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Tourist Trap

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 17:07:09 -0400

A Perfect Getaway
Running time 97 minutes
Written and directed by David Twohy
Starring Steve Zahn, Timothy Olyphant, Milla Jovovich, Kiele Sanchez

In the new action thriller/slice-and-dicer A Perfect Getaway, two couples who look like they’ve been doing overtime at the gym literally bash each other bloody with results that can only be described as moderate goose pimples. Half of the movie seems fresh and hair-raising. The rest is just disappointing and predictable. At...

Va-Va-Vroom! Lydia Hearst's Racy Bus Ads Yanked in Chicago, Dallas and Seattle

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:30:51 -0400

Perhaps sometime in the last week, you were strolling down a Manhattan street when you looked up to see the image of an attractive blonde reclining on the side of a New York City bus.

Upon closer look, you might notice the patent leather green platforms on her feet, the lacy see-through underpants, the hand resting suggestively below her pierced naval, her breast spilling out from underneath an open book covering her chest, the necklaces...

The Peacocks of Paris Fashion Week

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 11:23:36 -0400

Now that New York Fashion Week is but a distant memory, the front rows of Paris Fashion Week—which ends Oct. 5—are crowded with editors, socialites and actresses. At the Balmain show, Derek Blasberg sat alongside Milla Jovovich and Paul Anderson. French Vogue editor Carine Roitfeld and her daughter Julia Restoin-Roitfeld attended the Christian Dior Spring 2009 show, and Tinsley Mortimer made an appearance at Christian Lacroix. Even the ubiquitous Leigh Lezark is over there...

Fashion Roundup: Milla Jovovich Retires Her Line; P. Diddy To Shun Bryant Park; Daisy Lowe Hearts Marc Jacobs

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 16:59:41 -0400

Model and actress Milla Jovovich is putting her clothing line Jovovich-Hawk to rest; it had been carried by high end stores like Fred Segal. [Racked]

There will no longer be a Sean John runway show this September. Instead, Sean "P.Diddy" Combs will host a private preview of the Spring/Summer 2009 collection at his Sean John homebase at 1710 Broadway. [FWD]

Madonna will wear designs by Givenchy, Stella McCartney, Yves Saint Laurent,...

Reading Lips

Sun, 14 Nov 2004 19:00:00 -0500

Does New York need another library? The kids behind the Accompanied Library seem to think so. The Morgan, Society and Mercantile-not to mention the multiple branches of the NYPL-notwithstanding, Accompanied claims it is the city's first library "dedicated purely to literature." And some bigwigs in the book world, like The New Yorker's longtime poetry editor Alice Quinn, Bomb magazine editor and founder Betsy Sussler, novelist Jonathan Ames and notoriously skeptical Knopf editor Vicky Wilson...