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• Some of Alexander McQueen's friends say that his suicide was not entirely unexpected. A few days before the death of his mother, he declared in a meeting that he "wasn't interested in making fashion anymore, that he hated it." [ToL]

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Graydon Carter's bete noire, the adaptation of Toby Young's How to Lose Friends and Alienate People (a thinly veiled account of the author's misadventures at a Vanity Fair-like glossy) is here. Or, anyway, in London, where it premiered last night at The Empire Leicester Square. I'll just put it out there: the clothes were not good. Gillian Anderson continued her maternity-fueled winning streak, Martin Freeman and date looked cute, and there was just enough British eccentricity to keep things afloat — but barely. Some frump, some dowd, some tack and a heaping helping of Fug, after the jump! More »
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Kirsten Dunst: drunk with power! According to author and screenwriter Toby Young, Dunst had him banned from the set of the film he wrote, How To Lose Friends and Alienate People. Young said, "[Dunst] overheard me giving the producer a 'note' on her performance in a particular scene…Kirsten overheard this exchange and interpreted it as a complaint about her acting ability. It was after this, apparently, that she took Bob [Weide, director] to one side and asked if I could be kept at arm's length in future." • Uh, I guess there were rumors floating around that Paris Hilton is pregnant? Well she's not. Hooray! • Drudge is reporting that Oprah is vehemently against hosting Sarah Palin on her show. Apparently Oprah has blocked people in the past — notably Clarence Thomas — from her show before. [Perez, Mirror, Drudge] More »
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One of the things that stuck in my craw about the Sarah Jessica Parker profile in New York Mag was when SJP claimed that Carrie didn't care about Big's money. "I really don't think that money was a criteria," Parker told writer Emily Nussbaum. "It never would have occurred to her to take money from a man." British writer and Candace Bushnell buddy argues that Carrie does indeed care about money. In fact, she and the other SatC heroines care so much about money that, Young writes, "once you remove the pixie dust of female camaraderie, contemporary New York emerges as an essentially pre-feminist society in which the courtship rituals are strikingly similar to those depicted in the novels of Jane Austen." More »
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*Inspired by Shirley MacLaine's assertion that the best parts for actresses fall into one of the above categories. More »
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