Glitch with upgrading the page and all my comments and advertising got knocked off!!!
I'm working on fixing this right now!!!
Update: Got it fixed!!!
Friday, December 29, 2006
500 POSTS!!!!
I MADE IT!!!! *balloons and confetti* HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!!!
At any rate, here's something off of ONTD, because BloHan just doesn't make an ass of herself enough, now it's being suggested she do it politically too!!!
Maybe she can be "adequite" there.
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Singer/actress Lindsay Lohan is being encouraged by the New York State Independence Party (NYSIP) to run for local government in 2009.
The NYSIP's FRANK MORANO believes Lohan could bid for New York City Public Advocate - a position next in line to the mayor, which links the electorate and city government.
Morano writes, "As Albany is currently a cesspool of corruption, badly in need of reform, you may also want to consider a bid for the state legislature.
"Many celebrities have made the transition from Hollywood to politics, ranging from ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER and JESSE VENTURA to SONNY BONO and RONALD REAGAN. Few if any though, had the enormous potential that you possess."
source: http://www.actressarchives.com/news.php?id=3371
WOW.
Just Wow. I vaguely recall rumors years ago of him cheating.
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off of Yahoo! News:
CHICAGO -
Michael Jordan and his wife, Juanita, filed for divorce Friday after 17 years of marriage. "Michael and Juanita Jordan mutually and amicably decided to end their 17 year marriage," the couple said in a statement issued through their lawyers. "A judgment for dissolution of their marriage was entered today. There will be no further statements."
Michael Jordan and his wife, Juanita, filed for divorce Friday after 17 years of marriage. "Michael and Juanita Jordan mutually and amicably decided to end their 17 year marriage," the couple said in a statement issued through their lawyers. "A judgment for dissolution of their marriage was entered today. There will be no further statements."
Juanita Jordan previously filed for divorce in January 2002, but withdrew her petition a month later when the couple announced they were attempting a reconciliation.
During her last divorce petition, Jordan said attempts to reconcile their marriage had failed and future ones "would be impractical and not in the best interests of the family."
The couple met at a Chicago restaurant during his second season with the Bulls and were married Sept. 2, 1989, in Las Vegas. They have three children: Jeffrey, Marcus and Jasmine.
The 43-year-old Jordan, a part-owner of the Charlotte Bobcats, led the Bulls to six NBA titles and was a five-time league MVP. He lives in Highland Park, Ill.
Thursday, December 28, 2006
Ew.
from ONTD:
Is love in the air for Jennifer Aniston and billionaire playboy Steve Bing? In Touch is reporting that Steve, 41, approached Jen, 37, and gave her his phone number while she was having dinner with friends at West Hollywood’s Madeo restaurant. An insider revealed, “They’ve known each other socially. He saw an opportunity and made a move.”
Jen hasn’t taken Steve up on the offer just yet - and friends say he’s not the only guy who’s been hitting on the newly single star. Ever since she broke up with Vince Vaughn, “Men are coming out of the woodwork,” says a pal. One of those men is cyclist Lance Armstrong, 35, but a friend says Jen turned him down when he asked her on a date because of her friendship with his ex-fiancé, Sheryl Crow.
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and that's how you remain single. never date again.
Wednesday, December 27, 2006
It's Gonna Get UGLY!!!!
I thought James Brown blew all his $$$ on hookers, drugs, divorces and beatin settltments! He had $$ left?
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off of the Scotsman:
Widow of soul legend locked out as battle opens over will
KEVIN SCHOFIELD
THE first blow in what promises to be a long and protracted fight over James Brown's estate was struck yesterday when his widow was locked out of the home she and the soul legend had shared for the past ten years amid claims the pair had never been legally married.
Just hours after the singer's death, Tomi Rae Hynie returned to the house in Beech Island, South Carolina, to find that its wrought-iron gates had been padlocked shut.
"They've been robbing from him all of his life and they'll do it in death," she said.
Although she admitted she did not own the deeds to the home, she insisted she and the couple's five-year-old son, James Jr, had a legal right to continue living there.
"This is my home," Ms Hynie said outside the gates of the house. "I don't have any money. I don't have anywhere to go."
