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- Elizabeth Olsen covers Nylon: bad styling and/or too much Photoshop?
- Will Sam Worthington be any good in ‘Man on a Ledge’?
- Sister Wives premiere: their kids are really hurting and it feels exploitative
- Carrie Underwood debuts new, stiff bangs: bangs trauma or bangs fabulous?
- Linnocent is “authentic, talented, beautiful” says Philipp Plein
- Christina Hendricks in leopard-print St. John: too sexy or too covered-up?
- Zara Phillips’s husband Mike Tindall’s cheating scandal gets worse
- Kim Delaney gets booted for awkward speech: drunk and can’t read the teleprompter?
- Paris Hilton manages to make a traditional Indian sari look trashy
- Lea Michele’s feelings were hurt when Sarah Hyland mocked her pose-harding
Elizabeth Olsen covers Nylon: bad styling and/or too much Photoshop? Posted: 26 Sep 2011 09:41 AM PDT Elizabeth “Lizzie” Olsen, little sister to Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen), covers the October issue of Nylon. While the cover itself isn’t terrible (by Nylon standards), I’m feeling entirely underwhelmed by the photoshoot within, which is a shame because the magazine did a pretty good job last month with Christina Ricci’s shoot. Where Lizzie is concerned, however, the styling is pretty awful and favors animal print pants and cutoffs and leggings paired with boxy blazers. Even more troubling than the styling is the fact that the photographs themselves are so heavily airbrushed that Olsen has been rendered virtually unrecognizable from both candid shots and film stills of Martha Marcy May Marlene, which is the movie being promoted here:
Hmm. So Lizzie Olsen is being touted as the “next Jennifer Lawrence,” which seems rather premature at best and also a somewhat useless comparison, since Lawrence herself is still taking her own first steps in Hollywood. Still, it’s something of a compliment and testament to indie stars breaking into mainstream film, even though Lizzie may not be interested in becoming an A-lister. She tells GQ that she grew up watching her sisters endure paparazzi hell, which is a huge reason that she became interested in smaller films. Lizzie also discussed Martha Marcy May Marlene’s “most unnerving scene,” which shows her completely nude as part of a sex ritual with several cult men; she says she had no problem doing the nudity: “The movie wouldn’t have been as disturbing without it. Taking away someone’s sexuality, making it something you don’t even own anymore–that’s the scariest thing.” The movie will receive a limited release by Fox Searchlight on October 21, but I’m betting that all of the buzz will result in a wider release if the box office cooperates. Photos courtesy of Nylon |
Will Sam Worthington be any good in ‘Man on a Ledge’? Posted: 26 Sep 2011 08:41 AM PDT As many have said before, Hollywood is really trying to make Sam Worthington happen. I used to be opposed to it, but after I saw his understated, dramatic supporting part in The Debt, I'm not so opposed to him anymore. Sure, in interviews he can seem like a meathead. But he might be a meathead with some quiet talent, a meathead who is making some interesting career choices. Take his new movie, Man on a Ledge, which we saw photos from last year. The basic story line: an ex-con climbs out on a ledge and claims that he's innocent, and he was railroaded, and chaos ensues. It's one of the rare "modern" stories that Sam has been a part of thus far in his career, and while I'm sure it will be billed as a star vehicle designed to make Sam "happen" - it actually looks like a decent ensemble. The directed added quite a bit of weight in the supporting cast, with Ed Harris, Kyra Sedgwick, Elizabeth Banks, Jamie Bell, Anthony Mackie and Edward Burns. Here's the new trailer: I kind of hate to admit that the trailer gave me some goosebumps. Things that I like: the production value can be seen - it looks like a smart, expensive film that actually filmed in NYC (which it did); I like the hints at the storyline, and I like that I can't figure out the entire thing from the trailer. And I have to say, Sam doesn't look too bad either. I can't figure out if the character is supposed to have an Aussie accent, though. I actually think the character is supposed to be American, which… Sam has problems with. So, will you help Sam "happen" and see this film in January? I might. |
Sister Wives premiere: their kids are really hurting and it feels exploitative Posted: 26 Sep 2011 08:35 AM PDT
Later, Robyn went on to explain why this was significant to all the wives, since it reminded them that she was screwing Kody too. It was dumb and obvious, but that’s Robyn.
