AP - One month after a lavish public memorial for Michael Jackson, the pop singer's family prepared to inter him privately Thursday in a mausoleum filled with legendary entertainers.
AP - One month after a lavish public memorial for Michael Jackson, the pop singer's family prepared to inter him privately Thursday in a mausoleum filled with legendary entertainers.
 Telegraph.co.uk | Dead stars and classic art will surround Michael Jackson CNN LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Seventy days after his sudden death, Michael Jackson will be interred in what may or may not be his final resting place Thursday evening. A private funeral for Michael Jackson will be held Thursday in ... Star-filled mausoleum awaits Michael Jackson Media, police prepare for Jackson burial Michael Jackson To Be Buried Today |
 Reuters | Studios might use YouTube to sell, rent movies Los Angeles Times Sony Pictures, Warner Bros. and Lionsgate are among the Hollywood giants to consider making films available through YouTube as they're released on DVD. By Dawn C. Chmielewski and David Sarno The most popular site for watching video on the Internet may ... YouTube may stream movie rentals YouTube May Offer Pay Movies AP Sources: YouTube may offer online movie rentals |
 Washington Post | Brown Reveals: I Wish I Could Take It All Back ABC News Chris Brown has finally come clean about what happened the night he beat and bruised his pop star girlfriend Rihanna. Pop star tells Larry King he doesn't recall hitting Rihanna. Buffeted by his mother Joyce ... Chris Brown Tells Larry King: 'I Made A Mistake' Chris Brown Could Envision Spending His Life With Rihanna Chris Brown's bowtie creates a stir on Larry King, Twitter |
DJ AM is at rest.
Shortly after 3 p.m., guests began to congregate at Hillside Memorial Park and Mortuary in West Los Angeles for a private funeral service honoring the celebrity...
Wait, that wasn't the finale? They brought out the Hoff and everything!
No, there are still a couple more weeks to this America's Got Talent thing, and five (more on that later)...
Reuters - Online video site YouTube is in talks with several major movie studios about renting movies to users by streaming the movies over the Internet according to a person familiar with the talks on Wednesday.
Labor Day Weekend is around the corner, kids are heading back to school and the networks start launching their regular season series next week, all of which means summer TV is coming to an...
Chris Brown was—and still is—in love with Rihanna, he says. But though they had "a pretty sturdy and great relationship," he apparently wasn't emotionally equipped to deal...
Kicking off the episode with a Quickfire of small potatoes, the cheftestants are soon enlisted for an all-American challenge that takes them to Nellis Air Force Base, home of the high-flying...
AP - A trio of tenors, three singing siblings, five dancing sisters, a 75-year-old comedian and a singing chicken farmer will advance to the finals of "America's Got Talent."
AP - Women will anchor two of the three major network evening newscasts the premier jobs in the TV news business as Diane Sawyer replaces Charles Gibson, who is retiring from ABC at the end of the year.
Chelsea Handler is a giver.
Seeing that her staff had become obsessed with Antonio Sabato, Jr., the Chelsea Lately host is giving them the chance to get their eggs right...
• Today it's the New York Times' turn to preview what's on tap this fall. [NYT]
• It's been a rough few months for restaurant owners on account of the recession, although a fair number are figuring out how to make it work. [NYT]
• The sour economy hasn't put a damper on Richard Caring's plans. The Brit restaurateur and owner of Soho House is spending $7 million to revamp the former Cafe Pierre and turn it into NYC outpost of Le Caprice. Meanwhile, Tony May is gearing up for the opening of his big new Italian restaurant, SD26, which may be "one of the more theatrical debuts of the fall." [NYT, NYT]
• What should you make of the new crop of resto-clubs, like Hotel Griffou, The Gates, and LevantEast? Not much, reports Time Out's Jay Cheshes. [TONY]
• The 10 "big deal" restaurants to keep an eye on this season. [Eater]
• The new Oceana finally has its liquor license. So it's now celebrating. [Zagat]
• Su Casa, a bar/lounge/speakeasy in the Village, opens this weekend. [GS]
Look! It's Tim Gunn at the beach! This Thursday on Project Runway, the gang faces a California-themed challenge (in honor of the show's seasonal digs). To make things more complicated, the...
No need to sound the alarm if you see Vanessa Hudgens lookin' a bit bruised and battered these days.
She and her costars in the upcoming Sucker Punch are getting their asses whipped...
Gawker, citing no sources and using no quotes, is reporting that Observer owner Jared Kushner "has been taking meetings and asking for 'ideas' about what to do with his paper." To them, the discussions sound as though he's "more interested in finding a graceful way to get rid of the paper." It's true it seems the paper has lost a little of its relevance of late — just today we only remembered in the afternoon that a new issue had come out. Once we did, it was hard to see what was new on their wholly impenetrable website. But it sure seems like a terrible time to try and unload a newspaper — especially one to which you've pinned your young reputation.
We called the Observer's publicist to see what was going on, and were told these rumors were "just silly." "The Observer is not for sale and has not been for sale," a spokeswoman told us. "In fact, our stable of publications is growing, with the launches of the Commercial Observer on September 15 and Observer Playground on September 16." The explanation for the "ideas" meetings was that "Jared is continually pursuing potential new partnerships and acquisitions that will further expand the Observer brand and is looking to grow the Observer Media Group." Figuring out how to expand with the "new-media crowd," as Gawker put it, isn't a bad idea when your "old-media title" never really made money in the first place. Plus, Jared can't sell the Observer! What would we refer to him as then — "666 Fifth Avenue owner Jared Kushner"? That has no ring to it whatsoever.
