AP - France's biggest rock star, Johnny Hallyday, has been hospitalized in Los Angeles for an infection following back surgery. Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 9 Dec 2009 | 3:29 am
AP - France's biggest rock star, Johnny Hallyday, has been hospitalized in Los Angeles for an infection following back surgery. Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 9 Dec 2009 | 3:29 am
AP - France's biggest rock star, Johnny Hallyday, has been hospitalized in Los Angeles for an infection following back surgery. Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 9 Dec 2009 | 3:29 am
AP - South Africans say a new Hollywood film about sport and togetherness in racially divided South Africa provides a timely lesson as the country prepares to host next year's World Cup. Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 9 Dec 2009 | 3:26 am
(Reuters) Reuters - The ruckus over MTV's "Jersey Shore" is getting as intense as the hot-headed dramatics on the show. Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 9 Dec 2009 | 12:11 am
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - The ruckus over MTV's "Jersey Shore" is getting as intense as the hot-headed dramatics on the show. Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 9 Dec 2009 | 12:11 am
Works by North Korean artists from the Pyongyang-based Mansudae Art Studio exhibited at the Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art at the Queensland Art Gallery in Brisbane. Five North Korean artists... Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 9 Dec 2009 | 12:06 am
North Korean artist Im Hyok with his work "Break Time" at the Mansudae Art Studio in Pyongyang. Five North Korean artists including Im have been banned from entering Australia for an exhibition of their... Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 9 Dec 2009 | 12:06 am
Actor Johnny Depp highly recommends his latest movie _ though he said he hadn't personally gone out to see it yet. Depp, in Tokyo for the Japan premiere of "Public Enemies," said... Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 9 Dec 2009 | 12:05 am
It's an unseasonably chilly night in LA, but that isn't stopping the stars from partying.
At least two events tonight are in the same place: The Luxe Hotel in Bel Air is hosting...
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - "Prison Break" actor Lane Garrison, out of jail after serving time for vehicular manslaughter, is taking on a project about troubled teens and the... Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 8 Dec 2009 | 11:54 pm
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Apple's iTunes on Tuesday released Rewind 2009, its lists of the year's best and best-selling media. Black Eyed Peas' "Boom Boom Pow" was the best-selling Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 8 Dec 2009 | 11:49 pm
Playing Pretend:Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston are in talks to star opposite one another in Columbia's Pretend Wife. The story is being kept secret but you could probably predict every major plot point with a pretty reasonable amount of accuracy. Go ahead, try. [THR]
Tween Takeover: High School Musical alum Corbin Bleu will be the first Wildcat to make his way to Broadway when he steps into the lead role of In the Heights next year. His 13-week stint as the young bodega owner Usnavi will begin on January 25. Teenage girls's 13-week stint of wanting to see nothing but In the Heights starts that same day. [Variety]
In the Money: The brains behind Parks and Recreation, Alan Yang, has sold a pitch called Jackpot to Fox. The film will tell the story of two high school friends who win the lottery. We're hoping Jerry and Donna are those high school friends. [THR]
Unnecessary Sadness: Former Prison Break-er Lane Garrison, recently out of jail after doing time for vehicular manslaughter, is writing the screenplay for One Heart, a football movie that producers are hoping will capitalize on the success of The Blind Side. The script is based on the true story of a terrible football team in Texas made up of kids with criminal records. One week they travel to play a religious school and the coach of that team convinces his fans to cheer for the team of convicts. They still lose, but they also see what it's like to have someone support them for once in their wretched lives. Sorry, there's something in our eye. [THR]
Work Sucks:Matt Goldman, a former writer for Seinfeld and Ellen, has sold a script to Fox. The untitled workplace comedy is inspired by his own life and revolves around a man who tries to make a comeback at a company working for a woman he dumped five years ago. Sounds like he should have picked a different company. [THR]
NBC has indeed discovered how to turn losers into winners.
Despite all the money that changed hands tonight on The Biggest Loser: Second Chances finale—$250,000 for the...
Senate Democrats put together "a broad agreement" last night to end the dispute over the public option. Whether the agreement kills the public option is unclear. The Times spoke to Senators who said it "would sideline but not kill the 'public option'." But according to the Washington Post the public option would be dropped altogether and "replaced with a program that would create several national insurance policies administered by private companies but negotiated by the Office of Personnel Management." Both papers agree that the deal would allow people as young as 55 to "buy in" to health care.
This will all probably be cleared up by tomorrow and then forgotten when the next deal is struck. That's why the biggest cause of celebration was Reid's answer to the question of whether the end of the health care debate is in sight: "The answer's yes," he said.
A couple days after his tour bus slid on black ice and fell into a ditch, Weezer front man Rivers Cuomo is in good condition in an upstate New York hospital, according to an update on the band's site.
"Rivers has had a much better day than yesterday. He went from being barely able to talk and open his eyes yesterday to partially sitting up, talking clearly, reading books and checking the Internet, plus his color and energy seemed much brighter."
Cuomo suffered a small puncture to his lung that wasn't big enough to cause it to collapse, and a small cut to his spleen that's "on the mend." His leg is also injured, but that's from rocking too hard, not the crash.
Most of us won't be around in 2100. Or maybe we all will. No one really knows. But whoever is around in 2100 will be super wet if the authors of a new study on rising sea levels are correct. According to Science Daily:
Results show that even for a relatively low greenhouse gas emissions scenario with just 2 degrees Celsius warming over the 21st century, sea level is likely to rise by more than one meter. Their highest scenario, with over 4 degrees Celsius warming over the 21st century, would lead to over 1.4 meters of sea level rise by 2100. When the full set of emissions scenarios and estimated uncertainties are considered, waters may rise by anything between 75 centimetres and 1.9 metres by the year 2100...
Well, she could do a lot worse.
But unlike the real-life wedding ceremony Aniston shared with Brad Pitt, this time the star is looking to join Adam Sandler for a romantic...
With the exception of the incessant news coverage, Tiger Woods isn't really on TV anymore. According to Nielsen, the last prime time ad featuring Woods aired a full nine days ago on November 29. During last weekend's NFL games, when Woods is usually as visible as Brett Favre's gray hair, he was nowhere to be found. John Daly sure picked the perfect time to clean up. [Bloomberg]
Odd as it sounds, Peter Jackson needed to come down to Earth a bit more in "The Lovely Bones," his adaptation of Alice Sebold's best- seller about a murdered girl looking back on her life Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 8 Dec 2009 | 8:55 pm
AP - A medical examiner has found that the cousin of rock veteran Bruce Springsteen died from an accidental drug overdose. Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 8 Dec 2009 | 8:51 pm
A lucky blogger over at The Vertex was recently blessed with a Christmas miracle: he got to attend a test screening of MacGruber, the movie. He began a skeptic — after all, movies based on SNL sketches don't exactly have a sterling reputation (perhaps you saw It's Pat) — but he left a believer.
You might not believe me when I tell you this, but there’s no doubt: 'MacGruber' was amazing.
