AP - The founder of celebrity news site TMZ.com is promising a fight after he says the Los Angeles County sheriff's department illegally obtained his phone records in its investigation into who leaked a report on Mel Gibson's 2006 drunken driving arrest, including details on the actor's anti-Semitic tirade. Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 20 Oct 2009 | 4:24 am
AP - The founder of celebrity news site TMZ.com is promising a fight after he says the Los Angeles County sheriff's department illegally obtained his phone records in its investigation into who leaked a report on Mel Gibson's 2006 drunken driving arrest, including details on the actor's anti-Semitic tirade. Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 20 Oct 2009 | 4:24 am
AP - The founder of celebrity news site TMZ.com is promising a fight after he says the Los Angeles County sheriff's department illegally obtained his phone records in its investigation into who leaked a report on Mel Gibson's 2006 drunken driving arrest, including details on the actor's anti-Semitic tirade. Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 20 Oct 2009 | 4:24 am
AP - Vic Mizzy, a songwriter who composed the catchy themes for the 1960s sit-coms "The Addams Family" and "Green Acres," has died. He was 93. Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 20 Oct 2009 | 3:53 am
AP - Vic Mizzy, a songwriter who composed the catchy themes for the 1960s sit-coms "The Addams Family" and "Green Acres," has died. He was 93. Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 20 Oct 2009 | 3:53 am
AP - Vic Mizzy, a songwriter who composed the catchy themes for the 1960s sit-coms "The Addams Family" and "Green Acres," has died. He was 93. Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 20 Oct 2009 | 3:53 am
The founder of celebrity news site TMZ.com is promising a fight after he says the Los Angeles County sheriff department obtained his phone records in its investigation into who leaked a... Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 20 Oct 2009 | 3:39 am
WASHINGTON - Michelle and Barack Obama sat one table over from J. Lo and Marc Anthony, and all four of them were rocking in their seats as Sheila E. shook the house - well, really the... Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 20 Oct 2009 | 3:18 am
A psychiatrist who treated Anna Nicole Smith for drug dependency during her pregnancy said she tried to set up a program to wean her off prescription painkillers but found the celebrity... Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 20 Oct 2009 | 3:03 am
China's blockbuster anniversary film to mark 60 years of communist rule has broken the 400 million Chinese yuan ($59 million) mark, but still lags the all-time box office record set by... Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 20 Oct 2009 | 2:23 am
(Reuters) Reuters - Staples bought lifetime naming rights for the Los Angeles sports arena that carries its name. Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 20 Oct 2009 | 12:34 am
Fock Her:Laura Dern has joined the cast of the latest Meet the Parents sequel, tentatively entitled Little Fockers. She'll will play the head mistresses of the school the Focker children attend. Given her experience working with velociraptors and tyrannosaurus rexes, little Fockers should be no problem. [THR]
The Answer is Sex: New Line has snagged What Boys Want, a comedy from the writers of Step Up 3D, the first movie to combine the innovative arts of stepping and 3D. Teen star and Miley Cyrus foeSelena Gomez is attached to star in the story of a teenager who can hear what men are thinking, which could easily land this thing an NC-17 rating. [Variety]
Like a Rock:Rock of Ages, the Broadway musical of big hair and bigger ballads, is coming to the big screen with Hairspray director Adam Shankman slated to direct. The musical's creator Chris D'Arienzo wrote the script, which is about a couple that falls in love to a soundtrack of so-bad-they're-good 80s rock anthems. "I'm thinking big, and absolutely am going to attempt to cast with movie stars," Shankman said. Can't wait to see Zac Efron as metal head. [Variety]
Mom Power:Mia Hamm is making the jump from the pitch to the producer's chair for the fllm adaptation of Alive and Kicking: When Soccer Moms Take the Field, a book by New York Times sportswriter Harvey Araton. The story follows a women's soccer team formed by a group of mothers fed up with life as passive spectators. So they switch places with their children and the moms take the field while the kids turn into the ravenous, screaming fans. [Variety]
Modern Times: Columbia Pictures has signed a first look deal with the New York Times "Modern Love" column. The company is expected to mine the column for the type of scripts about upper class white people that Hollywood can never seem to find. They'll be giving Bradley Cooper lots of work. [Variety]
Reuters - A hit throughout Southeast Asia when it was released last year, "Ong Bak 2" is a throwback to the kung fu flicks of a previous generation. Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment Reviews | 19 Oct 2009 | 11:42 pm
If President Obama was hoping to recoup some bailout money in the form of donations, he's not going to like this. The president will host a fundraiser at New York's Mandarin Oriental Hotel tonight with the tycoons in attendance shelling out $30,400 a head. And though lots of those in attendance will be from the finance industry, few come from Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase and Citigroup, three companies that received large chunks of bailout money. The reason they're staying away: to avoid the perception of impropriety. “There are sensitivities there,” a financial industry lobbyist told the Times. Political contributions “can make a donor a target.” And when you already have the blood of the failed economy on your hands, the last thing you want is to become a target.
Werrick Armstrong's Hidden Art Unveiled AUSTIN, Texas, Oct. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Working in obscurity for over a decade, Outsider contemporary artist Werrick... Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 19 Oct 2009 | 10:01 pm
It's here! "Time for Miracles," the Adam Lambert song recorded for John Cusack's upcoming disaster montage 2012, is here! It's as sappy and schlocky as you ever wanted. The "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" for the Twitter generation. There was a time when we wondered if this song would be able to match the cheese level of Aerosmith's Armageddon ballad. It does. Be sure to stick around until 3:30 when Adam lets loose like a cat with its tail stuck in the car door. It's glorious.
Three weeks after striking down a government-run health care option, the Senate Finance Committee has revived the idea like a zombie from the crypt. "This issue is alive, and we're looking at it," said Sen. Max Baucus. Three variations of the public option are under consideration and though none of them are the liberal Democrat ideal, they all fall closer than the proposed nonprofit cooperatives. One version would establish a national plan only if the rest of the Democrats' health overhaul doesn't sufficiently expand coverage. Another would create a government option but allow states to opt out. The last would allow the states to opt in to a government option.
So why is the public option back? A few reasons, according to the Wall Street Journal. First there's the CBO report that the cooperatives wouldn't "establish a significant market presence." Then there's the Democrats' newfound willingness to break with the insurance industry, which began attacking the Finance Committee bill even though the the idea of cooperatives was inserted to please them. Lastly, and perhaps most importantly, crazy people have stopped going crazy about the public option.
