AP - David Letterman, after a week off, dived right into material about Tiger Woods on the "Late Show" on Monday, joking that he wishes the golfer would stop calling him to ask for advice.
David Letterman, after a week off, dived right into material about Tiger Woods on the "Late Show" on Monday, joking that he wishes the golfer would stop calling him to ask for advice. ... Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 8 Dec 2009 | 1:57 am
AP - David Letterman, after a week off, dived right into material about Tiger Woods on the "Late Show" on Monday, joking that he wishes the golfer would stop calling him to ask for advice.
Birds of a Feather: Elijah Wood and Robin Williams are in talks to reprise their roles as Mumble and Ramon in Happy Feet 2, the sequel to the Oscar-winning Happy Feet. Mumble, if you don't remember, is the plucky penguin who can't sing but loves to dance. Ramon is the manic jokester with hairy little arms. Director George Miller has also returned to the sequel. Since the original was buoyed by penguin-mania in 2007, we're guessing Miller is figuring out a way to make sure this one rides a similar wave. So, vampires penguins! [THR]
In the Banks: According to Michael Ausiello over at EW, Elizabeth Banks is headed to 30 Rock to play Jack Donaghy’s latest fling. She'll follow Julianne Moore, who kicks off an arc this week as Jack's high school crush. Jack should make sure he keeps both women away from Tracy. We hear he has a way with the ladies. [Ausiello/EW]
Balls and Chains: VH1 has heretofore been silent in the world of housewife related reality shows. No more! Yesterday the channel picked up Basketball Wives, an eight episode half-hour series that will focus on the wives and girlfriends of current and former NBA-ers Shaquille O’Neal, Eric Williams, Antoine Walker, Jermaine O’Neal and Udonis Haslem. Golf Wivesprobably would have been much more entertaining. [THR]
Two White Males: Frank Langella has joined Liam Neeson, January Jones and Diane Kruger in Unknown White Male, a thriller from Dark Castle films. The movie will focus on a man (Neeson) who awakens from a coma to find that someone else has assumed his identity. Langella will play the man's friend who helps him reclaim his identity and shows him how to use a cell phone. [Variety]
Hey Fela: Steve McQueen has signed on to direct Fela, a feature film based on the life of Fela Kuti. McQueen will write the script for the Focus Features film and base it on Michael Veal's book Fela: The Life and Times of an African Musical Icon. The film has no connection to the Broadway musical Fela!, except that it too will feature fantastic asses. [Variety]
New Jersey's same-sex marriage bill will be put to a vote by the full Senate on Thursday after it squeaked through the state's Senate Judiciary Committee by one vote last night. The committee's passage of the bill marked the first time a New Jersey legislative body has approved gay marriage.
Of course, that doesn't matter if the bill can't pass the full Senate, a prospect that's not looking great. Supporters haven't yet secured the 21 votes needed for passage and the bill's opposition has pledged to "be heard in the end.” Little is certain in New Jersey's fight for gay marriage, but at least one thing is: supporters need to hurry up. Chris Christie, a gay marriage opponent, takes office on January 19.
The health department has issued a warning to anyone considering hugging a raccoon in Central Park: Don't! Last week, two rabid raccoons were discovered in the park, bringing the city's total for the year to three, two more than in the past six years combined. So if you insist on hugging raccoons, just make sure they're not foaming at the mouth. [City Room/NYT]
According to a study from the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corp., Redbox, which operates one dollar DVD rental kiosks, and companies like it have cost the entertainment industry $1 billion. And it's not over: "the nationwide declines in home video revenue will cause an additional $500 million in losses as more than 9,000 related job cuts wipe out almost $400 million in wages." [THR]
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Elijah Wood and Robin Williams are in negotiations to reprise their roles as lead voices in "Happy Feet 2." Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 7 Dec 2009 | 9:33 pm
Why do people as famous as Tiger Woods think they can get away with cheating? Let's face it: If you're that famous and you have an affair with so many women, someone's talking...
Senator Harry Reid has had about enough of Republicans and their "let's take our time" attitude on health care reform. This morning on the Senate floor he railed against those pushing Democrats to forget their wholesale approach to fixing health care and urging small steps instead.
"You think you've heard these same excuses before? You're right," Reid said. "In this country there were those who dug in their heels and said, 'Slow down, it's too early. Let's wait. Things aren't bad enough' — about slavery. When women wanted to vote [they said] 'Slow down, there will be a better day to do that — the day isn't quite right...'"
Republicans did not like:
"Having made this disgraceful statement on the floor of the United States Senate, Mr. Reid should immediately apologize on the Senate floor to his colleagues, to his constituents, and to the American people. If he is going to stand by these statements, the Democrats must immediately reconsider his fitness to lead them,” RNC Chairman Michael Steele said.
"They are so desperate that it is unbelievable. And for Senator Reid to go out this morning and make such an outlandish statement like he made, just is another indication of the desperation that the Democrats are showing and the pressure that they're feeling," said Sen. Saxby Chambliss.
Reid isn't backing down, though he left it to his spokesman to respond to critics. Presumably, his foot was still lodged in his mouth.
Michael Bay was born to direct Victoria's Secret commercials. Those movies he makes just allow him to collect paychecks when he's not performing his true calling. Bay has directed five Victoria's Secret commercials before and they've all been leading up to his latest. Sure, his previous efforts have included quick cuts, loud music and women in high heels and underwear. But never before has Bay combined those elements with the desert, helicopters, motorcycles, fire breathing, knife throwing and gratuitous, unexplained explosions. It's poetry.
Michelle Duggar must be counting the days until she goes into labor.
The pregnant 18 Kids and Counting mom, whose 19th child is due this spring, was rushed to an Arkansas...
A Footprint Films handout photo shows actor Damon Gameau (centre) playing Greg Shackleton in the film Balibo which depicts the murders of Australian-based journalists during Indonesia's 1975 invasion of... Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 7 Dec 2009 | 8:29 pm
East Timor's President, Jose Ramos-Horta, recollects the events of Indonesia's 1975 invasion of East Timor at the launch of the film 'Balibo'. Gatot Purwanto, a former Indonesian special forces commando,... Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 7 Dec 2009 | 8:29 pm
Retired Indonesian army special forces colonel Gatot Purwanto at a cinema house in Jakarta on December 7 following the special screening of the banned Australian movie "Balibo", depicting alleged war crimes... Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 7 Dec 2009 | 8:29 pm
AP - Kristin Wiig's recurring character Gilly might not seemed filled with holiday cheer, yet NBC is turning to her to host a "Saturday Night Live" Christmas special.
Reuters - Any number of movies have served as the basis for stage musicals -- even "Gone With the Wind" was bravely attempted, though with predictable results.
