Tuesday, June 06, 2006

The Awful Truth

Quick K-Cav sighting, hot stuffs...from my favorite gossip columnist Ted Casablanca, over at E! Online:

Brody Jenner and Kristin Cavallari, all cute and couple-esque. Lobby. Friday night. The tight twosome alternated between sittin' at their VIP table and dancin' with the rest of the clubgoers to '80s hits.

Hills Spoiler?





So, it should be a surprise to NO ONE that LC and Jason are together these days. Like, seriously together. All of that "will they or won't they?" and "do you miss him?" talk on The Hills trailers appears to be just that-- talk. Need proof? Check out these pictures from the MTV Movie Awards.

And please discuss just how greasy Jason looks. Ick. And how tiny is Heidi? I knew she was small, but the girl looks teensy in this picture...and I've given up my dream of us becoming BFF and borrowing her brown dress from the Teen Vogue party. Damn.


Pictures courtesy of Mollygood.

Inside Hills Gossip

From Fashion Week Daily* comes this little bit of LC from LB gossip...

The Hills Are Alive... Laguna Beach, Teen Vogue, and some fab fash players Tuesday, May 30, 2006
(NEW YORK) Last season, Laguna Beach addicts caught their first glimpse of The Hills, which follows former Laguna girl Lauren Collins (aka L.C.) to her new home in LA. Fans quickly learned that Lauren landed a Teen Vogue internship, threw herself into the L.A. fashion scene, and even met Anna Wintour at a fall show.
With the program’s debut set for tomorrow, The Daily learned a little more through another featured player—Kelly Cutrone, who directed Lauren during Jennifer Nicholson’s show at L.A. Fashion Week.
“That girl was so funny,” shared Kelly. “She had to do a very simple task: come backstage at the show and get tickets for her editor. It’s not that hard but she had a lot of trouble. She stood around backstage for at least a half hour before she figured out what to do. She didn’t really have the sense of how to do things: she wanted stuff to fall on top of her and into her lap. In her position as an intern, she really needed to make things happen.”
Meanwhile, MTV committed a fashion faux-pas at the show: asking for a front row seat for their star. “I was like, absolutely not,” said Kelly. “If she’s an intern, she’s not going to sit in the front row. I don’t care that she’s on MTV. She can stand in the back as an intern.” That may change next season, when Lauren goes from intern to TV star (and this month’s Teen Vogue cover girl).
As for her future in the fashion industry, “I don’t know how she’ll do,” says Kelly. “I mean, I wouldn’t hire her, but she could grow. Everyone makes mistakes their first time.”


FARAN KRENTCIL

*If you're not reading The Daily, you should be. Trust me.

...And The Reviews Are In!


First, this one from the New York Post:


MTV COLLEGE DAZE
By LINDA STASI
May 30, 2006 -- AS a grown-up, I'd like to put myself in the shoes of the insanely spoiled girls who are featured on MTV's newest reality show, "The Hills."
But frankly, I can't afford it. The shoes, I mean.
In what has become surreally unreal, what we've got here is a spin-off of another "reality" show which is a takeoff of a drama. It used to be that life imitated art, now life (or whatever the heck you call this) is imitating itself after it has imitated art. Get it? Got it? Good - because I certainly don't.
At any rate, "The Hills" is a spinoff of MTV's immensely popular "Laguna Beach," a "reality" show from which Lauren Conrad, a then-high schooler (who looks 30), emerged as the star.
Now Lauren gets to star in her own life, beginning with her arrival in Lost Angeles (not a typo) to attend fashion school. Omigod!
Right off, she and her new roommate - another big looker in a bikini - survey their new apartment. No dorms for these babes. Just because they're freshmen doesn't mean they have to live like it!
Before Lauren even goes to her first day of class, she gets an interview to be an intern at Teen Vogue. Right. This is about as real as Faye Dunaway's latest face.
She meets with the West Coast editor, Lisa Love (I swear!), who says, in all seriousness, "Why Teen Vogue?" Omigod! Why naut? It's, like, so cool!
Within what seems like minutes after the interview, Lisa Love's assistant calls back to say that to work at Teen Vogue as an intern, "You need a lot of experience writing [Lauren doesn't have it], and in fashion [well, she shops a lot] . . . but Lisa really liked you and wants to offer you an internship!" Omigod!
Lauren's first task is to work a huge party and guard the V.I.P. section. Instead she let's her spoiled, shallow rich friends into the party and they sit all over the V.I.P. seats. Lisa Love isn't happy. But instead of firing her butt on the spot, she says somewhat menacingly, "I'll see you on Monday!"
If it were real life instead of reality TV, a large man with a wire in his ear would have helped them all find the door.
It's a good thing reality TV has nothing to do with real life.