Chace Crawford
By Barry Harbaugh | February 1, 2010 | 1:52 pm
PARK CITY, UTAH—On the evening of Friday, Jan. 29, Curtis Jackson—better known as the rapper 50 Cent—was milling about the red carpet before the premiere of Twelve, director Joel Schumacher’s adaptation of the 2002 novel of the same name, which wunderkind New York author Nick McDonell penned when he was 17. It was Mr. Jackson’s third time at Sundance, but his first starring in a closing night film. “Speedy turnaround, right?” he... READ MORE»
By Sharon Barbour | July 30, 2009 | 4:07 pm
During a promotional party for the new BlackBerry Tour smartphone at the Thompson Lower East Side on Wednesday, July 9, famous freebie seekers Brooke Shields, Olivia Palermo, and Erin Lucas, among many others, had the opportunity to get the gadgets personally monogrammed. Et tu, Fern... READ MORE»
Two weeks ago, the Observer wrote about the New Male Beauty, a strange cultural shift initiated (in all likelihood) by the Hollywood image factory that has made many of our young leading actors practically... READ MORE»
For the past couple of weeks, director Joel Schumacher has been shooting scenes for his upcoming film Twelve on the Upper East... READ MORE»
It wouldn’t be Grey’s Anatomy without some (more) backstage drama. Actor T.R. Knight, who threatened to quit last year because of a lack of screen time, might finally get granted safe passage off the show. Entertainment Weekly’s Michael Ausiello reported yesterday that (spoiler alert!) Mr.... READ MORE»
There we were, lurking the front row about 20 minutes before the start of the Calvin Klein men’s show at CK Inc.’s West 39th Street headquarters on Sunday afternoon, when a storm of flashbulbs signaled what appeared to be the arrival of the first A-list celebrity. Um, is that Kurt Cobain?! the Daily Transom wondered for a split second, squinting its eyes in disbelief. Oh, never mind! It was just Jared Leto, with... READ MORE»
If GQ’s second annual Best New Menswear Designers in America competition Wednesday night, held in a sprawling loft in Rockefeller Plaza, had been a popularity contest, it’s safe to guess whom the winner would have been: Andre Benjamin, known to fans of the genre-bending hip hop duo OutKast as Andre 3000, and to members of the fashion world as the creative mind behind the clothing label Benjamin Bixby. Mr. Benjamin spent much of the... READ MORE»
Chef David Bouley forced his maitre'd to turn Lou Reed away from his new restaurant because he was wearing jeans and sneakers. [Eater] Now that Taylor Momsen and Chace Crawford have been spotted making out, we're starting to think all these Gossip Girl hook-ups are some kind of PR ploy. [P6] Jeremy Piven is getting a little sick of people confusing him with Ari Gold. [Gatecrasher] Giuseppe Cipriani is hiding out abroad until his family's legal... READ MORE»
Before Penn Badgely acquired his sarcastic smirk, before Leighton Meester had a stylist, before Blake Lively's breasts became the lead characters on Gossip Girl, before Taylor Momsen's '80s glam hair, and before Ed Westwick mastered the Chuck Face, the young actors on the CW show were, shall we say, not quite as polished. Digging through old photos of the cast, the Daily Transom discovered that the group of twentysomething lead actors--or teenage actors in Ms.... READ MORE»
In an ideal world, if Leighton Meester and Ed Westwick, the young actors who play the evil but secretly good Blair Waldorf and Chuck Bass on Gossip Girl, were to appear in an ad campaign, it would be for Marc Jacobs or Miu Miu or even Chanel; those are just the kind of labels we imagine Chuck and Blair promoting. But somehow, Mr. Westwick's and Ms. Meester's agents don't seem to get all of this.... READ MORE»
The country might be in the midst of the worst recession in ages, but things are looking positively Clintonian at the box office. Last weekend High School Musical 3 and Saw V grossed a combined $73 million. Yowsers! While there are only three wide releases coming to theaters this weekend (one being Changeling, which opened here in New York last week), expect the surge to continue. Here's a handy guide to the weekends new... READ MORE»
Michelle Obama wore J. Crew for her appearance on Jay Leno last night. Regarding Sarah Palin's new wardrobe, Ms. Obama told Mr. Leno that "our policy has been whatever you wear, you buy." [People] Gossip Girl's Chace Crawford told a reporter that his show's "racy undertone" is a "weight on [his] conscience." [US Weekly] Model Carol Alt is suing ex-husband and former New York Ranger Ron Greschner over $1 million he allegedly owes her.... READ MORE»
Scarlett Johansson informed a photo-seeking bouncer at Lower East Side bar National Underground that she is "not the Statue of Liberty." [P6] Gossip Girl star Chace Crawford brought a girl back to his apartment and she reported that the bathroom is covered in "crusty toothpaste and self-tanner." [Full Disclosure] Former Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker and DJ AM, both of whom were badly injured in a plane crash on Friday, are expected to make a full... READ MORE»
Chace Crawford is no East Coast elitist! The Gossip Girl star told reporters that Sarah Palin is "quite attractive" before refusing to "talk politics." [US Weekly] Lydia Hearst is expected to continue with Fashion Week, despite being sent to the hospital for kidney stones on Tuesday. [P6] Reality show queen Lauren Conrad will be writing a series of three young adult novels for HarperCollins about "a girl who moves to LA and stars in a reality... READ MORE»
