| Rosie Huntington-Whiteley in a ‘Valley of the Dolls’ shoot: lovely or ridiculous? Posted: 05 Dec 2011 09:05 AM PST 
Rosie Huntington-Whiteley covers the December issue of Harper’s Bazaar UK, Kaiser already covered the simultaneous feature in the Harper’s feature on this side of the pond that saw an entirely different photoshoot and confessions of a former Ugly Betty from Rosie’s mouth. Indeed, she’s a bit of a strange duck that has recently declared that all women should save up for $700 Louboutins and is oh-so-carefully weighing all of those offers on the table in order to launch herself as a serious actress. Anyway . . . For the UK edition of the magazine, Rosie was photographed by Tom Munro for two editorial shoots, one simply called “Rosie” (featuring her bod in swimwear) and the other not-so-subtly titled “Valley Of The Dolls” (featuring Rosie looking highly uncomfortable as a 1960s housewife). I don’t deny that her body looks fantastic in the first set of photographs: 
Essentially though, this issue of Harper’s Bazaar UK might as well be titled “The Rosie Issue” instead of “The Body Issue” because they destroyed the impact of Rosie’s bod by letting her speak: On Her Early Modelling Days: “All I kept hearing was ‘Honey, you gotta change this; your hair’s this; your legs are that; you’re not enough this; you’re not enough that; you’re too much this; why are you wearing that?’ And so it was a constant stream of judgement.” On Being a Weirdo: “I was always the girl who would turn up to fashion shows in trainers, flares, a shearling jacket and braids in my hair. I look back and I was really cute, but all the other girls were slick, groomed and elegant, while I’d be backstage drinking a can of beer. It’s a great British thing, but that kind of thing doesn’t go down well in America.” Mario Testino on her appeal: “Rosie can make any outfit look sexy. She’s English and has a very English beauty, but she has a ‘Brazilian body,’ and that’s what makes her so special.” On Living in the U.S.: “I have a different feeling when I come back to England; as soon as I touch down in Heathrow and drive into London and down to Devon, there’s a sense of home and belonging. I will never feel that in America, it doesn’t matter how long I live there – and I’ve come to terms with that. I really am so proud to be British.”
[From Daily Mail] Yes, we all know that modelling is a tough field to succeed in, but for the few who do, the payoffs are immeasurable considering that standing around and looking pretty is the job description. Criticism from all ends is merely part of the deal, so I’m not sure why Rosie feels like she’s spewing some groundbreaking information by talking about the horrible “judgment” factor. If one enters a superficial career field, then one should be prepared to deal with that sort of thing on a constant basis. Nothing new there. Oh, and here’s the second editorial — the “Valley Of The Dolls” spread. Honestly, it’s hard to take this one seriously at all. Mostly, Rosie looks like she watched a “Mad Men” marathon and, as a result, is poorly imitating January Jones’ Betty Draper. And when Jones looks good in comparison, well, Rosie’s acting skills have just hit the wall. 
Photos courtesy of Harper’s Bazaar UK and the Fashion Spot                |
| Kate Gosselin and her new face run the Las Vegas marathon Posted: 05 Dec 2011 09:03 AM PST 
Kate Gosselin was looking stretched, pulled and buffed at the Vegas marathon over the weekend. She recently denied getting a face lift (just like she denied getting a boob job) but I think it’s clear from the before and after shots that she’s either lying or stretching the truth to suit her purposes. She may have lost weight and that’s making her face look different although there’s definitely something different about her eyes. Also, she is not very attractive without makeup. Here’s more about Kate’s big day. She did run a full marathon, so good for her?
Kate Gosselin ran her first marathon Sunday, a grueling 26.2 mile trek through Sin City in the Zappos.com Rock 'n' Roll Marathon at the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. The determined reality star wore a black shirt that read "Finishing Is Winning," and spandex tights for the event that attracted more than 44,000 runners for two races — a full (26.2 mile) and half (13-mile) course. Before posing for pics — including a shot with a pair of showgirls — the 36-year-old beauty took to Twitter to share some of her strategies toward keeping energized for the grueling trek. “Eating lunch… Tiny blueberry scone, apple bran muffin and mac&cheese. Hoping for fuel from these fine carby foods!  ,” the athletic mother-of-eight tweeted to her 65,000+ followers Sunday, adding her “kids are having a marathon party at home while I’m actually running it.”
