MONTREAL – I wonder how many of those Academy Award red-carpet divas do anything like this: The other day, Kate Middleton visited the Royal School of Needlework, at Britain’s Hampton Court Palace, to meet the women who sewed her wedding dress.
The label said Sarah Burton for Alexander McQueen, but the actual hand-stitching of lace appliqué onto the bodice and skirt, etc., was done at the royal school. The workers also had to keep the project secret. Kate was grateful, and stopped in to say so.
The first anniversary of her wedding to Prince William will be April 29.
Ben Affleck and Jen Garner have named their new son. I was hoping for Den (you know, Dennis) or Ken or Len or Penn (like Penn Jillette) or Ren (as in Ren and Stimpy) or maybe Ten (after Tennessee Williams), but they let me down: the kid will be Samuel Garner Affleck.
Zach Braff has written a play. It just opened in London. He’s the star. It stinks.
So say the critics, anyway. All New People, now playing in the West End, is about a man thinking of suicide on his 35th birthday.
“The most aimless, pointless play I have ever seen,� says Libby Purves in the Times of London.
In the Guardian it’s called “a muddled, meandering affair that reeks of self-gratification.�
“Doesn’t hang together or pack a big punch,� adds Whatsonstage.com.
The Independent says Braff “is still writing in the rhythms of television sitcom where the wisecrack … predominate(s) over longer-term goals.
Only the Telegraph summons some faint praise: “Deserves to prosper … never outstays its welcome.�
Russell Brand claims he’ll never marry again, Nameless Insider told the Daily Star in the U.K.
“Russ was devastated when things with Katy (Perry) went wrong,� the source is quoted as saying. “We all worried he’d go off the rails again. He managed to pull himself together and he’s fine now.�
You bet: He’s been seen with Zooey Deschanel, and with the alluring Oriela Medellin Amieiro, about whom the source said Russell “doesn’t want to string her along, but he’s dead set on not getting married again.�
Oriela’s 25; Russell is 36.
I don’t much like Facebook. I don’t bother with it myself. But I have just
wasted way too much of my day looking at ads on Facebook.
Brands can have timeline pages now, and some genuine creative talent is on display. Check out Old Spice’s page, with the leopard in the eye patch.
I got onto this through an Advertising Age article
(adage.com) that has links to several droll corporate pages.
(I believe one reason contemporary “artâ€� is so vapid is that in our times many gifted visual-arts talents get lured into advertising. Where great artists used to suck up to rich aristocrats â€" “patrons of the artsâ€� â€" their descendants suck up to rich corporations. Plus ça change … And really, wouldn’t you rather spend an hour watching great TV ads than pretending to like the meaningless crud that passes for “conceptual artâ€�? Don’t get me started!)
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