jump - Hope to see you there!
This week at Inven.tory, the entire spring/summer Devotte collection is on sale at a fraction of the retail price. The inspiration behind this collection of flat and wedge sandals is "Studio 54 meets King Tut," according to designer Nancy Kim. We're partial to the thick-platform python wedges and the red-patent flats with gold details. Kim believes that shoes should be both stylish and comfortable — a shocking concept, we realize. Tomorrow night, the store is hosting an event from 6 to 9 p.m. to showcase the collection, complete with music and cocktails. Sounds like our favorite kind of shopping!
Devotte shoes, now $145–$255 (originally $350–$550) at Inven.tory, 237 Lafayette St., nr. Spring St.; 212-226-5292.
Chris Brown may have just gained a collaborator, but despite his attorney's best efforts, has not yet managed to do away with his court case.
Seeking to have the singer's felony...
"That's a cameo by Susan Boyle. I'm amazed that she got talked into it." —Ed Helms on the woman pleasuring Zach Galifianakis in the elevator during the end credits for The Hangover [MTV]
"They let us up on the roof to shoot. To get up on the roof of Caesars is virtually impossible. I'd love to say the movie is very real-feeling, and everything in the movie is real, and I love comedies that are real — but in reality, you could never get on the roof at Caesars. We had to go through 42 locked doors and 32 key cards just to get past. There is no real way to get on the roof at Caesars [without security letting you up there]." —Todd Phillips on the fakeness of The Hangover [MTV]
"She's 400 years old and she's the Vampire Queen of Louisiana. She's kind of a cross between Patrick Bateman and Paris Hilton. And she's crazy. She's supposed to be French but since she's 400 years old, they said you don't have to do an accent because they figured she can speak English perfectly well by now." — Evan Rachel Wood on her lesbian vampire on True Blood [Movieline]
“They wouldn’t have my character back on the show. My character was born out of the ’90s. It’s a different era now. I thought for a while, ‘Yeah, it’s great.’ But now I think any great show that had its run and had its place in pop culture should only have one run. Melrose Place was a great show in its time, and if I were calling the shots, I would say don’t bring it back. Leave it as it was at its time." —Andrew Shue [NYDN]
"So recently they remade Bangkok Dangerous with Nic Cage, right? Just out of curiosity I rented it the other day, and I couldn’t even fucking watch it. One of the best things about the [original] was that the anti-hero was deaf and dumb. And in the remake, it’s Nic Cage; he’s not deaf and dumb. They make a girl he meets deaf and dumb, which is just stupid. And it a horrible fucking unwatchable piece of shit, and then I find out that the same guys made it. The same guys remade their own fucking film. I just don’t get it." —Larry Clark [Movieline]
"I did a poster that has this sort of jock-looking guy in a tank top that says, 'U.S.A.' holding up a gas nozzle, and he’s got a front license plate that says, 'Freedom isn’t free.' This idea of the Type-A patriotic person who’s like, 'Hell yeah! Badass! Big truck!' They’re actually the reason the U.S. is fucked." —Shepard Fairey on being asked by Hummer to design an ad for them [AV Club]
We know President Obama is a bad gift-giver. We know Hugo Chavez is a bad gift-giver. And now joining them in the gift-giving Hall of Shame is the Saudi royal family, which bestowed alligator-skin briefcases filled to the brim with "expensive jewels, including rings, necklaces, gemstones and watches" upon about a dozen White House aides during Obama's recent trip there. Thoughtful? Sure. Practical? Not at all. Because of pesky ethics laws, everyone who received these opulent tokens of friendship had to immediately turn them over to the State Department. Usually what happens next is that State would appraise the value of each jewel-stuffed alligator-skin briefcase, and their recipients would have the opportunity to purchase them back from the government — but since we're guessing these will be worth about a billion dollars each, that's not really a convenient option. They could also be used for an official state purpose, though a State Department official doubts one could possibly be found in this instance. So, for now, the briefcases are being held in the White House gift office, where, we imagine, they will eventually get dumped in with Saudi gifts of the past housed in a giant vault/swimming pool.
