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Hilary Duff thought outside the box this year for Halloween and dressed as Angelina Jolie. Complete with the geographical coordinate tattoo on her left arm, she even managed to talk her boyfriend Mike Comrie into playing Brad Pitt.
Much better than the played-out standard sexy cop or French maid.
Activist and Oscar-winning actress Susan Sarandon, 61, isn’t a fan of the way Hillary Clinton ran her failed bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. She claims that Hillary played the gender card too often and calls her “a blamer and whiner.” Sarandon is also not interested in a hypothetical role playing the Democratic Senator due to her poor opinion of her:
You’ve played quite a few real-life people now. Would you like to play Hillary Clinton in the movie of her life?
No. I’ve been around her and don’t find her… At this point, to say after what’s happened to her campaign and how they squandered all that money and all the different reasons her campaign fell apart, to blame it on sexism, I find so destructive to every young girl who dreams about making a difference through government. Instead of saying, “Look how far I’ve gotten and you can do it too,” and all the positive things she could have done, she’s turned into such a blamer and whiner, as if that was the reason, when clearly she wouldn’t have been in the position she was in if she hadn’t been a woman.If she hadn’t been married to that man and hadn’t had the Democratic machine behind her. To now turn around and say it was sexism I find so dishonorable and really destructive to women all over, young women all over. So I don’t really respect her enough to want to play her, and I find it sad and disappointing.
[From The Advocate as found on Defamer]
Sarandon may be turned off by the way Hillary Clinton handled her campaign, but she’s not adverse to playing another politically polarizing woman on screen. Sarandon has expressed interested in portraying peace activist Cindy Sheehan, the mother of a son slain in Iraq who received widespread coverage for camping out in front of Bush’s Texas ranch in 2005. Sarandon knows Sheehan personally and has attended anti-war protests with her. As far as I can find there is no film project in the works.
It worked for Robert DeNiro, Charlize Theron, Russell Crowe and Renee Zellweger, and now Oscar-winning actress Hilary Swank is set to gain between 20 and 30 pounds for her role in the new film French Women Don’t Get Fat, an adaptation of the best-selling book.
Those concerned over Hilary Swank’s plummeting weight can rest easy—maybe. The two-time Oscar nabber is next set to pack on the pounds (and a lot of ‘em) to play the lead in French Women Don’t Get Fat, an adaptation of Mireille Guiliano’s best-selling book, which Swank will also produce.
“She’ll gain 20 to 30 pounds,” we’re told by a source close to the production. “It’s no sweat. She’s played a man before. She can handle anything.”
Some of Swank’s colleagues are more than concerned about her alarmingly thin frame, which is so tiny, some say Chad Lowe’s former wife is looking downright frail. But anything for a meaty part, eh?
While French Women is nonfiction, an early premise says Swank will play the manager of a champagne company dealing with French beauties who consume bread, wine and pastries yet never gain an ounce. And naturally, self discovery happens along the way.
Hilary’s been looking a bit anemic these days, ever since she played an aspiring boxer in “Million Dollar Baby.” Her physique has always looked a bit masculine- which is probably why she was able to play Brandon Teena in “Boys Don’t Cry” so well. I’d be willing to bet that another 30 pounds on her frame would really soften up her face and jawline and make her actually look pretty.
Picture note by Celebitchy: Hilary Swank is shown at the Trump Hotel & Tower Dubai launch in Beverly Hills on 8/23/08. I like her a lot better with dark hair. Credit: Adriana M. Barraza / WENN
"The gathering was hosted by California Sen. Dianne Feinstein and attended by Ellen Malcolm, founder of Emily's List... Rep. Ellen Tauscher... and Hilary Rosen... who's now political director of the Huffington Post." [Post]
When it comes to getting motivated to hit the gym, all Hillary Duff needs is the promise that she’ll be going shopping when she’s done with her workout.
And yesterday the “War, Inc.” hottie was spotted on her way to staying in shape at a Pilates class in Toluca Lake, California. She sported a black workout tank top and black Capri-length sweatpants.
