Reuters - Actress Sharon Stone is set to guest star in four episodes in NBC's popular television crime series "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit", NBC said on Tuesday.
Reuters - Despite record snowfall and bitter cold, "Avatar" burned up China's box office, earning about $5 million Monday to set a record for a weekday opening here, Twentieth Century Fox said.
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - The return of Hulk Hogan to pro wrestling gave Spike TV's "TNA Impact" its highest ratings ever Monday night. Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 6 Jan 2010 | 12:07 am
Cheaters:Owen Wilson and Jason Sudeikis will buddy up for the Farrelly Brothers comedy Hall Pass. The film centers on a married couple bored in their relationship. Rather than remain bored, the wife gives the husband (Wilson) a "hall pass," which is essentially a free pass to cheat. His best friend (Sudeikis) also gets a "hall pass." Then they go out to find chicks but decide that it's really their wives they want to be with. That's pretty much guaranteed to be the story, right? [THR]
Cheaters 2: Infidelity is so hot right now. Universal is putting together a project directed by Ron Howard and starring Vince Vaughn about a man who learns that his best friend's wife is cheating and must figure out what to do with that valuable information. The script is said to "walk a fine line of being comedy and drama." Fingers crossed that the best friend is Jon Favreau. [THR]
Home Run: Last seen with snot dripping into her mouth in Doubt, Viola Davis has joined the cast of August Wilson's Fences. Davis will star as the wife of Tory Maxson (Denzel Washington), a former baseball player who works as a garbage man in Pittsburgh. Davis should start preparing now for Denzel's "ungenerous, unkind and knowingly hurtful" personality. [Arts Beast/NYT]
Strike Out: ABC has picked up two sitcom pilots from veteran comedians Carlos Mencia and Cedric the Entertainer. Mencia's will focus on a large multi-generational immigrant family and will be modeled after his cringe-inducing stand up act. The other stars Cedric the Entertainer as a retired baseball player-turned-radio host who is starting anew his relationship with his son and granddaughter. If we had to watch one of these (and hopefully we don't), it would definitely be Cedric's mash-up of Frasier and Mr. 3000. [THR]
Fastest One Hour in TV:Michael Mann and HBO are in talks for the director to helm Luck, the hourlong pilot about horse racing created by Deadwood-honcho David Milch. According to Milch, the pilot is about the lives that intersect at the horse track. Ace Bernstein, the lead character, is described as "a guy versed in all the permutations of finance, elicit and otherwise. When he is released from jail for securities violations, he resumes his place at the race track, where he is a figure of long-standing repute." Count us in. [Variety]
Already a global hit, James Cameron's "Avatar" raced to a $4.8 million first day in populous China, with a publicist predicting the sci-fi blockbuster will set a new Chinese box office... Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 5 Jan 2010 | 11:26 pm
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Apparently movie fans failed to get the memo that these two young romantics have broken up. Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 5 Jan 2010 | 11:18 pm
Shoppers view books at a literary fair. Best selling Irish author Marian Keyes has revealed she is battling "crippling depression" that has left her unable to write, read, sleep or even talk to people... Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 5 Jan 2010 | 11:03 pm
Best selling Irish author Marian Keyes has revealed she is battling "crippling depression" that has left her unable to write, read, sleep or even talk to people. Keyes, whose books have... Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 5 Jan 2010 | 11:03 pm
Move over Byron Dorgan, a more important Senator has decided not to seek office in 2010. Connecticut Democrat Chris Dodd, who would be shooting for his sixth term in November, will not run for reelection, according to The Washington Post. An announcement will be made at a press conference on Wednesday.
Unlike Dorgan's departure, Dodd's exit is a good thing for Democrats. Republicans would have enjoyed kicking Dodd around for his role in the financial collapse. Now Former Rep. Rob Simmons or WWE honcho Linda McMahon, who are battling it out for the Republican nomination, will most likely face off against State Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, the frontrunner to take the now vacant Democratic nomination. As long as there are no figure four leglocks employed, Blumenthal should coast to a victory.
Conn. Sen. Dodd expected to announce retirement [Washington Post]
Jay Leno made an off hand joke during last night's Jay Leno Show suggesting that he may soon have a job flipping burgers. The exchange took place as bottle blond chef Guy Fieri attempted to show Leno and Kim Kardashian how to deep fry Oreos. After Fieri put a paper chef's hat on Leno, just like "from the days of McDonald's ," the host nonchalantly responded, "I'm going to be doing this again very soon." We took "this" to mean working at McDonald's, a subtle reference to rumors that NBC may be on the verge of deep frying Leno. But maybe it means something else. More deep-frying of Oreos? More paper hat wearing? More cooking with Kim Kardashian?