There are a lot of things we are afraid of: geese, chimps, weird hybrid animals, dying in a freak accident, butt cancer, cat-murderers, Sudden Obesity Syndrome, ocular herpes ... the list goes on and on. But one of the fears that we confront — let's face it, almost daily — is the fear that we will send an e-mail bitching about somebody to that person. That's what we suspect happened yesterday at the SEC, when a bunch of SEC officials received "a long message" criticizing the agency's unpopular chairman, Mary Schapiro, and inspector general, David Kotz, from Irene Gutierrez, a senior counsel in the agency's Internet enforcement group. According to the Journal, which did not reprint the e-mail out of either empathy or because there were too many swear words:
Ms. Gutierrez about 1½ hours later sent an email to the recipients saying she didn't write the original email. Ms. Gutierrez in her email said her BlackBerry mobile email device had been stolen. An SEC spokesman said later in the afternoon that the BlackBerry was misplaced, not stolen.
Mmmhmm. We don't believe a word of it, quite frankly. She works in the Internet enforcement group, for Pete's sake! Our condolences, Irene. That's awkward.
The Lower East Side boutique Shop shut down this week with no warning sign to shoppers. Employees closed the 94 Orchard Street location late Sunday night, carrying out furniture and packing up merchandise, which ranged from up-and-coming labels like Antoinette Lee and Lewis to big names like 3.1 phillip lim and Sass & Bide. This is surprising, considering that owner Lydia Burd just celebrated the store's ten-year anniversary in October, moved to a new location, and began throwing trunk shows and shopping events in the larger space. But the recession swiftly reversed that positive outlook, and now it's just another casualty of These Economic Times. Hold your clicks for the online retail outlet, too — the customer-service line is disconnected. [Bowery Boogie via Racked]
At first, Bayou seems like an old, familiar tale. Two young girls, one white, one black, are friends in the Jim Crow South. But then, Lily betrays her friend. And then Lee sees her father locked up. And then Lee follows Lily out to the bayou ... and we definitely didn't believe what happened next.
Spooky, weird, and audacious, Bayou is a webcomic series by writer and artist Jeremy Love. Volume one has just been published in book form by Zuda Comics/DC, and it's a clever and entertaining fable that will surprise you with its dirty magic, like an Angela Carter story transplanted to the Deep South. Vulture is pleased to present eight pages from Bayou.
AP - "Black Water Rising" (HarperCollins, 448 pages, $25.99), by Attica Locke: Jay Porter, an overworked attorney with a foundering practice, wants to surprise his pregnant wife on her birthday with a private, romantic moonlight cruise.
No, she's not the new face of Ford motor vehicles (though they, of all car companies, mightbe able to afford her right now). Amber Rose has reportedly signed with Ford Models, according to Derek Blasberg's Twitter. And contrary to the item in "Page Six" today that asserts she and Kanye West broke up (horrors), Blasberg tweets that they are still together and were out celebrating her new contract last night. So all her preening as Kanye's better half has gotten her places! We can't wait to see what kind of gigs she'll book. She'd make a great spokesmodel for Venus razors, Clairol Nice 'n Easy, Lindsay Lohan's 6126 leggings line. So much potential!
No, really, why is Claudia Schiffer so serious at Graduate Fashion Week 2009? Lighten up, Schiffy!
The end. Source: Best Week Ever | 10 Jun 2009 | 8:42 pm
Do you enjoy both classic movies and socialist iconography? Then Turner Classic Movies' new social-networking site, the Classic Film Union, is totally the place for you. [TCM]
This is the Senate head sergeant-at-arms Bill Martin, who has vowed to bar the Republican caucus from entering the locked Senate chamber. The tension is high in Albany at the moment, as the GOP team, who now apparently wield keys, is determined to enter and said they would arrive around 3 p.m. (The group is apparently delayed by wavering on the part of renegade Democrat Hiram Monserrate, who is having second thoughts, according to a Republican source.) An aide to Democratic leader Malcolm Smith asked Governor Paterson this afternoon to change the locks, but the request was denied. "We'll be in the chamber," Martin Golden, a Republican, told New York not long ago. When told that there are nearly 150 assembled reporters blocking the path, and that the sergeant-at-arms didn't seem ready to budge, Golden texted us: "Trust me."
Mel Gibson's soon-to-be ex-wife doesn't want anyone peeping at her payback.
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Alan Alda’s storied career has included many decidedly nerdy roles — most recently as kidney-needing professor Milton Green on 30 Rock — and he’ll get a chance to show his inner geek this week at the World Science Festival, kicking off in New York today, which he’s co-chairing. If the idea of Hawkeye hanging with scientists still seems strange, Alda reminded us that he has also, for the past decade, hosted the award-winning PBS series Scientific American Frontiers. Alda spoke to Vulture about his amateur inventions, M*A*S*H-related surgical knowledge, and several fun facts about insects.
