RR Sights Trent Ford

Possessions actor Trent Ford riding his tricked-out bicycle on Melrose Avenue down Stanley Street. In Possessions, Orlando is dying. Resigned to his fate, all he wants is to be left alone with his alcohol and hermit crab. But his hopes of solitude are shattered when he is woken by Jean-Luc, an incessantly chatty Frenchman who happens to be a voice in his head. Now, in addition to cancer, Orlando must deal with Jean-Luc's never-ending questions and commentary, as well as the discovery that Jean-Luc is slowly taking over every sense of his body.

Trent Ford is repped by Christina King @ Pantheon Talent Group and managed by Christian Donatelli @ Benderspink.

Ruth Pastine @ Edward Cella Art + Architecture

A new series of artist Ruth Pastine's paintings - Limitless - is the new exhibition for the Fall 2009 season at Edward Cella Art + Architecture with an opening reception on Saturday, September 12 @ 5:00pm to 8:00pm @ 6018 Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles. Limitless is the "the evolution of Pastine's contemporary color-field work exploring the subtle character and nuance of color and the transitory nature of light."


Ruth Pastine

You can attend an artist talk with Ruth Pastine on Saturday, September 26 @ 2:00pm. The Limitless exhibition runs from Saturday, September 12 through Saturday, October 31.

Katherine Kanjo @ Edward Cella Art & Architecture

The Edward Cella Art & Architecture [ECAA] gallery has a new exhibition program of illustration lecture by Katherine Kanjo on Thursday, September 17 @ 7:00pm. Edward Cella Art & Architecture is located @ 6018 Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles and attendance is limited so RSVP @ director@edwardcella.com.


ECAA

Edward Cella Art & Architecture represents significant emerging and mid-careers artists. ECAA acquires and places quality post WWII and contemporary art and with a special and unique focus, presents drawings and projects by emerging and established architects and designers.

You can poke ECAA @ 323.525.0053 and director@edwardcella.com.

Alejandro Amenábar's Agora - 1st Look Trailer

The Chilean director Alejandro Amenábar of Thesis, Abre Los Ojos, The Others, and The Sea Inside is back with a new film - Agora about an Egyptian slave who turns to Christianity in the hopes of pursuing freedom while falling in love with his master, a philosopher and atheist. Agora trailer is here and the film stars Rachel Weisz, Ashraf Barhoum, Oscar Isaac, Homayoun Ershadi, Max Minghella, Yousef Sweid, Sami Samir, Rupert Evans, Michael Lonsdale, Richard Durden, Omar Mostafa and Oshri Cohen.



Agora opens in Spain on Wednesday, September 2 and scheduled to be shown @ Toronto International Film Festival's Gala Presentations on September 10-19.

George Clooney's The Men Who Stare @ Goats

The Overture Films clan released the first-look trailer of actor-morphed-Producer-slash-director Grant Heslov's The Men Who Stare at Goats starring his friend and Smoke House partner George Clooney, Ewan McGregor, Kevin Spacey, Jeff Bridges, Rebecca Mader, Stephen Lang and Terry Serpico. When we were at 2008 Santa Film Festival covering their daily news, Heslov was shooting the film and New Mexico was a buzz about Clooney and upon watching the trailer the buzz was warranted.



The Men Who Stare at Goats hits theaters on Friday, November 6 and based on author Jon Ronson's book of the same name. It tells the story of a secret unit within the US Army called the First Earth Battalion, whose paranormal military ideas mutated over the decades to influence interrogation techniques at Guantanamo Bay.

George Clooney and Grant Heslov's Smoke House has a development and production deal with Sony Pictures Entertainment.

Ryan McGinley's Blood Falls @ Moonmilk

Art pixer Ryan McGinley shot another series of photos - Moonmilk - that convey cinematic detail and yet includes his where's waldo nude-esque quest. The Blood Falls piece [below] has a David Bowie slash Ziggy Stardust motif to it, with the red blood cell detail.