Thirty-three year old Jeremy Olson was arrested today after he chucked two tomatoes at Sarah Palin from the second floor balcony of the Mall of America in Minnesota. He missed. [NYDN]
Brandon Flores is a serious Blink-182 fan. So serious, in fact, that the San Diego native has written a movie about the band's early days, from its founding by Tom DeLonge, Mark Hoppus and original drummer Scott Raynor, to the day Hoppus and DeLongue met Travis Barker following Raynor's exit. Impressive, right? Not if you're Blink-182. Flores has tried, and failed, to secure the band's blessing for the film and the rights to some of its songs. Which means he may be making his movie without any of the band's actual music. Somebody call Sum 41.
Blink-182 Biopic Moving Ahead -- With Or Without Blink's Blessing [MTV News]
• A few tricks that some eateries rely on to get you to open your wallet. [NYM] • Permanent Brunch has reopened after getting shut down last week. [GS] • Tavern on the Green's fixtures go up for auction next month. [NYT] • Adam Platt looks at what happened to dining out during the aughts. [NYM] • A handful of celebrity chefs has some weight loss tips, oddly enough. [Time] • Duvet has been shuttered following a report of a rape inside the club. [NYP] • Looking to meet a banker? A list of bars popular with the Wall Street set. [BI]
The employees of Goldman Sachs just moved into a badass new building in Battery Park and already they've found something to complain about. It's not the falling glass that may or not be killing people on the street, but the hideous mural greeting them inside the building's entrance. Titled both Sunrise, Sunset, and The Windmill, The Water, and The Grain (artists!), the $10 million Franz Ackermann mural is "loud and cartoonish" according to Clusterstock and universally detested by Goldman employees. It's also not alone. Another piece of art at a different entrance (this, a $5 million untitled painting by Julie Mehretu ) is equally reviled. What's that saying about money buying taste?
We're not going to lie. We'd love to know how Elin Nordegren voted in our Elin Nordegren poll. According to RadarOnline, she decided to deal with her Tiger Woods problem by not dealing...
Front Page: McQueen to direct film on African musician -- Focus Features has set Steve McQueen to direct "Fela," a feature film based on the life of African musician and activist Fela Anikulapo Kuti -- the subject of the recently opened Broadway musical "Fela!"
'Cause when it's over, you won't have anything new until April!
The good...
How did Tiger Woods allegedly keep track of so many alleged mistresses? We're finding it to be quite the chore to keep track of which cocktail waitress is denying what and who's sexting...
Tony Shalhoub cemented his status as the most successful actor from Wings last Friday when Monk's series finale was the most watched episode of an hour-long drama in the history of basic cable. With 9.4 million viewers, the show broke the record held by an episode of TNT's The Closer. Eat it Thomas Haden Church. [WSJ]
Leave it to Shayne Lamas to do what she needs to do.
Two days ahead of her scheduled court appearance, the E! star pleaded Monday to a lesser charge of "wet reckless" in...
Perhaps Andy Keaton still reeling from the whole mom's-a-lesbian thing.
Brian Bonsall, who played the youngest member of the Keaton clan on Family Ties, is in trouble with the...
Once again our concert wrap-up Out on the Weekend runs the gamut of New York City live music, from the big stuff (Phish at MSG) to the little (Golden Error at Dead Herring). In between we have Friendly Fires, Raphael Saadiq, Pissed Jeans, El Vez & Los Straitjackets, the Lovely Elvettes, the xx, Crystal Antlers, and Twisted Sister. Enjoy the pretty pictures.
Turns out Tiger blood was a hot commodity for a while.
The Florida Highway Patrol requested, and was ultimately denied, a blood sample from Tiger Woods because the "witness" who...
When we set out to recap this weekend's Blake Lively–Rihanna episode of Saturday Night Live, we never really thought to include the sketch that spoofed the Tiger Woods incident in our write-up because, frankly, topicality doesn't always equate to hilarity. Well, it seems that the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence agrees with our take, only instead of just ignoring the sketch entirely like we chose to, they're making a big stink out of what really was a forgettable four minutes of Kenan Thompson lisping and Jason Sudeikis misfiring on his Wolf Blitzer impression.
TMZ spoke with the association's executive director, one Rita Smith, who went on record as being "horrified" that the skit "made such a mockery of abuse." We suppose that, upon reflection, it probably wasn't Lorne Michaels's proudest moment when he decided to approve a bit that poked fun at Elin Woods's now infamous temper when a victim of domestic violence would later perform onstage as the evening's musical guest, but we also feel like the NCADV is probably overreacting a bit to what seemed to us to be a fairly innocuous sketch. Take a look for yourself and let us know if you concur.
If you thought the Olsen twins were the two worst things that John Stamos ever had to deal with, you haven't met this pair.
The FBI has arrested a couple of Michigan residents for...
Say you were a company intent, for some reason, on selling dog-shaped cell-phone speakers to the discerning consumers of Japan — how would you do it? To be honest, we're not sure we'd have ever thought to shoot a commercial in which Quentin Tarantino dons a kimono, bluffs kung-fu moves, and speaks in what even we can tell is pretty terrible Japanese. But Soft Bank Mobile Corporation did, and we'll be damned if we don't now want a dog-shaped cell-phone speaker. Movieline has an English translation of the dialogue, but it probably won't help you make any sense of this thing.
Soul legend Chaka Khan, pop singer Lady GaGa and actress Whoopi Goldberg, seen here in October 2009, were among stars to entertain Queen Elizabeth II and her husband Monday at Britain's annual Royal Variety... Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 7 Dec 2009 | 4:26 pm
Yes, this is Kevin Cronin's real, unretouched face.
Because we suspect few of you are middle-aged Midwestern women, you might not be aware that REO Speedwagon is still touring. Well, they are: The 42-year-old band from Champaign, Illinois, did more than 100 shows last year, many of which were faithfully documented by lead singer Kevin Cronin on his website. (Sample missive: “We were gathered just off stage left, along with Rick Springfield, and an amazing group of world-champion figure skaters, including Brian Boitano and Peggy Fleming.”)
Like all aging rock bands who team with Styx and .38 Special for tours with names like Can’t Stop Rockin’, they are constantly looking to new ways to expand their fan base. Thus, REO Speedwagon has kept the fire burnin’ with … a video game. The downloadable game is titled REO Speedwagon: Find Your Own Way Home, and features the band using “the popular ‘hidden object mystery game’ model to deliver the music of REO Speedwagon to a huge global gaming audience.” We didn’t have the foggiest idea what that meant, so we talked to Cronin about the game, girls' night out, pirates, and how their Christmas album is just like Bob Dylan’s.
So you’re doing a video game in which you and your band mates are characters. That’s something that actually exists.
