Sexiest Man Alive 2009 Will Smith Arguments for: * Will is popular. Very, very popular * Will is charming. Very, very charming. * Will has a huge box office. Will wins almost all the time. * Will is happily married, he’s understood to be faithful, and he is a devoted father. * It’s time for a non-white SMA. And By Lainey • Nov 05, 2009 01:10 am
Sexiest Man Alive 2009 Jay-Z Arguments for: * Success is sexy. Jay-Z now has more #1 albums than Elvis, second ONLY to the Beatles. Let me repeat that for you: only the Beatles have more #1 albums than Jay-Z. Jay-Z owns the f-cking world * With success comes influence and power. Jay-Z is a star and a By Lainey • Nov 05, 2009 01:08 am
Sexiest Man Alive 2009 Channing Tatum Arguments for: * Buff, athletic all-American * Big hit with G.I. Joe, newly established as an action star * Just the right amount of scandal with a naughty past as an exotic dancer thrilling horny housewives and cougars, perfect MiniVan Majority fantasy material * Next film: Dear John, a Notebook style tearjerker targeted By Lainey • Nov 05, 2009 01:07 am
Sexiest Man Alive 2009 Sam Worthington Arguments for: * Rugged, man, hot * Enigmatic, fresh, mysterious, it would be an inspired and surprising choice * He’s at the top of the list right now for producers and directors, everyone wants to work with him * Stole Terminator Salvation from the compelling Christian Bale, not an easy feat * Handpicked as By Lainey • Nov 05, 2009 01:05 am
Sexiest Man Alive 2009 Predicting the Sexiest Man Alive 2009 It’s an annual tradition on this site. Later this month, People Magazine will name its Sexiest Man Alive and this is the 5th year of the exercise – handicapping the candidates that could capture the crown. My batting average is hovering around .400 but this might be the trickiest yet. By Lainey • Nov 05, 2009 01:02 am
Quiveration Franco: first look Have you seen this? It’s the first look at James Franco on General Hospital. Don’t ask me about the storyline. I don’t care about the storyline. What I do care about are the scenes. Soap opera scenes are long and drawn out. Takes them days to have By Lainey • Nov 04, 2009 09:47 am
Quiveration Can we be friends again? It’s been a year since Adrien Brody’s embarrassing spread in Hello Magazine showing off the fake castle he used to inhabit with then girlfriend Elsa Pataky. Elsa was unable to leverage anything more than a wannabe royal residence out of Adrien and their romance has since reportedly fizzled. By Lainey • Nov 04, 2009 09:29 am
Cheating Loins Always save the texts That stripper who claims she had a fling with Josh Duhamel in Atlanta…he’s denying the allegations but now Us Weekly reports she saved her text messages. See now I believe the text messages more than I believe a lie detector test. And she passed one of those too. By Lainey • Nov 04, 2009 09:05 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Drew & Posh & DeNiro At the premiere of Everybody’s Fine last night, Drew Barrymore stepped out in a Victoria Beckham and looked like a bridesmaid. Right? Hate that length. It cuts her off in the matron area. Everybody’s Fine stars Robert DeNiro has a father who crosses the country to be with By Lainey • Nov 04, 2009 05:48 am
Glee Fill the void Glee will not be on tonight. Not until the World Series is over. To ease the pain, the Glee cast is on tour. Yesterday it was New York and Alexa Chung, today it’s the morning show circuit. These kids have a really great makeup artist, non? And Cory Monteith By Lainey • Nov 04, 2009 04:19 am
Bad Style Kristen Stewart in Mexico & Harper’s Bazaar Was messaged all over Twitter and by email yesterday from Twilight fans asking for an opinion on “the photos”. Que? Turns out that the Kristen Stewart/Robert Pattinson Harper’s Bazaar cover shoot pictures had leaked – untouched click here to see them – and Twi-Hards were losing their sh-t. It’s By Lainey • Nov 04, 2009 03:53 am
Smutty Surgery Gwyneth hides, Madonna parties There was a party in New York last night to celebrate the launch of Valentino: the Last Emperor on DVD. Gwyneth Paltrow is a major Valentino supporter. She was in New York for sure at the weekend trick or treating with her kids in the Hamptons. But amid the cheating By Lainey • Nov 04, 2009 02:35 am
Quiveration Beard beads Many of you wrote yesterday about Brad Pitt’s beard beads… They’re left over from his Halloween costume, guess he just wanted to keep them. I have no quarrel with his beard beads. I have a quarrel with the beard. But this is Brad Pitt. And not even a By Lainey • Nov 04, 2009 02:19 am
Quiveration Colin for Christmas Tonight in London at the premiere of A Christmas Carol, here’s the always dashing Colin Firth alongside his equally elegant wife. A Christmas Carol is gunning for the holiday box office. So Colin has a hand in potentially commercial and critical successes this season. Of course A Single Man, By Lainey • Nov 03, 2009 10:45 am
Dumbass Porny prose This full moon is beaming through my window with grace. I am falling asleep encountering this intense moonlit dream. Thank God it found me. The search for the perfect sentence stops here. And what an abundance of generosity. For Jessica Simpson has gifted us with not one, but two offerings. By Lainey • Nov 03, 2009 07:57 am
Girly Throw Downs I hear you Buble Michael Buble is promoting a new album all over the world. Last week he was in London, on morning television, on X Factor, Graham Norton, signing autographs, all in service of the appropriately corny titled Crazy Love which is topping the charts, a huge smash hit. Congratulations Michael. On the By Lainey • Nov 03, 2009 06:26 am