Amir Bednarsh goes on to explain the plot of MacGruber (retired action hero is approached by the government to fight a villain named Cunth) and praise the writing ("smart, quick, and witty, albeit sometimes asinine"). The review concludes by putting MacGruber in legendary company: "MacGruber is the best SNL film since Wayne’s World." We're not worthy.
Police say they are investigating a burglary at the Los Angeles home of Nicky Hilton. Officer Gregory Baek says police were called Tuesday afternoon and were told that some unidentified... Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 8 Dec 2009 | 8:08 pm
A medical examiner has found that the cousin of rock veteran Bruce Springsteen died from an accidental drug overdose. Kansas City television station KCTV reports that the autopsy results Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 8 Dec 2009 | 8:02 pm
In September 2010 the world will will stop turning. That's when CBS plans to pull the plug on the soap-opera As the World Turns after 54 years on the air, leaving six soap-operas on the air if you don't count The Hills. [Variety]
NEW YORK (Reuters) - In a grainy black and white Web video, similar to footage from an in-store security camera, you can make out the muscular frame of rapper 50 Cent, smashing dozens of TV Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 8 Dec 2009 | 7:39 pm
"Invictus" _ Clint Eastwood's latest is a sports film less about what's on the playing field than what's happening in the stands. It's the story of South Africa's sea change under Nelson... Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 8 Dec 2009 | 7:38 pm
AP - Odd as it sounds, Peter Jackson needed to come down to Earth a bit more in "The Lovely Bones," his adaptation of Alice Sebold's best-seller about a murdered girl looking back on her life from beyond. Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment Reviews | 8 Dec 2009 | 7:32 pm
Reuters - Screen-to-stage adaptations have become a theatrical staple in recent years, and leave it to the Brits to do it with far more imagination than we. Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment Reviews | 8 Dec 2009 | 7:31 pm
The House Homeland Security Committee will vote tomorrow on whether Tareq and Michaele Salahi should be subpoenaed to testify on how they crashed President Obama's first state dinner. But even if it decides to subpoena we may not actually hear what the Salahis have to say. According to a statement, the couple is prepared to plead the Fifth. In identical declarations each Salahi said:
"I am aware of statements made by certain members on the Committee on Homeland Security in which premature conclusions concerning my criminal liability have been made. ... The current circumstances warrant invocation of my Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination."
Why they would plead the Fifth when they claim to have done nothing wrong is a bit of a mystery. But maybe they figured this was the best way to get people to write blog posts about them.
• Didn't crash last month's state dinner? No worries. Marcus Samuelsson's Riingo will offer the same menu he served the Obamas next week. [GS, TONY] • Closings: Pink Tea Cup in the Village will close its doors next month after 55 years in business; and nearby Gus' Place has been shuttered by the tax cops. • The Wright, the new eatery inside the Guggenheim, opens on Friday. [Eater] • East Side Social Club, the new Midtown spot co-owned by photographer Patrick McMullan, is the 2009 version of the Waverly Inn, apparently. [NYP] • UWS deli Artie's has a new owner and will expand across NYC. [Crain's] • A handful of local food-related holiday gift ideas for you consideration. [SE]
Mayor Bloomberg is in search of 100 fitness instructors willing to help New Yorkers shed some fat. The city wants to add a group of volunteers to its roster of trainers already providing free exercise classes to 1,600 New Yorkers each week. These classes are meant for people who can't afford a gym membership. So, you know, everyone. [NYP]
Over the past ten years one artist has dominated record sales like none of his peers. His 32.2 million records sold make him the top-selling artist of the decade and two of his albums are among the ten-highest selling of the aughts. He's white and he's a rapper. He is — Bubba Sparxxx. Not really. It's Eminem. [USA Today]
Paris Hilton can sympathize.
The heiress took to her Twitter Tuesday to express outrage over an alleged burglary that apparently took place today at sister Nicky Hilton's house in...
The company is putting an end to its Gatorade Tiger Focus beverage but insists the...
Nicolas Cage is liquidating assets and burning bridges. Possibly with a flamethrower.
The financially strapped actor has been sued by the mother of his 18-year-old son, Weston, who...
No one can drive you up the wall quite like your family. They know all the right buttons to press. Sometimes, if you're around them for too long, someone will say something that will can cause all kinds of resentments to come bubbling to the surface, and instead of just repressing them like normal, all of sudden you're 13 again, running to your old room and slamming the door and rummaging around for your Cure cassettes. And so it makes sense that Alexa Ray Joel's recent trip to Turks and Caicos with her mom, Christy Brinkley, and step-siblings Jack and Sailor, might have contributed to her decision to take a few too many homeopathic pills this past weekend. "If this vacation was anything like a typical family gathering," the Post says ominously, "Alexa probably left in worse shape than when she started." Uh-oh.
They don't have any information about what happened on the actual vacation, per se, but suffice it to say that it was Turks and Caicos, bathing suits were involved, and sometimes, we imagine, being the daughter of Miss Blonde Sports-Effing-Illustrated Swimsuit Issue Model is no picnic:
Alexa Joel, who bears a striking resemblance to her dad, spent her childhood being berated by Brinkley, who makes mean comparisons between her daughter and ex-hubby, a source said.
In one incident, Brinkley grabbed a brownie, chewed it and spit it into a trash can, telling a 10-year-old Alexa, "This is how you eat a brownie without gaining weight," the former employee recalled.
It's either that or Wally World was totally closed.
Don't be too shocked if a normally liberal fashion designer suddenly comes out against the idea of health care reform. In addition to a tax on plastic surgery, Senate Democrats are now thinking about taxing tanning in order to pay for a health care bill. [Congress Daily via The Cut]
There may be a ton of anger floating around Tiger Woods' Florida estate these days, but this morning, it was filled with fear.
When a woman—either wife Elin Nordegren or her...
Front Page: Pay TV shines as broadcasters air reruns -- As the broadcast nets transitioned from the November sweep to repeats and holiday specials last week, it was cable's turn to shine.
The MTA may be forced to make deep cuts to bus and subway service next year as it contends with an estimated $343 million budget gap. But have you been on one of those super-advanced "experimental turbine hybrid" buses that the MTA is thinking about importing from New Zealand? They're as "quiet as a tomb" and bus drivers absolutely adore them! So at least someone is going to end up happy! [MyFoxNY, NYT]
Martin Margiela quietly exited the fashion house he founded not too long ago. But Diesel, which bought a majority stake in the label in 2002, has no plans to replace him. The label's chief executive, Giovanni Pungetti, said the house will simply operate with the creative staff Margiela himself curated over the last two decades. He dismissed rumors that Margiela left after falling out with the management at Diesel, explaining that he simply wanted to retire, which was easy to do without fanfare since he never shows his face to the public or speaks to reporters anyway.
“It would have been very simple to hire someone else, and we evaluated that option, but in the end, what is important is the taste of designer,” Mr. Pungetti said Tuesday in an interview in Paris.
