Summer and Sonya: One of our favorite skin-care lines is Sonya Dakar’s. We got a charmingly crafted, treat filled popcorn carton from her the other day. In addition to Milk Duds, Tootsie Pops, Twizzlers and Gummi Bears, Dakar included three of her top sellers, tied into summer blockbusters. Her vitamin enriched Aromasol Mist is a favorite of “Van Helsing” star Hugh Jackman and designed to repair, balance and tone skin. Dakar’s longtime client, Kirsten Dunst is a fan of the Seaweed Liposome Gel, a detoxifying concoction with anti-oxidants and vitamins – it’s used to control oil production and protect against environmental pollutants. And here’s one we didn’t know: Matt Damon of “The Bourne Supremacy” (which opens mid-July, despite the fact it was only filmed in November 2003) is also a fan. He uses 365 SPF 30 sunscreen. Unlike other sunscreens (and we’re speaking of experience, not a press release), this sunscreen doesn’t make your eyes tingle, doesn’t sit heavily on your face, smells great and most importantly, works. If you’re in Los Angeles, visit Dakar at her Beverly Hills facility or go to www.sonyadakar.com.
Deadwood: Our new favorite series, HBO’s “Deadwood,” is wrapping up its premiere season this Sunday, June 13, 2004 at 10 p.m. If you need to catch up, the cable network will show a marathon of the previous three episodes, starting at 8 p.m.
FASHION NOTES:
Pretty in PinkBoy, it seems like Sarah Jessica Parker has been out every night lately! She showed up at the The Fragrance Foundation's 32nd Annual Fifi Awards in a Oscar de la Renta dress and Fred Leighton necklace, bracelet and jewelry. The baby pink printed 50s influenced dress featured a fitted bodice and waist and two tiers of a full skirt.
At the same event as Parker, Lynn Whitfield also chose pink, but hers was a deep pink Nicole Miller dress, strapless with a single black band under the bosom area.
Both ladies wore their hair up in buns, in very 60’s “Down With Love” style.
Jessica Seinfeld, who looks like she must be majorly low-carby lately (not that she needed it), chose a strapless white-topped, black Narciso Rodriguez dress for the “Fifis.”
New mommy Cheryl Hines also was at the “Fifis,” and she chose a sexy plunging black Badgley Mischka dress.
Meanwhile, Petra Nemcova wore a silky, tropical-influenced (she even had an orchid in her hair, over her right ear, in case you were wondering) sheer silk dress with dramatic asymmetrical hem by Elie Sab, Brian Aturro shoes and Piaget jewelry.
Model Carolyn Murphy wore a soft seafoam blue Grecian-inspired Michael Kors dress, with detailed accents on the straps in the back of the dress. Even though the dress was “loose,” you could catch a glimpse of Murphy’s slender hipbones.
Sigourney Weaver chose a Michael Kors dress, in the same color as Murphy’s, but hers was even more fitted and beaded.
There were ruffles, ruffles everywhere on Aerin Lauder’s Tuleh chartreuse silk chiffon dress – ruffles on the thin straps, ruffles at the bodice, at the waist, on the asymmetrical him, all over. She accented the dress nicely with a gold minaudiere and gold strappy sandals.
Vera Wang wore a brown printed damask dress of her own design that featured something we’ve seen on Beyonce Knowles dresses (designed by mom Tina), gathers at the midway point from below the belly button to the knee. The skirt then flares out. The jury’s still out on this style.
Much was made of how little the “Queer Eye” guys were getting paid, but they must have gotten a bump in salary. Grooming expert Kyan Douglas was there in a Dolce & Gabbana suit.
Rebecca Rankin’s Carmen Marc Valvo dress was a late-60s early-70s cocktail party dream of a print dress, with its halter top, ivory background and giant red flowers.
It’s Miller Time : Nicole Miller dressed Melissa George of “Alias,” to the “Fahrenheit 911” special screening in Los Angeles. George chose an ivory washed jacquard jacket by millergirl with coordinating ivory washed jacquard cropped pants, also by millergirl. Millergirl is a modern interpretation of romanticism mixed with an edgy street element, say Miller’s reps. Collection fabrics include nouveau damask with washed raw edges, heavy jersey with fishnet appliqués and coated denim.