I haven’t played it yet — my Internet has been down in my neighborhood for a couple of days. We have demoed the game, though, and it’s remarkable. The graphics are so dense, and the color is just remarkable. We re-recorded one of our classic songs, “Roll With the Changes,” for the game and gave them an exclusive version of it. It’s an outgrowth of the whole Rock Band/Guitar Hero syndrome. You can win real-world prizes in the game, too.
Is this game for kids?
It’s not a coincidence that the people who designed this game chose our band to use. These are what they call “casual games,” aimed more at the people who would tend to be REO Speedwagon fans, people who are in their thirties and forties, maybe moms who, when the kids are at school, they have a little free time and they play the casual video games. The REO Speedwagon audience is full of what we call “girls' night out.” I’m married, and I have three kids at home, and I know that my wife needs to get out with her girlfriends sometimes, needs to go out and get dressed up and have some fun. REO Speedwagon shows are a place that a lot of people go for girls night out. Leave kids home with Dad for the night and go out and rock and roll. There was a conscious effort to reach that segment of the population with the game.
That said, I have 10-year-old twin boys, and I wanted to make sure this game was PG-rated. I didn’t want to have to worry about my kids going on to the REO Speedwagon video game and finding some horrific things. It’s aimed at moms, but kids can play it too. I can’t wait for my kids to get home from school today so they can play, now that our Internet is working again.
Does it have a plot?
My virtual guy, my character, has his own yacht, and he’s sailing around the world, and he gets lost in Bora Bora. This sexy female reporter from some fictitious Entertainment Tonight–like show is trying to find me, because there’s some big album-release party in Beverly Hills, and no one can find me. That’s kind of cool. I like to fancy myself the kind of guy who would be so fancy-free that I would just get on my yacht and sail to Bora Bora the day before the album-release party. I had to approve the look of my virtual avatar dude. I must say, he’s quite handsome and very charming. Much more so than the actual me. The game is very basic. You’re in this room, and you have to find a guitar, a CD, a guitar pick, an REO Speedwagon T-shirt, mixed in and hidden in the surroundings. You click on it and it makes a little noise, and when you find everything on that page, you go to the next page. You don’t really need to have graduated from the University of Illinois like us to play this game.
Didn’t you guys do a cruise-ship concert series with Journey and Styx? There have been rumors of a pirate infestation. Is that true? Can you confirm or deny?
I can’t swear to the fact that there were no pirates, or that there were pirates. There may have been pirates on that ship. It was a big ship. I didn’t run into them, and did not engage in any sort of swordplay. I saw no pirate-like activity. But that’s not to say something couldn’t have happened onboard. If someone claimed there were pirates onboard, there very well may have been. I could have just missed them.
You have a Christmas album out now, called Not So Silent Night ... Christmas with REO Speedwagon. What is that, exactly?
We do standards, “Little Drummer Boy,” “Silent Night,” similar to what Bob Dylan has done: Take a classic Christmas song and twist it into something that you do, in his case a Bob Dylan song, in our case an REO Speedwagon song. We took some liberty with the chord changes and the arrangements, while sustaining a reverence to the song itself. I was an altar boy, and have a visceral reaction to these songs, so we try to keep the original intent while making them our own. We got into it because it’s something we wanted to do for our kids; it’s something REO Speedwagon has never done.
We think “Can’t Fight This Feeling” is an amazing karaoke song.
How does one discern whether a given song is good or bad for karaoke?
It has a nice chorus. Plus, you can physically crawl across the floor and crash through a door.
Well, thank you.
AP - A publicist for Alexa Ray Joel says the daughter of Billy Joel is feeling better two days after being hospitalized in New York for a possible overdose of pills.
Robert Downey Jr. was honored today by leaving his handprints, footprints, and signature in front of the Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, assuring his place in “tourists being surprised by their hand sizes to relation to his” history for all of time. As expected, RDJ accepted the honor with the understated humility befitting that of the true Tony Stark:
A Grauman’s signature isn’t technically on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, but on the plus side…it’s not on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame. So, congrats to him.
Playbill - Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing is to be revived at London's Old Vic Theatre in a new production that will star Toby Stephens and be directed by Anna Mackmin. It will begin performances April 10, prior to an official opening April 21. Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 7 Dec 2009 | 4:13 pm
Front Page: Media conference looks at the implications -- Perhaps the best thing about the prospect of NBC Universal joining forces with Comcast is that the cable giant is a pure media company with a "singular focus," NBC U chief exec Jeff Zucker told an investor confab Monday.
Lists are being compiled all over the place on who has accepted the Times's latest buyout bid. Executive Editor Bill Keller needs to eliminate 100 positions, and the deadline to accept the buyout (which was offered to everyone) was today. Keith Kelly doesn't think he'll get near that number, but a few prominent names have already surfaced. (Last week the estimated number was closer to 50). The Business Insider has a list of business reporters, including vet Geraldine Fabrikant, while Politico has some of the D.C. takers. We don't know why, but we're most struck by the poignancy of this report, which has Edmund Andrews also taking the escape package. Andrews wrote the book Busted about his personal financial woes since the housing crash, and subsequently received flak for not disclosing that his wife had filed for bankruptcy twice before the financial meltdown. We're not sure what it means when someone who made his name on his own fiscal woes thinks it’s a better idea to take a pay package and jump ship from a steady job than it is to stay at the Times, but we're sure it will come to us.
Barneys has endured a mess of financial difficulties this year. They, like every other high-end department store, lost a bunch of money. They weren't paying bills on time, forcing parent company Istithmar, despite its own financial woes, to pump $25 million into the chain. But last month billionaire Ron Burkle purchased a chunk of Barneys's debt, which was seen as a long-term vote of confidence in all that Barneys has to offer even though he got it for 60 cents on the dollar. Same-store sales were up 7 percent in October, and bill collectors now say things like, “Barneys is paying us beautifully." So there could be no better time to make a plan to open a new store in the city in the next five years. Sources close to the situation say Barneys has its eye on Atlantic Avenue in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, for a new Co-Op outpost. As typically happens when someone makes the first, supposedly terrifying leap from Manhattan to Brooklyn, there are naysayers, like this guy:
“They have to be careful,” says Michael Appel, president of retail consulting firm Quest Turnaround Advisors. “I don't know if there are enough of those high-end luxury-forward customers out there.”
Yet there are also supporters! The people who know someone's social life and the World won't collapse if they make the leap to Brooklyn:
“Brooklyn is a logical move for them,” says Laura Pomerantz, a principal at PBS Realty.
She may be a commission-hungry realtor, but she's right. Because if the recession has taught us anything, it's that when times get tough those "high-end luxury-forward customers" can't be counted on. Plus as Real Housewives fashion-forward power couple Silex proved long ago, there are luxury-hungry, St. Barths–gallivanting people living in Brooklyn who happily pay full retail prices wherever they are, possibly to make up for their insecurities about living in Brooklyn.