With her new film “War, Inc.” opening in limited release last night, Hillary Duff had a lot on her mind. And it’s a good thing she had a bodyguard to help her navigate her way outside the airport.
The “So Yesterday” singer was spotted arriving at LAX International Airport last night. And as she exited the terminal, Duff ended up stopping traffic as she jaywalked across the street and into some bushes, finally reaching the parking lot.
Hillary Clinton presented the Top Ten list on David Letterman's Late Show last night.
Click here to check it out!
P.S. If you live in Indiana or North Carolina, don't forget to get out and VOTE today!
This is the cover of the new New Republic. It's attached to a kinda interesting story about infighting in the Hillary Clinton campaign and how head pollster Mark Penn is a dick who is impossible to work with. But the real debate is over just how sexist this cover is. Your editor is a dude, and is therefore not always sensitive to these things. But still. Unflattering photo = sexist? Or is it the term "psychodrama"? It is unfair, yes, and mean-spirited, obviously, but... it's the New Republic. They printed the fucking Bell Curve idiots. Ok: the cover makes her look shrill and crazy, but isn't it a callback to noted shrill and crazy penis-haver Howard Dean? And aren't there similarly offensive "psychodrama" stories printed about President Bush and his daddy issues every damn month? Hell, we'll give this a 4. Now: debate! But for the love of Paglia be intelligent about it, please. We'll be watching, with an itchy banning finger. [TNR, Feministe, Jezebel]
The Pennsylvania primary is today!
And, Hillary Clinton was a guest on the CBS Early Show this morning.
Click here to watch her appearance!
PA is a must-win state for Hill.
Let's see how she does!
The good news about Burson-Marsteller CEO Mark Penn being booted from Hillary Clinton's campaign, according to an internal Burson email: "Momentum will only improve with Mark's return to our day-to-day business." Ha. The bad news: they can't spell their own (former) clients' names: "We've all received a good number of inquiries about the news reports related to Mark Penn's work with the Clinton campaign and developments in our relationship with the Columbian [sic] Embassy in Washington, which was until Saturday our client." [WSJ]
First Eva Longoria got behind Hillary Clinton, helping her win Texas in this week’s primaries. And now Natalie Portman is voicing her support for the could-be first female President of America.
Portman, who was spotted out and about in New York City yesterday, has been very vocal about her political opinions, and in a recent interview, she expressed her distaste for the sexism that is omnipresent in this year’s campaigning.
Hillary Clinton is back in the game, but just barely. Prior to the yesterday’s primaries Clinton was trailing Obama based on her performance in earlier primaries. Clinton won yesterday’s primaries in Ohio, Texas, and Rhode Island. Obama won in Vermont. The race between the two is still very close and hard to call, with the front runner seeming to change every week. While they’re both still insisting that they are the very best candidate and can beat Republic John McCain, Clinton is hinting that there may be a possibility of a Clinton-Obama ticket – with her as the presidential candidate.
Asked on CBS’s “The Early Show” whether she and Obama should be on the same ticket, Clinton said:
“That may be where this is headed, but of course we have to decide who is on the top of ticket. I think the people of Ohio very clearly said that it should be me.”
Obama, who had hoped to knock Clinton out of the race on Tuesday, said he would prevail despite facing a tenacious candidate who “just keeps on ticking.” Clinton acknowledged the race was close and said it would come down to her credentials on national security and the economy.
[From Yahoo! News]
Obama still came away with a lot of delegate votes, and said that his lead was still “insurmountable.” Clinton and Obama are so close that neither has enough delegates to secure the nomination. Whoever gets it will have to get the support of the almost 800 party and elected officials, or so-called “superdelegates .”
“New questions are being raised, new challenges are being put to my opponent,” she said. “Superdelegates are supposed to take all that information on board and they are supposed to be exercising the judgment that people would have exercised if this information and challenges had been available several months ago.”