Ryan McGinley

Enjoy the other Moonmilk pieces @ ryanmcginley.com and tinyvices.com.

The Breakfast Club @ The Montalbán

I've received announcements in the past for Flux screenings @ Nike Sportswear @ The Montalbán and was always unable to attend. But today I made an effort and trekked over to John Hughes Flux ceremonial showing, and was thrilled I opted to do so. It was really cool seeing 80s The Breakfast Club on the big screen. Thanks to Flux for the tix and a big thanks to actor Daniel Schwartz for kicking it with us and his hospitality.


Universal Pictures

The Nike Sportswear at The Montalbán is located @ 1615 Vine Street in Hollywood, California. You can follow Flux's Twitter [@helloflux] for their kick arse events and news.

Christopher Nolan's Inception - Trailer

Jesus Christ, director Christopher Nolan shoots fast, he's currently in production shooting the Leonardo DiCaprio slash architect of the mind film - Inception - and they've got a teaser trailer already. Enjoy the contemporary science fiction tale set within the architecture of the human mind formerly known as Oliver's Arrow and re-titled as Inception trailer below.



Inception hits theaters on Friday, July 16, 2010 and shooting on locations at London, and Bedfordshire [England, UK], Calgary [Canada], Los Angeles [California, USA], Paris [France], Tangiers [Morocco] and Tokyo [Japan]. Christopher Jonathan James Nolan is repped by Dan Aloni and Stuart Manashil @ Creative Artists Agency (CAA), attorney Michael Schenkman @ Bloom Hergott Diemer Rosenthal LaViolette Feldman & Goodman, LLP and publicist BeBe Lerner @ I/D Public Relations.

Reserve Result (RR) @ Flickr

I've posted some exclusive and copyright photos on Flickr that you might enjoy, so click on the snapshot below to oogle the pix. The photos were shot with Fuji Instax 200 Film Camera, Polaroid 210 Land Camera and Polaroid 600.


Reserve Result (RR)

Quam Odunsi is the writer/director of Borland and Kissed By Season, and currently working on his new feature film - theory.

Joshua Paul & Felipe Dupouy @ The Icon

The wunderkind pixers Joshua Paul and Felipe Dupouy exhibition is coming to Clark | Oshin Gallery at Ramesh Venugopal's The Icon located at 5450 Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles, California [90036] @ 323.933.1666. The opening reception of Joshua Paul's Arctic and Felipe Dupouy's Downtown Los Angeles Bird exhibit is scheduled to kick off @ 6:00pm to 9:00pm on Saturday, September 19 and the exhibition runs through Saturday, November 14.


Felipe Dupouy

To oogle Joshua Paul and Felipe Dupouy photographs and read up on them, visit The Icon - the premiere full-service photo film and digital lab featuring exceptional museum quality printing - on Mondays through Fridays @ 7:00am to 9:00pm and Saturdays @ 9:00pm to 5:00pm @ 5450 Wilshire Boulevard with FREE parking on Cochran Avenue behind The Icon.

Clark | Oshin Gallery is directed by Kathleen Clark and Nan Oshin and you can poke them @ IconLA.com and clark.oshingallery@gmail.com.

RR Sights Erika Christensen

Mercy and NBC Television's Parenthood star Erika Christensen and friends attend the screening of Fight Club @ Ryan Reiter's Hollywood Outdoor Cinema.

Director Patrick Hoelck's Mercy: Jonnny, a cynical but successful novelist who writes about love but doesn't believe in it, falls in love himself, for the first time. Erika Jane Christensen is repped by Sarah Clossey, Nancy Gates and David Guillod @ United Talent Agency (UTA), manager Daniel Sussman @ Brillstein Entertainment Partners and publicist Megan Moss @ I/D Public Relations.

James Cameron's Avatar - 1st Look Trailer

If you were one of many that didn't win tickets to attend director James Cameron's Avatar trailer viewing event at IMAX theaters all over the country, you're in luck. It's available on the web now, and watch it below and leave your comments. Avatar hits theaters on Friday, December 18.