[From Radar] Oh poor Kate, she’s running a marathon while her kids are partying. I would have been more impressed if she would have managed to stay home with them for three hours instead of barking orders for 20 minutes before leaving to go get a manipedi and a spray tan. She’s probably one of the only people who got paid to run, considering how many photos there are of her beforehand. Angie Everhart was the other big name there, so that tells you something. Oh and Kate’s bodyguard boyfriend, Steve Neild was there too, but there’s no word whether he ran too. I wonder if it was Steve’s idea for Kate to mess with her face. He’s the one who is said to have told her to get a boob job. Once her money starts running out is he going to stick around? 
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| Sarah Jessica Parker say she’s a “realist” about what she looks like: is she? Posted: 05 Dec 2011 08:51 AM PST 
Sarah Jessica Parker gave a lengthy interview to The Telegraph's weekend magazine, Stella. Over the years, I've kind of grown to hate SJP's interviews, which are generally filled with SJ trying much, much too hard to seem relatable and/or super-intellectual. She's neither. This Telegraph piece has some of that too, but this is one of the more subdued pieces I've read with SJP in a while. I'd like to think that she's trying out a new shtick after I Don't Know How She Does It bombed at the box office – the girlish, frenetic "Look at me in this couture, buy these shoes, I don't have a nanny, I swear but I work constantly for you!" thing has worn thin. You can read the full Telegraph piece here, and here are some highlights: Her real life wardrobe and shopping: "anything I can put on quickly and not embarrass my son in." She does not share Carrie's insatiable appetite for shoes, nor her pursuit of material possessions in general. She's already done her Christmas shopping, yet says, ‘I cringe inside when anybody gives me something. I don't know why. I just get embarrassed.' Why she still works non-stop: ‘For me it has been hard to say no [to work]. I wanted a family but before I had a family I was a career person. I've tried to marry those two things and sometimes it is successful and sometimes it is not.' Matthew Broderick does the food shopping: ‘He does lots in the house,' she agrees. ‘He shops for me a lot and he cooks for all of us. There are a lot of things he does better than I do, so it balances itself out. I don't feel taken advantage of. We take care of each other.' A real marriage: ‘We've been together for 20 years and you have good days, you have decent days, and you have bad days. That's a marriage. That's a relationship. That's a friendship, even – relationships outside the marriage run the same course. If you're in it for the long haul and you want meaningful relationships you are going to go through lots of different periods.' On her kids: Parker shudders slightly at the thought of her own children becoming difficult teenagers. She and Broderick have a son, James Wilkie, eight, and two-year-old twins, Marion Loretta Elwell and Tabitha Hodge, known as Kitty and Babe. ‘When James was born the paediatrician called him a hothouse flower,' she says, because he was so delicate. And what did she say of the twins? ‘That one of them was going to look after me and hold my hand at the end and the other one was going to arrange the funeral.' The twins are SJP & Broderick's biological kids: The twins were conceived using eggs that Parker had previously frozen and Broderick's sperm, and carried by a surrogate. She says that she ‘tried and tried and tried' to get pregnant ‘but it just wasn't meant to be in the conventional way'. Was it very different meeting her children rather than giving birth to them? ‘Yes, definitely. You don't know them as well immediately as you do a child you've given birth to. But you do have an immediate love and affection for them and what is instinctual happens.' Going from one kid to three: None the less, ‘going from one to three children is a much bigger adjustment than becoming a mother in the first place. One child in retrospect seems a cake walk compared to where I stand today.' Did it change her marriage? ‘Kids can really distract you from your relationship,' she says. ‘Maybe in good ways and bad ways. It's important to have all eyes on all parts of the relationship. It's something you really have to pay attention to. But you figure it out.' Leaving the newborn twins to film SATC 2 in Morocco: ‘That was rough,' she says. ‘That was really distressing. You just hope that your children are not terrifically disrupted by the choices you make.' Did she instantly know Broderick was the person she would marry? ‘I don't know that I thought about that right away. I met this wonderful person and we wanted to be together. And after a while it became apparent that I wanted to be with him longer than temporarily.' Insecurities: ‘I think insecurities change and evolve as time marches on and new concerns creep up. Children provide a whole new set of concerns. Who knows what I'll be insecure about next week. I always have insecurities. A lot of them about work and how it will be received.' Insecurities about aging: ‘I try to dress appropriately for my age and I'm a realist about what I look like. But if those physical things were my insecurities I'd be thrilled. What wonderful problems. My insecurities are more substantial than that. I worry first and foremost about my children and their health. My husband, and his. I worry about what work opportunities will come up. My own creative satisfaction. How will I pursue things and will the work be good?' On Botox: ‘There are women [in television and in Hollywood] who feel that Botox is necessary, but more and more I don't think it is important for the industry. People want to make movies that are successful, and sometimes they include women and sometimes they don't. I think it's less and less about exterior. At least I hope so.' She smiles. ‘I'm an eternal optimist.'
