Victoria Beckham goes blonde!

Victoria Beckham has finally caved into the pressure of La La land! Since she is already heavily tanned, a size 00, a staunch follower of fashion and a total fame whore it would only follow suit that she would become blonde!

I have to admit, I really like it, the colour and the shape, I almost would have liked to see her do something a bit more extreme and maybe go white blonde or just totally white, but knowing the years of abuse her scalp has taken from extensions her hair would probably fall out and we would be looking at another Britney.

Ichimame's Blog: English Updates (^-^)/

Hanakanzashi (Flowered Hair Ornaments): February

February 17, 2007

This month is the Plum hanakanzashi. Maiko with the wareshinobu hairstyle wear a hanakanzashi with many small plum blossoms. (The wareshinobu is worn by younger, lower ranking maiko).

The ofuku hairstyle's hanakanzashi (the hairstlye that [Ichimame is] currently wearing) consists of large plum blossoms. As for me, this plum hanakanzashi is one of my favorites. My hair has been styled in the ofuku style since last autumn, so I am looking forward to wearing many different kinds of hanakanzashi from now on.

The Day Before the Plum Blossom Festival

February 24, 2007

Tomorrow is the Plum Blossom Festival at Tenjin-san (Kitano Tenmangu Shrine). We will have an open-air tea ceremony. It`s a bit chilly, I think, but plum blossoms and a sweet fragrance hang in the air, so please do me the pleasure of coming to see!

The Plum Blossom Festival

February 27, 2007

There are always a lot of people at Tenjin-san (Kitano Tenmangu shrine) in the day, but this Plum Blossom Festival really drew quite a crowd.

Here is a picture from the Plum Blossom Festival.

The people who do us the pleasure of coming every year said "It's good that this year is warm, isin't it?" I hope next year is warm, too.

Tenjin-san's (Kitano Tenmango Shrine's) plum blossoms are this much in bloom.

Meet Ichimame

Ichimame enjoying the plum blossoms of Kitano Tenmangu shrine, in full bloom just in time for the Plum Festival (Baikasai) thanks to the unusually warm weather.

If you are a geisha enthusiast like myself, chances are you already know Ichimame, the beautiful young maiko blogging away from her okiya in Kamishichiken, Kyoto's oldest and most traditional hanamachi (literally 'flower town', where geisha live and entertain). I first saw Ichimame perform last spring, when a wonderful series of unforeseeable events resulted in a free front row seat to Kitano Odori (the spring dance of Kamishichiken), convieniently positioned directly infront of her. At the end of the show, she smiled down at me, tossing one of her signed handkerchieves into my lap.

When I first discovered Ichimame's blog, I was so excited I wanted to post a link to it here. Being written completely in the Kyoto dialect of Japanese, I figured very few people would be able to read it and so decided against it. Thanks to the incredible number of visitors her site has been recieving from all around the world, she has begun a professionally translated English version of the blog, although it seems to be slow going. I wish I could volunteer to do it for her! I'd have that smack updated post haste! Until they get caught up, I'll post my own translation of the most recent entries here:

Starting tomorrow! Must sleep...

New Madonna looks a lot like old Madonna

I just stumbled across these photos of Madonna at the Vanity Fair Oscar party and she looks incredible! Although she seems to have reinvented herself so many times that she has had to go back to one of her old looks. Who cares? She looks amazing.







Is she ever going to get old?

Britney Spears may have post-partum depression

TMZ is reporting that Britney Spears' current stint in rehab has little to do with substance abuse and is more an issue of depression. Doctors treating Britney Spears allegedly think her issues may be alcohol abuse in order to deal with post-partum depression or bi polar disorder.

God, I feel kind of bad about making fun of her now.

No wait, I don't.

Post partum I can see but isn't everyone considered bi polar these days? If you show any emotion nowadays doctors are pretty much willing to dose you up on meds! Refuse the meds Britney! Refuse the meds! Be wild and free!

Just try and be wild and free with some hair and a bra.