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Filed Under: ink-stained wretches, jared kushner, media, observer
Following in the semi-historically accurate footsteps of Jersey Boys comes Million Dollar Quartet, a musical that is currently dazzling audiences in Chicago and will be heading to Broadway next spring. The story follows the famed real-life gathering of rock legends Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Carl Perkins back in 1956 and features classic tracks like "Blue Suede Shoes" and "I Walk the Line." Sounds pretty great, but we think we're gonna hold out until a musical comes along about the humble origins of the Steve Miller Band. [Variety]
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Filed Under: broadway, million dollar quartet, musicals
Fashion Week is fast approaching. We can tell by the insane influx of invites — not to shows, but to parties. If you thought the economy was lessening the amount of free Champagne and nights out, you'd be wrong. Aside from the all-hands-on-deck fiesta that is Fashion's Night Out, and the usual suspects of Marc Jacobs, Narciso Rodriguez, and the Erin Wasson fêtes, there's a whole calendar of parties awaiting the lucky few who are invited. And if you haven't scored a golden ticket, you can view the photos online here the next day. Check out the week's top events.
| WHAT | WHERE | WHEN | WHO | WHY |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anna Sui for Target Private Shopping Event | 54 Crosby St. | Sept. 9, 7–10 p.m. | Ms. Anna Sui and, though we can't name names, we hear a Gossip Girl or two. | First dibs on the collection! |
| The World of Women & Supreme | 511 W. 25th St. | Sept. 9, 9–midnight. | Paul Rowland and V Magazine host a party to celebrate their recent collaboration . | A room full of gorgeous models. 'Nuff said. |
| The Launch of Dossier's Fourth Issue | Tribeca Grand, 2 Sixth Ave. | Feb. 11, 10 p.m. until ... | The Dossier editors and the Misshapes. | Contributors this time include fashion's cool kids Keegan Singh and Kate Lanphear. Here's your chance to rub elbows. |
| Carlos Miele, Vogue, and Rio Summer | 66 Ninth Ave. | Sept. 11, 8 p.m. | Isabeli Fontana and Caroline Trentini | A Brazilian supper hosted by Vogue and it benefits charity. Win-win. |
| Alejandro Ingelmo Party | TBA | Sept. 11, midnight | The amazing young shoe designer and perhaps some of his recent collaborative partners (Pugh, Victoria Beckham) will grace us with her presence. | Because we need to be near his shoes any way we can. | Masks and Mirrors | 440 W. 14th St. | Sept. 12, 7 – midnight | Diane Von Furstenberg and Vanity Fair host, along with Olivia Wilde and Paul Haggis. | It's your chance to hobnob with Hollywood, fashion, and media elite in one go. |
| Ron Arad: "No Discipline" Launch Party | MoMA, 11 W. 53rd St. | Sept. 15, 8:30–late | Hosted by Linda Evangelista and Maurice Ohayon | This is Arad's first major solo exhibit in the U.S. In other words, the party is going to be huge. |
| Richard Hambleton Exhibition Party | 560 Washington St. | Sept. 15, 6–11 p.m. | Vladimir Restoin Roitfeld, Andy Valmorbida, and Giorgio Armani host. | Fashion royalty comes together. |
| MCM New York Launch | Saks Fifth Ave. | Sept. 15, 7–9 p.m. | Coco Rocha hosts. | MCM is Joy Gryson's new luxury handbag line. Ooh and ahh over what you will undoubtedly want to carry next season. |
| What Goes Around Comes Around | 351 West Broadway | Sept. 15, 9–midnight. | Irina Lazareanu, Robert Verdi and Becka Diamond host. | You know you're tempted to have Robert critique you. |
| Pamela Love Cocktail Party | Milk Studios, 450 W. 15th St. | Sept. 16, 6–8 p.m. | Pamela and friends. | Because we love her jewelry, and this is a great way to end the week. |
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Filed Under: fashion week preview spring 2010, parties
Shortly after it was announced that Frank Gehry was no longer designing the Nets' stadium at the Atlantic Yards, critics (notably the Times' Nicolai Ouroussoff) have been excoriating the stripped-down, replacement design of Midwestern firm Eberle Beckett. Surprisingly, developer Bruce Ratner seems to have listened. The Observer reports today that Soho-based architecture firm SHoP will also be working on the design. The young firm, which has never designed an arena, will work alongside Eberle Beckett — experts at efficient, if uninspiring, stadium design. New renderings are expected by the end of the month. Of course, elsewhere in the Observer, they're reporting that underlying fundamentals of commercial real-estate investments are going to cause a massive plateau on mortgage defaults in the next two years, so we're not going to hold our breath on seeing any of this executed.
Post-Gehry, Atlantic Yards' Nets Arena To Be Designed by New York Boutique SHoP [NYO]
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Filed Under: architects, architecture, atlantic yards, bruce ratner, eberle beckett, frank gehry, real estate, shop
We caught up with Kenan Thompson last weekend when he popped by the USTA-Heineken Official U.S. Open player party at Skyline Studios. And with Venus Williams and James Blake in attendance, we couldn't help but wonder how his tennis skills measured up. How is his game? "Wack," he told us. "As you can see, I have a basketball shirt on." Hear more from the party guests in our Party Lines slideshow.
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Filed Under: kenan thompson, party lines, tennis, us open
Eva Mendes wore a red leopard-print gown when she appeared on the red carpet at the 66th Venice Film Festival today.
Do you like her bold color and pattern combination?
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Filed Under: eva mendes, look of the day, red
According to Michael Ausiello, hardworking, recently untumored Grey's Anatomy star Katherine Heigl will take a five-episode break from the show this season to shoot Life As We Know It, a terrific-sounding romantic comedy in which her character inherits two kids from friends who die in an accident. So which hilarious excuse will famously vengeful Grey's creator Shonda Rhimes use to explain Izzie's hiatus? A coma? A stint in prison? Perhaps her cancer can return and she can be cryogenically frozen until doctors discover a cure five weeks later? [Ausiello Files/EW]
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Filed Under: grey's anatomy, katherine heigl, life as we know it, movies, tv
The eagle-eyed bloggers over at Racked spotted these jeans with sheer panels on Shopbop today. They are by Siwy, cost $242, and offer no hope jeggings and their ilk will fade from existence anytime soon. This single pair of ridiculous bottoms undoubtedly signifies one of two cultural shifts: either that true pants are on an arduous journey toward extinction, or that pants will gradually return to past levels of visibility. For instance, a Pants Counselor might advise a pop star who hasn't worn pants in weeks to start slowly with an option like these. [Racked]
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Filed Under: just pants, siwy
This just in: Wall Street CEOs make a lot more than average Americans! "The top five executives at each of the 20 banks that accepted the most federal bailout dollars averaged $32 million a piece in personal compensation from 2006 through 2008, according to the findings of the 16th annual Institute for Policy Studies' 'Executive Excess' report. The institute calculated that 100 average U.S. workers would have to labor over 1,000 years to make as much as these 100 executives." [Daily Finance]
When our Look Book cameras caught up with Keith Klein, he was perched on a stoop in Soho smoking a cigar. “I’m not really an aficionado, I just like to smoke one on occasion,” he explained. The overall effect certainly lent to what he describes as his “American classic” look, consisting of a Uniqlo jacket, Izod shirt, and “a pair of Acne khakis, which rock.” It should be noted that Klein works in advertising, which of course could mean many things, and so we prefer to title him "ad man" — one, because it sounds like "Mad Men," and two, because he looks like a 21st-century Don Draper. (When asked if he wanted to stand or sit during the interview, he said, simply, “I’ll sit.”) Watch the Video Look Book to find out who his icons are (not Matthew Weiner).
