AP - Miguel Delibes, an acclaimed and prolific novelist whose work featured gritty depictions of rural life in post-civil war Spain and psychological analyses of characters facing turning points, died Friday. He was 89. Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 12 Mar 2010 | 2:39 am
AP - Lawyers for legendary music producer Phil Spector have asked an appellate court to throw out his second-degree murder conviction on grounds of judicial error and prosecutorial misconduct. Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 12 Mar 2010 | 2:32 am
AP - Lawyers for legendary music producer Phil Spector have asked an appellate court to throw out his second-degree murder conviction on grounds of judicial error and prosecutorial misconduct. Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 12 Mar 2010 | 2:32 am
AP - Lawyers for legendary music producer Phil Spector have asked an appellate court to throw out his second-degree murder conviction on grounds of judicial error and prosecutorial misconduct. Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment News | 12 Mar 2010 | 2:32 am
Last night Dana Carvey stopped by The Tonight Show to promote a stand-up special and his act seemed to rely heavily on imitating other races. Carvey is a comedy legend but during his interview he kept doing these terrible ethnic impressions that nobody asked him to do. It wasn't like Leno said, "Hey, give us your best Indian guy." Jimmy Fallon, on the other hand, offered a terrific impression of Eric Massa on his show. Then, there was an awkward moment on The Late Show when Donald Trump, owner of the Miss Universe pageant, struggled to name the current Miss USA. Craig Ferguson struggled with Eddie Izzard on his own show, as the actor felt the urge to redecorate Ferguson's set (he did say he'd had a drink beforehand). Finally, Stephen Colbert revealed the results of his first ever poll. Watch our compilation to see what you missed.
Lady Gaga's "Telephone" video, featuring the always fierce Beyoncé (and directed by Jonas Åkerlund), has finally premiered!
We've been anticipating this clip...
All right, so we all had a chance to watch Lady Gaga's "Telephone" on E! News, right? (No? Watch it here!) Now it's time to discuss the deeper meaning behind...
Nearly 10,000 workers who were exposed to toxic contaminants while cleaning up Ground Zero have settled with the city for as much as $675.5 million. The money will come from a federally financed insurance fund worth $1.1 billion protecting the city, which has been arguing all along that it can’t be held responsible for the aftermath of a national emergency.
The burden of deciding on specific dollar amounts for each plaintiff now falls to a claims administrator who will use a point system to account for the each individual’s level of exposure and medical background, including his or her smoking history. This part of the process alone could take another year. Workers who have suffered the most serious injuries, sometimes death, will receive upwards of $1 million, while the plaintiffs’ legal fees will account for at least one third of the settlement money.
Mindful of the intense public interest in the cases, Judge Hellerstein has told lawyers on both sides that he planned to review each settlement and hold “fairness” hearings to determine whether the settlements were reasonable, which legal experts said was unusual for litigation not involving a class action.
It’s going to be a while before anybody sees a dime.
With The Morgan Library's upcoming exhibition of ten brief letters and one postcard from J.D. Salinger to his “Buddyroo” E. Michael Mitchell, the artist who designed the original cover to The Catcher in the Rye, five decades of privacy and silence will end. Adam Kirsch writes in the Journal that the physical aura of the author’s letters, the energy of Salinger's goldenrod stationary, astounds.
Even before you read them—as I had the opportunity to do during a recent visit—the letters' mere physical presence has a certain aura. The paper (Salinger had a fondness for goldenrod-colored sheets) and the typeface, ordinary in themselves, are the same ones with which the writer, in between letters, must have been producing hundreds of pages of extraordinary, unpublished fiction.
Such a small exhibit cultivates as much as it peels back the mystery. Salinger was not just private with the public but with his friends as well.
His whole life, he explains, is devoted to "exploring things, looking into things with my writing, my fiction," and there was no room left for social amenities. Perhaps it was inevitable that the correspondence would break off acrimoniously, when Salinger refused his friend's request for a signed copy of "Catcher."
The exhibit opens on March 16, and a second batch of letters will go on display April 13 and run through May 9.
Bad Trade:Ryan Reynolds and Jason Bateman have signed up to star in the David Dobkin—directed The Change-Up, about a family man (Bateman) who swaps bodies with his friend, a lazy idiot (Reynolds). We imagine the rest of the movie will follow Reynold's character begging Bateman's Reynolds-resembling one to switch back, because who wouldn't trade their family for Reynolds' abs? [Variety]
Avatar Again: Fox and James Cameron are discussing the possibility of re-releasing Avatar in 3-D theaters late this summer, with 10 additional minutes of additional footage cut from the movie's original theatrical version. And if, after that, there is still some money left in the world that they do not have, they will maybe release it on DVD. [HR]
Bad For America:Hugo Weaving is in final talks to play Red Skull, the villain in Marvel's Captain America, the superhero's nemesis and Hitler’s right-hand man. We hope somebody releases one of those Downfall mashups about how Hitler wanted someone else to play his right-hand man. [Heat Vision/HR]
Two For One:Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess are in talks to star in An Education director Lone Scherfig's One Day, based on the David Nicholls novel, about a couple who meet for the first time while graduating in 1988, and then once a year for the next 20 years until they finally realize they're meant for each other. But by then it will be too late because both will lose their 401(k)s in the stock market crash of 2008 and die in the Mayan apocalypse of 2012. Live in the moment, people. [HR]
Be a Pepper:Barry Pepper has joined the cast of the Coen brothers' True Grit remake as Ned Pepper, the role played by Robert Duvall in the 1969 original. We love Barry and the Coens, but this casting could only have been any lazier if they'd hired an actual pepper to play Ned. [Variety]
Some people have an easier time than others playing along with the weird experiment in television that is NBC’s The Marriage Ref. On Thursday night’s show, Larry David refused to just grin and bear it, airing all of his disgust and frustrations for the cameras (which just happens to be his schtick). “They're so moronic I don't even want to help them!”
Wired’s profile of Andrew Breitbart, the Drudge Report and Huffington Post alumnus who has gone on to start his own political pot-stirring stable of blogs, doesn’t change much of what we know about him.
“You can play the media. You can force them to cover things,” he says. “This is not just stenography. There’s a performance art to it.”
But the piece does add dimension to the man behind so much news from the right, composing scenes of Breitbart chumming around at Fox News and meeting with Breitbart-in-training James O’Keefe, not to mention eating filet for lunch and drinking Cristal in the evening.
He remains a complicated character who has been wildly successful at finding, creating and disseminating stories, namely his stories.
