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Clarence Clemons: Born to Run

June 21st, 2011 · No Comments · Entertainment & Celebrities, Quotes, Specials

Share.. Clarence Clemons died from a stroke he suffered last weekend. He was only 69 years-old. Bruce Springsteen gave a statement saying: “Clarence lived a wonderful life…He carried within him a love of people that made them love him. He created a wondrous and extended family. He loved the saxophone, loved our fans and gave [...]

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Portman Pregnant!

June 17th, 2011 · No Comments · Entertainment & Celebrities, Quotes

Share..Mazal Tov! Natalie Portman just gave birth to a brand new baby boy. Portman was the 2010 Best Actress Oscar winner for her performance in “Black Swan.” The film’s choreographer, Benjamin Millepied, is her fiancé. Just seven months after announcing Portman’s pregnancy, they also announced that they were getting engaged. The brand new mom and [...]

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Ferguson and Stonestreet: Two Gay Men, One Famous Couple

June 7th, 2011 · No Comments · Entertainment & Celebrities, Quotes

Share..Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Eric Stonestreet are maybe the most famous gay couple on television, winning both Emmy awards and ratings races. In fact, they are such good actors that many television viewers cannot even tell that in fact it is all an act; well at least for one of them. The cast of the [...]

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Peeping in on Pippa

May 31st, 2011 · No Comments · Entertainment & Celebrities, In the News, Quotes

Share..According to both In Touch Magazine and the National Enquirer, Pippa Middleton has a television deal in the works. The enquirer wrote: “TV queens BARBARA WALTERS and OPRAH WINFREY are secretly DUKE-ing it out over DUCHESS KATE’s baby sister in a battle royal to snag her for U.S. TV! Sources close to Baba and O [...]

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George Porgie!

May 16th, 2011 · No Comments · Entertainment & Celebrities, New Stuff, Quotes

Share..After a decade and a half of legal trouble and not enough music, George Michael is making a comeback. He announced a new tour and album at a press conference at London’s Royal Opera House. “I have a serious problem with the fact that every time I made a mistake and every time I let [...]

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Seinfeld vs. Trump

April 27th, 2011 · No Comments · Entertainment & Celebrities, In the News, Quotes

Share..Ronald Regan in the 80s and Arnold Schwarzenegger, current governor of California, politics is often a star-studded affair, pulling from solar systems beyond the political galaxy. So Donald Trump, who will soon announce his presidential candidacy does not come as such a surprise. Well, recently Jerry Seinfeld canceled an event benefiting the St. Jude’s Children’s [...]

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Lady Gaga = Lady Writer

April 3rd, 2011 · 2 Comments · Entertainment & Celebrities, Fashion & Style, Quotes

Share..Megastar, contemporary pop icon, Lady Gaga, is now adding magazine columnist to her resume. She announced on Twitter that she will begin writing an art and fashion column for V Magazine. The eccentric deva’s first column is due in V Magazine’s May 12 issue. Roll over to the website: a large sign encourages fans to [...]

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Fashion Disaster in New York

March 30th, 2011 · No Comments · Fashion & Style, Quotes

Share..March 25, 2011 marked the 100-year anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire that claimed the lives of 146 workers in the garment industry, mainly Italian and Jewish immigrant women, in New York City. The disaster ultimately led to the implementation of better working standards and safety regulations. Some excerpts from Women’s Wear Daily 1911 coverage [...]

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StyleLikeU Talks to Zandile Blay

March 28th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Fashion & Style, Quotes

Share..“I must admit, I am kind of tacky. I am kind of like a Vegas show girl.” Said Zandile Blay during an interview with StyleLikeU magazine, though, this could not be further from the truth. Her trenchant intelligence and beauty can pull off anything from a school sweatshirt to a burgundy mohair bolero. To say [...]

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The Sensitive and Polite Kenneth Cole

March 23rd, 2011 · No Comments · Entertainment & Celebrities, In the News, Quotes

Share..It seems as though old Kenneth Cole got the keys to his Twitter account taken away from him after a slight faux pas last month. Here is what happened: During the trouble in Egypt last month, the designer tweeted: “Millions are in uproar in #Cairo. Rumor is they heard our new spring collection is now [...]

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Charney the Dog

March 11th, 2011 · No Comments · In the News, Quotes

Share..Dov Charney, CEO and founder of American Apparel is being sued by a former employee for “enduring eight anguished months of forced sex…” The 20-year-old, Irene Morales, filed the suit last Friday for $260 million in Brooklyn Supreme court. She began working at the Chelsea store when just 17 years old and the harassment began [...]

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Who Is Sandra Lee?

February 23rd, 2011 · 1 Comment · Entertainment & Celebrities, Fashion & Style, Quotes

Share..In the March issue of Vogue, Gully Wellis visited Sandra Lee of Food Network fame and First Girlfriend of New York at her Mount Kisco residence. Governor Andrew Cuomo’s lady talked about her “belly,” her beau, as well as her fashion dos and donuts. Diet: “I’m a meat-and-potatoes girl, but I still have to watch [...]

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Philip Roth Talks About His New Book

October 31st, 2010 · No Comments · Judaism, Quotes

Share..Philip Roth first became known in the late 1950s and 60s for writing a new kind of story about Jewish identity. His novels and stories tend to tell the story of young Jewish American men, estranged from their cultural Hebrew identity. Roth’s latest novel, Nemesis, is set in Newark, N.J. in 1944 – the town [...]

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A Life of Shopping

April 22nd, 2010 · No Comments · Fashion & Style, Quotes

Share.. A study shows that shopping takes up three years of an average woman’s life. The Daily Mail reports that a OnePoll survey, conducted on 2,000 women in the west, showed that a sixty three-year-old women will spend three years of her life shopping. Each and every year, women spend one-hundred hours and forty-eight minutes [...]

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Palin, Hand Notes and Biblical Prophets

March 9th, 2010 · No Comments · Entertainment & Celebrities, In the News, Quotes

Share..Sarah Palin has a new defense for her conspicuous use of hand notes: God uses them. When the media first challenged her on the need to write her core beliefs on her hand to remember them, she said: “I didn’t really have a good answer, as so often — is me…But then somebody sent me [...]

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