Out. More to blow out, as in birthday candles. Everyone’s favorite Spice Girl, Geri Haliwell, turned 42 yesterday and her boyfriend, Formula One driver Christian Horner, made her feel the love on his yacht with this adorable cake. Hope our lil’ Ginger enjoyed her big day.
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I have to say though I am not a fan of Katie Holmes per se, I can say that she would’ve probably been a good Piper Chapman on Orange Is the New Black. Honestly, I can say that with confidence, but I do loves me some Taylor Schilling. I fell in love with Tay Schill on an NBC show called Mercy, which, was merciless (um, see what I did there?) cancelled on a cliffhanger storyline after season 1, thanks for that NBC. OINTB creater, the genius Jenji Kohan, said she met with Katie but she had “other things to do” and that ended up being a good thing for us as we got the true Piper. Let us note that Taylor got to make out and have some steamy sex scenes with Zac Efron in the movie The Lucky One so she is pretty much my hero.
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On last night’s Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert referred to the political dynasty of Ron Paul, Rand Paul, and their “cousin Ru” – and pointed out that Ru’s strong conservative message of “You Better Werk,” can be clearly interpreted as “a call to end the welfare state!” Watch the hysterical clip after the jump. (via HuffPo)
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What have we got here: Fringed leather purse? Check. Cloche hat with veil? Check. Studded booties? Check. Jean cutoff shorts? Well, alright girl. Yep, that’s EJ Johnson dashing out of Bootsy Bellows in Los Angeles looking verychicverychic. Check out the pics after the jump.
(Photos: Pacific Coast News)
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Remember Paolo Nutini? The pillow-lipped Scottish crooner had a minor US hit in 2007 with “New Shoes.” Now he’s back with a decidedly darker song and video. The short film for ”Iron Sky” starts with two minutes of grainy, difficult-to-watch documentary footage of junkies, schizophrenics, homeless people, and a man writhing in pain covering his ears. Then the song begins. And what a song it is. That ragged, raspy voice over the soulful musical track, which samples Charlie Chaplin’s speech from The Great Dictator, makes for a gorgeous contrast with director Daniel Wolfe’s images. Completely mesmerizing from start to finish. Aaaaaaand now I want to go smoke some crack.
Here’s Paolo in happier times. My GOD he’s a good-looking bloke.
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A guy wakes up to discover his wife in the kitchen making “grilled cheeses” out of Goldfish crackers and string cheese. Which I’m totally going to do when I get home. But, seriously, is this the most adorable couple you’ve EVER seen? I just want to move in with them and drink rosé and eat grilled cheeses forever.
Whatever you do, though, DON’T read the YouTube comments. Is it just me, or have they gotten nastier lately? I blame Le Reddit army.
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The amazing artist Arabia Felix has created a “RuView” cartoon of Raja and Raven‘s Fashion Photo RuView! The video is coming SOON! But you can click over and get a sneak peek now!
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Lady Gaga was performing in Denver when the altitude got to her and she had to make an unplanned visit to the ER. She, of course, shared that moment and she wore the perfect lashes for the occasion!
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She’s posted just one photo and has 19,000+ followers and counting. Her first post is a bit like what your Mom might post, if your Mom was a EGOT-winning, multi-millionaire, international superstar…
“Hello Instagram… isn’t my Samantha just precious?”
Wonder how many unretouched photos we’ll see? I would venture to guess, not many. See for yourself and follow Babs here.
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Fascinating stuff. Mike Rugnetta of the PBS Idea Channel wonders whether there are such things as Internet dialects. Specifically, Rugnetta argues that certain shared social practices might in fact cause Internet dialects in places like Tumblr.
We consider ourselves natives of INTERNETLAND, which made us wonder if there’s such a thing as an internet dialect. Not pronunciation, per se (since we type in these here parts), but a common way of communicating through word choice, vocabulary, and how these words are arranged and used. So what is Standard Internet Speak? Acronyms, emoticons, and hashtags? Purposeful misspellings and abbreviations? IS IT EVEN A THING?!?!?
Watch the video and ponder the long-lasting implications of Insternet Shorthand/cyberpidgin on language as a whole.
(via The Laughing Squid)
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Growing up in dreary old Michigan, my idea of adulthood was always the party scene in Breakfast at Tiffany’s. That’s the life I longed for. That’s the world I belonged in. I lived vicariously through cinematic party scenes back then, still do. A good party scene makes the movie. I’ve included my favorites in this list of the 15 best movie party scenes of all time. You might disagree. For instance, there’s no Animal House, because yuck. And no 16 Candles because I couldn’t find the right YouTube video. And a certain movie made the number one spot because, well, it had to.