In Avatar, Sam Worthington's ex-Marine Jake Sully finds himself thrust into hostilities on an alien planet filled with exotic life forms. As an Avatar, a human mind in an alien body, he finds himself torn between two worlds, in a desperate fight for his own survival and that of the indigenous people.

Weekend Pacifists @ Subliminal Projects

The curating cohorts at Shepard Fairey's Subliminal Projects have assemble art works - Weekend Pacifists - by Andy Jenkins, Michael Myers, Chris Pastras, Russ Pope and Michael Sieben whose modern lives and works infuses and overlaps the skateboarding and low-fi art world throughout the better part of the last two decades. Andy Jenkins, Michael Myers, Chris Pastras, Russ Pope and Michael Sieben's work embodies whimsy and social politics as united voices of an unique generation.

Weekend Pacifists exhibit opens on Saturday, August 22 at Subliminal Projects at 8pm to 11pm. Subliminal Projects is located @ 1331 W. Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, California [90026] @ 213.213.078.



Weekend Pacifists opens on Saturday, August 22 through Saturday, September 19 @ Subliminal Projects. And here are the artists' interpretations of their Weekend Pacifists entitlement:

Andy Jenkins: I work a regular schedule during the week and it's anything but passive. On the weekend I become passive, as my personal work steers me around by the hands.

Michael Myers: To me, the 'Weekend Pacifists' is about the feeling of hope and renewal that happens weekend after weekend. The weekend pacifist is about comaraderie, spirituality, gratefulness, and the quest for being content in the now and for the week ahead.

Chris Pastras: I'm a pacifist who loves the weekend, so I guess I fit the bill pretty well.

Russ Pope: Weekend Pacifists? Pacified by the weekend on a weekly basis. Good Stuff. Living everyday like it's a weekend, not saving the good times for two days a week.

Michael Sieben: Weekend Warriors is an album by Ted Nugent that was released in 1978. It's also a term used to describe people who follow their passions on the weekend. The phrase 'Weekend Pacifists' describes an individual who is dedicated to their passion full time thus leaving the weekend open to relaxing or taking a break from the war. Hopefully that doesn't sound too pretentious

Mr. Brainwash Releases Maxspray @ London

The Los Angeles street artist Mr. Brainwash MBW [Thierry Guetta] release a new print - Maxspray - that can purchase at his solo show in London and mrbrainwash.com. The $450 priced 38" by 18" five-color Maxspray screen print is individually hand finished with spray paint, unique, signed, numbered with thumb MBW print on the back. There are edition of 75 with 40 available.



Look out for four more exclusive prints to be release later this week and hit up MBW and his working co-horts @ P.O. Box 481203 Los Angeles, California 90048.

Gerard Butler's Law Abiding Citizen - Trailer

The new trailer of director F. Gary Gray's Law Abiding Citizen has landed and the thriller film stars Gerard Butler, Jamie Foxx, Michael Gambon, Leslie Bibb, Colm Meaney, heresa Randle, Viola Davis, Bruce McGill, Regina Hall, Michael Irby and Christian Stolte. Law Abiding Citizen hits theaters on Friday, October 16.



Gerard Butler's Clyde Shelton is an upstanding family man whose wife and daughter are brutally murdered during a home invasion. When the killers are caught, Nick Rice, a hotshot young Philadelphia prosecutor, is assigned to the case. Over his objections, Nick is forced by his boss to offer one of the suspects a light sentence in exchange for testifying against his accomplice. Fast forward ten years. The man who got away with murder is found dead and Clyde Shelton coolly admits his guilt. Then he issues a warning to Nick: Either fix the flawed justice system that failed his family, or key players in the trial will die. Soon Shelton follows through on his threats, orchestrating from his jail cell a string of spectacularly diabolical assassinations that can be neither predicted nor prevented. Philadelphia is gripped with fear as Shelton's high-profile targets are slain one after another and the authorities are powerless to halt his reign of terror. Only Nick can stop the killing, and to do so he must outwit this brilliant sociopath in a harrowing contest of wills in which even the smallest misstep means death. With his own family now in Shelton’s crosshairs, Nick finds himself in a desperate race against time facing a deadly adversary who seems always to be one step ahead.