Critics have said recent collections clearly indicate Margiela hasn't been involved in the design process. Yet since Diesel took control in 2002, revenue has increased to €70 million (about $105 million) from €15 million. New Margiela stores have opened all around the world, the label's first fragrance comes out next year, and on Friday its first spa-hotel opens in Bordeaux. So if Margiela proves a label's success isn't hinged on the presence of a head designer, will other labels follow suit? After all, who could possibly replace, say, Karl Lagerfeld at Chanel?
The truth is out there...in the fine print.
E! News has gotten a hold of the dispatcher's notes from the 911 call reporting Tiger Woods' Nov. 27 car crash that...
How did Tiger Woods allegedly keep track of so many alleged mistresses? We're finding it to be quite the chore to remember which cocktail waitress is denying what and who's sexting...
Where's K.I.T.T. when you need him?
E! News has gotten a hold of the 911 recording of David Hasselhoff's post-Thanksgiving medical emergency that led to his Nov. 27...
We're not quite sure there is any actual logic or highly complex algorithms that power the Jersey Shore nickname generator, but damn if it isn't pretty hilarious all the same. Our name? Juice Springsteen! Also, some enterprising soul has started a CafePress site dedicated to selling thongs with the catchphrase "I Love the Situation" emblazoned on them. Clearly that entrepreneurial Einstein will be living large on the Shore next summer. [Unlikely Words via Videogum]
Elisabeth Hasselbeck, a woman whose claim to fame was looking like me in the 6th grade, showing her 1400 abs off in a Survivor buff back in 2001, and marrying a football player, is sharpening her claws for Adam Lambert’s Thursday appearance on The View. The controversy, which children forgot about 2 f**king weeks ago .9 seconds after the performance took place, is apparently still on the minds of those fine ladies over at The View. (We say this with no sarcasm about everyone save Elisabeth.)
Of all the fabulous argue-happy ladies on ‘The View,’ the conservative Elisabeth Hasselbeck is the one that is most excited about controversial singer Adam Lambert’s taping today … because she smells blood in the ‘View’ water. “She can’t wait to bait Adam about his infamous inappropriate performance,” an insider told me, “and don’t expect her to pull any punches. She’s going for the kill.”
Oh, you best believe we will be live-blogging this sh*t. The segment was pre-recorded, as ABC wanted to take precautions in case, what? In case the guy sang into someone’s D like a microphone? Anyway we assume Adam made it out alive, and can only hope he served it right on back to her. Check in with us tomorrow morning as we liveblog the antics.
Bad news, actors on As The World Turns, those actors’ families, and sick people watching The Price Is Right who can’t reach the remote:
The ailing soap industry took another hit this morning with the announcement that CBS has canceled As the World Turns. The show will end its 54-year run in September.
The move, which comes just three months after CBS bid adieu to Guiding Light, will leave just six soaps on the air. The number could soon shrink to five if ABC axes One Life to Live, as has been rumored.
Dammit, network television, won’t you give these shows a frickin’ CHANCE before just dumping them? First Arrested Development, then Hank, and now, CBS is totally giving up on As The World Turns after barely over half a century?
I was really hoping that As The World Turns would be the first show to follow an entire human’s life from beginning to end in real-time, but now, that loose end will NEVER GET TIED UP.
And to think — the show came just one year shy of tying According To Jim’s record for most years anything has done anything…
Filene’s Basement has been floundering for a while now — the Boston-based retailer filed for Chapter 11 in May and was bought by Syms Corp. in June — but the hits keep coming: The chain will be shuttering its Sixth Avenue location this spring. The company was "unable to renegotiate the lease" for the 145,000-square-foot outpost, according to a notice filed with the New York State Department of Labor last week, and is reportedly angling to take over a storefront nearby (though the company hasn't confirmed where or when the new lease would be settled). Filene's is best known for its annual Running of the Brides event, wherein hundreds of brides-to-be stampede through the store, clutching garment bags in pursuit of heavily discounted gowns (similar to the frantic, dignity-be-damned style of those who camp out for the release of H&M or Topshop collaborations). Despite the chain's ongoing financial struggles, engaged bargain-hunters will be relieved to hear that this year's Run is safe: It will take place as scheduled on February 5 at Filene's Union Square store.
Why was last month's mayoral election much closer than expected? If you get your political news from TV, you might not find out. The New School hosted a post-mortem debate this morning that included the always-entertaining Howard Wolfson representing Team Bloomberg and the equally-fiesty Eddy Castell speaking for Bill Thompson's campaign. The crowd featured plenty of print reporters and bloggers — but not NY1, the media outlet that devotes the most time and energy to local politics: Its camera was turned away at the door. "In 2005 we videotaped the entire conference with no complaints from any of the participants or by the sponsor,"; says Bob Hardt, the station's political director. "We're puzzled why a university dedicated to open discussion would now limit access to an event that is supposedly on-the-record." A New School spokesman says "the group of organizers decided eons ago that cameras changed the dynamic of the room and that we didn't want a superficial discussion." Castell says the Thompson folks weren't asked and had no objection to NY1. Wolfson says he knew nothing about the ban until this morning and would have let the cameras in. Perhaps the New School simply wanted to give the operatives the freedom to work blue?
In a victory for the young society blog Guest of a Guest as it strives for legitimacy, one of its contributing reporters, Carson Griffith, has been hired at the New York Daily News. She'll helm the tabloid's Gatecrasher column, which was founded by current TMZ executive editor Ben Widdicombe and has, in recent months, been searching for an editor to replace Laura Schreffler (now a Hollywood Life editor). Griffith will work side by side with Amanda Sidman, who has been ably manning the column since Schreffler's departure. Still, we have to say, she comes at an opportune time in the gossip world, because it looks like she might know Tiger Woods!
MTV's latest reality series, Jersey Shore, has some people—such as really humorless Italian-Americans—pretty pissed, as you may have heard. Before the show even debuted, Unico National, the same group that repeatedly criticized HBO over The Sopranos, issued a statement to the media lambasting the program. It's since lined up support from several other Italian-American community groups and convinced at least two advertisers—Domino's and American Family Insurance—to stop advertising on the show.
The cast of the show is rising to its defense. Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino, for one, says that what many people don't realize is that calling someone "guido" is actually a compliment. ("These days in New York and New Jersey a "guido" is a good-looking Italian male that likes to have fun and a "guidette" is a good-looking Italian girl.") Who knew?
Such eloquent explanations have done little to quell the controversy, for whatever reason. In today's Post, it was TV critic Linda Stasi's turn to open fire, describing Jersey Shore as the "most hateful, anti-Italian-American show ever allowed on legitimate TV," responsible for "furthering the popular TV notion that Italian-Americans are gel-haired, thuggish, ignoramuses." (Stasi's argument that die-hard Italian-Americans from Jersey aren't thuggish ignoramuses may have been undercut a bit by the news today that MTV has been besieged with death threats over the show, and the network is now "in the process of hiring more security in bodyguards.")
