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 BBC News | Oprah Defamation Case Can Go to Trial ABC News LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Whenever the media cover Oprah Winfrey litigation -- whether it be with poets, flight attendants, physical trainers, or diet pill makers -- it's usually with an air of dismissiveness. ... Oprah in court Oprah Winfrey must defend defamation case Winfrey due in Philly for 2-week defamation trial |
Reuters - Whenever the media cover Oprah Winfrey litigation -- whether it be with poets, flight attendants, physical trainers, or diet pill makers -- it's usually with an air of dismissiveness. She's a billionaire media personality and can hire the best lawyers -- who's going to beat her in court?
In case you've heard otherwise, the Wilkinson-Basketts are remaining a family of three for now.
"I'm definitely not pregnant," Kendra Wilkinson-Baskett exclusively tells...
The trailer for The Romantics, the upcoming Galt Niederhoffer dramedy, is scored and costumed like some sort of Garden State: Five Years Later revival, all moody glances, gray skies and crimped hair. However, a trailer that at first seems to indicate just-another-angsty-love-triangle quickly becomes a (fun!) game of “Hey, it’s…!”: Hey, it’s Sookie Stackhouse! It’s Frodo! It’s Seth Cohen! It’s Suri’s mom! It's Quinn from Glee! But then it slowly sinks in that the whole plot revolves around the ever-doltish Josh Duhammel, and that’s when you start to get worried. . .
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Filed Under: trailer mix, adam brody, anna paquin, elijah wood, josh duhammel, katie holmes, movies, the romantics, video
Hiram Monserrate came up short tonight in his attempt to regain his State Senate seat, losing by a wide margin to Jose Peralta in a special election. Peralta’s win was expected, as the Queens assemblyman boasted significantly more support and funding than Monseratte, who was kicked out of his seat after being convicted of assaulting his girlfriend. Early returns indicated Peralta earned about 60 percent of the votes with Monserrate at 34 percent. While there's no telling what Monserrate may run for next, we're guessing tonight he's prescribing many a haircut. [NYT]
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Filed Under: hiram monserrate, albany, ballsy former state senators, elections, jose peralta
Looks like you'll be able to enjoy Conan's upcoming summer tour... without forking over a hundred bucks. Deadline’s Mike Fleming is reporting that Conan O’Brien’s upcoming 30-city live comedy/musical revue tour - called “The Legally Prohibited From Being Funny on Television Tour” - may be filmed for a documentary feature. Media Rights Capital has initiated talks about financing the project, with the awesomely-named Rodman Flender (Ugly Betty, The O.C.) rumored as the director. The film would apparently not violate the terms of O’Brien’s agreement with NBC signed when his Tonight Show was pulled from the air. [Deadline]
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Filed Under: team coco, conan o'brien, late shifting, movies
Jake Harris went trawling for trouble, but lucky for him, his net came up mostly empty.
The Deadliest Catch crab fisherman was charged Tuesday with reckless driving and driving with a...
Attorney General Eric Holder maintained today that he favors plans to try suspected terrorists in traditional criminal courts, in spite of earlier indications he may be leaning toward holding the trials of self-proclaimed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other alleged plotters in military tribunals. The final decision is still “weeks away,” but Holder argued that criminal trials have been successful and “secure” in the past; in fact, it can be easier to get suspects to plead guilty in civilian courts, he said.
"They are tested ... they are secure, we have tried these cases in a safe manner," Holder told a House Appropriations subcommittee. "Our allies around the world support us in bringing these cases in (criminal) courts."
As for Osama Bin Laden, he won’t see either kind of court, Holder said, claiming the Al Qaeda leader won’t be captured alive.
“Let's deal with reality," Holder said. "The reality is that we will be reading Miranda rights to the corpse of Osama bin Laden. He will never appear in an American courtroom… The possibility of catching him alive is infinitesimal. He will be killed by us or he will be killed by his own people so he can't be captured by us."
Holder went on to compare bin Laden to, uh, Charles Manson, explaining that terrorists in court "have the same rights that Charles Manson would have, any other kind of mass murderer."
Holder defends criminal trials for 9/11 suspects [Reuters]
Holder: Osama Can "Remain Silent" Forever [CBS News]
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Filed Under: 9-11 trials, eric holder, justice, khalid sheikh mohammed, osama bin laden, politics
DMX could not avoid the rap this time.
The troubled hip-hop artist was ordered to stay in an Arizona jail for six months and undergo a mental health evalution after violating the terms...
