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Marie Claire: This Winter, Accessorize Your Wardrobe With Adderall
The cover of the December Marie Claire promises a lot but delivers little. Think you're going to find out what turns Jennifer Connelly on? Her cop-out interview is merely a two-page list of her likes, most likely taken off the "Interests" and "Activities" section on her Facebook page (assuming she has one). Expecting a comprehensive review of this year's issues concerning sexism? Psych! Here's a small paragraph and lots of pictures! There's also an article about taking ADD/ADHD drugs without a prescription to increase productivity that pretty much does everything but explicitly command you to take them. (Not surprisingly, the article fails to answer the question on the cover "Can popping a pill get you promoted?" Sigh.) In this installment of Cover Lies, find out what other empty promises Marie Claire has in store for us this month. More »

2:00 PM on Tue Nov 18 2008
By Cheryl Campbell
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Rag Trade
Fashion Icon Sarah Jessica Parker Goes On Exhibit
- In an apparent attempt to rob the Costume Institute of gravitas, Sarah Jessica Parker will be doing the audio commentary for the Met's latest exhibit. The SATC tour bus frantically adds a stop. [ElleUK]
- Says the curator, “Walking through the galleries listening to Sarah Jessica Parker’s narration will bring a sense of discovery and delight to the experience.” [WWD]
- Prince Charles is apparently inspiring British menswear! [FT]
- Having watched Stylista, we're sure Christy Turlington is eminently qualified to be a Marie Claire editor. [Fashionista]
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11:30 AM on Mon Nov 10 2008
By Sadie
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The Week That Was
We Just Want The Next President To Come On Down Already
- Only a few more days until the election, and Barack Obama is doing us a solid by appearing with two of our favorites: Rachel Maddow and Jon Stewart.
- You know who is so not our favorite? Former Ms. editor turned turned Palin proponent Elaine Lafferty.
- John McCain is also on our shit list for his female-unfriendly health plan.
- However, we are totally in love with this Price Is Right-inspired Marie Claire fashion spread. Childhood nostalgia come on down!
- But truly, nothing says nostalgia like these pictures of our childhood Halloween costumes.
- Also making us nostalgic: thinking about raiding our moms' closets.
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6:30 PM on Fri Oct 31 2008
By Jessica
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Marie Claire's "Price Is Bright" Spread Will Make You Squeal Like A Game Show Contestant
Only those closest to me know about my undying, very real, incredibly true love for The Price Is Right. As a kid, I spent summers at my grandfather's house and watched Bob Barker every single day, spreading joy and an uncanny knowledge for the retail cost of Mr. Clean. When I stumbled upon the "Price Is Bright" photo shoot in the November issue of Marie Claire, I gasped like I'd just spun the big wheel and landed on a dollar. It's amazing! Pictures and commentary after the jump. More »

5:00 PM on Tue Oct 28 2008
By Dodai
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winging it
Dear Marie Claire Dude Blogger, Please Make Us Your Wing-Women
Dear Marie Claire Blogger Rich Santos, We loved your recent post, "What I Learned From Stalking Katie Holmes," in which you mention your need for a wing-woman, someone capable of "managing my public relations by putting me in a great light." You're so charming, from your fresh, unstereotypical observations in "8 Ways I'm Like a Woman" to your sensitive portrayal of stalking, that we can't imagine why you can't get women on your own. But if you really need a wing-woman, we really hope you pick her from the Jezebel staff! More »

5:40 PM on Fri Oct 24 2008
By Anna N.
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cover lies
No One Told Marie Claire Life Was Gonna Be This Way
This month, 71-year-old Marie Claire took a long hard look in the mirror and realized it's starting to look its age. You'd think the natural aging process wouldn't be such a concern for the magazine that prides itself on being "more than a pretty face," but apparently "more" refers not to smarts, but a liberal dose of Botox. In a cover story that reads like dispatches from the cougar lounge, Courteney Cox throws back cosmos, laments that the scrawny rocker boy at the next table probably wouldn't get with her, spots Samantha Ronson across the room, and meets up with Jennifer Aniston to dish about various body parts suddenly suffering from "dryness." Read on for the November installment of Marie Claire Cover Lies, in which we delve deeper into the sick sad world of the "Aging Cutie." More »

1:00 PM on Fri Oct 24 2008
By Intern Margaret
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Photoshop Of Horrors In the September 2008 issue of an international edition of Marie Claire, some of the staff at the top of the masthead — creative director, photo director, deputy editor, associate editor, acting features director — posed for a photo in what looks like the office conference room. They all look fresh-faced and wrinkle-free. However, as Photoshop Disasters points out, the reflection in the conference room table suggests a different reality. (Click on photo to enlarge.) [Photoshop Disasters] MORE »

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Loose Lips Perhaps Courteney Cox looks like a "dazed zombie" on the cover of Marie Claire because she had some bad Botox at some point! The erstwhile Friends star tells MC, "You have to use it sparingly…It's not that I haven't tried Botox — but I hated it." • In these difficult economic times, it's comforting to know that Lauren Conrad can still afford a brand new $118,000 Audi R8. • Former high school dropout Christian Slater got his GED recently because he wanted to set a positive example for his two kids, Jaden, 9, and Eliana, 7. "I obviously care for them to get an education, and I want them to take it seriously, so I am going to have to do something," Slater says. [Us, TMZ, got his GED]

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Loose Lips The Los Angeles County DA has decided to not file felony charges against Kanye West and his bodyguard for a previous altercation with the paparazzi at LAX. However, Kanye may get a misdemeanor charge. • DJ AM has been released from Doctors Hospital in Georgia and is presumably on his way back to Los Angeles. • Not-so-unexpected-news: It has reportedly been confirmed that Marie Claire will sponsor the next season of Project Runway on Lifetime in Los Angeles. • Wait, Project Runway is now not going to Lifetime? It seems NBC Uni has won its case against the Weinstein Company. [Perez, TMZ, NY Mag, TV Week]

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coverlies
October Marie Claire: Cigs For Lindsay, Skydiving For Newlyweds, And Botox For All Ages
Interviewer Lucy Kaylin doesn't really get all that much out of Lindsay Lohan in this month's Marie Claire (surprise!), but she sure does love to watch LiLo smoke. Lindsay puts her cigarette out in a cup of brown liquid. She flicks her ash into a baked potato. At one point Kaylin even likens Lindsay's fingers to cigarettes. Possibly our intrepid MC operative recently quit smoking? Luckily she resisted the urge to light up Lohan's thumb long enough to get her take on the nickname LiLo: "Whatever — it's fine. I know my real name." More on Linds, beginner Botox, skydiving couples, and Nina Garcia, as we rewrite Marie Claire's headlines after the jump. More »

1:00 PM on Thu Sep 18 2008
By Anna N.
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