Quentin Tarantino is planning to remake Russ Meyer’s graduate thesis on the complex and intertwined relationship between heaving bosoms and ultraviolence, Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!
The New York Post reports that porn queen Tera Patrick is being considered for a role. “Quentin loves her, and she’s a dead ringer for original star Tura Satana.” said the source.
Patrick gushes over the Russ Meyer 1966 cult film about three women on a violent desert road trip.
“It would be the hottest remake ever, and I’m honored to be considered,” she told Page Six. “I was built for this part.”
Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! is a 1965 film directed by Russ Meyer, who also wrote the script with Jack Moran. It stars Tura Satana, Haji, and Lori Williams.
The film features gratuitous violence, sexuality, provocative gender roles, and campy dialogue. It has become a cult film favorite and has been widely referred to in pop culture.
It is one of Meyer’s more provocatively titled and explicitly exploitative films, yet unlike most of his films, it does not contain explicit nudity.
Sarah Jessica Parker attended Tuesday night’s All-Star game, and hit the field beforehand for an announcement about cancer research — but something was noticeably missing.
Parker has long had a trademark mole on her chin, which has been visible throughout her career, but now it appears to be missing in action.
At least one of the remarkably cruel reviews of “Sex and the City: The Movie” commented on her beauty mark. The New York Observer’s Rex Reed began his review with the following:
There’s nothing wrong with Sarah Jessica Parker that couldn’t be cured by wart-removal surgery. That growth on her face just gets bigger with every close-up, and in the full-length movie version of Sex and the City it’s so distracting you can’t concentrate on anything else. It’s not a beauty mark. I guess you can’t tell a co-producer anything, but listen up, girl. At this point, you would make a wonderful Halloween witch.
There’s no word yet on whether she removed the mole for medical or cosmetic reasons. Personally, I didn’t find the mole that offensive… it’s not like she had big black hairs growing out of it.
source: Sarah Jessica Parker’s Missing Mole [huffington post]
Madonna made an appearance at a New York Yankee game on Saturday, July 12th — She was in the front row looking and cheering on New York Yankees’ Alex Rodriguez.
Rodriguez , who was photographed waiting to bat against the Toronto Blue Jays during the third inning of their MLB American League baseball game in Toronto, didn’t appear to be all that happy to see his “soul mate“.
Rod Stewart: Grave Digger
After playing semi-pro soccer, Rod the Mod abandoned his athletic dreams to work with the dead. He dug graves at London’s Highgate Graveyard but laid down his shovel after just a few weeks.
Chubby Checker: Chicken Plucker
Before he was twisting, the rock ‘n’ roll legend was plucking. As a teenager, the man born Ernest Evans tore the feathers off dead chickens at the Fresh Farm Poultry Market in Philadelphia, where his boss gave him the nickname “Chubby” and occasionally let him sing to customers over the loudspeaker.
David Lee Roth: Hospital Orderly
Long before Van Halen, the not-yet-Diamond Dave fluffed pillows and emptied bedpans in a hospital. It’s a career field he almost went back to post-stardom — in 2004, Roth started training to become a paramedic.
Madonna: Doughnut Slinger
As a struggling dancer in New York City, Her Madgesty worked behind the counter at a Dunkin’ Donuts in Times Square. She was reportedly fired for squirting jelly on a customer.
James Brown: Pool Ball Racker
He was “the hardest-working man” even pre-show business! Brown grew up in Augusta, Ga., during the Great Depression, taking on several odd jobs to earn money, including shining shoes, washing cars, picking cotton and racking pool balls in local bars.
Gwen Stefani: Floor Scrubber
The Hollaback Girl’s very first job was mopping floors at a Dairy Queen near her home in Fullerton, Calif. She eventually left to work at a department store before joining her brother’s band, No Doubt.
Dorian Leigh, who combined pristine blue eyes, curling eyelashes, an arresting intelligence and intoxicating sexuality to become one of history’s most photographed models — perhaps the first to truly merit the adjective super — died Monday in Falls Church, Va. She was 91.
The death was announced by her grandson Thibaut Dubois.
