Tunisian-French fashion designer Hedi Slimane has designed the two covers for Lady Gaga’s upcoming release of The Fame Monster in his well-known fashion diary style. Known for discovering young models in the streets of London, New York and Berlin, some of American favorites have included Amy Winehouse and Courtney Love, and he continues to have a plethora of connections to the British indie-rock scene. In 2007, he joined forces with friend Gus Van Sant, director of Good Will Hunting, starting a project entitled “Young American”, which had been briefly introduced during a FOAM museum exhibition in July of 2007. Slimane is unique in his glamorous field of fashion and design in that he doesn’t do drugs of any sort, including smoking or drinking, and prefers to design alone.

Official Cover of The Fame Monster

Special Edition Release of The Fame Monster

Guess what? There’s a new leaked video of behind the scenes footage from the cast of  New Moon!  Check it out below:

It appears that a lot of people are wondering is Robert Pattinson single or is Robert Pattinson gay. Why, I honestly don’t know. But here is the deal. In a day in age where more important things like whether or not we’re going to pull out of Afghanistan or if president Obama is going to legalize gay marriage throughout all of the United States, people just seem to like this sort of trivial BS and guess what? You’re one of them. So I will tell you. And you will thank me. And we can be friends.

Robert Pattinson jokingly confessed in an interview that he was gay, most likely because he likes to think of himself as a witty guy and young celebrities like to play with the minds of their audience because they grew up reading modern celebrity rags like People and watching E! true hollywood stories (maybe even lifestyles of the rich and famous, but is Pattison old enough to remember?) and they say things because they think it’s funny. At any rate, a close friend of his, Marcus Foster, when asked is Robert Pattison gay, said no. He does, however smoke. Yes, Robert Pattison smokes and told this to MSN Entertainment January 3, 2009. He apparently also took valium when auditioning for Twilight, if that really matters to you. But ya know what? You know and I know that it doesn’t because no matter what amount of valium, what number of cigarettes he smokes a day, whether he’s gay or not doesn’t matter when you have a celebrity crush. What really matters is if he’s single, right?

WRONG. It doesn’t matter unless you’re a total loser and have too much time on your hands and are planning on stalking him. No, I didn’t call you a loser for wanting to know, don’t get your panties in a mess over it. Only if you couple that with stalking him. So don’t stalk him. Stalk me. I need a stalker so I can feel like a sought-after-celeb. Actually, no, don’t do that, that’s creepy.

But yes, if you really want to know, Robert Pattison is single, according to Access Hollywood. Just because he’s doping around with this floozey and that doesn’t mean he’s hitched. It just means he likes girls. Maybe it doesn’t even mean that he isn’t gay, just that he likes girls. But he’s single. That’s what you wanted to know. And now you know. And we can still be friends.

You Better Hold On Tight, Spidermonkey

Arguably the best line in the movie, “You better hold on tight, spidermonkey,” says Edward as he climbs up the bark of a redwood with Bella on his back. And as they continue on through the forest, jumping, flying, arriving at high mast to overlook a scene of enormous, mountainous beauty, you would never guess that it was all CGI. These days, however, I’m beginning to accept that most of it is. See: Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings, although Harry Potty is worse in that it’s overly colorful and horribly childish. It’s actually quite disturbing to find so many comparisons of Twilight to Potter, most presumably due to the furor engulfing followers of both. Is it too much to recognize the vast difference between the two? If I were part of the production of Twilight, I’d be pretty annoyed at America (although I can think of a kajillion other reasons to be annoyed at America, but that’s beside the point).

Fans of the book would be horrified at the adaptation on the screen. What is a clumsy, humorous protagonist character in the book is portrayed as sullen and lost, only to be found by her true vampire love (awe), which was probably what Melissa Rosenberg (screenwriter) wanted and Stephanie Meyer (novelist) hates. If you hadn’t read the book (and I hadn’t, sorry) then you might actually enjoy it far more (like i did).

The problems in the movie have nothing to do with acting or portrayal; nobody overdoes it, nobody falls short. Neither does any cinematography exhibit a lack of skill. The downfalls are found in the teeny-bopper, sexy soundtrack and the tag-line dialogue in the villains. This is a movie for 13 year old girls. And its overtones of sexuality are a little.. vague. My point being that if you’re going to go that route, why not go all the way and have some lesbian kissing? That way you’d reel in not just the girls but the boys too!



Alas, I’m glad you didn’t, because while the ridiculousness of the plot — girl is lonely, girl meets boy, boy is vampire, vampires are dangerous, girl learns the hard way.. and nothing has a logical explanation to it… maybe that’s what makes it good, that it’s a fantasy.

One of the most important concepts some filmmakers have trouble understanding is the color scheme of the storyboard. Twilight does not make this mistake. While it’s vivid, dreamy, and dark it’s also very colorful without losing faith in itself, a forest hue bundle that never fades. Another great example of this is Memento and, in fact, there’s some talk of it in the DVD extras. Ultimately, color-scheming is a marketing ploy and you can see the same scheme on the website for New Moon, although New Moon has a more sepia tone drawn in. Yet another example is The Illusionist. Come to think of it, the color scheme is exactly the same in the Illusionist.

Anyhoo, this is not an A1 movie. Neither is it bottom-of-the-barrel. The toughest part on the filmmakers must have been squeezing a 544 page book into a two hour movie, which is sort of long for teenagers. However, it reels in your inner teenage girl and doesn’t tire, even through the credits while Radiohead plays (scarily) and then moves to one of the worst Linkin Park songs I think I’ve ever heard.