Will you be participating in the science festival itself?
Well I’ve been interested in science for a long time. I’ll be taking part in the events; I think there are three, or is it four? I think it’s three that I’ll be interviewing scientists, and that’s fun for me. I’ve done that for eleven years on the Scientific American Frontiers show on PBS. As a matter of fact, I must have interviewed 600 or 700 scientists all around the world.
So were you a big science student growing up?
You know, I never studied science formally. But when I was a kid, I was an amateur inventor. I invented a Lazy Susan for a refrigerator. Not too dumb, right? Except some company on their own invented the same thing a couple years later and made them for a while. Then they stopped making them, I think because ketchup was flying all over kitchens across America. Swing a Lazy Susan hard enough, and it’s not what you’d expect.
You’ve been involved with many medically related shows in your life, from M*A*S*H to ER. Have you noticed changes in what’s asked of actors, knowledge-wise?
I think when you’re acting, you usually don’t have to know too much beyond how to pronounce the words you’re saying [laughs]. But I really had to work hard when I did the play QED on the stage. It was a play about the great physicist Richard Feynman, and I had to go to Caltech and interview a lot of people who both knew Feynman and understood his work, so I could really understand the physics. It was just wonderful to have a picture in my head of gluon tubes! And I wouldn’t have had it otherwise!
You've probably encountered some pretty interesting characters...
Well, the dedication of certain scientists is just amazing. I talked to a woman who is an expert on a certain kind of spider. And she had slept on a lava bed every night for seven years so she could be there in the morning when the spiders woke up.
I heard you once knew exactly what procedure a surgeon was doing on you, because it was something you’d performed on M*A*S*H … is that right?
Well, yeah, I was in Chile and I needed an emergency operation in the middle of the night. I was a couple hours away from dying, with an obstructed intestine. And the doctor said, “We’re gonna cut out the bad part of your intestine and sew the two good ends together.” And I said, “Oh you’re gonna do an end-to-end enestymosis?” He said, “How do you know that?!” And I said, “Oh, I did many of them on M*A*S*H.” And I did! It was the first operation I learned about. It was sort of weird to be having it done on me. And he’d watched M*A*S*H in high school … all in a little town in the middle of Chile.
Anything else you’ve learned on set come in handy in real life?
Not too much, 'cause it’s all been in the operating room. Though I had to do some research on Alzheimer's, 'cause I had to play a guy who had that on ER. So now I know all the warning signs, which can drive you crazy. You shouldn’t know all the warning signs — you think you have them!
Harrison Ford and Glenn Close are also involved with the festival. Among the three of you, who’s the biggest science nerd?
I don’t know Harrison, though I do know he’s a big fan of [biologist] E.O. Wilson’s. And Glenn is married to someone who owns a scientific company. So I don’t know what everybody’s interest is, but I do know I’m pretty geeky about it.
Have you ever considered getting back into inventing?
Well, I invented something that we tested out on-camera on Scientific American Frontiers. It was a device I had figured out to eliminate red-eye, if you attached it to any camera. So we made it, and it worked. I was really excited. It’s the first time one of my inventions was tested and worked! I gave it to posterity, though.
E.O. Wilson, champion of the insect, is being honored at the festival this year. Please share with us a fun fact about bugs.
Well one thing I’d like to ask him about is an ant. He’s the world’s greatest expert on ants, and I read maybe twenty years ago about a species of ant that depends on slave ants to eat. It has mandibles shaped like spears, so it can be a good combatant, but it can’t eat because it keeps poking itself in the face, so it needs slaves to feed it. I think that’s a fascinating development! So I want to know if that’s accurate and how they got that way. Isn’t that a curious development in evolution? A species that can’t live without slaves? Sounds like humans.
The Venice film festival will open with an Italian movie for the first time in 20 years, with the latest picture from "Cinema Paradiso" director Giuseppe Tornatore, seen here in March 2009, organisers... Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 10 Jun 2009 | 8:10 pm
In an exhibition set to run from late November through April 2010, the MoMA will feature over 700 pieces created or designed by the gothically inclined motion-picture director Tim Burton. The retrospective will include paintings, drawings, storyboards, maquettes, puppets, and other work from the inventive mind of the director of Beetlejuice and Edward Scissorhands. [ArtsBeat/NYT]
Today, as the Senate Banking Committee convenes to discuss the auto bailout, one of the issues they are likely discussing is whether all the aid bestowed on bankrupt GM and Chrysler might be putting them at a competitive advantage over Ford, which is as of right now the only major U.S. carmaker that hasn't filed for bankruptcy.