15. Romeo & Juliet: Any party where young Leonardo DiCaprio is tripping balls (and wearing chain mail) while drag queens sing “Young Hearts Run Free” is alright by me. The video is rather poor quality (it’s the only one I could find) but you’ll get the gist. And strangely, this looks like every megaclub I went to in the ’90s.
14. The Great Gatsby: Nobody does razzle-dazzle like Baz Luhrman, and the debauched flapper extravaganza in The Great Gatsby left audiences breathless. The SMH sums it up: “Singers, dancers, swelling music, waiters with giant bottles of champagne, staircases, a swimming pool, squeals of delight, fireworks, glittering jewelry and hundreds of well-tailored guests having the time of their lives. The parties at Jay Gatsby’s mansion dazzle in The Great Gatsby.They are not so much a sketch of the opulence and decadence of Jazz Age New York as a full-blooded, pulsating immersion in it.”
13. The Big Cube: Whoa, man, it’s, like, a psychadelic freak-out in The Big Cube, and these drug-addled kids are groovin’ out in this scene, dancing the Monkey, the Pony, the Jerk, and the Hully Gully. This club is number one on my list when I get my time machine.
12. Clueless (The Val party). What you WISHED your high school parties were like.
11. Bells Are Ringing: Judy Holiday finds herself at a snooty ’50s-era party, trying to make conversation with the beau monde, and failing miserably. “Just drop a name!” someone suggests, and the ensuing musical number is a list of names that were deemed droppable at the time. It’s heaven.
10. Anna Karenina: In the 2012 movie version, Anna and the soul-squashingly debonaire Count Vronsky take an erotically-charged spin around the dance floor that scandalizes Moscow society. Choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui’s post-modern take on the waltz will linger in your memory for weeks. The sensual writhing and twisting of their arms, the way that ANNA spins VRONSKY around, and his sublime peacocking is simply gasp-inducing. I must have watched it half a dozen times before uploading it here. Can you imagine actually going to a party like this?
09. Beyond the Valley of the Dolls: What the what? You know those bizarro after-hours parties you sometimes find yourself at where nobody is making a lick of sense, and everything takes on a weird dreamlike logic? Times that by INFINITY, and you have the party scenes in Beyond the Valley of the Dolls. I love it.
08. Sweet Charity: Bimbo-with-a-heart-of-gold Shirley MacLaine is taken to the Pompeii Club by film star Vittorio Vidal and watches the beautiful people in their natural environment doing the “Rich Man’s Frug.” The costumes, the Bob Fosse dance movies, Shirley’s infectious energy… it all combines into one glorious explosion of color and manic ’60s energy. This was one of those scenes that I clung onto in my teen years, convincing myself if I could just get to New York, I could be one of these people and live this kind of life.
07. Absolute Beginners: The party scene from the vastly underrated Absolute Beginners is one of my absolute favorites. It’s set in the ’50s, yet looks oddly ’80s. Weird. In this clip, young photographer Colin (played by the adorable Eddie O’Connell) finds himself at a wild party thrown by the late great Anita Morris, and decides it’s time to sell out. I could watch it all day.
06. Bonfire of the Vanities: BizBash on what makes the opening scene so magnificent:
It is a single tracking shot, one of of De Palma’s trademarks, and it follows the arrival of author Peter Fallow (played by Bruce Willis) at his book party for The Real Sherman McCoy. Yes it is exaggerated, over-the-top, and very broadly acted. But us party folks can’t help but acknowledge how much they got right: the overly effusive celebrity handler who leads the tipsy honoree through a maze of back alleys, then the requisite celebrity-hits-on-event-staffer interlude, until finally the honoree is deposited into the hands of a beautiful socialite who is chairing the evening and who escorts him out onto the Winter Garden Room at the World Financial Center, which was the de rigeur event site of the late ’80s, early ’90s for folks like Amfar and Christian La Croix. Anyone who has had to greet, meet, usher, coddle, clean-up, or shield a celebrity arriving at an event has to enjoy this scene.
05. Midnight Cowboy: Wannabe hustler Jon Voight and his crippled con-man BFF Dustin Hoffman attend a trippy, Warhol-esque party complete with actual Warhol Superstars Viva, Ondine and Ultra Violet. ”Flesh and blood and smoke will be served after midnight,” according to the flyer. The party style and decor is heavily influenced by Andy Warhol’s own psychedelic events, and there’s a glimmer of The Electric Circus in the set design. If you’ve ever wondered what it was like to party at the factory, this is probably as close as you’re going to find.