Front Page: Music firm joins Universal and Sony as platform bows -- EMI Music has joined forces with Vevo, the online music and entertainment service powered by YouTube and co-founded by the Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment.
State prosecutors have decided not to press criminal charges against Sandra Herold, the a Connecticut woman whose pet chimpanzee, Travis, ate the face off her friend Charla Nash this summer, on the grounds that Travis "had not previously exhibited violent behavior" especially toward Nash, "with whom he interacted regularly." Charla Nash and her family don't feel exactly the same way, unsurprisingly. They've filed a $50 million suit against Herold. [ABC News] Earlier:Travis the Chimp’s Owner Getting Sued for $50 Million
Leigh Lezark ran into her twin (Laure Heriard Dubreuil) at the Viktor & Rolf Dinner in Miami on Friday. Both were in similar spring 2010 Viktor & Rolf dresses.
Elie Hirschfeld, the prominent New York developer whose wife, Susan, accused him of "feigning diarrhea," in order to ditch out of a family vacation, fly a private jet home, and empty his marital apartment of furniture china, silver, furs, jewelry, and some $30 million in artwork shortly before their divorce last year, is selling his East Hampton estate. The oceanfront property, which is going for $25 million, spans 1.2 acres and has eight bedrooms, five fireplaces, a heated pool, a sun/game room, large living salon, library, formal dining room, and gourmet kitchen, in addition to 7.5 very private bathrooms.
What can we say? The man may not have great interior-decorating taste, but he does have balls.
With his jail sentence looming, Lil Wayne is keeping the focus on the music. And what music it is! Two more tracks from Rebirth, “Da Da Da” and “On Fire,” were leaked in the last few days, and they're just as Auto-Tuned as we've come to expect. But Wayne really outdoes himself in this video released today, a jam session with some band called Mayday recorded on the set of the “On Fire” video. While a ponytailed guy tries to figure out how to plug in his bass, and a guitarist with a novelty beard riffs indifferently, Weezy lets rip an excitable string of mumbles and cuss words. (Basically, Shy Ronnie would fit right in here.) And you guys thought Rebirth was a bad idea!
AP - Master storyteller Mike Daisey is a seriously funny man who uses social satire and dark comedy to share deeper insights about human nature. Lately, he's very angry at bankers for causing the 2008 global financial meltdown, and perhaps even madder at the rest of us, too, for not being more outspoken about it.
Front Page: David Maisel to exit once Disney acquisition is finalized -- David Maisel, who was instrumental in securing the funding for Marvel Entertainment to finance its own slate of films, will step down as chairman of the studio when Disney's acquisition of the comicbook company wraps up.
After a month of testimony and seven days of deliberations, former Senate majority leader Joe Bruno was found guilty of two counts of felony corruption this afternoon. He faces up to 20 years in prison. [NYT]
An Albany jury, which had earlier feared that it would deadlock in the corruption case against State Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno, today found him guilty of two charges. They cleared him on five other charges, and couldn't reach a verdict on a sixth. The guilty charges stem from Bruno's relationship with Albany businessman Jared Abbruzzese, who paid Bruno consulting fees eleven times in 2004 but couldn't explain what exactly Bruno was supposed to be doing for him. Bruno also failed to disclose a secret racehorse partnership with Abbruzzese. The former Albany powerhouse, who reigned for fourteen years, is bound to appeal the guilty verdicts, for each of which he faces up to twenty years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
It seems as if Lilly Pulitzer is in collaboration overdrive as of late: The label's paired up with Garnet Hill and LeSportsac. Now the Palm Beach preppy is teaming up with M.A.C. to launch a line of polishes, glosses, and shadows set to hit shelves next month. M.A.C. is normally known for working with groovy artists like Marilyn Minter and Jin Soon Choi, and landing artists like Lady Gaga for ad campaigns, so the pairing did strike us as a bit odd. But M.A.C. added a much-needed dose of coolness to the pink-and-green paisley label; the products are bright, fun, and of course, colorful (it is M.A.C. after all).
$12 to $32, available January 7 at M.A.C. (113 Spring St., nr. Greene St.; 212-334-4641).
Tragic news for those of you looking to get your hands on former Spice Girl Victoria Beckham's latest collection of dresses: A delivery of more than $500,000 worth of Beckham's duds, which was en route to NYC, was hijacked at knifepoint in London over the weekend. [DM]
Weezer has canceled the rest of its December tour after the lead singer was injured in a bus crash in New York.
Rivers Cuomo and band assistant Sarah Kim suffered minor injuries when the group's tour bus skidded on ice, struck a guide rail and slid into a ditch Sunday morning.
Cuomo and Kim were hospitalized after the accident in the upstate New York town of Glen. That's about 40 miles (64 kilometers) west of Albany. They were traveling to a show in Boston.
Cuomo's condition isn't clear.
A message on the band's Web site says Weezer is canceling the rest of its Raditude tour and will try to reschedule those dates.
Calls and e-mails to publicist Jim Merlis weren't immediately returned Monday.
George Lois, the designer behind some of Esquire's most iconic covers (38 of which reside at MoMA), has some choice words for the magazine industry. He tells BlackBook in a lengthy rant:
“Look at Vogue. Oh my God. Vogue and Harper’s once were very well designed magazines. I mean they were exciting to look at. You could not give a shit about fashion and be excited by the whole look of the magazine. You look at Vogue now: it’s not even designed. What a difference. You pick up a Vogue back in the days of [Condé Nast’s Alexander] Lieberman and those guys, and you look at it now, and it’s a disgrace."
How refreshing — a critique of magazines that doesn't attack brazen use of Photoshop. Lois wishes magazines had more white space and fewer headlines on the covers. “Why do you put all those cover lines on? They say, ‘Well, if I don’t get somebody interested in this one, I’ll get somebody interested in that one,’" he adds.
“Meanwhile you go to a newstand, there’s about 200 magazines that all look the same. They got pictures of somebody — some asshole — I’ll never understand how editors and publishers think — showing just a famous person with blurbs all over their face. I’ll never understand why they think that would be something people would want to buy. I don’t get it."
We were thinking the exact same thing today when, glancing absentmindedly at the stack of magazines on our desk, we noticed Sarah Jessica Parker is on the cover of this month's Elle and next month's Glamour. Why is she on so many covers all of a sudden? we asked ourselves. Then we remembered she has that movie coming out about abandoning her yuppie lifestyle to live in the wilderness with Hugh Grant and engage in shenanigans with bears and horses. And then we wondered again why she's on so many covers all of a sudden, because if work didn't pay for them, these issues probably wouldn't be sitting on our desk.