Stasi does on to tear into Tony Di Santo, the MTV exec who oversees programming on the network, for giving the show the green light, accusing him of betraying his people and suggesting he even consider change his last name.
There are few occasions when Spencer Pratt actually says something sensible, but this might be one of them:
Linda Stasi you should change your name to Linda Boring if you can't be entertained by young Italian-Americans enjoying youth and partying!
David LaChapelle's Art Deco "Happy New Year 1932" party.
At Art Basel Miami, nothing succeeds like excess. With sales surprisingly strong — Pace Wildenstein sold virtually its entire booth, while LES's Lisa Cooley, at the nada fair, moved more than half of hers — the mood was giddy. For good or ill, millionaires (and billionaires) brought home art almost like vacation souvenirs. And the only question that people asked more than "Is it an edition?" was "Is there an open bar?" With it all ending yesterday with the Scope Art Fair's party at the Standard’s Mud Room, we look back at the top ten moments of excess.
10. Art Basel Miami Beach’s Opening Party. The mood was set from the get-go: Glazed pigs with maraschino-cherry eyes gleamed in the sunset at the Mondrian Hotel, set for slicing. For hotel guests, it was super-size Caipirinha’s at check-in. “Special for Art Basel!” trilled the waitress.
9. The Box at Nikki Beach. Images of Michael Jackson were everywhere — he's apparently the new Marilyn Monroe icon of the art world — but this burlesque show had a spinning Michael, some sword-swallowing, cabaret, and drinks so potent it’s all a sequined blur. At the door, artist Kenny Scharf came to the aid of strangers who were not on the list, crying “They’re with me!”
8. The main fair. It was an orgy of glorious art (by Calder, Warhol, and all their aesthetic children) in booths much bigger than last year. The layout, meanwhile, was confusing — maybe deliberately so. The corn maze of modernism was difficult to escape for those who wanted to visit rival fairs. Waiters rolling carts with champagne bottles in tubs of ice become default traffic cops. “Aisle B is that way,” one said, although it was the other direction.
7. The Museum Directors Panel. When it began to rain on museum directors speaking while seated on a beachside stage, cute girls in wet ABMB T-shirts thoughtfully ran over to hold umbrellas above their heads.
6. The Snob Party. Free-spending Russians were in town, some gathering at the Snob magazine party Saturday at the Shore Club. There, Russian performance artist Andrey Bartenev unspooled videotapes into a pile of magnetic tape while dressed as a giant inflatable centipede. Highlight: Revelers licking an ice sculpture that looked suspiciously like a giant phallus.
5. Kehinde Wiley’s Fish Fry. Here the scene was quiet, the crowd small and select (Jeffrey Deitch and ABMB founder Sam Keller seem to plot the future of the art world in a shaded corner). But the food was over-the-top: Whole sides of catfish anchored a soul-food extravaganza that, with all the second and third helpings, resulted in a shortage of plates and silverware. Wiley, celebrating the $175,000 sale of his portrait of an armored Michael Jackson riding a white horse, and wearing a blood-red-and-white suit, explained: “My art is maximalist.”
4. Nadia Swarovski’s Crystal Rooftop. A glimmering party, with a D.J. who resembled Cleopatra, if ancient Egypt had Vegas-style headgear. The gift bag contained an apple-size paperweight in the shape of a diamond. Happy revelers joked about dropping one from the penthouse onto the Frenchman who was below, yelling loudly to get past the velvet rope.
3. Aby Rosen’s Dinner at the W South Beach. The blockbuster: Rosen, Peter Brant, and Warhol-amasser Tico Mugrabi throw a private dinner at Rosen’s W for 700 of their closest friends, with so many crashers, people took their seats in shifts. Dessert was a buffet with nineteen choices; maybe it was the mango mousse that drew Val Kilmer and Naomi Campbell. Collector Eli Brant announced that there were good bargains on art available. For some reason, Tony Shafrazi arm-wrestled Brant, and Rosen danced on a table.
2. Old Havana in Key Biscayne. Cuban Art star Carlos Estevez, leader of the Cuban Art Movement, hosted a collectors party at the Ritz Carlton that seeked to re-create mid-century Havana. The fête was so elaborate and atmospheric — vintage autos, costumes, rare rums, music, movies — you half expected Fredo Corleone to step out from the shadows and put out a hit on Michael. “It’s all art!,” cried Estevez, welcoming the crowds.
1. David LaChapelle’s Art Deco “Happy New Year 1932.” As the party began, synchronized swimmers in flowered bathing caps and glittering maillots dove into the Raleigh pool and performed “Putting on the Ritz.” Commissioned to do a photo series by the German luxury automaker Maybach ($500,000 per car), LaChappelle hung a nifty giant photo above the bar, showing the car running over someone at a wedding party gone mad. “When we come to care about things too much — art, cars, anything — that’s decadence,” the artist said, waxing philosophic. By the end, the event looked like the birthday party scene from The Rocky Horror Picture Show, except with hundreds of black and silver balloons and less clothing. Anthony Haden-Giuest ended up mostly naked, wearing little other than a party hat.
First the "Bo-tax" on medically unnecessary cosmetic surgery procedures worked its way into the new health-care plan. Now Senate Democrats are considering an additional tax for the vain and insecure on their indoor-tanning habits. So people who walk into a salon to use a tanning bed or who purchase sunlamps for home use could be saddled with extra fees in their quests to orange themselves by cancer-causing methods. In July, new research showed — and this was reported as though it was surprising — tanning beds are just as bad for you as smoking cigarettes and as deadly as arsenic and mustard gas. Though the proposal is in its very early stages, and officials say they're not even considering it seriously yet, it might actually be a fairly lucrative revenue stream, since indoor tanners — like cigarette smokers — tend to be addicts. Look at industry poster boy Freddie Fackelmayer. He is probably hitting the booth weekly, if not twice a week, and we all have at least one friend like him who, though they might complain for the first six weeks, would easily pay more to maintain their Oompa Loompa–ness.
Desipite last night's episode of How I Met Your Mother, it’s hard to deny that this season's been a little shaky. But at least executive producer Carter Bays is answering for it, first to Michael Ausiello and now the L.A.Times. We're still not buying his claim that breaking up Barney and Robin so quickly after so much buildup was the plan all along; but here's what he says: “It's definitely not everything's back to normal … in the coming episodes … there'll be some big changes in their relationship.” Elsewhere, Robin’s getting a real love interest, and the Alan Thicke–Robin Sparkles variety hour won’t debut this season. And overall — dum dum dum — “there's going to be some big shake-ups in the second half of the season.” [Showtracker/LAT]
If all goes according to plan, Richard Branson is planning to launch most of his family — his son, Sam, 24; daughter, Holly, 27; and his parents, Eve, 85, and Ted, 91 — into outer space. They’ll be onboard for the maiden voyage of SpaceShip Two which he unveiled yesterday (along with its catamaran-like dual fuselage airplane launch vehicle) in the Mojave Desert. His wife, however, is staying earthbound. We spoke with him.
