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Guess who got wasted at Kim Kardashian’s wedding? Linnocent.
Brad Pitt & Jonah Hill cover New York Mag, talk about ‘Moneyball’
Crystal Harris predictably shopping a reality show, was that her plan all along?
Tom Colicchio: Anthony Bourdain is “scared” of me, he would never insult me
Octomom leaves celebrity boxing match after she gets whooped, still claims victory
Jennifer Love Hewitt in white Monique Lhuillier: simple & pretty, or too bridal?
LeAnn Rimes throws a Twitter-hissy when a random person tells her to eat
Megan Fox’s Amica Mag shoot: beautiful, jacked and/or tragic?
Karl Lagerfeld: “It would have been difficult to have an ugly daughter”
‘One Day’ review: Anne Hathaway’s accent wasn’t terrible

Guess who got wasted at Kim Kardashian’s wedding? Linnocent.

Posted: 22 Aug 2011 08:55 AM PDT

I really, really wish we had access to the photos of Dina and Lindsay Lohan at Kim Kardashian's wedding - you can see them here. They both looked INSANE. Linnocent wore white - which isn't a big deal because Kim asked people to only wear white or black. Linnocent's dress was a copy of the dress Pippa Middleton wore to royal wedding reception - go here to see the comparison. In my opinion, Linnocent looked older than her mother, and Linnocent has had more "work" done to her face too. They both looked so incredibly trashy and gross, and it speaks volumes about Kim Kardashian that Dina and Lindsay got invites. Also, guess who's back to drinking? I guess the question should be, "Who never stopped drinking, but is now back to being a drunken mess in public?"

Lindsay Lohan was one of the hard-partying guests at Kim Kardashian’s wedding, an eyewitness tells RadarOnline.com exclusively.

Lindsay attended the bash with her mom Dina and sister Ali. The Kardashian and Lohan families have long been friends, and Lindsay attended Kim’s bridal shower a few weeks earlier. Lindsay wore a low cut Marilyn-style dress with crystal detail in the back. Her blonde hair was styled in a dramatic upsweep.

“She was drinking and partying hard,” insider said. “I saw her order shots from the bar.”

Mom Dina didn’t seem to mind. She was sitting right with her daughters as Lindsay enjoyed several drinks.

Although still on probation, with community service and counseling requirements to be met, Lindsay has no restrictions on drinking and she was not driving.

[From Radar]

Just more evidence that Linnocent is a crack liar. "I don't drink, rehab worked!" Blah blah blah, crackie.

By the way, remember how Linnocent got a cracked-out job as a music video girl? Here's the video. CRACK LIPS.

Photos courtesy of Pacific Coast News.

Brad Pitt & Jonah Hill cover New York Mag, talk about ‘Moneyball’

Posted: 22 Aug 2011 08:05 AM PDT

Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill cover the new issue of New York Magazine, which means that the promotional tour for Moneyball starts now, at any moment. The film gets released a month from now, and I'm actually looking forward to seeing it. Long-term readers of the site know that my Brangeloonie status is mostly because of my love for Angelina Jolie - I could take or leave Brad Pitt most of the time. He's grown on me through the years, and I think he's grown into a pretty interesting actor who makes unusual choices for his career that often pay off. I think Moneyball will be one of his career successes - Moneyball could be seen as a standard-issue sports movie about some inspiring event. It's the kind of movie that fathers will take their sons to, and mom will come along because Brad Pitt is in it and he doesn't have a gross beard in this one. But the behind-the-scenes story of Moneyball, detailed in this NY Mag piece, is fascinating, and I think Brad should get a lot of credit for staying with a project that people weren't gung-ho about, and a project that nearly ended Steven Soderbergh's career. Here are some highlights from the piece:

The closer we get to fall, the more we root for long shots. And Moneyball, which opens September 23, is one such underdog. Michael Lewis's 2003 book focused on Billy Beane, the general manager of the then-impoverished Oakland A's, who used a kind of quantitative analysis known as sabermetrics to create a winning team and, more miraculously, to combat the huge payroll inequities between baseball's richest and poorest organizations. Beane's quixotic attempts to reform a hidebound system and turn a ragtag starting lineup of last-chancers into champions forms Moneyball's heart. But consider that the above summary hinges on words like sabermetrics and payroll inequities, and you begin to understand why—even with the dogged support of Brad Pitt—Moneyball took nearly a decade, three directors, three writers, an almost complete recasting, and a public collapse before it got made. "There were some hard days," says Pitt. By which he means years.