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Filed Under: acne, izod, mad men, uniqlo, video, video look book
That's what Craig Wedren, of the seminal D.C. hard-core band Shudder to Think, learned one night backintheday, when his band was playing with the Sugarcubes at New York's late CBGB. "You know how CBGB had those little cocktail, cabaret tables? The little circular ones with the red Italian candles?" the singer tells Gothamist.
"And everybody is crammed the fuck in, you definitely couldn't get to the bathroom. And if you got to the bathroom, there was no way you were going to get your position back in front of the stage. So basically we had our position, crammed up against these little teeny tables and our bladders were totally full of Budweiser. Christian, the girl I was with, she had the bright idea to take one of these candles, stick it up her skirt, and pee in it. And I was like "Christian, you are a sneaky genius." So I got one of these candles, unzip my fly, and fill an entire candle, and I'm not nearly done. I finish the candle, I put it on the table next to me, I grab another candle and fill that one. Three or four candles later there or however many there were around me for me to grab, I'm covered in my own pee and the tables are covered in my own pee, and still nobody noticed because Björk is standing 8 feet away from us. Through the show we're complete soaking in our own urine. The Sugarcubes have completely rocked the house. I still have to pee, and we walk out into the cold New York night, and my jeans basically freeze to my leg. I really think that's an only in New York story."
Craig Wedren, Shudder to Think [Gothamist]
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Filed Under: backintheday, forgotten bands of the nineties, old people, olds, shudder to think, the 90s, things we write exclusively for the four 90s music nerds that appreciate them
There's a name that seems to be on everyone's lips right now: JF & Son. Don't know them? Oh, you will. The design duo, made up of Jesse Finkelstein and Katie King, launched in 2007, and they've been doing so well, they're opening a new store tomorrow on Kenmare Street. The designers, who own their own studio and factory in India, do everything in-house, which allows them a certain level of freedom most new designers don't have. "We can control the quality of the clothing; we can control the environment in which people work; we can offer things at a fair price, since there are no middlemen; and, most importantly, we can create a space for ourselves, for the people that work for us, and for our collaborators that is open to experimentation and innovation," Finkelstein said. India, which he describes as their "second home," is also a source of inspiration to the two, as they use traditional beading methods and embroidery. (And yes, they do utilize fair labor practices.) The fall collection, which you can see in-store starting tomorrow, was "inspired by ways of interlacing fabric to create texture and depth." But don't expect that for spring 2010. "Each collection is an experiment." As far as the store, JF & Son has teamed up with other artists, like Ulrike Muller and designer Ellen Koenigsberg, and will host a pop-up store for K8 Hardy's MFT (My Favorite Things). The two are also featured on FadMashion.com. Check out some designs from their recent collection.
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Filed Under: designers, fadmashion, jf & son, talent scout
We've been hearing about Phrazes for the Young, the Julian Casablancas solo album, for a while, but today we've finally got something to sample: Earlier this week, the Strokes front man kicked out eight new tunes at a show in Tokyo, and some remarkably steady footage has appeared on YouTube. Considering that Casablancas wrote all the Strokes songs and everything, one wouldn’t expect too big a departure, and there isn't one — the two new songs available are slower and less catchy but still recognizably Strokes-y. Spin's report mentions "Left & Right," an up-tempto track that "was the Strokesiest song of the set," so we'll reserve judgment till we hear that one. Otherwise, these are pretty snoozy, to the point where Casablancas's snazzy vest becomes a highlight.
Strokes' Julian Casablancas Debuts Solo Tunes [SPIN via Prefix]
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Filed Under: julian casablancas, music, right-click, the strokes
Opponents to Maine's recent gay-marriage legislation garnered enough signatures, as expected, to get the issue on the ballot in November. The same-sex nuptials were supposed to begin this month, but were put on hold as the secretary of State counted signatures. Governor John Baldacci, who said he "fully" supports the bill he signed into law, said: "I am confident that Maine voters will make the right decision on this important issue when they cast their ballots in the fall." [MPBN]
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Filed Under: equal rites, gay marriage, gays, maine, marriage equality, politics
Today "Page Six" reports that, according to an insider, Derek Lam expects to lose between $12 and $15 million this year. The insider says this is made worse by CEO Jan Schottlman, who only worked "three times" last month. Today, Schlottman told us the entire item is "completely untrue." Lam isn't required to release sales figures because it's a privately owned company. Schlottman speculates the rumors may have arisen since the label spent money on an ad campaign and new store this year, which attributed to an overall loss. [Page Six/NYP]
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Filed Under: derek lam, designers, jan schlottman, rumor mill
Kehinde Wiley found many of the subjects in his latest show — an exhibition of photographs going up tomorrow at Deitch Projects — at the Fulton Street Mall. “I go down there because it’s much like 125th Street, where young people come to congregate and show off and flirt and be seen,” says the artist, who’s best known for his grand paintings casting young African-American men in hip-hop garb against highly decorative, anachronistic scenes inspired by centuries of Western art. After years of using his photos to paint from, letting them wither on the ground of his studio floor, Wiley decided to show the source material itself. The fourteen pictures — a selection from his recent book Black Light, all shown in this slideshow — resemble his paintings, except that if you look closely, you can see dirt underneath fingernails and tears in weary eyes.
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Filed Under: art, artsy, deitch projects gallery, kehinde wiley
To show he means business, President Obama will give his purportedly game-changing health-care speech one week from today before a joint session of Congress, which he's only called once before for his Not State of the Union address. The venue will likely draw more interest than a tired old Oval Office speech or, worse, a prime-time presser, though there is always the risk that viewers will simply be distracted by Nancy Pelosi's excessive blinking. [Politico]
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Filed Under: barack obama, congress, health care, health carnage, nancy pelosi
Dylan McDermott is best known for his Golden Globe–winning role as attorney Bobby Donnell in ABC's The Practice. Since then, he’s played a cosmetics exec on the short-lived series Big Shots and appeared onstage in The Treatment by Eve Ensler (his adoptive mother) and Three Changes by Nicky Silver. Now he’s back on TV as Lieutenant Carter Shaw, head of a team of undercover cops, on Jerry Bruckheimer’s new TNT show, Dark Blue. Vulture spoke to McDermott last week.