Kathryn Morris, of CBS' Cold Case, stepped onto the red carpet at last night's premiere of Steven Spielberg's The Terminal in a cocktail dress by Pamella Roland, a white strapless dress with satin tuxedo stripes down the side. Kathryn topped off her look with a necklace and silver crystal KIOSQUE bag by Swarovski.
Crystal Bling: One vendor at the Luxury Depot we attended last week was Hollywood Pin-Ups. Owner AmberLeVonne showed her crystal wares (check them out at www.hollywoodpin-ups.com). At the event, she showed “ Hello Kitty under the sea,” a one -of -a -kind clutch she designed. Actress Christina Milan took it to the world premiere of "The Chronicles of Riddick.” Ashlee Simpson, Traci Bingham, Nicole Eggert, Tia Carere, Christine Cox, as well as Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, Sharon Osbourne and Halle Berry are all fans.
Meet The Stillers :
Meet Ben Stiller and Christine Taylor Saturday, June 12 3:30 p.m. at the Borders in Santa Monica. Borders-Santa Monica 1415 Third Street Promenade Santa Monica, CA 90401 310.393.9290
When Jenifer Estess found out she had a fatal disease of the brain, she didn't let go of her dreams. As she explains in Tales from the Bed, the immediacy of her mortality only encouraged her to dream bigger. With the help of her sisters, she began Project A.L.S., an organization devoted to finding a cure for this untreatable disease. Estess died in December, but her sisters and friends are carrying on the work she began. Click the link below to read an excerpt in which Estess begins to come to grips with her symptoms. And please join us as we welcome Ben Stiller, a longtime friend of Estess's, and his wife, Christine Taylor, as they visit our store to talk about Project A.L.S. and Estess's inspiring memoir.
Borders-Santa Monica:
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Tales from the Bed:
http://borders.chtah.com/a/tBAyEY7AQfEXsARSnaJAMv9Zv.AP5JoNzV/ben2
Excerpt from Tales from the Bed:
http://borders.chtah.com/a/tBAyEY7AQfEXsARSnaJAMv9Zv.AP5JoNzV/ben1
Costas This Week: News anchor Tom Brokaw, actor Kevin Costner, director Phil Alden Robinson and the rock band Los Lonely Boys guest on this week's edition of HBO's “On the Record with Bob Costas,” debuting Friday, June 11, 2004 at 11 p.m.
Summer Sharks: Discovery Channel will air their popular “Shark Week” this year July 25 – 30, 2004. In its 17th year, the special SHARK WEEK 2004 features seven premiere programs that spotlight the incredible diversity of sharks, big and small.
Jesse James Rides Again: MOTORCYCLE MANIA 3: JESSE JAMES RIDES AGAIN premieres on Sunday, June 20, 2004 on the Discovery Channel, 9 to 11 p.m. This special is the third biographical documentary in the past five years about Jesse James - West Coast Choppers custom motorcycle builder and host of Discovery Channel's MONSTER GARAGE (and more recently recognized as Sandra Bullock’s beau). In MOTORCYCLE MANIA 3, James a custom chopper for himself using pure copper - a first for him, and considered a landmark achievement in building motorcycles. In addition, Kid Rock joins James on a trek through the back roads of Mexico to get away from their lives in the States - their fame, their girls, their schedules. Uh, huh, with a camera crew following them.
Willie Nelson News: At Willie Nelson's annual Independence Day Picnic at The Stockyards in Ft. Worth, TX, this year, the singer will celebrate America's birthday and announce his new web service, Radio Free and Global Service Digital Radio on the SenseMedia Network. Radio Free netcasts music, entertainment, and information 24 hours a day absolutely free, and can be found at SMN.com.
The sponsor-supported commercial-free service offers links to
Willie Nelson's own survey of the best of contemporary Country,
Americana and World Music. Websurfers will also find links to some of Willie's favorite up-and-coming artists, such as Kia, Scotty Wright, Tom Cherry, Crazy Fingers, Britta and many more. Reflecting Willie's social convictions,SMN.com also boasts links to live streaming news services like Air America, BBC, and NPR.