Judi Ann Mason's How Katrina Plays - Thursday, September 10

A must-see Judi Ann Mason play - How Katrina Plays - about the ostracity of Hurricane Katrina, its broken levees, victims and their devastating stories as told to Judi Ann's late brother, BJ Mason, who died helping the Katrina victims relocate - arrives in Los Angeles and opens on Thursday, September 10 @ Write Act Repertory . Judi Ann Mason - who died of ruptured aorta on Wednesday, July 8 at the young age of 54 - was a playwright and prolific writer of Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit, Good Times, A Different World, Sanford, Beverly Hills 90210, I'll Fly Away, Storm Stories and A Star Ain't Nothin' But A Hole In Heaven. With over 25 plays under her belt, Mason believed the celebratory content of Black History Month's black experience happens daily and was reflective in her work.


HowKatrinaPlays.org

To read more about the life of Judi Ann Mason, visit NYTimes.com, Time.com, HowKatrinaPlays.org and WriteActRep.org.

How Katrina Plays runs Thursday, September 10 through Saturday, October 24 @ 8pm on Thursdays through Saturdays. You can purchase your $25 General Admission tickets and $20 Seniors / Students / Groups: Discount Rate tickets at the Box Office which opens @ 7:30pm.


Writers Guild of America (WGA)

Write Act Repertory Theatre is located at 6128 Yucca Avenue in Hollywood, California 90028 @ 323.469.3113. The theatre is between Franklin and Hollywood Boulevard: off Highway 101 Gower Exit, 2 blocks East of Vine and Capitol Records Building.

Free parking in Write Act Repertory Theatre lot at 6125 Carlos Street, and enter on the corner of Gower Avenue and Carlos Street.

RR Sights Soleil Moon Frye [Planet Sheen]

The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron's spinoff Planet Sheen star Soleil Moon Frye, husband-producer Jason Goldberg and their children heading to lunch @ American Tag row on La Brea and 2nd Street in Los Angeles.

In Planet Sheen, one of Jimmy Neutron's friends borrows a rocket and ends up on a different planet where he must adjust to the local inhabitants and their customs. Soleil Moon Frye is repped by Michael Goldman, Danis Panaro Nist and Management 360.

Bipolar @ Exhibit A Gallery - Saturday, August 29

The curating team of Tony Alva's Exhibit A Gallery have done it again, with a new upcoming exhibition - Bipolar - featuring artists Sas Christian, Nate Frizzell, Bigfoot, James Naccarato, Allison Sommers, Mike Maxwell, Tim Biskup, Melissa Haslam, Mimi Knoop, Jenn Porreca, Tiffany Liu, Farel Dalrymple and special guest artists Pan, Karen Lovuk and Giza. The Bipolar exhibit opens on Saturday, August 29 with musical guest Black Veil Brides.



Exhibit A Gallery will gift FIFTY swag bags to the first FIFTY guests, do a drawing to win Black Veil Brides' signed Fender Stratocaster enclosed in a coffin case [from their Knives and Pens music video], and sounds by Danzig and D Generation's DJ Howie Pyro.

Exhibit A Gallery Presents Bipolar is sponsor by Emily Strange, Jarritos, Dstroyr Clothing, Transphusion, Sullen Clothing, GelaSkins, Nick Alexander MINI, Draven Shoes, Coffin Cases, Hansen Cakes, Kill City and Archie's Ice Cream. And food catering by Sandwich Shop L[os] A[ngeles].