Ford is in an unfortunate situation, one that is similar to that of many Americans who were prudent about their own finances and must now fund the efforts of the government to bail out everybody who wasn't.
Think of the auto industry as a neighborhood: The Ford, Chrysler, and GM families each owned a house of similar value, with similar levels of debt on them. But they behaved completely differently. Chrysler bought lavish gifts for its fancy friends in Washington; GM kept renovating its house over and over again, paying $70 an hour to roofers and dry-wallers and tile-men who end up coming over and not doing anything; while Ford worked hard and saved it nickels for a rainy day. Then came the hurricane. Chrysler and GM families defaulted on their mortgages, but were able to rent an identical house down the street for half of what they were paying before. A nicer house. Ford, meanwhile, got stuck in the same old house with the same old payments.
It's not really fair.
Hopefully, the government will find a way to help them. Until then, we can't help but think that Ford should be doing everything in their power to remind us of just how strong and independent they are.
According to the Journal, Ford has been running a public-relations campaign promoting their lack of reliance on the government. But so far, it sounds pretty weak:
"The neatest thing about Ford is that we have done this on our own and that we are so proud and the consumers are so proud that Ford is creating their future by themselves and not accessing this precious taxpayer money," Ford Chief Executive Alan Mulally said on NBC's Today program Monday when asked about how he expected the buying public to treat GM and Chrysler after filing for bankruptcy protection.
They're the neatest? Really? This makes us embarrassed to be Ford Focus drivers. Couldn't the company embrace their position with a little more gusto? They've got the high ground, and they should use it! Take a cue from General Motors, perhaps, and replace those creepy ads that remind us of Blade Runner with something a little more au courant. Maybe get Zach Galifianakis! Everyone loves him. And switch up the slogan. We mean: "Drive the Ford Difference"? It's not "We're the Neatest," but still, please. How about, "Invest in Yourself. Invest in America. Buy Ford." That has a nice ring to it.
Or they could just go with "Ford: We're Less Fucked For Now." That would work, too.
This week's hot off the press issue of Rolling Stone is finally here, and yes... it's queer, so you might as well get used to it, America. That's because Adam Lambert, our favorite discovery of 2009 after Beyonce's Obsessed, ain't going anywhere. This week's Rolling Stone, where Adam dusts off the ol' sexual preference etagere to reveal that, O-M-G, he's G-A-Y, hit newsstands today. We sent our trusty intern out on the streets of New York to find a copy and, lo and behold, many places were already SOLD OUT. In fact, she had to wait while a Borders employee cracked open a new box to restock the shelves.
Now, $5 poorer but infinitely richer, we have our own copy of the Adam Lambert interview. And the pictures, which you can find ahead (click on certain images -- like the one at right -- for high res) are astounding. We have Adam putting his makeup on like Enrico Caruso before his La Scala swansong, a close-up of Adam growing butterfly wings out of his hands before lift-off, and plenty of candid shots (most of which you've probably seen) from Adam's pre- and post-Idol days.
But why just look at these pictures... when we can Blingee them? So in a very special edition of Blingee Wednesday, we present to you the following challenge: Bling Adam's Rolling Stone Pictures. We gone ahead and scanned 'em all (you can find the rest after the jump.) Pick your favorite, head over to Blingee.com, make him ~sparkle~, and post a link to your masterpiece in the comments. We'll post our favorites by the end of the week. And because we love Adam round these parts (and, now that you mention it, round these parts heyyy), we ask that you play nice this week. Think fabulous.
There was so much to celebrate yesterday: Heidi and Spencer officially left I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here, Leonardo DiCaprio broke up with Bar Rafaeli, and Adam Lambert revealed the one secret everyone already knew. Join the festivities with Mike Britt in this all new Best Day Ever:
There's a fine line between a celebrity ending up in an unfortunate, unluckily-angled photo that happens to reveal their nipples, and a celebrity very intentionally not wearing a bra to show off her nipples at a red carpet event.
Guess which category these Heather Graham pics fall into!