For someone who claims to hate the “Democrat-media complex,” Breitbart sure knows how to work it. Few people are better at packaging information for maximum distribution and impact. He is, depending on whom you ask, either the “leading figure in this right-wing creation of a parallel universe of lies and idiotic conspiracy theories” (that was liberal critic Eric Boehlert of Media Matters for America) or “the most dangerous man on the right today” (from Michael Goldfarb, Republican consultant and former campaign aide to John McCain). Breitbart is, in short, expert in making the journalism industry his bitch. “The market has forced me to come up with techniques to be noticed,” Breitbart says. “And now that I have them, I’m like, wow, this is actually great. This is fun.”
He’s rich and he’s enjoying himself. How could we hold that against him?
Lady Gaga and Beyoncé's much-hyped video for "Telephone" is finally out. After a delayed release and weeks of teasing by slowly rolling out stills, Lady Gaga and Beyoncé have given the world diva power at its very best — and acting and clothes that quite simply boggle the mind. This is Gaga's video, but Beyoncé is the best part: she actually shows the angry, crazy side that we just knew lurked beneath her too-perfect facade. And not in the sexy, "Ring the Alarm" way — but in a twitchy, spazzy way. After the video, our favorite fashion moments from this epic collaboration.
1. The prison guards rip Gaga's big-shouldered dress off her as they throw her in her cell. She only wears pantyhose and x-shaped nipple pasties. "Told you she didn't have a dick," the white trash lady prison guard says. "Too bad," her fellow guard replies. But look closely and you'll notice Gaga is wearing no underwear under those pantyhose and her crotch is blurred out, allowing those who legitimately wonder if she does have a dick to continue contemplating this rumor.
2. In the prison yard scene, Gaga wears sunglasses made from lit cigarettes. She already made sunglasses from razor blades so she has to be resourceful.
3. Every one of Gaga's fellow prisoners has an extremely slutty element to their outfit. Anyone in a minidress has the hemline cut so short their crotch sticks out the bottom, while a woman in pants has her thong arching high above each buttock. And none of them are close to sexy in the traditional sense.
4. Leotards for the dance sequences have been traded for glitter bra and thong sets. Let's be honest — this is what every diva whose dabbled in pantslessness really wants to wear while she shakes it.
5. When Gaga gets in Beyoncé's car after she bails her out of prison, Beyoncé says, "You’ve been a very bad girl. A very, VERY bad, BAD girl, Gaga." Then she feeds her a honey bun from a plastic bag. Hey, curves are back so carbs must be too?
6. Beyoncé looks stunning in her "good girl" banana yellow dress and matching cowboy hat and eye shadow. She got to recycle her Destiny's Child clothes after all!
7. All the food Gaga makes looks absolutely disgusting. Does this mean carbs aren't back? Nor are curves really? Important questions of our shifting times and culture in a new decade!
8. Beyoncé has little American flags painted on each nail.
9. The fashion in the finale dance sequence performed by Gaga, Beyoncé and the white trash in the diner is an important statement on spring fashion. The divas have embraced white trash attire — American flag dresses and panties, shredded denim — and made it look good. And yet! They have just killed every trashy patron of the diner. So all this unfortunate often trashy looking denim-on-denim we're seeing for fall? SHALL NOT STAND.
10. Gaga writhes at the end in a leopard catsuit. The costume coupled with her movements remind us of her cat scratching dance in the "Bad Romance" video, only this sequence is spazzier. And that "Bad Romance" cat dance, quite frankly, is among the top best bad dances in music video history.
Reuters - The loss of childhood illusions and of youthful naivete looms large in this first feature by Chicago-born Tze Chun, whose drama about a struggling, single-mom immigrant takes place in the Boston suburbs where he was raised. Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment Reviews | 11 Mar 2010 | 9:45 pm
Lady Gaga’s “Telephone” video, which hit the Internet tonight, features women’s prison couture (e.g. cigarette shutter shades, hair rollers and stilettos), Kathy Ireland on the red carpet-esque biceps, German subtitles, Thelma and Louise imagery and, of course, Beyonce. It all starts with one prison guard saying to another, “I told you she didn’t have a dick.”
The last two weeks it seemed there were a plethora of undeserving American Idol contestants primed for the chopping block.
This week, however, the pickings were slimmer as voters were...
Taylor Lautner did it and we sure know everyone wants Rob Pattinson to do it.
So, is it time for Kristen Stewart to host Saturday Night Live?
We asked and she answered....
Reuters - Television journalists might have brought the Vietnam War into our living rooms, but it's the soldiers who are providing the same service these days. Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment Reviews | 11 Mar 2010 | 8:50 pm
Review in a Hurry: A rich student attending the James Dean School of Brooding (Robert Pattinson) falls for a shaggy girl from the other side of the tracks (Emilie de Ravin). The result:...
Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Joan Mitchell and a whole clique of other Abstract Expressionist artists have returned from the grave to deliver your mail. "The individual stamps are gorgeous, but they also are presented together in a pane that is conceived as a work of art itself," said one Postal Service spokesman of the USPS's latest issue. "The stamps are different sizes and placed as if they were pieces hanging in a gallery." [Culture Monster/LAT]
Alliances trumped strength in tonight's Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains voting...does this mean the end for a few good men? Did last week's flip-flopper jeopardize his position in the...
You've heard of the seven-year itch? Well...
Toting shots of QuickTrim with her to her appearance on The Tonight Show Thursday, Kim Kardashian advised fellow guest Dana Carvey to...
Contributing Vulture Bilge Ebiri recently participated in a five-part talk with critic Glenn Kenny on Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island. Among the topics of discussion: Why was this the largest-ever opening for a Scorsese or DiCaprio movie? How does the film stand up to repeated viewings? Which classic films inspired Island? What are the hallmarks of a DiCaprio-Scorsese collaboration? And what was up with the film's twist ending?
Initial reports that a high school-aged girl was involved in this afternoon's subway accident have changed, but not before parents and teachers at local Wagner Junior High School feverishly located the students. The victim was a 48-year-old woman, who climbed onto the tracks at 77th Street to retrieve a black nylon LeSportsac shoulder bag. Passengers on the platform encouraged her to lie down between the tracks as the northbound 6 train approached, but instead she attempted to scramble back onto the platform. When she didn’t have time, she seemed to press herself against the side of the platform, where there is a gap of only a few inches. The train’s emergency brake was engaged before the collision.
Like so many millions and billions before, all $1.4 million of President Obama’s Nobel Prize winnings has been parceled out before it even arrived. Forgetting the reasons he won, you would think the president would like to have that moment of holding $1.4 million in cash and reveling in the “I won this” feeling. Apparently that moment is not as high on his priority list as making good on his promise to pass the prize money along to charity. There is, however, one sketchy charity on the list, The Posse Foundation, which has to be a poorly disguised racket.