Tom Cruise has really worked his Scientology magic on Katie Holmes

Katie Holmes refused to be photographed alone, or leave her husband Tom Cruise's side at an Oscars afterparty it was claimed on Sunday.

Tom Cruise was seen urging photographers to 'take a shot of her' alone, but Katie refused and would only take photos as a couple. Onlookers state that Katie gripped her her husband's hand tightly and followed him everywhere he went, where she remained silent while he finished his conversations. An eyewitness stated: 'She looks at him for direction.'

Evantually Katie relented and posed for photos solo, later mingling with Madonna, Dame Helen Mirren, Cameron Diaz and Leonardo DiCaprio at the Oscar bash. She was overheard telling anyone who would listen "Suri is doing really, really well. She's a beautiful little girl. I feel so honored to be her mother, really.'

From my extensive experience with Katie Holmes, aka, bumping into her once at Barney's I can say that she looked totally brainwashed. I'm just waiting for it to wear off so we all can all read the National Enquirer headlines about what the marriage was really like.

Cameron Diaz and Drew Barrymore toke some time to relax.

See what I did there? I replaced the word 'take' with 'toke' because 'toke' is a drug reference, and this post is about drugs. Not impressed? Well, I have a blog and you don't, whatever.

Anyway, Drew Barrymore and Cameron Diaz decided that smoking some weed in a public park in Hawaii might be a good idea. I get that awards season is tough and all but come on, go do some yoga, go drink some tea, whatever.







To be fair though since Drew Barrymore started doing cocaine as a fetus or whatever by the law of averages she should be living in a barrel under a freeway by now, so smoking a bit in Hawaii before a trip to the Oscars isn't too bad after all.

Oscars Fashion Rundown.

Well, I've finally recovered from my lack of sleep last night thanks in large part to falling asleep on a stranger's shoulder on the train home and an extremely large dose of sugary snacks. Lets get to what everyone was wearing last night shall we?

I'm going to run down from my best dressed of the night to my worst dressed.



Number One for me was Cate Blanchett. She's been rocking the metallic thing for all the awards shows this year and it suits her perfectly, she looks part mermaid, part robot, part superhottie. Plus she has talent, which is always a plus.



Helen Mirren, for a woman in the evening of her life Helen Mirren is pretty damn amazing. Amazing enough to have a song by Jack Black, Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly dedicated to her at the Oscars last night. I love her, she can do no wrong.



Jessica Beil, I know a lot of people didn't like what she wore but I think the colour made her stand out on the red carpet, which for someone whose claim to fame is S.W.A.T and some Texas Chainsaw Massacre movie is definately a good thing.



Gwenyth Paltrow, also, a lot of people didn't like this, but personally I think she looked pretty amazing, a lot less boring anyway.



Kate Winslet, I'm not sure about this. The colour, the style, its just all a bit....blah.



Reese Witherspoon, why did she get named best dressed of the evening by so many people? Its just a boring navy blue dress on a boring actress, sorry, I've just never got the Witherspoon appeal, and for me this dress sums her up. Also, did anyone else notice that they did some video airbrushing on her chin during the telecast? Classic.



Queen Latifah, pretty safe, but she looks good. Does anyone actually NOT like Queen Latifah, I have yet to find anyone. Prove me wrong.



Cameron Diaz, at first I liked this, but there is something dodgy about the bottom of the dress..if it had just been a bit longer she could have pulled it off.



Ok, let me just say this now, I have never liked anything Beyonce has ever worn and I have never liked Beyonce, she can look hot and all but there is something about her that just puts me off. Last night was classic when she tried to outsing Jennifer Hudson and looked like she was going to have a stroke on stage. Oh and the dress, well at least she didn't let Momma Knowles design this one, that's something at least.



Ok, Jennifer Hudson WTF? What were you thinking? I want to like you because of the whole underdog thing, and then you show up in some kind of space waistcoat make of aluminium foil. Just go home now.