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The Two Coreys wasn't the end of Corey Haim's foray into reality television.
The late actor had actually tried to develop Lost Boy Found, a series that would chronicle his...
Betty White is basically the hottest actress in Hollywood right now. After signing on for a guest spot on ABC’s The Middle and earning a hosting gig on a special episode of Saturday Night Live in May hosted by “Women of Comedy,” White is now going to be fronting her own television series. White was only supposed to guest star on the pilot of TV Land’s upcoming original sitcom Hot in Cleveland, but the show's producers apparently felt White was “so good in the role” (she plays the “snarky owner” of a L.A. home rented by three women), they had to offer her a regular starring role. Expect news that White is replacing Katherine Heigl on Grey's Anatomy by the end of the week. [Variety]
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Filed Under: white hot, betty white, hot in cleveland, saturday night live, television, the industry
AP - Singer and sometimes actress Jessica Simpson has paid the price of beauty, and now she's examining people's obsession with looking good.
Britney Spears is once again a solo artist.
The 28-year-old pop princess and her talent-agent boyfriend Jason Trawick called it quits at the end of February after about a year of...
 Celebrity Mania | Teen Idol Justin Bieber Begins Tour In June New York Times By REUTERS The latest on the arts, coverage of live events, critical reviews, multimedia extravaganzas and much more. Join the discussion. NEW YORK (Billboard) - Canadian teen pop singer Justin Bieber will begin his first headlining tour of North ... Justin Bieber Raves About 'Amazing' New Single 'U Smile' Justin Bieber Concert Dates – My World 2.0 Teen pop star to play at Allentown Fair |
What else can be said about the much-anticipated Runaways movie?
We know that Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning physically impressed original bandmembers Joan Jett and Cherie...
For once, a David Paterson development that he'll actually like! In his Free Yankees Tickets Scandal (always a sign things are going great when it’s necessary to differentiate between your scandals), Paterson was accused of soliciting tickets to the World Series and then lying about it under oath.
Today though, his lawyer, Theodore Wells, produced e-mails sent among members of Paterson’s staff on October 7 and 8 which suggest Paterson was invited to the game on behalf of the Yankees. Wells included the e-mails - titled “Yankees Game Tomorrow - GDAP INVITE” (“GDAP” referring to Paterson) - in a 10-page letter in which he challenges the Public Integrity Commission’s claim that Paterson lied about how he got his hands on the tickets, as well as who paid for them. According to Wells, the e-mails "unequivocally demonstrate a good faith belief on the part of the governor's staff that an invitation had indeed been extended."
"The report was rushed and any deliberations the commission had were clearly limited,” he wrote. “The entire process was flawed. It is not surprising that it led to the wrong result.”
This is the first time the governor has directly addressed the scandal, previously saying he couldn’t comment on the criminal probes. Well, Paterson must be so glad that he's temporarily defused this scandal - it’s not like he’s got anything else going on!
Gov. Paterson brushes back ethics charges he lied about free Yankees World Series tickets [NYDN]
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Filed Under: the cuddle muddle, david paterson, ethics, politics, yankees
Reuters - Verizon Communications filed a complaint against Cablevision Systems on Tuesday, alleging that it infringed its patented technology for television set-top boxes, the U.S. International Trade Commission said.
If you thought that ChatRoulette was simply an internet playground comprised of pimply-faced teens and serial masturbators, well, you’re not entirely incorrect. There are most certainly scads of those people hanging around the hottest URL in the game, but then again, there’s also Merton.
You see, a scant four days ago, an anonymous YouTube user who calls himself Merton posted a video under the username PianoChatImprov. In it, a bespectacled young man wearing a green hoodie serenades a series of users with funny, improvisational, piano-driven songs relaying generically specific details about the person on the other end of the screen. And during this time, the video has gone viral (fancy internet lingo!) and racked up nearly 700,000 views. So, who exactly is this Merton fellow, anyway?
Merton’s particular style of ivory tickling and sing-songy approach led some early fans to speculate that he was, in fact, Ben Folds. We had our doubts, as A) aside from the specs, it doesn’t really look like Folds and B) we’re fairly certain a songwriter as gifted as Folds wouldn’t rhyme “hand” and “planned” so frequently. Our suspicions were confirmed when Vh1’s own Bex Schwartz got in contact with the mysterious YouTube superstar earlier today to confirm that he wasn’t the popular piano man.