The two biggest sums, $250,000 and $200,000 respectively, will be given to Fisher House, which provides housing for the families of veterans, and the Clinton-Bush Haiti Fund.
We want to believe that Corey Haim was successfully battling his demons while making his last movie, Decisions.
Sadly, some on the set of the indie crime drama had their...
Reuters - "How to Train Your Dragon" pits dragons against Vikings with one small child standing between them crying, "Why can't we all just get along?" Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment Reviews | 11 Mar 2010 | 6:40 pm
Reuters - In these recessionary times, it might take more than the imprimatur of celebrity presenters Elton John and David Furnish to make "Next Fall" viable for a Broadway run. Source: Yahoo! News: Entertainment Reviews | 11 Mar 2010 | 6:35 pm
The photos from The Bounty Hunter premiere are gross. Gerard Butler and Jennifer Aniston are practically making a baby on the red carpet. Are they still dating or what?
—Berenice,...
More than twenty years after its publication and ten years after it was remade as a movie, A Time to Kill will become the first of John Grisham’s books to be adapted for the stage when it opens in Washington, D.C. next May. But don’t expect to see some Matthew McConaughey stand-in screaming after his dog Max while the KKK torches his house behind him, or for the play to end with Carl Lee’s black kid playing with Jake’s white kid at a potluck. They’re going to do it by the book. [NYT]
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Reigning champ "Alice in Wonderland" is sure to score an easy victory at the weekend box office in North America despite four wide releases hitting... Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 11 Mar 2010 | 6:09 pm
Phil Spector has already had two trials. He's now asking for a third.
His attorneys filed a 148-page brief Wednesday appealing the record producer's second-degree murder...
A member of the pop group Girlicious has been charged in California with drug possession with the intent to sell after Glendale police allegedly found a dozen plastic bags of cocaine in her Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 11 Mar 2010 | 5:57 pm
The magic of crack cocaine lies in its power to turn a little bit of drugs into more drugs. But crack also stretches prison sentences: five grams of crack and 500 grams of cocaine have come with the same mandatory jail time for the last two decades because, supposedly, crack is more addictive and makes users more violent than regular China white powder.
Eight out of 10 crack cocaine defendants are African American, while just under two-thirds of powder cocaine defendants are white, according to the United States Sentencing Commission.
Realizing there was something terrible wrong here, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted unanimously today to eliminate the discrepancy, following a similar bill in the House Judiciary last summer. The bill will not help anyone who is already serving time.
To believe or not to believe. It's a quandary at the heart of "Next Fall," Geoffrey Nauffts' compassionate exploration of faith that has made a smooth transfer from off-Broadway to the... Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 11 Mar 2010 | 5:25 pm
A former model says she's appalled that her nearly decade-old bikini photo became a randy prop in the film "Couple's Retreat." Irina Krupnik filed a $10 million defamation lawsuit... Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 11 Mar 2010 | 5:20 pm
Red carpet regular Tinsley Mortimer is jumping from the New York City social circuit to the national spotlight with her own reality television show. The show is called "High Society." It Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 11 Mar 2010 | 5:20 pm
The scene outside of today's groundbreaking for the Barclay's Center in Brooklyn was a traffic-snarling circus. Helicopters hovered loudly overhead while hundreds of police officers erected barricades, and protestors rang cowbells, blew whistles, waved signs, and sounded airhorns. Their placards ranged from the coherent ("Atlantic Yards: a Sham and a Shame") to the slightly more esoteric ("KGB comes to Brooklyn!!"). Inside the white tent erected at 5th Ave and Pacific St, trays of lobster rolls circulated while dozens of cameras zoomed in on a stage stacked with one-namers: Bloomberg, Paterson, Markowitz, Sharpton, Ratner, Jay-Z. The politicians took their turns at the podium, trading lame jokes, patting Bruce Ratner on the back, and invoking Hova's name to milk applause from the crowd. But one man, having embraced that liberation that lies just the other side of rock bottom, seemed to be enjoying himself more than the others.
Given David Paterson's recent problems, he could be expected to be in a down mood, especially after the prayer offered by Reverend Herbert Daughtry in his invocation. "We pray for the honorable Governor of this great state, our friend and our Governor David Paterson, we pray especially for him as he is besieged from every side during this severe, testing time," intoned the Reverend as Paterson listened impassively. "We pray, oh God, that you will grant him the strength of his convictions and give him the deep comfort of knowing that those of us who love him will be with him come what may."
It was, to say the least, a little bleak. But when the Governor approached the podium a few minutes later, there was a smile on his face. "Thank you so much, Reverend Daughtry," he said, "I thought I was at my own funeral for a moment. As Mark Twain once said, rumors of my death are grossly exagerrated." The governor was clearly enjoying this small triumph of seeing the Atlantic Yards project, one of his pets, finally set in motion. Solidifying his reputation as a trivia machine, Paterson reeled off the project's projected stats — on jobs and housing units and the percentage of minority contracts — to the point of almost losing the crowd's (and Jay-Z's) interest. But then he veered back towards the personal, and began reminiscing about being a Nets fan as a kid: About how ecstatic he was when the Nets signed Julius "Dr. J" Erving in 1973, and about how heart-broken he was when, in 1976, the Nets traded him to Philly.
"It was one of the worst days of my life," he said, pausing a beat before adding, "before I became Governor."
Yesterday, we Clickabled your attention over to the video for Big Boi’s “Fo Yo Sorrows,” then spend the rest of the afternoon daydreaming about how awesome it’s going to be when we get to hear his upcoming solo album Sir Luscious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty in a few weeks. But earlier this afternoon we stumbled upon Paste’s blog post, "Five Reasons to Believe Big Boi’s Solo Album is Finally Coming (And Might Actually be Good)," and were like, wait, "what, whatever happened to March 23rd?” Turns out, without anyone telling us, Sir Luscious went off “upcoming album we’re really excited about” status and back to “possibly genius, perma delayed album” status! Now all Big Boi will give up is that might be out at some point in the spring. But it’s been done since last year! And we already marked our calendar! OK, before we start geekily hyperventilating, let’s all lose ourselves in the warm glow of Big Boi’s impeccable double-time flow one more time.
