“Mad Men” resident bombshell Christina Hendricks is featured on the cover of New York Magazine’s Spring 2010 issue clad in a corset.
Don’t ask her to talk about her famous curves though, she finds talk of her body boring. “It just leaves a bad taste in my mouth,” she says. “Anytime someone talks about your figure constantly, you get nervous, you get really self-conscious. I was working my butt off on the show, and then all anyone was talking about was my body!”
Read the full interview at New York Magazine.
Gossip Girl hunk Penn Badgley opens up in the February/March 2010 issue of UK’s Wonderland magazine.
In the article, which features these shots by photographer Mariano Vivanco, the 23-year-old actor spoke about Gossip Girl fan hysteria.
“I remember the first time we did a Gossip Girl fan event and about 600 people showed up. And they were all screaming. How do you not let something like that go to your head? The answer is that you just can’t. The first two seasons, I was definitely into it. I admit it. It was an interesting thing to be a part of. Not just seeing yourself on billboards, and getting invited to all these parties, and whatever, but the weirder aspects, too, they were interesting to explore.”
“But now I’m sort of over the whole thing. I don’t resent the attention, but I don’t necessarily invite it, either. I think it’s when people do that – when they become so obsessed with their public image that they don’t feel like themselves when they’re out of the spotlight – that’s when they crack-up.”
Source: Wonderland
New photographs of Marilyn Monroe lounging at the New York apartment of photographer Len Steckler nine months before she died were unveiled on Friday after being held in a private archive for more than 45 years.
The photos were taken in December, 1961, when Monroe unexpectedly arrived at Steckler’s apartment to visit his friend, Pulitzer-prize winning poet Carl Sandburg.
The photographer is offering the images for a sale on his website as a limited edition series called “Marilyn Monroe: The Visit.”
The pictures show Monroe wearing pointed, thick-rimmed sunglasses and a short sleeve dress while talking and laughing with Sandburg.
More at the photographer’s official site, thevisitseries.com
Source: Reuters
Portrait of model Cory Bond by Gregory Vaughan.
Jamie Dornan and Lara Stone photographed by Alasdair McLellan for i-D magazine.
Model Robert Perovich is the new face of Jean-Paul Gaultier’s Le Male.
Robert was born in British Columbia, Canada on January 1st, 1976 and is 6′2″ tall. How do say *sigh* in french? Oh yeah, ooh la la!
See him in action at jeanpaulgaultier.com. Photo by Jean-Baptiste Mondino.
Above: male models share a room in Chinatown.
From an article in NY Mag:
“Financially speaking, male modeling is not unlike being a straight-male porn star: The men have always made less than the women, and very few become big names. For most magazine work, models are paid less than $250. Twenty percent of that goes to the agency, which also bills models for their board and expenses.”
The Sundance Channel is featuring is the first online exhibition of the films and photographs of acclaimed filmmaker and photographer Bruce Weber.
The exhibition features clips from Weber’s award winning documentaries and shorts culminating with the August 20th, 2009 premiere of Weber’s latest short film, “Liberty City Is Like Paris To Me.”
More at sundancechannel.com
Happy Birthday to Gossip Girl star Ed Westwick, born June 27 1987 in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, England. Here’s Gossip Girl’s bad boy Chuck Bass in the July 2009 issue of GQ magazine. More at GQ online.
