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Sad news to report, Jennifer Hudson‘s mother and brother, Jason have been found dead in a home in Chicago.
According to CBS, two adults were found fatally shot at a home at 70th Street and Yale Avenue at 3 p.m. Friday, authorities said. A representative of the family’s church, Pleasant Gift Missionary Baptist, confirms that 57-year-old Darnell Hudson was one of the victims
TMZ reports that a cousin of the family found the bodies at around 2:44 PM, hen the fire department arrived and discovered the bodies, police were brought in and the home was declared a crime scene.
Very sad.
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It’s no secret that magazines and other media outlets use Photoshop to make their cover models look “just so,” but is lightening or color correcting a photograph the same as completely changing the way a person looks?
Is this practice of over-photoshopping contributing to damaged body images of Americans?
W Magazine turned a golden goddess Kate Hudson into the ice queen on its September 2008 cover. W is claiming that the image is an actual photograph of Kate Hudson. We’re sure it is, but it looks like the photo editors glossed it over and slicked it up in Photoshop. The image also bears an uncanny resemblance to photographer Patrick Demarchelier’s 1994 Harper’s Bazaar cover photograph of Nadja Auermann. So perhaps W is guilty of more than just changing someone’s face. Way to be creative … stealing someone else’s idea and using it on one of your biggest issues of the year.
Caution: Objects may be larger than they appear. In this case it appears that Seventeen magazine used Photoshop to place Miley Cyrus‘ head on a smaller body. Does this petite 15-year-old really need to appear smaller? It also looks as if they elongated her front teeth and somehow inverted her arms. Or did they do that pose on purpose? That must have been an uncomfortable photo shoot.
Funnyman Dane Cook has recently been complaining about the movie posters for his ssoon-to-be-released flick ‘My Best Friend’s Girl.’ A few of Cook’s complaints are: “The left side of my face seems to be melting off of my skull. It looks like I’m wearing Maybelline Water Shine Diamonds Liquid Lipstick. It’s no secret that I’m more rugged facially due to a drunken visit by the teen acne fairy, but according to this poster I’ve got perfect porcelain flesh.” You missed one Dane: where is the scar on your eyebrow?
Jennifer Love Hewitt was splashed on the cover of US Weekly showing off her 18-pound weight loss, claiming that she lost the weight in 10 weeks. Skeptics are saying Jen used the “Photoshop diet” to shed those pounds. Bloggers have been calling her a hypocrite after her statement when she defended her weight gain on her website: “I know what I look like, and so do my friends and family. And like all women out there should, I love my body.To all girls with butts, boobs, hips and a waist, put on a bikini — put it on and stay strong. XoxoJLH”.
On her new album cover, singer and actress Jennifer Hudson seems to have melted away at the midriff. Jennifer has refused to comment on her new cover.
Ukrainian actress and model Milla Jovovich is not the 13-year-old model she used to be. Can someone please tell Lucky magazine that it’s OK to look your age?
In its September 2008 issue, Elle decided to chop up (lumberjack) Jessica Simpson for the cover. It appears as if the editors chipped away at her waist and part of her left thigh and buttocks. They somehow also made her hair as wide as her hips.
James Franco is glowing on the September cover of GQ. What exactly makes a man glow like that?
Michelle Obama has discovered the fountain of youth. On this month’s cover of Ebony she doesn’t have a single line on her face. Her skin is so beautiful anyway, there was no need to make it unnatural.
Teen Vogue allowed Vanessa Hudgens to look her age on its September cover. She looks natural and very much like herself. There is some shadowing underneath her eyes in the photo on the right, but that’s nothing that a fill light wouldn’t take care of. We think this cover is the least Photoshopped of the month.
At first we thought this was a photo of Mischa Barton‘s wax figure on Marie Claire’s UK cover, because apparently her skin has a shiny plastic coating.
‘Gossip Girl’s’ Blake Lively has reportedly been unhappy with recent magazine photographs, but we think she looks beautiful on the September 2008 cover of Cosmopolitan. Her hair is wider than her hips, too, but nonetheless.
Harper’s Bazaar might have made a few minor changes, but Tyra Banks still has it. She even looks great under the glare of flash bulbs (picture at right). The former professional model still knows what she is doing.
We’re comparing the ad to a more recent photo of Beyonce from May 6th. Her skin tone does appear lighter with blond hair than dark brown, but not that light. This week Essence magazine published the same ad from L’Oreal with a much darker-skinned starlet.