Apparently, 12% of Americans in some poll believed that opponents of Obama’s healthcare plan were “racist.” I know what you’re thinking: “Twelve percent of people in some random poll? That’s not statistically significant enough to even acknowledge, let alone construct an entire PSA around,” but you’d be wrong. Well, correct, but wrong.
Check out the following amazing PSA featuring a bunch of actors (and an actor baby!) defensively telling the camera “I guess that means I’m a racist!” Suck on these apples, you twelve percent of people or something!
I need more examples of people saying that they are racist. This is only a teaser for a full-length 150-minute movie of people saying “I’m a racist,” right?
Apologies for my impersonation of Professor Mathy Mathison here, but if 12% of people in a survey believe a certain thing, that means that barely any people believe that thing.
If you polled a handful of random Americans asking if they believed that leprechauns existed, you could easily get the number up above 12%. If you polled Americans asking if they believed leprechauns were real and against Obama’s health care plan because he’s black, it’d still probably be right around 12%. More than 12% of people believed that this was a good movie; this proves nothing.
But hey, if it results in more awesome PSAs, I’m all in favor of defensive responses to random, tiny statistics. Maybe I’ll go ahead with that leprechaun idea… can someone send me Warwick Davis’ IMDB Pro page?
Goldman Sachs has been taking lots of heat from shareholders, pundits, and politicians in recent weeks. Now even Goldman employees are furious with the firm. The bank recently spent $15 million on two murals for its new downtown office tower—one by Franz Ackermann and another by Julie Mehretu—but employees don't particularly like either of them, and it's "all anyone who walks in can talk about." [Business Insider]
Diane Sawyer says this week is her last as co-anchor of ABC's "Good Morning America" as she prepares to replace Charles Gibson on the network's "World News."
Gibson is retiring. His last broadcast as anchor on "World News" will be Dec. 18. Sawyer starts Dec. 21.
The 63-year-old Sawyer has been on "GMA" for 10 years. She says: "I've calculated -- 2,881 shows. Roughly."
Sawyer made the announcement Monday. She says she hopes "GMA" viewers will "celebrate with us this week, and laugh with us this week, and look back a little with us this week."
New research coming out of MIT reveals people have a difficult time discerning real luxury goods from fakes, and rely instead on the social cues of the person carrying the handbag or wearing the garment. And though the fashion industry has waged a heady battle against the counterfeit industry, Renee Richardson Gosline, an assistant professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, found that 46 percent of people who buy a fake luxury item end up buying the real version of the same thing, even though no one can really tell the difference. [MITnews]
And you were thinking your apartment was tiny. The smallest apartment in the city belongs to Zaarath and Christopher Prokop, who paid $150,000 for a "microstudio" three months ago. It's about 14.9 feet long and 10 feet wide, but the apartment has a window with a view and the building has a doorman, so clearly it could be a lot worse, no? [NYP]
Visitors looks at a gold leaf artwork by artist Richard Wright at Tate Britain in London in October 2009. Wright was named Monday the winner of this year's Turner Prize, contemporary art's most prestigious... Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 7 Dec 2009 | 1:24 pm
SKIN
• Rosie O'Donnell is under fire after saying on television that she "lives to tan" and that "exposure to the sun isn't dangerous." The Ray Festa Melanoma Foundation argued that the comments were "irresponsible" and wants her to make a public-service announcement retracting her comments. [Page Six/NYP]
HAIR
• Scientists at Australia's Queensland Institute of Medical Research have discovered that the gene that develops the hair follicle is also responsible for how curly or straight your hair is. Doctors will now be able to predict the texture of a baby's hair in advance, and some scientists may work to develop a hair-straightening pill to replace metal and ceramic straighteners. [Telegraph UK]
• Mark Salling, better known as Puck on Glee, hates his signature do. "I'm so over the Mohawk," he said. "It was cool for a while, but ... I feel better when I don't have it." Even hot jocks are self-conscious! [People StyleWatch]
MAKEUP
• Diane Kruger is the new international spokesperson for L'Oréal Paris. So, tell your friends? [InStyle UK]
• Sephora is placing twenty vending machines in small JCPenney stores around the country that hold 50 of the store's most popular products, including items from Bare Escentuals, Smashbox, and Philosophy. The machines take credit and debit cards and are made by ZoomSystems, the company that designed the Proactiv and Best Buy vending machines seen in airports. JCPenney plans to evaluate the machines' performances in the spring. [WWD]
• Drugstore makeup brand of your youth Wet 'n Wild is getting a makeover for 2010. The products now feature sleek, more sophisticated packaging and revamped formulas, with the same low price of $1.99 to $4.99. New blue eyeshadow for everyone! [Stylelist]
• Jewelry designer Tarina Tarantino is launching a makeup line to be sold exclusively at Sephora. Products include Sparklicity Shimmer Dust and Eye Dream Hypershadow, complete with gem-encrusted packaging. The line will be available in February. [Beauty & the Blog]
Remember when David Hasselhoff was taken to an involuntary psych ward one week ago? If you don’t remember, click that pink text and the internet will remind you of this!
Wow, hosting the CFTPWDAAies? The second-most prestigious caucus-related award show behind the Tide “Brightest Colorguard Detergent” Caucus Awards? Nice to see the Hoff’ has landed on his feet, until his next relapse when he is literally not on his feet for a while.
The news has been filled with the scandalous details of Tiger Woods' (many) trysts over the past week. But even when there aren't such titillating bombshells to chew over, there are plenty of sex-related stories to digest. Because we're so thoughtful—and to keep up your mood on this dreary Monday—we took the liberty of combing through the past week's headlines and compiling the steamiest information out there.
