Paul Starr, a makeup artist to celebrities such as Angelina Jolie and Jennifer Garner, was found dead in his Los Angeles apartment yesterday, according to Metro UK.

While the cause of Mr. Starr's death is still undetermined, his friends said that they hadn't seen or heard from Mr. Starr in several days. After knocking on his door repeatedly, police broke down the door and found him dead. Mr. Starr's age was reported to be anywhere from 48 to 51.

According to Mr. Starr's Web site, his clients have ranged "from ladies who lunch to movie stars, rock stars, and supermodels.  read more »

The East Hampton police have reportedly been extra strict this summer trying to keep Main Street from looking like a street fair. For the Fourth of July, the Polo Ralph Lauren store wasn't allowed to give out snow cones, Dylan's Candy Bar couldn't install a soda funtain, and Tiffany's was barred from having an a cappela group perform. [NY Daily News]

Kimora Lee Simmons' Fabulosity collection launch at Hiro and was less than fabulous. [P6]

The guys behind the Odin boutique in the East Village are opening a women's store nextdoor called Pas de Deux in August. [The Cut]

A New Jersey woman is suing Ashley Dupre for using her driver's license to appear in a Girls Gone Wild video.  read more »

Plenty of leading ladies relied on the expert advice of their stylists to “play it safe” on the red carpet at last night’s Oscars. (During a brief interview, Jennifer Garner, who looked insanely chic in a black Oscar de la Renta ruffled gown, mentioned her beauty-bestie Rachel Zoe several times.) Sarah Larson, on the other hand, looked to blast-from-the-past actor George Clooney, her boyfriend of seven months, to ensure her ensemble was sufficiently wowable.

“I curled her hair,” Mr. Clooney deadpanned to Us of how he helped Ms. Larson prep for the big night. Contrary to comedian Kathy Griffin’s recent claims that only D-list celebs show up super early to red carpet events, the Best Actor nominee, who graces the cover of the current issue of Time, showed up two hours early, allowing the couple enough time to chat with every news outlet stationed along the publicity gauntlet set up outside L.A.’s Kodak Theater. Mr. Clooney, it seems, isn’t just a master coiffeur, he also bragged of being Ms. Larson’s “seamster.” (The brunette beauty wore a beaded, silver-and-pink Valentino gown to the awards show.) “The ironing of the beads works very well,” he added to the whisper weekly of his work on the frock. “I sewed all the beads back on myself.” Despite the apparent ease with which he completed Ms. Larson’s look, his plan for the rest of the evening, he said, was to “drink.”

For those who won't be able to catch up with the ticket race for Cyrano de Bergerac seats before the production ends on Jan. 6, we'll at least be able to watch stars Kevin Kline and Jennifer Garner do their thespian thing on PBS's Great Performances. According to Broadway.com, producers of the show released a statement saying the taping began yesterday at the Richard Rogers Theatre for broadcast "later this year and future release on DVD."

A year without a new play by Sir David Hare can’t be all bad—and so it happily proved.

Top of my list is the stunning, imaginative achievement of Gregory Burke’s Black Watch—the first docudrama about war I’ve seen to successfully turn reportage into art, and the first play about the Iraq war to tell its story from the point of view of the soldiers. It was a political play that—praise be!—didn’t preach to the choir. To the contrary, it frequently wrong-footed us. It took us all as close to the experience of war as any of us is ever likely to get, thank God. Its ensemble of unknown Scottish actors was superb. And it left us in tears.

Many theatergoers had to be turned away during its sold-out run at St. Ann’s Warehouse. It would be a smashing gift to New York if Black Watch returned in the New Year.  read more »

On Dec. 8, 2007, a single performance of Cyrano de Bergerac at the Richard Rogers Theater smashed the record for the highest gross of a play or musical in one night, totalling $153,880. Just a month later, on Jan. 6, Edmond Rostand's 1897 timeless romance will close its curtains. The star-studded production, including Kevin Kline, as the big-schnozed Cyrano and Jennifer Garner as hard-to-get Roxane, began previews on Oct. 11 and opened on Nov. 1.  read more »

After losing three weeks of performances due to the stagehands strike, stage actors Jennifer Garner and Kevin Kline (and his giant schnoz) will get a two-week extension of their play Cyrano de Bergerac at the Richard Rogers Theatre, according to Playbill.

Originally scheduled to conclude performances at the Rodgers Dec. 23, Cyrano has now announced that Kline, Daniel Sunjata, Jennifer Garner and the remainder of the cast will play performances through Jan. 6, 2008. Edmond Rostand's 1897 verse classic, featuring an adaptation by the late Anthony Burgess, began previews Oct. 12 and took its opening bow Nov. 1.

More theater news after the jump.  read more »

Jennifer Garner wasn’t afraid to ask for help from the pros when things got hairy with the paparazzi yesterday in New York. Not quite the Desert Storm-ready entourage that Jessica Simpson courted at JFK last Friday, the gaggle of New York’s Finest that rushed to Ms. Garner’s aid appeared to be equally smitten with the film star and mother of Violet Affleck. Thanking the officers for their speedy protection, the Juno star apparently exchanged digits with one of the coppers.

Jen Garner Calls for Backup [TMZ]