LA Fashion Week: Art, Religion and Post-Production
Fall/Winter Fashion Week in Los Angeles doesn’t have a home any more– it has several, ranging from an ultra-hip mid-Wilshire art gallery to a former cathedral downtown to a well-known postproduction facility in Hollywood. Gone are the days when most of the runway shows were at Smashbox Studios in Culver City. Whether you liked that place or not, and we did, it was centrally located and pretty much one-stop shopping to see...
Sheen to Lorre: See You in Court, Chuck E. Cheeseball
Pumped up with a blend of Tiger blood and Adonis DNA, Charlie Sheen didn’t waste any time firing back against Warner Bros. and their star show-runner and his hated nemesis, Chuck Lorre, after they fired him on Monday. Team Sheen just unleashed a $100 million lawsuit against the parties, plus punitive damages on behalf of the cast and crew, claiming his dismissal was an orchestrated plot to push him out of his contract. The...
Melissa Leo F-Bombs. Christian Bale Atones. James Franco Spaces. Kirk Douglas Vamps. The Ratings Are In For Oscars ’11
“You look beautiful and hip,” said James Franco to Anne Hathaway as they began their hosting duties at the 83rd Annual Academy Awards on ABC. “And you look like you appeal to a younger demographic,” she replied, thus addressing the apparent reason why the two young movie stars had been named as hosts of Hollywood’s biggest night. Big picture, the move pretty much backfired. Despite the wide popularity...
Oscar Gowns and Gaffes
When it comes to the Academy Awards, the ultra white-hot impact red carpet photographs have a shelf life of years, if not decades. One false fashion move can follow you forever, and we’re afraid Melissa Leo made it. The best supporting actress winner has actually come up in our estimation for breaking the mold during the highly political awards season campaigning. Let’s not forget no one had really heard of her until a few years ago...
Treacherous Times for Female TV Reporters
These have been the worst of times for two female television news reporters, who in an ironic twist, are both employed by CBS. Both women are highly experienced broadcast journalists, one on the streets of Los Angeles, the other in world trouble spots. Both happen to be very attractive and if it matters, blonde. Both were working, one on camera, one off camera, when events spiraled beyond their control—and the women themselves,...
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