…There were problems, beginning at the source. Lewis's book is less a narrative than a riveting Gladwellian case study in which a single outlier occasions a series of meditations on the risk-averse institution of baseball. This is not something that screams adaptation, Pitt says, citing "the difficulty of making a movie whose front window is dressed with economics and science and math."

Pitt came aboard in late 2007 to play Beane and quickly "became obsessed" as well. "I saw it as a story about justice," he says. "How is a team with a $40 million payroll going to compete with a team with a $140 million payroll and another $100 million in reserves? Any talent they grow is going to get poached by the rich teams. That became really interesting to me."

For Pitt, Moneyball also evoked "films about process," particularly the seventies movies he loved. "I thought of The Conversation: How do you tap a phone? Or Thief, with Jimmy Caan: How do you crack a safe?" Pitt says. "And I saw in it a guy who had an obsessive quality like Popeye Doyle," from The French Connection. "I don't really like big character-arc epiphanies. What I most loved about those seventies films is that the characters were the same at the end as at the beginning. It was the world around them that had shifted." In Beane, he says, "I saw a man going up against a system, questioning the reasoning: Just because we've been doing it this way for 150 years, why shouldn't we change it?"

[Director Bennett] Miller knew Hill socially and felt he could thrive in the role. "Jonah is brilliant in a way that might not be evident from the roles he's played before," Miller says. "He has a near-encyclopedic knowledge of movies. And I also knew he was interested in breaking out of whatever box he was in." For his part, Hill felt he'd found a project—and a director—that might allow him to grow up a little. "A lot of times you're funny as a way of not having to say anything real about yourself. Bennett knew that there are whole days when I'm not funny at all," he says, laughing. "And this character has sweet moments, but no jokes or wisecracks."

"Jonah's a revelation in this thing—he's a study in reserve," says Pitt, who saw Hill's potential in his earlier films. "I think the most interesting work that's been going on in the last couple of years is what the comedy guys have been doing. Guys like Jonah and Russell Brand and [Seth] Rogen and a few others … they picked up on an irreverence that started with Adam Sandler and continued with Will Ferrell, but they've been grounding it in a kind of pathos and humanity. I find it really strong work."

"I don't mind the struggle as long as the work amounts to something in the end," says Pitt, who ended up with a producer credit as well. "It was really Bennett who finally cracked it. His anxiety not to do anything conventional ultimately formed what this would be. At the same time, everyone involved in Moneyball, at every stage, was very passionate. But what most everyone gleaned from the book was very different. I look at the movie now, and I feel everyone's fingerprints are on it. It's been … well, listen. It's been an interesting process."

[From New York Magazine]

That's sweet what Brad says about Jonah - I hope Jonah and Brad are as tight as they seem, and it seems like Brad could possibly be a good friend and champion for Jonah to have in the coming years.

Sigh… I totally want to see this movie. And I don't know anything about baseball.

Photos courtesy of NY Mag.

Crystal Harris predictably shopping a reality show, was that her plan all along?

Posted: 22 Aug 2011 08:04 AM PDT

After Crystal Harris ditched Hugh Hefner less than a week before the wedding and went running with conflicting explanations to every outlet that would have her, she’s taking the next logical step. Like Hugh’s exes Holly and Kendra before her, she hopes to get her own reality show. Given all the crap that’s on TV lately (some of it surprisingly good, but usually featuring people who are relative unknowns), this may get a green light. I hope E! stays away from it though. They have enough reality crap on that channel and should focus more on the news, True Hollywood Stories and The Soup.

Here’s a shocker — the chick who ditched Hugh Hefner days before their wedding is now trying to shop her own reality show around town … and even more shocking, there’s actual interest.

TMZ has learned … Crystal Harris already has meetings set up with a few different networks … hoping to land a deal.

We’re told the premise behind the show (beyond just the fact that she’s hot) will focus on her struggle to find a career after burning the richest bridge she will ever have.

[From TMZ]

So are we going to see Crystal’s new boyfriend, Dr. Phil’s son, in this new reality show? Probably. I doubt she cares at this point whether it looks like she was “cheating” on Hef with the guy back when they were together or not. Hef doesn’t care. He said on Piers Morgan that if she took him for a ride “It was a pretty nice ride… It was 2 1/2 very good years. And if she was faking it, she did it very well.” It was only later, when Crystal claimed that Hugh lasted a couple seconds in bed the one time that they had sex that she really seemed to wound his ego. Now she’s trying to spin her status as an ex Girl Next Door into her own reality career. It’s expected, but that doesn’t mean it will be at all interesting. She doesn’t have much personality and she can’t even make human-like expressions at this point.