• Nerds get naked in the first official issue of Diamond magazine, which features co-eds sans clothing from various Ivy League schools, including Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. "The idea is sexiness and intelligence... and that combination is—bam!" says creator and Harvard class of '09 grad Matt Di Pasquale. Feel free to take his word for it. Or don't. [Harvard Crimson, Diamond Mag]
• Scientists at the University of Montreal had to abandon their initial study on porn because they couldn't find any men in their 20s who had never viewed explicit films. So they altered the study to look into those who had watched porn and found some interesting tidbits: Single younger guys tend to watch explicit films three times a week for 40 minutes at a time while guys in relationships do it 1.7 times a week, but for only 20 minutes at a time. Perhaps they're worried about their girlfriends peeking over their shoulders? [Sun]
• The New York Times Magazine put the spotlight on "hypoactive sexual desire disorder" in women. Apparently, thirty percent of young and middle-aged women go through long stretches where they "feel dim desire" or "no wish for sex whatsoever." [NYT]
• One magazine has put together a list of the seven best condoms on the market. To test the condoms for strength, they inflated them like balloons until they burst and "submerged them in saline solution and zapped them with electricity to check for holes." This should come in handy if you get off on electric shock. But you believe in safe sex, too. [ShopSmart via The Frisky]
• When San Francisco residents complained that people were having sex outdoors at a local fair, a member of the "leather community" suggested putting up "public sex tents." Now officials are actually considering it. Not surprisingly, some people aren't exactly psyched about this development. [SF Chronicle]
• Dancing With the Stars' Joanna Krupa posed naked for PETA's "Be an Angel for Animals" campaign covered by nothing but a strategically placed cross. The Catholic League condemned the ads, saying that PETA "exploits Christian symbols." Krupa fired back with a statement, part of which read, "It's understandable that the Catholic League is wary of another sex scandal, but the sex we're talking about pertains to dogs and cats." [Us]
• Guys are more shy about their penis size in the locker room than they are in the bedroom, according to a poll. (Admittedly, this is a survey by Male Edge, a British company that makes penis enlargers). More than 58 percent of men get self-conscious when disrobing in the locker room, while 44 percent get awkward when getting naked in front of their partner. Apparently, "the pressure to look good in the competitive environment of the gym is much more intense than it is in the bedroom," according to a spokesperson. Another surprising discovery? Thirty percent of respondents said they'd rather have a bigger penis than a better job. [PR Log]
• A British couple short on cash is using the $2,100 they've made from appearing in porn films together to pay for their dream wedding in Cancun. The bride has told her mother and most of her friends, but it's unclear whether the couple has screened their threesome scene for their four children. [Sun]
• A company is introducing a "vaginal essence," believe it or not. It's called Vulva Original, but it's not a perfume for a woman's nether parts, in case that's what you were assuming. Rather, it's a "feminine, tantalizing, intimate scent" and "odorous substance" which "satisfies your own smelling pleasure." Whatever that means. It's unclear who's actually buying this, but better start praying you don't get this as a stocking stuffer. [Noticia Scadadia]
Actor and director Mel Gibson, seen here in April 2009, will clear out a prison to shoot scenes for his second movie in Mexico, to take place next year, according to the governor of Veracruz. Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 7 Dec 2009 | 1:13 pm
Yesterday, while watching (hand over mouth, rendering the following impossible to understand) Amazing Wedding Cakes on the Women’s Entertainment Channel (appropriate wav inserted here), a commercial for a local parfumerie known as the “Smells So Good Perfume Outlets” flashed across my screen.
It was then that I discovered my Winter Jam of 2009. Never before had the epitome of luxury collided with the lowpoint of humanity in such a poetic and marvelous way. This youtube video, taped from directly off of someone’s TV, was the only online proof I could find of this work of art, and frankly its sh*tiness only heightens the dramatic effects of the commercial. It is the Andrew Cunanan of local ads.
Seriously, if anyone knows Giorgio Armani, Dolce OR Gabbana, please forward this video to them at once. They. Will. Love. It.
And if you think the “Smells So Good New York” jingle is horrendously amazing, than their website, circa 1994 Geocities launch style, will blow your f**king mind into the stratosphere.
Michaele and Tareq Salahi generated a week's worth of headlines for crashing the state dinner in Washington a couple of weeks ago. But they're hardly the only ones. According to a new report, there have been at least 90 breaches of White House security over the past three decades. [NYP]
Gaga with Babs, walking around in the cold with no pants, and performing on X Factor.
Over the weekend, Lady Gaga was snapped wearing a translucent piece of plastic one can hardly call a dress with fishnets and a furry antler hat in London, where, judging by the current weather, it was probably in the 40s. She then performed inside on X Factor wearing a jacket — more precisely, a Gareth Pugh piece that was basically a more exaggerated version of what Beyoncé wore in her "Diva" video. However, Gaga cast her odd fashion habits aside for her serious sit-down with Barbara Walters, who has named her one of the ten most fascinating people of the year. For that, she wore a serious black Chanel suit and left her only slightly less serious hair elephants, Kermit hats, and face masks with no air holes at home.
She tells Babs in the interview airing Wednesday:
"I love avant-garde style. Today my style muse was my mother ... she had one Chanel suit in the closet when we were growing up, and everything else was knockoffs ... But I'm part designer lover, part fashionista and part handmade garments on my own. I made a lot of my clothes ... The hair bow is cheap to make. You can make it yourself."
This brings up a multitude of thoughts. First, just because one can doesn't mean one should. Second, perhaps Mother Gaga was the influence behind Lady Gaga's shameless Hussein Chalayan bubble-dress knockoff. And third, we have to wonder how Karl Lagerfeld is going to handle Gaga's Chanel plug. He has a habit of making muses of lady pop stars, from Amy Winehouse, who inspired an entire runway show, to Lily Allen, who is now the face of some Chanel purses and performed at his spring 2010 barnyard spectacular. As London Times writer Lynn Barber noted in its Sunday magazine profile of Gaga, "I can see that — yes — with her long face and big schnozz there is a distinct resemblance" between WiHo and Gaga (Gaga explained she dyes her hair blond so people don't confuse them). So, Karl? At least send the girl some jackets so we don't have to watch her freeze and snivel her way through photo ops all winter.
Another sartorial highlight from the Babs special:
Removing her omnipresent dark glasses, she tells Barbara: "They're a part of me. That's the psychotic part of me. I don't take them off for many interviews, but I'll take them off for you because I love you."
And now Barbara Walters can say she knows the true meaning of privilege.
Remember those protests outside AIG last fall? Those angry hearings in Washington? The bus trips to visit the suburban homes of AIG executives. The populist anger has subsided a good deal since then (even if the bill to bail out the firm has gone up), which is probably why five AIG executives are now threatening to quit the company if their pay is cut by Washington. [WSJ]
EVENTS
• Fashion photographer Patrick Demarchelier signs copies of his eponymous new book, featuring more than 400 photographs spanning his career and an introduction by Anna Wintour. Reserve a copy of the book by calling 212-219-9308. Clic Gallery, 255 Centre St., nr. Broome St.; 6:30–7:30.
• Rogan is hosting a Ladies' Shopping Night, featuring "one night stand" prices on all collections. Meet designers from Rogan, White Lightning, Electric Feathers, Nomia, and more. Complimentary drinks from Barefoot Wine & Bubbly will be served. Gift bags by Melvita. RSVP to RSVP@rogannyc.com. 330 Bowery, at Bond St. (646-827-7567); 5–9.
• Shop jewelry deals by Melissa Joy Manning at Equinox Soho, with prices starting at $5. Equinox will be waiving its membership initiation fee for the night and complimentary treats will be provided by Delicatessen. 568 Broadway, nr. Prince St. (212-334-4631); 5–9. After-party: Delicatessen, 54 Prince St., nr. Lafayette St. (212-226-0211); 9–midnight.