She said voters are being drawn to her argument that she would be the better commander in chief, the best steward of the economy and that she can better confront McCain in the general election.
[From Yahoo! News]
Obama attacked Clinton for voting for the war in Iraq along with her foreign policy skills. Yesterday Clinton picked up a minimum of 115 delegates and Obama picked up at least 88. Results are still pending for the remaining 170 votes. That leaves Obama with a total of 1,477 delegates, including superdelegates. Clinton now has 1,391 delegates. To get the democratic nomination, the winner will have to secure 2,025 votes. At this point, it’s still way too close to call.
Clinton is shown on 1/18/08 at a rally in Henderson, Nevada. Obama is shown at Del Sol High School in Las Vegas on 1/11/08. Images thanks to PR Photos.
After her big victories last night, Hillary Clinton hit up the Today show, Good Morning America and The Early Show this morning!
Check out her appearances (below).
Even the Texas Gays, who could probably kick your ass, buy into the condescending media narratives of Hillary Clinton: she's "a diva", you see, and also "that reliable, ubiquitous straight girl who hangs out with the gang," which is the nicest way of describing a "fag hag" we've heard in some time. Not that we understand exactly how Senator Clinton fits that description, or which band of merry queens she spends her time cracking wise with, but these tough gay residents of Gun Barrel City, Texas still seem to like her. And while her husband shepherded both "don't ask, don't tell" and the vile Defense of Marriage Act through Congress, and while Obama is the only current candidate to plainly say that DOMA needs to be repealed, not "fixed," the patrons of the Friends bar love their unlucky-in-love straight girlfriend Hillary. Politics is all projection and fantasy, hooray! [WP]
Hillary Clinton appeared on Saturday Night Live this weekend after their introductory skit parodying the latest Democratic debate. It featured SNL cast members Amy Poehler as Clinton and Fred Armisen as Obama. Vincent D’Onofrio of Law & Order: Criminal Intent made a cameo to interrogate Poehler.
The skit tried to portray how the press softballs Obama while giving Clinton a hard time. It wasn’t hysterically funny, but I found it pretty amusing.
Clinton came on after the skit, and was introduced as “An Editorial Response.” She said:
“The scene you just saw was a re-enactment, sort of, of last Tuesday’s debate, and not an endorsement of one candidate over another. I can say this confidently, because when I asked if I could take it as an endorsement, I was told ‘absolutely not,’ but I still enjoyed that sketch a great deal, because I simply adore Amy’s impression of me.”
At that point Poehler entered wearing the same outfit as Senator Clinton, saying “My ears are ringing.”
Clinton and Poehler complimented each other’s outfits, with Clinton telling Poehler “I want the earrings back.” Poehler laughed hysterically and Clinton asked “Do I really laugh like that?”
Poehler asked “How’s the campaign going?” Clinton said “The campaign is going very well. Very very well. Why what did you hear?”
She then said she was just going to relax and didn’t want to talk politics, but then made a joking reference to the upcoming primaries saying “I would like to take this opportunity to say to all Americans, be they from the great state of Ohio or Texas, Rhode Island or Vermont, Pennsylvania or any of the other states, ‘Live from New York it’s Saturday Night!’”
Here’s the full skit followed by Clinton’s appearance.
And here’s just Clinton’s appearance.
Senator Clinton told her supporters last Monday to watch Saturday Night Live to see a skit they did last weekend about how the press gives her a hard time while fawning over Obama. She used it as an example of how the media tide was turning in her favor.
The state primaries determine by popular vote which Democratic party delegates representing a state will vote for a candidate at the National Convention in August. These are called “pledged delegates,” because they have pledged to vote according to the popular vote in the primary election. Clinton trails Obama in total Democratic delegate votes based on primaries held in January and February. Upcoming primary elections in Texas, Ohio, Rhode Island and Vermont on Tuesday are very close and hard to call.