Ahead, more semi-NSFW pics of Heather Graham displaying her nipples with impressive consistency:
Farther away? Still nippley:
Profile? Nipples:
Here's Bradley Cooper, doing an admirable job of looking forward:
And finally, the cast of The Hangover, doing some solid film promoting:
Monday night, Bestweekever.tv teamed up with Thrillist.com to kick off a week of parties at the Thrillist Loft. Everyone who helped out was amazing, but special thanks go out to the team at Thrillist -- who worked their tails off -- as well as Seamless Web, photographer Steven Rosen at Steven Rosen Photography (responsible for most of the amazing shot seen below), VH1 photog Erica Magrey, VH1's Jake Kleinberg, Interns Zack Mast and Pam Payano, everyone who was able to attend, and special thanks to DJ KAY J, i.e. former BWE writer Kevin Johnston who kept the party moving all night with his amazing playlist, and sponsor Absolut Vodka, without whom none of the below drunken photos would have been possible.
AND SPECIAL THANKS TO VH1's JESS PARK AND ERIKA BURNS, WHO MADE THIS WHOLE THING BASICALLY HAPPEN!
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The Cast of Urlesque and Me, L to R: Stephen Lenz, Michelle Collins, Emily McCombs, Lemondrop's Emily McCombs, Kelly Reeves, and Lindsey Weber.
Us Weekly reports that James Van Der Beek and his wife Heather McCombs have separated after nearly six years of marriage.
Because none of my knowledge about either of these human beings extends beyond 2003, I will simply post the following photo of the Van Der Beek / McCombs breakup:
We hope you've enjoyed this installment of Danz Topical Korner! Stay tuned for more Topical JokezTM all summer long! Source: Best Week Ever | 10 Jun 2009 | 6:00 pm
I can't imagine who in their scrambled, summer-blockbuster-warped brain decided to recruit still-alive power-poppers Cheap Trick to record the theme to Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, but through some impossible accident of karmic fate, the resulting song is campy, catchy, incredibly 80s-sounding, hilarious lyrically, and overall...slightly awesome? Could this be the one redemptive element of another assuredly ridiculous installment of "Shia And His Wacky Parents Deal With Confusing CGI'd Action Sequences"? I might not go that far, but it's a step in the right direction:
As Kate spent her 34th birthday celebrating with her kids, Jon Gosselin reportedly partied with another woman Source: FOXNews.com | 10 Jun 2009 | 4:57 pm
Chris Brown lost a bid to delay a preliminary hearing in his assault case, which his attorney argued should wait for a related California Supreme Court decision.
A&E's Obsessed is sort of like Intervention's annoying little sister: Always nipping at its ankles, follows its timeslots wherever it goes, is not nearly as cool or fun to hang out with, and yet you are forced to sit through it for an hour because its Mother makes you. And so, for the past few weeks, I've punished my own brain by subjecting it to literal lunatics: A woman who couldn't stop thinking about murdering everyone in her path; A clean-cut gay guy who was anal about his anus; a woman who wore her dead father's clothes around the house.
But perhaps no Obsessed case can beat that of Nidia, the woman who was afraid of her own bowel movements. She eats no veggies or fruits (though she smokes, even though we all know how that turns out), tries to limit her food intake in order to limit her sh*t output, and takes 3 hours showers after each movement replete with enema and a side of sticking a toothbrush up her ass to make sure it's sparkling. ps She's married (kill me.)
Now, speaking as someone who has the exact opposite problem, this was a real mind bender. Why would you be afraid of something as glorious as a bowel movement? For God's sake, I kick off every morning with an Activia-tini, wash my hair with some prune juice, plug in my coffee IV and pray for the best while watching Kathie Lee and Hoda.
But after watching Nidia -- her fear, the scary music, the shaking -- I'm starting to wonder if BMs are terrifying. I'll let you know once this Pinkberry with Correctol sprinkles kicks in.
The clip isn't embeddable, but I ask that you click on the following image of Nidia thinking about a baby with poo on its head, and then fast forward to around the 9:00 mark. You will not be sorry.
Sara Evans and Lionel Richie will be the headliners of ABC Daytime and sister cable station SOAPnet's new campaign to market music through soap operas.
I'm not sure if the American Film Institute knows this, but actors are accustomed to being rewarded for their bravery and courageousness in the form of golden statues, shiny objects, and engraved heavy things -- by recognizing their crucial contributions to society with a printed-out, signed paper certificate, you're practically insulting them:
Still, congratulations to Clint Eastwood and the cast of Gran Torino for their sixth-place finish in the California Math Olympiad, 7th Grade Division! Next up - the National Grammar Rodeo...