What was it about the script that attracted to you to Dark Blue?
I just like that whole world, that underworld of cops. I always thought it was a great backdrop for a show. I actually tried to develop one a couple of years ago that I wrote. And I don’t know, the idea of being a cop, playing different characters, the undercover stuff, Bruckheimer, TNT, cable — all those things were really appealing to me.
So was it the undercover aspect that stood out to you? Obviously there are a ton of cop shows on TV.
You’re right, I mean, there’s cop shows, there’s lawyer shows, and there’s doctor shows. Yeah, I think the undercover thing is definitely not the same as all the other cop shows.
It seems like we’re slowly getting clues about your character’s background, like about his wife. How much have the writers told you?
You know what? It’s kind of a work-in-progress. We go along through the season, and I’ll sit down and talk to them about how much is to be revealed, how much not to. But I will tell you, by episode ten, all that stuff is going to be sort of put to rest in terms of the wife. That’s the thing about TV — it’s kind of revealed along the way. I remember one time on The Practice, we must have shot 25 episodes or something, maybe even more, and all of a sudden I discovered I was having an affair with Lindsay. And that was in one script. So sometimes they drop a bombshell on you.
You mentioned that being on cable was a big draw. How different has it been being on cable versus network TV?
Well, the schedule is just so much easier. I mean, when you’re doing network television —I did 7 years of 24, 23 episodes a year, 10 months out of the year, and 12, 15 hours a day. That schedule takes a big toll on you. There’s nothing else but that. You’re so exhausted and giving everything you have to that job. So I really wasn’t interested so much in that as in ten to fifteen episodes a year, where I can work six months and have six months off. And I definitely wanted to do something different and edgier that you can’t do on network television. This show could never exist on network television — more language, darker material, more sexual stuff. It’s too sanitized on network TV.
According to IMDb, Jerry Bruckheimer has like fifteen projects in development. How much interaction do you have with him?
[Laughs] Does he have fifteen in development? Oh my God! You know, I’ve been known Jerry over the years. I would meet him and see him at different events, so we’ve been friendly over time. But is he on the set every day? No. I mean, he’s got to be in the office just working and working and developing so many projects. But I know that he’s 100 percent behind the show. So much of the time, shows get just a little run, you know — I mean, I was very fortunate that I had a show that ran for seven seasons, but now six episodes, and you’re out. It’s really difficult nowadays to sustain an audience. So, yeah, definitely, you want protection. It’s like going to prison. You want that protection because most of the time you’re going to get sliced up.
What type of research did you do for the role as an undercover cop?
I met with the LAPD. I hung out with them. I went down to the Newton division and interviewed cops down there. I went on ride-alongs with them. It was fascinating to hang around these guys because, like my character, it’s all about what’s hidden. Everything they’re saying, you have to kind of decipher and figure out what they’re really saying. There’s a lot of hidden stuff that undercover cops — they just live that world and it’s interesting because that’s what I try to use in my character. It’s what’s hidden, it’s what he’s not giving you.
It seems a little weird to me that they don’t really wear disguises. How do they not get recognized by these criminals?
Well, that was kind of an issue with the show, to not do disguises. Because I guess there have been shows before that have failed where people are wearing fake beards and mustaches and hats and what-have-you. I did talk to cops about that, and one of the guys who works for us said he never wore a disguise and no one ever recognized him in his, I don’t know, 25 years. So I just think that you’re running in different circles. You’re dealing with different criminals all the time. One episode, one person was made, and we dealt with that — I think that Dean [Logan Marshall-Green] knocked him out or something.
You have two pretty young kids. Are they allowed to watch it?
No. Actually, they came to the set the other day, and I was doing a scene where I had to pull a gun on a guy, and my kids were like off to the side, and I was like, “This is something they really shouldn’t see.”
Do you have any other projects coming up besides this?
No, this is it right now. I have a movie called Burning Palms — I’m not sure when that’s coming out — also about the dark side of L.A. Darker characters that live in the L.A. area.
Are you also a cop?
No. Now I’m going to get all cop roles. After The Practice, it was all lawyer roles.
And then you can play a doctor after that.
Yeah, exactly.
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Filed Under: chat room, dark blue, dylan mcdermott, jerry bruckheimer, tnt, tv
The ad pictured here originally ran on the back cover of Vice magazine in the U.K., but with a series of six images — instead of three — in which the model further disrobes from her flex fleece. In one shot, her nipple was partially exposed. A reader complained to the Advertising Standards authority in the U.K. that the ad appeared to sexualize a child. Reuters reports:
American Apparel said although the advert did feature partial nudity, it did not think it would cause widespread offense.
It said the model was 23 and did not look under 16, nor was she portrayed as a sex object.
Yeah, who doesn't walk around with their nipples showing from under their hoodies these days? Nothing sex-objecty about bare nipples at all. Anyway, the ASA disagreed, calling the images "provocative." It added, "Because the ad could be seen to sexualize a model who appeared to be a child under the age of 16 years, we concluded that it was inappropriate and could cause serious offense to some readers." If you want to see bare nipples, then you'll have to go to American Apparel's website, where nipples run free.
Advert criticized over "young" partial nude model [Reuters]
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Filed Under: advertising, american apparel, boobs or lose
Remember how New York financier and well-known Democratic fund-raiser Hassan Nemazee paid Citibank back the $74 million he'd "borrowed" from them using false papers and documents, just a day after he was detained by the FBI, and how weird it was that he just happened to have that much cash on hand? Well:
In a letter to federal Judge Michael Dolinger in New York, prosecutors say his apparent contrition was faked, alleging that he all he really did was scam a second bank in order to raise the money.
"The line of credit obtained from bank No. 2 was also obtained with the same type of fake documents (fake account statements and forged signatures) that the defendant used to defraud Citibank," US Attorney Preet Bharara said in the letter.
"In other words, Nemazee repaid his fraudulent loan from Citibank with approximately 74 million dollars that he had obtained by defrauding yet another bank."
The name of the bank that fell for his scam has not yet been named, but according to Bloomberg, Nemazee has accounts at at least two other banks, including JPMorgan and Bank of America. Of those two, which do you think was the genius one that gave him the money?