Brown and Ms Hynie were married in 2001. But the singer's lawyer, Buddy Dallas, said Ms Hynie was already married to another man, thereby making her marriage to Brown null and void.
Mr Dallas said Ms Hynie later annulled the previous marriage, but never remarried Brown, as she was required to do to make their union legal.
"It's not intended, and I hope not interpreted, to be an act of unkindness or an act of a lack of sympathy," Mr Dallas said.
"Ms Hynie has a home a few blocks away from Mr Brown's home where she resides periodically when she is not with Mr Brown. She is not without housing or home."
Brown died on Christmas Day of heart failure after being admitted to hospital with pneumonia. He was 73.
Known as the "Godfather of Soul", Brown made and lost millions of dollars during a long and often controversial music career which spanned more than half a century.
But with at least three ex-wives and six children, a huge legal battle is expected over who will get to share in the money he has left behind.
Born in May 1933 into extreme poverty, Brown earned money dancing for soldiers, picking cotton and shining shoes.
At end of the 1960s, by which time he was a household name around the world thanks to his music career, Brown had also proved himself to be a talented entrepreneur and owned his own publishing company, three radio stations and a Learjet.
However, the radio stations and the jet had to be sold during the 1970s after United States Internal Revenue Service demanded $4.5 million (£2.3 million) in unpaid taxes.
In 1999, Brown struck a deal which saw him receive more than $25 million (£13 million) in bonds against advance publishing royalties.
To provide further proof of his ability to spend money almost as quickly as he earned it, however, Brown sought to re- finance the bonds with a new loan this year.
Despite their tempestuous relationship - Brown was fined £570 on a domestic violence charge in 2004 - Ms Hynie yesterday insisted they were still a couple at the time of his death.
"The last thing he said to me was, 'I love you baby and I'll see you soon'," she said.
Mr Dallas said no-one could be allowed into Brown's home until a court certifies that any will left by the singer is genuine.
He said legal formalities now needed to be followed, adding that the singer's estate was left in trust for his children.
However, he declined to elaborate on Brown's final instructions.
Mr Dallas said the decision to lock Ms Hynie out of the couple's home was "not a reflection on her as an individual".
"I have not even been in the house, nor will I until appropriate protocol is followed," he said.
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off of the Scotsman:
Widow of soul legend locked out as battle opens over will
KEVIN SCHOFIELD
THE first blow in what promises to be a long and protracted fight over James Brown's estate was struck yesterday when his widow was locked out of the home she and the soul legend had shared for the past ten years amid claims the pair had never been legally married.
Just hours after the singer's death, Tomi Rae Hynie returned to the house in Beech Island, South Carolina, to find that its wrought-iron gates had been padlocked shut.
"They've been robbing from him all of his life and they'll do it in death," she said.
Although she admitted she did not own the deeds to the home, she insisted she and the couple's five-year-old son, James Jr, had a legal right to continue living there.
"This is my home," Ms Hynie said outside the gates of the house. "I don't have any money. I don't have anywhere to go."
Brown and Ms Hynie were married in 2001. But the singer's lawyer, Buddy Dallas, said Ms Hynie was already married to another man, thereby making her marriage to Brown null and void.
Mr Dallas said Ms Hynie later annulled the previous marriage, but never remarried Brown, as she was required to do to make their union legal.
"It's not intended, and I hope not interpreted, to be an act of unkindness or an act of a lack of sympathy," Mr Dallas said.
"Ms Hynie has a home a few blocks away from Mr Brown's home where she resides periodically when she is not with Mr Brown. She is not without housing or home."
Brown died on Christmas Day of heart failure after being admitted to hospital with pneumonia. He was 73.
Known as the "Godfather of Soul", Brown made and lost millions of dollars during a long and often controversial music career which spanned more than half a century.
But with at least three ex-wives and six children, a huge legal battle is expected over who will get to share in the money he has left behind.
Born in May 1933 into extreme poverty, Brown earned money dancing for soldiers, picking cotton and shining shoes.
At end of the 1960s, by which time he was a household name around the world thanks to his music career, Brown had also proved himself to be a talented entrepreneur and owned his own publishing company, three radio stations and a Learjet.
However, the radio stations and the jet had to be sold during the 1970s after United States Internal Revenue Service demanded $4.5 million (£2.3 million) in unpaid taxes.
