Shhhh! Do not rustle this bizarre creature.
Behold! In what could be her boldest image shift to date (no, not really), Lady Gaga appears in Harper’s Bazaar with NO MAKEUP.
WHAT?
What is going on? Who is this person? Is she Swedish? Is she iamamiwhoami? Is this going to presage an acoustic album? Will all her outfits be fashioned out of natural fibers on manual looms?
Perhaps the answers lie below. READ FULL STORY »
It’s difficult to be comfortable with the sight of the World Trade Center in any old motion picture — the image itself has become synonymous with mass pain and suffering in our still-fragile nation — but a filmmaker named Dan Meth has compiled a lovely tribute to the Twin Towers on film since they opened in 1973. Check out the video below of the Towers’ cameos in films like King Kong, Superman, Working Girl, Home Alone 2, Men In Black, and, as seen left, Escape From New York. [Gawker] READ FULL STORY »
Apparently, Emma Watson just used her stashed-away time-turner to transport herself back to Paris circa 1985. You know, that bygone era when everyone was bathed in a gauzy, monochrome purple light, young people still shopped and worked in vintage book stores, and lite-rock guitar riffs mixed with plinky piano underscored everything. That’s my best explanation for Watson’s new spot for Lancôme’s perfume “feminine fragrance” Trésor Midnight Rose, a masterpiece of fashion ad nonsense in which Watson skitters through a winsome Parisian boy’s life, leaving her jaunty chapeau behind willy-nilly and then stealing it from his head whilst teasing him with the promise of a smooch by the Seine. Check out the spot below: READ FULL STORY »
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Marrying a prince is hardly the ultimate definition of success, but it’s hard to argue that the woman who landed the most eligible bachelor in the world hasn’t done well for herself. Yet I couldn’t help feel a little sad for Kate Middleton during her wedding. It wasn’t that her life as she knew it was officially over. It was the striking presence of her younger sister, Pippa. You may have noticed her in that sleek ivory Alexander McQueen gown. The tabloids certainly did.
So here you have this nice older sister, growing up in a nice upper-class British family. She does the right things, she goes to the right schools, she meets the right people. She’s responsible and loving towards her younger sister, who folks back home still argue was the prettier and the more outgoing of the two. Yet, the eldest perseveres, and lands a freakin’ prince. If there was any lingering sibling rivalry — and no matter how close they are, there’s bound to be some with sisters born just 20 months apart — you’d think landing the heir to the British throne would bury them once and for all. READ FULL STORY »
Try to contain yourself, Anderson Cooper, because Gerard Depardieu is up to some more wacky airline antics. Making light of his recent peeing-on-an-airplane stint, the French actor made a video, which has since hit YouTube, poking fun of the incident. Even if you don’t speak Depardieu’s native tongue (if my high school French serves me right, the entire clip translates, roughly, to this) it’s pretty easy to figure out what’s going on: During the now-infamous moment, which he has since apologized for, Depardieu did nothing more than get upset when he was told to stay seated. No public urination involved whatsoever. Oh, and he was dressed up like the French cartoon character Obelix. Nice plug for 2012′s Astérix et Obélix movie, Gerard! Watch the clip below: READ FULL STORY »
Apparently something really, really bad. Just see Madonna‘s reaction to someone handing her a bouquet of hydrangeas at the Venice Film Festival, where she was promoting her period piece W.E. After receiving the apparently dreadful (who knew?) arrangement, Madonna gave a Liz Lemon-quality over-the-top eye roll, hid the flowers, and alerted the person next to her, “I absolutely loathe hydrangeas.” She added about the petal-peddler, “He obviously doesn’t know that.” Well, congrats, Madge, because now the whole world does! It’s a pretty safe bet no matter what her reasoning is behind her hatred of hydrangeas, she’s going to receive a lot more of them now. Watch the full instantly viral clip below: READ FULL STORY »
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H.L. Mencken said, “Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.” In these globalized times we can now remove that “American” qualifier. This past summer was the highest-grossing season on record for the movie industry, despite the complete lack of originality, surprise, or any big-budget entertainments that deserved any real praise beyond, “Well, anyway, it was better than Green Lantern.” Currently, the halls of Hollywood are filled with cackling corporate fat cats, popping champagne and plotting future villainy: Green Lantern 2, why not? But not everyone is celebrating the film industry’s stupid-is-as-stupid-does gravy train. According to the Guardian, recent Oscar winner and emergent cinema hero Colin Firth used the Venice Film Festival opening of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy to offer his own opinions about the dumbing-down of movies. “I do think there is a tendency to underestimate audiences,” said Firth. “I do think there is an appetite to be stretched.” READ FULL STORY »
A Cinderella Story: Once Upon a Song, starring Pretty Little Liars’ Lucy Hale and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince‘s Freddie Stroma (he played Cormac McLaggen, who fancies Hermione), arrives on DVD today, and I couldn’t be happier. If I stumble upon the 2004 original, starring Hilary Duff and Chad Michael Murray, or the first sequel, 2008′s Another Cinderella Story, starring Selena Gomez and Drew Seeley, on ABC Family, I have to stop and watch. They represent the happy ending I never got in high school, and sometimes (like after seeing One Day in theaters, which is when I watched Once Upon a Song), you need to see that.
Below, watch an exclusive clip. It’s not a musical number — Hale’s character is forced by her stepmother (Missi Pyle) to be the singing voice for her wicked stepsister so she can win a recording contract — but it is a charming girl-caught-outside-naked moment. Then, tell us which teen franchise you’re secretly a fan of. (Sorry, Twilight and Harry Potter don’t count.) READ FULL STORY »
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Turns out the old showbiz saying “The show must go on,” applies to telethons as well. Yesterday’s 46th Muscular Dystrophy Association Labor Day Telethon marked the first without host Jerry Lewis since he stepped down as MDA’s national chairman in August, just three months after he’d announced he would no longer be emceeing the event, a duty he’d served since 1966.
So how did the six-hour long Labor Day mainstay fare without him? Judging by the numbers alone, pretty well. The marathon, which featured a series of new hosts, including — perhaps to the dismay of Lewis who slammed reality shows like American Idol and The Biggest Loser — Nigel Lythgoe, Alison Sweeney, Nancy O’Dell and Jann Carl (pictured) and guest appearances by Ryan Seacrest, Jennifer Lopez and Steven Tyler, helped raise more than $61.4 million. That’s almost $2 million more than the 2010 telethon that turned out to be Lewis’ last. READ FULL STORY »
I hope all of you enjoyed a nice long Labor Day weekend. I’m happy to see that once again you were kind enough to make sure part of that extended weekend included your usual Monday night appointment with all of us at Bachelor Pad. Before I left the mansion after last week’s rose ceremony, I informed everybody that from now on they would be competing as a couple and would be voted off as a couple. This didn’t seem like huge news, but by the end of the episode you saw that it really was. READ FULL STORY »