Robyn narrated later “It’s still a little bit difficult to me to know that someone is having a hard time with something that’s so wonderful to me.”
Janelle had a great job back in Utah, and she explained that “I’m no longer working, we are living with finite resources at this point. I’ve always identified with my career.” Everyone’s resources are “finite,” but these people must be doing pretty well to rent four sweet houses like that.
They visited a Presbyterian church to ask if their kids to go to have “fellowship” there with other teens, even though they’re Mormon, and Christine objected that it didn’t feel right to her because it wasn’t their church. The pastor was really nice to them about it though.
They later had a pool party for the teenager’s friends. We kind of covered that earlier. Poor Hunter stayed up in his room the whole time, but he went over to Christine’s house at one point to visit with his little one year-old half sister Truely. That cheered him up. My take on this whole Sister Wives situation is that we’re no longer looking at a polygamist family working together, we’re looking at a reality show family in which the relationships and the children have been permanently affected by the fame and coverage that goes along with that. This 14 year-old kid is sitting up in his room after being uprooted from his hometown and his friends. He surely doesn’t want to be filmed on top of that and he has no say in that! It’s sad for the kids first of all, and it’s sad for the wives in a way. I really like the original three wives, Christine, Meri and Janelle. They had a nice balance worked out between them before the move. Robyn screwed everything up, but so did the cameras. This isn’t a Kate Plus 8 situation because these kids knew life before the cameras came. It’s clear that they really miss it too. Screencaps via Pacific Coast News |
Carrie Underwood debuts new, stiff bangs: bangs trauma or bangs fabulous? Posted: 26 Sep 2011 08:04 AM PDT When bangs-lovers or bangs-havers yell at me for getting so frustrated and critical over the state of bangs-centric hairstyles currently invading celebrity women's foreheads these days, one of the most common comebacks is often, "Some people NEED bangs." I disagree on that point, almost always. You have to have a particular kind of face, or a particular kind of forehead issue to make real, honest-to-goodness BANGS work. I'm not talking about some little pieces around your face to add some depth - I'm talking about full-blown bangs (trauma), with the currently popular thick, blunt-cut bangs that go past a lady's eyebrows. My point is almost always: "Look at how much these women look without bangs." Look at Lea Michele before and after bangs - she looks so much better without. Look at Christina Hendricks, Rihanna, Reese Witherspoon, Jennifer Lopez, and Penelope Cruz, and tell me that all of them don't look so much better withOUT bangs. My point? It takes a certain kind of face to make bangs look better. So these are new photos of Carrie Underwood debuting her new bangs over the weekend. Does she pull it off? Well… they're not the too-thick bangs that are currently going around - these are more old-school, more "country/western" bangs that look flat-ironed and stiff. This is a look that many Southern ladies still do. For comparison, this was Carrie's last hairstyle: She had some shorter piece up front to add depth, and… in my opinion, that hairstyle was so, so much better. These bangs ruin her very pretty face. They're also too long and too stiff, by the way. |
Linnocent is “authentic, talented, beautiful” says Philipp Plein Posted: 26 Sep 2011 07:32 AM PDT There are just so many photos of Linnocent in Milan and Como right now. I'm trying to find ones that I didn't use yesterday, just so you get a better idea of just how busted and tragic Linnocent looks while "modeling". If you'd like to see yesterday's photos, go here. Radar has some better-quality photos of Linnocent's "photo shoot" for Philipp Plein here as well. In these photos, you'll see Linnocent at the photo shoot (red outfit, and white gown), Linnocent at the AmFar event (black sleeveless dress), and Linnocent at the photo call announcement (black cap-sleeved dress, with studs). The Chris Evans-looking dude in some of the photos is Philipp Plein. He's actually a nice looking guy, and he doesn't appear to be a raging crackhead, so I don't know what to tell you. Maybe he's got a thing for stunt queens. Maybe he himself is a stunt queen. Here's something interesting, though: Page Six claims that Linnocent hadn't even met Plein before she was hired. How did she get this "job" if not from performing another "job"?!?
