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Gillian Anderson Plays Miss Havisham in the Next Water-Cooler Masterpiece
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How Gwyneth Paltrow’s Rogue SUV Saved a Life
People online presents the strangest celebrity story we've read in quite some time, headlined "Gwyneth Paltrow Saved a Life on 9/11": Read More
Andy Warhol App Deemed Not The Best
The Andy Warhol Museum, having just named a new director, released the Andy Warhol D.I.Y. Pop app today, which allows app-happy Warhol fans to create their own works from the comfort of their iPhones. We decided to give it a spin and see how it stacks up against other apps that allow you to create mimicking works of art. Read More
Gwyneth Paltrow Gets Press-Shy at Bent On Learning Gala
Early Wednesday evening found The Observer at in a dusty backroom of Urban Zen, Donna Karan's newest venue, in the West Village, awaiting the arrival of celebrities, especially the ever-elusive and chronically overexposed (somehow, she's both at once!) Gwyneth Paltrow at Bent on Learning's gala. The event celebrated Russell Simmons and Ms. Paltrow for their support Read More
Gwyneth and Jay-Z’s Interviews Are 2011′s Truffaut/Hitchcock
Today, to celebrate the launch of Jay-Z's not-very-personal lifestyle site Life and Times, Gwyneth Paltrow interviewed the rapper for her newsletter Goop--and Jay-Z returned the favor, interviewing Ms. Paltrow for his site. (No one told the two, apparently, that Interview magazine exists, and has for years, for just this purpose.) Read More
Get Your GOOP Jokes Ready! Gwyneth Paltrow Signs Record Deal [Watch]
Gwyneth Paltrow--who, between Country Strong promotional appearances, Glee guest spots, and an unlikely Cee-Lo partnership, has come to seem more like a Lite-FM singer than an actress--is continuing her metamorphosis. She's signed a $900,000 deal with Atlantic Records to produce an album of so-called "country pop," of the sort she performed in her recent Read More
Cee-Lo to Perform With Gwyneth, For Real This Time
So the rumors that Cee-Lo Green would perform his current hit, "Fuck You!," with Gwyneth Paltrow on Saturday Night Live were overblown (he performed the song solo, she did a weird introductory skit in a wig), but for some reason, America's finally getting a chance to see this odd couple team up. Cee-Lo is Read More
Eastern Exposure: On the Prowl With a Hamptons Native-Turned-Paparazzo
Matt Agudo's habitual base of operations is the Starbucks in East Hampton. On a recent Saturday morning, he was flipping through a bale of local publications: Dan's Papers, Hamptons magazine, the New York Post. "That would've been the photo there!" he said, pointing to a Page Six snapshot of that tangerine nightmare, Snooki of Jersey Read More
The Mogul, Lost and Found: Developer Shaya Boymelgreen in the City of Second Acts
The breakneck rise and fall of New York developer Shaya Boymelgreen unfolds like a Gilded Age novel of social ascendance: young man immigrates to ethnic neighborhood in big city; accidentally takes part in Crown Heights riot of historic importance; strikes up fortuitous friendship with Uzbek diamond billionaire who agrees to bankroll his projects; gambles Read More
Opening This Weekend: Have You Heard About Iron Man 2?
Wondering what movie to spend your hard earned money on this weekend? Here's a handy guide to the new releases.
Iron Man 2
What's the story: By now you've read and re-read so much about Iron Man 2 that you probably feel like you've seen the entire movie already. But just in case: Robert Downey Read More
My Town of Kind!
A year ago, Natasha Vargas-Cooper, a California-based contributor to the Awl and Gawker, named 26-year-old Manhattanite Katie Baker among her favorite female bloggers in a blog post. Ms. Baker linked appreciatively to the post on her Tumblr, calling Ms. Vargas-Cooper, whom she'd never met, "a lady I luv." After that, "the lovefest continued," said Ms. Read More
Stylist Rachel Zoe Out-Goops Gwynnie With (Almost) Daily Dispatch
When the Transom signed up to the Zoe Report, the newsletter by stylist Rachel Zoe that began distribution last week, we received a prompt email from Ms. Zoe herself!
“Starting tomorrow, you will receive The Zoe Report, a daily email featuring my current obsessions in the ever-evolving worlds of fashion, beauty, and lifestyle,” she wrote. Read More
Week in DVR: XOXO Gossip Girl! Idol Final! Plus, Hot Jude Law and Furry Fox
Monday: Gossip Girl
OMFG you guys! It’s the Gossip Girl season-two finale! And sheesh, what a long and crazy ride it has been … hmmm, we can’t really remember a single continuing plot point! But tonight the you-know-what will really hit the fan when Gossip Girl sends out a “scandalous” email as the kids graduate from Read More
Gwynnie’s Personal Trainer Sells Workout Book in Six-Figure Deal
Celebrity trainer Tracy Anderson has sold a workout book, titled The 30-Day Method Boot Camp, to Grand Central Publishing, an imprint of Hachette Book Group, in a six-figure deal. It will be published in 2010.
Ms. Anderson, who has been enjoying a sweet wave of publicity due to her famous clientele, including Gwyneth Paltrow Read More
Still Gym-less, Celebrity Trainer Tracy Anderson Teaches at the Marriott
Last month, celebrity trainer Tracy Anderson was reportedly having difficulties getting people to sign up for her new $900-per-month Tribeca gym, where her most prominent client, the actress Gwyneth Paltrow, is also a partner.
(That's $900 per month, plus an initiation fee of $787.50 for six months, or $1,500 for a year!)
