The Twilight Saga: Eclipse - Fashion Sneak Peek

Summit Entertainment released some photos from The Twilight Saga: Eclipse last night. Let us take a fashion sneak peek and know Bella, Edward, Jacob and the Cullens look in the most-anticipated movie of the year. Well, all of them are in jacket and pants.




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Material Girl 45

The Material Girl 45 and single artwork.

Madonna was beyond huge with Like a Virgin and the definite maturity from the first album is obvious but with Material Girl, the second single from Virgin, she entered new territory. It's so hard to separate the song from the video as they were the perfect marriage, but as I try to think back to when I first got the album in November of 1984, there was something about this song that was entirely different. There was an extreme cinematic tone about Material Girl long before the video came around and, interestingly, this is the song that opened the album. It was also a new voice for Madonna. She played a character. Her vocal performance would fit perfectly on I'm Breathless which would come 6 years later.

Nile Rodgers production is tight but I don't doubt that Madonna played a huge role in the Material Girl production. We have the members of Chic playing on this song but even with its strong drums and bass, its disciplined not loose. We can hear elements of the Borderline girl but also some Emmy, in her delivery. Let's not forget her next venture, Into the Groove, was produced by her and Stephen Bray. When she spoke about the first album Madonna, produced by Reggie Lucas, she said she knew more about production than she had thought. Possibly with the second album she still wasn't as confident as a producer and had more to learn but I can hear her touches here. The Like a Virgin album is different to anything Nile had done prior or after.

Although Material Girl has been completely played out, it's a superior and fascinating song, history aside. The little poodle barks she does are wonderful punctuation marks on the songs character.

Gossip Girl Fashion Style The Empire Strikes Jack

Gossip Girl's Episode 16: The Empire Strikes Jack, showed some promising fashion trends that will be envied by many. Checkout Blair and Serena's outfit and steal their look!


Blair Waldorf
Dress: Isabella Tonchi
Necklace: Stephen Dweck
Cuff: Amedeo

Hat: Christine A. Moore
Coat: Proenza Schouler
Blouse: Oscar de la Renta
Skirt: Elie Tahari
Tights: Hue
Bag: Chanel


Serena van der Woodsen
Top: Helmut Lang


Vanessa Abrams
Sweater: Cynthia Steffe
Blouse: Matthew Williamson
Green bead necklace: David Aubrey
Turquoise necklace: Gara Danielle
Earrings: From the show's costume department

Coat: See by Chloe


Eleanor Waldorf
Outfit: Lorick by Abigail Lorick


Agnes
Dress: Lorick
Hat: Yestadt
Rosary: Pamela Love
Pearls: From the show's costume department

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Get Eleanor Waldorf's Latest Runway Collection

Last night, Eleanor Waldorf's latest runway collection debuted in Gossip Girl. In real life, you can also have those adorable fashion pieces. The actual designer behind the collection of polka dots, pastels and lace is Abigial Lorick, and her real designs are available exclusively at rarechic.com.



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Ellen's Cousin

I've always referred to this photo as "Ellen's Long Lost Cousin" and as it turns out...

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Watch Your Mouth Bytch! Alison Goldfrapp "Head First" into Oblivion

Alison Goldfrapp was next on the roster for the wanna-be's in a few weeks but this bytch really fuck'd up so now is the time. This one is really nothing. Nothing. A few good songs a great rock star does not make. Thank god the interviewer lets her have it back and she gives that typical common safe response - backtracker bytch EXPOSED!

Have u ever heard Madonna's 'Like It Or Not' from 'Confessions on A Dancefloor'? It was her attempt at making a Goldfrapp record.
'Black Cherry' Godlfrapp to be specific.

Alison Goldfrapp : 'Never heard it, that song. I couldn't care less what she or whoever does. Madonna is always copying other people's work. yuck.'

Well you guys are quite good at it yourself : 'Ooh La La' was a T-Rex ripp-off. 'Cologne Cerrone Houdini' could have been any Gainsbourg song
on 'Histoire de Melody Nelson'. And those are just two examples.

Alison Goldfrapp : 'We have a perfectly legitimate post-modern explanation for that. Those songs are an Hommage! We steal like magpies but we pay tribute to our heroes at any chance we get, in interviews etc.. . Everyone should know by now that Marc Bolan was my idol growing up. But we'll never be caught following the latest trend or collaborating with the hottest Dj's and producers just to get their names on our record sleeves. That's not our style.