Later this summer, Willie will release "Willie Nelson and Friends: Outlaws and Angels," a CD recorded live in concert (the same show featured in his recent TV special of the same name). Willie¹s third release for Lost Highway Records, "It Will Always Be," ships in September and includes guest appearances from such Paula Nelson, Lucinda Williams and Norah Jones.
BBC America in August: Here’s the schedule of our favorite cable channel for the month of August:
THE KUMARS AT NO. 42 (U.S. premiere)
Part scripted sitcom, part improvised chat, part genuine interview, BBC AMERICA presents an all-new U.S. premiere award-winning talk show with a difference.
Meet The Kumars at No. 42, a typical Indian (albeit exaggerated) family living in North London, who have come across a unique method of ‘Keeping up with the Joneses’.
They have bulldozed their back yard and built a state-of-the-art TV studio from where they host their very own talk show.
Son Sanjeev (Sanjeev Bhaskar, Goodness Gracious Me) asks the questions while his mother Madhuri (Indira Joshi), father Ashwin (Vincent Ebrahim) and mischievous granny Sushila (Meera Syal, Goodness Gracious Me) interrupt the interviews from a nearby sofa, with wildly inappropriate and irrelevant questions.
Welcoming celebrity guests such as Richard E. Grant, Robson Green, Michael Parkinson, Donny Osmond, Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen into their home, the celebrities run the gauntlet of meeting the family members.
Sanjeev, unmarried and still living at home, is a naïve about life. Madhuri is always plying guests with food and trying to get Sanjeev married off. Ashwin has a tendency to tell long, tedious stories and is obsessed with money. While feisty granny Sushila has a youthful zest for life and good-looking men.
The Kumars at No. 42 premieres Sundays from August 29 at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT.
TRAILER PARK BOYS (Season premiere)
Welcome to Sunnyvale Trailer Park, a low-rent, blue-collar district on the outskirts of the Canadian town of Halifax and home to an all-new season of BBC AMERICA’s new spoof documentary comedy.
A smash hit in Canada where it airs on Showcase, Trailer Park Boys focuses on a community at the margins of society, a place where crime and petty rivalries flourish but where love, friendships and families also have a home.
At the heart of the community are Ricky (Robb Wells) and Julian (John Paul Tremblay), two guys whose lives were shaped growing up in the trailer park. They might love fast cars, talking dirty and living on the edge of the law – but no matter how much trouble they get into, or how isolated and ostracized they become, they never stop trying to do the right thing.
As the new season gets underway, it’s a case of deja-vu for the likable rogues as they emerge from prison once again to be greeted by faithful buddy Bubbles (Mike Smith). But this time around things are going to be different at Sunnyvale Trailer Park.
The days of nickel and dime scams are over. It’s time to go big or go home. Julian has a plan – the guys are getting professional. It’s called “Freedom 35” and it calls for Ricky to grow as much of his awesome dope as he can which Julian will then sell to prisons across the country through his prison guard contacts. In return they’ll make a trailer full of cash - enough to let them retire early and stay out of crime forever.
Trailer Park Boys new season premieres Thursdays from August 19 at 9:00 p.m. ET, 11:00 p.m. PT.
FAKING IT (season premiere)
From choir girl to rock chick, bicycle courier to polo player and chess player to soccer manager, the emotional roller-coaster of almost implausible transformations returns in an all-new U.S. premiere season of BBC AMERICA’s multi-awarding winning Faking It.
A battle against the odds, Faking It charts the progress of five more heroes, plucked from their natural habitats, to take up the challenge of completely changing their identities. With the help of three experts, they have just 28 short days to acquire the skills necessary to convince a panel of professionals they are the real McCoy with a wealth of background knowledge – and not just a faker with a month’s experience under their belt.
Winner of the inaugural Golden Rose of Montreux for reality TV – the highest accolade in European TV – an International Emmy and a BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television), season three promises to be every bit as dramatic and emotional as the first.