[From The Telegraph] That's interesting that she confirmed that she's the twins' biological mother too – I don't think she's ever confirmed that, right? Or maybe I just forgot about it. I kind of like how everyone keeps bringing up the fact that she left her newborn twins for months to film SATC 2 – she keeps getting questions about it, ever since she breezed by that fact in a Vogue interview, interspersed with quotes about what a hands-on mom she is. But seriously, isn't this interview one of SJP's better ones? She doesn't seem so cloying and cutesy here. She seems almost real. Except for all the stuff about how she dresses her age (she doesn't) and how she doesn't care about getting dressed up (she cares – A LOT). 
Photos courtesy of Fame.
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| Christina Hendricks covers up in red for ‘Trevor Live’: lovely or boring? Posted: 05 Dec 2011 08:10 AM PST 
Earlier this morning, I covered LeAnn Rimes and Eddie Cibrian's appearance at the Trevor Live event, which benefited The Trevor Project. These are more photos from the event. Let's start with Christina Hendricks in this red/burgundy ensemble. Are you happy, boob-hating bitches? She's covered up. Everything is in its place, her glorious rack isn't falling out. BOOB HATERS. No, really, she looks nice. I don't mind redheads in red, although I think maybe the look would have been slightly better with a lighter lip color. I also love her husband, The Nerd King of Hollywood. I wonder how much respect he gets for marrying such a bombshell? 
In closeups, Fergie looked kind of crazy and cracked-out, but I suspect it's mostly the makeup and the lighting. As for the dress… hate it. Feathery crackhead. 
I approve of Julie Bowen's black leather sheath dress. It suits her, her hair is fine, and she's covering up everything that she needs to cover up. 
Matt Bomer – so pretty. White Collar comes back next month! HUZZAH. 
I like Amber Heard, the bitch can dress and she can work a red carpet, but I feel like this whole look was overkill. She didn't need to wear a gown to this event, and she didn't need to be so overdone with her hair and makeup. And for future red carpets, she shouldn't wear that much eye makeup – she doesn't need it. 
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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| The Virgin Diaries couple on their first time: ‘painful,’ ‘not like the movies’ Posted: 05 Dec 2011 07:56 AM PST
That cringe-inducing show that TLC barely needed to promote, Virgin Diaries, aired last night. We were previously treated to a trailer in which we saw two of the stars share an awkward first kiss at their wedding. It looked like they were trying to eat each other’s faces off astheir family members were watching in embarrassed disbelief. In another clip (above), the giddy virgin couple describe how they’re going to prepare for sex by taking showers and literally disrobing. It’s hard to watch and even worse to imagine. In the show that aired Sunday, we got to hear their disappointment after they did the deed. The groom describes sex as “not like the movies” and the bride says it was “painful.” This is why you need to practice first.
TLC's Virgin Diaries may have been short on sex, but thank God it wasn't short on awkwardness. The Dec. 4 special gave us a peek into the lives of several people who agreed to abstain from any sexual activity before marriage, and while we'd obviously never criticize them for that decision, we will say it probably wasn't the smartest idea to broadcast their first encounters on national television. We were first introduced to a trio of best friends — Lisa, 30, Danielle, 29, and Tamara, 30 — who were so proud of being virgins that they even liked to get together and sing about their decision. But there was something off about their little song… and I'm not just talking about the pitch. Or the harmony. Or the melody. It turns out, one of them wasn't really a virgin! Tamara described herself as a "reclaimed" virgin, which means she has had sex — many many times, actually — but has decided to wipe her slate clean. Because that's something you can just do. Then there was 35-year-old Carey, the only member of the cast who did not choose to remain a virgin — though he probably should have pretended it was a choice, because that would have made his tale way less embarrassing. It was also would have been better if he didn't immediately admit to being a virgin while on a date. Here's a tip for Carey: "I'm not very experienced with women" is not the best pick-up line. In fact, it works… about zero percent of the time. But my favorite couple of the evening, hands down, was Ryan and Shanna, who refused to even kiss before tying the knot. They talked about kissing many times — often while riding the seesaw and giggling like manic toddlers — but it wasn't until their wedding day that the big kiss finally came. And, oh boy, did it come. The minister probably should have said, "You may now devour the bride," because Ryan literally attacked Shanna's face like a snake feasting on a defenseless woodland creature. Their families, as well as the millions of viewers at home, watched in slack-jawed horror as the deed went down. – From Hollywood Life