Photos are from 6/18/11. Credit: Fame

Tom Colicchio: Anthony Bourdain is “scared” of me, he would never insult me

Posted: 22 Aug 2011 07:35 AM PDT

I cannot believe how many people took Anthony Bourdain's side in his battle against Paula Deen. Long Live The Deen! Y'all better recognize. But many of you disagreed with my assessment that Bourdain is a surly jackass looking to pick a fight with anyone over anything, and that Paula defended herself admirably, and without having to use a stick of butter in an unnatural way. Anyway, Top Chef judge Tom Colicchio has put in his two cents about stunt-queen Bourdain:

Top Chef judge Tom Colicchio said sharp-tongued chef Anthony Bourdain won't be attacking him the way he went after his fellow Food Network chefs Paula Deen, Rachael Ray, Guy Fieri and Sandra Lee.

"I think he's scared of me," Colicchio told us at the "What's on the table?" United Way of New York fundraiser at Susan Burden's home in Sagaponack on Saturday.

"I like Anthony. He dishes it out, but Paula gives it right back."

Colicchio's pal Julianne Moore and Vanity Fair's Graydon Carter co-hosted the event. Moore said she met the Craft founder on the street in the Upper East Side. She described preparing food for needy children at his restaurant during the holidays.

[From Page Six]

Eh. Some people love Tom Colicchio. I think he knows food, but I find him too snobby and too nit-picky about food when he's judging on Top Chef. And I think Anthony Bourdain would talk sh-t about Tom in a heartbeat, if given an open mic and a beer.

By the way, Bourdain has a Twitter account (here). He supposedly responded to Paula Deen, writing, "My comment was actually ‘worst, most dangerous to America cook on [Food Network].” And "Resolved: Next time I’m asked (for the millionth time) who the worst cooks on Food Network are, I’ll just shut up. Who cares?" Meaning he doesn't consider Paula the most dangerous cook in America, merely the most dangerous cook in America - ON the Food Network. He also tweeted this:

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Octomom leaves celebrity boxing match after she gets whooped, still claims victory

Posted: 22 Aug 2011 07:33 AM PDT

This is a somewhat amusing story about Octomom’s attempts to make money that she can immediately blow on personal care and plastic surgery without bothering to pay her bills at all. Nadya Suleman left her 14 kids at home in the care of who-knows since she claims she doesn’t have any nannies left. (We know how much her word is worth, though, just about as much money as she has to her name.) She did a celebrity boxing tournament in Florida against a local female bartender. The bartender had the upper hand, so Octo left before the end of the final round, telling everyone to F off, flipping the double bird and leaving for her hotel room. Then she came back and accepted victory for the match with no sense of shame whatsoever.

Suleman tore off her boxing gloves a few seconds before the end of the fight's final round and ran from the room, repeatedly jabbing the air with a pair of upraised middle fingers in what she apparently misunderstood to be a traditional boxing victory salute…

Suleman… was set to box Cassandra Andersen, a bartender at a Broward strip club.

The match — held in a room off the lobby of the Ocean Manor Resort in Fort Lauderdale, before a crowd of perhaps three dozen that was probably outnumbered by reporters and photographers — was fought with soft, Incredible Hulk-size boxing gloves that seemed guaranteed to keep anybody from getting hurt or even annoyed.

But an authentic Mean Grrrrl energy erupted when the two grimacing women charged out of their corners, punching as best they could and shoving, choking and head-butting with an impressive bloodlust.

It was all apparently too much for Suleman, who fled up the hotel stairs to her room after her ignominious exit. "I think she was mad 'cause she was getting beat up," helpfully explained her opponent, the 25 year-old Andersen, who was invited to fight because Feldman was impressed by the way she threw him out of her bar.

"So she said '[bleep] you' to everybody and ran off."

The fight's "judges" (a collection of models and bartenders) disagreed, awarding the victory to Suleman as the crowd — including some of the reporters — booed.

After cooling off in her hotel room for a few minutes, Suleman returned to explain that she had run off because the fight was over, and she had given the middle-finger salute because she was hungry. (The nuances of upraised middle fingers are, it seems, virtually endless.)

