The time is now!!!!

For you to vote for Madonna! She's nominated for 5 VMA's. Now vote!

Kirsten as Marie Antoinette

I'm so excited to see this! Here are some pics from the Vanity Fair shoot. From Dlisted.

CA woman sues over mannequin attack

LOS ANGELES - A woman is suing the J.C. Penney Co. after an alleged run-in with a store mannequin that she says left her with a cracked tooth, a bloodied head and recurring shoulder pain.

Diana Newton, 51, of Westminster sued the Texas-based retailer last month in Orange County Superior Court, claiming she was cracked in the head by a legless female dummy at its Westminster Mall store.

Newton said the incident happened nearly a year ago in the women's department, as she was shopping for a blouse. The only one in her size was on the mannequin. As a salesclerk was removing the garment, the dummy's arm flew off and struck Newton's head, according to her lawsuit.

"I felt a burning sensation," she recalled.

Paramedics treated her bleeding scalp at the scene. Newton drove herself home, then had someone take her to a hospital for further treatment.

The blow also cracked a molar, which led to a root canal, she said.

The suit seeks unspecified damages.

A spokeswoman for J.C. Penney said the company doesn't comment on pending litigation.

From Yahoo News.

Yes to both!

Alessandro Dell’Acqua Fall/Winter 2006. From Out.com's Look of the Day.

Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd

DreamWorks Studios announced today that Johnny Depp has been set to star and Tim Burton to direct Sweeney Todd, the award-winning Stephen Sondheim musical thriller.

The co-production with Warner Bros. will star Johnny Depp as the titular Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Depp is currently starring in the record-breaking blockbuster, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest.

Sweeney Todd marks the 6th collaboration between the actor and director. The previous Burton-Depp films have been Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Tim Burton's Corpse Bride, Ed Wood, Edward Scissorhands and Sleepy Hollow.

Walter Parkes and Laurie MacDonald will partner with Richard Zanuck and John Logan to produce the screenplay adaptation which was written by Logan. Production is planned to begin early next year for a late 2007 release. Paramount will distribute for DreamWorks domestically and Warner Bros. internationally.

The Broadway production of Sweeney Todd, with Sondheim's music and lyrics and a book by Hugh Wheeler based on the play by Christopher Bond, opened in 1979 and won eight Tony Awards, including Best Musical. Its mix of the comic, the dramatic and the macabre held together by Sondheim's movie-like score has had hundreds of productions throughout the world. A highly acclaimed revival is now playing in New York.

The story of Sweeney Todd is of a wrongfully imprisoned barber in Victorian England who sets out to seek revenge on the judge who imprisoned him. The plot is foreshadowed in the first lines of the opening number: "Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd./His skin was pale and his eye was odd./He shaved the faces of gentlemen/Who never thereafter were heard of again."

From Coming Soon.

Madonna's party!

For most women within touching distance of their 50th birthday, one of London's trendiest nightspots would be an unlikely venue to host a party.

Not so for Madonna. She chose the ultra-hip Lounge Lover bar in Shoreditch to celebrate her 48th birthday and the end of the UK leg of her Confessions world tour.

It was a clear sign that the singer is not yet ready to surrender her status as pop's queen of cool.

It would have been difficult for the Material Girl to have picked a more stylish venue. A short walk from Brick Lane, the private function room is filled with Swedish and French furniture from the 18th and 19th centuries, while surreal artwork adorns the walls.

She arrived at the party with husband Guy Ritchie following her show at Wembley Arena.

From Madonna-Connexion.

Manbearpig

Strange beastie in Maine

A "hybrid mutant of something" has been found dead in Maine. Apparenty locals have, over the past few years, been "seeing and hearing a mysterious animal with chilling monstrous cries and eyes that glow in the night."

From Stranger Fruit.

Happy Birthday Madonna!!!!!

The Queen of the Universe just turned 48 today!!!!! What would the world be like without her? Pointless I tell you!!!

Is Keanu next?

After Lance?

Now that Lance Bass is officially out the Tinseltown watchers are speculating on who will be next. The topic is also highlighting an internet betting company.

