Entries from September 2007 ↓

I hope everyone is enjoying their Friday! I’ll admit things weren’t too wonderful on my end of things, but then I got sloshed on my lunch break, watched The Office while in my office, and just recently stumbled across the new preview page for season 4 of Project Runway. The site lists all of the PR contestants and tells a little about each one along with tasty little teaser videos about each person.

Since you are all very busy people (and I am currently a very bored person), I thought I’d help you out by summarizing both the bio pages and videos for you.

Let’s get started!

Carmen

Carmen does this thing when she talks where she closes her eyes for longer-than-appropriate amounts of time. Generally, this makes one look a little pompous. But seeing as though this show is a contest for fashion designers, it’s just par for the course. Perhaps the hair-tumor atop her head is giving her delusions of grandeur, since she believes her road to being an “established designer” happened at the age of 13 when she made t-shirts with monkeys on them. Monkeys that said things in french.

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You’d think the editor of GQ Magazine would be a little better at pleasing the ladies. Just sayin’.

Here are some shots of various hotties in previous issues of GQ…

Haha, just kidding! Though that would have been way more interesting than their actual discussion about anti-poverty initiatives. Yawn.

Seriously though… it’s nice to see another celebrity actively try to make the world a better place. It’s refreshing. Because with as much money and fame as celebrities have, it must be extremely tempting to slip into a highly     egocentric world. Hell, it’s easy enough as a mere plebeian such as myself.

Everyone says if they were famous they would use their status and money to try to “make the world a better place”, but a lot of celebrities just opt to do a lot of boog suge instead. And who knows, maybe Shakira has her fair share of boog suge, but at least she’s trying.

Though one might argue that her belly dancing in and of itself makes the world a better place. So now she’s just an overachiever.

While browsing the photos for Will.I.Am’s album release party, I expected photos of Fergie. And lucky for me (and you too, dear readers), she was having an “on” night.

Nikka Costa didn’t really surprise me either. Everybody’s got their something, and hers is music I guess, and it’s an album release party.. even if her one hit wonder happened six years ago. I can still work with that. I sort of love her belt+dress combo.

And then we have Melanie Brown. Her appearance is probably less surprising than even Nikka’s, because she’s a Spice Girl, and I’m sure Spice Girls get invited to lots of album release parties.

And unfortunately these days, when we have Melanie Brown, we also get to see her husband. Two words: Super. Creepy.

But what I can’t understand is this: Mena Suvari?

Or, more importantly… what in the hell is a super beat looking Rosanna Arquette doing at Will.I.Am’s album release party? No, really? Why the hell is she there?

Dear Readers,

In order to achieve the quality of life I do so enjoy, I must prioritize the job I get paid to do over sharing my thoughts on the latest celebrity gossip. Which isn’t that bad because I get paid to take pictures all day, which is really awesome. But it’s bad for you, because my stats tell me you are all refreshing and refreshing, hoping for new posts, and I just have to tell you - this is a bad week for a large quantity of updates.

So I will do the best I can, but in the meantime, here are a few of my favorite celeb gossip sites. Go, read, enjoy - but do check back. Things should get back to normal within the next day or two.

• Agent Bedhead
• D-listed
• Faded Youth
• Just Jared
• MollyGood
• Wendy Wayrad
• What would Tyler Durden do
• Yeeeah!

Oh yeah, as promised… click here if you want to see stills highlighting Natalie Portman’s fine ass in Wes Anderson’s upcoming Hotel Chevalier. Not to be pervy but she looks great and everyone should salute her for being brave enough to strip for the cameras.

xoxo,

-emily and the rest of team scandelirious

If it were any other day, Evan Rachel Wood’s interview in Arena Magazine would maybe piss me off a little, because I won’t lie - I don’t like the girl.

But today is not that day - today I got a completely amazing new desk chair that feels like you’re sitting on the stuff heaven is made of (which is actually red bull and banana pudding if you were interested, but I don’t know why you’d want to sit on that, just work with me), today I also got a 500gb harddrive which brings my total amount of diskpace up to 1.25 tera-fucking-bytes, and today I experienced a rare and addictive feeling I like to call “job satisfaction”.