Your whole family is going up — except your wife?
I know this is not particularly fair on the wives and mothers, but my father is in good shape except for a bad hip, and in space that won’t matter. His attitude is, it’s something to look forward to. My mother has been an adventuress all her life and she will be going strong into her hundreds.
How are you prepping for the voyage?
We will spend three days at a spaceport in New Mexico and experience G forces peaking at 3.5 GZ and 6 GX, which is not enormous. We will swing around at considerable speed, which mirrors what will be experienced on the flight, to check our hearts.
And if anyone freaks?
These people are choosing to go up. If worse comes to worst, we’ll keep them relatively strapped in. Ultimately, they can simply gaze at the earth’s surface, or unstrap and float around in zero gravity.
Can ordinary passengers ride to outer space?
Yes, the fare is $200,000. The ship holds six passengers and two astronauts and will travel 70 miles into space. Four hundred people have already paid in full. We built it with enormous windows and lots of room; it can accommodate tall people, fat people, and midgets. Eventually we will have orbital flights and a hotel in outer space.
But for now I hear you are opening a hotel closer to home.
My partner Bob Wojtowicz found a beautiful estate in New Jersey, and we hired David Rockwell to help transform it. Natirar will be the first Virgin resort in the United States, joining the game reserve in South Africa, the Atlas Mountains retreat, and Necker Island in the Caribbean. This one will have a working farm and gardens, a spa, cooking and wine school, riding; Croquet courts were a must for a British partner, and there will be snooker tables. I’ve spent a lifetime partying, so I expect people will be able to have a good time.
Virgin Atlantic is going strong, but the aviation business in general is a bit of a downer.
Americans are very good at creating great experiences, but hopeless at doing it in the aviation business. The quality of the big American carriers is dreadful. As long as governments don’t continue to prop them up and let them go bust like old trees at the end of their lives, airlines like JetBlue and Virgin America will survive and we can have a flourishing industry.
And the music business?
It will never be the same again, but music will continue to make money through merchandise and live concerts, and something else will come along. Every new music generation will have its culture. One of the lucky things about having lived through the sixties and seventies is that we had a pretty good one.
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Johnny Depp arrived in Tokyo today in a tan coat with matching fedora and his signature shades. While many of his fellow male actors are squeezing into increasingly slim pants, Depp wore baggy jeans for his journey.
Does this make him a sartorial leap behind or ahead the rest of them?
We’re not sure exactly when last night’s annual Celebrity Charades benefit for LAByrinth Theater Company, sponsored by Entertainment Weekly and Duracell, devolved into complete chaos, but we’d say it was inevitable from the moment Julia Roberts took the stage.
The night was part live auction, part charades playing, all set on a battle-ready stage that cleaved the St. Paul of the Apostle Church Hall in two. First, John Patrick Shanley auctioned off a bunch of stuff using the standard technique of reminding the audience that they were all going to die — “and soon!” — so why save up their money. Then the game’s referee, Eric Bogosian, announced four teams of about six celebrities each, as well as the annual auction for a slot on LAB co-founder Philip Seymour Hoffman’s team. He was about $7,000 into the auction when Roberts decided he wasn’t raising money fast enough.
“Wait! Wait!” she cried, running forward and grabbing the mike. (She would continue to do this a lot over the next several hours.) She then made the high bidder stand up. “Oh, my, you are so handsome!” she said, then pointed to his competition. “What about you, Cleavage? $7,500?” Roberts eventually got both bidders to pony up $13,500 each (for two slots) by using the following exhortations: “All right, people, let’s have order! I only have THREE kids!”; “My pants are SO tight, come on! I wore these tight pants just for you”; “Handsome guy is on my team. Someone rich and not so smart on the other team”; and “Why don’t you want to give us more money? I am so CUTE!”
During the game, Sam Rockwell, who’d worked with Roberts on Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, became Roberts’s minder, holding her back as she tried to sabotage the other team by hanging onto Bob Balaban’s ears, grabbing Julia Stiles’s ass, staring up Kristen Wiig’s sweater dress, and shouting out their names repeatedly as they tried to act out their clues. At one point, Bogosian stated he would have to deduct points for interference, then amended the rule when the audience booed. “Okay, I take it back. Julia Roberts can interfere with as many people as she wants since she just raised $30 million for the company.” (Exaggeration, by the way. But the LAB did surpass all their fund-raising goals.)
As a player, Roberts was equally distracting to her own team. Screaming out “Vagina!” at random, or becoming fixated on certain wrong answers. “M.A.S.H.! M.A.S.H.! M.A.S.H.!” she screamed out as her teammate tried to act out Damages. Another favorite of Roberts’s? “Driving Miss Daisy! Driving Miss Daisy!” which seemed to be the answer for every other clue she couldn’t get. When Roberts’s team lost “because we’re just a bunch of drunk guys,” and she ran out of time acting out In the Heat of the Night, she grabbed the mike from Bogosian and demanded, “a teeny, tiny, little more time ... I bought a ticket for Talk Radio, back off!”
During the second half of the live auction before the charades finale, Roberts once again stole the mike to goad the audience into spending way too much for a dinner for six at Rao’s, explaining to the crowd she was up past her bedtime. “I go to bed, truly, at 8:17. What time is it? 9:17? Oh, let’s have fun!” she continued. There was a lot of running back and forth across the stage, and somehow she eventually started calling one side of the room “Manhattan,” and other side “New Jersey,” as in “Come on, New Jersey, you have five seconds to not be shit over here!” She sold the reservation for $6,500, then sold a second for $5,000, for a grand total of fifteen minutes of mike-hogging. There was an audible groan when the crowd realized that that was just the first of three lots that had to be auctioned before charades could resume. Luckily, the deceptively strong Sam Rockwell strode up, threw Roberts over his shoulder, and carried her offstage.
Roberts came onstage only one more time, to help Hoffman’s team lose to Cynthia Rowley’s. In the free-for-all the event had become, Rockwell by that point had switched sides, so there was no one minding Hurricane Julia as she shouted out wrong answers and ate up the clock, futilely acting out her clues. But, it seems winning wasn’t really foremost on Roberts’s mind. Even as her team shuffled off in defeat, she grabbed the mike for old time’s sake, and waxed poetic about the final clue. “The other day I put on a fuchsia dress, and my son said, ‘Mommy, you look just like a High School Musical girl. Now, isn’t that worth some money?”
Even though Roberts had hijacked his event and all hopes of victory for his team, Hoffman said she had an open invitation to come back anytime. “She was outstanding! She raised so much money!” he said. Not only did Roberts get two people to buy their way into playing the game for $37,000, and sell two reservations at Rao’s for $11,500, but it turns out that the biggest purchase of the night, a Smart car that sold for $10,000, was made by her husband. “My husband bought me my Smart car,” said Roberts, fake-furrowing her brow, then flashing a huge grin. “Now what am I going to do with that thing?”