Socialite Casey Johnson lived a life of privilege that provided her great freedom -- and made her a frequent topic of gossip columns.
Brando and Pacino. Farley and Spade. Whitaker and Mencia. In Our Family Wedding, Forest Whitaker plays a wealthy black guy (no stretch there), whose car is towed by Carlos Mencia, a Mexican (he's a method actor). They disagree. They say mean things. They find out that their children are engaged! Dios mio, we get the feeling planning this wedding is going to be headache full of hijinks and racial stereotypes (Mexicans love goats! Black people love the Electric Slide!). And that's exactly what it is. It's hard to watch this and not wonder why this thing didn't join Wild Hogs 2 and Wedding Banned on the movie scrap heap.
Britain's most famous spy could be getting some high-class help for his next adventure.
No, not Miss Moneypenny.
Away We Go director Sam Mendes, an Academy...
North Dakota Senator Byron Dorgan announced today that he will not seek reelection later this year. The two-term Democrat would have likely lost his seat anyway so rather than go through another brutal election he's decided to "work on energy policy in the private sector." That means he plans on getting paid. [NYT]
When Galleon Group founder Raj Rajaratnam woke up this morning he stood accused of making $17 million in illicit profits from insider trading that began in 2007. Thanks to federal prosecutors, when he goes to bed tonight he'll be facing charges of reaping an additional $19 million going back to 2004. We hope he enjoyed the dwarfs and hot sauce, because the rest of his life is going to suck.
AP - A successful canned food drive has won students at a New York middle school a concert by teen pop sensation Justin Bieber (BEE'-bur). Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 5 Jan 2010 | 8:40 pm
Celebrities usually just go for the old sunglasses and baseball cap routine when they want to be left alone (or at least appear as if they'd like to be left alone).
But...
For the 2010-11 TV season, NBC has ordered 18 pilots, its most in one year since 2003. NBC exec Angela Bromstad says the new shows will go a long way toward filling the network's "many holes" and "rebuilding the schedule." Could one of those holes be from 10-11 p.m., the spot currently occupied by a certain chin-y funnyman? Maybe! NBC denies that the high number of pilot orders has anything to do with Jay Leno, but it's hard not to think otherwise. Leno's ratings stink, he's hurting NBC affiliates and his jokes still aren't funny. Just in case the network is thinking about ending its great Leno experiment of 2009, these pilots would certainly provide some insurance.
Fans of The Biggest Loser, the weight is over! NBC's heavy-hitting reality series starts back up tonight with its largest contestant ever.
(So don't let that bit of...
• A federal judge has yet to decide whether the city or the LeRoy family controls the "Tavern on the Green" name. In the meantime, the city's plan to use "Tavern in the Park" as a possible backup has been given the kibosh. [NYT] • Café Gitane's Jane Hotel outpost is now serving dinner. [Gothamist] • A roundup of a few closings around town in recent days. [Eater] • Doughnut Plant's second NYC location will be at the Chelsea Hotel. [TONY] • Bowling is booming, apparently. Leisure Time Bowl, the alley inside the Port Authority Bus Terminal, is changing its name and opening a "swank restaurant" and club shortly. It will soon face some competition in the hood, since Bowlmor is opening a $20 million venue on West 43rd Street this fall. [NYT] • Looking for a few recipes inspired by Jersey Shore? You're in luck. [F&W]
If you're a Kardashian, you gotta work. Kendall Jenner, 14, just recently signed on to Wilhelmina Modeling Agency as a teen model and she already has a Forever 21...
Casey Johnson, the 30-year-old Johnson & Johnson heiress who was found dead, will be laid to rest later this week in a private funeral attended by immediate family.
Have you seen the red band trailer for Kick-Ass [very NSFW]? How can a movie get away with a child actor spewing such filthy language?
—Pocky, Los Angeles
You speak of...
Brooke Mueller is fighting back!
On Tuesday, RadarOnline.com published a report claiming Mueller had gone to rehab for alcohol abuse while pregnant with now 10-month-old twins Bob and...
Former Comptroller Bill Thompson plans to take another crack at becoming New York's mayor in 2013. Coming off of a closer-than-anyone-expected loss to Mayor Bloomberg in November, Thompson announced today that he won't seek statewide office this year, choosing instead to flash his face around the city so people remember who is.