Is she kidding?

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And why do these bytches, like Shirley Manson, latch on to the safely cool and passé Debbie Harry when they're the biggest Madonna Wanna's? Is it because they consider Debbie Harry the living dead and completely threatless? Debbie should tell them to fuck off.

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look at Miss Cool, Madonna Wanna, royally fuck up on Italian television. Love Love Love the Italian host: "what happened?" Haha!

Think Of Me (Dubtronic Recontruction Remix)

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Remember his great Pretender Mix? Well, Dubstar has done it again with one of my favorite Madonna songs, Think of Me.

Download: http://www.mediafire.com/?hgdz2myyhjj

Visit his page for this and other great Madonna Mixes:

http://madonnadubtronic.blogspot.com/

Victoria's Secret Angels at VS Swim Catalouge Anniversary

Last week, Victoria's Secret celebrated 15th anniversary of their SWIM catalogue. The special occasion was attended by Victoria's Secret Angels that wowed everyone with their amazing outfits as they walked on the pink carpet. See some of the Victoria's Secret Angels photos after the jump.


Alessandra Ambrosio in a gradient-colored minidress: white, black and violet.


Miranda Kerr in emerald green super-short frock.


Candice Swanepoel a white dress with blue vertical, horizontal and diagonal stripes.


Kylie Bisutti wore a red assymetrical dress.


Stacy Keibler in a yellow dress embellished with gemstones.

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2010 Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards

At Nickelodeon's 23rd Annual Kids' Choice Awards, stars strutted their fashion styles at the orange carpet.


Avatar star Zoe Saldana wore skinny jeans, a stylish Isabel Marant blazer, and Christian Louboutin heels.
"America's Next Top Model" host, Tyra Banks sported a red and yellow number.
Here is the beginning of my post.

Rihanna opted to slipped into Dior-designed ensemble with ankle socks.
Katy Perry donned a Sin City-inspired fashion faux pas by The Blonds.


Selena Gomez stole the spotlight in a yellow frock and gladiator sandals.
Miley Cyrus didn't walk on the orange carpet but she was spotted backstage in a simple tunic, textured jeggings, and zippered peep-toe booties.


"Glee's" Lea Michele opted for a yummy bubblegum-pink Zac Posen masterpiece and Cory Monteith went jeans and t-shirt from John Varvatos.


Justin Bieber posed in his signature 'do and loud sneakers.
Jonas Brothers looked quite suave in their sharp suits.

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Desperately Seeking Susan - 25th Year Anniversary - When I saw My Hussy Goddess on the Silver Screen!

Madonna and Director Susan Seidelman on the set of Desperately Seeking Susan. "She'll love it."

Wow. 25 years ago Desperately Seeking Susan came out. I don't think there has been a movie before or after that I have been so excited for it's release. A life changing experience if you were fortunate enough to see it on the Big Screen - at the height of Madonna-Mania! Seriously, nothing has been like Desperately Seeking Susan and it never will be. It is, by far, the greatest Madonna movie. It's really what separated Madonna from her contemporaries - the role that made her immortal.

Actors search their entire career to get a role as defining as Susan was for Madonna. It was like Gloria Swanson landing Norma Desmond in Billy Wilder's Sunset Blvd. - a role she will forever be known for. For Swanson, Sunset Blvd. was a blessing for it was a comeback and much later in her career. For Madonna, Desperately Seeking Susan was almost a curse - for it was in the beginning of her career and she was so arresting and her presence so strong that she has really been unable to escape it. In fact, it was Gloria Swanson who said, "that corniest of all theatrical cliches - that on very rare occasions the actor actually becomes the part. Barrymore is Hamlet. Garbo is Camille. Swanson is Norma Desmond." Well, I will add to that..."Madonna is Susan." I still believe there is a role for Madonna that may come later, several generations away from Susan, that may have that same high level impact.


The Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas review, The Calendar Section still completely intact after 25 years, scanned especially for you all.