Anne Hathaway, the bow is the most exciting thing about you, enough said.



Nicole Kidman, you look like some kind of fairytale gone wrong, little red riding hood meets the wicked witch of the west. Also the fact that your skin, hair and eyes are all pretty much the same colour is too creepy.



Kirsten Dunst, WHAT? What is this? I have only had the pleasure of an encounter with Kirsten once in my life and for once she looks on the outside how she is on the inside: Haneous.



Faye Dunaway, there are actually no words, where do I start? Actually there are words, your face looks like the grim reaper, stop with the surgery, and the dress makes you look like a diseased colon. I don't know how that even makes sense but it does.



Rose Mcgowan, note to you: This is the OSCARS, not half price cocktails at the Wynn Las Vegas.




AND ABSOLUTE WORST OF THE EVENING GOES TO....




















TYRA BANKS! WALKING BLOOD CLOT!

Special mention must go to Rhianna, even though she wasn't at the ceremony she wore this to a pre-Oscar party.



I think she is amazing, a cross between Posh Spice and a Bratz doll, and somehow it comes out hot! Beyonce take note, this is how its done!

Finally, a huge THANK YOU to everyone who read my liveblog last night, I reached 10,000 unique page views which blows my mind a bit! 10,000 of you across the world were reading alongside me, so thank you, and I hope you all enjoyed it!

Ichimame and I

Let's just say I had a very good weekend!

Geisha: Disney Style

Geisha dressed up as Princess Arora, Snow White and Cinderella for their Setsubun engagements. Thanks to my friend for hooking me up with this picture to share with all of you! m(- -)m

ITS OSCAR TIME! LIVEBLOG!!

OSCAR TIME IS HERE! and so is my liveblog! I'm on British time, so apologies if that gets confusing!

11.08pm: Montage of British acheivement at the Oscars. Awesome.

11.16pm: Non-famous people start to arrive on the red carpet. I eat a mini muffin to pass the boredom.

11.18pm: Another muffin during the advert break. Delicious

11.21pm: Scary Asian lady stares over the shoulder of James McAvoy

11.38pm: Maggie Gyllenhaal admits to wearing 'giant pants' under her dress

11.40pm: A montage about Dame Judi Dench. Yawn

11.47pm: Cameron Diaz looks pretty hot but, not sure about the dress though..

11.50pm: Penelope Cruz...meh.

11.52pm: Jada Pinkett Smith looks less like a man than usual

11.53pm: Jessica Beil...WOW!

11.57pm: Emily Blunt looks as if she is wearing make up on every part of her body..and there is something up with her teeth too...oh wait, she's British.

12.00am: Jennifer Lopez and corpse husband appear on the scene

12.01am: Corpse husband is becoming frequently distracted.

12.02am: Jodie Foster asks 'who is still awake in the UK?' WE ARE WE ARE!

12.03am: Helen Mirren is a hottie and I'm not ashamed to say it

12.07am: Penelope Cruz may be wearing a dead ostrich

12.08pm: Leonardo DiCaprio may have mistaken olive oil for a hair product

12.25am: Will Smith is so ooold! Where oh where have the Fresh Prince days gone?

12.16am: Jennifer Hudson looks like 'they are just about to pop her in the oven with that dress' according to my mother. Whatever that means.

12.21am: Jessica Beil has M&Ms in her purse. I love her even more now.

12.23am: Cate Blanchett looks like a super-sexy fembot from the future. Wait...what?

12.29am: ugh, the lame half hour interlude where film critics you have never heard of speak total rubbish. Time for some more snacks.

12.32am: Ooh popcorn and flapjacks.

12.48am: I swear to god Dame Judi Dench could just take a shit on camera and they would nominate her for an Oscar, and this year she couldnt even be bothered to come! Knee operation, Shnee operation.

12.50am: Wait, shnee?

12.58am: The ceremony is about to start, and I am about to eat a giant baked potato..so there may be a lapse in coverage as I enjoy the cripy, buttery goodness.