That said, Merton does not have any plans to reveal his “secret” identity just yet. We applaud his decision, but knowing how ravenous the internet can be, we’re fairly certain we’ll know everything about good ole Mertles by week’s end. Here’s hoping he is able to make a buck and book a late night appearance or two before TMZ inevitably outs him.
– Mark Graham
Karl Lagerfeld spoke to Bruce LaBruce in the latest issue of Vice magazine, and delivered some of his most epic quotes of the new decade. Without further ado:
On not removing his sunglasses for interviews:
They’re my burka ... I had an interview once with some German journalist — some horrible, ugly woman. It was in the early days after the communists — maybe a week after — and she wore a yellow sweater that was kind of see-through. She had huge tits and a huge black bra, and she said to me, “It’s impolite; remove your glasses.” I said, “Do I ask you to remove your bra?”
And yet:
I have not one prejudice. I don’t judge things.
On childhood:
I was a beach boy in my youth.
And adoption:
If there were a child I wanted to adopt, I would try to find the family of the child and give them the money for an education in his life and his context.
On what political correctness means to him:
It means people talking about charities. Do it, be charitable, but don’t make a subject of conversation out of it because then you bore the world to death. It’s very unpleasant. But I don’t go out a lot so I’m not so exposed to people.
On homosexuality (though he is against gay marriage):
When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said—and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded—“It’s like hair color. It’s nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It’s not a subject.” This was a very healthy attitude.
On voting:
I’ve never voted in my life—for any kind of politics.
On sex:
I admire porn... And I personally only like high-class escorts. I don’t like sleeping with people I really love. I don’t want to sleep with them because sex cannot last, but affection can last forever. I think this is healthy. And for the way the rich live, this is possible. But the other world, I think they need porn. I also think it’s much more difficult to perform in porn than to fake some emotion on the face as an actor.
On fur:
That’s why I always say, when people talk about not using fur, “Are you rich enough to make an income for the people in the north who live from hunting? What do you want them to live off of when there’s nothing else to do?”
On communicating in modern times:
People I’m really friendly with have faxes. Anna Wintour has one. We speak via fax. And in Paris I send letters to people.
On exercise:
I worked out when I was very young and then one day I was bored to death by it. I did it before other people did it. I did it in the 60s and late 50s.
On his weight loss:
Well, there came this new line from Hedi Slimane at Dior, that you needed to be slim to wear. It said, “You want this? Go back to your bones.” And so I lost it all. I lost 88 pounds and never got them back.
KARL LAGERFELD [Vice]
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Filed Under: karl makes everything right, designers, karl lagerfeld, quotables
In case you thought Hurt Locker helmer Kathryn Bigelow's March couldn't get any better, yesterday she made history as the first Oscar-winning female director to successfully evade civic responsibility. Anne Thompson reports that Bigelow was called for jury duty in Los Angeles and placed in the pool for a drunk-driving case, but was able to go back to her award-filled mansion after sweet-talking the judge:
During interrogation, Bigelow said that she couldn't find a defendant guilty unless rehabilitation was attached to the sentence. The jury and alternates were picked before they got to Bigelow, and she was sent home.
Also probably effective would've been claiming she couldn't find the defendant guilty unless a marriage to James Cameron was part of the sentence.
Oscar Winner Bigelow in L.A. Superior Court [Thompson on Hollywood/Indiewire via Movieline]
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Filed Under: jury duty, kathryn bigelow, movies, the hurt locker
In just the past few hours, we've written about the nascent Senate campaigns of an oral surgeon and an Idol judge's dad. Completing the day's trifecta of Kirsten Gillibrand challengers is David Malpass, a former chief economist for Bear Stearns and current president of Encima Global, an economic-research firm. News of Malpass's potential Republican candidacy has been brewing for a while now, but today on CNBC's Squawk Box, Malpass said that he's filed papers and plans to officially declare in mid-April. At this rate, he may be facing two or three dozen opponents by then. [CNBC]
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Filed Under: early and often, david malpass, kirsten gillibrand, politics
There’s a new ad campaign for Vitamin water. And that’s great; new ad campaigns are great. But just as a general rule, probably new ad campaigns should make sense and not needlessly include a an ambiguous racial reference. I didn’t major in marketing or anything, but I get the feeling that chapter one in any marketing text book probably says something like, “Hey…don’t be, like, weird about Chinese enclaves for no reason.”