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - The Independent Film Channel has picked up the rights to air "Arrested Development" and plans back-to-back airings on Sunday and Tuesday nights starting... Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 19 Oct 2009 | 9:44 pm
Reuters - When a man's wife breaks the news that she has met someone else after 21 years of marriage, the husband and four friends kidnap her lover while deciding whether to kill him in Malcolm Venville's study of misogyny, "44 Inch Chest." Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment Reviews | 19 Oct 2009 | 9:31 pm
Set the DVR, Michelle Obama will appear on The Jay Leno Show Friday in the "10 at 10" segment. That means her image will be piped in via satellite and Leno will ask about Barack's feet. And Bo. He'll definitely ask about Bo. [NY Post]
Dancers are seen performing for the Arirang festival at the May Day studium in Pyongyang. NKorea announced on Tuesday that this year's festival -- the world's largest choreographed display -- has ended... Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 19 Oct 2009 | 9:27 pm
You wouldn't know it to look at her, but Kelly Osbourne ended her paso doble in pain.
The unexplained injury that resulted in her gingerly dancing the group hustle in bare feet also...
Reuters - I've never been to Memphis, but I've seen "Memphis," the new Broadway musical, and can only hope that the city isn't a disappointment by comparison. Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment Reviews | 19 Oct 2009 | 9:04 pm
The Yes Men, those inventive pranksters behind the fake Post and the fake Times, moved their shenanigans down to DC today where they pretended to be the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The best part of the fake press conference, which looked a lot like a real press conference, was when an official with the real Chamber showed up and got mad. The script followed The Yes Men's usual routine—pose as a group it disagrees with and announce a change in position. When the real group discovers the ruse it has to back pedal and admit, in this case, that it hasn't given up its opposition to climate change legislation. Egg, meet face.
Pranksters stage Chamber of Commerce climate change event [Washington Post]
Reuters - In the opening of "Food Beware," a group of French schoolchildren are eating delicious-looking sausages with black beans and green beans. They're holding bananas and playing with them in the classic banana phone game. They're actually eating their vegetables. You're thinking this is a naturally occurring example of the "slow food" movement Americans have been trying so hard to emulate. Actually, it's the "before" picture. Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment Reviews | 19 Oct 2009 | 8:16 pm
Aaron Carter may have been compared to the biggest heartthrob of the 24/7 gossip era, but he wasn't the only contestant who raised his game tonight.
Each of the remaining 10 celebs...
If Carrie Prejean thought she could just take the boobs and run, she was sorely mistaken.
K2 Productions, which directs the Miss California USA pageant, has countersued the litigious...
After a long day of campaigning and race-baiting with Rudy Giuliani yesterday, Mayor Bloomberg spent today trying to distance himself from his predecessor's incendiary comments, sorta. He didn't mention Rudy by name but he did talk about how much of a uniter he is: “I am phenomenally proud of our record of bringing people together from all neighborhoods and every community. And I think we’ve successfully resisted attempts to divide the city.”
Of course, prancing around with Rudy yesterday hardly helped unite the city. That's clear by the reaction from city Democrats. Bronx Democratic chairman Carl Heastie said Giuliani used "code words to try and strike fear in the hearts and minds of persons in the Jewish faith." State Sen. Eric Adams said Giuliani's remarks were "Willie Horton-style." And our own Chris Smith said a lot. So, will Bloomberg actually say anything?
Front Page: Berman, Braun working on different 'Modern' deal -- Columbia Pictures has made the equivalent of a first-look deal with the New York Times for "Modern Love," the column that runs in the paper's Sunday Styles section.
The latest of issue of The Collectors Weekly magazine (subscribe now!) has a pretty fascinating interview with Scott Buckwald, the prop master for Mad Men. This is the guy responsible for ensuring that Don Draper's empty liquor bottles look like 1960s liquor bottles, among many other things. He's built a 1960s-era Sara Lee box, hunted down a vintage vinyl wardrobe, built a lipstick display case and cooked all the food Betty serves. Buckwald is awesomely obsessive but even he can't get everything right:
Collectors Weekly: When it came to the Mad Men office scenes, did you have to get vintage typewriters and pencils and pens?
Buckwald: Well, pencils are pencils. There’s no change in the pencils, and a lot of offices were using ballpoint pens. Fountain pens had largely disappeared. Certainly for formal use, the fountain pen was still there, but not as an everyday office tool.
I thought Mad Men made a big mistake on the typewriters. They knew what the right history was, but they ignored it. The secretaries at that advertising firm would have still been using vintage-style typewriters, but they used IBM Selectrics simply because the producer liked the way they looked and they made less noise on set. So we got many letters about how they were wrong, but, again, that’s his call. And right or wrong, it’s his show. He can do whatever he wants with it.
"He," of course, refers to the show's creator and avowed Internet-haterAnthony Matthew Weiner.
• A roundup of restaurants that just opened, or will open soon. [Eater, NYM] • Sirio Maccioni's Le Cirque celebrated its 35th birthday last night. [NYT] • Citrine in Chelsea was shut down by the city over the weekend. [Eater] • Ex-Gourmet editor Ruth Reichl answered a few questions about the mag's demise (and avoided a few others) in yesterday's Times Magazine. But she was a no-show at a party held in Gourmet's honor last night. [NYT, NYDN] • Have you heard that mac 'n' cheese has staged a comeback? It has! [WSJ] • Raj Rajaratnam, the hedge fund manager at the center of the biggest insider trading scandal in decades, was an investor in restaurants in his spare time, and supposedly put money into Opia and Rosa Mexicano. [BN]
We're not sure if anyone was in cahoots with the Balloon Brood, but we're starting to get a long list of those people who aren't, right William Shatner? What do you say, Jimmy...
Front Page: 'Beatles,' 'Guitar Hero 5' lift slumping biz -- The videogame biz has ended its six-month sales slump with titles "The Beatles: Rock Band" and "Guitar Hero 5."
(AP) AP - Target Corp. has thrown itself into a heated price war on books expected to be top sellers. Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 19 Oct 2009 | 5:57 pm
Front Page: Pace of technology change expected to increase -- You ain't seen nothing yet. That was the refrain at Variety's inaugural entertainment and technology summit.
Earlier this afternoon, the Times newsroom staff met to hear some bad news: One hundred positions will be cut by the end of the year. The downsizing, according to a staff memo sent out by executive editor Bill Keller, will be mirrored by cuts in the editorial pages and on the business side — but no specifics on that end have yet been announced. They'll try to achieve the newsroom reduction — which will total about 8 percent of their 1,250-person staff — will be achieved as much as possible through buyouts. Every reporter and editor (who were, according to the Observer, "totally caught off guard" by the announcement) will receive an offer on Thursday of this week, according to the memo.
Keller stressed that "getting a buyout package does NOT mean we want you to leave" (nobody, it turns out, wants a newsroom of zero). But here was the most interesting part of the (otherwise depressing) memo:
We often — and rightly — voice our gratitude that we work for a company and a family that prize quality journalism above all. I hope you know that the company and the family, and I, feel an equal debt of gratitude to all of you whose sacrifice and loyalty have kept us strong.