SALES STARTING TOMORROW
• Merchandise from Diane Von Furstenberg is up to 75 percent off at the sample sale. New merchandise will be arriving throughout the week. Through 12/11. 260 Fifth Ave., nr. 28th St.; T (9–6:30), W (10–8), Th (10–7), F (9–3).
• Erica Weiner Jewelry and TG170 are hosting a holiday sample sale, offering discounted clothing and $10 vintage earrings and bracelets. Through 12/8. 170 Ludlow St., nr. Stanton St. (212-995-8660); 6–9.
• Hayden-Harnett apparel, bags, shoes, jewelry, and accessories from current and past seasons are 40 to 80 percent off. The Burke satchel is $335 (originally $670), the Sada jacket is $260 (originally $650), and the Thames dress is $140 (originally $280). Through 12/10. The Collective Showroom, 16 W. 36th St., nr. Fifth Ave., Ste. 501; T–Th (11–7).
• Find deals on denim at the James Jeans sample sale. Jeggings are $80 (originally $180), straight- and skinny-leg styles are $80 (originally $180), boot-cut styles are $70 to $80, and one-of-a-kind samples are $15 to $50. Through 12/11. 500 Greenwich St., nr. Spring St., Ste. 202 (212-221-4603); T–Th (9:30-7:30), F (9:30–2).
• Alice + Olivia is hosting a sample sale. Party dresses are $179 (originally $440), fall pants are $99 (originally $297), and tops are $89 (originally $242). Through 12/11. 80 W. 40th St., at Sixth Ave. (212-840-0887); T–F (8–8).
• All men's and women's hats and accessories are 60 to 80 percent off at the Eugenia Kim sample sale. Through 12/12. 347 W. 36th St., nr. Ninth Ave.; T–F (10–7), S (noon–6).
• Handbags, clutches, and accessories are up to 70 percent off at the Lauren Merkin sample sale. The Ava patent bag is $125 (originally $295), the Tatum patent bag is $130 (originally $325), and Stella totes are $295 (originally $595). Through 12/12. 231 W. 29th St., nr. Seventh Ave., Ste. 201 (212-239-2459); T–F (11–7), S (11–4).
Comedian Scott Aukerman of LA’s infamous Comedy Death-Ray had the good graces to take a couple of snap shot’s while inexplicably sitting through a screening of the new Robin Williams-John Travolta joint Old Dogs. He then tweeted some of those photos.
SO BE WARNED: If you were planning on seeing Old Dogs, do NOT look at the below photo for it will apparently spoil the end of the film. However, if you choose instead to spend your $11 more wisely, say, by picking up an elderly prostitute, or buying a syringe filled with hep, then by all means, witness the Jumanji-esque technology that went into this elegant cinematic experience:
This sh*t just got too freaky for me. This is how Paranormal Activity wishes it ended. There should be some sort of ethical standards for CGI which would prevent the above image from ever existing. WHY DID THIS LSD XENU TRIP FROM SPACE HAVE TO HAPPEN?
The model-slash-D.J. is shooting a campaign for Brazilian underwear label Mash right now. The good people there are live TwitPic-ing the events. So far hair and makeup appear to have been completed, and the model has disrobed. Now, if only they would stream it live and energetically narrate it like a sporting event ... [Made in Brazil, TwitPic/CuecasMash]
After eight years together, it seems the ruptured romance between tennis-great Martina Navratilova and her lover and business partner Toni Layton is getting uglier by the second. Earlier this year Layton filed a lawsuit in Sarasota, Florida against Navratilova who she claims unexpectedly dumped her and left her with nothing.
In 2000, the pair struck up a "personal friendship" and soon after executed an unofficial wedding ceremony in which they allegedly agreed to share all assets earned and obtained while in a relationship. In 2002, Layton was appointed grantor and trustee of her "wife's" estate.
But according to court documents, Navratilova alleges that in 2007, she discovered that Layton was using and "abusing" her power for "improper purposes" and was removed from the position in 2008. Navratilova also claims Layton was also engaging in contract "breaches" and "unauthorized actions."
Now, Layton is striking back.
"Nine years ago in their promise ceremony they agreed to share their lives, careers and the fruits of their business relationship," Layton's attorney, Ray Rafool, told Tarts. "Martina cooked up the claim that Toni abused the trustee position. We're suing for well over a million dollars but we're still trying to determine the value of the assets and they (Navratilova's counsel) are doing everything they can do to stop us find the truth."
But according to Vincent Carissimi from Navratilova’s legal counsel, Layton’s claims are baseless.
“We've stated very clearly in our court papers that we believe Ms. Layton's claims are totally meritless, and we've stated in the counter claim that we filed on behalf of Ms. Navratilova that in fact, we think it's Ms. Layton who owes money to Ms. Navratilova,” he said. “So our position is pretty clearly set forth in those papers and I'm not inclined as I said, to do anything but try this in court where it belongs.”
Speaking of which, Rafool said that attempts to resolve the situation in mediation last month failed, and all settlement discussions last week reached no conclusion. Rafool said the matter will push forward with depositions being scheduled for next month.
"Martina is a gay and lesbian hypocrite. She says she is a big advocate for gay and lesbian rights, but only when it's convenient. If she was in a heterosexual marriage she would have so much more to deal with this, but she's trying to get out of it,” Rafool continued.
However, Navratilova’s legal counsel argued such a statement.
“Nothing could be more untrue and the fact that they're making those kind of allegations, I think speaks volumes as to the strength of their legal case and it demonstrates their acknowledgement that the only way they can successfully obtain something from this case is to try to slur Ms. Navratilova,” Carissimi said. “I think that's unfortunate and we won't be making any comments about Ms. Layton.”
The tennis champ has also filed motions for protective orders to prevent any information from being disclosed to the media and prevent the media from appearing at all depositions. Layton in response filed a motion to compel her rights to information and to prevent Martina's trampling of the press' freedom under the First Amendment.
"In reality Martina just does not want to give us the information we are entitled to value her assets, our interest in the Rainbow Card and to sue her accordingly," Rafool claimed. "Really, Martina does not want her image tarnished or ruin her chances of earning big as a sportscaster. They are doing everything they can to stop the truth about the real Martina coming out."
And Carissimi is certainly less than impressed that information has been filtered to the press.
“It's unfortunate that the parties have made an effort to resolve it and those efforts have not succeeded,” he added. “So we stated in our papers, the outcome should be that Ms. Layton's claims are found to be unsupported which we have every confidence they will be and that Ms. Navratilova will in fact prevail on her counter claims.”
A video advertisement on CBS's Web site that "mashes" material from the iconic "Frosty the Snowman" Christmastime cartoon with two of the network's comedy series is offensive and should be pulled, media analysts told FoxNews.com.
