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Glamour Magazine on Monday announced its annual “Women of the Year” awards, and actress Nicole Kidman, Sen. Hillary Clinton, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and child bride Nujood Ali were among the 10 extraordinary and inspirational winners. For women, the night was bigger than the Oscars, the Emmys and the Grammys combined. If you combined all those awards with the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony, then you might have a sense of what it felt like to attend the 19th Annual Glamour Women of the Year Awards, held Monday night, Nov. 10, at Carnegie Hall, one of New York’s architectural splendors.
The ten women Glamour has chosen this year include Nicole Kidman, Hillary Clinton, Condoleezza Rice, Tyra Banks, Chanel luxury brand chief executive Maureen Chiquet, Misty May-Treanor, Jane Goodall, Nujood Ali, Kerri Walsh and Kara Walker. Read more of Women of the Year Honored by Glamour

Ruslana Korshunova, the Russian supermodel who gave up her life by jumping down from her ninth-floor Manhattan apartment on Saturday “felt confused about the direction of her life,” media quoted her ex-boyfriend as saying on Tuesday. Police said they were investigating her death as possible suicide. There were no signs of a struggle in the flat in which she had lived for two months, but a hole had been ripped in the construction netting that covered the balcony from which she apparently fell.
What made the model known as the “Russian Rapunzel” jump out of a window this weekend?

The coverage of the suicide of model Ruslana Korshunova, however, has one minor irritant that needs to be pointed out. Ruslana Korshunova, a 20-year-old native of Kazakhstan, a cover girl for French Elle and Russian Vogue, had lost a lot of weight in the last month and had trouble balancing her personal life and her demanding work schedule, her ex-boyfriend told the paper. Read more of Ruslana Korshunova, The Confused Russian Supermodel

Michelle Obama’s recent TV appearance on ABC’s gabfest “The View” apparently struck a chord with many viewers, and not just because of her friendly fist-bumps and sparkling conversation. When the show’s audience saw her breezy, black-and-white, high-waisted print dress designed by Ricco, they had to have it. Virtually overnight, the dress all but sold out at the White House/Black Market boutiques that sell it for an affordable $148.
“In the last few days we’ve sold probably about 12 — which is a lot,” said Kathy Wajeeh, a sales associate for White House/Black Market in the Galleria. As of Friday morning, the Galleria store had only two of the $148 dresses left.

Tall, poised and elegant, Ms. Obama is emerging as a new high-profile clotheshorse upon which designers and retailers are pinning their hopes. While the word “Camelot” has been bandied about when discussing the sartorial projections of Ms. Obama — fueled in part by the 1950s flip hairdo that she sometimes favors — her style sensibility is expected to have broad appeal. Read more of Get Michelle Obama’s dress, Trendsetter!

Gay men and straight women share some characteristics in the area of the brain responsible for emotion, mood and anxiety, a new study finds. Swedish researchers have found that some physical attributes of the homosexual brain resemble those found in the opposite sex, according to an article published online (June 16) in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Their research has found that the right and the left hemispheres are almost exactly the same size in both groups. They say scans show that gay men and heterosexual women have similar wiring in parts of the brain that control emotional reactions. Specifically, key brain structures in homosexuals which govern “mood, anxiety and aggressiveness” resemble those in heterosexuals of the opposite sex - something likely to have been “forged” in the womb and not the result of later learning processes. Read more of Likenesses in Gay Men and Heterosexual Women Brains, Study Finds

New first lady Michelle Obama is a young, stylish, beautiful and successful corporate attorney from humble south-side-of-Chicago beginnings. The Democratic hopeful says she runs their life with a “general’s efficiency” and constantly reminds him he is a mere mortal whose snoring drives her crazy. She gives him hell for dropping his dirty socks on the bedroom floor and failing to put the rubbish out.
The pretty 44-year-old seems too good to be true. She is feisty, opinionated and - aside from a couple of sarcastic comments about her husband’s smelly breath when he wakes up - has yet to put a foot wrong.