In 1999, Brown struck a deal which saw him receive more than $25 million (£13 million) in bonds against advance publishing royalties.
To provide further proof of his ability to spend money almost as quickly as he earned it, however, Brown sought to re- finance the bonds with a new loan this year.
Despite their tempestuous relationship - Brown was fined £570 on a domestic violence charge in 2004 - Ms Hynie yesterday insisted they were still a couple at the time of his death.
"The last thing he said to me was, 'I love you baby and I'll see you soon'," she said.
Mr Dallas said no-one could be allowed into Brown's home until a court certifies that any will left by the singer is genuine.
He said legal formalities now needed to be followed, adding that the singer's estate was left in trust for his children.
However, he declined to elaborate on Brown's final instructions.
Mr Dallas said the decision to lock Ms Hynie out of the couple's home was "not a reflection on her as an individual".
"I have not even been in the house, nor will I until appropriate protocol is followed," he said.
Monday, December 25, 2006
Foo nappin with her sister!!!
Sorry but I took this today and I thought they were so adorable, I had to share!!!
Peace on Earth and Happy dreams to you all!
The Hardest Workin Wifebeater Dies!
James Brown is dead! Now that punk song can be played for real real. Honestly, I'm surprised he lived as long as he did.
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off of TMZ.com:
James Brown, a musical giant and one of the most breathakingly dynamic performers in all of entertainment, died early Christmas morning in Atlanta at the age of 73.
Brown, the self-described "Hardest Working Man in Show Business," was hospitalized with pneumonia at Emory Crawford Long Hospital on Sunday and died around 1:45 AM, according to his agent, Frank Copsidas. A longtime friend, Charles Bobbit, was at his side. Copsidas told the Associated Press, "We really don't know at this point what he died of."
With his unmistakable pompadour, stunningly agile dance moves, raspy vocal style, and almost superhuman on-stage energy, Brown, as much as anyone in the history of live performance, gave audiences their money's worth and much more. His gifts as a songwriter and singer, which helped earn him the title of "The Godfather of Soul," were hugely influential on the genres of funk, disco, and rap as well. His instantly recognizable hits included "I Got You (I Feel Good)," "Papa's Got A Brand New Bag," and "Say It Loud -- I'm Black and I'm Proud."
Brown's personal life, particularly over the last two decades, was beset with allegations of drug and alcohol abuse and domestic trouble. He spent 15 months in a South Carolina prison and 10 months in a work release program after leading police on a half-hour, PCP-fueled chase which ended with the tires of his truck being shot out. Brown recently married his fourth wife, backup singer Tomi Raye Hynie, with whom he had a young son. Brown had five children with his previous wives.
Friday, December 22, 2006
Guilty Pleasure
Merry Freakin Christmas and Happy Hollydaze from Spin!!!!
I am still a total child and I don't care. So there. Nyah.
I am still a total child and I don't care. So there. Nyah.
Tuesday, December 19, 2006
Bitches, please.
I have a rant that I need to get out, to let go of. I hate christmas, I hate the holidays. The only thing I like about it is the fact is that I get a little paid time off to goof off and scratch my butt in the privacy of my own home.
Frequently I run over to the mall, which is right across from where I work, to walk about and stretch my legs because I sit at a desk all day and well, I need to move and get a change of scenery. My usual obstacles include mallstitues, trophy- and cow-wives dragging their fuck trophies about and old people who feel entitled to take up the entire ailse instead of moving off to the handy and convenient side for everyone's mobility.
Christmas increases these obstacles to the point where I am ready to go on a killing rampage and/or round up some homeless people and set them loose in the mall.
I simply hate people who think they are entitled. They piss me off. I don't care about your christmas or whatever you celebrate. And no, the reason for the season, you fucktard, is the SUN. Everything anyone celebrates is all rooted from the fact that the winter solstice occurs every year at the same time, the day usually looking dreary and grey. Ancient man, before he started writing things down, celebrated this seasonal marker where the days would begin the lengthen. Get over it.
