In or Out: Sharon Stone

God bless Sharon Stone, we say. In an age where celebrities have everything down to their bodily functions press managed, she brings the old school batshit crazy diva bit in a big, big way. She's Norma Desmond 2.0.

Sharon Stone attends An Evening With Women: Celebrating Art, Music, & Equality at The Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California wearing Hervé Léger by Max Azria

Hervé Léger by Max Azria Spring 2009 Collection
Model: Georgina Stojilkovic

Congratulations on your stone-cold killer bod, Sharon. But a bit of advice from some gays: while a bandage dress, by design, is supposed to be form-fitting, we understand that apparently the wearer should be able to breathe in and out every now and then too. Also, your breast implants called. They're really pissed at you right now.

In all seriousness, it's a great dress and a great color for her. It's also great that she can get away with a second-skin kinda dress, but it's doing some scary things to her boobs. Good job on the hair, makeup, jewelry and especially, the shoes.

We'll give her a conditional IN for all the things she got right, but man, are those tits hurting.

[Photos: Getty Images/WireImage/Style.com]


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Faith Hill in Redbook

Darlings, to further our continuing mission to bring you pretty things to look at, here's Faith Hill's gorgeous editorial for Redbook.

"Beauty for me has a lot to do with happiness and a certain confidence deep inside. People can see both of those things on your face. As I get older, I'm learning much more about how to better take care of myself and the things that do and don't work for me. I know this probably sounds so elementary, but I was a late bloomer in this department. I have a routine now that I've been able to see results from. I feel like I'm putting in this new effort to take care of myself, and I can see the benefits from it. And I don't have to be all decked out to feel that way."

Oh, shut up, bitch. You don't age.

Catherine Malandrino Spring 2009 Collection
Model: Aminata Niaria

She looks pretty and it's a nice cover, but the real work is on the inside.

Marchesa Spring 2009 Collection
Model: Yulia Kharlaponova

Salvatore Ferragamo Spring 2009 Collection
Model: Bruna Tenorio

Yes, yes. Genetically gifted woman wearing thousands of dollars worth of dress. Very nice, but let's get to the meat of this one, shall we? She chose three "iconic blondes" to recreate for her layout.

How did you decide on Grace Kelly, Brigitte Bardot, and Twiggy as the three iconic blondes you wanted to portray?
When REDBOOK came to me with this idea — of taking on the persona of three iconic beauties — I just loved it. I thought it was important that each of these blondes was unique in her style, her background, and her personality. Twiggy represented the mod look of the '60s, while Grace was more about a certain classic elegance and beauty, and Brigitte was more defined by her sensuality and her sexuality.

Vintage dress

"It was hard for me to look at myself as Twiggy. I think she was in her late teens when the original photo was taken. And there is a very big difference between a teenager and a 41-year-old! [Laughing] And I'm not talking about the lines on the eyes of a 41-year-old versus a teenager; I'm talking about the wisdom that comes as you get older. You can see through to the soul with the eyes, and with Twiggy, I felt she had such an innocence. When I first looked at myself in the mirror, I saw a maturity and wisdom that Twiggy had not yet experienced. Her version was beautiful and flawless, but for me, as a woman who's come into her own a little more comfortably, it's just a different kind of beauty."

She looks fabulous. We never would have thought she could pull off a believable Twiggy impersonation, but there she is. Faith Twiggy. Is it us or does she look a little Julia Roberts there?

Vintage dress

"To be completely candid, I felt least like Brigitte of all three of the women we did. I've referenced her, read about her, and seen so much on her during my career, though, that there's a part of her that I can really understand and relate to. To me, sexuality is very different from sensuality. And Brigitte possesses this sensual essence that is so powerful. She is always sexy, no matter what, but it isn't in that blatant, trying-to-be-sexy way; it's more that it is just a part of her that can't be denied. Please don't get me wrong, I am not saying that I'm even one tenth as sensual as that woman is, but if I could possess that kind of sensuality, I would want to possess it like she does."

To be candid, it shows. We give her credit for trying, but Bardot is so far away from who she is that she manages only a passing resemblance. She doesn't look particularly comfortable trying this skin on.

Randi Rham dress

"Grace is probably the one that I relate to the most in my life and the one that I have most in common with. My mother-in-law has always told me that I remind her of Grace Kelly. I think it's about how I carry myself, how I look in photographs, that sort of thing. I think, too, it's probably that I have this seemingly high-profile life, like Grace did, and that we were both the mother of three children. In my opinion, she epitomizes the all-American girl with a quiet class and inner strength. She was like everybody's girl — seemingly comfortable and accessible — and yet untouchable."