1.02am: Nicole Kidman or little red riding ass?

1.21am: I love Ryan Gosling, solely for the fact that he brings his sister and mother to the ceremony and then says he's 'Doing it like snoop'. What a pimp. Well, not really.

1.30am: YAY ITS STARTED!

1.31am: Love the opening montage! love it!

1.33am: OK, its getting old now!

1.35am: Ok enough already, seriously, enough.

1.37am: Ellen? A velvet suit? Really?

1.39am: Ellen's opening monolgue: Perfect.

1.43am: Excellent Al Gore joke.

1.44am: I love the gospel Choir YES!

1.45am: Best Art Direction fgoes to 'Pan's Labrynth' YES! I WAS RIGHT! Also, Nicole Kidman you aren't supposed to say 'the winner is anymore'

1.45am: AMAZING SONG! I love Will Ferrel but hate Jack Black. Thats just life.

1.57am: Acheivement in makup goes to 'Pan's Labrynth@

2.01am: Best Animated Short goes to 'The Danish Poet'

2.04am: BEST LIVE ACTIONS SHORT GOES TO WEST BANK STORY!!!!! YES YES YES! AND THEY MENTIONED ASHLEYS NAME!!! GO ASHLEY!!!

2.14am: Best sound editing goes to Letters from Iwo Jima

2.18am: Best sound mixing goes to Dreamgirls

2.21am: Best supporting actor goes to Alan Arkin

2.31am: Jesus, just cut out the musical interludes instead of cutting people off mid-speech, wouldnt that be a better idea?

2.45am: Best Animated Feature goes to Happy Feet, the winner of the award, oddly enough looks remarkably like a penguin

2.50am: Best Adapted Screenplay goes to The Departed

3.00am: Best Costume Design goes to Marie Antoinette

3.05am: Tom Cruise is clearly wearing a girdle, you know he gorges his ass on twinkies...and that isn't a euphamism.

3.10am: YOU GUYS RULE! This post has already had nearly 6000 views in the past few hours, hey, I might not be Perez Hilton, but thats good enough for me!

3.12am: Does Gwenyth look hot or not? I just can't decide!

3.14am: Best Cinematography goes to Pan's Labrynth...RIGHT AGAIN! YESS!

3.20am: Best Visual Effects goes to Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

3.30am: Best Foreign Language Feature goes to The Lives of Others (Germany)

3.35am: Best Supporting Actress goes to Jennifer Hudson

3.44am: Best Documentary Short Subject goes to The Blood of Yingzhou District

3.46am: Best Documentary Feature goes to An Inconvenient Truth

4.07am: Best Original Score goes to Babel

4.12am: Best Original Screenplay goes to Little Miss Sunshine! YAY!

4.18am: 7000 VIEWS! HOORAY HOORAY!Thanks everyone who is reading!

4.30am: Best Original Song goes to Melissa Etheridge (An Inconvenient Truth)

4.43am: Best Film Editing goes to The Departed

4.45am: I hate it when they play the montage of people who have died, it almost makes me want to cry. I said ALMOST. I just have something in my eye.

4.53am: Best Actress in a leading role goes to Helen Mirren. I love her.

5.01am: Best Actor in a leading role goes to Forest Whittaker

5.08am: Best Director goes to Martin Scorcese! Finally!

5.15am: Best Motion Picture of the year goes to THE DEPARTED..A movie which I watched on a plane, and gasped so loud that I woke the woman next to me up from her slumber. It was worth it.

5.17am: Waaah the show is over for another year, and so is my Oscar liveblog. I hope that all of you out there who read it enjoyed it. I will be posting loads of Oscar photos tomorrow so be sure to come back. For now however I am off for my 2 hours of sleep. Goodnight, and thanks to the 7500 of you who followed the Oscars along with me!

Alexx

Britboy's Oscar Predictions!

Although I haven't seen all of the nominated films I still like to be opinionated about the Oscars, and therefore here are my predictions of what/who I think SHOULD win and what/who I think WILL win some of the major categories.