A musical celebrating Ray Charles is headed for Broadway this fall. "Unchain My Heart" will open Nov. 7 with preview performances beginning Oct. 8. Producer Stuart Benjamin said... Source: RSS feed - channel BNewsEnter | 11 Mar 2010 | 4:36 pm
If you ride the subway in New York City, or have even just ventured outside these past few weeks, it's been nearly impossible to miss the posters touting tonight's Broadway opening of Next Fall, a drama about an older atheist (Patrick Breen) and his hot hard-core Christian boyfriend (Patrick Heusinger — yes, Lord Marcus Beaton from Gossip Girl). Emblazoned on each ad are the words/imprimatur, “Elton John and David Furnish present ... " Which is why we were a bit shocked when, at last night's reception for the show, we learned that Sir Elton had only just seen Next Fall for the first time that evening. "Yeah, I [produced] it without seeing it,” Sir Elton told us. “I did it completely blind!”
He explained that he first became aware of the show when his husband, Furnish, went to see it at Playwrights Horizons with The Reader director Stephen Daldry. "He phoned me up after coming out of the theater and was just raving about it," said Sir Elton. "They decided it was going to come to Broadway, and they said, 'We need help as far as getting exposure, since none of the cast are household names. Would you be prepared to lend your name?' We said, 'Yeah, and if you need us to put up some money, we'll do that, too.' Because we think it's a fantastic project." With his Billy Elliot still running strong, and another stage project in development with Next Fall playwright Geoffrey Nauffts, Sir Elton is now a bona fide Broadway producer. "Yeah, never thought that would happen!" he laughed, than mused about what perk he should demand. "Maybe I can get a senior-citizen pass and get in free to matinees or something."
Not even a full week has passed since Gabourey Sidibe attended the 82nd Annual Academy Awards as a best actress nominee and we're already questioning whether her career is over.
The court-appointed examiner’s report on Lehman Brothers is out, and it is massive. We've barely gotten into it, and let's face it, at 2,200 pages, we will probably never finish it. That's like reading Too Big to Fail times three! That said, it reads almost as well as Too Big to Fail, too. And despite the examiner's overall conclusion — which was that directors of Lehman did not breach their fiduciary duties in overseeing the firm as it acquired toxic mortgage assets that eventually sank the firm — the report does seem to be packed with some pretty damning details about the financial fudging and general, if not "gross," negligence within the firm. A quick scan turned up the following vignette, in which fixed-income chief Roger Nagioff discovers the amount of leveraged loan exposures the firm has built up under the guidance of the firm's head of investment banking and the highest-paid man on Wall Street, and noted lesbian-hater Hugh “Skip” McGee III.
Nagioff learned about the size of Lehman's leveraged loan exposures from Kirk, then Head of Global Credit Products. Lehman's leveraged loan business was "so gargantuan — the exposures jumped out at [him]." Nagioff and Kirk believed that this was "banker business, not broker business," which Lehman did not have the balance sheet to support. Nagioff also thought that the chance of a sudden market downturn was high, and that Lehman was making relatively small profits for taking increasingly large and illiquid risks. Nagioff was concerned because the tail risk of Lehman's leveraged loan business totaled billions of dollars.
Nagioff also had broader concerns about the state of the credit markets. These concerns were shared by others outside Lehman and by several of Nagioff's senior
colleagues, who believed that Lehman was operating in a "credit bubble." Months later, Antoncic, for example, reflected back on the general consensus that the markets were in trouble: "every one saw the train wreck coming. question is why didn't anyone get out of the way???"
Good question!
Although Nagioff's concerns were shared by several others, Nagioff believed that it would be difficult to curtail Lehman's leveraged loan business, because McGee's IBD, which had championed expansion of this business from the start, had to authorize the change. Moreover, Lehman had many deals in the pipeline, and those deals were supporting "100 bankers."
So Skip McGee's kid was right to stand up to his hateful lefty teacher! Skip really did do his best to save people's jobs! Even if it was only the jobs of 100 bankers. Which were saved at the expense of the world economy.
Many fans have a love-hate relationship with George Lucas. This is, after all, the man who gave the world Luke Skywalker, but later gave birth to Jar Jar Binks.
Are curvy models really back? Like, REALLY? When we ran into Isaac Mizrahi at last night's Bravo Upfronts party, where he was celebrating the renewal of The Fashion Show, we had to ask. "I think beautiful models are back," he said. "I'm serious. I hate this thought about saying that only curvy models are chic or something. It's like that thing, 'Isn't it time that a woman won an Academy Award'? No! It's time that a really good artist won an Academy Award. So if I was, like, a curvy model, I'd be like, 'No, I don't want to be a curvy model. I want to be a MODEL.'"
But if "beautiful" models are back, does that mean that Mizrahi thinks super-skinny models of late were not beautiful? "You know what? There was a moment when girls were really skinny. Skinny, skinny, skinny. And people loved it. But I didn't like it. It didn't look natural. There were always skinny girls. Shalom was naturally skinny. She could eat like a truck driver and still be skinny, so it looked natural on her. Kate was always a really skinny girl. She never tried. And then everybody was all of a sudden losing all this weight and it was really ugly." So does he prefer curvy, then? "I don't know. Do you love a guy because his dick is bigger or something like that? You know, YES! Yes. So work it out."
Speaking of curvy, Mizrahi himself is trying to be less so, and announced to us that he's on a diet. A Pinkberry diet, to be specific. "Pinkberry for dinner," he said. He goes swimming every morning and then gets a frittata from Good and Plenty to Go on West 43rd Street. Then it's usually a salad for lunch and a large Pinkberry (ten Weight Watcher points) for dinner — "With toppings! Are you kidding me?" He's been on the plan for a month and has lost five pounds, and seems pretty happy. He even cheated and ate some cheesy rice balls at the party. "I was on, like, no carbs for a month and then I was like, 'Forget that. I can't do no carbs.' You get flabby. Your breath smells bad. You smell bad when you don't eat carbs! So now I'm on, like, the only-carbs diet: Pinkberry and rice."
Attorney General Andrew Cuomo just spent nearly an hour on a conference call with reporters attempting to explain why he’s recusing himself from two investigations of Governor David Paterson, and how it’s all about insuring the public’s trust in the integrity of the cases. Yet the timing of the announcement — two days after a Marist poll showed Abuse-gate and Free Ticket–gate dragging Cuomo’s approval rating down for the first time in months by an eye-catching thirteen points — is mighty suspicious. Cuomo put on a good show — asking and answering his own hypotheticals, shouting to emphasize his seriousness — in claiming that he’s doing the apolitical thing by handing the cases off to an independent counsel, retired state judge Judith Kaye.