Exhibit A Gallery's Bipolar artwork launches on Saturday, August 29 @ 7pm till 11pm @ 1086 S. Fairfax Avenue in Los Angeles, California [90019]. And you can RSVP @ exhibitagallery.com.

Brad Pitt/Mayor of New Orleans @ Today Show - Video

The Today show co-host Ann Curry interviews Brad Pitt to discuss his on-going progress with his Make It Right housing project in New Orleans. And she turns the talk into his political aspiration, by presenting a tee-shirt with slogan: Brad Pitt For Mayor. Pitt respectively declined by replying "Yeah, I'm runing on the gay marriage, no religion, legalization and taxation of marijuana platform," and adds "I don't have a chance."



Brad Pitt is repped by Kevin Huvane, Jon Levin and Bryan Lourd @ Creative Artists Agency (CAA), attorney Alan Hergott @ Bloom Hergott Diemer Rosenthal LaViolette & Feldman, LLP and manager Cynthia Pett-Dante @ Brillstein Entertainment Partners.

Director Quentin Tarantino and Brad Pitt's Inglourious Basterds hits theaters on Friday, August 21.

Agyness Deyn's Michael Jackson @ Harper's Bazaar

The ageless Model Agyness Deyn channels Michael Jackson in Harper's Bazaar September 2009 tribute issue, highlighting the King of Pop's style. In the special subscriber-only collector issue, Michael Jackson is featured in 6-page spread with Agyness Dein portraying King of Pop's iconic outfits and special moments through the years.



The Harper's Bazaar issue hits newsstands on Tuesday, August 18th. Gossip Girl actress Leighton Meester is on the cover of the newsstand version.

Megan Fox's Jennifer's Body - Public Service Announcement

Megan Fox delivers a Jennifer's Body public service announcement spot in lieu of the traditional movie promotion avenue or Will Ferrell's Funny or Die spots. Megan warns high schooler of the cruelty of teens and peer pressure. Jennifer's Body opens nationwide in theaters on Friday, September 18.



Megan Denise Fox is repped by Lorrie Bartlett, Carol Goll, Chuck James and Nathan Ross @ International Creative Management, attorney Deborah Klein @ Jackoway Tyerman Wertheimer Austen Mandelbaum Morris & Klein, publicist Dominique Appel @ Baker/Winokur/Ryder and voice-over agency Danis Panaro Nist.

RR Sights Bokeem Woodbine

Turner Network Television's Saving Grace actor Bokeem Woodbine chumping on his cigar while shopping @ Ralphs Fresh Fare @ 260 S. La Brea Boulevard in Los Angeles.

Bokeem Woodbine is repped by Carlos Gonzalez @ Gersh Agency @ 9465 Wilshire Boulevard 6th Floor in Beverly Hills, Calfornia 90212.

Heidi Montag Humps Playboy

MTV's The Hills and songbird Heidi Montag graces the cover and pages of Playboy September 2009 issue and also featuring an Inglourious Basterds graphic novel by director Quentin Tarantino. Spencer Pratt conducted the Montag Q&A and here are blog excerpts from the Playboy spread -



On sex with husband Spencer: I was never very sexual before I met Spencer... Before [Spencer], sex was just something that happened. Now it's something I look forward to every minute of the day. I feel as if I'm just beginning to know my body with [Spencer]. [He's] waking me up to what's possible, and it makes me want to try every new thing, doing it all kinds of ways – indoors, outdoors, upside down.

On plastic surgery: When I was shopping for my boobs, I wanted the best, so I sat down and flipped through a bunch of Playboys.

On future plastic surgery: I plan to get a few more upgrades... I'm sure as I get older I'll need some touch-ups. I'm definitely not done with my surgical quest. I think I want to go bigger on my boobs for [Spencer]. Let's do [another Playboy photo shoot] again when I get the upgrades.

Spencer's hot take on the Playboy spread: I wanted to shut down production after every outfit change so I could enjoy [Heidi] all to myself.

