TWO CRAZY KIDS MAKING IT WORK "Mandy Moore and Adam 'DJ A.M.' Goldstein dated for only two months in 2007, but it looks like that was long enough to form a bond. 'It's back on,' a DJ A.M. source says. … 'Since the accident, it's blossomed into something again. Mandy said, "I like this guy a lot and I want to see where it can go again. Life is too short to not be with someone you really care about."'"
• Josh Groban reminds us why the Emmys should be avoided at all costs. [DListed]
• Introducing LOL Celebrities. [CityRag]
• Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson really love blogging. [PS]
• All the Emmy red carpet photos, because we love judging others. [ICYDK]
• Jennifer Love Hewitt is slowly transforming into a poodle. [INO]
• Mandy Moore flew to Georgia to visit ex-boyfriend DJ AM after he survived that fatal plane crash. [Yeeeah]
The CFDA Fashion Awards, held last night at the New York Public Library, honored excellence in fashion design but also served as a venue for Victoria Beckham to crash as many photo opportunities as possible.
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Fendi had some redesign at its Rodeo Drive boutique, and that calls for a celebration! Right?
In attendance was, of course, Lindsay Lohan. The girl can't miss an event, especially now that she's sobered up. If she's not drinking alcohol she needs to feed her other addiction: posing for the paparazzi.
This dress just doesn't look right on her. Maybe it's the fact that she looks twice her age. Let this be a lesson to everyone: Don't get hooked on drugs and alcohol, because it will make you look old.
First this, now this:
…spies were astounded last week when they saw [Mandy Moore and Matthew Perry] on a date at Amici Trattoria in Beverly Hills. One source said, "He was already seated and waited for her for 15 minutes until she arrived. He stood up to greet her and gave her a kiss on the cheek. They were holding hands across the table and being really close and laughing a lot the whole time."
She's 27, he's 38, and by the time she's his age, they'll have broken up. No big deal.
This is like when the awkward girl whom everyone ignored freshman and sophomore year comes back after studying in Italy. She's now a smoker and only drinks rosso, and when all the boys are shoving to get close to her at the party, she just goes, "Ciao, dickheads," before leaving with a grad student.
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How fucked up is "the Industry" when everyone's pleased that the shit you demand—and could easily afford—only adds up to about $150?
When not even Dennis Publishing—the brains and raging hormones behind Maxim, Stuff and Blender, above—can get you out of your bra and straddling the hobby horse, you're officially more punk than all the girls who think they're blowing people's minds by spitting in public. Now that the 60s are over, it's not really rebellious to throw around your sexuality, but it'll always be radical to say to jocks, "Fuck off, this is who I am."
There's Moore.
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Last evening, everyone from Samuel L Jackson to Dane Cook (yeesh) turned out for the annual MTV Movie Awards, that glorious time of year when the network transforms itself from being simply a constant commercial for bad pop culture into a vastly more obvious constant commercial for bad pop culture.
Highlights of the evening included very high-minded comedy like a fat guy chasing Sarah Silverman (brilliant!) to Will Ferrell and Sacha Baron Cohen kissing (I mean, men kissing—can you believe it?).
The most inexplicable photo grouping of the night must be Chris Tucker, Victoria Beckham and Bruce Willis, whose mere proximity to one another must have led to a completely unnecessary picture. I guess it's up to you to name the star, the has-been and the never-was.
PS Megan Fox, the awe-inducing beauty from Transformers, will be the new "it" girl. I'm calling "it."
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Hey, PETA, if you really want this "I'd rather go naked…" campaign to have teeth at all, you have to stop hiring Playboy models to do the ads. It's pretty obvious that those ladies would rather go naked than do lots of stuff, including see a therapist or think introspectively, so having them strip down against fur is one of the least potent acts of protest being used today. Then again, PETA's never really been about effective acts of protest, huh?
Get Mandy Moore or Ruth Bader Ginsburg in front of your cameras and then you'll have something.
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• BET gives a list of the best dancers of all time. James Brown wins, and this video says it all. [ONTD]
• What does this woman do? Seriously. [HR]
• A romantic trip to Vegas is like making out amid car accident wreckage. [PopSugar]
• Vaughn and Aniston? At this point do you care? [CityRag]
• Was anyone rooting for the Prince? [DListed]
• You're telling me adult beauty pageant contestants can be whimsical? [IDLYITW]
• Mandy Moore admits that her artistic contributions have been "mediocre." Publicist promptly adds, "Why the fuck did you just say that?" [INO]
I've often postulated that the orthopedic cast boot is the worst thing anyone can wear. It's clunky, it's drab and inherent in its use is an awkward asymmetry not even James Dean could have made look cool. Instead of putting effort into stupid shit like this, designers everywhere should put their heads together and reform the boot cast.
