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Posted Nov. 16, 2009,
Mary & Harry, and Other Lookalikes in the British Royal Family
By Mickey Boardman
Posted Oct. 9, 2008,
Partying with Kid Sister, Asics and the World's Largest Lite-Brite
By Lisa Moon
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On Tuesday night, Asics hosted quite the nostalgic affair at Splashlight Studios, spotlighting the largest Lite-Brite ever (remember those?) of neon kicks, of course. I didn't know what to expect with this event that showcased the motliest of the motley, colliding the likes of Kid Sister, Asics, the Vitamin Water crew and...the Guinness Book of World Records(?). And off it was to an unexpected night of surprises.
While DJ 24Court and Flosstradamus mixed it up, media folk coolly stood around in silence; on the other hand, my one-man posse Derrick and I chatted up a storm with the stiff Guinness Book of Records man clutching his book in the corner, bumped hips with the sloshed, slurring girls heading to guest house afterwards, and tried to keep up with the solo dancer of the eve, some Moby-doppelganger busting it upppp. No sign of Kid Sister paramour A-trak, or the rest of the fool's gold crew, although the standouts of the masses would have to be the Retro Kidz, who were out in full force with spiffy outfits and high-tops reminiscent of my favorite show, the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
Posted Mar. 28, 2008,
Bill Gates and his Ipod?
By Kim Hastreiter
Someone just came in to meet with me and turned me on to this most amazing artist, Alison Jackson. She photographs famous lookalikes (dead and alive) in completely twisted compromising positions. I died when i saw these. You can see more of her work at her Los Angeles gallery, M+B's site. Carlo McCormick here at PAPER told me that Jackson is fairly famous in the UK but has not yet become so well known here in US. Here are a few images. Go look at this stuff. Pictured above is Bill Gates listening to his iPod and below, check out Bush doing a Rubik's Cube and the Queen on the throne. She also has a book out by Taschen called Confidential. I immediately bought one here.
Posted Mar. 14, 2008,
Bar of the Week: Radegast Hall & Biergarten
By Melissa Seley
After much ado about its retractable roof and delayed launches, Williamsburg's sprawling Czech lager barn Radegast Hall & Biergarten is open and bustling with a delightfully polyglot crowd of revelers. On a recent Wednesday evening, chaps who resembled the cousins of au courant celebs (Benicio Del Toro, James Franco, Dash Snow) were posted up at the copper-sheeted ziggurat bar alongside clusters of Hell's Angels, a Redbeard-ish fellow toting a toddler on his shoulders, and a J.R. Ewing lookalike in a business suit and enormous white Stetson. A sampling of jewel-toned beers (favorites were Kostritzer Schwarzbier, $7, and Dentergems Witbier, half-liters $6, liters $13, pitchers $18) and hearty fare proved ambrosial. From the steampunk chandeliers and gaslight sconces, milky-white beer taps and Viking ship wall nooks to the roasted pork tenderloin with prunes, potato dumplings and red cabbage ($16) and poppy-seed apple strudel ($6), the vast venue approaches hefe heaven despite Pauli-girl waitress frocks and a few spiny fish bones in the otherwise superb trout salad ($6). Palate-cleansing shots of schnapps ease patrons into the bewitching hours when one imagines the rowdy crowd might break into a rousing communal jig; a schnitzel-counter blazes sausages ($6–$12) till
2 a.m.; and the roofworks make Radegast a prime candidate for graduation affairs or the post-brunch sprawl. Singles trolling hunks rejoice: This saloon seems to beckon studmuffins like lambs to slaughter via a simple formula: rustic fortress + slew of tasty brews + wieners, wieners, wieners. 113 N. 3rd St., Brooklyn, (718) 963-3973
Posted Oct. 12, 2007,
Cool Julius Shulman Photo in "Birth of the Cool" Show at OCMA
By Ann Magnuson
I LOVE LOVE LOVE this photo that ran in Wednesday's L.A. Times Calender section with
This photo really does capture the allure of the mythically effortless modern California lifestyle. But, honestly, I'm rather burnt out on the midcentury modernist fabulosity. I still LOVE it, don't get me wrong. But it's a shame that it's become so ridiculously elitist -- especially since most of its founders believed in providing good design for the masses. (Think a more durable, deluxe but still-cheap Ikea.) Still, it doesn't get much cooler than this. Some of my fellow oldsters might remember the glory days of finding a Herman Miller original in the thrift stores for a pittance! Sigh. No more. No more. Then again, maybe in some of those Orange County Goodwills....
Posted Dec. 7, 2006,
Socialites on Parade!!!!
