It was a bittersweet moment for Brad Pitt, walking through the Lower 9th Ward neighborhood where families were preparing to spend their first holidays since Hurricane Katrina.
Those families are moving into the first six houses built through Pitt's Make It Right foundation. One home was already strewn with green garland, lights, wreaths and red bows.
Still, Pitt is restless.
"I'm really happy for the families that are going to be here, but I can't help but think about the families that aren't," Pitt said Monday. "It's a push-pull for me. The excitement is that it's being proven, that it's working. The frustration is that we have a long way to go."
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It looks like "America's Next Top Model" will be back on the catwalk next season.
The CW is close to renewing the Tyra Banks-hosted reality competition series for a 13th cycle to air in fall 2009.
The news comes on the heels of the CW inking a deal with Warner Bros. Domestic TV Distribution to air Banks' daytime talk show, "The Tyra Banks Show," as an afternoon strip starting next fall.
The Cycle 11 finale of "Top Model" (4.8 million total viewers, 2.3 rating/7 share in adults 18-49), which aired Wednesday, was up 21 percent from the previous week to a season-high rating and also marked the show's largest audience since last year's finale. The show also ranked first in the 8-9 p.m. hour among adults 18-34 (2.8/9).
Cycle 12 of "Top Model" will air in the spring. Disney pumpkin patterns, Hollywood christmas parade 2008, David Beckham gay est straight man
I Was rooting for her!!!! Brooke Burke waltzed away with the mirror ball trophy on the "Dancing with the Stars" finale.
The 37-year-old TV personality and mother of four dominated the seventh season of the popular ABC dancing competition and bested former NFL player Warren Sapp and former 'NSync member Lance Bass during the Tuesday night finale, in which she reprised an emotional Viennese waltz routine that earned her a perfect score from the show's panel of judges.
"Unbelievable," was all Burke could muster after winning amid a flurry a confetti.
From the outset, the slinky former host of E!'s "Wild On" and CBS' "Rock Star" commanded the ballroom this season, coming in first place eight out of 10 times and receiving a 10 — the judges' top score — 16 times. Burke was crowned the latest "Dancing with the Stars" champion after the judges' scores — 88 out of 90 — were combined with viewers' votes.Britney Spears Rolling Stone Cover, On Prince William Penis expose, Shane Mercado Does Beyonce Single Ladies
Fashion designer Tom Ford is getting the cast in place for his long-awaited move into movies.
Colin Firth, Julianne Moore and Matthew Goode are set to star in "A Single Man," Ford's adaptation of a Christopher Isherwood novel.
Published in 1964, the novel centers on a gay man who, after the sudden death of his partner, is determined to persist in his usual routine, which is seen in the span of a single, ordinary day in southern California.
Firth is the gay man, an Englishman and professor who feels like an outsider in Los Angeles. Goode is the boyfriend who dies in a car accident and appears in flashbacks. Moore plays a friend of the professor.
Ford, who was recently ranked 12th in a list of the 49 men who most influenced the way other men thought, behaved and shopped, adapted the screenplay for the independently financed project with David Scearce.
Ford rose to the top of the fashion world with a 10-year run at Gucci, a period that turned around the fortunes of the Italian fashion house owned by France's PPR. Is there going to be a Princess Diaries 3, Prince George Phone Book, Is Prince Harry Gay, Maple private server
It's good to honour woman doing good deeds. Robin Roberts has been honored in New York for sharing her cancer treatment experience with millions of television viewers.
ABC's "Good Morning America" co-anchor accepted the 2008 Roswell Park Cancer Institute's Gilda Radner Courage Award on Saturday in Buffalo. The award is named for the late comedian and recognizes cancer patients whose public battles offer hope and raise awareness of the disease. Tenris Mirkblood
Roberts found out she had breast cancer in 2007.
She credited film critic Joel Siegel with making her mindful of the disease, which helped her detect her cancer early. Her former colleague died of colon cancer in 2007.
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Jennifer Hudson's mother, brother killed. This is really a sad story..The mother and brother of Academy Award-winning actress Jennifer Hudson were found shot to death in the mother's Chicago home on Friday, according to published reports.
The Chicago Tribune Web site quoted a police source as saying the suspect in the double homicide was in custody, but a 7-year-old boy, possibly Hudson's nephew, was still missing from the house on Chicago's South Side, where the victims were found. Police did not confirm the report or the names of the victims.
