Party Fashion

Kate Bosworth_Vanity Fair Oscar Party


Christina Applegate


Kate Beckinsale


Victoria Beckham, Kate Beckinsale & Eva Longoria @ the Elton John Party

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Party Poopers

Naomi Watts


Ginnifer Goodwin


Uma Thurman


Jessica Biel


Elizabeth Banks


Madonna


Selma Hayek


Gwen Stefani [w/Gavin Rossdale]

Best and Worst Party Looks

Academy Awards

SCORE: 6/10
YES: bodice ; fit ; elegant draping
NO: colour ; facial expression ; dark nail polish ; lack of accessories

Evan Rachel Wood_Elie Saab

"The draping on that dress is FAB-ulous! It's artful and gorgeous and I want it! When she sees this shot she'll probably regret that she looks so haughty and realize the dress is prettier than she is."


SCORE: 8/10
YES: bodice ; pretty draping
NO: garden party colour ; boring jewelry ; hair & brows too severe

Natalie Portman_Rodarte

"Beautiful dress. Though I agree...she could use a stunning necklace to go with it."

"Loved the dress on Natalie but throughout the walk down the red carpet, I kept thinking either she has a migraine or she's peeved with someone or something. I think it's the shape of the eyebrows that gives her something of a "mean" look. Maybe ought to consider softening up those puppies."


SCORE: 6/10
YES: colour ; homage to her culture
NO: style ; fabric looks cheap

Freida Pinto_John Galliano

"I love her dress. I love that she wore something from her culture."

"The color is amazing on her, but I wish it didn't have that awkward sleeve. That just seems to throw off the whole dress."


SCORE: 1/10
YES: hair
NO: style ; fabric

Leslie Mann

"Hideous. Reminds me of a cheap necklace I once bought at a Sarah Coventry jewelry party. I was 14."

"The Reynolds Company should be proud."

"Looks like she skinned a disco ball."


SCORE: 5/10
YES: originality ; dramatic train
NO: colour ; train overwhelms ; hair ; boring jewelry

Marisa Tomei_Versace

"She's so tiny! Why such a big dress?"

"Looks like a little too much dress for her little frame. Take some of the train off and change the color and she would be good."


SCORE: 1/10
YES: style & fit (top half)
NO: style (bottom half) ; colour ; belt ; hair

Miley Cyrus

"She looks like an old Christmas candle."

"I love that the redneck princess has dressed according to the Disney Princess codes."


SCORE: 1/10
YES: clutch
NO: fit ; style ; colour ; messy hair

Jessica Biel_Prada

"Why is she gift wrapped?

"Not only did she wear the tablecloth, she made sure she had a napkin as well."

"This dress REEKS! If it was a vegetable, it would be a rutabaga."

"This dress is a mess! It's funny when women who basically are famous because of showing their body try to cover up and they just look awful. Next time wear something tight girl, LOL"


SCORE: 6/10
YES: colour ; fit (top half)
NO: age inappropriate

Kate Winslet_Yves Saint Laurent

"Yep, dress is far too matronly for her...maybe if it was more form fitting..but top fits great."

"I love Kate and she normally looks quite elegant but this dress is a flop. The shiny satin isn't flattering and that lacy thing hanging from her waist looks like fancy dishrag."


SCORE: 1/10
YES: shoe style
NO: style ; fit ; fabric ; matchy-matchy outfit ; jewelry too big

Heidi Klum_Roland Mouret

"Horrid. Yard sale jewelry. No style to her hair, bad part, stick straight behind one ear. Come on girls. You are supposed to be the cream of the crop and loaded. You are too old to just show a pretty leg and think that will be enough. The dress is too loose at the waist, with screwy slit and an ill fit bodice. The neck line is suicide. Crackhead couture. Lay off the spray tan."

"Not the right look for the Oscars."

"Beautiful girl, but what's with the "Jetsons" dress?"

"She looks like a very poorly dressed hooker."

81st Annual Academy Award Arrivals

Jerome Robbins

Choreographer & director

Antique Epigraphs_New York City Ballet


Glass Pieces_New York City Ballet


Fancy Free_Pacific Northwest Ballet





The Cage_Australian Ballet



Ballets: U.S.A. rehearsal_1959



West Side Story

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BIO
Jerome Robbins is world renowned for his work as a choreographer of ballets as well as his work as a director and choreographer in theater, movies and television. His Broadway shows include On the Town, Billion Dollar Baby, High Button Shoes, West Side Story, The King and I, Gypsy, Peter Pan, Miss Liberty, Call Me Madam, and Fiddler on the Roof. His last Broadway production in 1989, Jerome Robbins= Broadway, won six Tony Awards including best musical and best director.