There are more superdelegates, or upper-level Democratic party delegates, who are thought to support Clinton, and their votes can nullify the popular vote of party members. Unlike most other delegates, who are pledged, they are not required to vote according to the popular vote in their respective states. Clinton has drawn criticism for urging the superdelegates to disregard the popular vote and support her candidacy in place of Obama. It is thought that this strategy may backfire on her, and that her chances at securing the Democratic nomination are dwindling as Obama’s star rises.
The primaries on Tuesday have been described as “make-or-break” for Clinton, which can explain why she made an appearance on Saturday Night Live. She came across as good-natured and willing to poke fun at herself, but it may be too little too late for Clinton. We’ll have to see how she fares on Tuesday.
Clinton is shown on 1/18/08 at a rally in Henderson, Nevada thanks to PRPhotos.
Hillary Clinton appeared on Saturday Nite Live over the weekend and showed off her “comedy skills” to the nation. She’s got the personality of a robot. And not a cool robot like Johnny 5 from Short Circuit, a shitty robot, like the Lost in Space robot. I’m pretty sure that one day her face is going to fall off during a speech revealing red and blue wires and flashing lights.
Here’s the sketch she was referring to in that clip:
Mike Bloomberg sez Hillary's got the nomination sewn up, implies that she can't beat McCain, and says ("jokingly") that "Hillary should pray [he] get[s] in the race." Uh... he might strip away some of McCain's independent support but does he really think a moderate New York mayor would draw more voters from the war-mongering war hero than the hawkish Dem Senator from New York? He'd be a Ron Paul whose supporters are all CEOs instead of angry internet nerds. [NYM]
As we mentioned before, Hillary Clinton collaborated with US Weekly recently to do her own edition of Fashion Police, the feature where "hilarious" "comedians" make fun of celebs' awful outfits. Now the whole slide show is up! "This outfit isn't that bad; it's just an optical illusion," she says of one polka-dotted ensemble she sported in 1997. She even makes fun of her wedding dress! I don't know if I fully believe the self deprecation, but it mostly seems silly and kind of fun. Or maybe it's terrible. I can't tell anymore. [US Weekly]
MSNBC's website is linking Hillary Clinton's name to her campaign website, which takes readers directly to a donation page. Odd behavior, and, as far as we know, unprecedented for other candidates or other online news sources. But Hillary's an odd candidate for favoritism from the network that gives us cheek-pinchin' Chris Matthews. We'd say it might be how they got the Meet the Press sitdown but the easiest way to get Hillary on your Sunday morning show is to have a Sunday morning show. [MediaBloodhound]
Howard Wolfson is on MSNBC right now talking about Clinton's victory. Sure he's balding and graying but he's wearing a nice wide-necked red and gray ski sweater and he has a lovely smile. Strong chin.
Filed under: Prez Election 2008
TMZ.com: While Iowa didn't warm up to Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, our moles say her frigid fashion choices were probably a culprit in her third place finish!Sources in Team Hilly tell TMZ there has been an ongoing, internal push to get the... Read more
Today Iowans flock, scamper and waddle to the cauci to help elect the next president of America. Some of those Iowans are gay people. This hasn't gone unnoticed by Hillary Clinton. Trolling Gay.com, HuffPo gay Alex Geana meets a man named "waverlydan" who says, "i have chatted with at least 20-25 guys who are in iowa working or volunteering for caucus ALL of them are working or volunteering for Hillary." But the Iowa gays actually prefer another man! Ummm, guess who.
Out of the very small random sample I talked to (which might be just as reliable as checking the bean jars in an Iowa diner), Edwards was their choice. So he has a fascinatingly strong chance of wining, after the voters for Bidden, Dodd, Richardson etc. can't find traction.It doesn't hurt that a) John Edwards is perhaps the most handsome man probably ever or B) Chuck Norris, gay icon and a man who uses pepper spray to spice his steaks, endorsed Mike Huckabee on Tuesday.iowaguy2: I'm an Obama supporter, but honestly, I think Edwards will win Iowa on the Dem side and Huckabee on the Rep side
Who knew that Alec Baldwin cared about childhood obesity further than calling his young daughter a “vile little pig”? Turns out it’s an issue near and dear to Alec’s heart, and as a result he’s written a public letter to presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton, urging her to vote no on the massive $10 billion farm bill which is now before the senate. The bill subsidizes farmers who provide unhealthy foods to schools.