Yes folks, today was a good day - I want you to remember that when you read this interview. Also remember that Evan Rachel Wood is showing early symptoms of a little disease called Tryingtooharditis and that once she gets the infection removed, she will undoubtedly feel like a complete and utter moron.

ERW on her future music career: “I’m probably more passionate about music than acting, but I don’t want to do it half-assed. And when I do, I get to deal with the rumours flying around that my boyfriend wrote all my songs and that I’m just using him for a singing career! Won’t that be great?”

You’ve made your name playing some fairly gruesome characters. Are teenagers really that smart, calculating, and evil? “People underestimate teenage girls. You turn on MTV and watch 19-year-olds on those dating shows and they’re just morons, so society thinks that’s what teenage girls are like. It’s not all alcohol and casual sex and breasts - some of us do have a brain, so it’s really important to me to play those characters. When I was 14 or 15 there was nobody in the public eye for me to relate to. Maybe Jodie Foster, but that was back in the day. And I was getting mad until I thought, “Why do I have to wait for someone to do it for me? I’ll go out and do it for myself.”

You’re 20 next week. How’s life been as a 21st century teenager? “You know everyone’s so worried about teenagers, sex, STDs — just talk to them! Educate them! I keep putting down MTV, it’s not solely their fault, but there’s not really any music on it any more. We did our music video and it was banned. And then I turn on The Real World or something, and it’s full of people getting drunk, having sex and not even remembering it the next day, and they act like it’s no big deal. It’s stupid.”

What a video it is, by the way…. “Thanks, though it will never be aired. But whatever. It’s on the internet.”

This award winning B+ list television and film actress is having second thoughts about the whole marriage thing. Seems as if her significant other is dying to make it official and she used to be. Just things have changed now and she wants to see what’s out there and see if she can find someone more her equal in status.

In completely unrelated news, here’s Katherine Heigl’s InStyle feature for October. The magazine created three separate covers for her. I’ve never watched a single episode of Grey’s Anatomy, so my only exposure to her was in Knocked Up, and she didn’t really win me over. Is she always that whiny? Anyway, I do like that she goes out often not wearing makeup… it’s refreshing.

Which cover do you like best?

Leslie Feist is my homegirl. I was so excited when this album turned out to be even better than her last, which I thought would be impossible, but no. Anyway this is definitely one of the standout tracks from the album, and the video is really neat.

But a lot of the neatness stems from how it was shot, which you can see below in this ‘the making of’ video.

She truly is a kind and generous person, isn’t she? Who knows how many hours she had to suffer in those shoes, yet she puts up with it because she knows how many fans are counting on her. And also because she’s probably getting paid a lot of money. Either way, thank you, Sarah Jessica Parker - thank you.

PS - I never knew porcupines could be so fashionable!

If you haven’t already seen Britney’s “meltdown” from a few days ago, you can see some of them here.

I just want to state for the record that for a long time I did feel sorry for her, but those days are long past. The argument that people are following her around everywhere has gotten stale. She has more than enough money to move away from the people who amplify her complete mess of a life. Perhaps it would not eliminate the exposure entirely but it would certainly help.

The bottom line is that she puts herself in these disastrous situations. Plenty of other child stars have grown up well enough to at least fake some sense of normalcy in the public eye - Christina Aguilera, Jodie Foster, Justin Timberlake.

She chooses to not wear underwear, she chooses to cut off ties with her family, she chooses to party almost every night - even during a time when the court has her under a microscope to judge her parenting skills.

There is no doubt in my mind that she is extremely troubled and needs help - and she does get my sympathy there - but how many wake up calls does it take before you relent and go to rehab for the right reasons? Really - what does it take?

So these photos of her crying, to me, are something of a very very small victory, because it might mean she’s had a fraction of a wake up call. She needs to have many, many more. Because as frustrating as it is to watch her spiral out of control and endanger the lives of her children, down deep I really just want her to get better. Sure, if that means an awesome new career comeback, I’ll be happy. It’s just starting to get tiring to keep up with the trainwreck that is Britney Spears, and the jokes are wearing thin - it’s not funny any more, and it probably never was to begin with.