Contemplating their first night together, Shanna says: ‘I'm a little nervous. Nervous about the actual intercourse I would say. I'm scared.’ Walking hand-in-hand, they talk strategy. ‘I think that you should take a shower first, and then I'll take a shower, and then I'll put on my lingerie, and I'll come into the room,’ Shanna declares. ‘And I’ll have a surprise waiting for you’ interjects Ryan with a smile. Shanna ploughs on with her plans: ‘We'll have our robes on, we'll slowly take our robes off, then do foreplay, and then have sex.’ Ryan then explains that he has never kissed a girl on the lips. ‘We’ve joked about it before, “Oh I really want to kiss you right now”‘ he says, leaning close to Shanna before abruptly pulling away. ‘Oh, nope,’ he laughs… But after losing their virginity together on their wedding night, the couple have mixed reviews about how things went. Speaking candidly, Ryan says: ‘It was good, but not as good as I was expecting,’ adding naively: ‘It was not really like in the movies.’ Leaving no details to spare, Shannin tries to sound positive saying it was an amazing experience – but adds that she found intercourse ‘really painful’. –
[From Hollywood Life & Daily Mail] I’ll be honest, I didn’t watch this trainwreck. I meant to tape it but I forgot. When I checked Comcast on demand I was kind of relieved that it wasn’t available as I don’t want to have to sit through it. This reminds of of a woman who was on that VH1 show “Why am I Still Single?” She was a virgin and she insisted on telling her date about it the first time they went out. She got schooled pretty quickly by the matchmaker Siggy that it was totally inappropriate to bring that up so soon. I get that some people want to save themselves for marriage and that’s admirable in theory. For some people like this, though, it seems like it becomes the most important thing about them. If you build it up that much of course sex is going to be a letdown. Would these people have gotten married if they didn’t insist on not even kissing before making it legal? Also, you can’t “reclaim” your virginity, that’s ridiculous. 
Screenshot via [From HollywoodLife Animated gif from Warming Glow  |
| Angelina Jolie on Newsweek, approached filmmaking like a UNHCR mission Posted: 05 Dec 2011 07:40 AM PST 
As I updated yesterday on that Angelina Jolie post, Jolie covers this week's Newsweek. I kind of love the photos, even though I'm not quite convinced that a weekly news magazine should be doing glamour shots of a actress for the cover. That's not a cut on Jolie – that's a cut on Tina Brown, the editor-in-chief of Newsweek (and the Daily Beast). Anyway, The Daily Beast has released the full Newsweek article, which you can read here. Here are some highlights from the piece (which is very complimentary to Jolie and the film): Jolie's approach to her humanitarian work: "When I go somewhere, I am always willing to learn about it. I get briefings, I read books, I talk to people," she said. "But mainly I try to go somewhere to bring awareness, to come home and pick up the phone and call someone and try to get something done." She brings the same approach to filmmaking: She told me that when it came to the technicalities of making a film, "I wasn't afraid to ask the DP [director of photography]. And I listened to my cast, most of whom lived through the war. I listened to their stories and tried to incorporate it into the work." Lack of real-time awareness of the Bosnian War: How could a woman who was only 17 when the conflict in Bosnia erupted in April 1992 have so perfectly captured the horror of a war that focused largely on indiscriminate and brutal attacks on civilians? She is honest when she says, "At the time, I had no idea of the extent of the agony." But her work as an ambassador to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees exposed her to the plight of the Bosnian civilians and how the aftermath lingers on. The women who were raped in the infamous eastern Bosnian "rape camps" are still suffering from the emotional and traumatic fallout; it was an especially sensitive point for her. No offense: "The people felt as though the world had forgotten them," Jolie said. "It was a time of great pain, and I wanted to depict how courageous people were—without offending anyone." The Bosnians desperately wanted help, from anywhere, anyone—but no one came. Even now, too few people know what happened there. Perhaps it takes the star power of someone like Jolie to remind them of this incredibly complex, bloody conflict. "It was made to remind everybody of the war—but only a small group of people will really understand," she admitted. The film is partially improvised: "It was half script, half improvisation," Jolie said of some of the scenes, and she relied heavily on local staff. "The white shirt that the leading character wears throughout," she mused at one point. "It stayed white through the rape-camp scenes—and it bothered me. We kept talking about that white shirt." She also shows characters longing for food, for contact with the outside world, for books, cinema, poetry—all the things that existed before the war. Writing the script: These journeys gave Jolie the experience to write the script for In the Land of Blood and Honey, which took "about a month, then