American Ballet Theater hopes to be on point this week with its fundraising event in San Marino, California, “Stars Under the Stars.” The evening will include a dinner party at a private estate, as well as a special performance from some of its brightest talent, including Gillian Murphy, Veronika Part, Stella Abrera, Kristi Boone, Yuriko Kajiya, Jared Matthews, Sascha Radetsky, and Cory Stearns. At $500 a head, all proceeds will benefit the ABT, the country’s leading ballet company. The fundraiser will honor Nigel Lythgoe, current judge and executive producer of Fox’s hit reality show
So You Think You Can Dance and ABT will likely bring more big names, beautiful sets, and of course, incredible dancing for the affair.
American Ballet Theater will host An Evening in San Marino: Stars Under the Stars on Monday, July 19.
If you hear a strange sound this week, it very well may be the sound of Samantha Ronson baking a file into a cake. Either that, or the sound of hipsters everywhere pulling on their hot-off-the-presses “Free Lindsay” t-shirts. After the sentencing
viewed 'round the world, on July 20 Lindsay Lohan is set to begin her 90-day sentence for violating probation assigned after multiple DUI charges in 2007. While the rest of the world ponders what went wrong since the simpler days of
The Parent Trap and news outlets work on their bids for post-prison interviews, Lohan will check into the Century Regional Detention Facility in Los Angeles County, which has previously played host to Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie. Here’s hoping the enforced hiatus from the L.A. club scene (not to mention the highways) will do Lohan some good. And that she decides to remove her
“F--- You” manicure before she checks in.
Lindsay Lohan is scheduled to begin her jail sentence on Tuesday, July 20.
A new slew of shiny news sheets filled with juicy gossip hit newsstands this week. Jon Hamm is promoting something other than
Mad Men as he speaks to
W magazine with his co-star Rebecca Hall. The two actors appear alongside one another on the fashion magazine’s August 2010 cover and in the Ben Affleck-directed movie,
The Town. In the W interview, Hamm jokes about sleeping with Sam Mendes. In other Mendeses, Eva Mendes covers
Allure’s August 2010 issue and expects pity for being “sexy” and stripping down. “[When] other actresses who aren’t thought of, maybe, as being quite as attractive do full-frontal, they’re called brave,” she explains. “Just because I’m attractive doesn’t mean it’s not still scary. Why am I not brave?” Speaking of jokes, funnymen Tracy Morgan, Zach Galifianakis, and Paul Rudd appear on the three August 2010 covers of GQ. Rudd, who stars in the upcoming
Dinner For Schmucks, could easily give Mendes a run for her money. “I’ve gained about 20 pounds over the past two years, and the more weight I’ve put on, the more success I’ve had,” he tells
GQ. “If you drew a diagram of weight gain and me getting more work, a mathematician would draw some conclusions from that.”
The August 2010 issues of
W,
Allure, and
GQ all hit newsstands on Tuesday, July 20.
There’s really no hero more ordinary than 23-year-old Canadian Scott Pilgrim. He’s a Toronto-based slacker, playing bass in a band called "Sex Bob-Omb," and the hugely popular brain child of comic book author Bryan Lee O’Malley. Pilgrim was intended to consist of six volumes, throughout which he falls in love with American delivery girl Ramona V. Flowers, but must defeat her seven evil ex-boyfriends in order to date her. Will Pilgrim be able to beat his final adversary, Gideon Graves? We’d like to think so. But we’ll find out in the sixth and final installment of
Finest Hour, due out this week. The release comes just a month before 22-year-old Canadian Michael Cera of
Superbad stardom brings the comic book hero to the big screen in
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. And for O’Malley, the experience is somewhat surreal. “I toiled away on this book for years in relative obscurity, so it’s cool to be celebrated to the degree that I always felt I should be celebrated,” the cartoonist told the National Post with a laugh. “Back when I was a teenager… I’d slam my door and be like, ‘One day
I’m going to be famous!’ I was right.”
Scott Pilgrim Volume 6: Finest Hour will be released on Tuesday, July 20.
Banana Republic Goes Retro with
Mad Men
For the second year in a row, Banana Republic is kicking it old school to promote
Mad Men’s retro chic style as its new season nears. “Mad About Style” launches this week and all 400 Banana Republic stores nationwide will be participating in promoting the 1960s style. There’s also a
casting call contest to win a walk-on roll in the series. "
Mad Men is the kind of show that has really crossed over into the pop-culture lexicon,” Theresa Beyer, VP of promotions and brand activation at AMC, said in a statement. “People want to talk about
Mad Men style. You'll hear, ‘That suit is very
Mad Men.’” There’s no doubt the curve-hugging dresses and dapper suits seen on Joan Harris and Don Draper respectively have become fashionable once again, even catching the eye of higher-end designers. “The wardrobes are
exquisite and the attention to detail is beyond forensic,” Michael Kors told The Wall Street Journal.
Mad Men
and Banana Republic launch the "
Mad About Style" campaign on Wednesday, July 21.
For those of you weeping at the end of last week’s Infinitus Harry Potter Symposium, take heart: this week sees the kick-off of Comic Con, the annual convention equivalent to the SuperBowl for the likes of the “comic book guy” on
The Simpsons. Held this year in San Diego, the convention welcomes a series of major figures in the world of comic books such as Neal Adams of
Batman and
X-Men
fame and
Fahrenheit 451 author Ray Bradbury. Attendees will also likely be mourning the loss
American Splendor auteur Harvey Pekar, who passed away last week. With events ranging from screenwriting how-tos to a panel discussion called “The Power of Myth,” if there were ever a time to let your geek flag fly, this would be it.
Comic Con will be held from Thursday, July 22 through Sunday, July 25 at the San Diego Convention Center.
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Blow by Blow on the Woman Behind McQueen
While John Galliano is working on producing a movie about the woman who is credited with discovering Alexander McQueen, late style icon Isabella Blow will first be reborn in a smaller arena—the theater. Blow’s eccentric fashion-sense inspired many throughout her short life, and soon her story will take the spotlight in a new play entitled
Blow by Blow, premiering at the 11th Annual Midtown International Theater Festival in New York this week. Jean Bergantini penned the production about the woman who is credited with discovering both the late McQueen and model Sophie Dahl. Besides being a friend to multiple designers from McQueen to Philip Treacy, Blow was also an editor at Vogue and Tatler who acquired a wild collection of clothing and accessories that could not be matched, according to
Vogue Italia. But as Blow’s story sadly goes, she eventually became depressed and attempted suicide numerous times before finally ending her life in May 2007 at the age of 48. The new play will explore her life under the direction of Jen Forcino and with costumes from Susan Voelker that will hopefully do her style justice.
Blow by Blow will premiere at the 11th Annual Midtown International Theater Festival, beginning Wednesday, July 21 in New York.