Now this is pretty New York-centric so let me break it down for you in case you don’t live here. Canal Street and Chinatown are both things in New York. That’s it. Oh, you still don’t get it? That’s because the ad makes no sense! Why bring Chinatown into it in the first place? I mean… this guy can’t even explain it to Jack Nicholson:
– Noah Garfinkel
Even though Kimora Lee Simmons's Life in the Fab Lane is returning for another season on the Style Network, the label has ordered more New Jersey–focused content. Jerseylicious, a reality show about the Gatsby salon in Green Brook, premieres this Sunday at 10 p.m., and aims to show the world what New Jersey is really like. The show's stars seem eager to set the record straight about all those things MTV's Jersey Shore got wrong. And hailing from Jersey, unlike most of the Shore cast, they have real Jersey cred behind them.
Olivia Blois Sharpe, a makeup artist in the salon and knockoff, poufless Snooki, wasted no time slamming the Shore girls in an interview with the Daily News:
"Real Jersey girls are a lot more fashion-forward," Sharpe tells The News. "Those girls were in their sweatpants all the time, their hair wasn't done, their makeup wasn't done. We're a lot more flashy."
In their defense, that's because they were drunk, hooking up, or hung-over most of the time. You can't always look pretty when your life revolves around those things, and those things only. Sharpe's co-star is Tracy DiMarco, a blonder Sammi knockoff, who is dating Sharpe's ex.
"We've just never gotten along," said DiMarco, 22. "I don't like anything she's about — her morals, her standards. It's still hard for us to be in the same room together," which is a little tough when you work at the same salon — hence, the drama.
"Morals"? "Standards"? That sounds terribly off for a show called Jerseylicious. Sharpe scoffed at the Shore cast some more:
"All those kids, their main priority was just partying," said Sharpe, who lives in Montville, N.J. "Our main priority is our job."
"...If I could make a living off of fist-pumping to house music, I'd be in there," she says. "In there like swimwear, but like, that's really not going to pay my bills."
But prioritizing a "job," upholding "morals" and "standards," and paying "bills" isn't what we want to see in a reality show about a Jersey salon. We want to see not what Jersey Shore supposedly got wrong, but what Jersey Shore didn't show enough of: how to get Jersey makeup and Jersey hair — how much eye shimmer and hair gel do they go through in a week? — and who among real Jersey residents wants to look that way.
Get a real dose of New Jersey from Style's new reality series 'Jerseylicious' [NYDN]
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Filed Under: the garden state is full of treasures, beauty, bragging rights, jersey shore, jerseylicious, tv
Valentine's Day may have come and gone, but we know someone who could really use a spirit-lifting card or note right about now, and that's our friends at Goldman Sachs, who, even after producing $40 billion of revenues and $12 billion in earnings in 2009, helping the homeless, and caring for kittens, are still, perhaps unfairly, the world's least-favorite people.
Charlie Gasparino reports:
CEO Lloyd Blankfein has told people that he and his firm are so hated that he has gotten as much as 75 to 100 pieces of hate mail in a single day.
In a single day. Him personally. Poor Lloyd. If only money could buy him love.
Goldman's Worries [Fox Business via Dealbreaker]
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Filed Under: naughty ceos need love too, charlie gasparino, goldman sachs, lloyd blankfein
Ahead of the May 10 release of J Dilla’s Donut Shop — an instrumental mini-album being packaged with donut-shaped turntable slipmats and production software from Serato — comes “Safety Dance,” a previously unreleased Dilla track that is, yes, an interpolation of Men Without Hat’s deathless classic. Dilla toned down the original’s jauntiness (and, you know, the words), slicing in some subtle menace via a droning undercurrent of fuzzy bass; also, he did a much better job of programming the drum machine than the lucky guy doing the same for MWH in the early eighties. Still, it’s mostly compelling for the novelty of the whole thing (and, in that regard, isn’t necessarily any better than, say, this). But, seeing as it’s Dilla, it’ll also surely be co-opted for dozens of potentially awesome mixtape tracks in the coming weeks. You’ve been warned!
[Stones Throw via Gorilla vs. Bear]
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Filed Under: right-click, j dilla, men without hats, music, safety dance
Estelle appeared on BET's 106th & Park show yesterday wearing a denim jumpsuit, which was unbuttoned just enough to expose a blue bra. She also wore a necklace and ring from her Rachel Roy x Estelle jewelry collaboration.