“I’m not going to fade away; it’s important to stay involved and talk about the issues that impact New Yorkers,” he said. “I don’t know what the public vehicle will be, or how I’m going to continue to stay out there, but I am going to do that.”
Here's a suggestion: Thompson should spend the next two and a half years convincing the City Council to keep its paws off of term limits. Otherwise Thompson is going to spend 2013 fighting off The Fourth Terminator.
Thompson to Run for Mayor in 2013 [NYT]
AP - David Gerber, who won Emmy, Golden Globe and Peabody awards for his television shows, has died of heart failure at the University of Southern California Medical Center. He was 86. Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 5 Jan 2010 | 7:27 pm
Gerard Butler just RocknRollad his way right out of a lawsuit.
The sometimes-studly Scot settled a misdemeanor battery charge out of court, stemming from a 2008 dustup with a paparazzo...
A rough approximation of what this is going to look like.
Prepare to constantly shield your face from foul balls, penalty kicks, hail marys and airballs: ESPN plans to launch an all-3D network in June, just in time for the World Cup. [USA Today]
Tiger Woods, hiding out, but not exactly saving face, in New York.
T-Dubya has been shacking up at the Trump Hotel at 1 Central Park West, sources confirm to the A.T. So has his wife,...
A few nights ago, as the world settled in to watch a big ball drop in Times Square, Kathy Griffin cursed on CNN. The news network pretended to get mad about it and now Griffin's foul mouth may have finally caught up with her. After two consecutive years of cursing during CNN's New Year's Eve show (she said "dick" last time around), Griffin won't be invited back later this year according to PopEater. That is, unless CNN is smart. History has shown that a cursing red head guarantees people will still be talking about your New Year's Eve broadcast five days later.
• Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Benson and Stabler are getting a couple of new friends. Sharon Stone joins the cast of SVU for a four-ep guest arc as a police officer turned...
Let’s not even talk about the beautiful cinematography of this viral video, which may have finally proven to us that this “internet” thing is through f*cking around. It’s art, people. This is “Sketch of the Dead.”
Watch it for the last minute alone, which, to us — on two hours sleep — is the funniest thing we’ve seen since the epic “Flat Cat” episode of Hoarders.
(Playbill) Playbill - The producers of Looped, the new Broadway comedy about a late-career Tallulah Bankhead, confirmed that Brian Hutchison and Michael Mulheren will join Valerie Harper in the play, which begins previews Feb. 19 and opens March 14 at the Lyceum Theatre. Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 5 Jan 2010 | 5:35 pm
Front Page: Owen Wilson to star in New Line film -- New Line Cinema has set a Feb. 22 production start for "Hall Pass," an R-rated comedy directed by Pete and Bobby Farrelly that will star Owen Wilson and Jason Sudeikis.
AP - Casey Johnson, an heiress to the Johnson & Johnson fortune, lived the life of a Hollywood socialite — partying with Paris Hilton, posing for paparazzi, becoming engaged to bisexual reality TV star Tila Tequila and like her idol Marilyn Monroe, dying young.
Leave the New Year’s resolutions to the rest of the world: in 2010, Peaches isn’t changing shit. The video for “Relax,” a late single from her well received (if not exactly earth-shattering) May 2009 album I Feel Cream, has all the nonsensical perversity you’ve come to love and expect. Witness strange, forbidden science experiments! See girls in flesh-colored body-suits and intense eye-makeup dancing jerkily! Watch Peaches eat diseased back-skin flesh-flakes! If it’s all a little too familiar to really do anything for you, you are obviously not high enough.
Can't anybody get a damn Spider-Man-related project off the ground smoothly these days? Nikki Finke reports that Sam Raimi's upcoming Spider-Man 4 movie will probably miss its planned release date of May 11, 2011 owing to a script whose third revision the director still hates. Scribes Jamie Vanderbilt, Gary Ross, and David Lindsay-Abaire have all taken turns, and now Raimi and Sony have fingers crossed that Alvin Sargent can turn in something less odious.
S4 was to begin shooting in March with stars Tobey Maguire, John Malkovich (as villain the Vulture), and Anne Hathaway (as villainess the Vulturess). Now, though, there's no planned start date, and Sony may drop Hathaway for someone cheaper and less famous (or maybe they'll scrap her character altogether, who knows). Batman is basically laughing his ass off right now.