Categories where I haven't seen any of the movies or know I nothing about the subject I haven't given an opinion, because that would kind of be like a hypoglycemic chossing the bext type of sugar from a selection from 5.

Performance by an actor in a supporting role

Alan Arkin in “Little Miss Sunshine” (Fox Searchlight)
Jackie Earle Haley in “Little Children” (New Line)
Djimon Hounsou in “Blood Diamond” (Warner Bros.)
Eddie Murphy in “Dreamgirls” (DreamWorks and Paramount)
Mark Wahlberg in “The Departed” (Warner Bros.)

Who should win: Djimon Honsou or Alan Arkin
Who will win: Djimon Honsou

Performance by an actress in a supporting role

Adriana Barraza in “Babel” (Paramount and Paramount Vantage)
Cate Blanchett in “Notes on a Scandal” (Fox Searchlight)
Abigail Breslin in “Little Miss Sunshine” (Fox Searchlight)
Jennifer Hudson in “Dreamgirls” (DreamWorks and Paramount)
Rinko Kikuchi in “Babel” (Paramount and Paramount Vantage)

Who should win: Abigail Breslin, come on, seeing a kid that young get an Oscar is always great! Or Cate Blanchett if we are going on performance...bah...
Who will win: Cate Blanchett

Achievement in art direction

“Dreamgirls” (DreamWorks and Paramount)
Art Direction: John Myhre
Set Decoration: Nancy Haigh

“The Good Shepherd” (Universal)
Art Direction: Jeannine Oppewall
Set Decoration: Gretchen Rau and Leslie E. Rollins

“Pan’s Labyrinth” (Picturehouse)
Art Direction: Eugenio Caballero
Set Decoration: Pilar Revuelta

“Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest” (Buena Vista)
Art Direction: Rick Heinrichs
Set Decoration: Cheryl Carasik

“The Prestige” (Buena Vista)
Art Direction: Nathan Crowley
Set Decoration: Julie Ochipinti

Who should win: Pan's Labyrinth
Who will win: Pan's Labyrinth

Achievement in cinematography
“The Black Dahlia” (Universal) Vilmos Zsigmond
“Children of Men” (Universal) Emmanuel Lubezki
“The Illusionist” (Yari Film Group) Dick Pope
“Pan’s Labyrinth” (Picturehouse) Guillermo Navarro
“The Prestige” (Buena Vista) Wally Pfister

Who should win: Pan's Labyrinth
Who will win: Pan's Labyrinth

Achievement in costume design
“Curse of the Golden Flower” (Sony Pictures Classics) Yee Chung Man
“The Devil Wears Prada” (20th Century Fox) Patricia Field
“Dreamgirls” (DreamWorks and Paramount) Sharen Davis
“Marie Antoinette” (Sony Pictures Releasing) Milena Canonero
“The Queen” (Miramax, Pathé and Granada) Consolata Boyle

Who should win: Marie Antoinette or Devil Wears Prada, although Patricia Field is not strictly a designer but a stylist.
Who will win: Marie Antoinette


Best documentary feature
“Deliver Us from Evil” (Lionsgate)
A Disarming Films Production
Amy Berg and Frank Donner

“An Inconvenient Truth” (Paramount Classics and Participant Productions)
A Lawrence Bender/Laurie David Production
Davis Guggenheim

“Iraq in Fragments” (Typecast Releasing in association with HBO Documentary Films)
A Typecast Pictures/Daylight Factory Production
James Longley and John Sinno

“Jesus Camp” (Magnolia Pictures)
A Loki Films Production
Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady

“My Country, My Country” (Zeitgeist Films)
A Praxis Films Production
Laura Poitras and Jocelyn Glatzer

Who should win: An Inconvenient Truth or Iraq in Fragments
Who will win: An Inconvenient Truth

Achievement in film editing
“Babel” (Paramount and Paramount Vantage)
Stephen Mirrione and Douglas Crise