Online betters have put Keanu Reeves at the top of the who will come out next list with odds at +200 at BetUS.com.

Brokeback Mountain's Jake Gylenhall is +250 and for you CNN watchers and anchor speculators Anderson Cooper is a long shot at +2500.

From 365gay.

Prosecutors to monitor Madonna act

BERLIN - Prosecutors plan to keep an eye on Madonna's weekend concert in Duesseldorf to see if the pop diva repeats the mock crucifixion scene that has drawn fire from religious leaders.

Johannes Mocken, a spokesman for prosecutors in Duesseldorf, said Tuesday that a repeat of that scene during Sunday's concert could be construed as insulting religious beliefs.

Madonna, who is known for her theatrical, action-packed shows, wears a crown of fake thorns while performing on a mirrored cross.

The stunt, which has been included from the outset of her worldwide "Confessions" tour, has been criticized as an act of hostility toward the Roman Catholic Church.

Representatives for the singer, who will be 48 on Wednesday, have said the scene is not disrespectful toward the church.

Mocken said authorities would rely on media reports rather than sending observers to the concert and that the show might be covered by laws protecting artistic freedoms.

Earlier this month, religious leaders in Rome condemned the concert stunt. Some 70,000 fans attended Madonna's performance at Olympic Stadium, some two miles from the Vatican.

From Yahoo News.

Online dating is planned for orangutans

THE HAGUE, Netherlands - Single male (red hair, long arms, interests include hanging in trees and grooming) seeks female for long-distance relationship and possibility of meeting up in future to help save species.

Zookeepers in the Netherlands are planning to hook up Dutch and Indonesian orangutans over the Internet and believe the link could at some stage be used as an online dating service where apes could get to know one another and keepers could work out whether they would be compatible mates.

First things first: A romantic dinner for two.

"We are going to set up an Internet connection between Indonesia and Apeldoorn so that the apes can see each other and, by means of pressing a button, be able to give one another food, for example," said Anouk Ballot, a spokeswoman for the Apenheul ape park in the central Dutch city of Apeldoorn.

She said the chance of two orangutans actually mating as a result of the online interaction was small due to the problem of transporting them between the Netherlands and Indonesia. "But I wouldn't rule it out completely," she told The Associated Press.

From Yahoo News.

Zombie of the Day

Zombie from Dawn of the Dead. For more zombies check out the The Zombie Farm.

Madonna on the Roosevelt

From Madonnalicious.

No sleep for Madonna!

Madonna's famously poor relations with British builders took another turn for the worse last week when she was kept awake with building works on either side of her London home, reports contactmusic.com

She told an audience at one Wembley show, "I only got three hours sleep last night because I have got construction work going on in stereo at my house. This morning I was so tired I thought: 'F**k, I can't do my show.' But I'm getting lots of energy from the smiles on your faces."

The site manager for one of the construction firms says, 'Usually we work from 8.30am, but we agreed to be quiet before 10am so Madonna could get her lie-in. "We have a job to do. I am surprised she has decided to complain."

From Madonnatribe.

Val Kilmer washed up on the coast

So sad!!! Old Val needs to lose some weight! From TMZ thanks to Leah.

Everyone has a secret...

From PostSecret.

Blind Item

Which handsome prime-time drama star canceled a slew of interviews with British women's mags on a recent publicity tour because they wouldn't agree not to ask about his home life, which includes a boyfriend?

Wentworth Miller

From NY Daily News via Dlisted.

She must win!

In all 5 categories that she is nominated for a VMA... take the time and vote for the Queen!

Boy George finds a job that suits him

Maybe this is the payback for all the smack he's talked about Madonna over the years!

Former Culture Club singer Boy George began his community service sentence in Manhattan on Monday - the result of an arrest for cocaine - and all did not go well for the portly Brit. "You think you're better than me?" he yelled to the members of the media who came to snap pics and try to interview him. "Go home. Let me do my community service. This is supposed to be making me humble. Let me do this. I just want to do my job."

From Perez Hilton.

OMG... it's about time!

One of my all time favorite shows ever!!! I can't wait!!!!