Front Page: Veteran exec named president of music -- Warner Bros. Pictures has shaken up its music arm, tapping veteran executive and producer Paul Broucek for a new post as president of music.
If, like any devoted son or daughter, you were planning to buy your mom a fake Louis Vuitton bag for Christmas and pass it off as the real thing, you may now need to make other arrangements. The NYPD staged a raid on counterfeiters on Canal Street earlier today and shut down 30 storefronts that were selling fake bags, watches, and wallets, and perfume. [WABC, NBC]
You would think that everything would be peachy at MTV's Times Square offices after last week's debut of Jersey Shore. Sure, it didn't perform quite as well in the ratings as The City and The Hills did in their respective season premieres earlier this fall, but the sheer volume of chatter that this show attracted online likely means ratings are going to spike after this week's episode airs. However, Fox News is reporting that all is not well at 1515 Broadway and that, *gasp*, MTV's publicists have been receiving death threats (!) from groups of people who find the show's portrayal of Italian-Americans demeaning.
According to inside sources at MTV, "The MTV building in Times Square was getting crazy threats and they are in the process of hiring more security and bodyguards." These threats are allegedly coming from Italian-Americans who are taking offense to MTV airing a program in which the show's cast — which, mind you, is made up exclusively of Italian-Americans — casually referring to themselves as "guidos" and "guidettes." André DiMino, the president of Italian-American service organization Unico National, told the Times, "I don't see any redeeming value in the show. [The cast members] are an embarrassment to themselves and to their families."
While this may indeed be true, did DiMino ever think that the show's eight incredibly well-tanned cast members might just be describing themselves with this kind of terminology as means to appropriate and reclaim a slang term that has previously been viewed through purely a derisive lens? In other words, could Shnickers Snooki and the gang actually be closet intellectuals and potentially visionary pioneers for Italian-American rights? Guess we'll have to wait for this week's episode of Jersey Shore to find out!
If we learned anything from the many, many women who have come forward to claim affairs with Tiger Woods in the past week, it's that, like Bill Clinton, the professional golfer has a type. His is busty and usually blonde. She enjoys "modeling," carrying drinks on trays, sex with married famous people, and probably appletinis. She hates mean people and giving a simple yes or no answer to questions about whether she is sleeping with someone else's husband (unless they are paying). Most of all, the alleged Tiger Woods mistress would like to be famous. And as the blanket coverage of the affair has shown, the world is only too happy to comply. The trouble is, with more and more of these gals coming out of the, er, woods every day, they're getting harder and harder to keep track of. So we made a little slideshow, so that you can get to know each of these women as the individuals.
Remember that weird kid from Family Ties? No, not the teased blond one named Tina Yothers, the other one. That’s right, child star Brian Bonsall, who played little Andy Keaton on the show. His wiki page tells me that “he was also nominated for a Young Artist Award for his starring role in the made-for-TV movie Do You Know the Muffin Man? in 1990.” So he is not without his credits.
Well it looks like Brian got a little fed up with all of former TV mom Meredith Baxter’slesbian drama of last week, because this once adorable little demon child has grown up into an altogether different sort of monster.
To find out what Brian looks like now, courtesy of his LATEST MUG SHOT, click ahead. Take this as a warning, stage mothers everywhere…
OK, folks, here is Family Ties’ Brian Bonsall… age 28… in his latest mughsot…
Why was he arrested? Get this:
He hit his best friend in the face with a broken stool.
He’s already been in prison a few times, including assault on his girlfriend (more, like Family Cries, amiri– sorry.) But if anyone has a heart for a clearly f**ked up kid pushed into the spotlight at way too young an age, feel free to post his $7,500 bond. Or, you know, don’t.
Naomi Campbell's rep confirmed that the supermodel is in talks to host an X Factor–style competition reality show for aspiring models. Though the rep says "nothing is set in stone yet," British Vogue reports the program would make Campbell the Tyra Banks–esque mother hen of the operation, shepherding a flock of aspiring models while whittling them down to a winner. This sounds like a wonderful idea because aspiring models need a better reality competition show than America's Next Top Model, the success of which now merely rides on Tyra's antics, such as her made-up superhero Smize and other publicity stunts like the recent blackface shoot. You know Naomi would have nothing to do with such absurdity.
Over the summer we learned that Sir Philip Green and Simon Cowell planned to work on some fashion-TV projects together under their new global entertainment company. We bet the mysterious show Campbell is in talks about is part of that venture. When we first reported on the GreenCow super-company, we suspected a model competition show would result. And we are still holding out hope for a live studio audience to make the contestants feel extra awkward. Tyra Banks would have to start going to work wearing pieces by Lucy and Bart to top that.
Attention, those of you with a really specific fetish for Brazilian models, boxing, and rollerskates: finally, you can enjoy all the activities you love to watch in one convenient, bizarre internet video! Toss in some bikinis, some excited Brazilian announcing and random footage of animals humping, and you’ve got yourself a thing that exists now!
Well done, Brazil. The crazy crap ball is in your court, Japan. (vid borderline NSFW):
Months back, 13-year-old fashion blogger Tavi Gevinson was spotted at a preview of Rodarte's Target line doing some on-camera reporting. The Rodarte sisters love her so much they have sent her free clothes — not the Target line, but the main line, prices for which routinely run in the four-figure range (no one wants to look shabby in seventh grade, or at least, the days they're actually in class and not jetting around the world to be guests of honor at Rei Kawakubo's Christmas party or do cover shoots for fashion magazines). Anyway, Style.com has proudly, exclusively obtained Tavi's short yet hard-hitting Rodarte for Target mini Internet documentary. Rodarte designers Kate and Laura Mulleavy say they chose Tavi for the video because "she is a mix between J.D. Salinger, Dorothy Parker, and Cindy Sherman. Our favorite combination!" Kate adds:
When spending time with Tavi, I am always astonished by her observations. Tavi is a writer in every sense. Her way of interacting with the world comes from a sensitivity and madness that belongs to poets and bank robbers.
As you can see in the video, there is a distinct complexity her thirteen years on this earth lends to her particular taste for the golden lace sweater from the collection.
Rachel Uchitel, the 9/11 widow and party promoter who's been linked to Tiger Woods, may have worked for the pro golfer, too. According to Deadspin, Uchitel's "main job was to provide women for Tiger during his globetrotting excursions" and may have been paid up to $15,000 to function as Woods concierge of sin. "Rachel Uchitel works for Tiger the minute he gets off the plane wherever he is: from dinner, to photos, to nightclubs, to drugs, to girls—whatever he wants," says one VIP concierge. [Deadspin]
Front Page: Former L.A. Times editor, reporter to begin in January -- Leo Wolinsky, an editor and reporter at the Los Angeles Times for 31 years, has been named editor of Daily Variety, encompassing both the L.A. and Gotham editions.