“Blood Diamond” (Warner Bros.)
Steven Rosenblum

“Children of Men” (Universal)
Alex Rodríguez and Alfonso Cuarón

“The Departed” (Warner Bros.)
Thelma Schoonmaker

“United 93” (Universal and StudioCanal)
Clare Douglas, Christopher Rouse and Richard Pearson

Who should win: United 93 or Babel
Who will win: Babel

Best foreign language film of the year
“After the Wedding” A Zentropa Entertainments 16 Production
Denmark

“Days of Glory (Indigènes)” A Tessalit Production
Algeria

“The Lives of Others” A Wiedemann & Berg Production
Germany

“Pan’s Labyrinth” A Tequila Gang/Esperanto Filmoj/Estudios Picasso Production
Mexico

“Water” A Hamilton-Mehta Production
Canada

Who should win: Pan’s Labyrinth
Who will win: Pan’s Labyrinth

Achievement in makeup
“Apocalypto” (Buena Vista) Aldo Signoretti and Vittorio Sodano
“Click” (Sony Pictures Releasing) Kazuhiro Tsuji and Bill Corso
“Pan’s Labyrinth” (Picturehouse) David Martí and Montse Ribé

Who should win: Pan’s Labyrinth
Who will win: Apocalypto

Best live action short film
“Binta and the Great Idea (Binta Y La Gran Idea)”
A Peliculas Pendelton and Tus Ojos Production
Javier Fesser and Luis Manso

“Éramos Pocos (One Too Many)” (Kimuak)
An Altube Filmeak Production
Borja Cobeaga

“Helmer & Son”
A Nordisk Film Production
Søren Pilmark and Kim Magnusson

“The Saviour” (Australian Film Television and Radio School)
An Australian Film Television and Radio School Production
Peter Templeman and Stuart Parkyn

“West Bank Story”
An Ari Sandel, Pascal Vaguelsy, Amy Kim, Ravi Malhotra and ASHLEY JORDAN Production
Ari Sandel

Who should win: WEST BANK STORY OF COURSE
Who will win: WEST BANK STORY


Achievement in visual effects
“Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest” (Buena Vista)
John Knoll, Hal Hickel, Charles Gibson and Allen Hall
“Poseidon” (Warner Bros.)
Boyd Shermis, Kim Libreri, Chas Jarrett and John Frazier
“Superman Returns” (Warner Bros.)
Mark Stetson, Neil Corbould, Richard R. Hoover and Jon Thum

Who should win: Superman Returns
Who will win: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest

Adapted screenplay
“Borat Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan” (20th Century Fox)
Screenplay by Sacha Baron Cohen & Anthony Hines & Peter Baynham & Dan Mazer
Story by Sacha Baron Cohen & Peter Baynham & Anthony Hines & Todd Phillips

“Children of Men” (Universal)
Screenplay by Alfonso Cuarón & Timothy J. Sexton and David Arata and Mark Fergus & Hawk Ostby

“The Departed” (Warner Bros.)
Screenplay by William Monahan

“Little Children” (New Line)
Screenplay by Todd Field & Tom Perrotta

“Notes on a Scandal” (Fox Searchlight)
Screenplay by Patrick Marber

Who should win: Borat Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
Who will win: The Departed

Original screenplay
“Babel” (Paramount and Paramount Vantage)
Written by Guillermo Arriaga

“Letters from Iwo Jima” (Warner Bros.)
Screenplay by Iris Yamashita
Story by Iris Yamashita & Paul Haggis

“Little Miss Sunshine” (Fox Searchlight)
Written by Michael Arndt

“Pan’s Labyrinth” (Picturehouse)
Written by Guillermo del Toro

“The Queen” (Miramax, Pathé and Granada)
Written by Peter Morgan

Who should win: Little Miss Sunshine
Who will win: The Queen

Performance by an actress in a leading role
Penélope Cruz in “Volver” (Sony Pictures Classics)
Judi Dench in “Notes on a Scandal” (Fox Searchlight)
Helen Mirren in “The Queen” (Miramax, Pathé and Granada)
Meryl Streep in “The Devil Wears Prada” (20th Century Fox)
Kate Winslet in “Little Children” (New Line)