Paramount Home Video has sent over details for the release of Melrose Place: The Complete First Season, which will be available on the 7th of November at a retail price of $54.99. The eight-disc set will contain all 32 season one episodes, all presented in their originally televised 1.33:1 full frame aspect ratio along with an English Dolby 2.0 Surround audio track and English subtitles. Extras will include a number of mini-featurettes and recaps for each episode.

From DVD Active.

Zombie of the Day

Zombie from Dawn of the Dead. For more zombies check out Homepage of the Dead.

Dress You Up in my Love

Madonna looking great all dressed up for a change, photos from 8/11 in London. For more check out allaboutmadonna.

Angel

A great performance from Madonna at The Virgin Tour that didn't make the official release. It's fucking great!

I love the fall...

From Alessandro Dell’Acqua's Fall/Winter 2006 line. For more looks check out Out.com's Look of the Day.

Give her airplay!!

Clear Channel launched a new format today in Philadephia that could finally be a fit for Madonna on U.S. Airwaves again if the format moves to other markets. Rhythmic Adult Contemporary for Women included Madonna in their first hour of airplay. With JUMP being worked first to AC - this could signal the beginning of a new avenue for Madonna to garner U.S.Airplay from the media giant.

From Drowned Madonna.

Marie Antoinette

Call me crazy but I'm so excited for this movie! Check out some pics from the film. For more go to LOGOonline.

Squirrel attacks people in Fla. park

WINTER PARK, Fla. - Several people attacked by a squirrel at Central Park said they had one word for the animal: nuts. On Wednesday some expressed frustration that the animal was not caught sooner, the Orlando Sentinel reported.

Alisa Cox's son Carson, 3, was bitten by a squirrel several times and had a 2-inch wound on his leg after the incident, Cox said.

James Klute said his 3-year-old son was also bitten on the calf while they were kicking a soccer ball at the park. Jim Hindman, meanwhile, said a squirrel bit and scratched both arms while he was sitting on a park bench.

Longwood resident Dylan Osborne, 19, said that after the squirrel attacked the leg and shoe of a friend he trapped it under a bucket but released it two hours later when county animal-services workers didn't arrive.

An official with animal-services said he was not aware of that incident but would check the records.

City employees captured the animal with a litter grabber Tuesday. It died and is being tested for rabies. Officers had previously tried to subdue the animal with pepper spray.

From Yahoo News.

Zombie of the Day

Zombie from The Night of the Living Dead remake. For more zombies check out Homepage of the Dead.

I love fall clothes...

From Ann Demeulemeester's Fall/Winter 2006 line. For more check out Out.com's Look of the Day.

She needs you!

Vote for Madonna at MTV.com so she can win her 5 VMA's!

Zombie of the Day

Zombie from Dawn of the Dead. For more zombies check out Homepage of the Dead.

Johnny Knoxville pics from Out

During the filming of A Dirty Shame—a film credited for bringing gay bears into the collective American consciousness—Knoxville developed a thing for bear culture and tried to get himself on the cover of American Grizzly magazine. “They said they don’t do celebrity endorsements,” he laments. “I was so angry and hurt. I asked John, ‘Do you have a number for the editor?’ But he didn’t want me to grovel.” Instead, Knoxville tattooed a bear on his arm with Grrr! written across its belly. Then he bought all the MTV executives subscriptions to American Grizzly, “whether they liked it or not.”

From Out.com.

an infernal Madonna shouldn't hurt us

MILAN (Reuters) - Is it appropriate for one of the Roman Catholic church's best known cathedrals to be draped with the giant picture of a pop artist who has made millions from hit songs about sex?

Yes, according to the most senior priest at Milan's landmark Duomo who has rebuffed requests to remove a picture of Madonna as part of an advertisement for Swedish fashion chain Hennes & Maritz.

It's not the contents of the picture on the cathedral that has upset the critics. The ad shows the woman behind such hits about unmarried sex as "Like a Virgin" and "Papa Don't Preach" in a white sports jacket zipped to the top, eyes downcast.

But the appearance of the banner on scaffolding erected on the Duomo coincided with protests over a Madonna show near the Vatican during which the "Queen of Pop" had herself hoisted on a glittery cross wearing a crown of thorns in a mock crucifixion.