The video ad, "Frosty the Inappropriate Snowman," takes authentic dialogue from CBS' "How I Met Your Mother" and "Two and a Half Men" and dubs it on top of the cartoon classic, changing well-known "Frosty" scenes to contain suggestions that the snowman and his friends visit a "strip club."
The mash-up also discusses Frosty's "porn collection" and contains repeated mentions of prior sexual conquests.
The ad is intended to promote the network's upcoming broadcasts of "Frosty the Snowman" and "Frosty Returns."
Colleen Raezler, a research assistant for the Culture and Media Institute, a division of the Media Research Center, said the spot is "highly inappropriate," and improperly uses a Christmas special to promote an adult-oriented comedy.
"The ad introduces children to the idea of strippers and pornography," Raezler told FoxNews.com. "The people in charge obviously thought this was funny, but the question they should ask themselves is if this is appropriate, not if it's funny."
Raezler said the advertisement is another example of popular culture "pushing the envelope" on everything.
"It's sexing up Frosty," she said. "It really drives home the idea that nothing is sacred anymore."
CBS did not reply to messages seeking comment.
But television blogs characterized the video as "hilarious."
"You'll never look at 'Frosty the Snowman' the same way again," read a post on tvshark.com.
A post on NYMag.com said the magazine doesn't take "any issue" with CBS' decision to create the mash-up video.
"Sure, it's a little bit on the dirty side and definitely not for the kiddies, but in our eyes, ['How I Met Your Mother' star Neil Patrick Harris] and Rankin/Bass [Productions] are two great tastes that definitely taste great together," the post read.
Not so, says Bob Peters, president of Morality in Media, adding that officials at the Federal Trade Commission should be concerned about the promotion.
"CBS is doing much the same thing that alcohol and tobacco companies have done in the past -- namely, using imagery in advertising that would naturally attract children in order to market an adult product," Peters said in a statement to FoxNews.com. "Legal matters aside, it should go without saying that CBS TV ought to be ashamed of itself -- using an animated Christmas season setting, complete with young children, to chat about strippers, whores, pornography, sadomasochism, sexual promiscuity, and more."
Tim Winter, president of the Parents Television Council, a watchdog group based in Los Angeles, said the advertisement was reprehensible.
"It's either ignorance or arrogance, but I can't imagine the folks at the once-Tiffany network should think this is OK," he told FoxNews.com. "Someone had to write it and someone had to approve it. It speaks to the decisions that are being made at CBS these days."
Winter also called for the advertisement to be pulled, characterizing it as the outcome of the network attempting to do "everything they can to be offensive rather than creative."
This photo shows "Equestrian Portrait of King Philip II" by artist Kehinde Wiley on display December 6, at the Art Basel show in Miami, Florida. The idealized portrait depicting late music legend Michael... Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 7 Dec 2009 | 11:07 am
We might not be packing our own makeup bags with Victoria's Secret's new limited collection of glosses anytime soon — it’s a bit high on the glitter factor for the office — but the mini-line has a fun, tween appeal (it’s called “Poptimistic,” which is kind of charming) and its upbeat eighties vibe is surprisingly appealing once you get past the disconnect with VS’s primary image of bouncing, bodacious love goddesses. Still, separate it from that image of Doutzen Kroes on the runway in a tiny thong, and the cuteness of the Heat of Gloss palette — it’s shaped like a cassette tape — is undeniable. Doesn't hit stores until January, but here's a sneak peek.
$7 each, available January through May at 1328 Broadway at 34th St.; 212-356-8380.
Finally, the magazine cover you’ve been waiting for: Lindsay Lohan EXPOSED for the first time ever!!! That’s right, the famously introverted, secretive Lohan finally opens up to the press in an unprecedented, completely out-of-character reveal!!!
Wait, she has a thousand pictures of her vagina on the internet and posed nude for a New York Magazine shoot two years ago and any of these things can be found in a two-millisecond Google search? Ummmm…. well, ignore that. Muse magazine finally has her EXPOSED!!!!
I can’t WAIT til Muse finally does an issue about Jenna Jameson. I’ve been dying to see her exposed for a decade now, but just haven’t gotten around to spending three seconds on the internet.
The live sketches on Blake Lively’sSNL episode this weekend had kind of an off-week (the Tiger Woods parody was alright, but some others were definite cringers), but the episode still brought its share of highlights with a solid Weekend Update, another ridiculous Digital Short, and my personal favorite sketches of the week, two one-minute ads that finally, cathartically called attention to those absurd UPS “longhaired dude with a marker” commercials.
The first ad and its perfectly twisted sequel are below — feel free to leave your thoughts on this week’s SNL (favorite / least favorite parts, overall episode thoughts) in the comments.
Lady Gaga is in London. So what better opportunity to break out the latex frocks, antlers and ankie boots to show the world that you were born to play an angelic “Ghost Deer”? (Answer: No better.) It really says something when a pair of antlers and fishnets are looking sort of tame.
And the best news? Bill Cosby is available! Check out the gallery, replete with pics of her hot bodyguard, below.
Gino D'Acampo, an Italian TV chef and this year's winner of British televison show "I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!" has been charged with animal cruelty for killing and cooking a rat on the show... Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 7 Dec 2009 | 8:20 am
Jennifer Aniston was all smiles at last week’s SELF Magazine launch of her personal trainer Mandy Ingber’s “Yogalosophy” DVD in West Hollywood.
That is until she was served a summons in an ongoing court case!
Aniston showed up to give support to her yoga mentor Ingber, and talked about her path to yoga enlightenment.
“I had a block; I went to class once years ago and thought this is just a lot of sweaty people and a really small room. I didn't quite get it,” Aniston said. “Then Mandy was like ‘just try it with me one time’ and it was a completely different experience. She motivates you, you start to crave it. You crave that adrenaline. She combines her wisdom of astrology with the mind and the body, and cardio.”
And the result of all those private sessions?
“My body got stronger and everything got stronger,” Aniston added.
One of Ingber’s other pals and clients had a light-hearted bone to pick with the yoga queen.
“I don't have Jennifer Aniston body, what's up with that?” Ricki Lee asked.
“You have Ricki Lake’s body and Ricki Lakes body is hot,” Ingber quickly responded. “You're damn fine.”
What was not "damn fine" was how the party ended for Aniston, as the "Friends" star was served with legal documents on the way out.
The 40-year-old was allegedly compelled to be a witness in an upcoming lawsuit involving her agent, Todd Shemarya.
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Perhaps Andy Keaton still reeling from the whole mom's-a-lesbian thing.
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The news has been filled with the scandalous details of Tiger Woods' (many) trysts over the past week. But even when there aren't such titillating bombshells to chew over, there are plenty of sex-related stories to digest. Because we're so thoughtful—and to keep up your mood on this dreary Monday—we took the liberty of combing through the past week's headlines and compiling the steamiest information out there. 
