Monday Headlines
February 22nd, 2010
Bafana in training base fiasco
WITH only 108 days to go until Bafana Bafana plays the opening match of the World Cup, the national team has been forced to change its training base after the original venue was slammed by football authorities as being badly run down and unsuitable. [Read More]
Crime detection soars after call to higher power
london: When Inspector Roger Bartlett realised Barnstaple had one of the poorest crime detection rates in the area, he decided he needed help. [Read More]
Malema says his critics are using Mbeki era probe tactics
ANC Youth League president Julius Malema has described his two homes, worth millions of rand, as “cheap” and has accused those who leaked stories about his lifestyle of employing strategies used by former president Thabo Mbeki. [Read More]
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Jon Voight Joins Jolie-Pitts In Venice For Family Reunion
Jon Voight and daughter Angelina Jolie have reunited.
The father-daughter pair was photographed in Italy on Sunday joining Brad Pitt and the couple’s brood for a ride down Venice’s Grand Canal.
[Read More]
‘Growing Pains’ Star Reported Missing
Former “Growing Pains” star Andrew Koenig, who played Boner on the ‘80s TV show, has been reported missing.
“He went up to [Vancouver] to visit friends who last saw him on the 14th,” Danielle Koenig, his sister, told Zap2it.com. “Any information we can get on his whereabouts would be helpful.”
[Read More]
Baftas 2010: British stars Carey Mulligan and Colin Firth triumph in best acting double
Colin Firth won best actor for his role in A Single Man, while Carey Mulligan took the best actress award following her part in An Education. [Read More]
Reunited: Angelina Jolie mends her long rift with father Jon Voight after Brad Pitt plays peacemaker
The veteran Hollywood actor finally gets to meet his six grandchildren after eight years of estrangement. [Read More]
Cheryl Cole ‘dumps Ashley by text’… as he faces fight for his future at Chelsea
Cheryl intends to return to the UK this week to announce the split, with a draft statement regarding the divorce already drawn up. [Read More]
The White Party
New York fashion week, ladies and gentlemen, is officially over. “That’s something to celebrate!” cheered Calvin Klein Collection’s
Francisco Costa at his post-show bash last night. “For me, though, the real party is tomorrow, when I sleep late and actually have a weekend.” The way the drinks were flowing, it didn’t look like anyone else was in the mood to wait to unwind.
The former studio of the late interiors guru Robert Isabell, a man known for his outlandish event schemes, was the party spot. “I wonder what this place looked like before they Calvinized it,” Visionaire’s Cecilia Dean said. “I would’ve loved to look at some of the things he kept in here.” Not a chance; in keeping with Costa’s spare collection, the decor consisted of nothing but fire pits, white couches, and stars like
Kate Bosworth,
Isabel Lucas,
and
Naomi Watts, all in the designer’s wares.
But the actress
Melissa George saw some possibilities. “Back home in Australia, we do this thing called a snowball, where the girls stay on the wall and the boys roller-skate past to pick them up,” she explained. “Do you think I could get the guys at Calvin Klein to do a party like that?”
—Derek Blasberg [Read More]
It’s All Over Now
Why does
L’Wren Scott like to throw a party on the final night of fashion week? Because that’s when the movers and shakers can really cut loose, of course. On Thursday night, all went according to Scott’s plan: Kenmare, the
Nur Khan and
Paul Sevigny hot spot that has been fashion party central all week, was elbow to elbow with industry A-listers getting down and drinking up, post-show fatigue be damned. “Actually, this is my first night out,” said model turned actress/director
Rie Rasmussen.
“I figured this would be a good one. I even got dressed up!” Indeed, Rasmussen was looking pretty on-trend in a high-neck Antonio Berardi blouse with slashed sleeves, though her miniskirt flew in the face of the longer hemlines that have been showing up on the Fall ‘10 runways.
Downstairs, Scott herself could be found shaking a leg with her beau,
Mick Jagger,
as the likes of
Michael Stipe and Olivier Zahm looked on. Jagger continued to grind his famous hips as Scott, beacon-like in a metallic sheath, addressed the potential logistical hazards of long skirts. “Sure, they might drag on the ground and get dirty,” she acknowledged between dance steps, “but that’s why you have a good dry cleaner! And you can always hold up the skirt,” she added, pretending to gather a few folds of fabric in her hands, “and do one of these…” At that, Scott gave her pretend dress a little shimmy, a move that earned her an approving grin and a shoulder shake from Jagger. Moral: It doesn’t matter what you’re wearing, as long as you’ve got a good dance partner.
—Maya Singer [Read More]
Costume Drama
Last night’s Vogue-hosted party for the new Quicktake: Rodarte exhibition at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum offered further proof of
Kate and Laura Mulleavy’s
magnetic pull: They had lured a sizable contingent of their downtown followers into really uncharted territory, i.e., all the way up to 91st Street.
Among the well-wishers was
Natalie Portman,
who recalled wowing her The Other Boleyn Girl co-star Scarlett Johansson the first time she wore Rodarte. “I remember at the premiere she looked at the dress, and she’s like, ‘Oh my God, that’s the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen,’ ” Portman said.
Kirsten Dunst,
another devoted fan, got turned on to the sisters well before Portman. “We started a friendship via letters and random, whimsical little gifts and packages—birds on strings, little fairy villages to put together,” she recounted. Opening Ceremony’s Humberto Leon, a classmate of the sisters at UC Berkeley, recalled the Mulleavys watching horror movies, studying art history, and working student jobs at the science building. “What I like about them is that it really was never about fashion specifically. It’s always been about a greater idea,” he said.
“I don’t think our maturity level has progressed at all since college,” Kate Mulleavy added. “It’s good to stay true to who you are. In order to be creative, you can’t lose that.”
—Darrell Hartman [Read More]
Space shuttle Endeavour returns
Space shuttle Endeavour lands in Florida after delivering the last major component of the International Space Station. [Read More]
US school accused of web spying
Parents in the US have accused a school of spying on children by remotely activating webcams on laptops. [Read More]