And you Trophy- and Cow-wives with your fuck-trophies....you really believe that you are entitled, hell, it's even your right to reproduce.....fuck you. You have a right to a dick in your ass. You are just in the majority of women who wants somebody else to take care of them and not take care of themselves. If you are so certain that reproducing is your right, then you should pay for that fucktrophy all by yourself. Pay for it all. No crying to anyone that you can't afford medicine, no crying to any shape of government that you need to educate your monstrocity. You want it yourself, you deal with all of it yourself. Shut the hell up and quite using reproduction as a weapon. Having the equipment doesn't give you anything.
And you little pissant mallstitutes/fucktrophies/trophy-wife/cow-wife in training: you will be fat one day, it happens to everyone. Especially you. How are you going to deal with it?
At least this is a temporary scene and in a few weeks it will all die down. I just needed to clear the air and I feel better now.
Merry fuckin Xmas.
Now get out of my way.
Page Six Blind Items!!!
Just Asking
WHICH veteran baseball player's wife is worried he will start up another affair? The long-suffering missus demanded he switch to a team 1,500 miles away when she caught him the last time . . .
WHICH "socialite" has high-society circles buzzing that she originally joined their inner circle as a high-class hooker? . . .
WHICH young starlet will never be invited back on Oprah? The night before her taping, she stayed out until 5 a.m. and then showed up to the studio an hour late stinking of booze . . .
WHICH notoriously angry supermodel has been seen attending AA meetings (but not anger- management meetings) at a temple on the Upper East Side?
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Mary, please...
Andy Pettite
Kathy Hilton
Lindsay Lohan
Naomi Cambell
WHICH veteran baseball player's wife is worried he will start up another affair? The long-suffering missus demanded he switch to a team 1,500 miles away when she caught him the last time . . .
WHICH "socialite" has high-society circles buzzing that she originally joined their inner circle as a high-class hooker? . . .
WHICH young starlet will never be invited back on Oprah? The night before her taping, she stayed out until 5 a.m. and then showed up to the studio an hour late stinking of booze . . .
WHICH notoriously angry supermodel has been seen attending AA meetings (but not anger- management meetings) at a temple on the Upper East Side?
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Mary, please...
Andy Pettite
Kathy Hilton
Lindsay Lohan
Naomi Cambell
Friday, December 15, 2006
FUNNY!
My goal is to hit 500 posts before the end of the year....But this is funny as hell!
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off of thisislondon.co.uk:
A drunk company director was in court today after passing out on a railway track in the afternoon rush hour.
Kevin Craswell, 48, consumed a "lethal" amount of vodka and was seen by passengers at 3.30pm crawling along the railway at Epsom.
Astonishing pictures show him asleep and using the rail as a pillow. Witnesses even said they could hear him snoring from the platform.
Police said he was extraordinarily lucky to have survived. Oncoming trains had to be diverted at the last minute.
Staff took almost half an hour to wake Craswell and it caused Network Rail almost four hours of subsequent delays, costing £7,296.
Craswell, a company director from Ashstead who had "fallen on hard times", was taken to hospital where he later received an on-the-spot fine for being drunk and disorderly.
He has pleaded guilty to a charge of "obstructing the railway by neglect" at Redhill magistrates.
Graham Guerin, defending Craswell, had told an earlier hearing: "This is a professional man who fell on hard times five years ago and developed a drink problem. He had drunk a substantial amount of vodka and has no recollection of this incident. But he acknowledges the danger he presented not only to himself but to others.
"Since this happened he has taken steps to help himself and also arranged to see a counsellor."
Thursday, December 14, 2006
So...
Somebody with some sense finally stepped in!
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off of Page Six:
Party's Over
THE friendship between Britney Spears and Paris Hilton was short, sweet and photogenic. But now, it seems, it's over. A source close to Spears explains why the pop tart, who lost her undies last week, has not been seen with her "new best friend" Hilton since she posted an apology to her fans on her Web site, noting, "Thank God for Victoria's Secret underwear!" The source said, "Britney has been told by her people that if she ever wants a comeback, she has to stay far away from Paris and start acting like an adult."
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off of Page Six:
Party's Over
THE friendship between Britney Spears and Paris Hilton was short, sweet and photogenic. But now, it seems, it's over. A source close to Spears explains why the pop tart, who lost her undies last week, has not been seen with her "new best friend" Hilton since she posted an apology to her fans on her Web site, noting, "Thank God for Victoria's Secret underwear!" The source said, "Britney has been told by her people that if she ever wants a comeback, she has to stay far away from Paris and start acting like an adult."