Democratic backer 'faked' graft repayment: prosecutor [AP]
Fundraiser Nemazee Defrauded Other Banks, U.S. Says [Bloomberg]
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Filed Under: ballsy crime, business, charles schumer, clintons, hassan nemazee, hilary clinton, maybe no one is actually rich, the greatest depression, weird things
Palin hasn't said yes to the invitation yet, but if she does, you can bet we'll be there on September 8 for the Senate Aging Committee hearing here in Manhattan. Well, we may just send Intel Dan in a white wig. Or better yet, we'll shave his goatee, pretend he's somebody's 11-year-old grandson, and have him ask the most outrageous question he can think of.
Palin Invited To Testify Before NY Senate On Elderly Care, Death Panels [HuffPo]
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Filed Under: health care, health carnage, politics, ruben diaz sr, sarah palin, seniors, state senate
SKIN
• Chris Noth is the new spokesperson for Biotherm Homme, a face-care brand for men. [SassyBella]
FRAGRANCE
• Issey Miyake's first fragrance in ten years comes out this month. It's named A Scent, and is described as a green, woodsy, and floral fragrance. [In Style UK]
• Kenzo installed a beautiful flowerbed made up of 200,000 poppies in Toulouse, France, to promote the label's new fragrance, Flower. [FWD]
MAKEUP
• OK! magazine named Kim Kardashian as a contributing beauty editor. Her first assignment is to cover New York Fashion Week, where she'll be filing reports and taping videos from backstage at fashion shows. [Spoiled Pretty]
• Hearst Corporation is launching a new website for beauty named RealBeauty.com at the end of the month. Nicole Stagg is leading the operation, and the site will include beauty, hair, and wellness tips for women of all ages. [NYO]
HAIR
• John Kerry had some facial-hair drama. The Massachusetts senator had a beard in mid-August, but shaved it off when he appeared in public last weekend. [HuffPo]
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Filed Under: beauty, beauty marks, chris noth, fragrance, hair, issey miyake, john kerry, kenzo, kim kardashian, makeup, skin
A Congolese accountant is up in arms because of the fact that he thinks the nation of Belgium is burying his attempt to sue the publishers of the 1931 comic Tintin in the Congo. He believes that the comic is racist and wants to receive one euro in damages and for the publisher to agree to stop publishing the book. Yikes, we really hope this guy didn't watch the Derby Days scene in this weekend's episode of Mad Men! [Telegraph UK]
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For years, the waste of Southamptonites has disappeared down their Kohler toilets and made its way into various area cesspools — perforated pits that hold wastewater and allow it to slowly seep into the nearby soil and ocean. Which is pretty gross, actually, especially if you suddenly think to yourself, Why, I'm swimming in Howard Stern's crap while swimming in Long Island Sound, or, Aren't those hydrangeas lovely? George Soros must be eating an iron-rich diet these days while admiring the local landscape. But the locals don't want to modernize by installing actual sewer systems. Why? Because that would change the area's character.
"With sewers, the growth limit would be lifted and the character of the community would forever be changed," Armando, the leader of a group fighting apartment development, said in a telephone interview. Armando said his Rocky Point Residents Action Group, in the Suffolk County town of Brookhaven, has 1,100 members who prefer single-family houses over apartments that they expect will increase with added sewers.
There you have it: Hamptons residents would actually rather be surrounded by their own poop than by poor people.
Hamptons Cesspools Keep Towns’ Character as Sewers Are Stymied [Bloomberg]
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Filed Under: hamptons, poop, sewage, southampton, the hamptons, vu.
We’ve heard of therapy animals before: Dogs, cats, social fish, brought in to help decrease loneliness in elderly hospice patients or those in the process of healing.
But today, consider our brains blown.
Because one of our favorite animals has just entered the Therapy Animal landscape… that being the majestic llama. Behold… a Therapy Llama named Pisco.
Being on the verge of a full blown flu myself, I’m pretty sure there is really no other animal who could help me through this painful time. So take note, future Collins spawn: When it looks as though my future is grim, saddle up a couple of these bastards and watch my heart monitor line go from the Miami flatlands to a Rocky Mountain High. Imagine the delight on this patient’s face, waking up to a sweet, long-lashed llama grin:
Of course, there’s a downside: There will always be those who are terrified of Llamas…
So make sure to check with your family member before heading here.
Aww, it's Levi Johnston! That hunk of burning love from Alaska who can't stop talking about Sarah Palin.
It's been exactly one year since the now ex-Gov. Palin came into...
"Sir" Allen Stanford wasn't successful keeping his Ponzi scheme from imploding. And he wasn't very successful playing cards either. The Bellagio in Las Vegas has filed suit against Stanford, claiming he owes the hotel/casino $258,480 in unpaid gambling debts. [Guardian]
"It's very nice to have someone that you can have a completely abstract conversation with and leave the room, feel like everything's fine, and then realize that if you pick it apart, you have absolutely no idea what either of you said." —Tim Burton on his special bond with Johnny Depp [MTV]
"If it's nudity just because they want you to get naked in a movie, then I'm kind of like, 'You know what? No.' But if it's kind of pivotal and it helps move the story along, then, yeah, sure I'll do it. I can't imagine being like, 'Hey, Dad, want to come [to the opening]?' I'd just have to wait for it to come out on DVD so I could fast-forward through those scenes." —Rumer Willis [Female First]
"Nowadays you have the privilege of CG. So what the guys and [director] Louis [Leterrier] have set out to do is raise the Richter scale to 11, in the sense of the scorpions are the size of dump trucks, and Medusa's a lot quicker, a lot scarier." —Sam Worthington on Clash of the Titans [MTV]
"Learning to skate Roller Derby–style was a challenging task. But we all became badasses comparing bruises. Drew had one about eight inches long and five inches wide on the hip. I got some hip knots and a scraped chin, but thankfully no busted teeth. Bruises and scrapes are cool, busted teeth — not cool." —Juliette Lewis on Whip It [Female First]
"Daniel is a hard lad — you wouldn't want to meet him in a dark street. Is he a wimp? No, I wouldn't like to call him that to his face. He can look after himself all right." —Daniel Craig's dad, Tim Wroughton-Craig [Contact Music]
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Filed Under: daniel craig, johnny depp, quote machine, rumer willis, sam worthington, tim burton
Wallpaper invited Philippe Starck and Karl Lagerfeld to create covers for the October issue. Knowing how Karl's mind works, he really only had three options: his man candy Baptiste Giabiconi wearing nothing but a fur wrap, his man candy Baptiste Giabiconi wearing nothing but high heels, or his man candy Baptiste Giabiconi wearing nothing. He went with option No. 3, if you can imagine. The Kaiser shot Baptiste in a Dior Homme suit for the cover, but then added a layer of paper over that, which you can pull back to reveal his man candy Baptiste naked. Inside the magazine you'll find a 27-page editorial of Baptiste.