New York, I Love You - Trailer

I love Autumn picture selections - some of my fav films - that I've been anticipating are finally here - rolling out to a theater near you. I was obessed with Paris, Je T'aime anthology short films and now the trailer of the next adored city - New York, I Love You - is here. I can't wait to see New York, I Love You, enjoy the new trailer released by Vivendi Entertainment -



New York, I Love You is a collective work of twelve short films shot by renowned international directors in each of the city's five boroughs, with the theme of finding love being interwoven between each of the five minute stories.



New York, I Love You stars Natalie Portman, Orlando Bloom, Shia LaBeouf, Julie Christie, John Hurt, Hayden Christensen, Rachel Bilson, Chris Cooper, Drea De Matteo, Ethan Hawke, Kevin Bacon, Olivia Thirlby, Carlos Acosta, Justin Bartha, Bradley Cooper, Irfan Khan, Cloris Leachman, Blake Lively, Emilie Ohana, Maggie Q, Shu Qi, Eli Wallach, Saul Williams, Robin Wright Penn, Anton Yelchin, Ugur Yucel, James Caan, Christina Ricci, Carla Gugino and Goran Visnjic and directed by Zach Braff, Mira Nair, Park Chan-wook, Yvan Attal, Wang Xiaoshuai, Emanuele Crialese, Andrei Zvyagintsev, Allen Hughes, Albert Hughes, Joshua Marston, Fatih Akin, Jiang Wen, Brett Ratner, Randall Balsmeyer, Shunji Iwai, Shekhar Kapur, Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johansson.

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus - Trailer

It's here - finally - the trailer of director Terry Gilliam's The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. The trailer conveys the central story and a peek into Heath Ledger's Tony character and Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrell as Imaginarium Tony #1, #2 and #3 respectively. Check out the embed video below, it's a must-see film -



In The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, a traveling magician sells his daughter to the devil in exchange for a life of extraordinary powers.

RR Sights Jon Heder [Comedy Central - IT Series]

Jon Heder spotted grocery shopping @ Jons Marketplace [Store #16] @ 12122 Magnolia Boulevard in North Hollywood, California. His beautiful wife - Kirsten and two kids wait in their Honda in the parking lot, while Jon shops.

Comedy Central have ordered 10 episodes of Jon Heder Information Technology television series about an IT specialist has to move back in with his parents and younger brother when he loses his job. The series is executive produced by Will Ferrell, Adam McKay and Chris Henchy. An additional 90 episodes will be automatically picked up, if the first 10 episodes yield solid ratings.

Jon Heder is repped by Dave Bugliari and Gregory McKnight @ Creative Artists Agency (CAA) and managers Julie Darmody and Jimmy Miller @ Mosaic.

RR Sights Mr. Brainwash MBW [Thierry Guetta]

I spotted graffiti artist Mr. Brainwash MBW [Thierry Guetta] walking and talking on his cell - on La Brea Avenue.

On June 17th of 2008 - Mr. Brainwash held his Life is Beautiful exhibition @ CBS Studios in Hollywood, Calfornia and you can see pix @ WireImage.com.

Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant - Trailer

Director Paul Weitz's Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant - based on the popular children's book series by author Darren Shan - release kick arse 1st look trailer. Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant shadow creeps into theaters on Friday, October 23. Check out First Showing's embed video below -



In Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant, a boy unknowingly breaks a 200-year-old truce between two warring factions of vampires. Pulled into a fantastic life of misunderstood sideshow freaks and grotesque creatures of the night, one teen will vanish from the safety of a boring existence and fulfill his destiny in a place drawn from nightmares. 14-year-old Darren was like most kids in his suburban neighborhood. He hung out with his best friend, got decent grades and usually stayed out of trouble. But when he and his buddy stumble upon a traveling freak show, things begin to change inside Darren. That’s the exact moment when a vampire named Larten Crepsley turns him into something, well, bloodthirsty.