[From Page Six] Much like the Chinese fortune cookie game where you add "in bed" to your fortune, I think every statement about Linnocent should be finished with "for a crackhead." As in, "For me she's authentic, she's talented, she's beautiful… for a crackhead." We could also add "I'm just a drama queen, crackhead loser, so…" to all of Linnocent's own quotes. As in, "I'm just a drama-queen crackhead loser so… I think maybe people's perceptions of me have been kind of taken out of context just from what you see and read." More photos of the beautiful, talented, AUTHENTIC crackie. Note the "powder" stains, note the crack lips, note the double chin, note the crack weave, note how every single thing about her is totally busted. |
Christina Hendricks in leopard-print St. John: too sexy or too covered-up? Posted: 26 Sep 2011 06:59 AM PDT Yesterday, Christina Hendricks wore this animal-print (leopard?) St. John dress to two events, the premiere of IRIS (the Cirque du Soleil film) and a luncheon benefit for the Rape Treatment Center. Is this dress capable of going from day to night on its own? Well… kind of. I think it probably works better as an evening party dress, something cute for a premiere or something, and maybe it's a bit too sexy for a luncheon. Still, I can't tell if it's the dress that's sexy or if it's just Christina. It's an interesting dress on Christina because it manages to show off her hourglass figure without having her boobs spilling out - usually Christina can only manage one thing at once, and God knows, she loves for her boobs to spill out. I kind of like her in an animal print, and I like the cut of this dress - on her. Her makeup looks especially good too - because Christina often looks too garish and clown-like like she gets really made up. Also: is she wearing a wiglet? The back part of her hair looks… odd. I think she's wearing a hairpiece, like Adele does (probably the same shade of red too). More photos from the premiere of IRIS- Vanessa Hudgens in a boho dress. It's cute on her, and her hair is looking better. And Cindy Crawford, whose face is looking better, IMO. The swelling and "frozen" look has eased up, and I can see some of her old, normal face again. |
Zara Phillips’s husband Mike Tindall’s cheating scandal gets worse Posted: 26 Sep 2011 06:28 AM PDT Less than two weeks ago, Mike Tindall was outed as a cheater. He just got married this summer to Zara Phillips, daughter of Princess Anne and granddaughter of the Queen. Mike was "caught" with a busty blonde in New Zealand - there was video of the blonde and Mike flirting, kissing, nuzzling and more at a bar. Mike was in New Zealand for the Rugby World Cup games, and the cheating incident occurred before Zara, his wife, traveled to New Zealand to meet up with him. When the news broke, Zara continued with her plans to meet him, and they did a few photo-ops in which they looked kind of grumpy, but like she has probably "forgiven" him. But it's gotten worse. There are new photos (screen caps from a video) of Mike flirting and getting sexy with the SAME blonde on the same night. He took his side-piece to a second location!