Ms. Leigh graced seven Vogue covers in 1946, according to a New Yorker magazine article of the time, and in the next six years appeared on more than 50 more covers of various magazines, Playbill reported.
Her images in Revlon’s “Fire and Ice” nail polish and lipstick campaign in the 1950s — “For you who love to flirt with fire …who dare to skate on thin ice” — were shot by Richard Avedon and became Madison Avenue legend.
“Dorian was truly the best model of our time,” Eileen Ford, the doyenne of the modeling agency industry, said in an interview with The Roanoke Times in 1997. “She instinctively knew what every photographer wanted, and she came alive just at the moment the shutter clicked.”
Cecil Beaton wrote in his book “Photobiography” (1951) that Ms. Leigh was as demanding as the eminent photographers who shot her, including Louise Dahl-Wolfe and Irving Penn.
He said she could convey many moods, including “the sweetness of an 18-century pastel, the allure of a Sargent portrait, of the poignancy of some unfortunate woman who sat for Modigliani.”
Ms. Leigh’s mystique was enhanced by her many romances, which included five marriages — counting the one in Mexico to a Spanish marquis who turned out to be already married. There were also the many real or imagined affairs with famous writers, musicians and photographers, eagerly tabulated by gossip columnists. Ms. Leigh was definitely attractive, standing 5 feet 5 inches, with an hourglass figure and an alluring smile.
source: Dorian Leigh, Multifaceted Cover Girl of the ’40s, Dies at 91 [ny times]
Whether it’s cockroaches or heights, spiders or flying - everyone has a fear, and if you thought that the phenomenon of phobias do not exist for celebrities, then you need to think twice.
With Scarlett Johansson it is the fear of cockroaches.
“I once knew a girl who actually had giant African cockroaches as pets, and she would play with them and fuss over them. She often tried to get me to touch one, but I wouldn’t. I told her I have been afraid of them ever since I once woke up with one crawling over my face, and another was in my shoe.”
Nicole Kidman is a lepidopterphobe - she is terrified of butterflies.
“I am not afraid of snakes or spiders — just butterflies. It all started when I was a child. Sometimes I would come home from school and the biggest butterfly you have ever seen would be fluttering on our front gate. I”d climb over the fence rather than touch the gate, and crawl around to the side of the house to go in the back door.”
Jennifer Love Hewitt has revealed that she has a number of phobias, the worst of which is a fear of elevators.
“The trouble is that many of the Hollywood meetings I have to attend take place at the top of tall buildings — and I simply cannot set foot in a lift if there are too many people in it. If there’’s four of five people in it, then I just about manage it.
I prefer it when it’s empty so I can scream if I want to. I am also scared of sharks, which is why you will never find me in the sea, and I am a terrible hypochondriac. I have every illness known to man, and I am pretty sure I have had the bird flu four of five times. I know I drive people mad with my phobias.”
Jennifer Aniston has been terrified of flying ever since she was caught in a bad storm in a small plane years ago.
“We became caught up in an electrical storm. And the Toronto to New York flight took two hours, which was twice the usual time.
Every time we flew over a field I hoped the pilot would decide to land, but he didn’t. What really scares me is the take-off. I”ve heard all about the aerodynamics, the speed, the engine — but I still get nervous.”
Among the male celebrities who admit to having phobias is Johnny Depp, who revealed that he is not only afraid of singing in public, but also of clowns.
“I was forced to overcome my singing fear because of the movie Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. I warned director Tim Burton that I wasn’t very confident of my singing abilities.
I also have had an acute fear of clowns — a condition known as coulrophobia — ever since I had nightmares of them as a kid. I used to see their faces leering at me.”
Soccer ace David Beckham suffers from ataxophobia - a fear of disorder or untidiness. We humans call that anal retentive.
He admits that everything has to match: his shirts are arranged in his wardrobe according to color, and he lines up cans of Coke in the fridge.
“I”m very organized and controlled and need to go to bed at night knowing what I”m going to wear the next morning.”
Recently two of the Internet’s loveliest personalities, Xeni Jardin of Boing Boing and sex columnist Violet Blue, had a very public row in the blogosphere when Jardin removed every reference to Blue from public view on her site, totaling around 70 posts.