"The fight was over," Feldman agreed. "Or almost over."

The fight might have been even more violent if Suleman had been allowed to throw punches at herself in a mirror. "I really want to beat up the Octomom!" she shouted at a quickie pre-bout press conference when asked who she planned to fight next. "I hate that name…IT's not me, it's something the [bleeping] media made up and I [bleeping] hate it!"

For somebody who bleeping hates the media, however, Suleman was awfully cooperative, shedding her warm-up jacket to reveal a low-cut tank top as barbarous paparazzi chanted "Take it off!" She didn't stop there, pulling her trunks down nearly to the promised land at the suggestion of her manager Gina Rodriguez. (Who also handles various ex-Tiger-Woods mistresses, make of it what you will.)

[From The Miami Herald via Radar Online]

I love that less than 40 people showed up and even the reporters booed the fact that Octo was named victor when she was nothing more than a sore loser.

It’s worth noting that Octo’s manager, Gina Rodriguez, is a former mistress of David Boreanaz and arranged the 2010 stripper mistress tour featuring other mistresses of famous guys. It’s not that much of a leap to assume that Gina does some side work for clients. So we know what’s next for Octo, if it’s not already happening. Plus she has plenty of experience stripping, although she claims that she only stripped for one night, for a “contest.” Just like she claimed she only had 6 embryos implanted, and just like she swore she’s never been on welfare and hasn’t had plastic surgery.

Update with warning: Octo also showed off her stomach and claimed that it’s evidence she hasn’t had plastic surgery. You can see those photos on TMZ but warning they’re nasty.

Guess who else was there?

Photo credit: WENN.com

Jennifer Love Hewitt in white Monique Lhuillier: simple & pretty, or too bridal?

Posted: 22 Aug 2011 06:55 AM PDT

These are photos of Jennifer Love Hewitt at this weekend's Angel Awards in LA. The awards are for supporters of Project Angel Food. The dress is Monique Lhuillier Resort 2009 - which is interesting that J.Love isn't wearing a new dress from some new collection. She probably recycled this look from a previous red carpet, or maybe she never got around to wearing it in 2009. In any case, I actually like the dress. She looks pretty in white, and I like the simplicity of the cut, and I even like the gold detailing, which isn't overdone.

So what do I dislike? Her hair. Granted, I was never going to like bangs on J.Love, and yes, this version of bangs is less offensive than the other, flat-ironed style she was working last week. But this wavy, mom-bangs style looks dated, and it ages her. She has a young-looking face - why is she trying to look ten years older?

In case you were still wondering, J.Love is still single. She told Ryan Seacrest last week, "I have nothing to say except I’m totally single." This is what happens when she's single - she goes out to any red carpet that will have her, and she calls the paps for "candid" photo shoots every damn day. I’m not saying that J.Love or ANY woman needs a boyfriend just to have a boyfriend. I am saying that if you want to avoid the daily photos of J.Love, she needs a man.

PS… Yes, J. Love is hugging on Pauley Perrette from NCIS. I adore Pauley.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

LeAnn Rimes throws a Twitter-hissy when a random person tells her to eat

Posted: 22 Aug 2011 06:52 AM PDT

Okay, Chicago Celebitches. Which one of you went up to LeAnn Rimes and told her to eat something? Y'all bitches are SO RUDE. On Friday, LeAnn was having dinner in Chicago, at the lounge bar Double A, with Eddie and his parents when someone came over to their table and told LeAnn to eat something. LeAnn tweeted, "How dare someone come to me at a table w/ the boys & tell me I need to eat something. What is wrong with people!? AS I’m stuffing my face….have another drink and maybe take a class in manners! Cheers!"

Sigh… I'm of two minds on this. One, yes, this was definitely rude. If the situation had been weight-reversed, and someone had gone up to a heavy celebrity and told her to STOP eating, wouldn't you be offended? It's one thing to say that LeAnn is a bony, narcissistic dumbass in private, but to go up to her and tell her to eat something? It is rude. On the other side, I get the feeling that LeAnn is secretly pleased that she's emaciated enough that people come up to her and tell her to eat. Operation Thinner Than Brandi continues to be successful! LeAnn loves how thin she is, and this random comment probably made her week.