• Prepare to enter the third dimension. ESPN plans to launch a 3D channel in June. And Discovery, Imax and Sony are teaming up on a 3D channel, too. • Has Kathy Griffin been banned from CNN following her risqué performance alongside Anderson Cooper on New Year's Eve? Maybe yes, maybe no. • Newsday is cutting pay and vacations for 1,100 of its employees. [NYP] • Apple's buzzed-about tablet device comes out in March. [WSJ] • Google's buzzed-about mobile phone/iPhone ripoff debuted today. [BN] • You'll be relieved to hear that the New York Times has no plans to follow in Kim Kardashian's footsteps and begin sticking ads in its tweets. [AdAge] • Coming soon: Publicist Kelly Cutrone's TV show and self-help book. [WWD] • Nielsen closed Kirkus Reviews last week, but it may now have a savior. [NYT] • Conveyor of Love, the new reality show on ABC that combines dating and the latest in baggage handling technology, is off to a solid start. [Wrap] • Will Avatar turn out to be the biggest movie ever? Maybe! [MTV]
A few days before Christmas, conservative blogger and news aggregator Andrew Breitbart mocked "controversial designer" Simon Doonan on his BigGovernment website for hanging ornaments with pictures of a drag queen, an Andy Warhol Chairman Mao silkscreen, and Barack Obama's face superimposed on Mount Rushmore on one of the Christmas trees in the White House. "All around, a very Barry Christmas!" the blogger on the site cracked. Doonan, who is usually quickwith thebarbshimself, was deeply offended. He'd volunteered to decorate the White House for free, and had even used recycled ornaments that were sent around the country for children and charities to design (which is where the 3 out of 800 decorative balls that ended up on Breitbart came from). Most of the globes, according to Doonan, included innocuous depictions of local landmarks and patriotic themes.
Doonan defended himself in a lengthy story in this week's Observer, in which he claimed that he came under vicious attacks after the Brietbart story. To Breitbart, he wrote:
Thanks to you, I see now that there are two kinds of people in the world: In the first group, we have those who “do,” and in the second group, we have those who sit at their computers on their ever-widening asses blogging, platforming and commenting on the not-always-perfect efforts of the first group. Tinselgate has renewed my commitment to keep my tight ass fairly and squarely plonked in that first group.
We take offense to that, Simon. Our asses here at Daily Intel are very tight! Perky, even!
Sharon Stone will join the cast of Law & Order: SVU for four episodes beginning in April, EW's Michael Ausiello reports. She'll play a "cop-turned-prosecutor who will (presumably) go toe-to-toe with Benson, Stabler, and the gang." [Ausiello Files/EW]
Emma Watson returns as the face of Burberry for the spring 2010 season. She stars in the ads alongside her adorable brother, Alex Watson. George Craig, Matt Gilmour, and Max Hurd also appear in the campaign, shot by Mario Testino. Everyone looks terrific but also terrifically young. Not that that’s a bad thing or terribly surprising for a fashion ad, but most people we know who wear Burberry have, you know, facial hair or bank accounts independent of their parents. See the entire campaign and a behind-the-scenes video of the shoot in the slideshow. Update: We failed to note that there's something disturbingly "off" with Emma's leg in Slide 11. Either she's been horribly disfigured in a tragic ski accident, or someone on Burberry's Photoshop team is in trouble.
Harlem is slowly but surely getting whiter, the Times reports today. “It was a combination of location and affordability,” says new Harlem resident Laura Murray, a 31-year-old graduate student in medical anthropology at Columbia whose race the paper does not specify, possibly because the following quote subtly reveals it: “I feel a community here that I don’t feel in other parts of the city.” Must be all that dancing and music! [NYT]
AP - Redmond O'Neal, the troubled son of Ryan O'Neal and the late Farrah Fawcett, was back in jail after a judge found he committed a drug-related probation violation.
As the season-six premiere of Lost draws ever closer, the amount of Lost-related propaganda for us to eagerly wade through seems to be increasing exponentially. Just last night, we got a look at a brand-new, Last Supper–inspired promo poster for the show's last season that depicts the return of some old, familiar faces. And today, those marketing geniuses over at ABC have released an eight-minute, fifteen-second video to help you remember exactly what the heck is going on. It certainly beats watching three-point-seven episodes per day for the next 28 days. Our only beef? No Frogurt!
