Lady Gaga, we all know, is no stranger to outlandish outfits. Perhaps the best-known piece in her tickle trunk is the dress of meat she famously zipped up and sported to the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards. Well, apparently, the meat has spoiled one group on the idea of raw beef as clothes.
According to Reuters, PETA India—which, judging by its location and ethical stance, is an organization doubly against killing cows for gowns—wrote a letter to Gaga’s publicist urging the pop star to promote vegetarianism… by wearing a dress made of lettuce.
Gaga is in New Delhi Sunday to perform at an after-party for the country’s first Formula 1 race.
“If she agrees, we’ll make her a dress entirely of lettuce and held together by pins and threads. It will be a full-length gown, and we’ll make sure it looks sexy,” PETA India’s Sachin Bangera told the news service. The dress would take an estimated five to six hours to be constructed leaf by leaf on Gaga’s body. “Someone will be on hand to spray the lettuce with water so that it doesn’t wilt.”
Someone else will be on hand with ranch and croutons.
Eccentric UK disc jockey and TV host Jimmy Savile has died, two days short of his 85th birthday.
THR reports that Savile, host of the BBC TV show Jim'll Fix It, and the first and last presenter of the long-running BBC chart show Top of the Pops, died at his home in northern England.
Metallica’s first concert in Delhi, India, was cancelled at the last minute on Friday - so angry fans decided to ransack the stage and gear and several people were reportedly injured in the fray.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the concert, which was part of Formula One's F1 Rocks festival and billed as the biggest music even of the year, was called off two hours before the metal legends were scheduled to take the stage. The organizers blamed "technical difficulties” and said the gig had been rescheduled for Saturday.
Fans are starting to look forward to The Black Keys videos almost as much as their music. For singer/guitarist Dan Auerbach and drummer Patrick Carney consistently shun music video clichés in favour of original concepts, more often than not served with a heaping spoonful of humour. Pretentious they are not.
Sounds like kind of an odd mix upon first glance, but Chris Martin and Co. covering Rihanna isn’t too much of a stretch when you consider that they’re all best buds with Jay-Z and that Rihanna lends her voice to Mylo Xyloto’s “Princess of China.”
Challenged with performing a song from another artist for BBC Radio 1’s Live Lounge, Coldplay completely transforms Rihanna’s thumpy, revved-up dance single, “We Found Love” into something different altogether. And there’s way more pianos.
It’s actually pretty cool. Funny how Martin can make the most mundane refrain sound so much more sensitive and thoughtful. Must be the accent.
Can someone explain to me why Italian TV show presenters are knocking off hats and grabbing crotches? Is something getting lost in the translation?
Boy George was in Rome, Italy, to attend the premiere of The Lady, a film about pro-democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi, when he was reportedly “left fuming” when a TV host knocked off his hat as a "prank."
According to Britain’s Express George was chatting with media on the red carpet “and stopped to speak to a presenter from the country's satirical show Le Iene, who knocked a flamboyant green hat off the singer's head.
“A red-faced Boy George quickly put his headwear back on, before reportedly leaning over to chastise the smirking culprit.”
The Beachwood man accused of burgling Jon Bon Jovi’s home is now accused of burgling again.
App.com reports that Nicholas J. Tracy, 21, who was charged with robbing Jon Bon Jovi’s riverside home in April, is being charged with burglary of another residence in Toms River, NJ.
The App says, “Officers were dispatched to the Whitty Road residence after the resident, who was home at the time, confronted the suspect on the second floor.
All five N Sync members were recently in the same room for the first time in five years.
So, is a full-on reunion in the offing? They said "Bye Bye Bye" in 2005, are they ready to say "Hi Hi Hi"? (HAHAHA! See what I did there? I am a GENIUS of wordplay.)
Probably not. After all, Justin Timberlake, now one of the coolest, most hardworking people on the planet, has no reason to reunite with his former boy band.
Fellow former member Lance Bass said last year it was JT’s busy schedule that was keeping the group, which split in 2005, from getting together. He told E! Online, "I don't see that coming anytime soon. Justin's very busy with his acting career right now so I think it's going to be quite a while before we even think about doing anything.”
The eighties star and father of Miley reportedly posted a photo of what country site The Boot calls an “unusual sunset.”
Billy Ray captioned the pic, "My first UFO sighting. Looks like 5 or 6 disk like shapes hovering. Special moment 4 DAD." This is a bit puzzling for me. Why "Special moment 4 DAD?" If my mom posted pics of aliens online and wrote “Special moment 4 MOM” it would worry me, you know? Maybe because she doesn’t go around calling herself “MOM,” but also because there seems to be something about it that suggests he means the aliens are his kids...I am probably totally misunderstanding him. Also, there’s a real possibility he’s joking, right?
There do appear to be some shadows in the red sky.
(Source: @billyraycyrus)
So, do those look like UFOs to you?
Billy Ray, 50-year-old father of six is currently promoting his new album of patriotic songs, 'I'm American,' which features a remake of his 'Some Gave All.'
This is what Steven Tyler looks like after slipping in the shower in Paraguay. Poor guy, but how can you not want to laugh? I love how happy he looks in this pic. I would look so very irritable.
In an interview with the Today show, Steven explained to Matt Lauer over the phone that he had come down with "Montezuma's revenge," (TMI, Steve) and then, "Frankly, I just passed out. I was in the shower and I got nauseous and I started to get sick and I just fell on my face. I just passed out and woke up with the water on.”
He also says that concerns he fell off the wagon rather than just in the shower are unnecessary. "I get that people think that,” he said. “It still bothers me a little, but it’s something that I have to deal with for the rest of my life.”
He was apparently able to perform his show with Aerosmith that night. “Not only did I break my face, but the next night, we broke the house record,” he said. “So, life is beautiful, man.”
And he signs off with "You can't handle the tooth." Ha! Dude.
September 2011
