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“Lady Gaga dressed up like Ferrero Rocher for the Bambi Awards” links
Kate Winslet: “I like to do my own make-up. I believe in less is more”
Connor Cruise feels neglected by Tom, is rebelling against Scientology
Gwyneth Paltrow in green Elie Saab: goopy fug or goopy lovely?

“Lady Gaga dressed up like Ferrero Rocher for the Bambi Awards” links

Posted: 11 Nov 2011 10:58 AM PST

Lady Gaga is a Ferrero Rocher. [Celebuzz]
Rihanna doesn't want to be a gimmick. Er… [Radar]
Former pr0n star reads to first graders. How did the parents know her? [Dlisted]
Republican presidential nominee… Newt Gingrich. Meh. [Gawker]
Justin Theroux just dyed his hair. I can tell. [Pop Sugar]
Michael Fassbender has a new trailer for Haywire. Shot in the face. [Pajiba]
Khloe Kardashian hates her family. [Evil Beet]
Jessica Lowndes is a singer now. [The Blemish]
Kris Jenner & Kim Kardashian cried over Kim's sex tape. Cried all the way to the bank, she means. [Yeeeah]
Glee raped Adele's music again. [PopBytes]
This baby loves Notorious B.I.G. [Videogum]
Katy Perry wants Rusty Brand's babies. Yeah, that'll happen. [IDLITW]
I love Jennifer Nettles, but this dress sucks. [Go Fug Yourself]
Howard Stern to take over from Piers Morgan on America's Got Talent? [ICYDK]
Dominic Cooper's ass. Meh. I find him skeevy. [OMG Blog]
Jason Statham has a new movie too - Safe. [I'm Not Obsessed]
Sparkles & Jimmy Fallon are so cute together. [Seriously? OMG! WTF?]

Kate Winslet: “I like to do my own make-up. I believe in less is more”

Posted: 11 Nov 2011 10:17 AM PST

Kate Winslet is featured in the new issue of InStyle Magazine - I think it's the December issue of InStyle UK. These are some shots from the pictorial. Winslet spends most of the interview talking about makeup, and you can tell that she loves talking about and applying her own makeup way more than someone like Gwyneth Paltrow. Winlset even talks about the "peach fuzz" on her face which many of you have noted - I don't mind the peach fuzz, but sometimes Winslet walks a red carpet with a full blown mustache. Still, I enjoyed this because Kate seems to really care about makeup application and stuff. It also seems kind of like a testimonial advertisement for Lancome, the brand she reps.

Kate likes to do her own makeup: "I like to do my own make-up. I believe in less is more. Recently, I wore a simple, black Victoria Beckham column dress with long sleeves and small, gold belt detailing on the front. I knew that a curly hairdo would have completely gone against the dress, so we went for a high sculpted ponytail, with a little bit of height in the front. It pulled the whole look together."

What glamour is to Kate: "Glamour to me is about remaining graceful and understated. For example, with very bold lip colours, you can't overdo the rest of your face. With a bright-red party lipstick, just go with lots of mascara and keep everything else clean. I love Lancôme's L'Absolu Rouge lipstick, as it lasts. Unless you spend the whole night snogging, you won't need to reapply it.’

Mix foundations: "I rarely rely on one foundation - mixing two colours can make a big difference. I never use too much powder, only in the right areas [such as the T-zone]. I have peachy fuzz on my cheeks, so I have to be careful with powder.”

Picking the right dress for her body: “The comfort factor is all about the dress for me. I’m lucky to go in and out at the right places, proportionately that’s something I inherited from my mother. I enjoy my shape and my curves. At the same time, you have to know how to dress. If you are hippy, then pleats off the waist? Forget it! You absolutely cannot wear them. It’s about knowing how to work with the right fabric."

Beware of white: "Recently, I was presenting an award and I wore a lovely white Narciso Rodriguez dress with black trim. It was gorgeous but it was terrifying. You can’t hide a thing in white and if someone gets a bit merry with a glass of wine too close to you, you’re absolutely done for. Then, they started serving dinner, and the first course was beetroot salad. I was terrified for the entire night, from start to finish.”

