• dirt bag

    Ellen To Mariah: Admit It, You're Knocked Up

    • Did Ellen DeGeneres try to trick Mariah Carey into admitting she's pregnant? Mariah was a guest on Ellen's show, and after Ellen asked and got a vague response, she busted out the champagne, saying, "You don't have to answer that. Let's just toast with champagne." Mariah got flustered and said, "I can't believe you did this to me, Ellen," and pretended to sip the bubbly. Knocked up? [Yahoo News via E!]
    • Someone's not pregnant: Sarah Jessica Parker in the Sex And The City sequel. Carrie won't be having a kid. "It doesn't seem as if that's going to be a choice she'll make… Michael (Patrick King, director) and I never talk about it. That doesn't mean that won't be part of the story. We just haven't figured it out. It feels a little bit manipulative to toss that into the mix, because she seems so pointed in a different direction." [Daily Express]
    • Kanye West and hot hot model Sessilee Lopez: Is it on? [The Sun]
    • Madonna has hired a specialist to help her "exorcise the memories" of her ex-husband, Guy Ritchie, from her home. The technique seems to involve throwing shit away. [Mirror]
    • Madonna and A-Rod are in Miami together right now, having just landed in a private jet. [TMZ]
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    There's More To Vicky Cristina Barcelona Than Just A Threesome

    Woody Allen's latest film, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, might not be the return to the earlier, more beloved Allen comedies that critics continue to drool over, but it sounds like it's still worth the price of admission. The film follows two American friends, Vicky (Rebecca Hall) and Cristina (Scarlett Johansson) as they vacation together in (you guessed it) Barcelona. While there, they meet the handsome Spanish artist Juan Antonio (Javier Bardem) and his suicidal artist ex-wife, Maria Elena (Penelope Cruz) and engage in various love-triangles revolving around the Spanish stud, including a three-way that actually isn't that big of a deal. But aside from gorgeous actors and scenery, how does the film fare with critics? Pretty well, actually. Read the reviews after the jump. More »
  • Rag Trade

    Diane Von Furstenberg, Woman of Letters, "The Jet Set."

    • Diane Von Furstenberg: writer. The wrap doyenne's gonna "pen" a column for Departures, the high-falutin American Express travel magazine. "The designer and Council of Fashion Designers of America president will start writing about her jet-set life starting with the magazine's November/December issue." Let's hope she doesn't make yet another investigation of "how to pack" her inaugural column. [WWD]
    • Penelope Cruz for Mango. Yes, she looks stunning. [FabSugar]
    • Ew. Harper's Bazaar has shot the Ronsons (DJs, LiLo lovers, designers and socialites) as Wes Anderson's eccentric Tenenbaum clan. They wish! [Harpers Bazaar]
    • Outspoken ass Roberto Cavalli describes models thus: "For me, models are just pieces of wood that I carve to make clothes look beautiful," goes on to trash Kate, Naomi. Bad enemies, Cavalli. [NY Mag]
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    Angelina Jolie In Negotiations To Replace Tom Cruise In Spy Flick

    • Screenwriter Kurt Wimmer is rewriting the script of a spy thriller called Edwin A. Salt: It was supposed to star Tom Cruise and now Angelina Jolie is replacing him. Oh, and Angie will also star in an adaptation of the Ayn Rand novel Atlas Shrugged. Next, Angelina will adopt Suri. Unstoppable. [Hollywood Reporter]
    • Uh, apparently Angelina Jolie and porn star Tera Patrick have an e-mail relationship? And have been talking about who should play Catwoman in the next Batman movie? [Page Six]
    • Nikki Blonksy's dad, who's been locked up in a Turks and Caicos jail for over a week, has just been released. He's due to appear in court on August 19 at 9:00 a.m. [ET]
    • Carl Blonsky can't leave the island because authorities have his travel documents. [TMZ]
    • Um, this report says Carl is back in New York. [Page Six]
    • Jake Gyllenhaal is "all bulked up and 'bear' chested for his role in the fantasy flick Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time." No, really, He looks like Conan. [E!]
    • Director Malcolm Lee heard about the deaths of Bernie Mac and Isaac Hayes and was in shock: They're both in his film Soul Men, which opens November 14. "It had to be some sort of bad dream that these two giants would die on the same weekend, and both would be in my movie." Lee says that Mac would entertain the crew and bystanders between takes. "He said, 'These people made me what I am,' " Lee says. "He said that if it weren't for the fans of his stand-up comedy, he wouldn't have the career he had." Samuel L. Jackson is also in the film. [USA Today]
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  • The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly

    Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Take Two: What The... ?

    So, the Sapphic exercise in squirm that is Woody Allen's Vicky Cristina Barcelona has moved east, and last night premiered in the Apple at Cinema 123, sponsored, oddly, by A Diamond is Forever & The Sherry Council (I guess because sherry's Spanish?). And kids, it's bad. I feel almost...betrayed. Javier Bardem, channeling Guys and Dolls; Penelope Cruz, channeling Grizabella the Glamour Cat, and Nicole Miller, channeling Stella's garbage bag design from Project Runway. The Good, the Bad, and the Hefty, after the jump! More »

  • The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly

    Elegy Premiere Partygoers Were Fashion Don'ts

    Last night, Glamour and the Film Society sponsored a screening of the indie film Elegy at the Tribeca Grand Screening Room. And I think you know, and I know, that because this was a Glamour event (editor Cindi Leive with Penelope Cruz, pictured at left) we are left no alternative but to subject Penelope, Patricia Clarkson, Eva Amurri, Cynthia Rowley, Debbie Harry and more to the magazine's "Do's and Don'ts" treatment — after the jump! More »
  • The Good, The Bad & The Ugly

    The Premiere Of Vicky Cristina Barcelona: Suspect Movie, Great Red Carpet

    As we all know, Vicky Cristina Barcelona features Woody Allen's dirty old man sapphic fantasy pairing of Scarlett Johannson and Penelope Cruz (and didn't I read that there's a threesome with Javier Bardem in there, too?). But however unappealing the thought of his directing said sex scenes, the casting of such actresses pretty much guarantees some good red carpet looks. In fact, the whole assemblage - which also included Salma Hayek, Debi Mazar and, awesomely, astronaut Buzz Aldrin - looked pretty damn good; I wouldn't even say there were any true "Bads"! Well, unless you count the flick. The Good, The Bad & The Ugly, after the jump. More »