AFP - Elusive British graffiti artist Banksy is due to walk the red carpet on Sunday when he presents his directorial debut in Berlin but organisers said he will stay incognito throughout the high-profile event.
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Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 14 Feb 2010 | 12:44 am AP - Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio celebrated nearly a decade working together as they presented the director's latest film, "Shutter Island," at the Berlin film festival Saturday.
Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 14 Feb 2010 | 12:44 am AP - Lucille Clifton, a National Book Award-winning poet and Pulitzer finalist, has died. She was 73. Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 14 Feb 2010 | 12:40 am AP - Lucille Clifton, a National Book Award-winning poet and Pulitzer finalist, has died. She was 73. Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 14 Feb 2010 | 12:40 am Two men died Saturday morning when their pickup collided head-on with one of Trace Adkins' tour buses north of Shreveport, Louisiana.  Source: CNN.com - Entertainment | 13 Feb 2010 | 11:13 pm Source: Entertainment - Google News | 13 Feb 2010 | 11:02 pm  Apolo Anton Ohno's dancing days are so 2007.
The speed-skating superstar got off to a great start at the Vancouver Olympics Saturday after taking home the silver medal in the...


 Source: E! Online (US) - Top Stories | 13 Feb 2010 | 10:24 pm Reuters - Members of Russia's Bolshoi Ballet danced in Cuba for the first time in 30 years on Saturday in a joint performance with the Cuban National Ballet at Havana's Karl Marx theater. Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 13 Feb 2010 | 10:16 pm Lucille Clifton, a National Book Award-winning poet and Pulitzer finalist, has died. She was 73. Clifton's sister, Elaine Philip of Buffalo, N.Y., said the former poet laureate of... Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 13 Feb 2010 | 8:15 pm AP - Fur made a comeback Saturday at New York Fashion Week.
Source: Yahoo! News: Fashion News | 13 Feb 2010 | 7:31 pm
Designer Rosemary Ponzo just finished re-creating Andy Warhol's Factory and Studio 54 for a Japanese movie called Sushi Prince Does New York. She wore Ports 1961 to the label's show on Thursday, accessorized with gloves "à la Gaga" by a Parsons student, and a Chanel iPhone holder "two in the country." What more needs to be said? Watch the video, and check out Rosemary's website for more awesomeness.
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 Source: The Cut | 13 Feb 2010 | 7:18 pm Source: Entertainment - Google News | 13 Feb 2010 | 6:54 pm  Country music badboy Trace Adkins is set to continue the Louisiana leg of his tour following his band's Saturday morning bus crash which claimed the lives of two motorists.
A pickup...


 Source: E! Online (US) - Top Stories | 13 Feb 2010 | 6:50 pm Ann Dexter-Jones at Charlotte Ronson on Friday.
"I don't think anyone can help her, and I don't like to talk about her. And she was never and is not in or a part of my family." Ann Dexter-Jones, of the famously tight-knit Ronson clan, after being asked if her family's closeness had influenced Lindsay Lohan.
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 Source: The Cut | 13 Feb 2010 | 6:49 pm Tavi rocks turban.
This season's Alexander Wang show was located all the way out at Pier 94, so far that we wondered if we should have brought our passports. But every editor in town, including Carine Roitfeld and everyone who's ever worked at Vogue, made the torturous trek, befitting Wang's stature as designer-darling of the moment. Teen blogging-sensation-of-the-moment Tavi walked down the runway in gray hair and a turban, surrounded by a camera crew from FashionTelevision and a man who looked like a producer. "Go talk to her, she's a supporter," the man said, gesturing to Diane von Furstenberg. Tavi approached the great DVF, looking a bit queasy, and we can't say we blame her. We almost stepped on DVF's toes trying to get to our seats and very nearly threw up from the shame ourselves. But it certainly looked like the kid got a successful interview. All we know is, Tavi has a way better set-up than we did when we were thirteen and had to make extra scratch by babysitting.
Tavi's gig probably also outpaces the teenage job of Mary Alice Stevenson, who we had to squeeze by on the way to our seats. "Worst job I ever had?" a very nicely turned-out Mary Alice wondered to a reporter. "When I was thirteen, I was the world's youngest Avon lady." Teen Avon lady might not be as high profile as front row at Alexander Wang where Tavi eventually took her seat but you know the free samples were better.
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 Source: The Cut | 13 Feb 2010 | 6:31 pm Pamela Anderson and RIchie Rich at New Zealand Fashion Week last September.
Richie Rich is such a figure-skating fan that he scheduled his Wednesday A*Muse show around the men's Olympic competition (short program on Tuesday, free skate on Thursday). "I was a figure skater, and lots of my fans are also huge fans of the sport, so I didn't want to make them choose between my show and the Games," said Rich, who faces his own quandary over flamboyant artiste Johnny Weir and less-flamboyant technical dynamo Evan Lysacek. "I love Evan, and Johnny," he told us at the W Hotel Lounge after Nicole Miller's show. "I text him all the time. I'm just so proud they're both going to the Olympics. Don't make me choose! It's so hard!" Before he heads to Vancouver for the closing ceremonies, Rich will channel Malibu via Pamela Anderson, who served as muse get it for the first A*Muse collection, which Rich describes as "the beach meets the streets. It's resort meets graffiti and break dancing — that kind of thing." Anderson will walk, and although Rich would not disclose exactly how naked she would be, the show's title is "Hot for Teacher." Expect bikinis.
Read more posts by Jada Yuan Filed Under: party lines, a*muse, fall 2010, new york fashion week, pamela anderson, richie rich