The Tribune said the Cook County Medical Examiner's office identified the victims as Hudson's mother, Darnell Donnerson, 57, and her brother Jason Hudson, 29.
Police said neighbors reported hearing shots in the area during the morning, but the bodies were not found until midafternoon.
"A missing child was possibly abducted from the scene ... and may be in the company of William Balfour, a suspect in the double homicide investigation," police said in a statement, adding that the man was "considered armed and dangerous." Chocolate Models, Tila Tequila NUDE, Vanessa Hudgens naked nude, shia labeouf nude, Miriam Defensor Santiago quote, Eliseo de la Paz Extortion
Miss Teen Louisiana lost her crown 11 days early after being arrested on charges of leaving a restaurant without paying and carrying marijuana. RPM Productions Inc., the sponsor, took back the title on Tuesday after learning that Lindsey Evans, 18, of Blanchard, had been arrested, president Paula M. Miles said Wednesday.
Evans will have to return her sash and crown, but won't have to return any other prizes or cash equivalents, Miles said.
"She's done a good job this year," Miles said.
A call to Evans' parents' house was not answered Wednesday.
Miles said she had been told that the three women with Evans told police that Evans, alone in the group, had paid her bill. But Bossier City spokesman Mark Natale said Evans admitted not paying.
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The acerbic American fashion critic known simply as Mr Blackwell, who invented the notorious annual
Worst-Dressed List and lampooned everyone from Zsa Zsa Gabor to Britney Spears, has died in Los Angeles.
Mr Blackwell, who rarely used his first name, Richard, was a failed Hollywood actor turned little-known dress designer when he issued his first tongue-in-cheek list of Hollywood fashion disasters for 1960 –
long before the likes of the blogger Perez Hilton turned such ridicule into a lucrative business. printable halloween stencils, free halloween sound effects, week 6,7,8,9,10 nfl power rankings, chocolate models
Aliens and astronauts loomed large over two of India's premier fashion shows just days before the country launches an unmanned mission to the moon.
Designer Prashant Verma was excited that his futuristic space-age collection was showcased on Sunday, ahead of the Wednesday launch of Chandrayaan-1, a spacecraft built by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO).
But he wasn't really worried that dresses made to resemble space suits and what looked like robotic arms might be difficult to carry off.
"Wearability is in the eye of the beholder," Verma said after his spring and summer collection for 2009 featured at the Wills Lifestyle India Fashion Week in New Delhi.
The young designer turned out his models in dresses with planet prints decorated with Swarovski crystals.
Verma's models, many sporting electric wires and crystals on their hands, walked the ramp as a recorded speech of former U.S. president John F. Kennedy, champion of the U.S. space effort, played in the background.
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One thing! Fabulouse! At par with the Vera! Badgley Mischka Bride represents the upper echelon of bridal couture, so it came as no surprise that their Spring 2009 collection, shown in New York on Sunday, Oct. 19, in the plush surrounds of the Jumeirah Essex House ballroom, pulled out all the wedding gown stops.
Couture details like all-over beading and embroidery, which are Badgley Mischka's signature both for bridal and in their ready-to-wear eveningwear, featured prominently in the collection, turning dresses into walking pieces of jewelry. Though Badgley Mischka operates firmly in the luxury end of the bridal market spectrum with plenty of customers for whom money is no object, such elaborate craftsmanship goes a long way in justifying the price tag of one of their gowns. Retail prices start at around $4500, while some gowns can cost $15,000 or more, according to Kleinfeld Bridal.
Not every gown catered to such all-out bling. For a lighter spring look, simple silk charmeuse slip gowns focused the embellishment with an empire waist beaded band. Another lightweight 6-ply crepe dress lined the neckline and straps with crystal embellishments. For those wanting to emphasize the back or the lower half of the gown, dramatic gathers created elegant, fairy-tale trains. Chantilly lace overlays offered a more traditional, almost pious effect, but the sexy bride was well-represented in this collection, with the majority of gowns featuring a glamorous low or plunging V-neckline.3 birmingham cardiac day diet, How long should you stay on the atkins diet, How is baby formed, Zac Efron nude naked Photo, Sarah Palin On SNL With Tina Fey, Kirsten Dunst, Jollibee Philippines, Philippines Sex Scandal, Cebuano Bisaya Philippines