Manhattan federal judge Jed Rakoffhas been nicknamed "Judge Dread" on Wall Street for his efforts to hold banks and financial execs accountable for their actions. (He's currently overseeing the case against Bank of America, which is accused of misleading investors regarding bonus payouts, and he's also presiding over the trial of Raj Rajaratnam, the hedgie charged with insider trading.) So how does Rakoff blow off steam when he isn't taking on big banks and crooked execs? He engages in a little ballroom dancing, that's what. [BusinessInsider]
Hey, New Yorkers! What color are you wearing right now? Nymag.com's entire fashion department, including Amy Odell, Sharon Clott, Amina Akhtar, and Diana Tsui are all wearing black. When asked over IM to be sure they were wearing black, all replied something like, "Yes. Like always. Do you have to ask?" But according to the Daily Mail, we are sitting here in our cubes probably looking like old bags. Your color selection might be making you look like an old bag, too. Expert color consultants, whatever those are, say only one in five people has the proper skin tone to pull off black clothing. For the other four in five, black clothes emphasize bags under the eyes, make wrinkles look darker and deeper, and can even create the appearance of fissures or dark spots in irises.
The effect can be lessened by wearing a low-cut black top. But if you put your black scarf and black coat on at the end of the day, you'll walk outside looking like an old, sunken-faced, wrinkly bag with spotted eyes again. Colorist Jules Standish says, "The effect can be as serious as making women feel drained, self-conscious, and introverted." And you thought that was just an effect of the miserably cold winter, or being back to work after a nice long vacation. But no — it's your black clothes.
Standish says Nigella Lawson has the skin tone to pull off black, while Peaches Geldof does not. Warm skin tones are problematic. But no matter what these color "experts" say, we do not plan to wear any less black despite how old and sickly it may (not) be making us look. What are we supposed to do? Go around New York in the thick of winter wearing color and looking cheerful? That would just be silly.
If you’ve wondering where we’ve been all day, it’s been staring at the following DVD cover which arrived on our desks via robot angel with apron:
THE FIRST SEASON OF SMALL WONDER IS FINALLY BEING RELEASED ON DVD.
Our favorite show EVER about a child slave who, thankfully, wasn’t a real girl at all, rather a robot, can be watched over and over and over again. What’s that? You don’t remember it? Why don’t you give it’s theme song a listen and then call your local hardware store when your BRAIN SPRINGS SHOOT OUT OF YOUR EYEHOLES:
This might be our favorite melody after our standard #1 pick, Colonel Abrams’“Table for Two.”
Watching this show today is a trip. Namely, because Vicki’s hardware, which is woefully sticking out of her back like the light switch to a slumlord’s whore den, is the exact same motherboard used to make an Atari game console. It’s as though the creators of the show threw their giant Apple PC’s to the ground after writing so many television failures, picked up the sparking motherboard while their hungry children began crying in the doorway, and boom: TELEVISION HISTORY IS MADE.
V.I.C.I.’s features include superhuman strength and speed, an AC outlet under her right arm, a parallel port under her left arm, and an access panel in her back. Despite this, the Lawson family tries to pass the robot off as their adopted daughter. Vicki lives in a large cabinet in Jamie’s bedroom, and becomes more human over the course of the show.
Pretty sure this is also the plot to our other favorite movie, “The Tom Cruise Story.”
And we wouldn’t be journalists without passing along this genius:
Occasionally Vicki had rare abilities that seemed to only appear in one or two episodes, such as elongating her neck to reach a door’s peephole, shrinking her size to become as small as a doll or making herself ten feet tall to get noticed by everyone.
Yup, special FX were in full FX back in 1986. But you know the only thing creepier than a fake robo-daughter? How about the real kids?
Yes, that is the girl from Troop Beverly Hills. And that’s probably the guy you just bought meth from. I LOVE THIS SHOW!!
The DVD is officially out at the beginning of February, but understandably, it already has a 5 star rating over at Amazon.
So much for that report about Marc Jacobs getting married to fiancé Lorenzo Martone on St. Barts earlier this week. A rep for the designer says it was just an engagement party (albeit one that happened to involve the presence of a wedding cake). [Us, The Cut, previously]
Sure, why the hell not? Sam Mendes is reportedly in talks to direct the upcoming Peter Morgan–scripted 23rd James Bond movie. Though the film's future was "uncertain" only yesterday (owing to MGM's own uncertain future), HR says it's being fast-tracked and could begin shooting as early as June, with a possible release in 2011. Mendes has never really done an action film before, but he's at least as qualified to do Bond as Quantum of Solace director Marc Forster, we suppose. Unless we hear different, we'll assume that Bond 23 will meditate on 007's loveless suburban marriage.