PLASTIC SURGERY
• The number of women requesting collagen injections for their feet has increased fivefold in the past year, according to doctors in England. The injections make heels less painful to wear. The procedure costs £240, or about $390. Would you shell out that dough to make your shoes more comfortable?
[Daily Mail UK]
SKIN
• It's old news that having a dog or cat can reduce your stress levels, but apparently pets can lessen your wrinkles, too! Studies show that people relax their faces when talking to their pets, especially around the eyes, thus helping to soften crow's feet. Best excuse for getting a dog we've heard yet.
[Girls in the Beauty Department/Glamour]
HAIR
• Eight eyebrow threaders in Texas are suing the state over a law that says they must go to cosmetology school and get licensed. The threaders are arguing that the training is unnecessary, as the cosmetology courses do not teach threading techniques. [BellaSugar]
MAKEUP
• Winged eye makeup was in at KISS FM's Jingle Ball in Los Angeles this Saturday, with Gossip Girl's Leighton Meester and The Hills' Kristin Cavallari and Stephanie Pratt all rocking the look. Think they pulled it off? [FabSugar UK]
• HSN will bring in a new well-known name in February, as Purple Lab takes to the network to offer its best-seller, Huge Lips, Skinny Hips lip gloss. Until then, Purple Lab is hosting an online model search, the winner of which will appear on HSN with the brand's founder, Karen Robinovitz, to sell the gloss and five other products.
[Stylelist]
NAILS
• Nail polish's shelf life is only two years, says Dashing Diva's head nail tech Pattie Yankee. Contrary to popular belief, refrigeration won't extend your polish's life, either. Use up that bottle of Chanel Jade before it goes bad, kids. [Beauty Counter/Style.com]
FRAGRANCE
• The 2010 edition of Fragrances of the World, otherwise known as "the fragrance Bible," will be released in January. Author Michael Edwards's 26th edition of the book includes more than 7,000 fragrances, about 800 more scents than the previous edition listed. The book helps shoppers find perfumes they might want to try by using scents they already like. [Now Smell This]
Most museums across the city have been battered by the economic downturn, as corporations and wealthy donors have cut back on charitable contributions and attendance has declined. One way to make up the difference: Invite people to sleep over at the museum and charge them a good deal for the privilege.
The Guggenheim, which cut eight percent of its staff at the start of the summer, set up an art exhibit last fall that doubled as an actual hotel room and charged people $259 a night to stay over in the famous Frank Lloyd Wright structure. The Bronx Zoo has been offering "overnight safaris" since February (for $140 per person); and the Long Island Aquarium started up its own overnight program this spring (and, at $60 per person, the cheapest of the lot).
The American Museum of Natural History, which had lost a quarter of its endowment by early 2009 and was forced to cut 10 percent of its staff right around the same time, is now expanding its sleepover program and has set aside a dozen dates over the next few months when kids are invited to camp out for the night.
So what will your kid will get for $129? There's "a fossil fact-finding mission by flashlight" and an IMAX film, and the children are provided with an "evening snack and light breakfast." Best of all, of course, is you can get rid of your kids for the night and pass it off as an educational experience at the same time.
Need a break from this endless Tiger Woods gossip saga? Let’s relax with some good-living tips from Us Weekly’s “Healthy Lifestyle” section:
Whoop! Never mind — incredibly specific, graphic Tiger Woods story here too.
Anything I can read to escape the Tiger Woods thing for even one brief second? How about this month’s Better Homes And Gardens?
Dammit.
Alright, I give up. Your daily Tiger news roundup — including some self-deprecating Letterman goodness — is after the jump:
Tiger’s crashed Escalade will be repaired and either returned or auctioned off. Hopefully, a philanthropist will do the right thing and buy the Escalade to donate it to the Golf Hall Of Fame. Or the Smithsonian. Or just make it its own Smithsonian museum.
David Letterman provided his take on the Tiger situation last night, coming from a…shall we say… well-learned position of his own:
And finally, if you’re counting at home, that’s 11 Straight Tiger Woods New York Post covers:
This past summer, after several seasons of designing his menswear label, Grahame Fowler opened his first U.S store. The classic, slightly disheveled suits and shirting are all handmade in New York, with relaxed silhouettes and impeccable fit. They're displayed amid vintage scooters and photos at Fowler's West Village shop, which he converted from an old dry cleaner, where the décor perfectly blends casual and luxurious style. The store's good looks are no coincidence: Before launching his label, Fowler was one half of a premier London design team, Timney Fowler, that worked with numerous fashion houses on fabrics, wallpapers, and interiors. We chatted with the British designer about the look of next spring's suits, his love of street style, and the best accessories for both genders.
What is the look of the clothes you design?
It's a mix of tailored/working/military/function-at-the-junction mélange.
What is the inspiration for your latest collection?
Spring/summer 2010 is all about acid-color shirts, sharp, crisp cotton twill suits, and tropical-wool pants. This is all fused with oversized plaid shirts and high-break double-breasted jackets that are unlined. Sharp Kool suits for the "Man about the Village."
What is your favorite piece in the store right now?
A washed moleskin suit in navy, green, gray, and brown. It has a great fit — a well-cut, finished garment at a great price that is made here in NYC.
Tell me about the extra, special details on your pieces.
I include functional details, like straps to hold your newspaper inside the inside pocket of jackets, for example. Lots of these details come in response to years of traveling and having to utilize extra pockets for storage and secretion.
What type of man shops at the store?
A nice one ...
What was the first designer item you bought or wore?
Not a designer item, but a pair of Levi's 501 button-fly jeans. I had to travel all the way to London to buy them from the only shop that stocked them there.
Who were some of your favorite designers growing up? What about now?
My visual vocabulary was really referenced by other youth cultures and how they wore, or appropriated, street styles — mods, rockers, teddy boys, skinheads, suede heads, etc. Now I like small stores or designers who are left of center and doing their own gig, creating a look rather than dictating a look.
Who are your style icons?
Footballers like George Best, bands like the Who, the Kinks, the Small Faces, and obscure American soul bands like Voices of East Harlem. All those cats that made it happen.
Tell me about your personal style. What pieces or labels do you wear most?
On a daily basis I wear jeans, my T-shirts, and my shirts and jackets plus some vintage like favorite motorcycle jackets. In the evening, a hand-tailored suit and bench-made English shoes.
Where do you shop most for fashion items (other than your own store)?
Vintage stores, Bergdorf Goodman, Barneys, 45 RPM, military stores, and Costco for white tees.
Is there a fashion item you are currently coveting for yourself?
A Patek Philippe 5971P chronograph watch.
What trends are you into this season?
Being nice to all of my customers and trying to provide value for money.
Any trends you wish would just disappear?
No, I love them all; it's what makes New York New York. Diversity is my university.
What's something every man should have in his closet?
A really beautiful watch and a beautiful woman.