By Mickey Boardman
Mr Mickey is sure that all you MMBloggers are addicted to one of MM's favorite sites, SocialiteRank.com. Oh it's a marvelous site that tracks all the high-end cuties and ranks them based on social cache. MM just loves it and is so obsessed that he invited the kids behind Socialite Rank to be in Paper's next Beautiful People issue. Sadly they declined, seeking to maintain their anonymity. Too bad. Perez Hilton was in last year's BP issue and look what happened to him!!!!
Anyhoo, inspired by Socialite Rank, MM is going to profile some of our favorite Socialites in case any of you could possible not know (and love) Tinsley Mortimer et al. This shot (snatched from Style.com, such a gorgeous source for party photos!) is of Tinsley (in black) and perhaps her greatest rival for socialite supremacy, Fabiola Beracasa.
Fabiola is the daughter of Veronica Hearst and is super sexy. MM sat next to her at a dinner for Zac Posen and she was charming, if a bit tipsy. Sadly, Fabiola had Brandon Davis on the other side (and Camilla Al-Fayed next to him) and Fabiola seemed intent on keeping Brandon's attention. MM knows Brandon has since had a fall from grace but MM can't help thinking Brandon is hot, hot, hot!!!! Please don't send e-mails to Mr Mickey to tell me he's a gelatinous Elvis lookalike, that kid is sexy!
Anyhoo, Fabiola is a cutie and MM is making plans for something special in Paper for Fabiola to be featured in. So let us know what you think of her and stay tuned for more Socialite profiles on MMBlog!
Posted Sep. 5, 2006,
Hey, That Looks Like Ryan Gosling.....
By Ann Magnuson
......playing the mechanical ponies at the Sunset Junction Street Fair! Could it really be one of the finest young actors of his generation placing bets on Seabiscuit to Show?
Could he possibly be researching a new role as a Roustabout?
Are they remaking the Elvis classic?
Or might he be remaking the Jodie Foster/Robbie Robertson flick "Carny" with this Dakota Fanning lookalike?
Enquiring minds want to know!
(P.S. Cute beard!)
Posted Aug. 31, 2006,
Not Everyone Wants to Look Like Angelina Jolie
By Ann Magnuson
Correction: Not everyone CAN look like Angelina Jolie. That's why the new "revamped" collection for St. John is a bust. According to an article in Wednesday's L.A.Times, "the loyal St. John customer was turned off by it's sexy new look and ad campaign. So now the label is trying to make amends."
The only people I know who wear St. John's neo-Chanel knit suits are Republican lawyers and stock brokers I know back in West Virginia. (Oh, and Gloria Allred.) These professional women wear the clothes well but I never thought that the "classic, forgiving wool knit suits trimmed with glittery buttons, vivid colors and heat-set paillettes" were all that forgiving....unless you had hair big enough to balance out the effect. (Just looking at a St. John knit suit makes me squirm....and run for the cover of a 100% cotton mu-mu.)
What I DID love about St. John was their old ad campaign that featured Kelly Gray, daughter of founding designer Marie Gray. The ads featured the age-indeterminate Kelly airbrushed into a flawless replica of a fully-independant female. This was a babe with a bank account big enough to pay for improbable romps with hot Argentinian polo-player gigolos at a variety of exotic locals. In these Cinderella-meets-The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone scenarios Ms. Gray possessed an allure that drove every (gay looking) male model surrounding her mad with indifference. Really -- those ads were the only reason to pick up VANITY FAIR. Indeed, their very presence seemed to mock everything that magazine sells as Glamour. Kelly Gray was (unknowingly) radical chic!
Each ad was more deliciously ridiculous than the last; with Ms. Gray calling the shots like some female Robert Evans. But whether the locale was Paris, St. Barts or the Greek Islands one always felt the crew never stepped foot out of Palm Beach. Or Dallas. Or Rancho Mirage.
As much as I would mock those ads (one L.A. Woman colunn in PAPER was devoted to this subject in ...oh Jeeze, when was that issue? A couple of years ago at least...) I DID admire Kelly Gray for daring to go toe-to-toe with the young supermodels of the world. Some may scoff but she got the last laugh...all the way to the bank. Why couldn't a middle-aged, full-figured woman pose as fiercely as her anoerxic underaged sistas?
This is why Kelly Gray was a big hit with the mature demographic that has the real spending power. Apparantly the company has refused all interview requests and are now dealing with the wrath of loyalists who refuse to wear the sleeker, new "Melrose" fit. They want the classic "Rodeo" fit! Why St. John thought they should court a younger demographic is a real head-scratcher. Isn't the first rule of business, "If it's not broke don't fix it?" 
As the Times article puts it:
Here's a lesson: Never spurn older women with money.