Of course, LeAnn had to bitch and whine about it on Twitter for a while. She wrote, "once again DONE talking to rude people who have NO right to have an opinion on my body. Out of line!" And "No ones talks about the fact that the woman was terribly wrong in her actions, that’s sad…if it happened to someone who wasn’t a 'celebrity' it would be rude, but to a public figure it’s socially expectable?!" Ugh.

So here's the deal: don't do anything that makes me feel sorry for LeAnn. She doesn't deserve any sympathy, and I dislike feeling even a twinge for her. I hate defending her. But stop telling her to her face that she's an emaciated twit.

Photos courtesy of Fame & WENN.

Megan Fox’s Amica Mag shoot: beautiful, jacked and/or tragic?

Posted: 22 Aug 2011 06:31 AM PDT

I actually get tired of bashing Megan Fox. Some days I want to find her sympathetic. I want to see her as a victim, because in some sense, she is a victim. She was a pretty girl who could have been the next big thing, and she did real harm to her career through excessive plastic surgery and an unprofessional attitude. These are photos from Megan's cover shoot for the September issue of Amica Magazine, an Italian publication. I think many of the shots are gorgeous - but it doesn't really look like Megan, does it? The girl in these photos just seems like a pretty, vacant, nondescript beauty with little personality and too much manufactured "chiseling". Also: Her 2011 Face only has one open-mouthed expression, which is sad.

But! Megan is in the midst of a new career attempt. She's rebooting her career, taking smaller parts in smaller movies, trying to find a place in comedy, romantic comedy and drama. The excerpts from this Amica interview reveal a more serious girl too - gone are the mouth-farts about how she's "schizophrenic". Of course, this could just be a weird translation:

On what’s happening to her Marilyn Monroe tattoo:
“I’m removing it. It is a negative character, as she suffered from personality disorders and was bipolar. I do not want to attract this kind of negative energy in my life.”

On her navel piercing:
“Oh, this? I did it when I was 16-years-old because I was a fan of Britney Spears. The only time I tried to imitate someone else. But then I thought it was tacky and so I removed it when I turned 20.

On being dubbed as a ’sex-bomb’:
“What they call me sexy is not something that I can operate or shut down at will, but something that shines through as a journey, from how I talk, how I move. On the screen, I seem very sure of myself, but the real world is the place where I feel more conflict.”

On if she’d be happy if she had a daughter who wanted to be an actress:
“I would not be happy but wouldn’t prevent her from doing so. I just would hope [my child] had a strong character, because you have to be strong to do this job. If she was weak and too emotional, I would not advise it.”

On whether there’s something about her body that she dislikes:
“Of course, I have a lot of flaws. But I do not tell them - ever.”

On how she stays so fit:
“For a year and a half, until about four months ago, I followed a strict vegan diet based on raw fruits and vegetables, no bread, sugar and coffee. But I had lost too much weight. So now I eat a bit of everything. I train three times a week doing circuit training (a series of exercises with tools that improve muscle power, etc) with my trainer Harley Pasternak (the guru of the five factors Diet).”

[From Amica via Celebrity Gossip]

She has gained some weight - she was photographed a few days ago looking like she's gained maybe 10 pounds, and it looks great on her. With some added weight, her face doesn't look so jacked and crazy. As for her new career tract, trying her hand at comedy seems to be paying off for now - she's worked with Sacha Baron Bohen, Jon Hamm and right now, Leslie Mann, Chris O'Dowd, Jason Segal and Paul Rudd. I just hope she's actually done some growing up intellectually. *fingers crossed*

Photos courtesy of Amica, via The Fashion Spot.

Karl Lagerfeld: “It would have been difficult to have an ugly daughter”

Posted: 22 Aug 2011 06:29 AM PDT

In the new issue of Interview, which is "The Fashion Issue", our favorite grumpy old bastard Karl Lagerfeld interviews Carine Roitfeld, the former editor-in-chief of Vogue France and one of the leading style-makers of the past two decades. I never realized that Karl and Carine are tight, but they are. They're also hilarious together, unintentionally so. Like, Karl will say something and Carine will contradict part of it, and Karl will come back at her with something even crazier and then Carine just changes the subject. It's a great dynamic. I can't even begin to excerpt all of the wonderful hilarity that ensues throughout this five-page opus of CRAZY, so you should totally read the whole thing here. Here are some of my favorite parts:

Lagerfeld on how Helmut Newton was a fast worker: "He never tried too hard, right? The Germans have a saying, 'Things are spicier if they’re short.'"