Would you wear a denim jumpsuit?
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So far this year, three Cornell students have leaped to their deaths in the famed gorges of Ithaca. This comes a year after a graduate from a decade ago was found dead at the bottom of one of them after having inexplicably returned to campus. Writer Rob Fishman's master's thesis on the school's suicide mythology is excerpted this week on the Huffington Post. It's a compelling read, if you have a few minutes. Here's one part that stuck out:
Then, on March 9, at 2:03am, [21-year-old Matthew Zika] updated his Facebook status with a portentous message. "My hope in living life," he wrote, "is that if one day someone told me it would be my last, I could smile and nod knowing full well that I did all I could with the time I was given. Never put off until tomorrow what you'd be okay having never done." On Friday, after his death had been reported, a friend posted to Zika's wall, "I think you mean never put off until tomorrow what you wouldn't be okay having never done."
Not to give you the willies, but this story puts those ubiquitous "Ithaca Is Gorges" T-shirts into quite the macabre context.
Cornell Suicides: Do Ithaca's Gorges Invite Jumpers? [HuffPo]
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Filed Under: awful things, college, cornell, ithaca, school daze, suicide
Stella McCartney previewed her spring collection for GapKids today in London. This marks the second season the designer created a line for the retailer, as the first one, which debuted in the fall, was so popular that Carla Bruni even wore the military jacket from it for a television appearance. The spring lineup features clothes that pop with color, like knit blue and orange sweaters, green jackets, striped onesies, patterned dresses, and more items to dress future wearers of the Stella McCartney runway collection.
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Filed Under: first looks, collaboration station, designer collaborations, gap kids, stella mccartney
Well, this is sad. Thieves broke into the Eli Lilly & Co. warehouse in Connecticut this past weekend and, in a complicated heist that involved rappelling into the building in the middle of a rainstorm, stole $70 million worth of drugs, mostly the antidepressants Prozac and Cymbalta.
The thieves, whose identities remained unknown Tuesday, made off with enough drugs to fill at least one tractor-trailer, police said.
"Just by the way it occurred, it appears that there were several individuals involved and that it was a very well planned-out and orchestrated operation," Enfield Police Chief Carl Sferrazza said. "It's not your run-of-the-mill home burglary, that's for sure."
Clearly, these thieves were in a manic phase. It's too bad. If only they had gotten the help they needed, they might not have turned to a life of crime.
$70M In Prescription Drugs Stolen in Conn. Heist [Breitbart via Business Insider]
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Filed Under: ballsy crime, antidepressants, drugs, probably it has to do with their fathers
"You know I had to come by, see the kangaroos like I promised everybody." True, true. (There's also a previously unreleased Raekwon song, "Flawless Crowns," available for download over at NahRight.)
[MissInfo]
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Filed Under: music, clickables, raekwon, video, zoo
If you'd assumed that hosts Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin had their leashes yanked by the Oscars telecast overlords, all off-color jokes not concerned with the large contingent of Jewish people in Hollywood scoured from the TelePrompTers, well, you would only be half-right. "They wanted us to do a lot more," Baldwin told us when we saw him last night at the spring gala for the New York Philharmonic. "We had a script that was a much longer script for us. We were more involved. So he and I, I think we were very clever, or we were very wise, I should say, to cut it down. Less of us was better, so you could really get on with the films and honoring the people that are there to be honored."
Baldwin might have been happy to cede a chunk of the spotlight — "we cut ourselves out of it by half," he explained — but if it weren't for those overlords, the broadcast might have gone a bit differently. "There were a lot of good jokes we had in there that they wanted to tone down," Baldwin said. "We had a lot of really kind of saltier lines that they wound up cutting." Such as? "We were going to come out and say, 'The Oscars. Warmer than the Olympics. Not as gay as the Tonys.'" Surely that line could have filled a couple of the beats later spent glaring at George Clooney, right?
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Filed Under: missed opportunities, alec baldwin, kudos, oscars, oscars race 2010, steve martin
If there's one thing former and possibly future lawmaker Hiram Monserrate has no respect for, it's the law. His latest transgression came today when he was brazenly electioneering within 100 feet of a polling place on Election Day, which is not legal. He did this multiple times today. The second time, after Monserrate and two vans with his name on them parked next to a polling place in Jackson Heights, a poll worker told Monserrate to move the vans. “Buzz off, man. Buzz off," Monserrate angrily replied to the poll worker. "Go shave, get a haircut and get lost. Who are you to tell me who I can and can’t talk to?" Um, a poll worker?