Wednesday, December 13, 2006
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
So the moral of the story is....
stay away from Indian guys? They aren't "up" to snuff it seems!
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off of msnbc.com:
NEW DELHI - Condoms designed to meet international size specifications are too big for many Indian men as their penises fall short of what manufacturers had anticipated, an Indian study has found.
The Indian Council of Medical Research, a leading state-run center, said its initial findings from a two-year study showed 60 percent of men in the financial capital Mumbai had penises about 1 inch shorter than those condoms catered for.
For a further 30 percent, the difference was at least 2 inches. A poor fit meant the prophylactics often didn't do the job they were bought for, and led to some tearing or slipping off during use.
"One of the reasons for a failure of up to 20 percent (of condoms) is the association of the size of the condom to the erect penis," the council's Dr. Chander Puri told Reuters, adding another reason was couples often put them on in a hurry.
Puri said many men in India, which has the world's highest HIV positive caseload, were too shy to ask for condoms.
"We need more vending machines for condoms of different sizes so people can pick a condom with confidence that is suited to their needs," he said.
The Times of India reported the ICMR survey had studied 1,400 men between 18-50 years of age in cities like Mumbai and New Delhi as well as in rural areas in a report. It entitled its story "Indian men don't measure up."
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off of msnbc.com:
NEW DELHI - Condoms designed to meet international size specifications are too big for many Indian men as their penises fall short of what manufacturers had anticipated, an Indian study has found.
The Indian Council of Medical Research, a leading state-run center, said its initial findings from a two-year study showed 60 percent of men in the financial capital Mumbai had penises about 1 inch shorter than those condoms catered for.
For a further 30 percent, the difference was at least 2 inches. A poor fit meant the prophylactics often didn't do the job they were bought for, and led to some tearing or slipping off during use.
"One of the reasons for a failure of up to 20 percent (of condoms) is the association of the size of the condom to the erect penis," the council's Dr. Chander Puri told Reuters, adding another reason was couples often put them on in a hurry.
Puri said many men in India, which has the world's highest HIV positive caseload, were too shy to ask for condoms.
"We need more vending machines for condoms of different sizes so people can pick a condom with confidence that is suited to their needs," he said.
The Times of India reported the ICMR survey had studied 1,400 men between 18-50 years of age in cities like Mumbai and New Delhi as well as in rural areas in a report. It entitled its story "Indian men don't measure up."
Monday, December 11, 2006
Frat Boys Lose!
Borat wins! Let the sexy fun time continue!!
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off of reuters:
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - As the esteemed Kazakh television journalist Borat Sagdiyev might say: "High Five. Sexy Time. You Lose."
Two college fraternity buddies shown guzzling alcohol and making racist remarks in the "Borat" movie have lost their bid for a court order to cut the scene they claim has tarnished their reputations, court papers revealed on Monday.
The students sued the movie's distributor and producers last month, saying filmmakers had duped them into appearing in "Borat" by getting them drunk and falsely promising the film would never be shown in the United States.
At the time the suit was filed, a judge denied the pair's request for a temporary restraining order that would remove footage of them from the film, but the plaintiffs were given a another chance to seek an injunction at a hearing last week.
The South Carolina college students lost again when Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Joseph Biderman ruled they had failed to show a reasonable probability of success on the merits of their case or that money damages alone would be insufficient to resolve their claims.
Arguments on the latest motion focused mainly on the future DVD release of the hit movie, "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan."
The faux documentary, distributed by 20th Century Fox, has already grossed more than $120 million at the North American box office after six weeks in theaters.
The lawyer for the students, Olivier Taillieu, said last week that while the film's theatrical run is coming to a close, the perpetuity of the film on DVD posed ongoing problems for his clients, including harm to their ability to seek work.
Last month, Taillieu said the movie had cost one of the students a job at a major corporation and another a prestigious internship. The students were identified in court papers only as John Doe 1 and John Doe 2. A third student involved in the scene did not take part in the suit.