The Sulzbergers are grateful to the newsroom staff, you see, and the staff should (as always) be grateful to them! But we hear that, predictably, mutual love isn't exactly the feeling running around the newsroom today, especially since publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. didn't mention the imminent cuts at his annual "State of the Times" meeting on September 30. In fact, he was downright optimistic about the paper's revenue in the near future — even claiming that the temporary 5 percent pay cut the staff took to avoid layoffs would be rescinded at the start of next year. "A lot of people were grumbling today about the incongruity between Arthur's comments and the news today," a source told Intel. "Did they seriously just decide this in the last three weeks?"
According to the Times, yes, they did. When asked whether Sulzberger knew about the need for a potential cut at the time of the optimistic company-wide address, spokeswoman Diane McNulty e-mailed only that "the decision came later." Must have been a rough three weeks.
Could Izzie (Katherine Heigl) be running away to L.A. to hang with Addison (Kate Walsh)?
Or maybe it's McSteamy (Eric Dane) who's heading down south—what? We mean to...
Author Maurice Sendak (L), director Spike Jonze (C) and actor Max Records attends the "Where The Wild Things Are" premiere at Alice Tully Hall on October 13, in New York City. "Where The Wild Things Are,"... Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 19 Oct 2009 | 5:18 pm
Jimmy Choo's collection for H&M launches on November 14. And though a good chunk of the collection has leaked online, WWD offers a look at the official campaign, shot by Terry Richardson. Jimmy Choo founder and president Tamara Mellon said Choo had a hard time creating nice things at an H&M price point. “It’s buy-now, wear-now for party season," Mellon says of the collection, which includes suede frocks and many more sparkly minidresses. All the shoes, which include over-the-knee boots, zebra-print stilettos, open-toe booties, and a few flat styles, are all real leather. (The over-the-knee boots are $299.) Mellon says this is a day-to-night collection, and her favorite piece is the black suede minidress with fringe that extends past the knee. Day to night, indeed! What office isn't missing that dress?
We have both a creative director and a game director, and these two jobs are halves of a whole. So I work hand in hand with our game director, and his focus is primarily on how the big vision gets translated into the gameplay. And my focus is, how does the big vision get translated into story, characters, and cinematics. Together, we try to make sure the whole thing is a flowing cinematic experience. So to put it briefly, my main focus is on story and writing and working with the actors.
Where do you even begin work on a game like Uncharted 2?
You start with a bunch of research. Thank god for the Internet — this used to be a lot harder when I had to go to the library. We knew we wanted to do something very different than a jungle island [where the first Uncharted was set]. So the first thing we thought of was snow and East Asia and the Himalayas. In terms of mythology, that took us to the idea of Shangri-La and Shamballah. And from a historical perspective, it immediately made us think of Marco Polo. So I picked up a biography of Marco Polo and it just turned out that there was this interesting, convenient mystery about him, which was this journey home of his where he lost thirteen of his ships and hundreds of passengers and never said anything about it. We thought, "That's awesome." And then were just off and running.
The level of detail in this game is impressive — one of the characters has nose hairs, even. Can you give me an example of something that's in there that most players won't notice right away?
Well, we had one low camera shot, so we figured you’ve got to have the nose hair. He's in his nineties. We always say there are so many things that if we do them right you would never notice. The amount of detail that goes into the character models, especially on their faces ... You think about something like an eyeball and the amount of work that goes into making that not seem like a creepy, painted-on sphere. You actually have to model in the concave iris and actually work out the refraction of the cornea and how the light bounces around in there. It's stuff that a few years ago we didn’t even consider. But now, if you don’t get it right, the characters just seem like scary mannequins.
The game is being positively compared to lots of recent adventure movies. Could your team make a movie?
We probably could. And honestly — and I’m sure I’m being completely foolish to say so — but in some ways I think it would be a lot easier. What we do is so complicated. People have made analogies before — it's like you're trying to shoot a movie while inventing the movie camera. We have to write these game engines to make the game do what it does. An industry like film, where there’s some new technologies but a lot of it is working in very familiar territory, there’s a formula they can use. Whereas we’re right out on the bleeding edge all the time.
The camera movement is really great in this game. Were you consulting with a cinematographer?
No. We have programmers that focus on camera control and camera movement as one of their primary concerns. It is really an art, to make sure they’re adjusting and creating triggers for the camera to do appropriate things at appropriate times, to present the scene to the player in a way that doesn’t fell like you’re being led by the nose through the game, but also shows you what you need to see. Unfortunately, that’s where a lot of games fall flat. We don’t have any particular person who’s a specialist, but that would actually be handy to have someone who is shepherding that whole thing.
Were there any specific parts of the game that took the longest development time??
The stuff that's on the moving terrain. The level on the train probably more than anything else. After finishing the first Uncharted, we said we know we want to have a sequence on a moving train. We don’t know where that train’s going to be, we don’t know what the story’s going to be, but let’s get working on it. And it was literally one of the last levels to be finished. So you’re talking about almost two years of development on a single level — and one designer that was committed to it the entire time, so thank God for him.
Columbia Pictures is developing an Uncharted movie. Can you tell us anything about it?
It’s definitely in the works, I can tell people. We’ve got the best possible partners we could in Columbia Pictures. If anybody’s got any fears of them not understanding the material or not loving it as much as we do, they can wipe those fears away, because these guys really get it. I can say from the meetings I’ve had with them so far, their hearts and their heads are absolutely in the right place.
Uncharted is pretty cinematic already, which should make it fairly easy to adapt into a film. Do you feel sorry for the guys who have to turn plotless games like Asteroids or the Sims into movies?
Yeah, it’s amazing how everything gets optioned these days. I guess people are desperate for ideas. The glass-half-full aspect is that it gives them a lot of creative freedom. But I think because Uncharted is coming from this long, long tradition of the action-adventure genre, it’s a very natural transition back to film. It certainly does make it easier.
Will Uncharted 3 be a PS3 game, or will it be for Sony's next console?
I don’t think I’m able to talk about any of that right now. On a completely general level, the PS3 is an amazing piece of hardware that both us and other developers are only now tapping into its full potential. There’s a lot of life in that box. That’s really the best answer I can give you.
So are you allowed to say what you’re working on now?
Well, what we do after we finish a project is we try to push people out of the building so they can all go on vacation. And we expect people to take several weeks off and just chill. But when people are back in the office we want people to explore new ideas regardless of what that idea might be associated with project-wise. So it might be a pet piece of technology, a cool little optimization a programmer wants to do. It gives people a little elbow room to try out some ideas that they can then pitch to the team. Inevitably, these ideas end up being a core part of whatever the next project is.
What did you think of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull? Obviously, you're a fan of the series.
Yeah, of the series for sure. Those guys are our heroes and have been a huge inspiration. Boy, they had a tough row to hoe with Crystal Skull. You take something that’s so beloved from people’s childhoods and you’re almost inevitably going to disappoint people, right? That’s a tough job and I deliberately went to a midnight screening and I went with certain expectations, and you know what, I really enjoyed the movie. I understand people’s complaints about it and there are certain things I look at and go, "Yeah, they probably should have done that differently." And they probably do too. But all in all, I was one of those people that came out going, "Yeah, that was fun." At the end of the day, that’s what we’re trying to do too.