Wow, guess what Lil’ Wayne? YOU’RE SCREWED! A year in prison for carrying a gun basically just cuz you wanted a reputation of a villain because c’mon, face it.. you have the money to hire body guards and an armored car if you were that paranoid.

And what happenswhen you’re standing before a judge? Suddenly you are scared. You are polite. You do what any normal person would do. You face the music (pun intended) and deal with the consequences. You risked your freedom and now you pay.  There’s only one thing I need to ask you:  was it worth it?

Well, that’s a funny question because the chances of him getting into any sort of trouble in jail are sorta slim, considering he’s a gangsta rapper and most likely has peoples there who will watch his back.  And prison doesn’t have to be so bad, especially if you’re a career criminal.  Respect will not be so hard to come by, and with the money you have, you will eat well when ordering from the canteen. Just be sure of one thing, that one thing everyone always warns of, that one advice that we can give you…   let’s just say keep your soap on a rope… Sing-Sing ain’t such a fun place to take a shower.

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Sleater-Kinney Video – Kevin Kinney Music Videos

Please re-unite so I can live vicariously through my riot grrrl friends.

Kristen Stewart (Bella Swan in the movie), Robert Pattinson (Edward Cullen), and Taylor Lautner walk the red carpet to a Q & A session in Japan. Taylor tells a funny story of being asked to sign Team Taylor panties by “older ladies” who were wearing them! Robert Pattinson talks about his songwriting and Kristen talks about how it felt to be bitten..

A sneak peek at the new movie in the Twilight Saga, New Moon featuring Kristen Stewart as Bella:

After Bella recovers from the vampire attack that almost claimed her life, she looks to celebrate her birthday with Edward and his family. However, a minor accident during the festivities results in Bella’s blood being shed, a sight that proves too intense for the Cullens, who decide to leave the town of Forks, Washington for Bella and Edward’s sake. Initially heartbroken, Bella finds a form of comfort in reckless living, as well as an even-closer friendship with Jacob Black. Danger in different forms awaits. Written by IMDb Editors

Here’s something neat I found perusing the net. Sylvester Stallone as he does some scenes during the filming of The Expendibles. Enjoy!

Dr. Henry Carter, a disillusioned celebrity psychiatrist in Los Angelos who’s wife recently died, is lost in a downward metaphysical spiral — and smoking boatloads of marijuana. Waitaminute, this almost sounds like the recipe for a Seth Rogan flick, but it’s instead quite a somber film from up-and-coming director Jonas Pate with the cross-story feel reminiscent of Crash. The stories of Carter’s patients, Jack, Shamus, Patrick, Kate and Jemma, intertwine as they all cross paths at the shrink’s office. The correlation I see to Crash is the moral dilemmas they are faced with, inherent of the theme.

Steven Holden of the NY Times calls it “a contemporary Play It As It Lays”, a 1972 movie about a Hollywood actress who undergoes psychiatry at a sanitarium, searching for meaning in her life only to find that it’s up to her to make it.  While there’s overtones of the 1972 film in that it speaks about the stresses of not only the south Californian celebrity and community’s lifestyle, I find the Crash comparison much closer for the simple fact that Play It As It Lays is much more focused on one person.  More like Crash, Shrink moves between the problems of several people, but it isn’t as culture-based and is more generational such as mid-life crisis and relationship fidelity as well as teenage rebellion and disenchantment. Unfortunuately it doesn’t have a solid theme for them all which proves how Crash’s racism theme won it an academy award. The struggles that people encounter on the road to success and stardom outline Shrink’s plot and make it a sort of “awe, poor hollywood people” type thing instead of anything that the rest of the country can relate to.

While all the stories have their own intriguing plotlines, the main chronicle of Henry Carter is the most fulfilling. At this point, we all know Kevin Spacey can act, but he once again manages to really pull in the viewer to his painful world as he portrays someone battling his demons in an escapism to an rather unlikely drug addiction, marijuana.  It’s actually humorous to find those scenes of seeking counsel from his dealer, the guy who’s not his friend but whom Henry tries to treat as one, an all-too-familiar scene from any pot-smoker’s life.

There are some writer tricks that make me gag toward the end, including the mis-direction trick (without giving it away, here’s an example: “I’m sorry to inform you but your husband isn’t ok..[insert gasp from would-be widow]… in fact HE’S GREAT!”) and that particular one happens literally 3 times in a row, scene after scene right until the end where everything ends hunky-doory. I realize that it’s Hollywood, despite being an independent film, and that as producers of the film they need to think of a way to make money to justify their expense in making the movie. But I’ll never accept quickly typing up a movie’s plots with “everything always works out in the end” type of fantasies as “good art”.  A good film is something like As Good As It Gets, where there’s multiple plot lines that are intertwined but the focus never direly leaves the protagonist as it did in Shrink, and in the end, it may have been happy for Jack Nicholson and Helen Hunt’s characters to go for that walk, but it was only a walk — the emphasis was not on them suddenly becoming girlfriend and boyfriend but on them getting over themselves and spending quality time together.  The result of that early morning stroll to the bakery wasn’t getting married, getting that great job promotion, overcoming a fear of heights or anything. It left a lot up to the imagination and THAT’s why it was a happy ending.

Shrink, on the other hand, seemed like it was desperate for a happy ending and it actually made me bummed out to watch. And I’m sure I’m not the only one. It’s as if I was lured into watching what I thought would be a great book only to find out it was only ok.  And as Dr. Henry Carter says on national television as he gets closer and closer to a complete breakdown in his life, I would say the line Don’t Buy This Book more or less sums up my feelings.