it went through a lot of revisions, Brad read it, people read it," but the actual technicalities of directing must have been daunting. Approaching filmmaking like a UNHCR mission: There is no red carpet in Libya or Sudan. She still packs her own flashlights, notebooks, and waterproof gear. She made Blood and Honey with $13 million and a lot of humility. She approached it the way she does her job for UNHCR, like a student. "When I go on a field mission, I get multiple briefings, including from the CFR [Council on Foreign Relations]," she said. "And I took a course on international law. So I did the same thing I did with missions. I studied." For the film, she "read a lot of books about the war. I talked to a lot of people, I watched, I listened. I just wanted to tell the real story." She repeated what she has said several times: "I wanted to be respectful of people." If she did not know something, "I asked." About her kids: During dinner, she talked with love and passion of her family, how she is educating them in their own languages and cultures, how she loves to fly around the world but how hard it is to be separated from them when she is away. She talked of how someone "who never was a babysitter" knew how to take care of Maddox as a 27-year-old single mother. "I didn't know whether to give one bottle or 30 bottles," she says, laughing, of her son's infant days. "I called my mother." Angelina on her mom: "Her goodness had a huge impact on me," she said. "Sometimes I go into hotels now and bellboys ask me about her. My mother used to write them notes when their children were born or christened. She was just that sort of person—everyone loved her."
[From Newsweek/The Daily Beast] The entire article is very good, and I recommend reading it when you have a chance. It was written by Janine di Giovanni, a reporter who covered the Bosnian War, and has been a war correspondent in several conflicts. She did a lot of research (more than Bob Simon at 60 Minutes) and she and Angelina spent hours together – it's one of the better interviews I've ever read on Jolie, honestly. 
Photos courtesy of Newsweek.
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| Viggo Mortensen: “Life is too short to work with idiots who are rude and selfish” Posted: 05 Dec 2011 07:08 AM PST 
This weekend's New York Times Magazine had a very good cover boy – Viggo Mortensen! He looks much better in these photos than he did in those red carpet pics from a few weeks ago, but I think some of that is a better hairstyle. He's 53 years old, and I swear, as he gets older, he's looking more and more like Ed Harris. Right? Anyway, Viggo is talking about A Dangerous Method in this interview, but his conversation isn't limited to that, at all. One of the great things about Viggo – he's a talker. And he actually has interesting stuff to say. In this piece – which you can read in its entirety here – Viggo calls himself "harsh" and he's totally a judgy bitch about his fellow actors. I like this Viggo. Longing for immortality: "I'm not afraid of death," he said, wiping down a counter with a damp cloth, "but I resent it. I think it's unfair and irritating. Every time I see something beautiful, I not only want to return to it, but it makes me want to see other beautiful things. I know I'm not going to get to all the places I want to go. I'm not going to read all the books I want to read. I'm not going to revisit certain paintings as many times as I would like. There's a limit." He paused. "I mean, I understand limits are good for character and all that, but I would rather live forever." He eschews the celebrity lifestyle: "I don't have lots of friends in the business, and the ones I do have are probably more like me, in that they're not the kind of people to go places just so they can be seen. I see people doing that stuff and to me, it seems pathetic and ridiculous and kind of . . . well, humiliating. Life's too short." He has contempt for famewhores and actors who just work for the money: "Sometimes you look at a movie and you can see that the actor or actress said, 'I'm taking this onboard because I'm making a ton of money, and not because it's going to be something special,' " he said, sounding scandalized. In choosing his own projects, his chief criterion is always "a good story." His film choices: "An agent will say, if you have the option, it's good to do a big movie and then a little one. I understand that and within reason, I'll try to, but 90 percent of the time, I'll end up in low-budget movies that are difficult to finance and often won't get distributed very well. I could have done one big-studio movie after another if the goal was to stay as visible as possible, to make as much money as possible. I guess, because of my temperament, I didn't want to. I wouldn't have been telling good stories. The challenge would have always been to try not to make a total ass of myself, even though I knew the story was really stupid." He played Dr. Freud because he wanted a chance to talk: "I haven't been given the chance to play men who speak much. The parts that people — including David [Cronenberg] — normally give me are men of few words, people who express what they're thinking or what they're afraid of or what their goals are, physically. With