Celebrity magazines love talking about fat (since, you know, celebrities aren't allowed to have any), and British rag Grazia has found a new fashionable region to focus on: the thighs. They think the celebrities you see here — Blake Lively, Audrina Patridge, and Lady Gaga — are guilty of "thigh spillage," or muffin top of the thigh created by wearing over-the-knee boots that are too tight. We don't know what they're talking about, because everyone's thigh fat looks nicely restrained, rather than puckered, in these photos. But Grazia's post got us thinking: What is the thigh version of a muffin top? We're going with "popover thigh," but we're open to more suggestions.
AP - The animated "Astro Boy" is a shiny hodgepodge of "Pinocchio," "WALL-E," "Oliver Twist," "Gladiator" and "Superman," with some obvious visual touches taken from "The Iron Giant." As its own entity, though, it's pretty forgettable.
The New York Times finally wrote something about Foursquare, the much-buzzed-about mobile app for telling people where you are that's disproportionately popular among NYC media professionals (or whatever they're called now that most are laid off). We like and use Foursquare, even if we're a bit too set in our ways to participate in the app's competitive aspects, like the ability to become "mayor" of a venue if the app finds that you spend more time there than anyone else, or the "badges" one can earn for going to new places — two examples of Foursquare's brilliant way of allowing users to feel as if they're winning a game just by leaving the house. We generally just use it to find out when friends happen to be a block or two away from us. But if somebody out there really wants to be the mayor of that horrible Chili's at La Guardia's Delta terminal (and, trust us, someone does), we're not going to judge. Anyway, reading the piece, this example of the app's potential monetization, which was, to be fair, probably approximate, jumped out:
"Eventually, [Foursquare founder] Mr. Crowley said, he would like to work with businesses on sponsored badges. For example, Starbucks might agree to give a player who visits 10 different Starbucks locations in a week a special badge and a free coffee drink."
First, because in what world would a Monopoly-money badge (think Facebook gift) and a free coffee drink be worth TEN trips to different Starbucks in seven days? Even if you didn't buy anything! Even if you LIED about your ten trips. It's still too much work. And second, because, LOL, as if Foursquare users are out there drinking coffee every night. Right! Evidence: When Foursquare first came out, it actually blocked users from checking in during weekday work hours. That sentence would be more truthful to the real world if you changed "Starbucks locations" to "bars owned by the same people" and "free coffee drink" to "free Maker's Mark." Which is how Foursquare is going to probably do very, very well.
Michael's, the Midtown eatery popular with moguls and media machers, now appears to be using Twitter to publicize who's lunching at the restaurant—much to the dismay of Mediabistro's FishbowlNY. [Twitter, MB]
Michael Ausiello reports that Joss Whedon has signed on to direct an upcoming episode of Glee after he's done shooting Dollhouse's second season. Hooray! Also, cue rumors of Glee's imminent cancellation. [Ausiello Files/EW]
It's a bird, it's a plane... Actually, it's the people who regulate the planes.
The Federal Aviation Administration has entered the Balloon Boy fray and opened an...
Jaime King wore a fall 2009 Marc Jacobs asymmetrical tiered dress to Spike TV's Scream 2009 event this weekend, and finished off her look with a voluminous asymmetrical hairstyle.
A judge has untangled Chris Rock's Good Hair.
A woman's bid to prevent the wide release of the comedian's latest feature, claiming Rock swiped the premise for his...
• With all this Balloon Boy stuff, we've forgotten about our dear Jon & Kate for a brief second. Where are they? Oh, just in Vanity Fair. Poor Kate feels "like a prisoner" of...
Parents may have fond memories of Maurice Sendak's classic children's book, "Where the Wild Things Are." But if their social-networking postings are any indication, some are not pleased with the movie.
Amy Sacco's Bungalow 8 is closed and the phone has been disconnected. But she remains insistent that she plans to reopen the onetime hotspot after she completes a round of renovations and gives the venue a new look. So is there any chance Bungalow 8 will reopen and Sacco will once again reign supreme as the "Queen of NYC nightlife"?
Over the weekend, Sacco had this to say to Page Six:
I think it's hilarious in a way as I've heard this rumor spread around for five years and it's actually my eight-year anniversary! I will be reopening soon with a new look to match my renewed enthusiasm that we again will be alone on 27th Street—just the way it was when I first opened.
Of course, it's not "a rumor." While in the past Bungalow 8's demise was merely gossiped about, this time the club has closed. The only question now is if Sacco is going to reopen it. And while we hope that Sacco proves us wrong and the sheer force of her will (and her positive attitude) returns her to the center of the nightlife universe, it's going to be an uphill battle. For one thing, despite the renovations that Sacco suggests are already underway, there's no record that she's applied for—or received—approvals from the Department of Buildings to conduct any renovation work. (See below.)
It's also unclear how she'd pay for the renovations or if she's managed to recruit new investors in the club. Last summer, Page Six Magazinereported that in mid-2008 the IRS filed a federal lien of almost $179,000 on Sacco's Chelsea apartment, something that typically happens when a person fails to pay his or her taxes. Sacco told the magazine at the time that the issue had been resolved. But that doesn't appear to be the case. In addition to the aforementioned lien from 2008, a second lien in the amount of $82,000 was filed this past July, as you can see below.
Sacco may still pull a rabbit out of her hat and come up the resources to give Bungalow 8 another go. If she pulls it off—and she recaptures the buzz that dissipated long ago—it would be the nightlife comeback of the decade. But we won't hold our breath either.
When the federal government swooped in to take down Galleon Group founder Raj Rajaratnam, the reverberations didn't just stop with his own hedge fund. To begin with, the five other people arrested in conjunction with his alleged insider-trading scheme were highly placed elsewhere: IBM executive Robert Moffat, for example, was considered to be a lead contender to take over the company some day soon. Now he's been placed on leave. But on a broader scale, the hedge-fund community has bigger things to worry about than this particular scandal. This morning, Bloomberg swept away the curtain behind which the Securities and Exchange Commission had been hiding a complex new program they've quietly been using for two years to weed out more clusters of insider trading.
Basically, the program works this way: The SEC mines data from the hundreds of millions of "blue sheets" (records provided when the SEC looks into an exchange of stocks) to find patterns of traders who make similar lucrative, well-timed bets over time. Looking for connections among such clusters of traders, the program can turn up what might be the common link — for example, a law firm that advised on a particular deal, or a bank that may have handled it.
While Raj Rajaratnam wasn't brought down using this technology, his downfall (his lawyers maintain he's not guilty of anything) combined with the revelation of this new system (which has already felled some hedge-funders) might mean big changes for a secretive industry that currently can easily hide suspicious trades here and there behind a cloak of thousands of other trades, coincidence, and what they call skill.