Paul Weitz is repped by George Freeman, Danny Gabai, David Lubliner and David Wirtschafter @ WME Entertainment and attorney Alex Kohner @ Morris, Yorn, Barnes & Levine.

Ben Stiller Goes Online - Funny Video

Ben Stiller and his Red Hour Films company go online - joining facebook and twitter - and delivers a funny video, introducing his avatar family. Check out the LOL video below -



Benjamin Edward Stiller is repped by Nick Stevens and Sharon Sheinwold @ WME Entertainment, publicist Liz Mahoney @ I/D Public Relations and managers Bruce Ramer and Lawrence Rose @ Gang, Tyre, Ramer & Brown. You can stalk Stiller @ www.facebook.com/benstiller and www.twitter.com/redhourben.

Kid Cudi & Artist Augor @ Complex - Video

The Cleveland native Scott Mescudi aka rapper Kid Cudi graces the cover and pages of Complex's 5th Annual Design & Style issue, and embeds himself in artist Augor's abstract illustrations. Kid Cudi and Augor talk about the process on this behind-the-scene video -



Here are blog excerpts from Joe La Puma's Kid Cudi: Where The Wild Things Are article:

Did you ever have an experience with a groupie that backs that up?: There was a moment when I was at this club and I was getting attention from all these chicks. At one point one was talking and gazing into my eyes all beautiful and shit—so fuckin' hot—and all of a sudden it seemed like time slowed down and everything got muffled, and in my brain I was just like, "This girl is the devil." And I immediately got up and wanted to leave. I was kinda tripping balls anyway. [Laughs.]


Matt Doyle & Augor's Illustration

You played me an outtake, which has to be the first love song I’ve ever heard about tripping on mushrooms with a girl: One of my co-workers asked me over to smoke, and she ended up persuading me to do 'shrooms. We popped a couple of caps, and the next thing you know we're listening to The Postal Service and all this real emotional music. We just vibed out; it was intense. I wanted to make a song for girls without it sounding like A Song For Girls, you know? There need to be songs that females can connect with, because I love all women. Not like the average dude that loves women ’cause they like to fuck; I just love women as a whole. I love them, not just the fact that they have vaginas.



Speaking of your grind, when did you decide to move to New York?: I was working at this restaurant in Cleveland. There was this white dude in his 40s who was cool as shit and would tell me, "You're funny and people like you. You need to move the fuck out of Ohio and just do this." My uncle told me I could come out there and stay with him in the South Bronx until I got on my feet. I'd never met him; this was my father's older brother, the last of my father’s siblings, so I wanted to make that connection anyway. I moved in 2004 with my little demo and maybe $500.

The 5th Annual Complex Design & Style issue is available in store and newsstands now.

Farrah Fawcett & Michael Jackson @ Vanity Fair

Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson co-grace the cover and pages of Vanity Fair September 2009 splitting issues. The posthumous interviews were complied from Michael and Farrah vintage interviews and from their friends and family. The two Vanity Fair's cover stories September 2009 issue hit newsstands in New York and Los Angeles on Wednesday, August 5 and nationally on Tuesday, August 11. And here are some blog snippets -



As for reality, do you still enjoy meeting your fans?: I enjoy all that sometimes, seeing people who love me, or buy my records. I think it's fun, and I enjoy meeting my fans and I think it's important. But sometimes people think you owe your life to them; they have a bad attitude, like 'I made you who you are.' That may be true—but not that one person. Sometimes you have to say to them, If the music wasn’t good, you wouldn't have bought it. Because some of them think they actually own you.

On MJ's declaration in 1984 that the original mix of Thriller had sounded like crap: Oh, it was terrible. And I cried at the listening party. I said, I'm sorry—we can't release this. I called a meeting with Quincy [Jones], and everybody at the [record] company was screaming that we had to have it out and there was a deadline, and I said, I'm sorry, I'm not releasing it. I said, It's terrible. So we re-did a mix a day. Like a mix a day. And we rested two days, then we did a mixing. We were overworked, but it all came out O.K.