The “30 Rock” star wants the Democratic White House hopeful to vote “no” on the $10 billion farm bill, now before the Senate, that would give subsidies to farmers who provide cheese, sugar and other fattening foods to schools.
“As you are well aware, the epidemic of childhood obesity is worsening day by day, leading to higher risks of diabetes, heart disease and several forms of cancer,” the actor wrote Monday in a personal letter to Clinton and each of her fellow senators. “I know that you share my concern about this crucial issue. As a parent, I see firsthand the challenges of keeping children focused on healthful foods. These challenges are made all the more difficult by federal policies that keep high-cholesterol, high-sugar foods all too plentiful in schools. .. There has never been a more urgent time to take action.
[From the New York Daily News]
Alec Baldwin isn’t exactly someone I’d call in great shape. He’s not disgusting by any means, but I am a little surprised that he’s interested in this issue. It’s kind of like when Dr. Phil talks about his “Ultimate Weight Solution,” and you’re sitting there wondering why he hasn’t read his own book. Alec Baldwin’s situation isn’t to the same extent as Dr. Phil’s, but something tells me he’s been on the business end of a block of cheese on more than one occasion recently.
Baldwin has teamed up with the Committee for Responsible Medicine to encourage senators to vote no on the farm bill. When asked how he thought Hillary Clinton would vote, Kyle Ash, a spokesperson for the Physicians Committee said:
“I think she’s vacillating. I do think she’d like to vote for something healthier for kids, but the last time we met with her staff, they told us she was concerned about dairy farmers. Dairy is a big industry in New York. Clinton’s spokesman Philippe Reines told us: “Sen. Clinton has a strong and long record of promoting healthy foods for children, and has worked to strengthen programs that promote fruits and vegetables.”
[From the New York Daily News]
Dairy may be a big important industry for New York, but childhood obesity is at epidemic proportions there. I’d never seen so many chubby little kids until I moved to Brooklyn. And I don’t say that in a mean way; I was always the chubby kid in class (but I was also 5 feet tall on the first day of third grade, you know how kids’ bodies fluctuate). It’s just startling and worrisome to look around and see what appears to be a quarter of the kids on the subway sporting huge round bellies. I’m not sure that voting against the farm bill will make a big difference though. It seems like there’s a lot of issues that need to be tackled, starting with better nutrition and exercise at home, and getting rid of vending machines in schools. I really don’t think too much cheese is the issue. Though I find it kind of bizarre that Alec Baldwin has thrown his weight around (so to speak) on this issue, if it helps get some needed attention, more power to them all.
Hillary Clinton still totally hates New York Times reporter Patrick Healy; he wrote a piece about her relationship that she's never gotten over. (2008 is gonna be a long year for him!) Incidentally, according to Pat's recent bio, he is "single." Race ya! [NYO]
The Saw Mill River Parkway was closed last night during rush hour&mdash why? Oh, because there was a sniper loose, picking off motorists! More shots have been fired this morning, apparently. This could make the trip home to Chappaqua a bit dicey for Hillary Clinton, not to mention all the Wall Street execs and law partners trying to get back to their Westchester "cottages."
Former First Lady and potential POTUS 44 Hillary Clinton backed out of a Vogue photoshoot last minute, reports aging Post doyenne Liz Smith, for fear of appearing "too glamorous" and "too elitist." The photographer was going to be Annie Leibovitz, whose last big project was a series of portraits of Queen Elizabeth II; the writer was slated to be Julia Reed, the "staunchly Southern" author of Queen of the Turtle Derby and Other Southern Phenomena. Guess it's understandable if La Clinton was leery of being described in Southern terms of endearment: "Hillary Clinton was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it...."