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The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly
Loose Lips
Audrina Patridge, the Hills' resident mute, makes $10,000 per public appearance. When's that Jezebel reality show coming through? [Be careful what you wish for. -Ed.] • Olivia Newton-John married "entrepreneur" John Easterling over the weekend in their native Australia. They're probably getting physical, physical all over the Barrier Reef. • Jennifer Hudson's new album cover: Photoshopped or not? [TMZ, Us, Dlisted]
the good, the bad & the ugly
BET Awards Brought Out The Best Red Carpet Fashions Of 2008
The Oscars were a snooze. The MTV Movie Awards were a disgrace. The Bravo A-Lists were a farce. Thank God for the BETs. A great red carpet is made up of elegance, panache, star power and just a pinch of exhibitionism. And the BET Awards, held at LA's Shrine Auditorium last night, had it all, kids. Rihanna, Jennifer Hudson, Terrence Howard, Alicia Keys, Gabrielle Union, Jordin Sparks and more stars than there are in the heavens...all after the jump.
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rag trade
Vivienne Westwood Never Gets Her Knickers In A Twist
- Vivienne Westwood rules for many reasons; here's reason number 1,457: when the designer received honors of British ranking at Buckingham Palace in the '90s, she went “knickerless on both occasions.” [The Star]
- Proenza Schouler is teaming up with Guiseppe Zanotti to expand its line of footwear. I’m crossing my fingers that the prices won’t be unbearable, because this news excites me more than you know. [Elle UK]
- This is the stuff nightmares are made of. Photographer Nick Knight plans to create 3-D images of a 30-foot Naomi Campbell. “He has scanned Naomi 'straddling the barrel of a large tank' to form one sculpture, and another is envisioned as a 'circle of three Naomis, like The Three Graces.'" Please, people, stop encouraging this woman's egomania. [Fashionologie]
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Ellen & Portia: So Happy, So Gay, So Getting Married
- Ellen DeGeneres is so psyched about the California Supreme Court ruling regarding gay marriage that she's gonna get hitched to longtime love Portia de Rossi. Woohoo! It would be kind of awesome if they did it on TV. And then danced! [TMZ]
- Pregnant Angelina Jolie will be looking "sexy" on the July cover of Vanity Fair; she was shot by Patrick Demarchelier. Wonder if he'll have her Photoshopped? [Page Six]
- Click here if you need info on Angelina's tattoos. [Sydney Morning Herald]
- Angelina will probably give birth in France, FYI. [USA Today]
- Angelina's dad Jon Voight is all riled up over Israel: "God gave this land to the Jewish people; they shouldn't be giving it away," he says. But, um, Voight is not Jewish. [Mirror]
- "If I punched every bitch who called me fat, it would be dead bitches all up and down the highway." — Star Jones. [Page Six]
sux in the city
Sex And The City Really Is Full Of (Expensive) Shit
Question: Is Sex and the City in on the joke? According to WWD, in the upcoming film version of the HBO series, Carrie Bradshaw questions her assistant (played by Jennifer Hudson) about just how she affords a slew of designer accessories on an assistant's salary. [I'd like to see the assistant ask the same thing of Carrie 'I'm a writer in New York' Bradshaw. -Ed.] The assistant's answer? The bag-renting website Bag, Borrow, or Steal. Our answer? Sex and the City is not in on the joke — it's just found another way to land a corporate sponsor! And clearly, striking some strategic branding deals with fashion designers in exchange for costuming credits wasn't good enough. More »
winners & losers
Do The Oscars Really Need A "Best Actress" Category?
In today's Guardian, writer Sarah Churchwell rails against the "apartheid" categories of Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress at the Academy Awards. "We still segregate entertainment awards along gender lines," she muses. "Imagine the uproar if we had Oscars for best performance by a black man in a supporting role, or best leading performance by a Jew." Churchwell argues that our society thinks women are only good at looking pretty and making others look pretty; hence women tend to win the costume design and makeup awards, but rarely those for best picture or screenwriting. Since Oscars began in 1928, a woman has never won Best Director. But, Churchwell explains, "The problem is that awards which do not segregate on the basis of gender tend to overlook women altogether. There is no Nobel prize for women's literature: women go head to head with men. And they've won 10 times in 107 years." More »
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Oscar Fashion Critic Kimora Lee Simmons Has A Very Limited Vocabulary
As many already know, designer Kimora Lee Simmons covered the red carpet for E!'s Oscar pre-show last night, critiquing fashions (female and male) with Giuliana Rancic. Naturally, we assumed Kimora would repeatedly use the word "fabulous" to describe things, since she did write the book on it, but we had no idea just how limited her stable of adjectives is! (Just like Lucky magazine!) Sure, she's into excess, but Kimora's use of "fabulous" and "elegant" to describe everyone from Jennifer Hudson to Miley Cyrus was a bit much. Clip above.