[From The Mail] Well, at least it's not a new girl, and at least the photos and video were taken the same liquor-soaked night. I'm not saying it's a good situation - but the damage is more containable if you use the excuse of "It was just one really bad night." I do feel sorry for Zara, though. She and Mike dated for years without this kind of exposure and press, and now that they're married, they've found themselves under a microscope like never before. I wonder if Zara is thinking, "Damn, he might have been screwing around on me all of this time." Because he probably was, and he just got away with it because no one cared. |
Kim Delaney gets booted for awkward speech: drunk and can’t read the teleprompter? Posted: 26 Sep 2011 05:30 AM PDT
I’m kind of torn as to whether I should feel sorry for her. I know I should be making fun of her for being a drunken fool at a prestigious event like this, but maybe she was really nervous about speaking at this event she was in no way qualified to speak at and got wasted to cope. Given her record of rehab stays and a DUI, it’s probably just another Thursday night for her though. Delaney got fired from CSI Miami in 2002, and rumor has it that her alcoholism was to blame. |
Paris Hilton manages to make a traditional Indian sari look trashy Posted: 26 Sep 2011 05:28 AM PDT Depressing news for anyone who likes India, or is Indian, or has a passing interest in India: Paris Hilton has infected Mumbai. Apparently, Paris was invited on a multi-day holiday (working holiday) to Mumbai, where she made an appearance at a mall, went to a party in her honor, and unveiled her new purse line. I guess it makes sense for American non-celebrities like Paris to attempt a platform, a fan base, in a huge potential market like India. It's the same as a celebrity shilling their stuff in China. But I'm still disappointed that India let Paris Hilton in. Not only that, Mumbai businesses seemed to welcome her with open arms. Personally, I think the businesses should have held out for a Kardashian if they really wanted a famewhore "celebrity". (Full disclosure: I'm half-Indian by the way, and my dad is living in Calcutta/Kolkata right now, so Paris's stench might have already reached him.) Anyway, these are some photos from Paris's trip. The outfit that really interested me is the faux-sari she wore to her purse launch. Look at this thing! I had no idea that it was possible to make a sari look trashy and whorey, but there you go. The traditional sari is loose, just a long sheet of fabric tied in a special way. Paris's sari is all trashed up with a built-in bustier, and the whole thing… just, NO. I suppose I could give her some credit for doing her own twist on a traditional Indian dress, and maybe she did it to be respectful and honor her host country. Or maybe she just whored up an elegant traditional dress that's been around for centuries. Oh, and here she is doing the "Namaste" hand pose. In between sticking out her boobs and motioning to them. BITCH, please. |
Lea Michele’s feelings were hurt when Sarah Hyland mocked her pose-harding Posted: 26 Sep 2011 04:35 AM PDT These are some new photos of Lea Michele at this weekend's event for "Variety's Power of Women" luncheon. Demi Moore and Eva Longoria were the hostesses, but I'm thinking that Lea Michele was a decent "get" for the luncheon. I mean, it's not like Lea just goes to the opening of an envelope, right? Oh, wait, she does? Nevermind. Anyway, Lea's dress is Katherine Kidd… it's okay. Not stunning. Looks sort of like an oversized baby doll dress. Like, literally, for a doll. And I'm so over Lea's hair. I wish she would go back to no-bangs. Anyway, did you hear about this completely dumb controversy about Lea's pose-harding? Little Sarah Hyland, the 20-year-old, Mila Kunis-look-alike actress from Modern Family, was on an episode of Fashion Police a few weeks ago, and when Sarah and the group (which included Joan Rivers and Guiliana Rancic) began discussing a recent red carpet appearance by Lea Michele, Hyland started joking around and imitating Lea's always-overboard pose-harding. Here's the video: If you've ever seen video of Lea posing, you know that Hyland was totally underplaying it. Now, as for whether or not Hyland was being rude… eh. I mean, yes, it was sort of rude, but it's also funny and pleasantly bitchy (not full-blown bitchy). Anyway, Hyland was attacked by rabid Glee-fans on Twitter, and then on the Emmys red carpet, Hyland tried to half-apologize (but not really) for mocking Lea. If I remember correctly, Hyland even did her Lea impression again, which is kind of awesome. And then Hyland was criticized all over again, to which she tweeted, “I did not intend for my comments to be taken in a malicious way. But I did hate [her] dress. Called her ass great. Did you all hear that one?" And then: "Congrats Lea. You know how to work the red carpet. I can’t take it as seriously as you. I can’t take myself that seriously. I don’t like the red carpet. I feel silly. So props to her for knowing what she’s doing and enjoying it." So… Lea has finally spoken about this epic catastrophe. At this Variety event, Lea told Us Weekly, “I gotta be honest. It hurt my feelings a little bit. I really think the message of today is that women should motivate and empower women, and so that's why I’m honored to be a part of today.” Oh for the love of God. And then Lea wept hyper-dramatic tears and sang a few bars of "Mister Cellophane" and continued to Us Weekly, "I send her love. I think she’s a great person.” So… there you go. Lea Michele and Sarah Hyland hate each other. MEAN GIRLS. |
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