While it’s not often that Michelle Obama and Barbara Bush appear in the same sentence, there are those who think that, as Barack Obama’s historic candidacy powers along, his wife seems to be borrowing from the playbook of the wife of Bush 41 and mother of Bush 43. Michelle Obama’s fashion sensibility also figures prominently in a Sunday commentary by the Washington Post’s Robin Givhan (a Pulitzer Prize winner who caused a stir last summer with a controversial column on Hillary Clinton). Read more of Michelle Obama, Sweet Fashion Sense to Win

Miley Cyrus has gained a lot of attention over the past several months with a seriers of racy photos. Playboy’s octogenarian boss Hugh Hefner has said he is interested in having Miley Cyrus in his adult magazine when she will turn 18. “Sure, she’d be welcomed in the magazine,” he told Extra. “Very pretty lady.” I wonder how Disney feels about this overture. No stranger to controversy, Hefner made a similar plea to Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen before they turned eighteen, but the twins took a pass. I assume Miley Cyrus will do the same.

The invitation comes after the release of Vanity Fair photos showing the 15-year-old clad only in a satin sheet with her back exposed. The images sparked considerable controversy and led to an apology from the young singer. “I think to make such a big to do over something as innocent as those photos, I think is a reflection on how schizophrenic America is about sexuality,” said Hefner. Hef said the Olsen twins, naked, together, is every young man’s fantasy, but the bobble heads passed.

Meanwhile, Disney Channel’s “Hannah Montana” star Cyrus insists that she is nothing like the girl portrayed in the controversial Vanity Fair magazine pictures, and she makes more “modest” fashion choices in real life. Read more of Playboy’s Hugh Hefner wants Miley Cyrus to Pose

Gossip Girl is TV drama version of popular book series, which have same title on CWTV. This drama focused on specific demographic markets: teens and young adults. So, it gives the viewers an elite private school in New York City’s teenager community with their world of privileged. The novel of Gossip Girl is written by Cecily von Ziegesar and on the drama TV, its directed by Mark Piznarski who’s also worked on Veronica Mars and Everwood drama series.
Some drama viewers said on their blogs that Gossip Girl on The CW becomes new phenomenon of teenager drama since the Dawson Creek saw on TV last nine years ago.
As always happened on the new films or television dramas, Gossip Girl also gets some critics from press column media. Zap2It, on their column write that premiere episode of “Gossip Girl” is a fairly faithful adaptation of the first book in the series and have poor of improvisation. In another column, Newsday said that Gossip Girl -the TV version- fails in its depiction of alcohol consumption. Read more of CW for Gossip Girl TV Show

Kristin Davis, popularly known as Charlotte York of Sex and the City has reportedly been snapped in her very own celebrity sex tape. But later she denies that she is in the naked sex photos that have been circulating the Internet. The so called sex tape alledgedly captures the alleged Sex (Tape) And The City star in a somewhat of a private act’!
The scandal was started last week when nude pictures of a woman resembling Davis. Websites have posted the pics and asked viewers to judge if it is or is not Davis. Most believe it was her. Kristin Davis naked pictures are supposedly from her relationship over 15 years ago. The photos show the woman in very compromising positions, including performing a sexual act on the man with the camera.
However the whole stunt is rumoured to be a marketing ploy for the up and coming Sex and City movie, which is due to hit cinemas in May. Good news for Kristin, bad news for those who thought Kristin would join the other Sex Tape celebrities Paris Hilton, Kim Kardashian and Pamela Anderson.

But one goo thing happened, that publicity may have at least brought in some cash to charity. Just like fellow actress Scarlett Johansson, Kristin Davis also put herself up for auction on Ebay to help raise money for Oxfam America. The adorable starlet was auctioned off and thanks to her newfound and unwelcome fame is now the queen of the eBay auction. Read more of How Popular is Kristin Davis?