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Lindsay's Birthday Cash; Angelina Earns More Than Jen
- Lindsay Lohan turns 23 tomorrow, but she's allegedly already been paid $70,000 by the MGM Grand for hosting an all-day "pre-celebration" in Las Vegas last Saturday.
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Adam Lambert To (Maybe) Come Out; Aniston & Mayer Back On?
- American Idol runner-up Adam Glambert has been vague about his sexuality, but a source says:
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Chris Brown Sued For Assault; Prince Harry Arriving In U.S.
- Chris Brown is being sued for assault and battery, but not by anyone you know:
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Jesus & Madonna "Just Friends"; Kiefer & Jack Put Headbutt Behind Them
- Jesus Luz went on a Brazilian TV program, Fantastico, and said of Madonna: "She is my friend, only my friend." Hmm. Wow. Okay. He also said:
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snap judgment
Cate Blanchett & Boys: The Thunders From Down Under
[Perth, Australia; March 13. Image via Flynet]
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Dirt Bag (After Dark)
Miley Cyrus Has Boobs; Trista Thinks Bachelor Jason Is One
- People are freaking out because, in new pictures of Miley Cyrus jogging with her boyfriend, you can see her cleavage. She says: "I guess it's just... I'm not allowed to jog any more." Apparently not!
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Cate Blanchett: Big Smile, Little Black Dress
[Perth, Australia. February 28. Image via Getty.]
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New Details Emerge About Chris Brown/Rihanna Incident
- Updates on the Chris Brown and Rihanna incident:
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Kate Winslet's Awards Season Competition: Kate Winslet
- It's going to be Kate Winslet vs. Kate Winslet at the Bafta awards. [Guardian]
- And! Winslet is on the February cover of In Style. [The Life Files]
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Dirt Bag (After Dark)
Lindsay Lohan And Samantha Ronson Cry The Friendly Skies
- Lindsay and Sam rang in 2009 with yet another tear-drenched fight, this time at Miami International Airport. Linds was so inconsolable on the plane that she was asked if she'd like to disembark.
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Cate the Great
Cate Blanchett Is Too Well Adjusted To Give Good Interview
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The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button's Terrible Australian Premiere
Remember how at Yesterday's The Curious Case of Benjamin Button premiere everyone looked really good and even the "Bads" were pretty awesome? Well, as we know, everything in Australia is the opposite of here (well, at least seasons and the way toilets drain), and so it was with last night's Button premiere at the Sydney Theatre. Everyone looked strange, even the "Goods" were pretty lousy, and (an undoubtedly massively jet-lagged) Cate Blanchett? Shocking! The Kinda Good, the Really Bad... after this Antipodean jump. More » -
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The Curious Case Of The Awesome Benjamin Button Premiere
As everybody knows, the Brad Pitt flick The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is based on an F. Scott Fitzgerald story in which a guy is born in his 80s and ages backwards to a baby. The premiere, in Westwood, was excellently star-studded: Brad and Angie, natch, costar Cate Blanchett, but also Jennifer Lopez, our girl Tilda Swinton, Eva Longoria, well-dressed young person Emma Roberts, and a cast of thousands. While the goods were good and even the bads had a lot going for them, a few ensembles — notably J.Lo and Cate — defy easy categorization. A curious case, after the jump! More » -
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Jennifer Aniston Likes John Mayer's
HeadBrain- Jennifer Aniston on John Mayer: "He's a rare one. He is extraordinary and it is wonderful to watch him... the way his brain works and the way he thinks thoughts... it's beautiful." Is this the same John Mayer we know? [Mirror, The Sun]
- Remember how Jennifer Aniston had dinner with Gerard Butler? They're in negotiations to star in an "untitled bounty hunter project" from Columbia pictures. [Variety]
- While the world crumbles all around us, Katie Holmes has helped the Broadway show All My Sons turn a profit. She's box-office gold! Says a source: "Of course, it's not just her, it's [costars] John Lithgow and Dianne Wiest, but no one will say that." [E!]