Jenna Elfman found a clever way to disguise her six-month pregnancy when she stopped by the Late Show With David Letterman studio last night wearing a black poncho over a gray sweater and black jeans. However, she paired the look with open-toe heels, which was like asking for frostbite since it was 26 degrees and below freezing in New York yesterday.
When asked about the matter of executive pay, Bill George, a professor of management at Harvard Business School and a member of the board of Goldman Sachs, told Big Think:
"If you don’t pay them for their performance, you’ll lose them. It's much like professional athletes and movie stars."
Hmmm. We're not sure that analogy quite works.
We mean, physical differences aside, we can see the parallel between bankers and athletes, as both use strategy and possess at least some innate ability. And we can kind of see how bankers are like movie stars, in that they consistently feed the media bullshit and eventually end up retiring to big mansions. Though really, they are more like studio executives: Invisible people whose work consists of guessing what people want based on what they wanted in the past, who take a bunch of crap and package it together (like that horrible-looking Valentine's Day movie), finance it with other people's money, then send it out into the universe to see what happens. Except they're different from all those things, in that they don't get traded or fired if their bets don't work out.
Willie Mitchell, the Memphis producer whose percussive, string-and-horn-tinged R&B sound shaped '70s hits by such artists as Al Green and Ann Peebles, died Tuesday. He was 81.
HAIR
• In order for Angelina Jolie to appear older for her role in Salt, which she is filming now in New York, the actress is wearing dark-brown hair with a few strands of gray. Going gray is so in right now. [Beauty Counter/Style.com]
SKIN
• A Georgia couple was arrested and charged with child cruelty for giving their six children tattoos with a homemade tattoo gun. The youngest child is 7 years old. [WHEC]
PLASTIC SURGERY
• Jana Rawlinson, an Australian champion hurdler, had her breast implants removed so that she could improve her chances of running faster during the 2012 Olympics. [Telegraph UK]
MAKEUP
• A new study conducted by St. Ives found that men prefer the natural look over caked-on makeup. It's a valid point, even though the survey is probably biased because it's basically a skin-care brand telling you that men want to look at your skin and not face paint. [Daily Mail UK]
• Makeup artist Linette Miller, who has worked on American Idol and Everybody Loves Raymond, created her own line of mineral makeup. [BellaSugar]
A poster outside a screening of "Avatar" at Fox Studios in Los Angeles, California. Science-fiction blockbuster "Avatar" was named among the nominees for the Producers Guild of America Awards' top honor... Source: RSS feed - channel BNImagesEnter | 5 Jan 2010 | 2:16 pm
Renting a room at Manhattan Mini-Storage could easily run you $100 a month. A far cheaper solution: Buy a junky used car, fill it up with all the crap you own (and should really throw out), and then park the car on the street for free!
In a fairly honest interview with Latina magazine, pop star, actress, and mother Jennifer Lopez opens up about what it's like to be her. We especially enjoyed the parts where she daydreamed about winning the Oscar for her role in the critically dismissed El Cantante the way, well, any normal person with big dreams would:
“I feel like I had that [Oscar-worthy role] in El Cantante, but I don’t even think the Academy members saw it. I feel like it’s their responsibility to do that, to see everything that’s out there, everything that could be great ... Well, it is a little bit frustrating. It was funny; when the Oscars were on, I had just given birth on the 22nd, and the Oscars, I think, were a day or two later. I was sitting there with my twins — I couldn’t have been happier — but I was like, ‘How dope would it have been if I would’ve won the Oscar and been here in my hospital bed accepting the award?’ ‘Thank you so much! I just want to thank the Academy!’ But we joked about it. It’s all good.”
We bet those were some hilarious jokes. Not winning an Oscar — that always makes you laugh, and laugh ...
In October, German fashion magazine Brigitteannounced it would ban super-skinny models from its pages, citing widespread reader outcry over images of "protruding bones." Editor Andreas Lebert said it just felt wrong to keep Photoshopping flesh onto these girls, and so the magazine pledged to use real people in its fashion spreads going forward. "It is not a question of them suddenly becoming models," editor Andreas Lebert told the Independent. "They simply step out of their normal lives for a moment and present fashion for us as personalities." The first issue featuring real people is out, and the cast includes a 21-year-old hotel receptionist from Capri, a 28-year-old restaurant owner from Hamburg, a 45-year-old Icelandic artist, a 21-year-old economics student, and a 29-year-old teacher.
