Natalie Portman is taking a judges chair as a guest judge on "Project Runway" which is set to air tonight @ 9:00pm on Bravo.  She is following the footsteps of past celebs like Debra Messing, Sarah Jessica Parker and Victoria Beckham.

Natalie will be judging the newest contestants of designer hopefuls on their ability to make eco-friendly designs on the hit reality show.  Back in February, Natalie debuted a line of vegan shoes in joining with Te' Casan shoe designers.

Other celebs to follow in Natalie's footsteps this season and sit along side Heidi Klum, Michael Kors and Nina Garcia will be LL Cool J, Brooke Shields, Cynthia Rowley, Apolo Anton Ohno, Styist Rachel Zoe and Diane Von Furstenberg.

This show is a guilty pleasure of mine, so don't hate!!-Nurse Cherry

So check this out guys (for the few who actually read my blog..probably only Ness and J.R.) and watch this trailer for this sweet movie I've been looking forward to that comes out in August.

Well, if you actually took 2 minutes out of your life to watch the video, you'd see a cleverly crafted and pretty sweet looking morsel there. Come on, are you expecting Shakespeare? It's a slasher flick for crying out loud! If Shakespeare had anything to do with it, he'd get his throat ripped open with his own pen. Anyways, I think it looks pretty sweet, as I also read the Clive Barker novel. And it wasn't pretty. In fact, it was almost one of the most horrifying novels I've read (well, it was more like a short story) and the most gruesome.

It's about some sort of serial killer who kills riders on the subways of New York City after midnight and hangs them up on meathooks... in the fuckin' cars! It's crazy....and pretty sexually violent, which isn't pleasant to read or watch. But I'm still looking forward to the movie anyway!!

Did I mention Brooke Shield's is in it? NO, I'm not a huge fan of hers (I really have no opinion on her, really, she's... a fine woman I guess) but I thought I'd compliment her on moving one step ahead of the recent worm of a production she's been featuring herself in... called Lipstick Jungle. Ewwww. We already had one Sex and the City, do women really need more shows making them look like cry babies???

Anyway, I'll post my opinions on the movie after it comes out on August 1st. So stay tuned.

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Le tre protagoniste di Lipstick Jungle (sia il libro sia il telefilm) sono tre donne quarantenni che ricordano molto da vicino Carrie e socie dieci anni dopo. Si tratta infatti di donne arrivate ormai ai vertici della loro carriera, e che in due casi su tre hanno già messo su famiglia con marito e figli.

Wendy Healy è il potente presidente di uno studio cinematografico ed è sposata con due figli: il marito è una sorta di "casalingo" extra lusso,  non lavora ma si occupa dei bambini. Nico O’Neilly è il direttore di un'importante rivista, sposata con una figlia. Unica single, mai sposata per scelta, Victory Ford è un'acclamata stilista.
Nel corso del romanzo le vicende lavorative delle protagoniste si innestano su quelle personali in un mix ben calibrato: Wendy è in procinto di ricevere l'agognato Oscar per il suo nuovo film quando viene mollata dal marito. Nico si trova a dover "fare fuori" un suo collega per andare avanti nella sua scalata al potere, e intanto inizia una relazione extraconiugale con un giovane modello. Victory Ford conosce quello che potrebbe essere l'uomo giusto, ma è frenata dal suo cinismo sentimentale, e contemporaneamente inizia le trattative per cedere la sua società.

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Quando la NBC ha deciso di dare il via al serial, accompagnandolo con un'aggressiva campagna pubblicitaria, da ogni parte si è parlato (ancora una volta) del "nuovo Sex and the City". Per le parti delle tre protagoniste sono state scelte Brooke Shields (Wendy), Kim River (Nico) e Lindsay Price (Victory). Ma il serial si è rivelato ben presto un vero e proprio flop, e le critiche sono piovute da ogni parte e all'unanimità, nonostante le buone premesse e il consistente investimento pubblicitario.

Il Times, in riferimento al suo illustre precedente, ha definito Lipstick Jungle "l'ennesimo clone di cattivo gusto", ironizzando particolarmente sulla sfilata di scarpe Manolo Blanhik con cui si apre la prima puntata: espediente, in effetti, decisamente già visto.
Sostanzialmente, la reazione dei critici sembra assimilare Lipstick Jungle a una borsa falsificata: solo più brutta dell'originale e nient'altro. In molti hanno notato i deprimenti punti in comune tra il nuovo serial e una telenovela di bassa lega.
Insomma, un disastro.