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. More »
Loose Lips
Jennifer Hudson, Halle Berry and Fantasia Barrino are all being considered for the lead role of an Aretha Franklin biopic that's in the works. Aretha's fave for the part so far? J. Hud all the way. • Is Ellen trying to outdo Oprah in the giving-away-free crap department? Apparently Ellen's 12 Days of Christmas giveaways are to die for. She probably has a lot more cash lying around now that she's not paying those striking writers. • Wanna vote on Rumer Willis's best look? Does she have one to begin with? [MollyGood, WOW, People]
Jennifer Hudson, Halle Berry and Fantasia Barrino are all being considered for the lead role of an Aretha Franklin biopic that's in the works. Aretha's fave for the part so far? J. Hud all the way. • Is Ellen trying to outdo Oprah in the giving-away-free crap department? Apparently Ellen's 12 Days of Christmas giveaways are to die for. She probably has a lot more cash lying around now that she's not paying those striking writers. • Wanna vote on Rumer Willis's best look? Does she have one to begin with? [MollyGood, WOW, People]
rag trade
Halloween Hagyness Looks Just Like Misshapes Hagyness!
- Model Agyness Deyn and designer Henry Holland went as Mr. and Mrs. Beetlejuice for Halloween. They did their own makeup. [Vogue UK]
- Jennifer Hudson on Vogue editor-at-large/hideous capelet advocate Andre Leon Talley: "I was like André, you don't have a cell phone? André, you don't e-mail? He's like, 'I don't e-mail honey, I don't do that,' I was like, 'No, no, no, we have to get that together." [Fashion Week Daily]
- Jacob "Jacob the Jeweler" Arabov has pleaded guilty to the charges of falsifying records and lying to a federal agent during a drug investigation. We hope all that ice can buy a man a carton of cigarettes in the big house. [WWD, sub req'd]
rag trade
Marc Jacobs To Host Aladdin-Themed Halloween Party
- Those invited to Marc Jacobs' annual holiday costume party (aka - not us) need to start preparing their costumes now. The theme has finally been announced! "Arabian Nights." We double-dare someone to go as Edward Said. [WWD, 2nd item]
- The most important movie of all time, the Sex and the City movie, shot at the offices of the most important magazine of all time, Vogue. My god, how did the world not combust when these two forces joined powers? Also, Anna Wintour will not be appearing in the movie. But Andre Leon Talley will! And we hope that Jennifer Hudson, who is playing Carrie Bradshaw's assistant in the movie, manages to restrain herself re: that whole idiotic bolero-from-Mars thingy he made her wear to the Oscars. [WWD, 1st item]
- Why we love Barneys New York's Creative Director Simon Doonan, reason #482: "Everyone in the music industry looks like a hooker. Let's call it porno-chic. It seems to me nowadays that Janis Joplin wouldn't be able to get her clog in the door without a full makeover!" [Fashion Week Daily]
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Lindsay Lohan, Cocaine Kleptomaniac
- Jackass star Steve-O says Lindsay Lohan once stole a bag of cocaine from him. Maybe she also took pants? And put the cocaine in the pocket? [Page Six]
- Larry David denies that he is happier since his wife left. "I am not now, nor have I ever been, 'happy,'" he claims. [Page Six]
- Usher's fragrance is doing well, according to a woman who works the perfume counter of the Brooklyn Macy's. [Gatecrasher]
- Does Christy Turlington have Lyme disease? "She's going to be fine, says a friend. [Gatecrasher, 3rd item]
- Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt: Committing to building homes in New Orleans, educating children, making the rest of us look bad. [Rush & Molloy, last item]
*Inspired by Shirley MacLaine's assertion that the best parts for actresses fall into one of the above categories. Well, it's not exactly the role of the Black Best Friend, but it's close! Oscar-winner Jennifer Hudson will be playing second fiddle to Sarah Jessica Parker in the film version of Sex And The City, reports Variety. Hudson, who won an Oscar for her role in Dreamgirls, has been cast as the assistant to Parker's Carrie Bradshaw character. Maybe the film's producers figured out that when setting a story in New York City you've got to actually show some people of color? [Variety]
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Britney's Performance: Are Frozen Margaritas And Poorly Made Boots To Blame?
- Britney Spears showed up for her comeback at the MTV Awards "late, unprepared, and with a drink in her hand." She was also supposed to be lifted and twirled by the dancers, but refused. And she was supposed to be wearing a corset. [Page Six]
- Also, Britney's boot had a broken heel — could that be why she stumbled? [ONTD]
- And OMG did Britney's hairstylist quit right before the performance, leaving her with jacked-up extensions? [E!]
- While Mommy was "working," Daddy Kevin Federline threw a birthday party for Jayden James and Sean Preston. [People]