Each has clearly received the full attention of professional make-up artists and fashion photographers, yet there is the odd detail that reveals the models are amateur, not professional: the Capri receptionist has a slight paunch and the 45-year-old Icelandic artist has a face well-endowed with wrinkles. But many of the others might be mistaken for professionals at first glance.
Well, we didn't expect them to pick ugly real people, did we? See some images of the real models from the January issue in the slideshow. You can look for more on Brigitte's site, which is in German and still not especially easy to navigate even with Google's translation.
Hedge fund manager David Tepper is a rare breed. Not only did he earn $2.5 billion in 2009 while many of his peers just struggled to keep their heads above water, he still lives in the same New Jersey home he and his wife have occupied since 1990, he's yet to buy a vacation home, and he still sends his kids to public school. [BN]
Before Kell on Earth takes the new decade of fashion reality TV by storm on Bravo, Lifetime will premiere another season of Project Runway, the second on the network and the seventh of the series. Jewelry and maternitywear designer Nicole Richie lends her celebrity and designer's eye to the judges' panel in the first episode, airing January 14 at 10 p.m. "I think that you have to have a theme. You have to have a vibe and a feeling," she sagely opines. [E!]
Katy Perry and Russell Brand have gotten engaged, even though they've only been dating since September. Apparently, he proposed while they were on vacation in Jaipur, India, where they went after Perry told Brand that she "loved Indian culture" over curry one night. Us Weekly scrutinized Perry's Twitter page for details.
The day before, she perhaps hinted at spontaneous decisions to come later that week: "In India, the motto ... you gotta go with the flow ... "
Oh, Us. Having accidentally consumed a beverage with ice in India, we can say with some certainty that "going with the flow" indicated something else entirely.
When Mirte Maas opened the spring Alexander Wang show in September, it was a sign of the great things to come. By the end of Paris Fashion Week, the Dutch newcomer picked up an additional opening slot at Yves Saint Laurent, and closed Philosophy di Alberta Ferretti and RM by Roland Mouret. The 17-year-old isn't just a hit on the runway, though. Expect her face to appear in the pages of Interview, British Vogue, and Italian Vogue in the coming months. And, you'll see Mirte front two major spring campaigns: one very directional French label, shot by Steven Meisel, and one well-respected American brand, shot by Craig McDean. Not bad for a debut season.
Nike Air Max BW Gen II by Nike Sportswear, Avia Avi-Bolt II, Ryka Assist XT, DJ AM Nike Dunk Hi, and adidas Originals Honey Mid W Fafi.
If you're like us, ringing in 2010 left you with aching feet and a bit of guilt over the endless glasses of Champagne. Whether you resolve to hit the gym regularly or give the sky-high heels a rest, our latest Shop-A-Matic offers up 115 pairs of sneakers that can go from the treadmill to the pavement. We hunted down high-tech trainers for the hard-core fitness buffs and laid-back kicks for running weekend errands. Plus, we asked the sneakerheads over at Freshness to pick out 26 of their favorites for the ladies and gents. Check out the full selection here and click ahead to view some of Freshness's and our favorites.
Nike Air Max BW Gen II by Nike Sportswear Price: $120 Why Freshness Likes It: The Air Max BW Gen II features a number of technical improvements, including a lightweight moisture-managing material for the upper called Torch and a natural motion sole. It's a great sneaker for the gym but looks equally good on the street.
DJ AM Nike Dunk Hi Price: $125 Why Freshness Likes It: DJ AM's legacy in sneaker culture has been cemented with kicks he designed prior to his death, which will now honor the legendary sneakerhead.
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Marc Jacobs and Lorenzo Martone were supposed to get married in Provincetown this past summer. They never ended up going through with it for whatever reason, although that may have changed over New Year's vacation. According to the fashion blog Styleexperts, the couple tied the knot in a private ceremony on St. Barts earlier this week, an event that was hosted by art dealer Larry Gagosian and which featured a cake topped with an edible Jacobs (sans shirt), Martone (dressed in a tux), and two of their dogs. [Styleexperts via GoaG]
Update: Jacobs hasn't tied the knot with Martone yet, per his rep.