[Monserrate and Peralta Hit the Polls in State Senate Race [City Room/NYT]
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Filed Under: early and awkward, hiram monserrate, politics
Inspectors in southeastern China found that a lot of clothing not made in China failed quality-control tests. They cited labels such as Dolce & Gabbana, Trussardi, Hugo Boss, Paul & Shark, Hermès, and Versace. The Telegraph reports:
Inspectors said some clothes suffered from poor colour fastness, while others contained high levels of acid or of formaldehyde.
The clothes "could have caused skin rashes, eye irritations, allergies, respiratory problems and even cancer," the China Daily warned.
The clothes were made in Italy, France, Morocco, Turkey, Vietnam, and India and had been labeled incorrectly, according to the inspectors. Are these the same clothes we get in the States? Like, if we go to Dolce and try things on, which we would never do because even D&G socks cost $75, are we at risk of contracting weird rashes and growing tumors? Our Real Housewives might want to go on shopping-cancer watch, just to be sure.
China finds faults with designer clothes [Telegraph UK]
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Filed Under: clothes that hurt, designers, dolce and gabbana, hermes, hugo boss, paul shark, trussardi, versace
The case centers on remarks Winfrey made in suspending a headmistress amid the 2007 abuse complaints.
Terry Richardson hasn't commented on recent allegations that he takes advantage of his young, impressionable female subjects. But Jezebel dug up an old profile of the photographer from the New York Observer. "A lot of it starts with me saying to a girl, 'Do you want to do nudes?' And they're like, 'I don't want to be naked,'" he told the paper in 2004. "So I say, 'I'll be naked and you take the pictures. You can have the camera. You can have the phallus.'" [Jezebel]
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Filed Under: lensmen, terry richardson
FRAGRANCE
• Lara Stone is the new face for Prada's fragrance, Infusion d’Iris, and stars in a campaign shot by Steven Meisel (seen above). The scent launched in 2007 with Sasha Pivovarova as the face, and Fashion Spot commenters think the campaigns look similar. Lara has brown eyes, but they're blue in the photo, like Sasha's. Which model do you prefer? [Fashion Spot]
• Akon launched his first two fragrances this week, which are named Konvict Femme and Konvict Homme. The scents come in handcuff-shaped bottles for $42 each, and are available online now. Ten percent of the proceeds will be donated to Akon's Konfidence Foundation. His use of K-words is just so krazy and kool. [Honey Mag]
HAIR
• A new survey says that hair straighteners are more important to women than hair dryers. Do you agree? [Daily Mail UK]
SKIN
• Chris Noth says he decided to become the spokesperson for the Biotherm Homme face-care brand because he considers beauty an important part of his routine. "It’s kinda like working out. You do it not just because it helps your body, but it also makes you feel clarity, grounded. You’re on this earth and have to deal with gravity." [I'm a Beauty Geek]
• Leigh Lezark, Chanel beauty ambassador, uses cleaning masks and exfoliators once or twice a week to "make up for bad habits" and keep her skin fresh. She also dyes her hair every three weeks. [Beauty Fool]
• Researchers at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland concluded that men with wider faces are less trustworthy. However, the team also advised the public to refrain from jumping to conclusions about every guy who has a big face. [Telegraph UK]
MAKEUP
• The Shiseido counter at the Takashimaya store in Japan is now home to a digital makeup mirror that allows customers to test makeup without actually putting products on their skin. The mirror scans the customer and generates recommendations from the image. [Springwise]
NAILS
• Reem Acra and Tracy Reese both have shown black-lace manicures on their runways in the past, and now there are step-by-step directions available if you want to get the look yourself. Hint: It actually involves lace. [StyleList]
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Filed Under: beauty marks, akon, beauty, biotherm homme, chris noth, dior beaute ambassador, fragrance, hair, hair straighteners, konvict, lara stone, leigh lezark, makeup, nails, prada, reem acra, sasha pivovarova, shiseido, skin, tracy reese
What would you wear to address the Grocery Manufacturers Association Science Forum? Michelle Obama chose a blouse and skirt by L'Wren Scott. It looks great, but did she intend for the top to remind us of a popcorn box, this being the Grocery Manufacturers Association and all? See the full look in the Michelle Obama Look Book.