He also said the maneuver had been in the works “for days — for days!” so it couldn’t possibly have been provoked by the poll results. But all of Cuomo’s dancing around about his own intention to run for governor only made his motives seem less pure — even if the Marist numbers had nothing to do with the move, clearly Cuomo doesn’t want to be tangled in the investigations when he makes his campaign official in the coming weeks, or what he circumlocutingly called a period “that will include a political atmosphere.” One sure thing: By repeatedly saying during the conference call that there are “credible issues that need to be resolved” in the investigations, Cuomo darkened the cloud over Paterson’s head some more.
Jessica Biel covered up her bright, fun dress from 2010 Thakoon's spring 2010 collection with a black blazer when she attended the premiere of Summit on the Summit: Kilimanjaro in New York last night. (The same dress is currently available on shopbop.com for $1,250.)
Eric Alterman has a good question, in light of recent reports of huge staff cuts at CBS News and ABC News that have drawn attention to the giant salaries of their marquee personalities.
I have an idea. Imagine a world in which evening anchors, morning hosts (and even network news division presidents) were paid like journalists instead of hedge-fund managers. How many "resources" would that free up to invest in genuine news-gathering operations? Veteran print editors and reporters at places like the Times and The New Yorker manage to feed and clothe their families without costing their companies a million bucks a month, and they produce a great deal more valuable reporting and analysis than the network news stars do. So, too, do the folks at PBS and NPR. Would any sane person argue that the work of Bill Moyers or Terry Gross is somehow inferior to that of their network counterparts?
There is a difference between the cults of personality that follow a telegenic host like Diane Sawyer and, say, a talented editor like David Remnick, who doesn't have nearly the name recognition or brand loyalty. Diane's worth a lot, to be sure. But what would really happen if she was paid a salary that didn't dwarf that of several dozen of her colleagues put together?
Karl Lagerfeld: "I buy computers because they are beautiful objects. Personally, I don’t use them that much, but I don’t use cell phones and Blackberries and all that. It’s not because I want to be cut off from the world, but because I have different priorities. I like to do everything myself. I know pretty well about dressmaking — a technique that is difficult to get, as you know. My eyes are open, but they are not limited to a screen. For me, the world is a huge screen. That’s how I see it." [WWD]
Over a dress in the exact same material. She sure is on-trend for next fall with the matchy-matchiness. See the full look in the Michelle Obama Look Book.
Front Page: Shyamalan promotes pic based on kid net toon -- Nickelodeon introduced the kid net's programming at the Thursday morning upfront presentionation.
Today's parade of city-nightmares-turned-real continues: A girl playing around with her friends at the 77th Street 6 train station somehow ended up on the tracks. Eyewitness accounts differ on whether she was pushed or jumped, but the train was unable to stop, and she was crushed to death. Police are currently investigating. [City Room/NYT]
Olivier Zahm is the latest subject in Style.com's ongoing series "The Future of Fashion," interviews with fashion people who do things like tweet or blog on the Internet. Olivier, the editor of Purple magazine, runs Purple Diary (link NSFW), which includes photos from his point of view of life's most fabulous things, such as sitting front-row at Miu Miu or having a naked woman roll around your office (link NSFW) for the cameras. Yeah, those naked women in Purple — where does that come from, anyway? And just WHY? Olivier gets into it a bit.
I had this idea of having a personal diary, an intimate diary, mixing intimacy or privacy with my public life and creating a sort of contrast between what’s really intimate, like sex and love, and what’s really public, a party, a fashion show, an exhibition. What’s meant to be public and what’s meant to be private and make them, like, coexist. It was suddenly exciting because it was, in a way, breaking the barriers of something, which is actually what the medium itself, the Internet itself, does. For celebrities it’s a nightmare, but for me it’s a pleasure. It’s a decision. I would love to go further into intimacy, but my girlfriend and my lovers are sometimes a bit reluctant.
Oh, so he is a man with one girlfriend and multiple lovers. (Maybe that's where Hugh Hefner got it wrong.) And this is the subtext of his somewhat abstract Internet presence? Style.com probes further.
You say you’d like to go further into intimacy?
It’s always delicate because I respect the girls around me. They’re real people and I respect their privacy, so I can’t really go too far, but sometimes it’s really playful and they’re OK. But when they’re more emotionally involved, it can be a bit difficult, and I totally understand. To me love and sex is the most beautiful thing on earth, you know. It’s more beautiful than a landscape, so I love to keep pictures of the girls in these private moments because they are giving you the most beautiful side of themselves. It’s like a gift from God. It’s beautiful. I’m not New Age, I’m not mystical, I just really love it, and it’s so beautiful to capture with a camera that I really want to share that, you know…And also, Purple is a lifestyle. With my magazine, what I want to do is personally to be more free, and I want people to be more free, to open their possibility of contact, of sex, of love. I want that. This is important to me. I consider that Purple is a free lifestyle. Not in a stupid way, not in a childish or immature way, in a mature way now because I’m 45, 46. So the blog is also this vocation to see what constructs a lifestyle, to see what could be. If my life would be perfect, it would look like the Purple Diary. You see what I mean? It’s an illusion, too. I’m constructing a character.
See what he means? He likes to take pictures of naked girls and keep pictures of naked girls and show them to the world. He is a man that loves naked girls, which ... makes him perfect for the Internets.
Every man should be a playboy, no? It’s the nature of man, right? ...Of course, I love art and have been doing art critiques and have been curating shows, but if you ask me what I prefer, woman or art, I would say woman. Art is art. I need art in my life as much as I need food, but the most beautiful thing on earth is to meet a woman. That’s what you will remember at the end of your life, right? Plus, it’s a game. It’s really funny. You can’t seriously consider yourself a playboy, or you’re already a bad playboy.
Oh, it's hilarious, toying with the female psyche. Kind of like that "economic crisis," right?
To me this economic crisis is just a massive intoxication. We are rich and we are smart and we are, let’s say, beautiful, so what’s the problem? It’s just a way to scare people and to make them work more. There is no crisis. I don’t see the crisis. To me there is no crisis. It has always been difficult to find money, and it will always be difficult to find money when you want to be free and to do what you want, where you want to, whatever the bank system is. And when the bank system will have collapsed, I will continue to do a magazine.
AP - "The Baseball Codes: Beanballs, Sign Stealing, and Bench-Clearing Brawls: The Unwritten Rules of America's Pastime" (Pantheon Books, 304 pages, $25), by Jason Turbow with Michael Duca: Major League Baseball is a complex, intricate game with a thick rule book that covers everything from balks and bunts to force plays and foul tips.