- Oh, dear: Blake Fielder Civil gave Amy Winehouse drugs when he visited her in the hospital. [The Sun]
- Amy Winehouse's mom says: "We're so happy he's back in jail. We hope he's in there for a long time. We're all so furious with Blake for what he's done to Amy." [Mirror]
- What's this? Amy is working on a new album? And using her lyrics to trash her "junkie jailbird hubby"? This could be good. [Mirror]
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I'm A Little Teapot
The Hand-On-Hip Pose: An Anthropological Study
The other day I noticed that I can no longer pose for a picture without putting my hand on my hip. I blame this on the unending stream of events photos I look at as part of my job. I was staring at this picture of Rashida Jones today when it dawned on me: this pose is ridiculous. It's supposed to make you look thinner, but really it makes everyone look like a little teapot! Then I started wondering when this pose became so pervasive. Luckily, the official Oscar website has an archive of red carpet photos from the past five years. By perusing it, I have discovered precisely when our world's mega-stars insisted on posing with their hands firmly placed on their hips, bony elbows jutting out at 45 degree angles. Photographic evidence, after the jump. More » -
the good, the bad & the ugly
Gowns Both Fabulous &
The glitzy madness that is the Cannes Film Festival is in full swing! Yesterday, at the premiere of Blindness, which stars Julianne Moore, Cate Blanchett was the one who stole the show. She was luminous and resplendent in ruffles! (Ms. Moore was weighed down by black feathers.) Who else was basking in the glare of photographers' flashes? Natalie Portman, Faye Dunaway, Devon Aoki, Mischa Barton, Gillian Anderson and many more. See who wore Good, who wore Bad and who wore Ugly, after the jump. More »FowlFoul At The Blindness Premiere -
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Kanye West has reportedly dumped longtime girlfriend/fiancé Alexis Phifer. Kanye allegedly told Alexis, "I just don't think it is going to work out anymore." He even asked for the ring back! • TomKat partied with Posh and Becks over the weekend to celebrate Posh's 34th birthday at a Santa Monica restaurant. They were also celebrating the first birthday of Posh's new rack. • Take a lil' peek at Cate Blanchett with her six-day-old baby boy, Ignatius Martin Upton. So cute! [AOL Black Voices, Us, People] -
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Britney Gets In Fender Bender
- Britney Spears was involved in a minor car accident Saturday night; no one was injured and no vehicles were damaged. [AP]
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on beauty
Telling A Child She's Beautiful Could Be Sending The Wrong Message
In today's Times of London, fashion editor Lisa Armstrong dissects what she deems our egregiously-lookist society. "Increasingly, looks are used to define women who never set out to compete by those rules," Armstrong points out. "The entire female flank of the French Cabinet has recently had their wardrobes pored over as if they were auditioning to fill in for Cate Blanchett on the red carpet while she takes a spot of maternity leave." Armstrong also quotes Fay Weldon, writer and insane-o, who, for once, makes a good point. "Nowadays, all little girls are told that they're beautiful by their mothers, even when they're not," Weldon says. "We're terribly conflicted. We don't want appearance to be important, but almost everything we do reinforces that they are." More » -
the good, the bad, & the ugly
"Fishy" Is Fabulous: Oscar Fashion 2008
Thank God for Oscar fashion because the awards themselves dragged... on... forever. And on last night's red carpet? Lots of, well, red. Heidi Klum, Miley Cyrus, Katherine Heigl, Anne Hathaway, Ruby Dee, and Helen Mirren were just some of the women who matched their gowns to the carpet they were posing on. But the absolute best looks were seen on the women who opted for something a little less traditional: Like Marion Cotillard's fish-scale mermaid gown by Jean-Paul Gaultier. Cotillard looked radiant, palpitating with natural beauty and joie de vivre. Also gorgeous? Cate Blanchett, pregnant in purple Dries Van Noten, and Amy Adams, sultry in deep green Proenza Schouler. Those who swung and missed? Diablo Cody, Cameron Diaz and Renee Zellweger. And Lord have mercy on Sarah "I'm Dating George Clooney" Lawson: Her ugly-ass table-cloth dress was the worst of the worst in my book. You can take the girl out of Fear Factor, but you can't take the Fear Factor out of the girl. Photo galleries of the Good, Bad, and Ugly of Oscar style, after the jump.