Malcom “Woody” Woodcock, a bicycle courier from Manchester has just four weeks in which to pass himself off as a polo player. Not only will he need to learn how to ride a horse, plus all the shots rules and tactics, he’ll also have to undergo quite a major image makeover – the piercings will have to go along with the ponytail…
Laura-Jane Foley is a 20-year-old Christian choirgirl who’s never been to a rock-concert and doesn’t believe in sex before marriage. It will take a few prayers in the church of rock ‘n’ roll to transform this straight-laced student into a sassy rock chick from hell.
And as the award-winning Faking It returns, Faking It Changed My Life – Part 2 looks back on the last season and follows up on some of the remarkable developments in the lives of the participants. Some of the ‘fakers’ have simply gained new hobbies, made new friends, or just realized they’re happy with things how they are. But others have had their lives turned upside down.
Faking it Changed My Life – Part 2 premieres Sunday, August 15 at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT. A new season of Faking It premieres Sundays from August 22 at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT.
PRIME SUSPECT (Channel premiere)
Internationally acclaimed actress and two-time Academy Award nominee Helen Mirren (Calendar Girls, Gosford Park) stars as tough-talking Detective Superintendent Jane Tennison in the multi-award winning thriller, Prime Suspect.
Working in the seedy underworld of prostitution, pornography, sickening abuse, serial killings and abduction, three seasons of the critically acclaimed drama are all set for their channel premiere on BBC AMERICA this summer.
Winner of the Primetime Emmy for Outstanding mini-series, the third season of Prime Suspect sees DCI Jane Tennison transferred to a new station with the job of “cleaning up the streets” of Soho. But it’s not long before Jane and her new team find themselves involved in the dark world of vice investigating the mystery of a young male prostitute burnt to death in the apartment of a frightened transsexual.
In the fourth season of the critically acclaimed drama, Jane Tennison finds herself newly promoted to Detective Superintendent, assigned to spearhead a number of major inquiries including the death of a baby, copycat killings and the death of a manager at an exclusive suburban country club.
And in the Emmy award-winning fifth season, DS Jane Tennison has been relocated to Manchester to investigate a drug related murder. Encountering a corrupt reprobate who rules over the local crime scene and believing him to be her prime suspect, Jane discovers her every move in the investigation anticipated – but how?
Prime Suspect airs Mondays from August 9 at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT.
MY HERO (Season premiere)
Award-winning comedian Ardal O’Hanlon (Father Ted) returns as George Sunday – aka down-to-earth superhero Thermoman – still trying to save the world as he adapts to the subtleties of life on Earth in an all-new season of the Montreux comedy finalist, My Hero.
George Sunday is Thermoman, from the planet Ultron, dashing from one catastrophe to another as he juggles two jobs: superhero and health food storeowner. It’s hard to know which causes him more problems – diverting meteorites or pretending he is just an ordinary guy.
George’s life took a wonderful turn when he fell in love with Janet Dawkins, a nurse from Earth. Janet is in on the secret, of course, but his behavior appears most peculiar to her parents and colleagues. Because George is not too familiar with Earth customs, he is often embarrassingly honest and tends to take everything too literally. And that’s not to mention his strange habit of suddenly vanishing every time he is needed to save the world.
The subtleties of human behavior are more confusing than ever before for alien George. Problems facing the man from planet Ultron and his human wife include a misguided attempt to fake his own death to collect on the life insurance; electoral success when he runs for mayor on a refreshingly honest ticket; a space virus fatal to humans; their baby son suddenly becoming a 19-year-old girl; meddling with the space-time continuum; and George becoming a surrogate mother.
New season premieres Wednesdays from August 18 at 7:00 p.m. ET, 10:00 p.m. PT.
MESSIAH (U.S. premiere original series)
Two disturbing murders… no motive – so begins a complex and shattering story of treachery and revenge in BBC AMERICA’s taut psychological thriller, Messiah.
Ken Stott (The Vice, The Singing Detective) stars as DCI Red Metcalfe, a brilliant detective who once turned in his own brother for murder. Ten years later, Red has earned a reputation for his impressive ability to get into the minds of killers – but two disturbing murders on the same day spark the most baffling and damaging case of his career. Both killings bear the murderer’s trademark – as do the grisly deaths that follow: the victim’s tongue is cut out and a silver spoon is inserted in their mouth.