Hilary Swank and her mother Judy Swank (my new stage name) attended an Iams Home 4 The Holidays event to raise awareness for pet adoption. And while our awareness for pet adoption is now sliiiiiightly higher than, say, 2 hours ago, our awareness for CUDDLING ADORABLE WARM BABY DOGS IS AT MAXIMUM CAPACITY.
Sadly, no amount of adorable animal posing will raise our awareness for Amelia, who movie with Richard Gere where she plays Amelia Earhart and he plays “Ineda Paycheck.”
This gallery, on the other hand, is well worth your time and FREE!!!
As their parents continue to make tabloid headlines -- Jon faces contempt charges for taking money out of a joint account, while Kate has just lost the reality show franchise that made her famous -- the eight children of Jon and Kate Gosselin are starting to feel the effects of all the stress.
Man Men may be the new Sex and the City, stylistically speaking. Fans of the show want to dress like characters on the show. Dressing like Betty Draper is in a way more practical than dressing like Carrie Bradshaw, since Betty doesn't wear taxidermied birds on her head or walk the dog in high heels and hot pants. And dressing like Don Draper is probably more attractive than the dirty T-shirts and track pants the guys in Entourage, another Sex and the City for men, wear (we haven't watched the show in a while, but from a woman's point of view a suit is preferred to whatever someone wore sitting by a pool all day, which is what they did a lot when we last watched semi-regularly). AMC plans to capitalize on the sartorial fuss the show has created, slowly rolling out Mad Men fashions to the masses. Today Brooks Brothers launches its limited-edition Mad Men suit. The gray confection was designed by Mad Men costume designer Janie Bryant — inspired by something Jon Hamm would wear on the show — and costs $998. The "rear-enhancing sheaths" worn by January Jones are soon to follow for lady Man Men fans. Bryant says she'll also roll out "evening gowns, men's accessories, and officewear."
But will the clothes actually sell? People may like the way the characters dress on TV, but when it comes down to parting with money, is it worth it to try to look just like them? Many see potential for Mad Men fashion lines, though WGSN trend forecaster Lauretta Roberts cautions against making the clothes too literal. "If it's 'in the style of' or 'inspired by', then yes, it could well do OK, but no one wants to look like they're going out in costume," she tells the British Independent. Alternatively:
Robert Johnston, associate editor at GQ, said he thought the lines would do well. "I think it will work better in America because Americans are more easily led than we are, and feel more confident with a label, whereas the British are more anarchic. A certain British man would be embarrassed to wear something from a TV show."
So even if the clothes are more subdued, nothing will change the fact that you're trying to dress like a fictional character, and that is cheesy.
This week, in a startling development, Dexter finds himself identifying with a killer. Stifle that yawn. Just when Dexter’s family-free staycation looks to be treading familiar territory, it takes a turn. And, more importantly, the Trinity Killer case gets intense, culminating in a highly suspenseful final scene.
With the wife and kids out of town, Dexter has time for his solitary pursuits. This time, he’s after a bad cop. A hot bad cop. A fellow blood guy suspects that Zoey Kruger killed her husband and daughter and made it look like her gangbanger enemy did it. Unfortunately, we fail to discover why the independent super-cop was murderously freaked out by the familial walls closing in around her, but, hey, it’s enough to convince the imaginary ghost of Det. Harry Morgan that Zoey and Dexter have a lot in common. So much, in fact, that it scares the crap out of Dexter when she catches on to his game and starts stalking him.
Dexter almost decides to back off. But in the end, of course, the hunter becomes the hunted, Dexter gets his prey, and he realizes that they’re not that similar after all: He’d rather risk his family finding out the truth about him than risk losing them. He’s not going to kill his family! Aww! We figure by next week, he’ll remember that if they find out, he certainly will lose them.
Meanwhile, Quinn is mad at his reporter lady friend for doing all that reporting, Batista and LaGuerta are trying to figure out what they mean to each other and who they’re going to tell besides poor Dexter, and, yes, Debra and Lundy are back in each other’s arms.
Better yet: Lundy sort of ends up in Trinity’s arms when the killer deliberately bumps into him. Lundy shows some impressive intuition when he sees the darkness in Trinity’s eyes (has he not looked in Dexter’s?) and tails him. He doesn’t know that this blue-eyed stranger is the killer he and Debra expect to bludgeon someone in a bar fight that night — but Trinity has him all figured out. He read Quinn’s story on Lundy, and knows that Lundy tracked him to the (razed) site of his first barroom brawl. Presumably, it’s Trinity who shoots Debra and Lundy in the final scene: Does their assailant walk off with the tape recorder on which Lundy reports his observations, or just his wallet and watch?
Debra will no doubt survive that abdominal wound, but Lundy, hit twice, doesn’t look good. Maybe we’ve been wrong in assuming that Lundy’s run would end when he catches on to Dexter. Then again, we’d hoped that Debra’s comment about Anton’s jealous streak was a hint that he might snap, which wouldn’t be nearly as interesting if his rival were dead.
MAKEUP
• Rimmel London signed Georgia May Jagger, daughter of Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall, and Coco Rocha as the brand's new faces starting in 2010. They'll join current faces Kate Moss, Lily Cole, and Sophie Ellis-Bextor. [In Style UK]
• Madonna's makeup artist Gina Brooke: "When I work with her, I use magnifying glasses and a head light. Madonna has an eye — she likes balance and straight lines and perfect proportions. I do as well, and I think we both see the same things." [BlackBook]
• M.A.C. Cosmetics will launch a collaboration collection with Lilly Pulitzer in January 2010. [Butterfly Diary]
SKIN
• Cindy Crawford is concerned her famous mole may turn cancerous: "It's not something I really like to talk about. But I do now get this and all my moles checked out every year as a matter of course. Of course, it should be an issue we all have to take seriously." [NYDN]
• Stila Cosmetics founder Jeanine Lobell says her No. 1 secret to preventing wrinkles is to use "a ton of moisturizer every day, several times a day." So lather up, ladies. [Beauty Banter]
HAIR
• Hair-removal treatments at Assara Laser are discounted today by the e-mail discount service Groupon for $199 each (originally up to $897). The Citysearch page for the center offers 359 five-star reviews, which is suspicious, because there are only 14 one-star reviews, one of which says "I am suing Assara right now because they burned my abdomen." [Racked]
Sure, this video is practically ancient by internet standards (seeing as it picked up steam last week), but for the sake of bringing our readers everything we find amusing, we present it to you today. It’s the trailer for the upcoming disaster flick 2012, minus any of that distracting “CGI” business, and chock full of “John Cusack Sh*tting Himself” (working title).
The doctor who implanted six embryos in octuplets' mother Nadya Suleman last year has been expelled from a fertility medical society, a spokesman for the group said.
Whether he liked it or not—and he apparently did not—Larry Birkhead was back on the stand today talking about Anna Nicole Smith, her drug-fueled ways and the effect it may...