Every woman?
A drop-dead gorgeous diamond ring and a cool guy.
Finish this sentence: I never leave the house without ...
The keys to my 1969 Lambretta scooter. Otherwise I can't ride to work.
Fashion Wire Daily - Forget subtle. If it's understated you're after in the early months of fall next year, Oscar de la Renta might not be the answer. His Pre-Fall 2010 collection, which he showed in a Park Avenue church on Monday, Dec. 7, in New York, was an explosion of pop colors, nubby textures, embroidered patchwork and sequin embellishments - for day or night.
Matt Tyrnauer, director of Valentino: The Last Emperor, which has been shortlisted for an Oscar: "The 'star,' on more than one occasion, quit the movie, which was rather inconvenient, as tens of thousands of dollars (of my own money, at that point) were being spent on every shoot. Even in the final cut, you can twice see Valentino furiously declaring his departure from the project. For a brief time, I thought I would have to make the movie a là Marlene, without a lot of screen time with Valentino. I even spoke to animators about creating a cartoon Valentino. Mercifully, whenever he quit, Valentino re-hired himself the next morning." [Daily Beast]
Steven Klein shot Daphne Guinness for the spring 2010 Akris campaign. The pictures look remarkably like the editorial Italian Vogue ran of Daphne in the October issue, in which she looked stiff and depressed but as wealthy and pretty as ever. Akris designer Albert Kriemler said Daphne "emanates a sense of mystery and aristocracy" in photographs, which he believes adds depth to the campaign.
In other Daphne news, she may be done with the blond hair for the time being. She was frolicking around Art Basel in Miami Friday night with black hair and a veritable treasure chest of diamonds on her person. Deigning to remove neither those nor her couture, she jumped in the pool and splashed around for a piece of performance art. Remarkably, her hair stayed almost as stiff as in this picture, which is a mystery indeed.
AP - You may not believe in spirits but Welsh poet Dylan Thomas has materialized on stage at off-Broadway's Clurman Theatre, brought back from the beyond by that remarkable actor Geraint Wyn Davies, who doesn't just portray the man, he lives and breathes him.
Ordinarily, I’m all in favor of cleavage-displaying dresses, am I right fellas????? MAN DO WE LIKE BOOBS!!! I’m driving over to all your houses now to high-five you then to do some KEGSTANDS, which we also love!!!!
But…Miley Cyrus is still seventeen, and she’s meeting the Queen of England, and each one of those facts might cause one to notice the pronounced cleavage in her dress of choice:
Needless to say, many a monocle dropped into a champagne glass this eve.
Colombian singer Shakira, whose hit "Hips Don't Lie" is the most played record in American radio history, became a musical sensation and a global philanthropist because of her family's bankruptcy when she was eight years old.
Algerian director Lyes Salem speaks after receiving an award during the closing ceremony of the Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF) in 2008. Despite an alarming debt crisis, Dubai is rolling out the... Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 8 Dec 2009 | 10:02 am
Despite an alarming debt crisis, Dubai is rolling out the red carpet with its usual splendour for movie stars, including Christina Ricci seen here in November 2009, as the Gulf state's sixth annual film... Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 8 Dec 2009 | 10:02 am
Despite an alarming debt crisis, Dubai is rolling out the red carpet with its usual splendour for movie stars, including Matt Dillon, seen here on December 1, as the Gulf state's sixth annual film festival... Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 8 Dec 2009 | 10:02 am
WORLDS COLLIDING. The Queen of Post-Millennial Pop Lady Gaga met the Queen of England last night. We wonder what it must have been like for Gagz preparing for such an occasion…
“Should I wear the crotchless fishnets with a used-tamp-string-bikini? Hmm (wooden platform hooves tapping)… no… what about the lucite chainmail thong and union jack dinner plate cape? Sighhh…. I guess I’ll just stick with classy. Toe-maas, would you grab my floor length latex red number from the upstairs closet? My safe word? Oh Toe-mass, you are too much.”
And so here they are. Lady Gaga extends an ever so delicate arm out to meet Queen Elizabeth, red glitter blood eyes a blazin. She even did an adorable little curtsy (which you can see in the below gallery), and surely swept Elizabeth right off her miniature doll feet. And what was the Queen’s reaction post-Gaga? Pretty amazing actually…
The always-amazing time capsule that is Everything Is Terrible has unearthed another gem of an instructional video, in which a near-retarded Designing Women castoff gets some instructional training on how to shoot a firearm from a condescending almost Dennis Farina.
Hand-guns? Bullets in the gun?? Oh brother! Vacuuming never prepared me for this!
AP - It's easy to take a series like "The Legend of Zelda" for granted. The first game arrived on the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1987, and with more than a dozen releases over 23 years, even the most dedicated "Zelda" fan can be forgiven for having skipped a game or two.
It's an unseasonably chilly night in LA, but that isn't stopping the stars from partying.
At least two events tonight are in the same place: The Luxe Hotel in Bel Air is hosting...
NBC has indeed discovered how to turn losers into winners.
Despite all the money that changed hands tonight on The Biggest Loser: Second Chances finale—$250,000 for the...
Well, she could do a lot worse.
But unlike the real-life wedding ceremony Aniston shared with Brad Pitt, this time the star is looking to join Adam Sandler for a romantic...
Paris Hilton can sympathize.
The heiress took to her Twitter Tuesday to express outrage over an alleged burglary that apparently took place today at sister Nicky Hilton's house in...
Nicolas Cage is liquidating assets and burning bridges. Possibly with a flamethrower.
The financially strapped actor has been sued by the mother of his 18-year-old son, Weston, who...
There may be a ton of anger floating around Tiger Woods' Florida estate these days, but this morning, it was filled with fear.
When a woman—either wife Elin Nordegren or her...
The truth is out there...in the fine print.
E! News has gotten a hold of the dispatcher's notes from the 911 call reporting Tiger Woods' Nov. 27 car crash that...
How did Tiger Woods allegedly keep track of so many alleged mistresses? We're finding it to be quite the chore to remember which cocktail waitress is denying what and who's sexting...
Where's K.I.T.T. when you need him?
E! News has gotten a hold of the 911 recording of David Hasselhoff's post-Thanksgiving medical emergency that led to his Nov. 27...
MTV's latest reality series, Jersey Shore, has some people—such as really humorless Italian-Americans—pretty pissed, as you may have heard. Before the show even debuted, Unico National, the same group that repeatedly criticized HBO over The Sopranos, issued a statement to the media lambasting the program. It's since lined up support from several other Italian-American community groups and convinced at least two advertisers—Domino's and American Family Insurance—to stop advertising on the show. 
Most museums across the city have been battered by the economic downturn, as corporations and wealthy donors have cut back on charitable contributions and attendance has declined. One way to make up the difference: Invite people to sleep over at the museum and charge them a good deal for the privilege. 
Whoop! Never mind — incredibly specific, graphic Tiger Woods story here too.