To read more of Lisa Robinson's Michael Jackson: The Boy Who Would Be King interview, visit VanityFair.com.



Fawcett had always been more complicated than the clichés, the realities of her life far darker than the sunny image she projected. The gap between her public image and private reality was wide: I'm always more comfortable when I have on hardly any make-up, my hair is brown and I'm very unattractive.

To read more on Leslie Bennetts' Farrah Fawcett and Ryan O'Neal: Beautiful People, Ugly Choices, VanityFair.com.

Boy Interrupted - Evan Perry Documentary

I have been anticipating HBO's Boy Interrupted documentary for some time now, and finally watched it tonight and my God, even though, I didn't know 15-year-old Evan Perry and his deceased uncle Scott Perry, I learned from their untimely deaths about depression and a part of me will forever ache for them and their loved ones. You must see Boy Interrupted, it's a required appointment television at its best. HBO is knocking it out of the park lately, with their documentaries - Le Cirque, Teddy: In His Own Words, et cetera. To tweet Evan's parents and filmmakers - Hart & Dana Perry, visit twitter.com/BoyIntFilm.



Boy Interrupted: From a very young age, Evan Perry was obsessed with death. At 15, he committed suicide. Produced and directed by his mother, Dana Perry, this heartbreaking film delves into the complexity of Evan's disease and shares the story of a family's worst nightmare. The result is a wrenching chronicle of Evan's struggle with bipolar disorder and the impact of his suicide as seen through the family's photos, extensive personal video footage and interviews.

To watch Boy Interrupted, see the program schedule @ hbo.com.

Chris Rock's Good Hair - Trailer

When I was younger and living in Chi-town housing projects with my uncle slash cousin's wife and step-kids, all the housing project kids had jehri curls and I wanted one so bad, but only the super-cool and alpha-male could pull off a black-perm. Jeff Stilson and Chris Rock's Good Hair documentary explores African-Americans and the process of perming their hair straight.

Good Hair is the winner of the U.S. Documentary Special Jury Prize @ the 2009 Sundance Film Festival and chekc out the new trailer below -



When Chris Rock's daughter, Lola, came up to him crying and asked, "Daddy, how come I don't have good hair?" the bewildered comic committed himself to search the ends of the earth and the depths of black culture to find out who had put that question into his little girl's head. Rock visits hair salons and styling battles, scientific laboratories, and Indian temples to explore the way black hairstyles impact the activities, pocketbooks, sexual relationships, and self-esteem of black people. Celebrities such as Ice-T, Kerry Washington, Nia Long, Paul Mooney, Raven Symoné, Maya Angelou, and Reverend Al Sharpton all candidly offer their stories and observations to Rock while he struggles with the task of figuring out how to respond to his daughter's question. What he discovers is that black hair is a big business that doesn't always benefit the black community and little Lola's question might well be bigger than his ability to convince her that the stuff on top of her head is nowhere near as important as what is inside.

Chris Rock is repped by Carol Goll, Steve Levine and Edward Yablans @ International Creative Management, attorney Stephen Barnes @ Morris, Yorn, Barnes & Levine, publicist Leslie Sloane Zelnik @ Baker/Winokur/Ryder and animation voice-over agency @ Danis Panaro Nist.

Jeff Stilson is repped by Ted Miller @ Creative Artists Agency (CAA) and attorney Jon Moonves @ Del, Shaw, Moonves, Tanaka, Finkelstein & Lezcano.

RR Sights Jon Abrahams

The Who Do You Love talented actor Jon Abrahams was among well-wishers celebrating photographer Patrick Hoelck's The Polaroid Hotel art exhibition @ Thompson Hotel in Beverly Hills.

Jon Abrahams is repped by Chuck James and Carol Goll @ International Creative Management, attorney Deborah Klein @ Jackoway Tyerman Wertheimer Austen Mandelbaum Morris & Klein and manager Lisa Suzanne Blum @ Modus Entertainment.