The film stars British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen as a fictional Kazakh TV journalist whose boorish sensibilities clash with ordinary Americans. The story line is driven by a series of improvised encounters with people who become Baron Cohen's unsuspecting foils.
The scene at issue in the lawsuit depicts Borat getting drunk with three frat boys in a motor home while they watch a sex tape and make racist remarks about slavery and minorities in the United States.
20th Century Fox is a unit of News Corp.
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off of reuters:
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - As the esteemed Kazakh television journalist Borat Sagdiyev might say: "High Five. Sexy Time. You Lose."
Two college fraternity buddies shown guzzling alcohol and making racist remarks in the "Borat" movie have lost their bid for a court order to cut the scene they claim has tarnished their reputations, court papers revealed on Monday.
The students sued the movie's distributor and producers last month, saying filmmakers had duped them into appearing in "Borat" by getting them drunk and falsely promising the film would never be shown in the United States.
At the time the suit was filed, a judge denied the pair's request for a temporary restraining order that would remove footage of them from the film, but the plaintiffs were given a another chance to seek an injunction at a hearing last week.
The South Carolina college students lost again when Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Joseph Biderman ruled they had failed to show a reasonable probability of success on the merits of their case or that money damages alone would be insufficient to resolve their claims.
Arguments on the latest motion focused mainly on the future DVD release of the hit movie, "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan."
The faux documentary, distributed by 20th Century Fox, has already grossed more than $120 million at the North American box office after six weeks in theaters.
The lawyer for the students, Olivier Taillieu, said last week that while the film's theatrical run is coming to a close, the perpetuity of the film on DVD posed ongoing problems for his clients, including harm to their ability to seek work.
Last month, Taillieu said the movie had cost one of the students a job at a major corporation and another a prestigious internship. The students were identified in court papers only as John Doe 1 and John Doe 2. A third student involved in the scene did not take part in the suit.
The film stars British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen as a fictional Kazakh TV journalist whose boorish sensibilities clash with ordinary Americans. The story line is driven by a series of improvised encounters with people who become Baron Cohen's unsuspecting foils.
The scene at issue in the lawsuit depicts Borat getting drunk with three frat boys in a motor home while they watch a sex tape and make racist remarks about slavery and minorities in the United States.
20th Century Fox is a unit of News Corp.
Speaking of bad role models....
Ok maybe not role models cuz we all know that's crap....but parade around poor self-image...and $cientology is getting their hooks in! watch out Will & Jada Smith!!! You're next!!
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also off of page six:
THAT Victoria Beckham styled Katie Holmes for an upcoming Harper's Bazaar cover, and during the 300-plus person shoot in Los Angeles, the production team was told not to look either of them in the eye.
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also off of page six:
THAT Victoria Beckham styled Katie Holmes for an upcoming Harper's Bazaar cover, and during the 300-plus person shoot in Los Angeles, the production team was told not to look either of them in the eye.
Gee, you think?
This is only going to be looked at because the fashion industry doesn't want outside regulations! Bastards, of course there's a problem!! First models were waaaaay too young, now they are too skinny!
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off of page six:
December 11, 2006 -- LEADERS of New York's fashion industry will meet soon to figure out how to deal with increasing calls for laws to keep dangerously underfed models off the catwalks.
Vogue Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour is spearheading the effort to get the session together.
"Anna held a symposium on the issue, and she's planning another meeting this week," said one model agency chief. "We would much rather come up with a way of self-policing ourselves than have regulations rammed down our throats."
The head of another modeling agency said, "Everyone should take a look at it, and if there's a problem, let's fix it."
Italy's government and its fashion chiefs said last week they're working on a plan to crack down on ultra-thin models who appear to be suffering from eating disorders.
The move came three months after Spain passed a law requiring that every model have a body-mass index of at least 18 (a measure of body fat). Last month, Brazilian model Ana Carolina Reston died at age 21 from anorexia.
Besides the beauties' health, the fashion honchos fear they'll be blamed for promoting unhealthy body images for generations of teenage girls.
Washington Post fashion writer Robin Givhan says many models today are "pale, almost to the point of translucent, and astonishingly thin. They look positively rickety. Seeing one in a swimsuit can make you shudder. They are not sexy or even particularly pretty. How can they be when they look as though the life has been sucked out of them?"