On Roitfeld's work as a stylist, and photographing nudes:
LAGERFELD: You don’t fall into the trap that a lot of stylists have fallen into of doing everything. You think about the woman first. You let the woman come out.
ROITFELD: Clothing is always a tool that helps me take a picture. But it’s never about the clothing.
LAGERFELD: Although for a stylist, doing a nude is even more difficult.
ROITFELD: Mario [Testino] did a lot of nudes. Every morning when we worked together, he had boys coming over and he would take naked pictures of them. I learned a lot because there’s no artifice and it’s all a question of position, of looks, of attitude, the way to position your legs, position your knees . . . It gives you something.
LAGERFELD: There’s a big difference between photographing naked boys and naked girls.
ROITFELD: I was too shy, at first, to come close to these naked guys. I would stand a little ways away from them. With girls it’s much easier.
LAGERFELD: I think it’s easier because naked men are more awkward.
ROITFELD: Yes and then there is always a bit of seduction to it when one person is clothed and the other is naked, which can be a little weird. Everybody should be naked. In that case, it would be easier, wouldn’t it? Let’s do a huge naked photo shoot!
LAGERFELD: Oui.

Lagerfeld on Carine's time at French Vogue: "I think freedom is your biggest luxury. You were literally jailed before… I think you’re more like a bird that can’t be put in a cage. I don’t want to compare myself to you, but it’s like at Chanel, I can do what I want, when I want, where I want. And that’s because I am worth more when I’m free. I think it’s the same thing for you."

They talk about being Virgos, and having children - Carine has two kids:
LAGERFELD: What I think is particularly accomplished with you is that you always have a vision of fashion and a fashionable woman, but you also have a very successful life as a family woman. You have beautiful, intelligent children and they give you stability and credibility in the eyes of others.
ROITFELD: It’s because I’m a Virgo. Either you are a good Virgo or a crazy Virgo! The good Virgo side of me is educating and raising the children—being there for them.
LAGERFELD: Yes, no one can say that you don’t take care of them. You’re also lucky because they are very beautiful. It would have been difficult to have an ugly daughter.
ROITFELD: A moment ago, you said some flaws are necessary in beauty. They do have a temper sometimes. But they are very good children.
LAGERFELD: The care you take in your children gives a balance to your life. I think it accentuates your talent.
ROITFELD: Well, otherwise you’re too far removed from reality. You’re in your car, you’re in your jet—you don’t have a grip on reality. We can lose touch with reality quite easily.
LAGERFELD: I know some stylists who are like that and it’s sad. If I were a woman, I would love to have lots of kids. But for men, I don’t believe in it.

More on how awesome and crazy it is to be a Virgo:
LAGERFELD: I think you are quite modest.
ROITFELD: People might think I’m very hard, what with my black makeup, my hair over my eyes, etc. My innocence didn’t always help me, but it did preserve something in me that maybe others don’t have anymore. I’m inside my bubble, you could say, and thankfully so, because I don’t think daily life is always great. It protects me. I don’t know if it’s my sign, but Virgos are very faithful. I’m a faithful friend. I’m a faithful lover—
LAGERFELD: I can tell you are, indeed, being a Virgo myself.
ROITFELD: We’re a faithful lot. Faithful in many ways.
LAGERFELD: Some people don’t deserve our faithfulness.
ROITFELD: Some don’t, but once we learn that, I can tell you that we also have a very good memory. I have a memory like an elephant. I don’t forget anything.
LAGERFELD: Me neither.
ROITFELD: And revenge! I forget nothing and then, one day, there will be revenge. Innocence isn’t exactly everywhere. But I will say innocence also takes you far in photography. I don’t have prejudices. I’m against taboos. But of course there are some things I’ll never touch—because as a mom, there are things one doesn’t want their children to be around. I think it’s very important what young people see in pictures or on TV or in magazines. Drugs, violence, anorexia . . . All of the things that I absolutely do not reference in my photos.

Lagerfeld on his mother: "I wasn’t allowed to hold my mother’s arm to cross the street. You know why? Because I squeezed her hard and it bruised her arm."