In support of the release of her first studio album since 2002, Whitney Houston has been hard at work on the publicity circuit flogging I Look To You with a series of high-profile TV showcases. When her record was released Stateside back in late August, she not only conducted a highly rated two-part tell-all interview with Oprah Winfrey, but she also wheezed her way through what was ultimately an inconsistent performance on Good Morning America. Her efforts certainly paid off in the short term: Her album sold 305,000 copies to curious consumers during its first week of release, but has subsequently dropped out of Billboard's top ten. And now that her record is set to drop in the U.K., she appeared on Simon Cowell's X-Factor program over the weekend to sing "Million Dollar Bill," the first single off of her lackluster LP. And, well, let's just say things didn't go so well for Whitney.
It's pretty clear to anyone who's seen any of Whitney Houston's recent "comeback" performances that the person who is up onstage singing is a shell of her former self. Not only does her voice sound simultaneously raspy and thin, but she is so out of shape that she's left panting for nearly a minute after the conclusion of her performance (a performance, mind you, in which she barely moved onstage). Making matters worse, a couple of support straps on her silver dress appeared to have snapped off roughly two minutes and twenty seconds into the song. Understandably, this minor wardrobe malfunction rattled Whitney for a good fifteen seconds or so, but she was able to successfully get back into the groove thereafter. To her credit, she was able to get off a nice quip at the conclusion of her performance by telling the show's host, "I sang myself out of my clothes." Still, it looks to us that Whitney is going to have to work significantly harder on both her vocals and fitness if her planned 2010 tour is going to be anything other than a colossal disappointment.
This week's magazine features the top twelve most powerful New Yorkers, and Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour is the only woman to make the list. Her buddy Mayor Bloomberg, who collaborated with Anna to make Fashion's Night Out a reality, takes the No. 1 slot. And her power extends far beyond New York. How can we forget her "we have friends in the White House now" remark during the CFDA town-hall meeting in July? Read more about the "champion of an industry that employs 175,000 New Yorkers and generates $10 billion a year" in the Power Dozen. [NYM]
Today’s New York Daily News headline about the Balloon Boy hoax:
Our challenge: Come up with a lazier/more painful pun headline than “BAD DAD”. Not sure if we can do it, but we’ll sure try (leave your own in the comments) –
1. BADLOON BOY
2. BUNCHA BALLOONEY
3. FOOL OF HOT AIR
4. WEATHER BUFFOON
5. DR. HOAXTABLE
6. LIAR FLIER
7. BALLOON BOY ARE YOU IN TROUBLE
8. THE WRONG STUFF
9. FAL-CON
10. ROCKY MOUNTAIN LIE
11. TORN-FAME-O CHASERS
12. UP, UP AND A-LIE
13. TRUTH SWAP
14. THE HOAX’S ON YOU!
15. BALLOON ANIMALS
16. UNREALITY SHOW
17. FLY FOR ATTENTION
18. DISNEY’S YUP (IT WAS A HOAX)
19. THE MISLED BALLOON
20. I BELIEVE I CAN LIE
Enough examples? Not sure. But feel free to let loose in the comments, the more painful the better.
(Extra thanks to Michelle and my friend Steve for their equally shameless pun contributions to the list)
Stop it, Fox. Stop making us so damn happy!
Not only is Glee quickly becoming our favorite series on television this season—there, we said it!—but Fox just confirmed to us...
Did you hear about the $1 billion lawsuit filed against Greenhouse last week because the club allegedly denied entrance to a group of black partygoers? It turns out the crowd had turned up at the Soho club to attend a book party for Teri Woods, "a pioneer of the enormously successful urban or hip-hop fiction genre," and the author of the newly-released novel, Alibi.
Woods says the club ruined "her moment" when they turned away some of the 175 people she'd invited to the party. But she also admits that the club could have blocked her friends from getting in because they were fat, not because they were black.
Either way, Woods should make out nicely. While it's unlikely the group will walk away with the $1 billion judgment it's currently seeking, the publicity over the lawsuit is boosting sales of Woods' new book, which has taken a nice little leap on Amazon.com today.
Ubisoft said Monday that a short film based on its blockbuster "Assassin's Creed" videogame will premier online at YouTube on October 27. Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 19 Oct 2009 | 1:53 pm
Robin Givhan thinks the fashion industry has yet again come under unfair fire in the Ralph Lauren Photoshop debacle that reached a fever pitch last week when model Filippa Hamilton-Palmstierna said the label fired her for being too fat. Givhan argues that fashion represents an ideal. That ideal, as we as a nation get fatter, is the opposite, which is "extremely thin to gaunt." She notes that our nation has never embraced being fat, but rather celebrates weight loss. We congratulate contestants on The Biggest Loser for going from a size 14 to a size 4, even if they're throwing up and passing out in the gym to get there. Oprah went on her show in 1988 wearing size 10 jeans, boasting that since they're designer Calvin Klein jeans, they're really more like a size 8, implying that the smaller she is, the better.
There's plenty to be said about whether the models on the runway are healthy. Most definitely, some of them are not. But most folks aren't demanding to see a doctor's note. The focus of the concern is aesthetics. And some horribly airbrushed photos notwithstanding, the main focus of the complaints isn't that the look is unpleasant but that it's unattainable for most people.
With that in mind, maybe all of the protesting about deluded designers has been wrongheaded. Maybe all of the demands that editors and photographers just use heavier models have been misguided. Because before fashion models will get any bigger, people in general will just have to get smaller.
Givhan adds that newsstand sales have declined because of the economy, not because of "righteous indignation over skinny models." We don't like going to fashion shows and feeling like the girls walking the runway before us are so thin that they may pass out before they complete their walk, or fly across the room if an Olsen twin sneezes from the front row. But if models also have a problem with their working conditions, should they really wait until they start losing work to say something? If all the unhealthy models got together and collectively bemoaned, say, losing their periods with the ascension of their careers, they'd surely still get a good bit of publicity, and maybe even better working conditions.
ABC announced last month that Diane Sawyer would depart Good Morning America at the end of the year to replace Charles Gibson as anchor of ABC's World News. Now we hear that the morning show's co-anchor, Chris Cuomo, is leaving the program as well. According to a well-placed source, Cuomo plans to move over to 20/20, taking over for John Stossel who left ABC in September to join Fox News and Fox Business.
Cuomo's departure is believed to be partly due to the fact that Sawyer is leaving. Cuomo has been close to Sawyer since arriving at ABC in 1999, and reportedly views her as something of a mentor at the network. But another factor may be that Cuomo's wife, Cristina, is expecting the couple's third child in a few months and working on a weekly newsmagazine like 20/20 is considerably less grueling than waking up at three o'clock in the morning five days a week to co-anchor GMA. And while the move isn't a huge leap for the hunky newsman—he's contributed to numerous 20/20 stories in the past—it does mean that execs at ABC News, who are still debating who will replace Sawyer on Good Morning America, will now have two positions to fill, instead of just one.
We called a ABC News spokesperson to confirm Cuomo's move to 20/20. She declined to comment.