Among the more than 60 ballets he created are Fancy Free, Afternoon of a Faun, The Concert, Dances At a Gathering, In the Night, In G Major, Other Dances, Glass Pieces and Ives, Songs, which are in the repertories of New York City Ballet and other major dance companies throughout the world. His last ballets include A Suite of Dances created for Mikhail Baryshnikov (1994), 2 & 3 Part Inventions (1994), West Side Story Suite (1995) and Brandenburg (1996).

In addition to two Academy Awards for the film West Side Story, Mr. Robbins has received four Tony Awards, five Donaldson Awards, two Emmy Awards, the Screen Directors' Guild Award, and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award. Mr. Robbins was a 1981 Kennedy Center Honors Recipient and was awarded the French Chevalier dans l'Ordre National de la Legion d'Honneur. Mr. Robbins died in 1998. (jeromerobbins.org)

American Masters Bio
New York City Ballet Bio
New York Times Obit & Articles
Jerome Robbins Exhibit
Picture Gallery

All three books tell the same story, of an eagerly ambitious, desperately insecure boy who was torn about his Jewish heritage and his love and lust for men, who named names to the House Un-American Activities Committee but remained an admired dancer and went on to become a world-famous ballet choreographer, the director and choreographer of some of the great midcentury musicals, to experiment with vanguard arts and finally to settle into an autumnal old age (he died in 1998) as George Balanchine’s junior partner at the New York City Ballet. Or as autumnal as a neurotic gay Jew from New Jersey could hope to be. American Bodies

Q: What makes him an American master?
A: Robbins brought a uniquely American sensibility to his work, beginning with his landmark ballet, Fancy Free, which reflected his desire to “dance about how we are today,” rather than only perform the old Russian works that were the staples of ballet. He was a primary architect of four of the most enduring works of the American musical theater, including one, West Side Story, which was responsible for expanding and elevating the form, plus there is no more important American-born ballet choreographer. If that’s not an ‘American master,’ what is? Judy Kinberg of Something to Dance About

Something to Dance About Trailer
"My father was a book that wouldn't open its pages."-Jerome Robbins

"Jerry was a sponge: He was hungry, he was thirsty, he was dying to be somebody."

"He wasn't fun to be around. He could be mean. Mean as a snake."

"He was hell to deal with."

"I'm afraid I'll be stuck on a limb of failure and cut off."-JR

"Jerry was making money hand over fist. He was the king of Broadway."

"He was the best at staging numbers."-Stephen Sondheim

"We couldn't get anyone to produce it (West Side Story). It took three years of peddling."-JR

"He was always putting obstacles in front of us to see how quickly we could surmount them."

"When you walk into the rehearsal hall at 9 o'clock in the morning, he is the president, he is the dictator, he is God."

"Do it faster, only slower."-JR

"He was a very good collaborator, except when you had to argue a point."-SS

"Lenny (Bernstein) was afraid of two things: God and Jerry Robbins."

"He's a genius. We have to cater to genius."-Leonard Bernstein

"Musicals are so painful for me."-JR

"Jerry's insecurity was astonishing."-Peter Martin

"He had a healthy amount of self-loathing."

"He wanted to be loved so badly."

SDA Outtakes: Balanchine & Robbins
"Jerry wanted success. He wanted power, he wanted money, he wanted security."

MUSICALS
West Side Story: Cool
Fiddler on the Roof: Bottle Dance
Rita Moreno: Remembering Jerome Robbins
"He had a vicious temper. He could smell a victim a mile away."
50th Anniversary World Tour of West Side Story (pics)

BALLETS
Christopher D'amboise: Remembering Jerome Robbins
"One thing I miss about Jerry was the standard he exacted on us."
Christopher Wheeldon: Remembering Jerome Robbins
"Deep down he was a softie."
Dances at a Gathering
"It's not stressful to watch. You just sit back and enjoy."
Glass Pieces
"It's kind of relentless."

Starved for Attention

Jessica Stroup_Beverly Hills, 90210






AnnaLynne McCord_Beverly Hills, 90210





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Beverly Hills, 90210 stars Jessica Stroup and Shenae Grimes are so thin that show producers and costars are poised to take action, Us Weekly reports in its latest issue, on newsstands now.