Freud, it was all words." Viggo on his habit of doing meticulous research for his films: "It's enjoyable and stimulating. I learn things. It's particularly important to me, because I have had experiences where the shoot has been really annoying and unprofessional, and the director has made poor choices and the movie has not turned out well. But however it turns out, I always feel that I've got something out of it, because of the experiences I've had and the knowledge I've got from the preparation stage." His career before Lord of the Rings: "For a long time after I started out, I couldn't get anything. I mean, I'd do a small play, or one scene in a TV thing — I'd get just enough encouragement to keep me going — but I wasn't making a living at it." There were many false starts. Twice, he said, he had scenes in movies — Jonathan Demme's "Swing Shift" and Woody Allen's "Purple Rose of Cairo" — that ended up on the cutting-room floor. "I wasn't told. Months go by, the movie comes out, I tell my parents — you know, my whole family. They go see it, and I'm not in it. The scene isn't there. They think I've lost my mind. They're like, What are you really doing in Los Angeles?" Being demoralized: In 1990, he got the lead in "The Indian Runner," directed by Sean Penn. "And everyone said, 'Oh, boy, you're set.' But I wasn't. I don't know, maybe I didn't capitalize. I don't know what I was supposed to do. People would tell me do this, do that, fire this guy. . . ." It was not until 1993 that he began getting a steady flow of work — "supporting parts in studio movies, a job or two a year." He admits to having become demoralized on occasion. "But I guess I kept being curious. I was curious as to how movies were made. It wasn't, like, I wanted to be famous or anything like that. I liked the idea of telling these stories, the make-believe aspect. I wanted to do it, to try it. I don't know." He holds grudges: Certainly, his years working in relative obscurity gave him plenty of examples of how not to behave as a famous actor. He remembers every bit of on-set misbehavior he ever observed, with astonishing clarity. (Holding grudges is one of his vices, he says.) He remembers the actors who didn't come to set because they were hung over after a night of drinking, or who came and behaved horribly. He remembers the leading actors who did little tricks to throw him off. "I see it now with veteran actors doing it to younger actors, and the young guys don't even know that it's happening. I'll say to them, 'Watch out, he's already done his close-up, and he did a great job. Now it's your close-up, and he's tickling you and distracting you and telling you stories.'" He also remembers the actors who didn't even bother to show up when it was time to do their off-camera work. "Earlier in my career, I saw a lot of important actors and actresses splitting when they had done their close-ups. You'd say, 'Where's so and so?' and they'd have gone home, so you'd end up doing your close-up with an assistant director. It makes your work harder and it also makes you feel disrespected." He no longer tolerates this sort of thing. "If someone comes up to me and says, 'Do you mind if I go?' I'll look them right in the eye and say, 'I don't want you here, if you don't want to do it.' If they say, 'Oh, fine, I'll stay,' I'll be like: 'No, go. You've told me who you are, get out of here.' I'd rather do it without them. When someone does that to me, it's like, Boom, I'm not working with you again." He admits that he's harsh: "Yeah, well, about that stuff I am harsh. There's no excuse for that behavior. You're tired? Come on! The crew isn't tired? The crew who got here two hours before you, and who'll be here two hours after you leave and who are being paid, in many cases, one thousandth of what you're being paid? Come on! I always thought treating people well was probably the most important thing, but now I'm convinced," he adds. "Life is too short to work with idiots — well, not idiots, but people who are rude and selfish." More on immortality: "I know I said I wanted to live forever and I would never be bored, but the reality is, it's probably kind of sad to live forever if you're the only one sticking around. I guess living through injury and disease is pretty hard too, so I don't know — maybe immortality is not such a great thing. You know, Freud accepted his lot very stoically and very well and with a sense of humor. He aged and died gracefully and there's a lot to be said for that. Still, it would be nice to live a little longer, with your mind intact and your body reasonably functioning. . . ."
[From The New York Times] I think Viggo has every right to judge his fellow actors, and the points that he makes about "bad behavior" and all of the grudges he holds are right on point. But I would like to see Viggo acknowledge that he's stayed in Hollywood because he genuinely likes being an actor, he likes the process, he likes to work. It feels like he's so busy bitching about everything (once again, I enjoy his bitching, and he's earned it) that he doesn't acknowledge that he could just walk away. I'm glad he hasn't walked away, truly, but at some point it would be nice for him to acknowledge that he actually likes being a working actor. 