Tiny sleeping beauties Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline were recently splashed across the covers of two mags, People and Hello. Skeptics are claiming the smiling infants were Photoshopped. They argue that babies do not typically smile from external stimulation until they are 2 to 4 months old. The millions paid by the magazines to the couple to secure the rights to the photos went to the pair’s charity foundation.
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Forbes has created its first-ever list of the top-selling celebrity faces, and the most appealing celebrity to grace magazine covers? Jennifer Aniston! Her face has sold over 5 million copies.
She’s followed by:
2) Brad Pitt
3) Scarlett Johansson
4) Angelina Jolie
5) Reese Witherspoon
6) Katie Holmes
7) Carrie Underwood
8) Jennifer Hudson [tie]
8) Valerie Bertinelli [tie]
10) Kelly Ripa
 To come up with the list, Forbes “looked at the newsstand sales of the six leading celebrity weeklies– People, Star, US Weekly, In Touch Weekly, Life & Style and OK!–over a six-month period ending June 30, as supplied by the Audit Bureau of Circulations. We eliminated all non-celebrity and collage covers as well as special issues with exceptionally large rate bases. Then we counted how many more–or less–issues the celebrity’s cover sold, as compared with the magazine’s average newsstand sales. Next, we factored in the number of full covers a celebrity graced. Finally, we ranked his or her consumer appeal using data from Encino, Calif.-based polling firm E-Poll Market Research to rule out flukes.”
The least appealing celebs were Britney Spears and Paris Hilton. It’s amazing that after the whole Brad and Angelina news-apalooza, Jennifer Aniston is still the mags’ golden girl.
Source: “Jennifer Aniston is #1 Celebrity Cover Girl” [Just Jared]
Image courtesy of Picture Perfect, for use on Gone Hollywood
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Here are a few shots from the ‘Sex in the City‘ set today. Jennifer Hudson, is the new addition to the girls. I have no idea just how large her role will be, but those boots she is wearing are f**king HUGE!
Sarah Jessica Parker, has gone brunette… and brought her son to the set. Cute kid, unfortunate shoes. Why would you put your son in Crocs, PURPLE Crocs to boot! UGH!
source: Jennifer Hudson on the set of the “Sex And The City Movie” [ontd]
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Rose McGowan is the Diva in Red, according to Page6.
 ROSE McGowan had her female co-stars in “Grindhouse” ready to scratch her eyes out at the L.A. premiere after she had her reps warn them not to wear red because McGowan didn’t want her own red dress upstaged. “It caused quite a stir. The feeling is she’s self-obsessed,” said our spy. Among the beauties ordered to do without red were Rosario Dawson, Jordan Ladd and Sydney Tamiia Poitier. But McGowan was in for a rude surprise when two minor cast members, twins Elise and Electra Avellan, paraded into the theater in bright red outfits. “It was basically a ‘[Bleep] you!’ to Rose,” said the source. McGowan’s rep had no comment, but a pal of hers told us, “She wanted the girls to coordinate what they wore so they would look amazing and sexy and beautiful.” The picture, an homage to the violent, low-budget fare once shown on 42nd Street, features two flicks, Robert Rodriguez’s “Planet Terror” and Quentin Tarantino’s “Death Proof.” Tarantino told the crowd, “It’s OK to get up to take a p – - – during the movie,” to which Rodriguez quipped, “As long as it’s in the middle of Quentin’s film.” The cast later partied at BlackBook mag’s gala outside.
With that body, it’d be hard to upstage her.
ASL‘s J. Harvey thinks Rose has too big a head for such a minor star. “I know she’s the lead, but she just came from like three years on Charmed as the least attractive sister. She’s lucky she got to walk the red carpet again.” Over at OMG!WTF? they don’t think she’s that hot, either.
But look at those pics!
Celebitchy has photos of McGowan’s co-stars. Marley Shelton and Tracie Thoms aren’t the least bit hot. I don’t even know how they got jobs in a movie, to be honest with you.
Some of the other chicks are pretty sexy, though. April Scott and Kristen Bell are kinda famous but they don’t have bods like Rose’s. I’ve never heard of Rena Riffel, Jordan Ladd, Vanessa Ferlito, or Zoe Bell but they’re not bad.