A distanza di dieci anni dalla prima puntata di Sex and the City sembra che sia davvero difficile ricalcarne il successo sfruttando ingredienti analoghi: il più delle volte si rischia di cadere nel baratro della "brutta copia". A detta di alcuni persino il film di Sex and the City non sarà all'altezza del serial.

Don't forget to tune into BravoTV this Wednesday to see Heidi, Michael, Nina, and Tim. And, remember Budget Girls, learning to design and sew your own clothes is a great money saver. Personally, I suck at sewing, but you just may have what it takes. Start with a pillow and MAKE IT WORK!

Shields who just finished publishing a 145 page children's book entitled, "Welcome to your World, Baby" says writing this book was tougher than writer her book about her personal experience with postpartum depression entitled, "Down Came the Rain". It is written through the eyes of her five-year-old daughter Rowan and how she excitedly viewed the arrival of her younger sister Grier, who is now two years old.

La actriz Brooke Shields presentó el martes su primer libro para niños, que consiste en una historia de 145 palabras y que fue inspirada en su hija Rowan, de cinco años.

Welcome to your World, Baby fue escrito por Brooke a través de los ojos de Rowan, de cómo la niña observó con emoción la llegada de su hermana pequeña, Grier, que ahora tiene dos años.

"Sinceramente esto ha sido mucho más difícil que escribir Down Came the Rain -sus memorias de la depresión posparto- , dijo Shields .

"Cuando estás tratando con un libro para niños hay que decir mucho en los dibujos y explicarlo todo en una o dos líneas. Definitivamente es más fácil para mí ser verbal", apuntó Brooke.

1) álbum novo do bitter:sweet

"portishead e zero 7 com um pouco de serge gainsbourg e everything but the girl na medida certa". é assim que o bitter:sweet se descreve no myspace. e eu não poderia achar uma descrição melhor rs. talvez algo como "música de james bond", quem acha? enfim... o segundo álbum da banda, lançado esse ano, consegue ser ainda mais delicioso que o primeiro. vocês podem baixá-lo aqui se não contarem pra niguem que eu postei o link.

só um ps: the bomb, a primeira música de trabalho do álbum ainda não tem clipe, mas... (essa é boa) virou tema da abertura de uma série estrelada por... brooke shieldWHO? essa aqui:

wat?

pois é, ela ainda existe. e eu procurei loucamente a abertura no youtube, mas apagaram ORAPORRenfim, continuand

2) apresentando: kap bambino

mais uma recomendação exclusiva do correspondente do blog em pirockland, tb conhecido como edu, the boy with a big cu. kap bambino é uma duplinha francesa mutcholoka, cujas características mais marcantes são os vocais histéricos de caroline martial e os sons eletrônicos barulhentos, sujos, trashes, enlouquecidos e vaginóides criados por orion bouvier. vale a pena conferir. vejam aqui embaixo o clipe de save:

pra quem curtiu, tb tem também uma performance ao vivo de new breath, minha música preferida da banda. vejam que loucura huahua.

3) clipe novo do electrocute (yay!)

não tem muito o que falar sobre essa duplinha sapeca. lembram quando eu falei do robots in disguise aqui? -nao. ok, mas é que as meninas do electrocute seguem a mesma proposta: pouco dinheiro no bolso e muito cocô de passarinho na cabeça. vejam só o clipe de on the beat:

adoro estampa de oncinha. se você curte, me mande esse wink:

e até o próximo post rs.

Mas não é isso que me toca... a questão é a declaração infame de que escrever a história de 145 palavras foi mais difícil do que relatar a depressão pós-parto.

Tipo, não fode Brooke!

Vou te dizer só 5 palavrinhas bem fáceis:

VOLTA PARA A LAGOA AZUL!

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Our lovely lamb Oversidi is having some trouble with her Brooke Shields impression, and dear, sweet Katastic is losing lashes like the Golf Channel is losing ratings with Tiger Woods benching it for the rest of the season. Now, considering that the brows and lashes are the only other patches of hair a woman is allowed to have (of course, I'm being sarcastic. I don't wax my pubes, cuz fuck that), besides the locks on the top of the head, this is serious business! So, I'm going to have to break this up into two bits. The first of which concerns the gables framing the face (after the jump).