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the good, the bad & the ugly
Independent Spirit Awards Attendees Stuck To B&W
The Independent Spirit Awards are sort like the alt-prom to the Oscars: The so-called "indie" crowd — plus mainstream celebs posing as hipsters for the evening — turn out to honor work that is supposedly not part of the Hollywood machine. As an added punch, ELLE sponsored the event, and I wonder: did the magazine also issue a dress code of mostly black and white? Even my beloved Cate Blanchett, left, seemed in less than top form: Her black and brown combo seems comfy enough, given she is pregnant, but her shoes made my heart scream, "Noooooooooooo." The full Good, Bad, and Ugly of the Independent Spirit Awards, after the jump. More » -
In Brief
Loose Lips
Bai Ling, the actress best known for her sartorial stumbles, has been arrested at LAX for shoplifting a pack of batteries and two tabloids. The best part of TMZ's coverage is when they say that she was placed under "citizen's arrest" by a shop clerk before getting booked by airport police. • New Indiana Jones trailer is up! Cate Blanchett looks fierce, but otherwise...meh. • During Keith Urban's Madison Square Garden concert in New York last night, he dedicated a song to preggers wife Nicole Kidman, who was in Australia during the concert, where it was already February 14. Bitch is knocked up and you're not there to fetch her ice cream! The least Urban can do is give her a shout out. [TMZ, Dlisted, People] -
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Best Actress Oscar Nominees Aren't All Victims
This year's female acting Oscar nominees are a strange bunch of characters — and no, we don't mean the narcissistic actresses themselves. While the Supporting Actress field is rife with Hollywood's version of the female victim, the Best Actress category has some complicated characters that have too damn much going on emotionally for us to be able to tell decide if they were victims (or hookers, or doormats) or not! After all, tragedy doesn't equate victimhood and playing tough doesn't necessarily make one a hero. After the jump, we break down the characters — and ask you to tell us who's a victim, who's a hooker, who's a doormat, and who's on the fence. (Hint: We consult our Magic 8-Ball.) More » -
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Oscar Noms 2008: Women Can Write, Not Direct
The Oscar ceremony may not happen this year, but the nominations themselves, just announced, prove that women are making inroads as writers. In addition to actress noms for Cate Blanchett (for both I'm Not There and Elizabeth: The Golden Age) and Julie Christie, Marion Cotillard, Laura Linney, and Ellen Page, the Best Original Screenplay category was female-dominated, with 4 out of the 5 nominated films boasting women writers (an additional writing nod was given to Sarah Polley for Best Adapted Screenplay for I'm Not There). Interestingly (and not surprisingly), not a single Best Director nomination went to a woman; are women just not being given the opportunity to direct by the Hollywood establishment? Or are their efforts just not being recognized? Contemplate this while checking out the full list of nominees, after the jump.
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Golden Globes 2008: They Pick The Winners, We Pick The Fashions
Last night's Golden Globe Awards garnered some minor surprises (Julie Christie for best actress, drama; Julian Schnabel for director); some major snoozes (the exceedingly-painful televised press conference made us want to do all sort of tortuous things to Billy Bush, especially when he called Cate Blanchett not such a great actress); and some boring fashion (see above). To amuse ourselves (and, as promised on Friday), we took the female Globes winners and outfitted them in the fashions we think they should have worn, had the show gone on as usual. The winners and their pretend awards-wear, after the jump. More » -
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Jennifer Connelly In Balenciaga: Scary
- Jennifer Connelly looks a little scary in the spring Balenciaga ads. Something about floral print armor, an over-exaggerated model slouch, and toothpick legs gives us the uh-oh feeling. [WWD, sub req'd]
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Female SAG Nominees: Douchebag Rock Geniuses, Dead Mothers & Former Crackheads
When the Golden Globe noms were announced last week, we broke down the female honorees along the old Shirley MacLaine adage about good parts for actresses falling into either hooker, victim or doormat categories. Today, the Screen Actors Guild announced the nominees for its awards and, although there's nary a hooker to be found, there are a couple of doormats and victims to fill the void! After the jump, we assess the candidates* (the ones who weren't also nominated for Golden Globes, that is). More » -
hot or not
Some "Sexy" Men Actually Not So Hot!
As an antidote to what it describes as the tyranny "of lantern jaws, bulging biceps and Seacrest hair" in People magazine's latest Sexiest Man Alive list, Salon has come up with its own list of sexy dudes and it's predictably politically correct and decidedly not hot. The list isn't entirely off-base (we've already expressed our lady-boner for Flight of the Conchords), but choosing Yale dropout/clean energy activist Billy Parish, who signs his emails with quotes by MLK? Admirable, but not necessarily a turn-on. More » -
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Is It "Sort Of Egotistical" That Marc Jacobs Wants A Reality Show?
- Marc Jacobs wants a reality show, and Project Runway's Tim Gunn wants it for him. "The whole thing's sort of egotistical, I suppose, but I do find myself entertaining," says Jacobs. And says Gunn, "God knows Marc has a fascinating life, and he looks great. I'd watch." Well, if it has Tim's vote... [NY Mag]
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Viva Humps
- All that time spent workin' on her fitness pays yet another dividend: Fergie is the latest MAC Viva Glam spokesperson. [WWD, 1st item]
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fun with favors
Hmmm you know how Cate Blanchett is always wearing some Armani dress or another on the red carpet? Well — whoah! coincidence alert! — now Giorgio himself has cut a big fat check for the Sydney Theatre Company, which Blanchett and her husband oversee, making him the company's official "patron." His gift is apparently the largest ever made to a non-profit arts organization in Australia. Um, how much competition is he up against for that distinction? [Sydney Morning Herald] -
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Is Britney Spears Actually Getting It Together?
- Britney Spears missed her first supervised visit with her sons this weekend because she mistakenly thought her house had been broken into. No, we don't know why. Also: Nothing about her surprises us anymore. [Page Six]















