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Filed Under: mobama watch, designers, lwren scott, michelle obama
Fashion blogger Tommy Ton tweeted a few days ago that he knew something "CRAZY!!!!" that would "SHAKE the fashion world." Those tweets prompted Australian Grazia to speculate that the secret was Karl Lagerfeld leaving Chanel! OMFG #$(*&#@(*% But Chanel denied that today. So what was Tommy Ton's huge secret? "Guessing game is over. My source and I are the victim of a good prank played by Mr. Tisci himself. He got us good :(," he just tweeted, probably referring to Givenchy designer Riccardo Tisci. [JakandJilBlog/Twitter]
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If the Situation's theory that his shirtlessness causes mass gawking is correct, Purple would be "the Situation" of magazines. (Snooki would be Cosmo: You love it but sometimes you just want it to shut up and go away.) Each issue, replete with nudity and provocative imagery, oftentimes sexual in nature, somehow manages to top the last. The magazine seems to be having a moment after editor Olivier Zahm, who works closely with Terry Richardson, spoke to Style.com at length last week about his philosophies of women and shooting them naked.
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.
With that in mind we looked at the most recent issue, bearing Lindsay Lohan on the cover, with a more discerning eye. Too much stood out to simply mix in with our other favorite fashion images in our monthly fashion image awards. So we've compiled the most noteworthy pages in this slideshow. (Warning: images NSFW, obviously.)
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The cable company apologized Tuesday for the "technical malfunction."
Comedian Joe Mande passes on this photo of P. Diddy (that is what he’s calling himself now, yes?) photobombing perhaps the world’s most famous painting, the Mona Lisa, while at the Louvre. And the more we think about it, the more we realize these two have tons in common.
I rest my case.
When you’re a sheep, squeezing anything out of your lifechute has gotta be a scene. But when you’re a sheep who manages to pop out a 23 lb baby lamb — 3 times the normal size — let’s just say your sheep-v would still be a-stingin.
Thankfully, that hasn’t stopped Sally from being so super psyched to be born!! And given that the World’s Tiniest Man passed away so recently, we thought, why not brighten up your day with another one of God’s oddities, this time one you could easily cuddle with with or without consent. For real… she’s like a body pillow with a face.
And here is a photo of Sally’s dear mum, inspecting the furry meteor she shot out of her lady place:
AP - The Runaways," chronicling the rise and fall of Joan Jett's first band, easily could have degenerated into a movie-length music video, with Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning merely glam-rock poseurs.
 Reuters | Sony Places Big Bet on a Fallen 'King' Wall Street Journal Months after his death, Michael Jackson set a music-industry record, thanks to a deal between his estate and Sony Corp. valued at as much as $250 million, according to people familiar with the terms. The deal—touted by both Sony and Mr. ... Michael Jackson Estate Signs Deal With Sony Sony bets MJ fans won't stop 'til they get enough Death becomes Michael Jackson in $250m deal |
Kathie Lee Gifford is on vacation this week from her Today Show co-hosting duties. But rather than leave Mz. Hoda out in the cold, all week the show is welcoming teen heartthrob co-hosts. Beginning with none other than 90210 heartbreaker JASON PRIESTLY. Priestly has aged exactly 0 years since his Peach Pit days, and if anything has only somehow gotten more handsome. (He’s like a gay porn directed by M. Night Shyamalan come to life.)
And the ladies… oh, they noticed. We’ve put together the following clips reel of guest after guest hitting on Jason, touching Jason, blushing and thinking horrible, perverted things to themselves while also trying to remain borderline professional around Jason, and pretty much WANTING JASON. It was basically an hour of women making asses out of themselves in front of their teen idol… otherwise known as the best Today Show 4th hour in history.*
*It should be known that I myself have seen Jason Priestly in person. What happened at that very moment is my feet turned to boosters and I rocket shipped to the moon. So no judgments on any of these ladies.
We’ve got some sad news for you this morning. According to the Huffington Post, the shortest man in the world died yesterday at the age of 21. His name was Pingping (obviously). He was two feet five inches tall and, according to this picture, loved cummerbunds and clam shell cell phones.
His death was announced by a spokesperson for the Guiness Book of World Records as Pingping is now in a 106 billion-way tie for the most dead person on earth.
Woods has reportedly been eyeing a comeback to golf in the coming weeks, perhaps at the Masters tournament in April.
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You've heard the rumors: Simon hates Ellen. Ellen hates Simon. Kara and Simon fake flirt for the cameras. Randy is a lone dawg.
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