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Posted Dec. 17, 2007,
About Last Night... The Z100 Jingle Ball
By Caroline Torem Craig
By the time I actually entered The H&M Artist Gift Lounge, the backstage area reserved for VIPs and press at Z100’s annual Jingle Ball at Madison Square Garden, most of the heavy-hitters had been there, done that already. (Like Ashley Tisdale --"No pics of her new nose job, please" -- Jennifer Hudson and Hayden Panettiere.) But within two minutes I was staring into three terrific-looking fresh faces: those belonging to The Jonas Brothers. I asked them if they had ever spent Christmas in a foreign country and they all said no. And when I followed up with “if you could, which one?” simultaneously they all said, “Italy!”
I spotted Perez Hilton, the host of PAPER'S recent Nightlife Awards, whose joyous expression shows he was probably having the most fun of anyone there. Shortly after, Avril Lavigne came through -- unfortunately, she was only allowed to scowl! No pictures and no questions. But on the way out near the door was the little table with Bratz Neon Diva dolls, one of which she chose. Thinking fast on my feet, I asked, "Did you pick the sexy blonde, like you?” She smiled and said, “Yeah.”
Posted Apr. 30, 2007,
Eight Items or Less: Tracy Morgan SCRAMs, Vanity Fair Discovers Yoga and Pete Wentz Gets His East Village on Tonight
By Alexis Swerdloff
1. It's an exciting time to be English. Kate Moss’s Top Shop line debuts tomorrow! According to Reuters, “To try prevent fights among shoppers when the doors open, each person will be able to buy only five items.”
2. Apparently, Vanity Fair is running a “yoga spread” with high-profile yogaphiles (Donna Karan, Sting and Trudie Styler, Ali MacGraw, etc.) for their June issue. Doesn’t that seem very 1997 to you?
3. Ben Brantley gives new musical Legally Blonde a pretty middling review in the Times today calling it superficial, potentially anti-lesbian and compares watching the show to eating candy. While a cute comparison, he took the candy metaphor and ran with it in a serious way. In the first three grafs alone, he mentions that audience members might want to floss between songs, and dropped M&Ms, Hershey’s, empty-calories, Gummi-Bears and “confectionary charms.” We get it, it’s candy-like. No need to hit us over the head.
4. We’ve never heard of a SCRAM (Secure Continuous Remote Alcohol Monitoring) bracelet before, but apparently Tracy Morgan has to wear one! A result of a DUI charge and a subsequent probation violation, Morgan will have to wear a SCRAM for the next 90 days that will check his blood alcohol content every 30 minutes. How Orwellian! Now that Alec Baldwin may not return to 30 Rock for a second season, we especially hope that Morgan doesn’t mess up and drink, because a 30 Rock without Baldwin and Morgan would be no 30 Rock at all!
5. So long dodgeball, hello Dance Dance Revolution. According to the New York Times, gym teachers across the country are using the Japanese video game Dance Dance Revolution in P.E. classes. The article suggests that “more than 1,500 schools are expected to be using the game by the end of the decade.”
6. Tonight’s the opening of the Pete Wentz/Gym Class Heroes bar in the East Village… Look out for Wentz’s GF Ashlee Simpson on Avenue A.
7. Feist’s The Reminder received a whopping score of 8.8 on Pitchfork today. Go, Feist, go!