I’d wager that for the average dude, being surrounded by Catholic schoolgirls in their uniforms is a pretty hot concept. But Gossip Girl star Penn Badgley is evidently no average dude. At a party celebrating Gossip Girl‘s 100th episode, he said that one of the scariest things that ever happened to him was when he and his cast members were shooting a scene at the Met in New York and he couldn’t get to them because a gaggle of schoolgirls... Read more
The Victoria’s Secret annual fashion show aired on Tuesday night. The star of the show was Australian model Miranda Kerr, who wore the $2.5M jewel-encrusted bra that traditionally appears in the show. In honor of this occasion, New York magazine followed Kerr around for a day as she prepped for the show. In the midst of fittings and finery, there are some casual references to Kerr’s spiritual beliefs: She and [her husband, actor Orlando] Bloom are practicing Nichiren Buddhists, but... Read more
So much for drinking and doing drugs: Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine says that he can often be found doing yoga before going onstage. “At any Maroon 5 concert, you’ll see a room backstage marked yoga,” he told Details. “Playing a show before thousands of people is a highly unnatural state, and when I get on the mat to do an hour of yoga before the show, I come out physically relaxed.” Does that mean that when he played the... Read more
Model Amber Rose, who is dating/possibly engaged to rapper Wiz Khalifa, recently did a radio show interview in Atlanta where the topic of drugs came up. Amber said that her mother and Wiz get along well and smoke pot together. When Amber was asked if she ever partakes, she demurred, saying “I’m a Christian.” While I totally get that some people aren’t into drugs, I don’t really think marijuana comes in the Bible at all. And if she’s such a... Read more
Actress Angelina Jolie has moved behind the camera to direct her first film, In the Land of Blood and Honey. The movie is set during the war in Bosnia, and the main characters are a Bosnian Muslim woman and a Serbian Christian man who fall in love amidst the chaos and gore: she’s a prisoner of war, and he’s one of the soldiers guarding her camp. Here’s the first trailer for the film, which is due out next month. Read more
The new season of Kourtney and Kim Take New York (one of the umpteen Kardashian shows who all seem interchangeable and whose names I forget) will chronicle the breakup of Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries‘ 72-day marriage. According to the Daily Mail, one of the reasons for the split was that Kim took a class with a nude yoga instructor and it made her husband uncomfortable. Um, sure, whatever. On last night’s season premiere, Kim and Kourtney hosted a yoga... Read more
The Norway-based jewelry line Bjorg has been featured in magazines like Vogue, Elle, and Nylon, but it doesn’t have household name recognition the way that, say, Alexis Bittar does. So the brand relied on a time-honored way to get attention: openly courting religious controversy. The ad for their new line features two models doing things like posing angelically in front of a wooden stake and one pouring water on the other’s head. Though the ad is entitled “Heresy,” I don’t... Read more
Recently, the #JewishMusicals hashtag started going around on Twitter, and some of the titles were hilarious. Here are a few of my favorites: NathanWurtzel: Katz Sledkitten: Spiderman: No, It’s OK, I’ll Sit in the Dark ConFuria: Kvetch Me If You Can WeddingYentas: The Wizard of Schnoz ItsDLevy: You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown, But Why Couldn’t You Have Been A Doctor Like Your Older Brother? BillCuban: Miss Sinai NeonTaster: A Street Mamed Guilt Kevinpshan: Oyklahoma South Salem: Mamaleh Mia Read more
What do monkey crotches and Jesus Christ have in common? They’re both among the almost 2,000 words and phrases that have been banned from mobile phones in Pakistan. The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has ordered mobile phone companies in the country to forbid the sending or receiving of text messages that contain Urdu and English words such as “intercourse,” “period,” “condom,” and “flatulence.” Oh, and “hostage.” So if you live in Islamabad and want to text your doctor about those... Read more
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