Fans of juice cleanses, keep on reading. (Burger lovers, skip ahead.) Sarah Jessica Parker loves Blueprint (we admit to being fans of it as well). Jill Pettijhon is Donna Karan's girl. Gwyneth was just kvelling about Organic Avenue on Goop. This week there's a new player in the juice-cleanse game, Cooler Cleanse, a line of organic, locally sourced, hydraulically pressed juices brought to you by Salma Hayek and her old friend, Juice Generation's Eric Helms.
The tiny but curvy actress — married to François Pinault — is not exactly someone you'd take for a rabid cleanser. But Hayek's been getting custom concoctions from Helms for more than ten years, and this new cleanse was her idea. Helms would FedEx juices to her in L.A. — yup, she'd get them flown in — before a shoot or an awards show. When Hayek stepped up her cleansing before her wedding — after a V-Day ceremony at City Hall in Paris, she married Pinault a second time, in a Balenciaga gown, last April — and family members and friends wanted in, Hayek and Helms finally decided to make the cleansing an official business. They spent over a year perfecting their recipes. "If you know her, you know she's very particular," says Helms. There are five juice flavors: a green juice, a grapefruit mint, a red juice with beets and apples, young coconut water, and nut milk sweetened with dates. All are made overnight in a kitchen on 105th Street and delivered to clients starting at 6 a.m. in the morning. Cleanses are three or five days, and, if people want to actually chew something, there's also a raw-food option. The meals are created and cooked by Matteo Silverman, the chef behind the underground supper club 4 Course Vegan in Williamsburg. We have yet to try this particular cleanse, but if anyone does, do let us know how it goes.
$58 a day for juice; $62 a day for the Raw Food Cooler. Available at coolercleanse.com.
The ladies of "The Real Housewives of Orange County" reunited Wednesday night after the dramatic season 5 finale, which showed Tamra Barney's marriage falling apart and Lynne Curtin's teen daughters acting out.
MAKEUP
• The beauty look at Miu Miu featured a burst of color, from the orange and purple eye makeup by Pat McGrath to the orange, magenta, and platinum ponytail extensions by Guido Palau. It provided a nice contrast to the overall minimalis, makeup-less trend of the fall runways. [Beauty Counter/Style.com]
SKIN
• Whitney Port landed herself a gig as the official spokesperson for Zeno Hotspot, a $40 acne-fighting device that uses heat to stop pimples and breakouts from happening. [StyleWatch/People]
• Blemish balms, or "BB creams," are gaining popularity in Japan. While it sounds like a new product, it's really just another name for tinted moisturizer. [Independent UK]
HAIR
• L’Oréal Professionnel's introduction of INOA, its new ammonia-free permanent hair dye, marks a new point in the hair-dye industry. Though it's not the first ammonia-free hair dye, it's poised to become the most popular and most sought-after product simply because of logistics: It will be distributed nationally in May. [NYT]
• Perfect ponytails showed up on the Louis Vuitton runway yesterday. To get the look yourself, it requires a blow-dry, hair rollers, elastics, and hair serum. It may be a ponytail, but it's not easy. [Girls in the Beauty Department/Glamour]
• Kate Gosselin chopped her hair to a short bob again. Ted Gibson's hair extensions (and twenty-hour process) really didn’t pan out well for this woman. [E!]
The runways in Paris were filled with unexpected surprises and some very special appearances. Karolina Kurkova and Alessandra Ambrosio traded their Victoria's Secret wings to open and close for Giles, respectively. Casting director Michelle Lee at Louis Vuitton brought out French top model Laetita Casta to open, while supermodel Elle Macpherson closed. Meanwhile, Karlie Kloss held on to her opening slots at Christian Dior and John Galliano from last season. But it's rising star Jac who wins by a landslide. After sitting out the past two seasons of Paris Fashion Week owing to age restrictions, the 16-year-old became the most requested model of the week. She booked the opening looks at Celine, Lanvin, Pedro Lourenço, and Thierry Mugler, and closed for Valentino, Cacharel, Giambattista Valli, Nina Ricci, and Hermès. View our slideshow for all of Paris's openers and closers.
Bravo, the greatest network ever, has revealed its fall lineup. Design-competition reality series The Fashion Show has been renewed for a second season, even though many accused it of knocking off Project Runway. Expanding on its winning concept of turning one successful show's format into hundreds of different shows, the network will also premiere Fashion Masters, modeled after Top Chef Masters. Established designers will compete against each other in that two-hour special, though who exactly will participate remains unknown.
However, we're most intrigued by the announcement of a new series called Pregnant in Heels, about a New Yorker who advises wealthy people on their pregnancies, which might borrow a structure from the winning Millionaire Matchmaker. There can never be enough shows about bitchy, wealthy women. And just think how bitchy the pregnant ones could get!
Front Page: WGA prexy on hand for fourth meeting on Capitol Hill -- The latest hearing on Comcast's proposed takeover of NBC Universal examined a host of concerns.
Sometimes people spend their whole life looking for that special someone only to find they’ve been sleeping with it every night. And it’s a pillow. According to the UK Metro, a Korean man named Lee Jin-gyu experienced just that. It’s age-old story of boy meets pillow, boy falls in love with pillow, boy enters an eternal union in the eyes of his creator with pillow, and then boy becomes laughing stock of planet.
Before you do start laughing at him though, tell me if this relationship sounds any less functional than yours:
‘He is completely obsessed with this pillow and takes it everywhere,’ said one friend.
‘They go out to the park or the funfair where it will go on all the rides with him. Then when he goes out to eat he takes it with him and it gets its own seat and its own meal,’ they added.
Yea, didn’t think so. Watch the happy couple in action here:
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“We know the show was supposed to run through the end of May, but it is pretty obvious to everyone here at American Idol that Mike Lynche just won Season 9. We’d like to thank the other contestants for coming out this year. You were all very good, but it is just clear now that we already have a winner and there’s really no point in dragging this out.
For the rest of the spring, the time slot usually held by American Idol will be used to air Bones repeats. It’s just in the best interest for America.
Congratulations to our winner Big Mike, and hopefully the rest of you can score tickets for Conan O’Brien’s live tour or something. Good night and drive safe.”
That’s probably what Simon Cowell should have said last night.
Front Page: Actors sign on for Universal comedy -- Ryan Reynolds and Jason Bateman have signed on to star in Universal's body-switching comedy "The Change-Up."
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When you hear the name Adam Lambert, plenty of words come to mind. Glamorous. Larger than life. Talent explosion. Cod piece. But perhaps one word that has never been previously associated with Lambert is “Unplugged.” In fact, if there’s one thing the guy is, it’s “Plugged.”
So when our boss broke the news that Adam would be the first of many musicians to headline the resurrection of VH1’s Unpluggedseries, mere days before the actual taping, and that I would be the only member of the press allowed past the rhinestoned curtain, well… looks like someone unplugged my enthusiasm for life and living and simply being.