"Eyebrows: Thin and separate. There should be two!"

There is nothing that I find more glamorous than a well-groomed brow. I find that when the brows are nice and thick, tamed and groomed and filled-in to perfection- you can get away with wearing way less makeup, b/c they frame the face and lend a dramatic, sophisticated look. Love 'em! Anyway, Oversidi writes:

"As I age, my brows are paler, more sparse, and really add nothing to my face at all. I see so many brow makeovers in magazines and beauty books-- and the changes in the brows make an incredible difference in how someone looks. (It is true that in the before brow photo, they were wearing no other make up at all, and in the new brow photo, they are all glammed up?)

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The Original cast of RENT performed as well as eight or nine performances by other musicals. Despite the fact that I'm not really into Broadway that much, I enjoyed seeing the performances. The actors are all so very talented. And they work so hard. I really want to go see In the Heights which is breaking ground on Broadway and won for best musical.

AND ....  Daniel Radcliffe!!!!!

I flashed my CBS ID and a $20 bill to a security guard to try to get back and see Harry Daniel, but she just laughed and said "four digits, honey, four digits." well. it was worth a try. and i would have kicked myself if I hadn't at least tried. or margie would kick me instead.

This is not an exception to the jumpsuit rule. Brooke, Brooke, Brooke. Come on. This jumpsuit is wrong on so many levels. It is blousey. It has a low slung belt. The pants are too long (or your heels are too short). The the entire God-forsaken thing is covered in sequins.

She uttered some of the most memorable screen lines of all time—they just happened to be in a denim commercial. "You want to know what comes between me and my Calvins?" a 15-year-old Brooke Shields famously asked America in that 1980 Calvin Klein jeans ad. The answer, of course: "Nothing." By then, the teenage actress was no stranger to risqué roles, having bared all as a nubile lover in the cult classic The Blue Lagoon and, before that, as the daughter of a brothel-dwelling Susan Sarandon in Pretty Baby. The graceful transition from child star to working adult actress that followed (OK, she did date Michael Jackson for a few embarrassing moments) is one not many young celebrities have pulled off—Hayden Panettiere et al. could do worse than look to her example. It helps, of course, that in addition to being six feet tall, with a mile-wide smile, enviable glossy mane, and eyebrows to remember, she's got the comic timing of a pro. When Shields' latest project, Candace Bushnell's Lipstick Jungle, debuts in Feburary on NBC, Sex and the City fans will have a new weekly ritual. Time's "Face of the '80s" is no one-decade wonder.

Source: Style.com

"Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life."
- Brooke Shields

"I think that the film 'Clueless' was very deep. I think it was deep in the way that it was very light. I think lightness has to come from a very deep place if it's true lightness.
-Alicia Silverstone

"I was asked to come to Chicago because chicago is one of our 52 states."
- Raquel Welch

"What's Walmart? Do they sell, like, wall stuff?"
- Paris Hilton

"I've never really wanted to go to Japan. Simply because I don't like eating fish. And I know it's very popular out there in Africa."
- Britney Spears

I get to go to lots of overseas places, like Canada.
Britney Spears

And check this Paris Hilton article:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/migrationtemp/1525382/Paris-Hilton-'Who-is-Tony-Blair'.html

Enjoy!!!!

Gli amici celebrità della coppia Oprah Winfrey, Jennifer Lopez, Brooke Shields, Victoria Beckham, Eva Longoria Parker e Kyra Sedgwick erano presenti come invitati.
Katie Holmes ha esteso l'invito ai parenti venuti dall'Ohio per l'evento e i figli Isabella (15 anni), Connor (13 anni) e Suri (2 anni) erano presenti.

Tom Cruise e Katie Holmes hanno acquistato 1,3 acri una corte per 35 milioni di dollari (28 milioni di euro) la scorsa estate e hanno passato un anno per la ristrutturazione.

Gli invitati sono arrivati verso le 9 di sera. Si sono avvicinati alla tenuta lungo un viale fino alla fontana dove valletti ritiravani l'auto. Il party si è svolto sia all'interno che allesterno, oltre 50 memnbri della staff della Wolfgang Puck hanno servito il catering fino all'1 di notte.
Sul prato furono serviti cocktails e stuzzichini agli invitati seduti su cuscini bianchi sotto della lampada. Gli alberi erano adornati con luci bianche e l'orchesta suonava.