A man visits the poster exhibition "Water for Life" by the Japanese Graphic Designers Association on the day of its inaugurationo at the Matadero museum in Madrid. The exhibition hopes to raise awareness... Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 10 Jun 2009 | 4:01 pm
'Hank and I are thrilled to announce that we are expecting,' she said. 'We are touched by the outpouring of support by our family, friends and fans' Source: FOXNews.com | 10 Jun 2009 | 3:37 pm
Star-crossed BFFs Miley Cyrus and Justin Gaston have apparently called it a day less than a year after they started dating Source: FOXNews.com | 10 Jun 2009 | 2:35 pm
Timberlake's mother said she doesn't want to be an "old grandmother" and is pushing her son to get on with procreating, already! Source: FOXNews.com | 10 Jun 2009 | 2:26 pm
Front Page: NBC remains optimistic about 'Tonight Show' -- NBC's "The Tonight Show With Conan O'Brien" is expected to dominate in demos when its first-week Nielsen numbers are released today -- but week two may be a different story.
Michael Papajohn is the envy of all his friends having worked alongside screen stunner Megan Fox in both the "Transformers" flicks, but it seems the experience of playing her father also had quite the tortuous side. Source: FOXNews.com | 10 Jun 2009 | 2:08 pm
From HMS Titanic to the Black Pearl, Hollywood has long felt the lure of the open sea. But who are the seafaring heroes who have steered a course into our imaginations navigating the tempestuous oceans?
Front Page: First Italian pic in two decades to kick off fest -- Giuseppe Tornatore's lavish Sicilian epic "Baaria" will open the Venice Film Festival's upcoming 66th edition, marking the first time in two decades the Lido has kicked off with an Italian film.
Less than a month after being told by Donald Trump that she can keep her Miss California crown, Carrie Prejean has been fired Source: FOXNews.com | 10 Jun 2009 | 12:38 pm
Blind Japanese pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii at a press conference in Tokyo on June 10. Albums by the pianist have surged up the country's online charts since he won a prestigious US award at the weekend, online... Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 10 Jun 2009 | 12:28 pm
Denzel Washington's new movie, "The Taking of Pelham 123," is not a remake, even though Walter Matthau starred in a film by the same name in 1974. The riveting movie is about a subway dispatcher confronted by a former Wall Street trader seeking revenge from the city of New York.
If you seek more Britney Spears, you're in luck. The pop singer is adding another North American leg to her elaborate "Circus" tour to support her already platinum-selling album of the same name, her official website announced today (June 10).
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Spooky, weird, and audacious, Bayou is a webcomic series by writer and artist Jeremy Love. Volume one has just been published in book form by Zuda Comics/DC, and it's a clever and entertaining fable that will surprise you with its dirty magic, like an Angela Carter story transplanted to the Deep South. Vulture is pleased to present eight pages from Bayou.
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A&E's Obsessed is sort of like Intervention's annoying little sister: Always nipping at its ankles, follows its timeslots wherever it goes, is not nearly as cool or fun to hang out with, and yet you are forced to sit through it for an hour because its Mother makes you. And so, for the past few weeks, I've punished my own brain by subjecting it to literal lunatics: A woman who couldn't stop thinking about murdering everyone in her path; A clean-cut gay guy who was anal about his anus; a woman who wore her dead father's clothes around the house.
But perhaps no Obsessed case can beat that of Nidia, the woman who was afraid of her own bowel movements. She eats no veggies or fruits (though she smokes, even though we all know how that turns out), tries to limit her food intake in order to limit her sh*t output, and takes 3 hours showers after each movement replete with enema and a side of sticking a toothbrush up her ass to make sure it's sparkling. ps She's married (kill me.)
Now, speaking as someone who has the exact opposite problem, this was a real mind bender. Why would you be afraid of something as glorious as a bowel movement? For God's sake, I kick off every morning with an Activia-tini, wash my hair with some prune juice, plug in my coffee IV and pray for the best while watching Kathie Lee and Hoda.
But after watching Nidia -- her fear, the scary music, the shaking -- I'm starting to wonder if BMs are terrifying. I'll let you know once this Pinkberry with Correctol sprinkles kicks in.
The clip isn't embeddable, but I ask that you 