Who should win: Helen Mirren no contest
Who will win: Helen Mirren

Performance by an actor in a leading role
Leonardo DiCaprio in “Blood Diamond” (Warner Bros.)
Ryan Gosling in “Half Nelson” (THINKFilm)
Peter O’Toole in “Venus” (Miramax, Filmfour and UK Film Council)
Will Smith in “The Pursuit of Happyness” (Sony Pictures Releasing)
Forest Whitaker in “The Last King of Scotland” (Fox Searchlight)

Who should win: Ryan Gosling, I would really love to see him get some recognition, he is by far one of the best young actors out there.
Who will win: Forest Whitaker

Achievement in directing
“Babel” (Paramount and Paramount Vantage) Alejandro González Iñárritu
“The Departed” (Warner Bros.) Martin Scorsese
“Letters from Iwo Jima” (Warner Bros.) Clint Eastwood
“The Queen” (Miramax, Pathé and Granada) Stephen Frears
“United 93” (Universal and StudioCanal) Paul Greengrass

Who should win: Alejandro González Iñárritu or Martin Scorcese..comon, he's just due an Oscar now.
Who will win: Martin Scorsese

Best motion picture of the year
“Babel” (Paramount and Paramount Vantage)
An Anonymous Content/Zeta Film/Central Films Production
Alejandro González Iñárritu, Jon Kilik and Steve Golin, Producers

“The Departed” (Warner Bros.)
A Warner Bros. Pictures Production
Graham King, Producer

“Letters from Iwo Jima” (Warner Bros.)
A DreamWorks Pictures/Warner Bros. Pictures Production
Clint Eastwood, Steven Spielberg and Robert Lorenz, Producers

“Little Miss Sunshine” (Fox Searchlight)
A Big Beach/Bona Fide Production
David T. Friendly, Peter Saraf and Marc Turtletaub, Producers

“The Queen” (Miramax, Pathé and Granada)
A Granada Production
Andy Harries, Christine Langan and Tracey Seaward, Producers

Who should win: Little Miss Sunshine, but you don't often get Oscars for comedy
Who will win: Letters from Iwo Jima

Watch me get proved totally and utterly wrong, but isn't that the joy of the Oscars after all?

The short answer to that is no.

ITS OSCAR DAY!!!

Today is Oscar day and I'm going to be watching it live even though I'm back in London and this requires waking up at 1am and watching it through the night..... and then going to classes at 8am. Yes I'm a true badass.

I will also attempt to liveblog but it may not be possible.

THERE IS NO REASON FOR THIS POST OTHER THAN I AM VERY EXCITED FOR OSCAR DAY!

GO TEAM ASHLEY!

EXCITING OSCAR NEWS!

So it's the Oscars on Sunday night and I'm sooo excited! Not only because of the usual fun of watching and making fun of everyone but also because my friend is nominated!

Ashley Jordan is the producer of "West Bank Story" which is up for an award for Best Live Action Short Film. I think if i see her on TV I might actually soil myself.

Anyway...

Good luck Ashley, with all the hard work you put in you deserve every success!

A NEW Britboy Blind Item.

Which young actress currently receiving critical acclaim is much closer to the bitchy persona of one of her characters then people would believe? While her PR people work overtime to portray her as down to earth, balanced and humble, the truth is finally getting out thanks to the people she has directed her venom towards.

It isn't: Rachel McAdams, Lindsay Lohan, Sarah Michelle Gellar

Advert annoyance.

For any of you that live in the UK can I just ask, does ANYONE find this advert vaguely entertaining? It literally makes me want to rip off my own face everytime I hear it, and its played CONSTANTLY.