As the New York Times notes, the fracas raised the issue of whether unpublishing posts on a popular blog (currently there are 1,600-plus comments on the decision) is something a blogger has a right to do.
We’ll, Playboy got a bit more excited when they saw old pics of the pair canoodling on Valleywag. Two sexy, smart, web-savvy women — they couldn’t think of anything hotter.
Playboy Asks: Who are some more of the blogosphere’s sexiest women?
Playboy scanned the web for some of the hottest female bloggers and video bloggers (or “vloggers”) from the worlds of finance, entertainment, tech and sex, and they want to know who your favorite is.
UPDATE (James): Apparently, Sarah Lacy is getting quite a bit of traffic out of the whole thing proving, as if anyone still doubted it, that sex sells.
I’ve had one of the biggest traffic days in months, post the whole Playboy mention. Of course, anyone coming here looking for sexy photos was probably disappointed to read about nothing but my book tour!
I’m a little surprised people have balked so much at the Playboy thing. Clearly, I would never consider actually posing nude and assume most of the girls on the list wouldn’t either. (No, TechCrunch commenters, not even for a lot of money. Seriously, what is wrong with men? Just because they’ll get naked at the drop of a hat they think it’s somehow irresistible?) But that’s not all Playboy is about either. Loads of politicians, celebrities, business people have been interviewed and featured in Playboy before, even if no one really reads it for the articles.
She is, incidentally, wearing clothing in all photos displayed on the site.
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Lara Logan, the chief foreign affairs correspondent for CBS News, tells The Washington Post she is pregnant, and the father is a married federal contractor whom she met while stationed in Iraq.
Logan’s relationship with Joseph Burkett - who’s in the midst of a divorce from wife Kimberly, with whom he has a 3-year-old daughter - has made media headlines, including the front page of the New York Post.
Logan is going through a divorce from estranged husband Jason Siemon, a Chicago-based energy lobbyist whom she married in 1998.
“Nobody likes to read about themselves like that, especially the way it’s been sensationalized,” Logan, 37, told The Washington Post. “I hated it. But I’m just going to rise above it and keep going.”
Logan, whose pregnancy was unplanned, told the newspaper her due date is in January, and she’s “looking forward to being a mom.”
Logan - a South Africa native who began dating Burkett following her November breakup with CNN correspondent Michael Ware - said she and Burkett plan to marry eventually.
Logan’s publicist, Tom Keaney, declined to comment.
The reporter - known for her intrepid war coverage - was promoted to CBS’ chief foreign affairs correspondent last month, and is based in Washington.
Logan, a contributor to “60 Minutes,” has won numerous reporting accolades, including an Emmy and Overseas Press Club Award
LIKE A VIRGIN — Madonna popped out of a wedding cake in a crucifix and puffy white gown to sing her hit at her first appearance on the MTV Video Music Awards in 1984. The album went on to become No. 1 in the U.S. and sell over 7 million copies.
PAPA DON’T PREACH ABORTION CONTROVERSY — After singing lyrics, “I’ve made up my mind/I’m keeping my baby,” in 1986, abortion-rights groups praised her (while anti-abortion supporters were up in arms). Madonna called it a “message song that everyone is going to take the wrong way.”
POPE AGAINST MADONNA — In 1987, Pope John Paul II urged Catholics not to see her “Who’s That Girl?” concert in Turin, Italy. The church later boycotted her 1990 Blonde Ambition tour.
LIKE A PRAYER — Madonna’s 1989 music video featured the singer kissing a black saint and dancing in front of burning crosses. Pepsi cancelled her $5 million endorsement deal (signed just two months earlier) after religious groups expressed outrage. Madonna kept the money.
JUSTIFY MY LOVE — Madonna simulated sex with a woman in this 1990 video, which was banned from MTV. “I think the video is romantic and loving and has humor in it,” she later told the New York Times. Lenny Kravitz - currently in Paris with the wife of Madonna’s “friend” A-Rod - co-wrote and produced the tune.