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Marc Jacobs and Lorenzo Martone didn't just go to St. Barts to frolic on the beach with God knows how expensive Louis Vuitton towels and Birkin bags, possibly smearing the leather with grease from their torsos, but who cares?! Marc probably has bowls of these things sitting around his house like butterscotch candies. Anyway, according to Guest of a Guest and Stylexperts, one night down there recently, MarLo got married! (Marc hinted to us in April a December wedding in St. Barts could occur.) The couple continued to showcase their splendidly toned torsos at an exclusive dinner hosted by Larry Gagosian following the private ceremony, refusing to burden their necks with stuffy neckties. Few details are available, but judging from the photos we like the looks of this wedding. Marc appears shirtless on the top of the cake with his man and his puppies, he also wore a skirt, and they probably didn't freak out over every single floral arrangement and the placement of their every eyebrow hair. Lorenzo's askew, carefree suspenders say it all! And they look so in love and adorable. Congrats to the happy couple! Now they can go home and get fat together.
Update: A source close to the couple tells us MarLo did not wed in St. Barts. Apparently Larry Gagosian just held an engagement party for them. With a wedding cake.
There's something fishy, but also kind of nice, going on in this city's luxury department stores. Designer clothes hang on racks labeled 60 percent off, but they are actually marked down more than 60 percent. Madison Avenue Spy found, on a sale rack in Bergdorf Goodman labeled 60 percent off, a Gaultier dress marked down from $495 to $149, which is 70 percent off. A Peter Som jacket that was $1,295 hung on the same rack but was marked down to $389 — again 70 percent off. Secret sales pervade over at Saks, where racks labeled 60 percent off contained Jil Sander pants for 65 percent off. Online you'll find 65 percent off a Dior dress, an Akris sweater, and Alexander McQueen leggings.
Madison Avenue Spy doesn't advise rearranging your life in the interest of fleeing uptown to scoop this stuff up since it's fairly picked over. But still, why would stores mislabel? Surely after months and months of tallying losses, these places know how to do the basic math to discount a sweater and a pair of pants here and there. Spy wonders, as do we, if stores are trying to hide their sales from designers who became so upset with last year's insane winter discounts. Remember how stores were practically giving the stuff away?
Anyway, it looks like the sales will only continue. Shoes at Bergdorf are 30 percent off now but will be marked down again in just over a week. The ninth-floor menswear at Saks will go down again on Friday. Spy suspects the deeper discounts will pour over into the women's section, too. So maybe stores are dealing with the ongoing recession like a celebrity in rehab. Sometimes it's better to get the hard part over with in private rather than splashing it all over the headlines, so you can emerge from hiding with a nice facial and expensive new clothes and everyone thinks things are just great even when, maybe, they're not.
Well, the only — ONLY — thing that is on my personal Bucket List has now been completed by the most boring man in tennis, Andy Roddick. Indeed, Andy Roddick has now gently cupped the ass of a koala bear, as the above photo would seem to indicate. He did so while at the Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary in Brisbane, Australia.
Just how serious am I about wanting to hug a koala’s ass? This is one of three photos taken of me at the San Diego Zoo this summer. I’m very serious, people. (Note that said koala is stuffed and unfeeling.)
On the plus side, Roddick’s koala is clearly just as bored with him as is our entire country:
Koala fans might want to click through the below gallery.
We’ve actually missed Vincie from the pages of our local gossip rags these past few months, so this wedding comes as nothing short of a shock. So, who’s the lucky lady who apparently can’t get enough of his trademarked Vaughncian banter? Her name’s Kyla Weber, a woman listed as a Canadian “real estate agent,” which is apparently what Canadians are calling their strippers now. Kudos to him for not falling for some common Hollywood floozy, and kudos to her for pulling the plug on one of America’s most beloved bachelors.
What girl wouldn’t wanna snag this guy?
It’s the second most shocking marriage moment in history after this:
True, it’s fictional, but our Jewjaws are still dropping over it.
So ladies, a sad day for the world of giant slightly bloated bachelors, as there is one less on the market. And once again, poor Jennifer Aniston is left in the cold. She best marry John Mayer before some other woman — God forbid a Canadian – gets to him first.
Ahead, a short Wedding Crashers clip to warm the cockles.
AP - Eunice Johnson, the widow of Ebony magazine founder John Johnson and a fashion maven who ran thousands of traveling runway shows aimed at black audiences, has died. She was 93.
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Vince Vaughn has done the impossible.