"They want the girls to gain weight," a show source tells Us. "They are trying too hard to be skinny, and it's started to wear on them. It's just not healthy."

Stroup, 21, is 5-foot-8 but weighs 100 to 105 pounds while Grimes, 18, is 5-foot-3 and stands at a mere 90 pounds, Beverly Hills-based weight-management expert Dr. Joyce Peters estimates to Us. 90210 Costars Plan Intervention

Of course, no one is pointing accusatory fingers at three actresses barely out of their teens. One casting agent who works frequently with The CW turns a critical eye on the network itself. "I know in discussions at ABC and CBS that 'too skinny' is no good. They talk about it as a minus point," says the agent. "But at The CW it's a different story. They're trying to pull in the Gossip Girl audience and that's the image: hyper-skinny models." (The network declined to comment for this article.) Still, The CW hardly stands alone in holding Hollywood actresses to an impossible standard when it comes to weight: Be thin, really really thin--but not too thin! Which leaves actresses with, oh, roughly eight ounces of wiggle room. Setting a Bad Example?

You guys are seriously, seriously naive about all this. I work in the industry at a major agency and can tell you for a fact this is total BS story. They are NOT going to be told to gain weight. No way, no how. This is a PR stunt.
They were TOLD by their agents to LOSE weight - because CW WANTS them super-skinny. Just look at how much Stroup lost before she got the part.
CW loves it - it draws attention viewers etc - especially their key demographic. CW loves them like this, and so do their fans and viewers.
Also - why do we pretend skinny is an eating disorder that has any kind of impact? It sure doesn’t seem to be affecting the population much, based on the obese people I see waddling around.
And whoever said it’s coke - it’s not. Coke is a party thing and it’s not something you do all day every day. A lot of models and actresses are taking prescription ADD drugs to kill their appetite. There’s probably more Adderall within 10 miles of here than any other drug.
Anyway, let’s talk in 6 months when they haven’t gained an ounce. Will you believe me then?
And personally I think they look gorgeous. Intervention Planned

For Shenae Grimes, landing a starring role on the CW's 90210 brought with it a move from her native Toronto to Los Angeles—and relentless tabloid criticism of her body, including rumors of an eating disorder. But although the 5'3" Grimes, 19, jokes about having "the figure of a 12-year-old boy" (indeed, her BMI classifies her as underweight), she became emotional during a sitdown with PEOPLE's Monica Rizzo, explaining, "It's mean to make fun of anybody for the way they look." Don't Call Me Skinny!

"No one will send me dresses,” she says. “Designers loan size 2 or 4 samples to actresses, but I’m not that size. It’s like I’m a freak because I’m curvy and I can’t squeeze into those things. I’ve had some problems with that.” Christina Hendricks Talks About Her Figure

Starvation dieters become victims of “skinny fat syndrome” and they diet off lots of “weight”, but the weight consists of more muscle than fat, so they end up with almost no muscle left, but a lot of the fat still remains! Tabloid Tell-Alls

There's nothing wrong with losing a little pudge, but when you look like one of the starving children from Sierra Leone in Blood Diamond, something’s wrong. Ten Skinny-Ass Ladies Who Used to be Hot

For now the most overt kind of anorexia incitement — and the kind the French government seems to have in its sights — are the lurid pro-anorexia, or pro-ana, Web sites. These sites provide so-called “tips and tricks” on losing weight the lethal way. But they also produce, or link to, a You-Tube and Flickr microgenre that goes by the name of Thinspiration, or Thinspo. The Internet is jammed with it. The Girls of Thinspo

Thinspiration - Perfect
"Anorexia is a lifestyle, not a disease."
Thinspiration: So Pretty in Pain

The supermodel, whose slight frame popularised the waif look in the mid-1990s, is estimated to have weighed just seven stone (98 lbs) at her skinniest.
"You go to a show, and there's no food at all, so if you're doing shows back to back, you can forget eating. I remember standing up in the bath one day, and there was a mirror in front of me, and I was so thin! I hated it. I never liked being that skinny." Kate Moss: Supermodel Lifestyle Made Me Too Skinny

Yordanos Teshager

2~ years old_Ethiopian




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Yordanos Teshager is an Ethiopian model who has built herself an impressive resume in a short time. Just recently she was referred to as one of the new faces on the model scene, and now she is doing runways, ads, and magazine covers.

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