On the internet and technology:
LAGERFELD: Do you surf the internet?
ROITFELD: No.
LAGERFELD: Me neither. Never. Besides, I don’t even want to have things associated with my name on the internet—it’s very dangerous.
ROITFELD: Is there a fake Karl Lagerfeld Twitter account?
LAGERFELD: Yes.
ROITFELD: There’s one for me, too. Everything is fake.
LAGERFELD: I am not a fake . . . I hope.
ROITFELD: I don’t have a Facebook account.
LAGERFELD: I know enough people. We’re happy with the people we know, right? That’s enough for us.
ROITFELD: It’s insane. The internet is becoming more interesting, though. I think the quality of the image on iPads now is extraordinary. What if tomorrow I had to create a magazine? What I hope I would do is something new, but I still love print. I love to touch paper. I’m not sure if I will ever do a magazine again, but I have plenty of ideas on the subject.

Lagerfeld on ivory towers: "The worst thing in the world is to create an ivory tower. Yes, it’s very bad. It’s sterile. I can’t even go in the street anymore. That bothers me."

[From Interview Magazine]

The piece is full of all of these crazy gems, and it's like two insane people looking at each other and acknowledging that they don't really speak the same made-up language. And OF COURSE they're both Virgos. I swear, celebrity Virgos give the rest of us a bad name. I'm a Virgo, and I'm not even half as crazy as Karl, Carine, Beyonce, Hugh Grant or LeAnn Rimes, all Virgos. Although… between all of us, we barely make up one truly sane person. My favorite part is how the Virgo conversation turns on a dime and all of a sudden Karl and Carine are talking about revenge and how we never forget a slight. God, that's so true.

Also, Karl's quotes on children - "You’re also lucky because they are very beautiful. It would have been difficult to have an ugly daughter." And, "If I were a woman, I would love to have lots of kids. But for men, I don’t believe in it." WTF?!? Oh, Karl.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

‘One Day’ review: Anne Hathaway’s accent wasn’t terrible

Posted: 22 Aug 2011 06:20 AM PDT

I was in the mood for something romantic and girly over the weekend, so I ended up seeing One Day, the film that I proclaimed, at one point, that I was never going to see. I read the book, and loved the book… up until the last third of the novel. Then I got so pissed off, I swore up and down that I wasn't going to get involved. When the previews for the film came out, I once again swore I wasn't going to see it, this time because Anne Hathaway's faux English accent seemed wonky as hell, and because Jim "Pillow Weeper" Sturgess wasn't my idea of Dexter. So… I guess I have to suck it up. I not only saw the movie, but I enjoyed it. Maybe it helped that I walked in with such low expectations. Or maybe it's a better movie than you've heard.

For those unfamiliar with the story, the basic gist is: Dexter (Sturgess) and Emma (Hathaway) meet and sort-of hookup on their last day of university, on July 15. The book and the film follows Dexter and Emma on every July 15th for the next twenty years, through triumphs and heartbreaks and love and loss. As far as the film being a faithful adaptation of the book, it worked out very well. Surprisingly well, I have to admit. The kept a lot of the book in there, and they even let Hathaway have all of the funniest lines, which is true of Emma in the book. And they kept Dexter a mess, which is also true to the book.

As for the performances of the two leads… I was impressed. They had a great deal of chemistry together, despite the weird little oddness that they kind of look like brother and sister (true story - they look A LOT alike). Anne's accent work wasn't her best, but for the majority of the film, it wasn't actively bad. There were only a couple of scenes where I was like, "She sounds less English and more like she's had a stroke." Sturgess did a wonderful job as a privileged boy who never quite gets it together, and true to his Pillow Weeper moniker, Jim cried and cried and cried. That boy can pull out the waterworks at the drop of a hat, and he's a better weeper than Anne. But he had moments of real sexiness, and he and Anne played off of each other beautifully.

Two weird little things - Patricia Clarkson has a wonderful little part as Dexter's glamorous and then tragic mother, and I swear, her accent work was worse than Anne's. I love Clarkson, so that pains me. Surely they could have found a glamorous English actress for that part, right? Second weirdness: the casting of one of my favorite up-and-coming girls, Romola Garai (see her IMDB here) - she looks like Drew Barrymore and she's one of the most talented young actresses in the UK (she's currently starring in the new, wonderful BBC show The Hour). Romola appears in maybe many scenes later in the movie, playing an unsympathetic character that no one cared for in the book, and she made the character extremely sympathetic and lovely, and Romola stole every scene she was in. It struck me that Romola would have been a wonderful choice to play Emma, and in a few years, she IS going to be getting lead roles in Hollywood films. She's lovely.

So, would I recommend this movie? Go see it if you're in the mood for a romance, and you don't mind having a good cry. It will be a good rental too.