Anche Tobey Maguire (costar di Katie Holmes nel 2000 in Wonder Boys), Gayle King, Rita Wilson, Jeremy Piven e Kirstie Alley erano presenti.
Brooke Shields è arrivata con suo marito Chris Henchy. Fu festeggiato anche il suo 43esimo compleanno.

When I arrived at the pub, I found my partner outside on the patio. And I was so excited to see her doing exactly what we'd imagined. Relieved to see her familiar face... She seemed so relaxed and carefree, that I took my time getting to the table. She wasn't looking at a text message or talking on the phone, she was just content with being outside in the afternoon sun, smoking a Camel Light, and having her beer. We smiled at each other once she realized I was there.

The manager, an older (maybe in her fifties, maybe Irish) woman, came out to "greet" me. She immediately asked for my ID, saying to my partner, "He looks like he's 12!" I gave a cynical grin. This isn't the first time that someone confused my age, and confused my sex/gender. And this is not the first or the last time that I'd be ignored because of it.

I handed her my Maryland non-driver's ID. She glanced at it and smiled toward my partner. Her back was still facing me when she asked, "He doesn't have a driver's license? You need a driver's license." My partner replied, "So what do people who don't drive do?"

Maybe they just never go out, and if they do they go to places that no one will ask for an ID because everyone there is outlawed by their illegality of one or several combinations: too poor, too black, too immigrant, too trangendered, and/or too gay/lesbian/queer, too unexpected. All of the above with etc. at the end.

"It has to be a New York State ID," the manager kept saying until finally I shouted,

"It's a Maryland ID, and as far as I know Maryland is still US territory... And by the way, I'm not invisible. I'm right here."

Having the kind of day that I had, I really didn't have anymore in me to put up any sort of a fight. So angrily, we grabbed our bags and left with my partner saying, "I'm never setting foot in this place again. And I'll be sure to inform my friends who come to your pub as to why." I'm sure the manager could give a rat's ass about this, but we needed some sort of vindication. My partner more than me.

"I'm really disturbed by all of this. I can't tell you how many times I've been to that pub. I even know the manager, we were chatting before you came. I've never experienced any of this sort of borderline prejudice there."

"Well of course, you're white babe," I was quick to blurt out. I mean, what else could it be but race-related?

"Maybe it's more than your blinders you feel so self assured about," she came back. She was walking really fast like I had somehow displaced her in a margin of either/or.

I did consider what she said, and after going over the incident outside the blinders of it being just race related, I decided that it's because of many things: race yes, but as my partner pointed out - it could be my ambiguous gender (but how ambiguous could it be when my hips and breasts are so obvious? To me, of course). It seems that these markers are overlooked when you're taller than most women and you don't try to pluck and cover-up your masculinity (no, I don't feel trapped in a woman's body, I'm trapped in this reality called the staus quo).

Your voice is a higher soprano than what your body portrays (imagine Mike Tyson speaking, but taller and better looking) - hell, if your voice doesn't match your perceived very simple signifiers--height + jeans + t-shirt wearing=boy, boi, boy!--it can be a messed up blur of an anomaly.

But it's not just because I'm unapologetic about being me: Caribbean, black, woman with a huge afro, apparently ambiguously gendered, with tattoos covering my fore-arms. It's also because I'm physically there and intimately present with my white partner who passes as a straight woman (think Brooke Shields). I wonder if the fact that she can use power tools and a Phillips screw driver far better than me makes her pass any less (no, it just makes her "hotter" or going through a phase, except this phase has been going on much longer than when she chose me). For that matter, what does that make me! (expendable.)

Quite honestly, no one gives a shit about my ambiguous gender, unless of-course I was trying to use a bathroom. I wonder if we would get the same hateful stares if my partner was African American, Asian or Latina? Well... yes, and it's all dependant on whether or not she looks as "hot" as Beyonce, Lucy Lu (oh shit there isn't a more contemporary image of beauty for Asians... that apex hasn't been updated) or Shakira, and whether or not I'm as easy to digest as a butch lesbian superstar like Ellen DeGeneres.

There's nothing more unwelcoming as stares, especially when they're emoting, saying we don't belong. Going out has been more of an issue than my fear of crowds, unless of course it's at a friend's house. We're constantly weighing the pros and cons of whether it's worth the trouble of traveling the distance only to be gawked at, harassed, and at the end of the night feeling so defeated. We end up fighting with each other like the sex and the love is the problem.