Photos courtesy of the NYT.
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| LeAnn Rimes in a green sack dress for ‘Trevor Live!’: improving or terrible? Posted: 05 Dec 2011 07:01 AM PST 
Here are photos of LeAnn Rimes and Eddie Cibrian at last night's Trevor Live! at The Hollywood Palladium, a concert event benefiting The Trevor Project. Lady Gaga performed and was honored. LeAnn and Eddie only attended. So… should we talk about LeAnn's outfit? You know it probably took her HOURS to get ready for this red carpet. Hair, makeup, selecting the right oversized sack-dress… the dress is actually a pretty color on LeAnn, and it makes her look healthier than the colors she usually wears (neutrals, pale colors). But it feels like this whole "look" was a waste of a time, energy and money. The cut of the sack dress is terrible, her hair is awful and her makeup is meh. I'll give LeAnn and Eddie credit for one thing, though – they look nice together. They seem to have a lot of physical chemistry in these photos. While I was trying to find the designer ID on LeAnn's sack dress, I came upon this recent interview LeAnn did with a sycophantic columnist for The Las Vegas Review-Journal. The guy was already primed to defend LeAnn, attacking "celebrity bloggers" who "attack" LeAnn Rimes. When it came time for LeAnn to speak, the delusion flowed like wine as she spoke to a like-minded crazy: She says she’s not going to let tabloids and bloggers define her, not after “everything I’ve gone through.” “I mean, my God, I’ve gone through lawsuits with my father,” she adds. “Everything is water under the bridge. It’s time to move on. I’m in a really good place in my life. I don’t like to drag it up and talk about it very much. But when you start so young, people want to see you as America’s sweetheart. They forget you’re human.” She thinks any cruel blogger who has that much time on his hands to “spew hate is a bully.” “They obviously have issues of their own,” she says. “They have to take it out on someone else that they do not know. As you’ve said, you’ve met me and I’m not anything but nice. … I’m not faking it. That’s who I am. I have great respect for fans and people in general. My mom raised me that way.” She’s not saying she’s faultless. (She did, after all, marry Eddie Cibrian after they had an affair while both were married.) “Hell, I’m human. I make mistakes. I get over them. I move on. I learn from them and don’t make them again.” But it’s as clear to her as it is to me that celebrities are treated in blogs and tabloids like punching bags when they don’t deserve it. (I’m all for treating celebrities like punching bags when they behave like jerks to other people.) “Unfortunately, we are in a world where people can sit behind a computer screen and there are no repercussions for what they say,” Rimes says. She insinuates some bloggers need to man up. “God knows most people would never say anything that they say on a blog to my face.”
She has perspective. She stresses it’s not the whole media that attacks her, just the meanest at certain blogs and tabloids. She wishes those writers would actively work on their own happiness and find more hope in humanity. “People don’t want to believe the good in people, sometimes. It makes them feel better about themselves to believe that someone is worse than they are — whether they’re mean-spirited or mean-hearted. I wonder how a lot of people in tabloids and things like that sleep at night. … It’s all such lies.” Is she jaded? No, she says. That partly comes from the joy of working on behalf of gay rights (which isn’t exactly the cause celebre of most country artists). “I think it’s completely wrong as human beings for anybody to tell you who you can’t love.” And it fulfills her and keeps jadedness at bay when she works with homeless causes and then sees many other people helping needy people. “The biggest accomplishment I’ve felt most proud of is seeing that something you’re doing makes a difference in someone else’s life.”
[From The Las Vegas Review-Journal] I'm sorry, it was all an eye-rolling blur after LeAnn referred to herself as America's Sweetheart AGAIN. Bitch, you are not America's Sweetheart, and you NEVER were. Stop trying to make that happen. So what did she say after that? …..Oooo, burn. Except not really – from what I've seen and written, most of the stories written about LeAnn are just properly identifying her tweets or her own words in an interview. Those aren't "lies" – it's just "this is what she said then"-style reporting. And yes, if I met her, I would call her a delusional dumbass to her face. 