The movie is mesmerizing. From the acting, cinematography, set design, script, humor, sexiness...just about everything in this movie is wonderful - no stone was left unturned in regard to detail. Every character down to the sax player (John Lurie from the Lounge Lizards), shown for millisecond through a window while Dez and Roberta are eating chinese food on the roof, was a fixture on the downtown New York scene at that time. Not only is the movie brilliant, it's also historical for these reasons never to be captured again in Hollywood History:

1. This is the first major motion picture in the history of Hollywood directed by a woman (Susan Seidelman), produced by two women (Sarah Pillsbury, Midge Sanford), about two women with the lead roles (Rosanna Arquette, Madonna) . It's a true feminist film and that was their demographic until Madonna's star blew up mid-production and she was known as 'the slut'. When production began for Susan, Madonna only had her first album out and although she was already the biggest and greatest star to have ever lived to me, Like a Virgin hadn't happened yet. Mid-production, her legendary bawdy performance of Like a Virgin at the 1984 MTV Music Awards happened and the album of the same name was released . Security was brought in because they were filming on the streets of New York and Madonna-Mania had hit. Historical fact: the feminists in those days, mainly Gloria Steinem, vocalized very loudly that Madonna was setting the women's movement back 30 years. The audience for Desperately Seeking Susan had changed before the movie was even finished. It was a character-driven, art house feminist film that suddenly had a mainstream appeal. Ms. magazine women and art farts weren't going anymore - Madonna was their nemesis. Camille Paglia wouldn't come around until a little later proclaiming Madonna as the 'future of feminism'. Even then, Camille wasn't on same page as the 'Germaine Greers' or 'Steinems' and this debate would continue well into the 1990's.

2. That particular time in New York City captured forever on celluloid. That New York scene has never been captured on film in the way it was in Desperately Seeking Susan. It's just a time but a very special time and the way director Seidelman, cinematographer Edward Lachman, and production designer Santo Loquasto created it was as if the viewer was living in the east village of New York City at the time. Everyone's been chasing that New York dragon but there is nothing like the first high. We could taste and smell it. So impressive was Loquato's work in capturing "that look" that he's been on virtually every Woody Allen film since. We are even invited into the Danceteria, the dance club made world famous by Madonna herself. So, thank God for the above mentioned for participating and capturing it properly.

Listen this can go on and on so, I'm going to add read more and any freak interested in more of my perpetual Madonna drivel, pictures, scans and personal Rosanna Arquette video from DSS screening can read on.

Ok, well all that history lesson bullshyt aside, I won tickets off KISS-FM to go to a pre-screening at the Director's Guild on Sunset Blvd. I took my friend and I was bursting with excitement. I was 14 years old and about to see My Hussy Goddess on the Silver Screen. We saw it, I thought it was the best motion picture I had ever seen. There was a raffle either before or after the film, I can't remember but what I do remember is that they were giving away a red satin jacket with the pyramid on the back. We were all given tickets and when they called the number I yelled, "That's Me!" I ran to the front to get my jacket even though they didn't really call my number. Haha!

The Jacket 25 years later!

Then, in the Los Angeles Times, Daily News, school fliers, and on the radio, they were 'broadcasting' to see Madonna LIVE at the Desperately Seeking Susan premiere at the Plitt Century Plaza Theater in Century City on the Avenue of the Stars - so, my wonderful mother took me down there and I saw Madonna live for the very first time. I almost died. She was there, she was gorgeous, she was glowing - no shyt.

The Ad from the Los Angeles Times to see Madonna in person!


Orion Pictures wanted Madonna to go on Good Morning America to promote the film. Freddy Demann said "No Way." Instead they sent Rosanna Arquette to New York and the premiere was in Los Angeles. Rosanna was rightfully upset by this because nobody told her there was going to be a premiere.

It was also Rosanna who recommended Herb Ritts to do the promo shots that were not originally intended for the movie artwork - just press photos for various magazine - some of which I still have (Rolling Stone, Record Magazine) that were released months prior to film. It was Rosanna that introduced Madonna to Herb and said that she could see the gravitational pull between the two of them and then, of course, that he went on and was a part of creating the mythological Madonna.