Update: A Good Morning America spokesperson has responded: "There are no changes expected right now at GMA, and no decision has been made as to who is going to be taking Diane's place on the program." She declined to answer any further questions.
Manolo Blahnik: "I hate celebrities. All those pointless girls — I won't name names, but you know who I mean. They are 'famous.' Ridiculous. I like women with style: Actresses like Uma Thurman, icons like Audrey Hepburn. I like women with style to wear my shoes." This isn't the first time the footwear designer expressed disdain for superstars — in September he said Sex and the City made him "sick," even though his blue stiletto basically headlined the movie. Who do you think Manolo is referencing now? [Vogue UK]
This is a Recap of Mad Men Season 3, Episode 10 entitled “The Color Blue”. All the captions are not dumb things added by me, they were all spoken/thought in the episode verbatim.
Big doinz in the Mad Men world — Episode thoughts, people? Predictions for the end of the season? Leave ‘em in the comments.
Also, I couldn’t fit it into the captions, but I couldn’t help but think of Chief Wiggum’s quote, “WHAT is your fascination with my Forbidden Closet of Mystery?”
Falcon Heene pulled off a legendary two-network vomit and Tyra aired the first live colonic on TV, but it was Law & Order’s take on Jon & Kate Plus 8 that made Friday the Best Day Ever:
We’re not quite sure how the fine people of College Humor managed to create this well done parody video featuring everyone’s most favorite inanimate object, the PIXAR Lamp. (Though the words “Craigslist” and “ITT Tech Graduate do spring to mind.”) It is the story of the little white lamp that Disney folk do not want you to see. This is almost too professional and certainly heartbreaking. Though the letter “X” really steals the show at the end there.
For the first time in their three seasons collaborating, shoe designer Nicholas Kirkwood's almost-pants boots from Rodarte's fall 2009 collection are available for sale. However, you can only buy them in the Dover Street Market in the U.K for £2,250, or $3,687.75. If you don't see the value in that, well, Balmain's fall leather motorcycle jacket is $12,050. So the boots are practically free! Update: A Rodarte rep informs us the boots will also be available in this country at Opening Ceremony and Barneys. They should hit stores "super soon." [Dazed Digital]
Ivanka Trump will walk down the aisle with Jared Kushner in six days. But while she may have settled on a location (her dad's golf course in New Jersey, naturally) and a dress (by Vera Wang, of course), she's still having some difficulty picking a wedding song. Feel free to shoot her a message on Twitter if you have any bright ideas. Don't bother, though, if all you can come up with is the JK Wedding Dance: We're going to take a leap and assume she and Jared have already ruled out that YouTube favorite. [Twitter]
Well, it’s a Glee post, so allow us to begin with a warning — at the right.
It’s Monday, and that means we have two sneak preview clips from this week’s all new episode of Glee. Spoilers clearly follow, and in a way, we hate that they release these clips before the show. Sure, if we had any sort of willpower whatsoever, we would just skim ahead and not check out the previews, meaning that every musical number would be presented as fresh and new during the episode. But because we, like you, are animals, we can’t help but soak up as many Glee spoilers as possible. We really, really pray this practice stops in the coming months. (Ed. Note: We kid. Fill our loins with spoiler vids, powers that Glee.)
Now, as we learned last week, the hottest man in the cast, Puck, is actually a member of the tribe (the Jewish kind, not the more obvious Native American choice, though he could easily pass). As such, he turns his romantic attentions to Rachel, the Glee Club’s lead Jewess and she formerly of the “dorkiest girl in school” HQ. While this plotline may be a gigantic stretch, it still allows for Puck, playing by Robbie Williams impersonator Mark Salling, to get his own solo. And sorry Finn, but it looks like we have a new “Male Lead”:
Even “Wheels” can’t help but fall a little bit in love with him. After 6 viewings, I still love this clip.
On the other side of the spectrum, there’s Will and his penchant for rapping things in the most Caucasian way possible. This week it’s Sisqo’s “The Thong Song”. This song has a long and sordid past for yours truly, revolving around a slow dance with the lead singer of Third Eye Blind, where the lyrics were whisper-sung into my earhole with my full, albeit slightly embarrassed, consent. (This is a story I’d rather not blog about as I’m saving it for my Grandkids.) So clearly nothing will ever top that rendition, but DEFINITELY not Schu’s white ass dancing around the rehearsal room while Emma stands there awkwardly in a Renaissance wedding get-up:
The above video has inspired us to create the following petition…
EVENTS
• Check out the nonprofit green pop-up shop BoHo Bodega, which features products from ecoconscious brands like Simply Organic, VitaCoco, and Sambazon. The shop will host events including live music, educational seminars, and workshops, as well as offer free samples of products, food, and drinks. All proceeds benefit various charities, including the Council on the Environment of New York City. Through 10/25. 220 Lafayette St., nr. Spring St.; T (6–10), W–S (10–10), Su (11–6).
SALES STARTING TOMORROW
• Womenswear, menswear, shoes, and handbags are 70 to 80 percent off at the Elie Tahari fall sample sale. The women’s sleeveless sequin cocktail dress is $99 (originally $598), the charcoal-colored cashmere-blend trench coat with fox-fur collar is $499 (originally $995), and the black snakeskin classic pumps are $79 (originally $495). Through 10/24. 510 Fifth Ave., nr. 43rd St. (212-398-2622); T–F (8:30–7:30), S (10–5).
ONGOING
• Shop deep discounts on men's and women's apparel, footwear, handbags, wallets, and accessories from Prada and Miu Miu. Through 10/23. 609 W. 51st St., nr. Eleventh Ave.; S–Su (9–6), M–F (10–7).
• Gilt Groupe is the exclusive online retailer for a new line of Versace tote bags illustrated by children who have been victims of illness or earthquake in the U.S. and China. All proceeds benefit the Starlight Foundation and the One Foundation. Those who purchase a tote by December 1 will also receive a 20 percent discount at any Versace boutique in the U.S. Through 12/1. Online only.
A visitor looks at the painting "The birth of Venus" by Eugene Emmanuel Amaury-Duval (L) and "Bather" of William Adolphe Bouguereau (R) during the opening of the exhibition "Tears of Eros" at the Thyssen-Bornemisza... Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 19 Oct 2009 | 11:54 am
Remember that $2 million lawsuit that was filed against NBC a couple of weeks ago for using several fonts in a recent ad campaign without securing permission? NBC never responded to our request for a comment when we first reported on the suit. Fortunately, "Weekend Update" anchor Seth Meyers issued a response on Saturday Night Live this past weekend: "The joke is on them. We don't have 2 million dollars!" [NBC, previously]
Fashion Wire Daily - The atmosphere was frenzied and tense as people crowded into Badgley Mischka's showroom on Sunday, Oct. 18, for one of the most hotly anticipated bridal gown collections to be shown this week as designers like Vera Wang, Nicole Miller and Monique Lhuillier present their bridal offerings for next year to press and buyers in New York.