The taping was on a Saturday afternoon, which means (for those historians of you out there) that it directly followed what experts refer to as “Fun Drinky Drunk Times on a Friday Night.” And not just for me, it seems, but for Lambert as well, who joined up with former Idol allies Kris Allen and Allison Iraheta for a very special Rock This Town concertmere hours before his Unplugged taping. It seems the only people not out the night before getting trashed in the privacy of someone else’s bar were the 40 or so fresh faces waiting in line outside of the studio, whose faces beamed like little glow worms waiting to meet their glowy lord and savior.
Slowly but surely, these super fans were filed into the studio, filling up the 3 exclusive rows of seats roughly 4 inches away from the microphone that would soon be on the receiving end of a vocal ecstasy tablet. And, much to my surprise, the production assistant who was seating people grabbed me and placed me right smack dab in the second row, aisle seat. “Well,” I thought, “this should be interesting.”
Check out Lambert’s “Unplugged” performance and an exclusive BWE.tv interview with the man, the legend… ahead!
And I have to hand it to you, “Most Serious Fans,” you are really not joking around about your obsession. Take this fan seated next to me, who relayed a story about her first time laying eyes on Lambert:
Audience Girl 1: Being here is not healthy for my medical condition. I’m not kidding. The first time I saw Adam, I passed out on the floor.
Me: You didn’t really!
Audience Girl 1: No, I did! At the American Idol concert. He took his shirt off. Like, he had a vest on, and he ripped it off. And I’m like “Oh my God!” and I just FELL OVER! You have no idea the level of love!
Me: Am I gonna have to get the smelling salts? Are you gonna get the vapors when he comes out here?
Audience Girl 1: I literally have a very serious obsession with him. My dad’s a teamster, so I’ve been meeting celebrities since I’m 4. Never phases me. Adam Lambert, I wanna drop dead.
Me: I wish I had the power to just make people drop dead on command like that.
It was here another audience member, Jessica Fletcher, chimed in:
Audience Girl 2: I think I was actually quiet the first time I ever saw him. I couldn’t breathe, I was in awe!
Me: Were you also at the concert?
Audience Girl 2: I’ve been to nine of them.
Me: You went to nine of them?!!
Audience Girl 2:YEAH!
Me: Oh, this is a separate thing… tell me everything.
Audience Girl 2:I’ve been doing the American Idol tour thing for years.
Me: Oh, so you’ve been to nine different seasons of concerts?
Audience Girl 2: No. I went to nine over the summer.
Me: What?! That’s what you should be majoring in… American idol concerts.
I’m a fan of Adam’s, but amongst this small group, I was in a different league. These were people who ate, slept, and drank Lambert, among other things we’d rather not think about. Before the taping began, I decided to swap places with one of the fans standing in the back, secretly, I think, in case the girl seated beside me actually did drop dead during the taping. If there’s one thing I don’t need, it’s glitter-infused blood on my hands.
But enough small talk. A hush fell over the crowd as Adam’s band settled into place — including Tommy Joe Ratliff (the famous face that you’ve probably seen making out with Adam’s on national television), Monte Pittman on guitar, Longineu W. Parsons III (“LP”) on drums, and Zac Baird on piano. And maybe it was through my blurred hangover-o-vision, but I couldn’t help but notice that Tommy looks a lot like Adam, just more petite. BAND NAMES. And then, it was time.
Adam arrived.
Dressed in signature Adamalia: Black shiny pants, fingerless gloves, and a rhinestoned feather around his neck (from Alexander McQueen, who had passed away only two days prior). And thanks to the grace of God, my little friend from the audience did not, in fact, drop dead on the spot. In fact, it seemed the entire audience was frozen with awe. (Aw?) But Lambert was the picture of ease. Before breaking out into his first number, he joked about the relaxed, low key setting. Here is the first song from VH1 Unplugged: Adam Lambert, “Music Again”:
Between takes, Adam made sure we knew he had been out late the night before with his former Idol compatriots… drankin. He called the taping “the bloody mary” of concerts, while sipping tea every so calmly to warn his v-chords up. Next, Adam launched into the song that, in my opinion, launched his star… “Mad World”:
Another amazing performance, another deserved tea break. Only, right before launching into a beautiful acoustic version of “Whataya Want From Me,” Adam went ahead and invented our new favorite stage effect, which I have dubbed a “Homeless Fog Machine,” because, as we learned from the man himself, a real fog machine wasn’t in the budget:
Had I known, I clearly would have quit my job to MAKE budget room for a real fog machine. I’d be the OsKar Schindler of cheesy stage smoke effects.
One of my favorite songs on “For Your Entertainment” has long been “Broken Open,” a Kevin Spacey moonwalk to Uranus and back, a soft, slow, moonjam of sensuality and desire. VH1 Unplugged marks the first time Adam has performed this song live. Get your planetary profos out:
Adam had one last song left to entertain us with. And while I was expecting him to go the way of “Fever” or “Strut,” or, in my fantasies, “Pick U Up,” he instead went the way of bonus track “Down the Rabbit Hole.” It’s a song, Adam explained, inspired by Burning Man and Lewis Carroll… which is a gentlemanly way of saying he was inspired by Life’s Seductive Delights. This Unplugged version of DTRH got everyone, even the stiffest of Lambert fans, moving in their seats.
In fact, even the security guard hired to protect our beloved singer momentarily forgot what, exactly, he was there to do, as I caught him mouthing the chorus and dancing towards the end. After the show, I stopped this giant man by the door to find out if he was the unlikeliest of fans. “It really caught me off guard. I didn’t think it was gonna be that good! My wife is a fan, but I didn’t know his stuff. I like it!” Seeing this hulky fellow admit to loving Lambert proves that glamorous ambisexual poppy party techno knows no bounds.
Put your best navy blazer on, grab your nightstick, and save yourself the $10 spent on a ticket to Tim Burton’sAlice in Wonderland by enjoying this instead:
Amazing show, right? Right. As the audience filed out of the studio, they looked in serious need of a post-concert cigg. Their hair a little mussed, their eyes, a faraway gaze. Shirt buttoned crookedly. You get the idea.
After the show, I was able to grab a few minutes with Lambert, in an interview I like to call “Two Hungover People Making Conversation”:
Michelle: First of all, how are you? How are you even alive? How are you moving?
Adam: You know what, um, I don’t know how. Sometimes I’m like “Wow!” I don’t know… It’s just all about me!
Michelle: You’re laughing, but that is the dream.