The skinniest seem to come from Eastern Europe. Givhan names Snejana Onopka, Vlada Roslyakova and Sasha Pivovarova.
"Over a typical runway season, the same models appear so often on different runways that it is easy to become immune to how shockingly thin they are. After a while, it seems normal that a model's thighs are the same circumference as a 12-year-old's upper arm," Givhan wrote.
"If the industry does not think carefully about the current aesthetic," she warned, "what comes next could be truly ghastly."
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off of page six:
December 11, 2006 -- LEADERS of New York's fashion industry will meet soon to figure out how to deal with increasing calls for laws to keep dangerously underfed models off the catwalks.
Vogue Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour is spearheading the effort to get the session together.
"Anna held a symposium on the issue, and she's planning another meeting this week," said one model agency chief. "We would much rather come up with a way of self-policing ourselves than have regulations rammed down our throats."
The head of another modeling agency said, "Everyone should take a look at it, and if there's a problem, let's fix it."
Italy's government and its fashion chiefs said last week they're working on a plan to crack down on ultra-thin models who appear to be suffering from eating disorders.
The move came three months after Spain passed a law requiring that every model have a body-mass index of at least 18 (a measure of body fat). Last month, Brazilian model Ana Carolina Reston died at age 21 from anorexia.
Besides the beauties' health, the fashion honchos fear they'll be blamed for promoting unhealthy body images for generations of teenage girls.
Washington Post fashion writer Robin Givhan says many models today are "pale, almost to the point of translucent, and astonishingly thin. They look positively rickety. Seeing one in a swimsuit can make you shudder. They are not sexy or even particularly pretty. How can they be when they look as though the life has been sucked out of them?"
The skinniest seem to come from Eastern Europe. Givhan names Snejana Onopka, Vlada Roslyakova and Sasha Pivovarova.
"Over a typical runway season, the same models appear so often on different runways that it is easy to become immune to how shockingly thin they are. After a while, it seems normal that a model's thighs are the same circumference as a 12-year-old's upper arm," Givhan wrote.
"If the industry does not think carefully about the current aesthetic," she warned, "what comes next could be truly ghastly."
Pari$ite tacky? *rolls eyes*
off of page six:
Stavros' Parents Snub Paris
WE are shocked - shocked! - that Paris Hilton may have bought her own faux engagement ring to start speculation that Stavros Niarchos is going to marry her. Hilton wore a fake diamond solitaire on her left ring finger to an alice+olivia dinner party last week and wouldn't answer questions about her and Niarchos. But close friends say they're not engaged - and moreover, the shipping heir's parents have no intention of even meeting their son's sometime succubus. "They refused to meet her last year when Paris and Stavros had dated for a while," a source said. "Paris even followed him and his family to Hawaii, where they go every New Year's, and they still wouldn't meet her. They think she's tacky." It's a sentiment that seems to be shared by the father of Nicky Hilton's paramour, David Katzenberg. A family friend said Jeffrey Katzenberg, the former Disney exec who co-founded DreamWorks, "thinks the Hiltons are just . . . lowbrow and that his son is young and should be dating around." Meanwhile, it's only been a month, but Nicky and David are already saying, "I love you."
Stavros' Parents Snub Paris
WE are shocked - shocked! - that Paris Hilton may have bought her own faux engagement ring to start speculation that Stavros Niarchos is going to marry her. Hilton wore a fake diamond solitaire on her left ring finger to an alice+olivia dinner party last week and wouldn't answer questions about her and Niarchos. But close friends say they're not engaged - and moreover, the shipping heir's parents have no intention of even meeting their son's sometime succubus. "They refused to meet her last year when Paris and Stavros had dated for a while," a source said. "Paris even followed him and his family to Hawaii, where they go every New Year's, and they still wouldn't meet her. They think she's tacky." It's a sentiment that seems to be shared by the father of Nicky Hilton's paramour, David Katzenberg. A family friend said Jeffrey Katzenberg, the former Disney exec who co-founded DreamWorks, "thinks the Hiltons are just . . . lowbrow and that his son is young and should be dating around." Meanwhile, it's only been a month, but Nicky and David are already saying, "I love you."
Friday, December 8, 2006
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