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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| Madonna’s all-black ‘W.E.’ screening outfit: lovely and age-appropriate? Posted: 05 Dec 2011 07:00 AM PST 
These are photos of Madonna at a screening of W.E. at MOMA in NYC last night. I don't know who designed her outfit – well, I know it wasn't Stella McCartney – but I think it's actually a cute outfit. During Madge's promotion of W.E., I've been concentrating on her jacked face too much, and I haven't been giving Madge enough credit for dressing well. While I don't think she's capable of being "age appropriate," this publicity tour is the closest she's come. This outfit in particular is super-cute. So, as the awards season has begun in earnest, do you think Madge is disappointed that W.E. is being consistently overlooked for awards? I think she's probably disappointed, because Madge thinks everything she does is pure brilliance. On the bright side, W.E. might end up with some Oscar nominations for production design or costumes, so Madge can say that she directed an "Oscar-nominated film." She'll like that. Sidenote: I’m pretty sure W.E. is in limited release right now for awards contention, although it might have gotten pushed back? Meanwhile, it's time for Madge's next act. No one really cares about her as a director, but some people still care about her as a pop music performer. Thus, Madge has just signed on to headline the halftime show at the Super Bowl. Ugh. Madonna will headline the halftime show of the upcoming Super Bowl at Indianapolis, Indiana’s Lucas Oil Stadium on February 5, the NFL and NBC announced Sunday night. The Grammy Award-winning Vogue singer will work with a Cirque du Soleil squad, choreographer Jamie King and Moment Factory for what is sure to be a historical performance in the making. Last year’s game included performances from The Black Eyed Peas, Slash and Usher. The film W.E. — which Madonna directed, wrote and produced — hits theaters February 3. Fun fact: The 53-year-old Material Girl has past dated jocks including hoops enigma Dennis Rodman, and baseball sluggers Alex Rodriguez and Jose Canseco.
[From Radar] Ah, she's doing the halftime show as a way to promote W.E.? Do you think she'll do a shoutout for her film on stage? Do you think Harvey Weinstein will shell out the big bucks for a W.E. commercial during the Super Bowl? 
Photos courtesy of WENN & Fame.
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| Taylor Swift’s new hair & red Oscar de la Renta dress: lovely or busted? Posted: 05 Dec 2011 06:50 AM PST 
A few days ago, Taylor Swift debuted her new bangsy haircut on her Twitter page, tweeting a photo of herself right after a fluffy blowout. She looked awesome in that photo, but I suspect that Swifty's hair might be similar to mine – you can use all of the product you want, you can get the best blowout ever, and 30 minutes later, our hair is still going to be limp. These are photos of Swifty outside of the Billboard Music Awards, where she was named the Artist of the Year. As you can see, the bangsy cut is real, it's not just a new wig. But as you can also see, her hair looks pretty flat. I still like it better than the old, fried mall hair, but I feel for Swifty and her hair issues. She discussed the situation with Stylelist: Stylelist: How did you decide to cut your hair?
I was on a photoshoot and they wanted to do, like, clip-in bangs and straighten my hair. I just said, 'Why don't you just cut them?' They did. Is it hard to have bangs with curly hair?
It's actually not. I think I can figure out a way to incorporate them, I was playing around with it in my hotel room and I think that it might work both ways, but we'll see. It's just fun to play around with your hair and change it up. I never change it up, so this is nice. What inspired your transformation?
I wanted to change my look a little bit and I've loved the way that bangs look on other people. I always seem to want to straighten my hair in the winter. And I think I just decided to go a step further this time. How does your style routine generally change in the winter?
I usually wear more jeans. Spring and summer, I'm usually all dresses and skirts, so winter is like jeans, leggings, tights, dresses, dark colors and straight hair. Are there any pieces in particular you've invested in for winter?
I've gotten a lot of Rugby and Ralph Lauren stuff because I think it looks very winter-y and Christmas-y, so that's been stuff I really liked getting. What's your go-to New Year's Eve outfit, hair and makeup?
It would probably be some sort of sparkly dress and straight hair and maybe a bold smoky eye and a nude lip.
[From Stylelist] "…Some sort of sparkly dress and straight hair and maybe a bold smoky eye and a nude lip…" – that's her basic look for red carpets too. That's her red carpet uniform, pretty much, although I like that she mixed it up a little bit with this bold and pretty red Oscar de la Renta – it's princessy, but it's more grown up than the stuff she usually wears. But let's get back to her hair – is she using a straightened on her hair? Because that might be why it looks kind of limp. What would it look like if she just let it air-dry straight out of the shower? Curly-haired girls, tell me! What happens if you let your hair air-dry and then just brush it out? It would look like Nicki Minaj's wig, wouldn't it? That reminds me, I'm also adding some photos of Nicki Minaj and her Swifty wiglet, and including the closeup of her latest nose. Yes, it's man-made. No, I don't know how many noses Nicki has had in the past two years. 
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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