This photo of an Easter Llama at Wal-Mart, courtesy of the internet’s visual census bureau known as People of Walmart, makes us feel so many things. Let’s try to forget, for a moment, how beautifully accessorized she is, and, if you can, avert your gaze from her ever so geisha-like stare. (Note: You can’t.) Do people out there really live like this? Do they really live this dream? To take a llama dressed like a rabbit to Wal-Mart to pick up some rando household accessories and flammable clothing?
Congratulations, dude in the hat and blurface girl. You are living our American Dream.
surprisingly, the sexy starlet did have issues locking lips with co-star Amanda Seyfried for some steamy scenes in Jennifers Body. Source: FOXNews.com | 19 Oct 2009 | 10:05 am
After a few months out of the spotlight, American Idol star Adam Lambert is re-taking the media by storm in a full fledged publicity-splosion to promote his new album, which will finally be released next month. First, we’re blessed with the full version of his theme from the upcoming disaster flick 2012, titled “Time for Miracles.” It sounds like a more enjoyable “I Don’t Wanna Miss a Thing”, and we can only assume that many heterosexual couples will enjoy dancing to it on their wedding day. Because if there’s one thing wedding first dances enjoy, it’s slow dancing to theme songs from post-apocalyptic and/or disaster films (see, also, the Godzilla/Puff Daddy collabo “Come With Me.”) And “Time For Miracles” is exactly the kind of over-the-top epic ballad that we hope all couples begin their journey to the grave with. (EW’s Michael Slezakwrites an entire essay about the comparison, which we will link to only to prove our own musical intelligence.)
We, for one, are extremely happy to see Lambert’s chiseled face back in the spotlight, specifically on the cover of Details magazine, where his pout, combined with those indigo laser beams he calls “eyes”, will no doubt cause the mag to fly off the shelves and into the hands of fags and their requisite hags faster than you can turn to the always endearing “Gay or Asian” section of the magazine.
But what’s perhaps most… alluring… about the issue is the inside photospread, where Lambert and some betch — we mean — model, get “cozy”, if your definition of cozy is pantsless and includes second base, which ours does.
(Ahead, exclusive, albeit tiny, photos from the inside spread. Pretty sure we mean that literally.)
OH SH*T YES. Even though Adam has been rocking a bit of the Kate Gosselin as of late, we’ve always preferred the 50s gelled back style seen so often on John Travolta in the movie Grease. And we’re feeling the brows.
Who. The. F*CK. Is This Woman? Well, it’s good to know that Adam can handle approximately 88 whole pounds settled on his lap cause he a real man. Also, OMG, scandalous.
Yeah, we’re not buying this makeout session any more than those other photo(s?) of him making out with women in high school. That being said, “We See What You Did There, Details.” (Pre-ordering 50 copies etc.)
OMG HE’S HAND BRA-ING IT.
Sexy? Yes. Convincing? Nnnnnot really but we appreciate the effort and will certainly pick up our own copy… “for the articles.” (photos via Allie is Wired)
AP - "9 Dragons" (Little, Brown, 374 pages, $27.99), by Michael Connelly: The epigram on the matchbook says "Happy is the man who finds refuge in himself."
This Halloween, pay tribute to the Muppets while also scaring the f*cking sh*t out of everyone and everything with this terrifying-ass full-body Kermit costume!
Hi ho, I am Giant Horrifying Kermit Theee Frog, here to murder you the second you fall asleep! Sweet dreams — Yaaaaaaaaay!!!!!
"The Hills" star Stephanie Pratt was arrested on suspicion of drunk driving in Hollywood early Sunday morning, the Los Angeles Police Department confirmed.
Fashion Wire Daily - For the traditional bride, the wedding day is the chance to dress and feel like a princess, and Monique Lhuillier, known for her dreamy, romantic bridal gowns worn by celebrities like Jewel, Ashley Simpson and Alicia Silverstone, is the go-to designer for the ultimate fantasy dress.
A boy looks at books on US President Barack Obama at the International Book Fair in Frankfurt. The Frankfurt Book Fair, at which China was guest of honour, suffered a "slight drop" in numbers this year... Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 19 Oct 2009 | 7:49 am
AP - "A Woman Among Warlords: The Extraordinary Story of an Afghan Who Dared to Raise Her Voice" (Scribner, 231 pages, $25), by Malalai Joya with Derrick O'Keefe: At 31, Malalai Joya has a long and courageous record of fighting for women's rights in Afghanistan. Now she is focusing on war lords, drug lords and corruption and the leaders she sees as supporting them.
In five years, Armando Christian Perez has gone from a mouthy Miami street hustler to a chart-topping hip-hop star whose infectious Caribbean beats have enticed crossover audiences to swing their hips and sing along.
AP - "Her Fearful Symmetry" (Scribner, 416 pages, $26.99), by Audrey Niffenegger: If Audrey Niffenegger's debut novel, "The Time Traveler's Wife," was based on love, her follow-up calls on much darker fare: jealousy, possessiveness, immaturity and dishonesty.
Flip through YouTube for five minutes and beyond the bad "Star Wars" parodies and nose-picking tutorials, you'll notice there are a lot of people out there who can sing. Really sing.
Singer Beyonce Knowles, pictured, has postponed her concert in Malaysia planned for this weekend, organisers have said, but they denied the move was linked to threats of protests by Muslim groups. Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 19 Oct 2009 | 6:04 am
You wouldn't know it to look at her, but Kelly Osbourne ended her paso doble in pain.
The unexplained injury that resulted in her gingerly dancing the group hustle in bare feet also...
Aaron Carter may have been compared to the biggest heartthrob of the 24/7 gossip era, but he wasn't the only contestant who raised his game tonight.
Each of the remaining 10 celebs...
If Carrie Prejean thought she could just take the boobs and run, she was sorely mistaken.
K2 Productions, which directs the Miss California USA pageant, has countersued the litigious...
We're not sure if anyone was in cahoots with the Balloon Brood, but we're starting to get a long list of those people who aren't, right William Shatner? What do you say, Jimmy...
Could Izzie (Katherine Heigl) be running away to L.A. to hang with Addison (Kate Walsh)?
Or maybe it's McSteamy (Eric Dane) who's heading down south—what? We mean to...
A judge has untangled Chris Rock's Good Hair.
A woman's bid to prevent the wide release of the comedian's latest feature, claiming Rock swiped the premise for his...
• With all this Balloon Boy stuff, we've forgotten about our dear Jon & Kate for a brief second. Where are they? Oh, just in Vanity Fair. Poor Kate feels "like a prisoner" of...
Whether he liked it or not—and he apparently did not—Larry Birkhead was back on the stand today talking about Anna Nicole Smith, her drug-fueled ways and the effect it may...
Stop it, Fox. Stop making us so damn happy!
Not only is Glee quickly becoming our favorite series on television this season—there, we said it!—but Fox just confirmed to us...
ABC 
Well, it’s a Glee post, so allow us to begin with a warning — at the right.