As the killings mount up, Red is taunted by the fact that he can find no motive, no pattern – nothing to connect the victims apart from the killer’s grisly trademark.
As the killings continue, cracks begin to appear in Red’s handpicked team – young fast-tracker Jez (Jamie Draven), newcomer Kate (Frances Grey) and cynical Duncan (Neil Dudgeon).
As the murderer stays effortlessly ahead, killing seemingly random victims in new and ever more creative ways, it becomes clear that Red is confronted with evil beyond even his own experience. When a pattern at last starts to emerge, what began as a murder hunt turns into Red’s worst nightmare…
Part one of Messiah premieres Monday, July 26 at 9:00 p.m. ET, 9:20 p.m. PT. Part two premieres Monday, August 2 at 9:00 p.m. ET, 9:20 p.m. PT.
NY Facility Offers Supplementary Breast Cancer Treatments : Breast Cancer Treatment Services are offered at NYC’s Sea Change Healing Center.
Sea Change Healing Center in Manhattan presents a number
of services offered as complements to traditional breast cancer treatments. (We at BeansTalk aren’t advocating alternatives to traditional treatments, but want you to be aware of what’s out there – use your own judgement). Modalities include NETWORK SPINAL ANALYSIS (NSA), NATUROPATHIC MEDICINE, ACUPUNCTURE, toxin-eliminating LYMPHATIC DRAINAGE MASSAGE, and SOMATO RESPIRATORY
INTEGRATION (SRI. In honor of October, Breast Cancer
Awareness Month, Sea Change Healing Center is offering
a 20 % discount for new patients, for the initial
treatment of one of these wellness services. For more
information, visit www.seachangehealing.com, or call
212-889-7300.
HOW THEY WORK:
After the stress of a diagnosis and treatment of
breast cancer, NETWORK SPINAL ANALYSIS (NSA) and
SOMATO RESPIRATORY INTEGRATION (SRI) both provide an
integral role in healing. They restore both the body
and mind to a state of wholeness and balance, allowing
the body’s innate healing abilities to lead the
bodymind into complete wellness. Through specific
low-force touches to the spine, NETWORK SPINAL
ANALYSIS (NSA) assists the brain in developing new
strategies to eliminate and adapt to daily stress.
NSA helps dissipate tension from the spine and nerves
and helps the brain reconnect to the body’s natural
rhythms. The accompanying SOMATO RESPIRATORY
INTEGRATION (SRI) uses respiratory techniques to bring
internal rhythms into balance and wellness.
NATUROPATHIC MEDICINE treats the whole person,
focusing on prevention and working to restore and
support the body’s own powerful healing mechanisms by
using techniques that are in harmony with natural
processes. At Sea Change, Dr. Maria Ciuferri’s
approach to breast cancer prevention includes the use
of herbs, nutritional supplements, hydrotherapy,
homeopathic remedies and dietary and lifestyle
counseling to restore the imbalances from the disease
state or choice of treatment.
When ACUPUNCTURE is customized to a specific patient’s
needs, it can be used to treat nausea and body pains,
gives a boost to the immune system, as well as provide
emotional support to calm and relax the body and mind,
and ease bouts of depression or anxiety that are
common among one who’s been diagnosed with Breast
Cancer.
LYMPHATIC DRAINAGE MASSAGE is a gentle, rhythmic,
full-body massage designed to accelerate the functions
of the lymph system. This type of massage accelerates
and helps remove connective tissue of inflammatory
wastes and toxins, enhances the activity of the immune
system; reduces pain and facilitates the healing of
injuries, edema and post-surgical conditions. Many
post-operative symptoms are alleviated and the side
effects of Chemotherapy and Radiation are lessened
after receiving a Lymphatic Drainage Massage. Sea
Change also offers a DUO DRAINAGE LYMPHATIC MASSAGE,
in which two massage therapists work side by side, at
the same time, on the client. Lymphatic Drainage is
the only form of massage treatment recommended by
cancer specialists for breast cancer patients.