Conversely, Philippe's cover depicts an amoeba, a monkey wearing shoes, and a question mark. But who says that can't be just as sexy as a naked male version of Gisele?
WALLPAPER’S GUEST STARS [Memo Pad/WWD]
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Filed Under: baptiste giabiconi, covers, designers, karl lagerfeld, man candy, models, philippe starck, wallpaper
I’m a huge fan of both Rock Band and Guitar Hero, and have thusfar been amazed at how the games’ general likability have largely prevented people on the internet from lamely criticizing the bands for “selling out” or whatever (I thought it was always about the MUSIC, Mountain!)
The following video of a digitized Kurt Cobain character spitting out rhymes and Bon Jovi lyrics, well…it’s a little… not…normal…stuff…things.
The best way to get out of jury duty? Use the recession as an excuse! Kindly explain to the judge that you're already having difficulty making ends meet and if you're forced to take off any additional time, you may very well lose your home. (Mentioning you also happen to be a single parent and you take care of your sick aunt isn't such a bad idea either.) You may just find yourself in front of a judge like the one interviewed in today's Times, who says he's doing his best to "be sensitive to the economic times" and has been dismissing prospective jurors who can't afford to be there. If you're unemployed, however, it's a whole different story.
In that case, you should hope and pray you get assigned to a case that stretches for weeks or months, since jury service in NYC comes with a $40 daily stipend. As Norman Goodman, the county clerk for Manhattan, points out, "It's not going to get you into Tiffany's, but it's something."
It sure is! And if you get assigned to a really high-profile case such as the Brooke Astor trial which is now entering its fourth month—each juror has collected roughly $3,520 so far—there may be even more cash to come. Play your cards right and you should have a book deal when all is said and done.
Call to Jury Duty Strikes Fear of Financial Ruin [NYT]
Mets center-fielder Carlos Beltran is returning to baseball after injuring his knee early in the summer. (This is how long it’s been: The Mets were only two games out of first on June 21, his last game. Three days later, they were a half-game out. They’re currently seventeen and a half games behind the Phillies.) The Mets obviously don’t need Beltran back, but he wants to get some games in this year. Would you pay $72, plus “convenience fees,” to sit in the Pepsi Porch to watch Beltran play defense for Elmer Dessens? We suspect not. But would you pay $15 for field boxes? Because you can do that — like, tonight.
Yep, Beltran’s playing for the Brooklyn Cyclones! If you can make it down to Keyspan Park in Coney Island tonight (tickets are still available), you can see him test out the knee against the Hudson Valley Renegades. And Beltran’s not the only attraction: The first 2,500 fans receive a free team photo (their special guest not included), and it’s Fireworks Night.
There are only three regular-season home games left for the Cyclones after tonight, but they’ve already clinched a playoff spot, so there will be more to come. (There’s a possibility they’ll meet the Staten Island Yankees in the playoffs, actually.) Beltran won’t be around for those games, though. If all goes well, he could be back at Citi Field against the Cubs this weekend. But for now, he’s away from Flushing, safe from the invisible Citi Field snipers who have been taking out Mets players all season.
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Filed Under: baseball, carlos beltran, mets, the cyclones, the sports section
Steven Klein shot Rihanna in brand-new couture for the September Italian Vogue couture supplement. Rihanna looks drop dead gorgeous in the incredible resulting editorial. However the setting and some of the props make little sense at best. Rihanna appears to play some sort of queen of the court of the gym shower after hours, whose subjects include a hobby horse, stairs, and a trash pail (umbrellas were noticeably lacking). It's a fashion acid trip if we've ever seen one. See the entire editorial in the slideshow. She even wears pants ... once.
Earlier: Rihanna’s on the Cover of Italian Vogue’s September Couture Supplement!
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Filed Under: couture fall 2009, italian vogue, rihanna, slideshow, steven klein, tear sheets
Because we enjoy well-informed and intelligent film criticism as much as the next guy, we were pretty happy to learn that A.O. "Call Me Tony" Scott and Michael Philips are taking over as hosts of the floundering At the Movies franchise. However, there's a part of us that feels that replacing the Two Bens with two well-respected critics was, frankly, kind of a safe move. It's not that we blame Disney for being so risk-adverse and refusing to tinker too much with such a profitable franchise, exactly. It's just that if we were producing the show, then we would've tried to think a little more outside the bun. Like, for example, why not hire Beavis and Butt-Head for the job? Sure, we certainly don't think they own any back issues of Cahiers du cinéma or anything like that — and even if they did, they'd probably just use them to start fires — but after seeing their tasteful and subtle critiques of Mike Judge's Extract, we found ourselves wishing that the duo would head up the jury at Cannes next year. Heh-heh, Master Bateman. Good one, gents!
BEAVIS AND BUTTHEAD REVIEW 'EXTRACT' [Screen Junkies]
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Filed Under: beavis and butt-head, butt-head, extract, film criticism, mike judge, movies
Name: Laurie Sandell
Age: 35 on Nerve.com
Neighborhood: Fort Greene
Occupation: Author of the graphic memoir The Impostor’s Daughter: A True Memoir and contributing editor at Glamour. She'll be appearing tonight at the Happy Ending Music and Reading Series at Joe's Pub.
Who's your favorite New Yorker, living or dead, real or fictional?
It’s a tie between Eddie Stern and Josh Korda.
What's the best meal you've eaten in New York?
A steak sandwich at Num Pang, a Cambodian takeout shop on East 12th Street.
In one sentence, what do you actually do all day in your job?
Write at coffee shops, draw cartoons, update my blog, and occasionally fly to L.A. to interview celebrities.
Would you still live here on a $35,000 salary?
I don’t think I could ever go back to having a roommate I wasn’t sleeping with.
What's the last thing you saw on Broadway?
Company.
Do you give money to panhandlers?
Yep. My people call it tzedakah.
What's your drink?