 Source: The Cut | 13 Feb 2010 | 5:41 pm
Most of Duckie Brown's models this year had never worked a show before, so Lynne O'Neill had to get back to basics during her training session. Watch as O'Neill explains the difference between pausing and stopping to one young innocent.
Read more posts by Jeremy Kost Filed Under: behind the scenes, duckie brown, fall 2010, new york fashion week, video




(AP) AP - Bobby Hoy, a stuntman and actor known for his way with horses in Westerns like "Bonanza" and "The High Chaparral," has died. He was 82. Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 13 Feb 2010 | 5:02 pm
Alexander McQueen's fall 2010 collection was essentially finished, a source tells Fashionologie. The design team reportedly completed the final fittings last week before the designer's tragic death on Thursday. However, no one knows what will become of the collection. Yesterday, the label sent out an urgent message to the industry asking that all McQueen samples be returned immediately. It's also unclear what will happen to the label as a whole.
Scott Schuman of the Sartorialist wrote today:
I was talking to a retailer yesterday who said that her McQueen business was growing faster than it ever had before.
However, she sees no other option than to close the business of McQueen.
Who could take over? Should anyone takeover?
I'm sure Gucci has invested millions in this business but, this isn't the same as finding a replacement for an old house like YSL or Kenzo.
This is different, very different.
I think the closest correlation to this would have to be Moschino. And still after all these years, no one has been able to replace him, just a design team. Do we really want this to be the fate of McQueen's business?
I mean, come on, who could possibly keep the spirit of McQueen alive? He was so unique that his replacement could never get out of that shadow.
The Gucci Group–owned label has made no announcement about its future. Meanwhile, rumors surrounding McQueen's death are surfacing. McQueen is said to have been recovering from a breakup with a boyfriend whose name he had tattooed on his arm. The New York Post reports:
The cad was "a bastard who went back to Australia and I was left looking at his name," McQueen said in the unpublished interview, pointing to the letters on his right arm, according to the Sydney Daily Telegraph.
Yesterday, police revealed they found "multiple notes" with his body, in which he tried to explain the apparent taking of his own life to his friends. McQueen changed his will last year, and a source tells the Post, "Rather than feeling optimistic about the future, he was quite the opposite."
McQueen's love agony [NYP]
The McQueen Question. [Sartorialist]
Source: Alexander McQueen's Fall 2010 Collection Was Basically Done Before His Death [Fashionologie]
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...And then, according to one asskisser, apologizing for her...

...With other bloggers noting that "Sarah Silverman is being too honest :-)"...

...and some saying she had them "pissing (themselves) laughing" and "killed it"....

Update: Well, we might have some kind of idea, now. Via MediaPost, a fairly rough report:
Sarah learned she was Jewish because everyone else treated her like a Jew. She was a very deep child. It's not like the Jews killed Baby Jesus, and btw: You are welcome for the Jews having killed the 39 year old, otherwise he wouldn't be famous (Everyone knows you gotta die young to be famous).
We need religion. It's a way to cope with the unanswerable. Because if Sarah thinks about the fact that she was just a spec that exploded up out of her dad's balls, that's fucked up.
Insecurity can humble us. It's a survival skill. It can protect us. From things like aging. When Sarah was nineteen, there were so many official pussy inspectors, and now, you never see them anymore… probably because of computers. "Just please don't think I care."
We live in a world of excess. Population doubles every 40 years (Sarah read that on a blog) - that's crazy! How is it not total vanity to give birth when there's so many kids to adopt?
Sarah plans to adopt a mentally challenged child, because she really does enjoy the company of the mentally challenged. Unfortunately they don't leave the nest - ever. Therefore, Sarah plans to adopt a retarded person that is terminately ill. Who does that? Amazing people.
Everyone deserves to have a song. This is for the inner porn stars in the audience. All the penises in the galaxy…
TED's traditionally pretty grandstanding about the nature of their speakers and what they have to say. For example, a totally square (America Online founder) Steve Case:

And more:

And even shock from Silverman herself:

So while she may not have "taken a dump on stage," but Sarah Silverman definitely put something on TED's reputation and speakers. Defiant mockery, perhaps? Not exactly revolutionary, but in that setting, definitely a little groundbreaking.
[Thanks to Paolo at NYC The Tumblr for links.]


At the Olympics in Turin four years ago, Johnny Weir didn't like living among the silly snowboarders and frivolous bobsledders in the Olympic Village. So this year he thought he'd stay in a hotel. Then the animal rights activists showed up. "All these crazy fur people definitely changed my mind. Security wise, staying in a hotel would be very difficult," Weir told reporters in Vancouver. The beef between Weir and animal rights activists stems from the fox fur outfit he wore on the ice a few weeks back.
Because of these "very serious threats," Weir is now staying in the Village, where security is strong. He's not happy about it though. "I'm not always comfortable rooming with somebody or being in a communal village sort of situation, it's what I've got to deal with," he said. It's not all bad though. At least he's got a bathtub.
"Crazy fur people" force Weir's hand [Reuters]
Read more posts by Adam K. Raymond Filed Under: olympics, face paint, figure skating, fox fur, johnny weir


 Source: Daily Intel | 13 Feb 2010 | 3:30 pm
When we saw Brooke Shields at the Cynthia Rowley party at Gagosian Shop last night, we asked her for her take on the whole overly thin models debate — and got a somewhat surprising response. “I’ve never been skinny, so I never fit into that category,” Shields told us. Still, she understands people’s concerns. “I think we keep needing to educate our children who aren’t models and inform them that the ideal is [to just be] healthy ... I never did runway, though. I was always doing the magazines when the girls were doing the runway.”
Read more posts by Evan Mulvihill Filed Under: the weight debate, brooke shields, fall 2010, fashion week, models, new york fashion week, new york fashion week fall 2010


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