This, on the other hand, is an example of a funny advert:



You could pretty much put those cartoon characters into any advert and I would buy the product, even if it were glaucoma medicine specifically designed for old Taiwanese women.

Kevin Federline visits Britney Spears in rehab.

Kevin Federline visited Britney Spears in at her rehabilitation centre, Promises in Malibu, California on Friday. It is reported that Kevin only stayed at the facility for half an hour.

This news comes after allegations that it was Kevin's attempt at full custody of his and Britney's two children that drove Britney to shave her head and enter rehab in the first place.

Britney's manager Larry Rudolph issued a statement slamming reports that Britney attempted suicide twice before entering rehab. Publications such as The National Enquirer in the US and Metro magazine in the UK reported that Britney had attempted to end her life by walking in front of a speeding car and had threatened to down a bottle of Xanex.

Rudolph stated:

'The story is absolutely untrue. She is in rehab, and it is very disappointing that various media outlets are running these false stories about her, as Britney tries to get better.'

I find it quite amazing that this whole thing has made people start to side with Kevin Federline as opposed to Britney Spears. I for one am looking at things differently now that Britney's erratic behaviour had become public.

All this time I had the idea that living with Britney would be her constantly performing renditions of 'Slave 4 U' and writhing on a stripper pole, wheras the reality is probably that she would get drunk off her ass, and start singing 'My little teapot' to a wicker chair before beating you senseless with her MTV music video award.

Rachel Bilson is the Einstein of relationships.

Rachel Bilson spoke to US Weekly recently about her relationship insights, and these were her pearls of wisdom about men:

"They have different body parts."

"If you're scared he's going to try and kiss you, it's probably not right."

"If you really want him to kiss you, he's the guy."

Even after reading these I still can't say anything bad about her, she's Rachel Bilson! The human equivalent of a little fluffy bunny. She could beat an elderly woman to death for her pension money right in front of me and I would still think she was 'swell' and invite her to have an ice cream sundae.

Evidently Rachel Bilson makes me wish I lived in the 1950s

Reason no. 365548890765 why Mischa Barton is pointless

Reason number 365548890765: She smokes pot in her car and then drives away on a crowded L.A. street.

We can sandwich that right between reason number 365548890764: She mistakes burlap sucks for fashion items, and reason number 365548890766: She thinks that rubbing her neck and looking into the distance is acting.



Maybe it made her hallucinate that she had talent?

Quote of the day: Jamie Spears

Brit Brit's dad has chimed into the media storm surrounding his daughter, by stating:

"We've got a sick little girl - we're just trying to take care of her."

Sorry, I know this is a sensitive issue and he's her father and all but what exactly is she supposed to be sick with? Unless its a disease that makes you attempt to impersonate an egg, down 12 pina coladas, and then go batshit on a car with an umbrella.

Watch the video for yourself, maybe we have just categorized a new disease?

crazyassbritbritgoesapeonanemptycarwithanumbrellafornoapparantreason(itis).

The Lohan: Fantasy versus Reality

Lindsay Lohan looks pretty damn amazing in the new Miu Miu campaign, unfortunately the illusion is slightly ruined by the fact that photos of her behind the scenes of the shoot have also been released:

So here she looks hot...



Hot...



Computerized but hot...



Slightly less hot...



Not too bad...


Um...well...



Yeeeeeah...



Even THAT I could probably could have got on board with, bearing in mind that in those photos she is getting ready for a multimillion dollar photoshoot so she has probably been made up for about the past 6 days.

While this is what Lindsay looked like a few days ago exiting rehab:



Ok, so maybe it wasn't her best day, but it's a hell of a lot closer to what she looks like than the Miu Miu shots.

I sometimes wonder why they even bother hiring a star if they are just going to airbrush them beyond all recognition. They may as well just drag a raccoon out of the trash and style, light and airbrush it to look like Angelina Jolie. It's cost effective and gives street dwelling vermin the opportunity to be fashion icons, and that hasn't happened since Mitzy the D&G squirrel.

I have no idea where I was going with this.