Adam: It’s true!
Michelle: I love the honesty.
Adam: It’s a little narcissistic, but yeah!
Michelle: I like how we’re both really toned down right now. Are you going out tonight?
Adam: I mean, I want to, but I’m like: UGH.
Michelle: What was it like performing with Kris and Allison again?
Adam: It was fun! It was really good to see them. I mean, we have a very special little bond, the three of us, because we were the three from my group that made it through. You know there were three groups of twelve or something. So we were the first three that made it through. We did our first press junket together.
Michelle: That’s so funny. So I have questions I want to ask. I wanna see how you’re feeling, what’s happening, how’s LA. I love it there. Thinking of moving actually.
Adam: Really?
Michelle: Yeah. I’m sick of New York.
Adam: You need a break from here.
Michelle: I can’t take this anymore. I feel like a rat. Every time I leave my apartment I feel like a rat in a pair of pants. Like a rat tranny.
Adam: But, I mean, do you have people out there that you know?
Michelle: A lot. My best friend…
Adam: Good!
Michelle: Don’t freak out, I would never call you if I move out there. (laughter) I’m like “Sooo I’m moving there and I know you got a lazyboy that I can sleep on.”
While we chat, some roadies breaking down the set start making a passive-aggressive racket directly behind us.
Michelle: Does he want me to help him, or something? I’ll shlep it wherever he wants…
Adam: I NEED A HAND. (We eye this man.) He looks like he’s from Fiddler on the Roof.
Michelle: He makes me feel like the fat daughter in Fiddler on the Roof. Do me a favor, cut some of your hair off and let’s make curly sideburns for him… what are they called? My mother is going to kill me.
Adam: Peyos! I call them hummus…like hummus and pita.
Michelle: (laughing) If you put hummus on those sideburns, I would go out with that man.
Adam: “Hi, you’re sexy!”
Michelle: Like get some pita and stroke his face. “What is that? Chickpeas? Delicious.” I’m addicted to hummus.
Adam: Same! I get really gassy from it though.
Michelle: What is that from?
Adam: I don’t know! It’s indigestion.
Michelle: Look, if I don’t drink coffee every morning…
Adam: I know, you’re not regular?
Michelle: I’m not regular, and then a week later it’s like navy rope coming out of me.
Adam: (laughing)
Michelle: I eat a Fiber One bar, I have to work from home. I don’t know when its gonna strike! I’m not even making this up.*
Adam: Metamucil!
Michelle: Metamuciesss.
While I could easily discuss bathroom schedules for the next seven or so days, I veer the conversation into a new direction to save face.
Michelle: What’s your drink of choice?
Adam: Ummm I like vodka, but with a twist. I don’t like olives! But lately I’ve been drinking a lot of tequila. And, umm, a lot of whiskey. There’s this whiskey… Do you know honey turkey?
Michelle: Mmhmm, hummus sideburns with honey turkey.
Adam: They add honey to the whiskey!
Michelle: No.
Adam: Yeah, so it’s like whiskey with honey in it.
Michelle: Is it hot or chilled?
Adam: No, it’s chilled! But it is really good. You don’t realize you’re drinking it because it’s so good.
Michelle: And it’s sweet? Like you don’t get the after taste?
Adam: No!
Michelle: Okay, I haven’t asked my serious questions. What are you doing for Fashion Week?
Adam: I’m going to the Marc Jacobs show.
Michelle: Are you excited for fashion people?
Adam: I don’t know if I like fashion people, but I like fashion.
Michelle: Yes, you do like fashion.
Adam: I love fashion. I don’t know enough about fashion people to know if I like them.
This is what I like to refer to as the “Ass Kissing” portion of our interview:
Michelle: So, my gay best friend — you would love — He never really listened to your music and would always kind of make fun of me cause I’m like “Adam, I love him!” Well he finally downloaded your album and he is absolutely addicted. Addicted. And now I get the last laugh because I knew it was amazing! (Ed. Note: Rereading this little tale, can’t believe how shameless I am.)
Adam: Aw! Thank you!
Michelle: This [Unplugged] show was fantastic. You should have seen the security guard. The guard was all serious before the show – “No phones! No cameras!” Meanwhile, I turn to him while you’re singing and he’s lipsyncing to you, jamming along. I look up, the guy is having the best time. I asked him if he liked the show, and he was like “Yeah, you know, I didn’t know what it was going to be, but it was REALLY good!”
Adam: That’s sweet.
Michelle: So, I missed last night, but how was it?
Adam: It was crazy. It got wild!
Michelle: Was it? How long did it last?
Adam: 45 minutes.
Michelle: Oh, that’s pretty short. Was Ryan [Seacrest] there?
Adam: No.
Michelle: Whatever!
Adam: Whatever. I want nothing to do with Ryan. (He was kidding. We think.) (No, he was.)
And that was it. Adam and I shared our hugs as he fled the studio with the band. And thus, VH1 Unplugged: Adam Lambert was a wrap.
Stay tuned for upcoming Unplugged performances, including Phoenix (for MTV), The Script (for VH1) and Reba McEntire (for CMT).
Jenni ?JWoww? Farley made an appearance in Boston over the weekend, but much to everyone's surprise, the reality starlet stayed away from the adult beverages.
Nickelodeon held its upfront presentation today, and all the big tween stars were out, like Miranda Cosgrove and Justin Bieber. However the one star all the kids were REALLY excited to see was THIS guy:
Fox has pushed back the release of the Oliver Stone and Shia LeBeouf joint Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps from April to September. They are also changing the name to Wall Street: Money Sits On Its Lazy Ass All Summer Playing X-Box.
Bravo announced a new series “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills,” the fifth now in the franchise. At the rate they’re going, Bravo should have a “Real Housewives” series in every town in America by this November.
Lindsay Lohan is pushing forward with her lawsuit against E-Trade for their “Lindsay the Milkoholic Baby” ad, insisting it was based on her. You laugh now, but one day our kids will be all too familiar with the landmark Supreme Court Case of “Lohan v. Logic.”
Mario Lopez and his girlfriend are having a baby. If he doesn’t name it Slater (boy or girl) there’s going to be some problems.
Bill Gates fell all the way from number 1 to number 2 on the 2010 Forbes Rich List. Someone get on suicide watch ASAP.
Jamie Jungerwon the “Tiger Woods Mistress Pageant” on the Howard Stern show. See kids, dreams really do come true in America.
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Reuters - With videos of catwalk shows, pictures of glamorous models and a catalog of chic products, luxury brands are creating "digital mirrors" online as they turn to the internet to tap into growing e-commerce demand.
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