Until then, tough break, Mandy Moore (how punny).
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Mandy Moore got a high fashion makeover in the new Vanity Fair. It's attractive regardless, but the look is enhanced by the fact that, usually, she's all bundled up like she's got a cold. It's nice to see her look like a cruel aristocrat.
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I'm just gonna put it out there: I like that Mandy Moore is matronly and layered a lot of the time. I think it's appealing that she's so unappealing. She's beautiful and modest and she really embodies "less is more," which I thought was total bullshit when I was taping up pictures of Maxim girls on my wall. That was back before I realized that the girl with the exposed thong and the cleavage up to her hairline is usually the one that ends up spilling your beer and crying to you about memories you don't share together.
After a whole year of sex tapes and crotch shots, 2007 needs to be the year of shawls and prairie dresses.
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• Prince has insoles higher than those fucking heels, Eva. [DListed]
• Kim K before rumors of a golden shower helped decimate a reputation she never even had. [DS]
• Should've left the mullet. [Egotastic]
• Ray Liotta pulls a Mel, save the anti-Semitic rage. [ASL]
• Trio of drinking cougars. Careful, fellas. [ICYDK]
• How much is that doggy in the window? The one that actress is hanging all over? [PopSugar]
• A Mandy Moore makeover? Just ask the prettiest librarian you know what she wears, then copy her. That's that. [CityRag]
• Antonio Sabato Jr. simulating sex with a man in denim cutoffs. Sorry, ladies. [DListed]
• Jenny McCarthy emulating Jenna Jameson. Great idea to look to her for tips. [HT]
• Mandy Moore says she's "not a toothpick" like Nicole Richie. Uh oh! The fur's gonna fly! [JJ]
• Jessica Simpson being irritating and loud. Par for the course at this point, folks. [INO]
• Brandy was drunk on heartbreak at the time of her accident. Oh no! [Celebitchy]
• Christina Ricci too thin! Where's the chubby Wednesday I so adored? [PopBytes]
• Diddy being wise and buying his seven-week-old daughters diamond earrings they're sure to appreciate and enjoy. [ASL]
For reasons beyond me, ABC News has done a pretty thorough retrospective of DJ AM's life and his relationship with Mandy Moore. While I question the necessity of the research, I am surprised by it's findings (Did you know that DJ AM was in that awful band Crazy Town? Neither did I!). The three page piece also makes a very passive-aggressive attack on AM's looks, even going as far as to ask a Carnegie Mellon Humanities professor why attractive women might date him:
"The point is that women are much less likely than men to regard physical appearance as their primary criterion when seeking a mate. They tend to be attracted to power, prestige, skill, and strength."
Because, clearly, power, prestige, skill and strength are the adjectives that come to mind when you're talking DJ AM.
That all aside, another interesting thing about this article is how poorly it's written. It's terrible. Terrible. Check this out:
"We know why Mandy Moore is famous. She's cute as a button, and talented to boot. The question is, how does an average Joe like Adam Goldstein, DJ AM's birth name, get all the girls?"
Yuck! What? And how 'bout this randomly tossed in:
"Here's how it all started. While Mandy Moore was ringing in the New Year in Miami, she was seen with Wilmer Valderrama. But rumor has it she ran into DJ, gave him her digits, and has since begun dating him.
What does the average Hollywood hipster think of this? Danielle Welch, pierced from ear to ear, tells ABC News: "I personally think nerdy is better. I would hate to be with some guy who thinks he is just the coolest. I definitely have to be the cool one in the relationship."
Where the hell did that "hipster" quote come from? This one's the best, though:
"Well, he's an ex-rocker, although his band, Crazy Town, was a one-hit wonder. I mean, has anyone actually heard the song "Butterfly"?"
Ummm…yeah, everyone's heard the song "Butterfly," because that was their one hit. Get it? That's why they're called one-hit wonders. Wow. Did I mention this article is called "DJ AM, Man of Mystery," 'cause it is.
Come on, ABC News. You're better than this.
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