Award Season Hair 2009 BAFTA Worst Hair: Penelope Cruz Like, this fringe is balls. Hate it. Also why is she wearing the same dress over and over again? Black, mermaid, I mean there’s saving up and there’s just being lazy. Thrilled that Pene won Best Supporting Actress because she really was on fire in Vicky Cristina, but By Lainey • Feb 09, 2009 01:47 am
Girly Throw Downs Granny before and after It’s Gran! She’s in Rome for Nine with Daniel Day-Lewis, the longest shoot ever! Can’t wait to see how Nine will play out. Because it’s currently slated for a November 2009 release which means Harvey Weinstein will push for Oscar season… And among all of those By Lainey • Jan 28, 2009 11:30 am
SAG Awards 2009 SAG Saving Up: Penelope Cruz Is she in a hair rut? I feel like she’s in a hair rut. And a dress rut too. Like, enough with the flared bottom mermaid business. It’s tired. And while black is never bad, and of course she doesn’t look bad, she also looks boring. Seen By Lainey • Jan 26, 2009 02:15 am
Anne Hathaway Intelligence is irrelevant 10 million votes were tallied and AskMen.com has compiled the “definitive” list of 99 Most Desirable Women for 2009. “Readers are asked to look beyond sex appeal and beauty to pick women who have the characteristics they value in a potential companion, like intelligence, humor, charisma, and ambition. The By Lainey • Jan 21, 2009 07:00 am
Assy Style Globe Neutrals: Demi/Pene/Salma Wasn’t feeling it. All those neutrals, nudes, and light grey. Meh. Even Salma who is ordinarily spectacular. Meh. The ageless Demi, perhaps the best of the boring because of her great hair and Ashton is a babe, but still… meh. And Penelope Cruz especially. Washed her out. And I’ By Lainey • Jan 12, 2009 02:31 am
Kate Winslet Kate vs Pene Kate Winslet won for Best Supporting Actress last night at Critics’ Choice making it a very tight race between her and Penelope Cruz for Oscar. Kate was not there last night to collect her award, hanging back instead in New York for an appearance on Letterman before heading to LA By Lainey • Jan 09, 2009 01:57 am
Penelope Cruz Spanish Love is alive! Yay! Spanish gossips reported earlier that Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem had split because she wanted babies and he didn’t. Apparently wrong. Because the two were photographed this weekend departing Geneva after enjoying some down time in the Alps. Spanish sizzle is not dead. Spanish sizzle will be in By Lainey • Jan 05, 2009 01:46 am
BFFs Friends with everyone My Gwyneth is hard to handle among the common folk. Most of you can’t stand her. Because she’s never tried to make you like her. Among celebrities though, Gwyneth is friends with almost everyone from Beyonce and Jay-Z to Madonna to European royalty to Steven Spielberg and Lorne By Lainey • Dec 22, 2008 02:05 am
Break Ups Keep hat, lose Chanel? Or vice versa? Something seems off. What is it? This is Penelope Cruz today in New York for World AIDS Day at the Diamond is Forever Unbreakable Kiss Installation in support of the Elton John AIDS Foundation. Pene’s been keeping it low key lately, hard at work on Nine By Lainey • Dec 01, 2008 10:09 am
Quiveration Feeling Better? Javier Bardem dropped out of Nine just after winning the Oscar for Best Supporting actor this year citing “exhaustion” as the reason, making way for Daniel Day Lewis to step into the singing dancing role. It’ll be a trip. Can’t wait. Javy has been very low profile during By Lainey • Aug 05, 2008 03:29 am
Penelope Cruz Best Oscar Man: Javier Bardem He is a giant of a man. So tall, so sexy, so strong, so… MAN. We watched him stalking the carpet, full of nervous energy but chill at the same time. We watched him pose at the photo wall – something about the way he planted his legs firmly on the By Lainey • Feb 26, 2008 02:22 am
Penelope Cruz Pene Cat Tail in Berlin Penelope Cruz is in Berlin for Elegy – total gorgessity at the photo call with Ben Kingsley and on the carpet for the premiere. LOVE the nude pumps. Not sure about that train. Reminds me of a puffy cat’s tail – am expecting it to start purring. Or maybe that’s By Lainey • Feb 09, 2008 07:00 pm
Penelope Cruz How Many Bows? Remember Pene’s Oscar yellow strapless with the bow below the butt? See attached for a reminder. Again last night Penelope Cruz stepped out in NYC for the Spanish Institute"s Gold Medal Gala wearing strapless and blue and a big bow this time higher up her back. Is By Lainey • Nov 30, 2007 01:08 am
Penelope Cruz Pene loves Javy? A new smutty kink for those who believe Pene’s a lesbian ... Spanish gossips are reporting that she’s hooked up with the sizzling hotness of Javier Bardem and Hola Magazine claims this photo of them together on the beach confirm their romance. Perfect couple, non? Me lovey! No but By Lainey • Oct 10, 2007 02:23 am
Penelope Cruz Scarjo Wide Leg Scarlett Johansson and Penelope Cruz (I think) in Barcelona the other day. Of course she can wear the wide legs. And of course she looks amazing. And this is not a stick insect either. Nor is she an amazon. Thing is, I too am top heavy with an ample rump By Lainey • Aug 10, 2007 07:26 am
Penelope Cruz Posh & Becks: the choreographed first weekend First full weekend in Los Angeles, Victoria and David spent most of it undercover but for a very, very high profile visit with the boys to Toys R Us. First though – Posh paid a visit to Jay Leno on The Tonight Show on Friday, smiling a lot, giggling a lot, By Lainey • Jul 16, 2007 08:00 am