Oh the anguish of being an interracial "queer" couple. The plight of being Loving versus Virginia then (June 12th, 1967) and now. We forget or just choose not to remember. Let's get our encyclopedias and our law books out, just for you! So we all can remember again, and again, and again...

Every time we go out there's always an incident. The last time we went to a bar in the Lower East Side for a friend's birthday party I got into a shoving match with this guy because I used the men's bathroom. The ladies room was occupied and I needed to go. I know what you're saying-hold it and use the ladies-well I have held it and still paid the price with a security guard pushing me up against the wall. Or the time this guy tried to kick my ass because his girlfriend was in the bathroom. Or the time at my job when this woman informed me that I was in the Wrong Place, and What Was I Doing Using The Ladies Bathroom?

I Should Know Better.

I have many incidences of being told where I'm not welcomed, whether or not it is in a place that is a space for: Black People, Women, Immigrants, Straight People, Caribbean People, or Yes, Lesbians, Gays. It just reinforces - Yes, having a space just for one group's agenda is very important, especially when they've been subjugated and excluded from the rest of society.  It is very significant, but people are not living/existing in a state of stasis, especially when we have so many different backgrounds that break down from the largest to the very minutia of diversity. (PUT SOMETHING HERE. Like, a symbol, an infinity sign representing ONE or we are MANY or something.)

A woman loving a woman. That might be "tolerable" depending on who's watching and at what particular time, because we are seemingly still living in the days of tribalism.  In some spaces it might be okay to love a woman and have her love you, unless she doesn't fulfill the stereotypical beauty aesthetic of and for the mainstream.

The message I get is that Yes, I do deserve love - as long it's not from that pool of women that straight white men are entitled to have and to hold. I see this ownership in their eyes. Yeah I get this message every time my partner and I are out holding hands.

It doesn't matter if we've been introduced as a couple, they will still hit on her right in front of me. Because our relationship isn't considered real. Even our sex isn't real. A good friend of my partner, who is straight, told us after a few drinks, her true thoughts on this matter. That as long as there's no dick involved then we're not really having sex and that yes I must still be a virgin since I've never slept with a man. Our lives are mere fiction you see on television every Sunday night or on the silver screen.

We'll like to say it's because men "naturally" have more confidence than women, that they'll still have the nerve to ask a lesbian out. Because men are built brave. And that's the universal law of the sexes, when in fact it's just ownership.

Is it just shock or a mixture of fear and hatred when they only address my partner when I'm the one they're talking to? (Even "straight" women do this. "What does this mean? Am I capable of gaydom?" Maybe you are if you're so worried or questioning).

Suddenly we've broken a sacred code of ethics (well yes of-course the same sex thing is blasphemous but this other shit is taking it too far).

Maybe it would be easier for everyone's sake if I was to mask my masculinity behind a skirt and a paint brush (but then I'd just be a Drag Queen). Wouldn't that be hot? Two really femme hot women of different ethnicities (imagine that, the odds I tell you, the odds!), kissing in public? We could audition for "Girls Gone Wild!"

Or maybe my partner should shave her head and start wearing boots and flannel. We would totally fit the script of the expected gay couple. Can't you just imagine us on L Word or as Queer as Folk looking fabulous? Coming this far - having a script for what a gay couple should look like, I should be more than thankful, right?

Synopsis: On a Journey to San Fransico Richard, his father and cousin Em find them selves on a ship about to explode. Rushed to a life boat with Paddy Button, the two children escape while their Father (and Uncle) are on another life boat. In the chaos following the life boats are separated. Paddy, Richard and Em find themselves with no food and no water stuck in the middle of no where. After some time the 3 come across an uncharted paradise, where Paddy quickly teaches the children fishing, hunting and building. after maybe a month or two Paddy gets very drunk off a barrel of rum found on the island when they first arrive, and drowns in the middle of the night. Em and Richard now alone and very scared move location and rebuild their island home. Many years later the 2 young teenagers have developed a very real home, but hormones and feelings between the 2 strain the friendship, until Richard who is still very determined to reach San Fransico is let down by Em when a ship passes by the Island and she does not light the signal fire. Throwing her out of the home they had built together Em attempts to survive on her own but is hurt. After Richard finds her dying realizes how he really feels for her and manages to save her. Nature runs its course and the friendship turns in to love as the couple learn about the facts of life, when Em has a baby and does not understand why

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