DATING MICHAEL JACKSON — The king of pop and the Material Girl hooked up for a few dates, including the 1991 Oscars.
SEX, the book — Released by Madonna (who portrayed herself as a character named Mistress Dita) a day after her 1992 album Erotica, the book is packed with pornographic images and features Naomi Campbell, Vanilla Ice and Isabella Rossellini.
MADONNA ON DAVID LETTERMAN — The singer used the F-word 13 times in her 1994 appearance on the Late Show - causing the show to become the most censored in TV history at the time. The duo made up at the 1994 MTV Video Music Awards.
MADONNA VS. MARIAH — In 1995, Madonna said, “If I were Mariah Carey, I’d kill myself,” and further attacked the singer by calling her “too mainstream.” In 1996, Carey snapped back that she “hasn’t really paid attention to Madonna since I was in like 7th or 8th grade when - when she used to be popular.” Their 2008 albums were released just two weeks apart.
EVITA — The archbishop of Buenos Aires protested Madonna’s role as Eva Peron in 1995 - but the singer turned actress went on to win a Golden Globe for Best Actress, and an Oscar for Best Song with “You Must Love Me.”
HINDU BODY ART — Madonna drew ire from the World Vaishnava Association after wearing a Hindi mark and body art during her “Ray of Light” performance at the 1998 MTV VMAs. “She didn’t want to insult anyone,” her rep later said.
KISSING BRITNEY — After sharing a kiss with Spears at the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards, Madonna had to explain to her daughter that she “was the mommy pop star… [passing] on [her] energy…to the baby pop star.”
AMERICAN LIFE ANTI-GEORGE W. BUSH MESSAGES — In this 2003 video, Madonna throws hand grenades (one is caught by President Bush) between flashing images of war. “I am not anti-Bush,” she later said in a statement. “I am not pro-Iraq. I am pro-peace.”
PERFORMING ON A CROSS — Madonna “crucified” herself on a giant cross during her 2006 tour. “[Putting myself on a cross] is no different than a person wearing a cross or ‘taking up the cross’ as it says in the Bible,” she said later. “I believe in my heart that if Jesus were alive he would be doing the same thing.”
LIFE WITH MY SISTER MADONNA — The cover of the new, nasty, unauthorized, warts and all biography on Madonna, written by her estranged brother, has just been revealed.
As I was sorting through my Sunday Washington Post so that I could throw everything but the Parade and Washington Post Magazine my wife reads into the recycle bin, my attention was grabbed by this photo montage on the front of the Style section:
For a second, I thought they had juxtaposed Barack Obama with Malcolm X (the newsprint version is grainier than the digital one). But the Obama as Will Smith and John McCain and John Wayne comparison is more apt.
Wonderful moment in John Ford’s “The Searchers,” from way back in 1956: John Wayne, as the surly, violent Ethan Edwards, signals to his young compadre that it’s time to move on in their pursuit of Scar, the Comanche chief who’s murdered their family and kidnapped the youngest daughter, Debbie.
“Let’s go, blankethead,” he scowls to the young Martin Pawley.
I love the Duke’s pronunciation of the word “blankethead”; it radiates contempt for the young and the untested. Ethan is using the blast of scorn to tell the young man not only to get going to his horse but to get going in growing up, to acquire sand, grit, salt and all the other granular metaphors for old-guy toughness and savvy. Blankethead: It’s a three-syllable telegram on the theme of the fecklessness of youth, and nobody but Wayne could turn it into poetry.
But in the same instant, I remember Will Smith in the original “Men in Black.” The hotshot young cop has been recruited to an alien-hunting team secretly HQ’d in a New York bridge, and now he’s working for Tommy Lee Jones and Rip Torn. Torn and Jones are babbling about something and not paying attention to Smith. There’s a moment of frustration on the young face, and he interrupts with his own blast of scorn: “Hey, old guys!”
It’s a voice full of impatience, annoyance, even contempt, suggesting they haven’t the energy, the quickness or the attention span to take care of business. It’s on him, now, the new guy, the kid: He’s got to keep them from wandering off, losing track, drifting as the old are wont to do.