St. John's year-and-a-half-old plan to capture a younger customer and update the luxury company's fusty image has backfired and killed the cash cow — the loyal, mature customers who built the Irvine-based knitwear maker into a $400-million luxury apparel powerhouse.
And bring back Kelly Gray! In a pictorial featuring her and a dozen Brad Pitt lookalikes. In Namibia. Surrounded by orphans. And paparazzi. Resort ready-to-wear. Fabulous.
Posted Aug. 1, 2006,
Serial Killers and the Women Who Love Them
By Ann Magnuson
Oy. Mein. Gott. Enough with Mel Gibson already. The story in today's L.A. Times about convicted murderer Wayne Adam Ford and the actress, former spokesmodel for breast enhancement supplements and Sharon Stone lookalike who is driving the folks at the San Bernadino County Sheriff's Department crazy is crazy by even Hollywood standards! This is something straight out of a John Waters movie - starring Sharon Stone maybe? Can the deal already be in the works? Could Marc Shaiman and Scott Whitman already be penning the Broadway musical? Let's hope so!
You HAVE to read this story!! Tidbits below.
(Victoria) Redstall, a British-born actress from Studio City, admits to a lifelong fixation on serial killers and said meeting Ford in April — to interview him for a documentary — was "the dream of a lifetime.
She expected to be fascinated, she said, but not drawn into a deep bond with Ford that has caused a disruption in court and triggered an investigation by the Sheriff's Department.
"I trust Wayne with my life…. He's got such a kindness to him and such a conscience," she said, her eyes briefly filling with tears during an interview at a cafe in Studio City last week. "He is so tuned in to me and I to him that sometimes words don't have to be said."
Ford, a former long-haul truck driver, is on trial in San Bernardino County for crimes that would send most women running in the opposite direction. In 1997 and 1998, Ford murdered three prostitutes and a hitchhiker, dismembering two and dumping all four bodies in California waterways, before surrendering voluntarily with his final victim's breast in a Ziplock bag in his jacket pocket.
.....Redstall says she has already lost friends over her bond with Ford, which she insists is deeply "emotional" but not romantic.
"Everyone tells me, 'Be careful, he's a serial killer' … but they don't know Wayne like I do," she said. "We've all got evil in us — all of us. He took it to the extent of killing humans…. But I'm going on the man he is today and the remorse that he has today."
The irony of a model for breast enhancement pills, Herbal Grobust, seeking out a killer with a breast fetish is not lost on her, and she addresses it with the dark humor that both shocks and entertains the people she talks to in the courtroom.
"It's hysterical," she said.
After closing arguments last week in Ford's sentencing hearing, Redstall drove alongside the bus returning Ford to the jail in her red convertible so he could see her blond hair blowing and her jewelry glimmering in the sunlight, she said.
She says she feels bad about the scandal she's caused at the jail but that she's no stranger to causing disruptions.
In 2004, her former homeowners association sued her in Los Angeles County for attracting news helicopters — another one of her obsessions — that would hover over the condo building and shine their spotlights down as she was on the balcony in her nightclothes, she said.
Redstall said she later starred in an independent film loosely based on her copter attraction — "Hover me: The Making of Helicopter Girl."
Only in L.A. kids. Only in L.A.
Posted Jul. 12, 2006,
Allison Anders Rocks!
By Ann Magnuson
Kudos to Allison Anders for pulling off a most excellent Third Annual Don't Knock The Rock Festival! The five day music and movie festival held at the Disney Concert Hall's performance space REDCAT (quickly becoming my favorite 'club') over the long holiday weekend not only gave us a reuni
on of seminal LA bands The Gun Club AND Redd Kross (both totally rad!) but a a jammin' array of 'rock readings' , panel discussions and premiere screenings of rock 'n rollin' movies and documentaries.
Hands down audience favorite was "The Treasures of Long Gone John" , a chronicle of the eccentric art, music and oddities collection of Long Gone John, indie record producer and founder of the record label Sympathy for the Record Industry. Everyone was raving about the animated images from artworks by folks like Mark Ryden and Robert Williams.
Wish I could've seen it but I opted instead to wait in line for a prime seat at the Redd Kross reunion, who did NOT disappoint (except they didn't play "Annie's Gone", boo hoo). Rockin' jailbait opening act BE YOUR OWN PET griped about the audience - "This is the first time we've played to people who were sitting down. " said the buff Pauley Shore (but way cuter) lookalike guitarist. "That's because we're so old" yelled an ex-punker, illiciting much (weary?) laughter. Later the band complained again about the lack of moshing in the theater. "You all look so comfortable" grumbled the guitarist again. "Then make us uncomfortable" yelled another been-there-done-that rocker.