Seltzer with bitters and lemon. The novelist Amanda Stern turned me on to it.
How often do you prepare your own meals?
I cook three to four times a week, the same meal every time. I am the Terrified Chef.
What's your favorite medication?
It was Ambien until it sent me to rehab.
What's hanging above your sofa?
Three cartoons of my dad that I drew between the ages of 8 and 10. One features posters on the wall that read, "Women are Money" and "Winner: 12 A-fat-emy Awards." Another shows a bird popping out of a cuckoo clock, saying, "I'm in the midst of information."
How much is too much to spend on a haircut?
I read a bunch of these "21 Questions," and apparently lots of New Yorkers are getting them for free! I usually spend about $120. Clearly, I’m doing something wrong.
When's bedtime?
Between midnight and 2 a.m., but I’ve got to start going to bed earlier. I get up for yoga at 7 a.m. It’s killing me.
Which do you prefer, the old Times Square or the new Times Square?
I worked at Glamour for four years, which is in the Condé Nast Building at 4 Times Square. Just the thought of Times Square gives me PTSD.
What do you think of Donald Trump?
I like the guy; he's funny and down-to-earth. And his daughter was the only normal person featured in Born Rich.
What do you hate most about living in New York?
Schlepping a computer, yoga clothes, street clothes, and various electronics to Manhattan every day.
Who is your mortal enemy?
That woman on the subway who yelled at me for having dog hair on my coat. She said she was allergic, but wanted me to move.
When's the last time you drove a car?
I recently acquired a 2000 Chevy Malibu, so this Friday, I drove some friends home after seeing The September Issue.
How has the Wall Street crash affected you?
My sister, who works for a hedge fund, has stopped buying designer handbags every five minutes. I used to inherit them.
Times, Post, or Daily News?
The Times. Okay, the Post. But I do read the Times on Sundays.
Where do you go to be alone?
Any subway car recently occupied by a pungent homeless man. Those are usually empty.
What makes someone a New Yorker?
A huge therapy bill.
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While you’ve been living in a veritable Groundhog Day of work and relaxation for the past few months, child actress Soleil Moon Fry has been doing something actually worthwhile: Getting 1,000,000 Twitter followers. As a thank you to her fans, Soleil dressed up as my 6 year old Halloween costume and her claim to fame, Punky Brewster. Sounds adorable, right?
Wrong.
It reads like some sort of cheap MILF porn. From the opening moments of her high-glossed mouth close-up, til midway through when she basically goes off the rails saying “Punky Power”, this could easily pass for some sort of creepy viral vid Alanis Morissette decided to make for Dave Coulier. In other words, watch at your own childhood memories’ risk.
A CBS News camera crew caught up with Mark Madoff on the streets of Soho yesterday! Bernie's son refused to answer questions, which is hardly surprisingly. But his appearance spoke volumes.
The once fresh-faced, besuited exec (Ex. 1) seems to have let himself go completely in recent weeks and now sports a beard and scruffy baseball cap (Ex. 2). Even worse: From the looks of it, he appears to be taking style advice from imprisoned fraudster Sam Israel (Ex. 3).
This can't be a good sign, especially since prosecutors are still looking for evidence that he had something to do with his father's famous fraud. Let's just hope a charity-minded stylist steps forward and gives him the makeover he so desperately needs before he eventually goes on trial.
Madoff Sons May Pay for His Sins [CBS News via Dealbreaker]
The marketing machine for The Lost Symbol, Dan Brown’s save-publishing sequel to The Da Vinci Code, kicks in to overdrive today at Amazon.com, where the retailer is hawking the book harder than anything since its own Kindle. Blocking the front page today is an overwritten note, as ludicrous and clunky as anything Dan Brown has ever written, touting Amazon’s fearsome security system.
“The book remains so deeply under wraps that we’d agreed to keep our stockpile under 24-hour guard in its own chain-link enclosure, with two locks requiring two separate people for entry.”
A 24-hour guard? (Does Amazon typically leave its warehouses unguarded?) Two locks? (Amazon sells 26,297 locks in its Tools & Home-Improvement section.) A chain-link fence! (What, no laser beams? No giant boulder hidden behind a pressure-triggered statue?) If the plot of the The Lost Symbol is as fraught, it will be the lamest thriller ever.
Here are the only five security systems we could think of that would be less intimidating:
“… secured in a giant lemon Jell-O mold, guarded by three cats.”
“… left in the food court, under the watchful eyes of Ronnie Barnhardt and Paul Blart.”
“… camouflaged by the hairpiece of Tom Hanks.”
“… tucked under the Constitution of the United States.”
“… buried under Dan Brown’s talent.”
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Filed Under: books, brilliant security plans, da vinci code, dan brown, publishing
AP - It's bad enough that the usually enjoyable Sandra Bullock has found a way to star in not one but two flat romantic comedies this summer, between "The Proposal" in June and now "All About Steve." But what's truly baffling disheartening, really is the fact that this latest one was written by a woman.
What's it like to live next door to the reigning Miss Universe? Christopher, who maintains the photoblog Quite All Right, details his latest encounter with the beauty queen who now lives in his apartment building and was crowned by Donald Trump last week:
I was going out today and ran into the lovely Miss Universe from Venezuela, Stefania Fernandez, at the elevator. She doesn't speak a lot of English yet, but she told me that her new word for today is "interview." I tried to teach her another word, "neighbor," as I pointed to my door, but I'm not totally sure she understood.
If It's Tuesday, It Must Be Meet Miss Universe Day [Quite All Right]
The likeness is incredible, isn’t it? Above, Lourdes Leon, daughter of Madonna, recreates her mother’s famous “Like a Virgin” pose for the cameras. And given that she’s only 12-years-old, we really hope she means it this time.
It’s kind of crazy how she’s grown up over the past couple of years! Check out video of Lourdes on stage with her more famous than God mother during a concert in Tel Aviv. She’s so hip I actually think my adult self hates her…
Levi Johnston went from being a podunk Alaskan guy who decided to warm his D up in the Governor’s daughter and ended up with a baby. Then, he became a national celebrity who, with a little spit n’ polish, cleaned up real nice and befriended Kathy Griffin. Slowly but surely, people starting realizing “Hol’ up, hol’ up: Levi’s actually a hot piece of A”, and ladies and gentleman, a real star was born.