This is the one she nails. She really looks spectacular there.

[Photos: Gilles Bensimon/Redbookmag.com]


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And Then There's Bea.

Unless you were living in a cave over the weekend, you no doubt have heard that the singular Bea Arthur has had her last cocktail on the lanai and shuffled off this mortal coil in sensible shoes.






It'll be a while before we're all done reading tributes to her, but before the feeling passes, we'd like to raise our glasses to her not for an impressive theatrical career, not for her scene-stealing turn as Vera Charles in the horrible Mame, and not even for her iconic performance as Dorothy Zbornak in the beloved Golden Girls. No, what we want to remember is Maude.

We were only kids when she burst onto the scene in the '70s sitcom, but in retrospect, Maude was an incredibly groundbreaking character and sadly, once she broke that ground, no one came along to build on it. Mary Richards is often lauded as the first feminist character on network television and she was, but she was also a very watered-down version of feminism and sadly, too many writers and actresses followed the Mary Richards model in the decades to come while ignoring the far more powerful and subversive Maude Findlay template.

Loud-mouthed, angry, acerbic and much-divorced Maude was a character we'd have a hard time believing ever existed on television at all if we hadn't seen her with our own eyes. She wasn't the desperate-to-be-liked Mary Richards; she was more in the I-don't-give-a-flying-fuck-WHAT-you-think-of me mold and as such, she benefited from the fact that there was really only one actress out there capable of playing her and, in a coming-together of perfect elements that so rarely happens in television, the former Bernice Frankel landed the role. How revolutionary was this part? Just try and imagine a current sitcom starring a just barely pre-menopausal title character who finds out she's pregnant, admits she doesn't want to BE pregnant, and then, without telling her husband, exercises her right to terminate the pregnancy. That this story line was televised over 30 years ago is mindblowing and a very sad commentary on the current state of network television. But rather than dwell on that, let's salute the bravery of the actress who took that risk.

If you're too young to remember her or have never seen the show, the first season is on DVD and you need to run out right now to get it. Hopefully, with Bea's death, the subsequent seasons will get released soon. Dorothy Zbornak was a funny, and her own way, ground-breaking character, but Maude Findlay was a fucking revolutionary.

Here's to ya, Bea.

In or Out: Debra Messing

Okay ladies, here's a puzzle for you.

How do you go from this...

Debra Messing attends the premiere of "Whatever Works" during the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival at Ziegfeld in New York City in Donna Karan Pre-Fall 2009

...to this?

Debra Messing attends the CHANEL and Tribeca Film Festival Artists' Dinner at Odeon in New York City wearing Chanel Spring 2009

Let's move in for a closer look:

Great color, dress fits her like a glove. Shoes are just okay, but at least they're inoffensive and they go with the outfit. Hair looks great, makeup is fine (except for the furry eyes she always does).

Moving on...

The dress is AWFUL. It does nothing whatsoever for her figure and the jacket actually makes it look worse. We never thought it would be possible to look bad in Chanel, but she managed to pull it off. The shoes are cute but they look like they're a size too big and when you're wearing clunky shoes to begin with, that makes it even worse. But WHAT is going ON with her hair and makeup? How is it that she looks ten years older all of a sudden?

And we hesitate to say this because we really do try and stay away from body issues, but Debbie honey, what is going on with your knees there? Were you gardening all day? They look bruised and battered. If you're not going to wear hose (and the more we look at this, the more we think a colored hose might've helped the look), then at least wear a skirt that covers them up, girl.

[Photos: Getty Images/WireImage]


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Agatha Ruiz de la Prada Fall 2009

Darlings, let's start the week off with some whimsy, shall we?

And "whimsy" (along with "eye candy") is the best possible description for Agatha Ruiz de la Prada's surrealist-inspired Fall 2009 collection, presented in Milan.

Agatha de la Ruiz Prada has received several awards in Spain including the Arts Gold Medal Award by the Ministry of Culture for bringing Spanish fashion and culture to other countries. She's known for her brightly colored designs with her signature childlike motifs of moons, stars, suns, and hearts. She also designs furniture, houseware, and clothes for men and children. She has stores in several cities in Spain, Milan, Paris and New York.

Is this stuff particularly wearable? No, but it's fun and let's face it, sometimes the fashion industry really has a stick up its ass, so kudos to her for being so joyous about it.
























[Photos: Getty Images]

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