Toenail polish: “There’s nothing like red polish on toes. I don’t have much time for pedicures, but if I haven’t done anything to my feet for months and I look like a Neanderthal woman, a coat of red means you can somehow get away with anything."

[From The Telegraph and The Mail]

Just a few things - I believe that Kate really does go to extremes when she wants to lose weight. I've never bought her whole, "I never diet" crap - I think she just don't want to be a bad role model for girls or whatever, or maybe she just doesn't want to admit that at various times, she's "gone Hollywood" and lost a bunch of weight and over-bleached her hair and gotten her eyes done. That's my second thing - I think Kate has been wearing a lot of heavy eye makeup recently because she's covering up some eye work. But other than that, I've always found her pretty. She has amazing skin and I believe she's mostly real. The problem is when she tries to convince everyone that she's 100% real.

Photos courtesy of InStyle UK and WENN.

Connor Cruise feels neglected by Tom, is rebelling against Scientology

Posted: 11 Nov 2011 09:24 AM PST

It’s always interesting when children raised inside of Scientology start to kick the cage a little bit. Of course, we’re talking here about 16-year-old Connor Cruise (son of the unhinged, lift-wearing midget known as “Tom”), for whom the plight certainly isn’t nearly as desperate as the young ladies who founded the Ex-Scientology Kids website. Still, Connor is pretty high profile as far as the CO$ is concerned, so it came as quite a surprise when he showed up on 10/26 at the TeenNick HALO Awards wearing a blatant symbol of Christianity around his neck. Let’s take a closer look at that Jesus emblem:

Let’s not completely jump the gun here though, for Scientologists are technically allowed to celebrate holidays like Christmas, according to Juliette Lewis. Still, their version of the holiday is much like X-Mas in that it’s pretty secular and largely revolves around the materialistic, gift-giving aspect of the season. So in contrast, is it a big deal what Connor is doing here? I tend to think it’s something worth acknowledging; and while this could merely be a passive-aggressive statement against the cult, he must have known that people would pay attention to a known Scientologist who is walking the red carpet with a Jesus necklace on.

This much celebrated demonstration of sentience on Connor’s part dovetails nicely with a story from this week’s In Touch that Connor is “losing his religion” and also has felt (for quite some time) that he doesn’t get enough attention from his parents:

Most kids spend their childhood under their parents’ thumbs — it kind of goes with the territory. But a family friend says that Tom has been unusually strict, and that Connor is finally getting sick of it. “He’s starting to rebel against his father and the other components in their life, maybe even Scientology,” the friend says. Connor was raised in Tom’s controversial religion, but he has recently been seen wearing Christian symbols, like crosses and a Jesus pendant. “He wants to be independent,” the friend says, “but Tom doesn’t want to give up control over his son.”

From the outside, Connor Cruise looks like one of the luckiest kids on the planet: His parents and stepparents are world-famous entertainers and — materially, at least — he wants for nothing. But the truth is tragically more complicated. As a source close to him tells In Touch, “Connor has always had a difficult relationship with his parents, and it has definitely affected him. He has broken down crying about it.”

The 16-year-old (as well as his sister, Isabella, 18) was adopted by Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman when he was a newborn. And he has long strugged with insecurity about his place in the family. “When he was young,” the source says, “Tom was always off doing his thing, working like a mandman. He traveled all the time, and was totally focused on his career. When he came home, he didn’t always have much left to give.” While Tom’s rep unsurprisingly denies the story, as a result, the source claims Tom, 49, and Connor’s relationship became strange and cold. “Tom is a very difficult man to get to know on a deep level. It’s almost like he treats Connor like a business associate rather than a son.”

Unfortuantely, Connor’s relationship with Nicole isn’t any better. “She wasn’t the best mom to him and Isabella,” the source says. His parents divorced in 2001, when Connor was just 6. And though, for a time, Nicole made an effort to stay involved in her kids’ lives, she had a miscarriage after Tom started the divorce proceedings, and it was hard for her to cope. “She forgot so many things, like school pickups and projects; she was a wreck, and probably had trouble giving them the affection they needed from her,” the source says.

Eventually, Nicole moved back to Australia. The source thinks Connor had been dealing with abandonment issues as a result o being adopted, and it was possibly the worst thing that could have happened. Until, that is, his half-siblings were born and he saw how differently their lives are from his.

