Tuesday, September 28, 2004

Who's Wearing What + A Little More...

Christina Aguilera wore a colorful silk satin Yves St. Laurent dress in teal and white and red to the Shark Tale premiere in New York.

Renee Zellweger chose a Carolina Herrera black and white 50s-inspired print dress, strapless, with a halter neck.

Angelina Jolie wore bright red pointy pumps with tight jeans and a bold shiny animal print Celine coat.

Missy Elliott went for the logo look, head to toe, wearing Christian Dior beige, red-accented logo hat, coat, shoes and purse.

Star Will Smith wore a black Ferragamo jacket, over a crisp white shirt and slacks.

Bejewled and fisherman-hatted Ludacris wore Tommy Hilfiger (white t-shirt, big pendant necklace and striped blue oversized shirt).

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Sky Captain co-star Bai Ling wore a front knotted yellow shirt and ultra mini frayed denim skirt by Maggie Coloumbe to the Teen Vogue Awards.

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Actress Melora Hardin attended the Hollywood premiere of the play The Ten Commandments starring Val Kilmer. She chose to wear A Pea in the Pod’s pink and yellow graphic floral silk chiffon dress with “O” ring detail. She recently starred in Hollywood Mom’s Mystery and can be seen next portraying Linda Evans in Dynasty: Behind The Scenes. She and her husband are expecting their second child at the end of the year.

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Coming to BBC America: Two millionaire playboys - one self-made, the other born into money - join forces as an unlikely crime-fighting team in the 1971 adventure series The Persuaders, airing as part of BBC AMERICA's retro cool Friday night line-up from November 5, 2004 at 10 p.m. ET/PT. Danny Wilde (Tony Curtis) is a brash, street-smart American and self-made millionaire from New York. Lord Brett Sinclair (Roger Moore) is an upper-crust member of the British Establishment, born into wealth and class - the very picture of social refinement.

Also: Academy Award-winner Jim Broadbent (Iris, Moulin Rouge) and Hugh Laurie (Stuart Little, Maybe Baby) star in a colorful and eccentric view of adult life and love in Victorian London as seen through the eyes of a nine-year-old girl in BBC AMERICA's original comic movie premiere. The Young Visiters [sic], premieres Wednesday, November 3, 2004 at 8 p.m. ET/PT. Based on the much-loved Victorian novel, written in 1890 by Daisy Ashford, who wrote (and famously misspelled) the tale when she was just nine-years-old, the comic drama centers on two gentlemen - Alfred Salteena (Jim Broadbent) and Lord Bernard Clark (Hugh Laurie) - as they compete for the favors of a young lady, Ethel Monticue (Lyndsey Marshal, The Hours, The Gathering Storm).

Jim Broadbent, who is also executive producer, explains: "The story is told through the eyes of a nine-year-old girl and is her naïve, but startlingly perceptive and very funny, view of the English class system, the foolishness of adults and the power that young, pretty girls have over men."

Fired Hires: 5W Public Relations (www.5wpr.com) announced today that Stacie J, just fired from The Apprentice had hired 5W Public Relations for media relations, and strategic communications, and Ronn Torossian, President & CEO of 5W Public Relations will personally serve as spokesperson for Stacie J. Initial plans include a media event at Stacie's Subway store in Harlem, plans for a clothing line, and a NYC "Meet Stacie J" event for marketing and promotions executives.

Former B-52’r on Sirius: Fred Schneider, frontman of the multi-platinum music group The B-52’s, will host a new program on SIRIUS Satellite Radio. Party Out of Bounds with Fred Schneider will air on SIRIUS commercial-free music channel First Wave starting Friday, October 1. The program, a three-hour musical revelry that will include the best party songs from Fred’s vast collection of 60,000 vinyl albums and singles, will air every Friday from 9 p.m. to 12 midnight ET.

From the Monolators: A little reminder that we're going to be playing at the Lava Lounge tonight (Tuesday) at 10:30. Cover is 5 smackers. For those of you who haven't been there before, it's at 1533 North LaBrea in Hollywood, 90028. That's between Sunset and Hollywood Blvd, almost on the corner of Sunset in a little strip mall (on the West side of the street).

We'll be playing new material, including our questionable version of "Dancing Queen." So that should be somewhat interesting...

Eli

www.themonolators.com

Eddie from Ohio: Eddie From Ohio—a Washington, DC band which loyal “Edhead” fans have been following for over 10 years—is gearing up for the October 19 release of their ninth album, THIS IS ME, on the band’s own Virginia Soul label (through Redeye Distribution).

It’s the first collaboration for the Washington, DC band—Julie Murphy Wells (vocals), Robbie Schaefer (guitar), Michael Clem (bass), Eddie Hartness (drums)--with producer Lloyd Maines, (Natalie's father, who won a Grammy® Award in 2002 for co-producing The Dixie Chicks’ multi-platinum HOME album).