In fact, Vanity Fair – the only magazine I will still gladly read on an airplane (sorry, Details, we used to have something, but $4 for some pics of gay guys wearing shoes ain’t gonna cut it) – scored an interview and photoshoot with the world’s most famous sperm donor. So why, then, did they decide to go with a photo where he actually looks EXACTLY LIKE Sarah Palin? Especially now, what with Kevin Federline being so fat… we need him. We really, really need him.
And PPS: Sarah wanted to adopt the baby to save face, but Levi wouldn’t have it:
Sarah told me she had a great idea: we would keep it a secret—nobody would know that Bristol was pregnant. She told me that once Bristol had the baby she and Todd would adopt him. That way, she said, Bristol and I didn’t have to worry about anything. Sarah kept mentioning this plan. She was nagging—she wouldn’t give up. She would say, “So, are you gonna let me adopt him?” We both kept telling her we were definitely not going to let her adopt the baby. I think Sarah wanted to make Bristol look good, and she didn’t want people to know that her 17-year-old daughter was going to have a kid.
She’s like Angelina Jolie, except she’ll only adopt children who are also her grandchildren. Aww. And Levi, we’d watch it if we were you. If you see any slow-rolling Dodge Ram’s driving by, you’re proooobably gonna die.
Ahead, check out a behind-the-scenes video of Levi lookin’ all fine and sh*t while wearing a suit.
Man, remember when you had to live in a town to watch their local news broadcast about a woman shoplifting beer and Coke by shoving them up her dress?
Good thing the internet exists:
Courtney Love eating and walking ... Sarah Jessica Parker dressed up in '80s clothing and Chris Noth standing around on the set of Sex and the City ... Jon Gosselin leaving JFK with his mom ... Irv Gotti and Adrienne Bailon going to lunch at Da Silvano ... Christie Brinkley posing for pictures at the US Open in Queens ... Kelly Rutherford carrying her daughter Helena ... Aubrey O'Day arriving at the studios of WPIX with an iced coffee ... Taylor Momsen walking downtown ... and Leighton Meester and Ed Westwick shooting scenes on the set of Gossip Girl.
Seriously!
Fine. The title of this post might not necessarily be true. But what IS true is that I am a Grade A Assh-le.
(Audience silent. Nary a protest.)
Don’t believe me? Check out my appearance on It’s On with Alexa Chung which aired on Monday, and then see if you do not agree. I manage to piss off an entire race AND Miley Cyrus. My career in Vegas is officially dunzo.
Here is an End of Summer Round-Up!
In the following Double Stuff Oreo commercial that I can already tell we’re gonna be seeing non-stop this NFL season, Donald Trump and the Manning Brothers battle head-to-head to determine who is the undisputed champion of not being able to turn down appearances.
I’m surprised Michael Phelps and John Madden didn’t somehow materialize at the last second and high-five:
A man jailed for bank robbery claims that he committed the crime just to get away from his annoying wife — sounds like it’s time to unleash Christian groups on Everybody Loves Raymond (it’s damaging our adults!!!):
A Pennsylvania man said he robbed a bank in 2007 to go to jail and get away from his overbearing wife.
At a sentencing hearing Monday, 39-year-old Anthony Miller said he robbed a bank in Ephrata because he wanted to leave his then-wife but she had threatened to commit suicide if he did.
In his opening statement, the man then grabbed a mic and pleaded to the crowd, “Every time we’re about to leave for a party, my wife turns to me and goes ‘you gonna wear that?’ But we play it off, don’t we guys? We’re like, “Uhhh, no, of course not — I was just about to put my real clothes on top of these!”
He went on, “And she has SO MANY SHOES!!! I’m like, what is this, our house or a shoe store? Are we stockpiling shoes for the Great Shoe Depression of 2010?? This guy knows what I’m talkin’ about!”
“…Long story short, I robbed that bank.”
The world's most unfortunate husband, Ron Weinstein, has a few thoughts on the book his wife Sheryl decided to write about having an affair with Bernie Madoff. Yes, he says, he tried to talk his wife out of writing it. And yes, detailing Bernie's penile dimensions "was trashy." But "affairs are commonplace," he says, and really "shouldn't be such a big deal," although in this case he concedes it's a bit complicated since the man she happened to have an affair with is also "the biggest crook in the world" and stole all of Weinstein's money.
As for whether Weinstein will ever be able to forgive her for cheating on him, lying about the affair for years, and then writing a book about it—thus exposing the family to shame and humiliation that he'll remember every day for the rest of his life—well, that's hard to say:
"ll wait a few months, let my emotions calm down and then I'll see if I can forgive. Having an affair is not the end of the world, but writing a book and telling everybody about it is unacceptable."
Not that he won't get a consolation prize regardless of whether he manages to piece together the marriage. "Half of the profits are mine," he points out.
Bernie Made Off With My Wife [The Daily Beast]
It's been a few weeks since downtown artist Dash Snow died of a heroin overdose. But photographer Ryan McGinley is now speaking out about the death of his close friend. In the new issue of Vice, he recounts some of the great times they shared over the years, like "sniffing coke off toilet seats [and] doing bumps off each other's fists" in "the bathroom of every bar below 14th Street." Oh, and how Snow and one of his other friends would get wasted and have fun at the expense of homeless people:
They would give a bum $20 to let them tag all over his clothes. Bums never change their clothes, so the tags would never get buffed out like on a door or grate. And they just wander the streets. It was amazing advertising and such a genius idea that it still makes me crack up when I think about it.
When you start seeing homeless people walking around the city in t-shirts emblazoned with the logos of Fortune 500 companies, don't forget: Snow was totally there first.
REMEMBERING DASH SNOW [Vice via Art Fag City]
Sorry ladies, Robbie Patz is off the market; relationships have been forged, the E-word is out there, and tweeny sequels have to be promoted…
Can I be the first person to drop a cutesy Rob/Kristen gossip mag combined name? How about…….. Pattinstewart? Krobsten? Definitely Krobsten.
(Jeremys……….Iron.)
AP - "The Child Thief," (Eos. 480 pages. $26.99) by Brom: Peter Pan lurks in Brooklyn, not ye olde London, in Brom's "The Child Thief."
AP - "Await Your Reply," (Ballantine Books. 324 pages. $25) by Don Chaon: It's a loaded question: Who are you? The lies, delusions, carefully selected memories, ambitions and wary truths that can answer that question are the subject of Don Chaon's new novel, "Await Your Reply."
AP - A few suggestions for the folks who acquire the songs for "Guitar Hero":
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