Recently, Jezebel's own Kate Dries and Madeleine Davies ventured out to see Carly Rae Jepsen star in Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella on Broadway. This is their discussion from the following day.
Today in "whaaaaaaaat," feminist icon Ani DiFranco has cancelled her four-day "Righteous Retreat," a songwriting workshop for women. It was cancelled because it was going to be held at the Nottoway Plantation — one of the largest former plantations in the South, which now functions as a museum in which the horrors of…
Please, take a moment to listen to Carly Rae Jepsen, who took a moment from her sad life of endlessly asking people to call her, maybe to record this cover of Ariel's Lament from the Disney classic, The Little Mermaid. A more perfect alignment of recording artist and song has perhaps never been heard before.
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Carly Rae Jepsen doesn't know anything about dance. In most cases, there's nothing wrong with that. Plenty of us don't know about dance and we get along just fine in life. (When I say "us," I'm not referring to myself because this post is actually being ghost written by Mikhail Baryshnikov, the famous Russian dancer.…
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Incredibly, Justin Timberlake genuinely seemed to have no idea that "Take Back The Night," his latest club single for all of us to get SeXXXy to, shares a name with a massive sexual assault awareness campaign.
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I promise we will stop talking about this soonish, you guys. After "careful consideration" from Ballantine Books, the publication of Paula Deen's upcoming cookbook Paula Deen's New Testament: 250 Favorite Recipes, All Lightened Up — currently #1 in cookbooks and #18 overall on Amazon — has been cancelled, along with the…
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Drama queens ruled at the 4th annual amfAR Inspiration Gala, where each dress was more dazzling than the next. Thank goodness: When you're among legends like Liza and Iman, you'd better come correct.
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Unlike the stuffy, proper garments you see at movie star events, the dress code at music award shows is usually a little wacky, very risqué and a lot of fun. And last night at the 2013 Billboard Music Awards, instead of good, bad, and ugly, the style was more good, bad, and ass-hanging-out.
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After three years of dating, Vampire Diaries' onscreen and real-life couple Nina Dobrev and Ian Somerhalder have broken up. But TV's low-key equivalent of K-Stew and R-Patz will stay civil on the show because — quoth a source — they're "consummate professionals," and "will continue to work together and remain best…
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Jennifer Aniston, the quintessential grown-up Judy Blume heroine, has a lot of Very Important Decisions to make in the next few months as her wedding to Justin Theroux draws nigh. Apparently she's been quizzing Charlize Theron—mom of one-year-old Jackson Theron—about the process of adoption since mutual friend Chelsea…
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Despite the fact that CBS issued a memo warning not to show off breasts, buttocks, or any "puffy" bare skin, celebrities attending the 55th annual Grammy Awards last night embraced sheer fabrics, exposed breast curvature and even displayed nipples. That said, it wasn't a very exciting night for fashion; there were pretty …
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In this edition of Tweet Beat, Lea Michele passes the torch, Olivia Wilde plays matchmaker, Russell Brand jokes about raping a cat and Simon Pegg has a harrowing experience.
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Today in uncomfortable-slantymouth news ( :-\ ), convicted murderer/hardcore Belieber Dana Martin allegedly recruited a fellow inmate to (I AM REALLY SORRY ABOUT TYPING THIS) murder Justin Bieber and his bodyguard and then castrate them with pruning shears.
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Goyte's "Somebody That I Used to Know" absconded with Pop Princess Carly Rae Jepsen's Rightful Crown on Spotify's Top 100 Most Popular Tracks of the Year list. Unacceptable!
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Last night at the 40th American Music Awards, the stars were shiny and bright, with gold being one of the most popular colors on the red carpet.
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The National Enquirer, bastion of all legitimate-and-definitely-not-made-up-by-peoples'-greed-and-imagination news, reports that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's slinky, uber-sexual union is being torn asunder by, of all things, Tivo. Brad's allegedly pissed at Angelina for secretly recording episodes of her ex Jonny Lee …
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Here's the video for grown baby woman Carly Rae Jepsen's newest hit This Kiss. It's a typical Carly Rae joint up in there, featuring patterned leggings, an object of her affection and a bunch of friends having a good good time. There's also a Romeo + Juliet style under water smooch and a game of suck and blow.…
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My Size Barbie and Ken Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds put on the My Wedding Dream Clothes™ that came in the box with them and stealthily got married on a plantation in South Carolina yesterday. Their friend
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Florence Welch was there to sing in honor of their love, and so—more importantly!—was…
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Awww, man. B-Shatz! Whyyyyy? I mean, it's not like your everyday persona has given anyone the impression that you aren't totally 'nanners, but do you have to take it to the next level? Creepo-'nanners? Gross. A couple of William Shatner's former employees (who, by the way, could be total jerk liars—I don't know) are…
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Lo, and birds will fall dead from the sky, fish will float dead to the surface of the ocean and the email service on your smartphone will cease to work for approximately 10 minutes, for Kristen Stewart has allegedly cheated on Robert Pattinson with her Snow White and the Huntsman director Rupert Sanders. The…