"It's diabolical," said Albertina Santos, 53, the wife of an evangelical pastor from Verona, Italy. "This doesn't look right, it's not the right thing for a Christian."

However, the Duomo's Monsignor Luigi Manganini told Italy's Ansa news agency that the ad -- part of money-raising efforts to restore the cathedral -- can stay and was appropriate.

"It's just an ad, certainly not a canonization," Manganini said. "When it was accepted, the poster seemed all correct and appropriate for its place, and it still is."

Critics such as the national Catholic schoolparents' association and the head of Milan's Advertising Progress Foundation find it difficult to accept even a demure picture on a church from an artist whose 1992 book "Sex" depicted the star in various poses and states of undress

Peering up at the ad, Spanish tourist Manuel Moreno, 60, said: "She's an artist who does things that are almost pornographic. I don't like that it's on a cathedral."

The head of culture for Milan's city council said a picture of the women whose latest "Confessions on a Dance Floor" album sports a picture of her in bright mauve hot pants may even be in keeping with the Duomo's original 14th-15th century decor.

"The other parts of the building are full of devils and demons. So an infernal Madonna shouldn't hurt us too badly," Vittorio Sgarbi told Corriere della Sera newspaper.

From Drowned Madonna.

Planet Terror sounds incredible!

From Upcoming Horror Movies:

Robert, tell me about your film.

RODRIGUEZ Mine's a zombie movie called Planet Terror. It feels like a John Carpenter movie that took place between Escape From New York and The Thing. I wanted to do a zombie script a while back because there hadn't been any good zombie movies in a while. I got about 30 pages into it, and then all these zombie movies came out. So I thought, Well, I don't have to make them zombies — there could be other reasons why they're like this. They're infected people. Quentin, what's that story?

TARANTINO There was this Umberto Lenzi zombie movie in the '70s called Nightmare City, and a while ago some friends of mine were going to meet him in Rome, and I told them to tell him how much I loved Nightmare City. And they told him. And he goes, ''Zombies? What's theees zombies? They're infected people!''

The film comes out April 2007.

Madonna in Rome

This is some scary shit, I bet she must get a little freaked out by this.

Awww... together for an ad campaign

Here's a Fall campaign ad for New York & Company that features Ellen Pompeo & Patrick Dempsey from Grey's Anatomy. They should really be together!

From Tabloid Whore.

Justin Timberlake's New CD Cover

I like it... I think Madonna would shed a tear though!

Zombie of the Day

Zombie from Day of the Dead. For more zombies check out Homepage of the Dead.

How not to open a grenade...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (Reuters) - A Brazilian man died Tuesday when he tried to open what police believe was a rocket-propelled grenade with a sledgehammer in a mechanical workshop on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro.

Another man who was in the workshop at the time of the explosion was rushed to a hospital with severe burns, a police officer told Reuters. The workshop was destroyed and several cars parked outside caught fire.

Police found several unexploded army issue rocket-propelled grenades in the workshop. They believe the ammunition had been brought there by scavengers wanting to sell them as scrap metal, but they also are investigating a possible link to Rio's heavily armed drug gangs who often raid military bases.

From Yahoo News.

Project Runway updates classic looks

Fans of Bravo's hit reality show....get ready for a "tribute" to Madonna!

On Wednesday's episode (August 9), the designers are summoned to modernize a "classic" look of a fashion icon. The icons include Diana Ross, Audrey Hepburn and of course Madonna.....

The designer will be updating Madonna's classic "Virgin" era wedding dress look.....

Check it out on Bravo....

Drowned Madonna.

Yuck!

I would be just miserable in this suit. From Dirk Schönberger's Spring 2007 line. For more designers go to Men.Style.

I just love the British press

Matthew took a break from biking to rest his... from A Socialite's Life.

Britney loves Photoshop too!

Look at this untouched picture of Britney on the left compared to the one on the right. I guess they can make anyone look good!

From Best Week Ever.

I prefer the Queen untouched any day!

Zombie of the Day

Zombie from Day of the Dead. For more zombies check out Homepage of the Dead.