On one hand, yes, Suri — Tom’s daughter with Katie Holmes — has a strange, sheltered life. But her parents also unabashedly lavish the 5-year-old with attention, fancy family trips and essentially whateve her heart desires materially. And Connor has had to watch jealously from the wings as his icy father grows warmer and warmer to his half-sister. “Connor loves Suri,” the source says. “But he also thinks she gets a lot more of Tom’s time and attention than they ever got.” The same goes for Nicole’s daughters with her husband, Keith Urban.

Now, the family friend says, “Connor is at a crossroads in his life. He’s been pushing for more freedom — he wants to drive a car and date whomever he chooses.” And this could spark a major war at home with his control-freak dad, who’s so notoriously stubborn about his beliefs. But ultimately, Connor’s move to separate himself from the family could be a good thing. And ironically, it may just be the best way to finally get Tom’s attention.

[From In Touch, print edition, November 21, 2011]

This is really a sad story, but I believe it completely. After all, the poor kid went though a divorce, which culminated with having his mother ripped away from him and declared a suppressive person. Now, a robot named Katie exists in Nicole’s place. As for his father, Tom’s always been a workaholic and still even follows up a long day on the set of an action movie with 10 hours of singing and dancing in preparation for the next film.

Meanwhile, Connor still attends the Delphian School (which, interestingly enough, is located on grounds that were once scouted for use as a penitentiary) in Sheridan, Oregon. As such, he has been immersed in L. Ron Hubbord’s Study Tech since, well, before he could even read. So Connor has spent his childhood in boarding school and has been raised by the cult although, at times, Tom and Katie made a few photo ops with him as recently as 2009. It’s just not enough though:

Meanwhile, Connor’s 18-year-old sister, Isabella, was also reportedly pondering giving up Xenu last year in exchange for rekindling her contact with mom Nicole Kidman. However, this plan was quickly scrapped when Katie enticed Isabella by making her an apprentice for the busted Holmes-Yang fashion line. Problem solved. For now.

I can completely empathize how Connor must feel while watching Tom from the sidelines, since he seems so much more joyous in public with Suri than he ever has before. There’s no way in hell that Suri will one day get shipped off to Delphian. Hell, Katie can’t even manage to attend fashion week in NYC without pulling Suri out of school. Although most Scientology children her age are on the brink of a demanding upbringing, things will be different for Suri. And I think that Connor realizes that.

Photos courtesy of Fame and WENN

Gwyneth Paltrow in green Elie Saab: goopy fug or goopy lovely?

Posted: 11 Nov 2011 05:10 AM PST

Damn, Gwyneth Paltrow looks like hell here, doesn't she? These are photos of Goop from last night's Bambi Awards in Germany. Goop wore this Elie Saab dress which… doesn't suit her. Go here to see the runway look - it's actually beautiful on the runway. On Goop, though, it falls flat. Operative word: flat. What's going on in the chest area? Couldn't Goop get some tailoring so she wouldn't look so… low? Beyond the dress and how the shade of green looks kind of cheap on her, her face looks busted too. And her FLAT IRONED HAIR. Dear God, it's like we're still back in the 1990s. Why must Goop do this to all of the time? Someone (Chris Martin) needs to take away her flat iron and burn that mofo.

In case you're wondering about Goop's necklace - it's Annoushka. Fug.

Goop also presented an award to Justin Bieber, it seems. Do you think little Apple is a Bieliber? Anyway, she got to stand there with Justin and some chick!!!!! OMG. That should totally go in the next Goop newsletter.

Speaking of this week's Goop-letter, Gwyneth talks about holiday gift-giving and some of her suggestions are… dare I say it… interesting. You can read the full Goop here - she makes lots of jewelry gift suggestions, and she seems to be putting in an effort to suggest some reasonably priced pieces. I LOVE the fingerprint earrings. I also love the pale-pink hardback Jane Austen collection. Gah! This week's Goop is good, and a lot of the companies are offering discounts if you say you heard of them from Goop. Smart and well-thought out. I hate when that happens!

Photos courtesy of WENN.

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