   
Still, if she doesn’t want to be upstaged at premier parties, she should stick to seethroughs:
      
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Personally, I think Jennifer Hudson looks lovely. However, it’s most amusing to read the forums… and the constant debate with both Hudson fans, versus Beyonce fans. They just kill me!
 
source: ONTD
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Best Picture: The Departed
Best Director: Martin Scorsese, The Departed
Best Actor: Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland
Best Actress: Helen Mirren
Best Editing: The Departed
Best Original Song – I Need to Wake Up, Inconvenient Truth
Best Original Screenplay – Little Miss Sunshine
Best Original Score- Babel
Documentary – An Inconvenient Truth
Documentary Short – The Blood of Yingzhou District
Best Supporting Actress – Jennifer Hudson, Dreamgirls
Foreign Language Film – The Lives of Others
Visuals Effects – Pirates
Best Cinematography: Pan’s Labyrinth
Best Costume Design: Marie Antoinette
Best Adapted Screenplay: The Departed
Best Animated Feature: Happy Feet
Best Supporting Actor: Alan Arkin, Little Miss Sunshine
Sound Mixing: Dreamgirls
Sound Editing: Letters from Iwo Jima
Live Action Short: West Bank Story
Best Animated Short: The Danish Poet (first upset)
Makeup: Pan’s Labyrinth
Art Direction: Pan’s Labyrinth
Popularity: 19% [?]
Best Picture:
* Babel
* The Departed
* Letters from Iwo Jima
* Little Miss Sunshine
* The Queen
Best Actor:
* Leonardo DiCaprio, Blood Diamond
* Ryan Gosling, Half Nelson
* Peter O’Toole, Venus
* Will Smith, The Pursuit of Happyness
* Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland
Best Actress:
* Penelope Cruz, Volver
* Judi Dench, Notes on a Scandal
* Helen Mirren, The Queen
* Meryl Streep, The Devil Wears Prada
* Kate Winslet, Little Children
Best Supporting Actor:
* Alan Arkin, Little Miss Sunshine
* Jackie Earle Haley, Little Children
* Djimon Hounsou, Blood Diamond
* Eddie Murphy, Dreamgirls
* Mark Wahlberg, The Departed
Best Supporting Actress:
* Adriana Barraza, Babel
* Cate Blanchett, Notes on a Scandal
* Abigail Breslin, Little Miss Sunshine
* Jennifer Hudson, Dreamgirls
* Rinko Kikuchi, Babel
Best Director:
* Alejandro González Iñárritu, Babel
* Martin Scorsese, The Departed
* Clint Eastwood, Letters from Iwo Jima
* Stephen Frears, The Queen
* Paul Greengrass, United 93
Best Original Screenplay:
* Babel
* Letters from Iwo Jima
* Little Miss Sunshine
* Pan’s Labyrinth
* The Queen
Best Adapted Screenplay:
* Borat
* Children of Men
* The Departed
* Little Children
* Notes on a Scandal
Foreign Language Film:
* After the Wedding
* Days of Glory
* The Lives of Others
* Pan’s Labyrinth
* Water
Animated Feature:
* Cars
* Happy Feet
* Monster House
Music (Score):
* Babel
* The Good German
* Notes on a Scandal
* Pan’s Labyrinth
* The Queen
Music (Song):
* “I Need to Wake Up†– An Inconvenient Truth
* “Listen†– Dreamgirls
* “Love You I Do†– Dreamgirls
* “Our Town†– Cars
* “Patience†– Dreamgirls
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Allie’s Note: No, I didn’t skip number 25… I did number 24 twice by accident. [heh]
The first link is for my friend Seriously? OMG! WTF? I’m sure you remember this blogger. She had a HORRIBLE experience with Blogsome (stay away from them at all costs), which lead to her site being deleted. Needless to say, she has a new URL… so bookmark her!
Dale Earnhardt‘s replacement wins 6 years after death – Bumpshack
Britney Spears does Mr. Clean – Ninja Dude
A Dog slips Paula Abdul the tongue – dlisted
Mariah Carey‘s fat ass is against banning size zero models – Celebrity Smack
Tara Reid has the last laugh – The Evil Beet
A Rihanna Picture Moment – Hollywood Tuna
The Men in Jennifer Hudson‘s Life – Popsugar
Scarlett Johansson Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year – Egotastic
Anna Nicole Smith: New Mummy – Gawker
Midnight Snack – Holly Weber – the Bastardly
Take a Peek at Harry Potter‘s Butt – Seriously? OMG! WTF?
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