04. Star Wars: Mos Eisley’s Cantina, of course, is a bar on the planet Tatooine. ”You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy” says Obi Wan to Luke before they enter. What happens next is the stuff of every little boys dreams. Oh, to go clubbing on Tatooine.
03. Auntie Mame: The be-all and end-all of sophisticated party banter. Sigh. Was there anyone ever more chic than Rosalind Russell? Her flamboyant, exuberant portrayal of Mame Dennis never gets old. And the over-the-top opening party scene here is one for the ages. (And be sure to note the ethnic, geographical, and sexual diversity of her guests. Pretty progressive for the 1950s).
02. Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Perfect. Just perfect.
01. Party Monster. What can I say? It’s my life, onscreen. Of course I think it’s number one!
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RuPaul takes over Utopia on SXM Radio this weekend! RuTopia starts this Friday at 5:00pm ET (2:00pm PST) and will continue all weekend on SXM Radio Channel 55!
RuPaul will be playing all Ru-approved dance songs from the 90s and 2000s! Click over to SXM Radio to see the schedule! Will you be tuning in? YOU BETTER BE!
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Cecilia Roth
Connie Stevens
Countess Vaughn
Deborah Norville
Drew Lachey
Dustin Hoffman
Esther Williams
Faye Wong
JC Chasez
Katie Leung
Keith Carradine
Kool Moe Dee
Lindsay Sloane
Meagan Good
Michael Urie
Peyton List
Princess Beatrice of York
Rikki Rockett
Robin Quivers
Roger Federer
Scott Stapp
The Edge
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Amanda Bearse
Anna Kendrick
Ashley Johnson
Audrey Tatou
Chris Cuomo
Deion Sanders
Divine Brown
Eric Bana
Gillian Anderson
Hoda Kotb
Jessica Capshaw
Juanes
Kevin McKidd
Kurtis Blow
McG
Melanie Griffith
Michael Kors
Nikki Ziering
Rhona Mitra
Sam Elliott
Whitney Houston
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JEFF KOONS, La Beaute, Avignon, 2000, est. $1,000-2,000
Some people never outgrow toys and continue to accumulate them. Others like to collect editioned 3D objects by big-name artists that are more affordable (I might fall into this category.) Still others scratch their heads and say, “I don’t get it.” (See next post, Jeff Koons balloon dog.) The auction site Paddle 8, is featuring a sale called Club House now with just such work. You can check them all out here. Auction ends August 13.
SUI JIANGUO, Made in China (blue), 2008, est $1,000 -1,500
YAYOI KUSAMA, “Large” Kusama Pumpkin Soft Sculpture, current bid $1,500
KAWS, Blitz Set of 3 (Blue, Green and Clear), 2004, set $1,000 – $2,000
YOSHITOMO NARA, PupCup, $100 – 200
NICK CAVE, Three works: Double sided Inflatable Punching Bag, Imagination Book, Temporary Tattoos, est $100-200
DANIEL ARSHAM, Mobile Phone (Future Relic 01), 2013, est $700-900
SHELTER SERRA, Fake Roley for Kids! est $40-90
SUCKLORD, Jerry Saltz Action Figure, est $200-400
(via Paddle 8)
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First, I missed out on buying a balloon dog edition from the New Museum gift shop a dozen years ago. It was $500 then and now sells for $5000+ – if you can find one. Target sold a plastic balloon dog lamp, which I missed the boat on as well, and then I didn’t hop on H&M’s recent authorized Koon’s balloon dog purse ($49.95) bandwagon fast enough and now THEY are sold out. (They’re already resurfacing on eBay at triple the price and more.) Coulda, shoulda, woulda, Prada. But now a Chinese company called VLA Sculpture (Vincent Landscape Architect?) is supposedly selling stainless steel and resin balloon dog sculptures on Alibaba, a massive Chinese e-commerce site. There are various actual Koons Balloon Dogs, the most famous being the orange one, which set a record at auction for a living artist. $58.4 million. (The orange is my favorite, anyway.) The VLA list offers eight options of pricing based on material and dimensions. The largest size offered are $5,850 for stainless steel, but just $2,925 for resin. I emailed the company rep, Rebecca, to find out if they are still offering these, but so far, no response. I’ll update this post, if and when I get an answer.) If you don’t have an extra $6K sitting around, artist Rob Myers has offered another solution. He’s posted files to 3-D print your own balloon dog to Thingiverse which is connected to the Makerbot 3-D printing site. Arnet reached out to the Koons Studio to ask if the artist plans to take any legal action but they have not received any response to date. (Come to think of it, maybe this is why Rebecca hasn’t gotten back to me…?)
But what I really want to know is; Fenton, which color are you getting? Resin or stainless steel? It’ll look great at the top of the stairs.
(via Artnet)
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