Last month on February 18, I went to the American Cinematheque at Aero theater in Los Angeles and saw Desperately Seeking Susan on the big screen again for the first time in 25 years! It was just as good, if not better 25 years later. Rosanna Arquette was going to have a Q&A in between Scorceses's After Hours and DSS. It was fantastic on every level. She spoke and answered questions for a good 45 minutes. Producers Sarah Pillsbury and Midge Sandford came unexpectedly and joined the discussion. We were right in front and there was ROBERTA right in front of us. LEGENDARY! First they showed After Hours and then she spoke and stayed for DSS. I turned around and there she was, Roberta, watching one of the most important feminist films in the History of Motion Pictures, in which she starred, with her daughter. The most surreal moment is when we left. She was two feet in front of us as we were walking back to our car. She turned left, at the light and we crossed the street. There went Roberta Glass...it was fantastic.

Rosanna's Q & A - she said in those days she would assign her characters an astrological sign, yours truly asked her what sign Roberta was:

Thanks to Alex for the Video. xo

Olivia Munn for Complex Magazine April 2010

For April/May 2010 cover of Complex Magazine, Olivia Munn did a cartoon-animal-themed poses. The said magazine will be available on newsstands at April 6. Here are some of Olivia Munn's magazine spreads for Complex.


Trivia: The illustrations were created by Marvel Comics' Mike Choi and Sonia Oback.

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"It's About Creation." Sticky and Sweet DVD

Sticky and Sweet bonus teasers:

When the planet Eucharis passes between Venus and Jupiter, it stills the winds of adversity within me and I become a veritable sea of tranquility.

"I felt like I had been possessed by some magic and luckily for me, I have been miraculously and continuously possessed by some kind of magic." Madonna 2008

What the years 1988 and 1989 possibly mean for Our Lady.

"Just Like a Dream, You Are Not What You Seem" - Like a Prayer

In the midst of her Saturn Return, we discover that underneath The Artiste, in all her glorious artifice, is the natural woman showcased in Lee Friedlander's 1979 photographs. Perhaps, what we also have is a ritualistic pagan who called upon September's Muse to guide her. We hear, more often than not, that Madonna is The Muse, and yes she is for many - but who guides her?

With Like a Prayer, we get that once in a lifetime gift from a Goddess. Truth. If we do take the Saturn Return into consideration, then with Like a Prayer, lyrically we have Madonna shedding or purging her past but at the same time gaining the vision of where she will be going. According to astrologers, with Saturn Return, the 30th birthday indicates a major rite of passage because it marks the true beginning of adulthood, self-evaluation, independence, ambition, and self actualization. Madonna's 30 year mark on planet Earth was 1988 when the album was written, although released to mortals in 1989.

Woven throughout the Like a Prayer album, we have tremendous lyrical associations with mythology, history, sacred symbols and objects. Everything from the muse, the midnight hour, magic lanterns, luck, elephants, candles, tears, leprechauns, flying, mermaids, death, marriage, divorce, resurrection, angels, cupid, fairies, wishes, dreams, power, feet, hair, transformation, and even on the song that didn't make the final cut, we have Supernatural - all about the incubus.

It was my impression upon the release of Like a Prayer, and even more so 21 years later, that Madonna was at her most dynamic female - a universal woman - Eve. Some call it Wiccan, Pagan, or witch but really Catholicism plucked all its rituals from the Pagans. So, who's zoomin' who? From our perspective, with what she has chosen to share, it's all completely organic and really the Kabbalah seems perfectly natural in her personal evolution.

Madonna has alluded to magic throughout her career, beginning with her sacrilegious habit of adorning herself in crucifixes, amulets, stars, clovers, hearts and other voodoo. In the La Isla Bonita video kneeling at her altar while lighting incense and clutching a rosary, she transforms herself from a high up blue recluse into a fire red flamenco dancer that descends among the plebeians, casts her spell and then dances off into unknown territory. In the Like a Prayer video she makes the Saint Martin statue come to life. In Secret, we see a Santería baptismal ceremony with more altars, candles and a sunflower submerged in water - long believed to deliver true love.

Since her career began it has been drenched with Pagan rituals, and Madonna has been the inspirational seductress, with millions under her spell. For me, there has always been something very bruja about Madonna. My first thought at 13 years old when I saw the 7" 45 of Borderline in 1984 was, "ooh - she looks like a sexy witch". I always imagined there was a cauldron underneath her hands in this photo:

Let's not forget the original pressing of the Like a Prayer album was scented with patchouli, a long time traditional ingredient in love potions.

I melt your heart as I melt this wax...