| Lipstick is the secret of Joan Collins' sexiness | | Posted Friday, November 03, 2006 3:46:00 PM by Blog57 Team | | London, Nov 3: Veteran actress Joan Collins has denied her line-free, age-defying looks have anything to do with plastic surgery. Instead, the 73-year-old beauty claims she owes her youthful looks to lipstick. When asked recently whether she has gone under the knife, Collins said: "No I haven't. No." "The most glamorous thing you can do is (use) lipstick," The Daily Mail quoted her, as adding.Collins, famous for playing super-bitch Alexis in 1980's soap Dynasty, has even condemned those who resort to plastic surgery, dubbing facelifts 'the plain woman's revenge'. But a leading plastic surgeon who has met the actress in real, is certain that she has had extensive work done. "I appeared with her on 'This Morning', and clearly saw the scars behind her ears indicating a facelift. I saw that she had also had her eyes lifted.... | |
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| | | "Someone" pulls its punches | | Posted Saturday, October 21, 2006 7:11:39 PM by Blog57 Team | | The sad, seductive promise of running away is the opportunity to leave your past behind and reinvent yourself from scratch. To meet new people with no opinion of you yet. The yoke of unresolved conflict, regret, past mistakes, failed or unrequited love - gone. A fresh start, as anyone you want to be. This is what the intriguing title of Scott Gibson's new play, "Someone Else's Life," promises. Haven't we all reached that point of such despair or envy that we'd just rather be living someone, anyone, else's life? And where else but among strangers does one get the chance to be so desperately dishonest - and get away with it? The playwriting possibilities are endless. But "Someone" is one of those promising, problematic new plays that's always threatening to become more interesting than it ever quite does.... | |
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| | | Joan Collins laments the absence of glamour in today's television | | Posted Monday, October 09, 2006 7:19:52 PM by Blog57 Team | | Washington, Oct 9: British actress Joan Collins has lamented the demise of glamour from today's 'idiot box', insisting that TV channels now-a-days mostly broadcast reality programmes that not only bore the audience but also fail to provide them a healthy dose of escapism.The former Dynasty star is calling for a return to the sophisticated dramas which used to excite her, as she feels people "want to be taken to dream" which helps them forget their daily worries, when they watch a programme."There are no glam shows left. Everything is reality TV," the Contactmusic quoted her, as saying."I want to be taken somewhere to dream and make believe. Is that too much to ask?" she added. .... | |
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| | | Joan Collins and Linda Evans camp it up in Legends | | Posted Friday, September 29, 2006 1:13:10 PM by Blog57 Team | | God, I love a former rent boy. After all, even I gave hustling a shot when I ran out of cash in Sydney when I was backpacking Down Under years ago. Heck, the Catholic Church loves rent boys too. In fact, for hundreds of years during the Roman Empire, the Vatican was the biggest pimp of all, literally collecting taxes on the backs of male sex workers until Rome repealed its tax on male prostitutes in 498 AD. One Catholic boy - not to mention former rent boy - who done good is the witty British actor Rupert Everett, who, at 47, could probably still fetch a fair price on the flesh market. Most folks will remember the charming and debonair Everett as Julia Roberts' ever-so-reliable buddy in the Hollywood movie My Best Friend's Wedding a decade ago. That movie was the commercial zenith of Everett's career, and it's no accident that Hollywood and audiences loved him most when he didn't stray from what they clearly expect him to play: a gay man.... | |
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| | | 70s naff set to make a comeback | | Posted Thursday, September 28, 2006 7:10:48 AM by Blog57 Team | | Brands that put the naff into the 1970s are making a comeback amid hopes they will appeal to the offspring of the Saturday Night Fever generation. • Brands making a comeback Iconic names from Brut, Blue Nun and Babycham to Smash, Nimble and Ringos have been given a make-over and are being relaunched. Marketing men are tapping into a nostalgia for the 1970s, seen with the recent film revivals of Starsky & Hutch, the Dukes of Hazard and Shaft. While there have also been a rash of TV clip shows which wrap celebrity anecdotes around the music, TV and news events of the 1970s and other recent decades. Brut, the pungent aftershave in the green bottle promoted by the likes of Kevin Keegan - in his bubble perm days - and Henry Cooper is back.... | |
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| | | Hard to beat an $8 trip to Big Apple | | Posted Thursday, August 31, 2006 9:24:53 PM by Blog57 Team | | It was the most productive $8 John Roseberry has ever spent. Roseberry visited a Subway sandwich shop in North Park near his home with a newspaper coupon entitling him to a second sub free with the purchase of one sub and a soda. "I usually don't buy the fountain drinks," said Roseberry, 44. When he picked up his order, the manager encouraged him to peel the sticker off his soda cup to see if he had won a prize. He had – a free round trip for two to New York City to see tonight's MTV Video Music Awards and attend the glitzy pre-party. "It was like a dream come true," said Roseberry, a part-time caregiver for a disabled man, whom he is taking with him on the excursion. This will be Roseberry's first visit to New York City. "I've never won anything like this before," he said on the eve of his departure.... | |
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| | | Collins, Locklear Leading Spelling Tribute At Emmys | | Posted Saturday, August 26, 2006 7:13:23 AM by Blog57 Team | | LOS ANGELES -- Joan Collins of "Dynasty", Steven Collins from "7th Heaven" and Heather Locklear of "Melrose Place" will honor the producer who gave them jobs that made them famous. They'll be part of a tribute to Aaron Spelling Sunday night at the Emmys. Spelling died in June from a stroke. He was 83. .... | |
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| | | Lost in the fold | | Posted Sunday, August 20, 2006 9:29:40 AM by Blog57 Team | | Somewhere in the distance, I heard a ringing sound. What was that sound? It was my cell phone, but I didn't answer it. I was lost in the fold. Hollis Gillespie is the author of Confessions of a Recovering Slut and Other Love Stories and Bleachy-Haired Honky Bitch: Tales from a Bad Neighborhood. Her commentaries can be heard on NPR's "All Things Considered." .... | |
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| | | Matters of Record | | Posted Monday, August 14, 2006 3:16:20 AM by Blog57 Team | | These transactions, recorded July 31 to Aug. 4, are compiled from information on file with the respective counties. They represent sales of $78,000 or more. Peoria County 12811 N. Route 40, Dunlap, Robert D. and Margaret F. Mayo to Jerry A. Jr. and Kathy S. Miller, $83,500. 3410 W. Lincoln Ave., Peoria, George P. McKinley to LeHenryck Breedlove and Jemeicka Robinson, $84,900. 5648 N. Withershin Point, Peoria, Timothy F. Shea to Lenore VanSickle, $85,000. 1641 W. Main St., Peoria, Angela L.S. Christianson to Zuhair Madanat, $86,200. 9726 N. Blacksoil Lane, Peoria, Mark A. Wagner to Carla Haynes, $87,000. 2105 W. Overbrook Drive, Peoria, Jennifer Y. and Jon T. Davis to Matthew T. Carrescia, $87,000. 2401 W. Kellogg Ave., Peoria, Barbara J.... | |
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| | | Casting Complete for Joan Collins-Linda Evans Legends!; Tour Dates ... | | Posted Tuesday, August 08, 2006 9:09:57 AM by Blog57 Team | | Casting is now complete for the upcoming Joan Collins-Linda Evans tour of Legends!, the ill-fated James Kirkwood comedy that spawned the infamous backstage tome "Diary of a Mad Playwright." As previously announced, the "Dynasty" co-stars will take on the roles originally played on the road by Carol Channing and the late Mary Martin. Collins will play the fading movie star Sylvia with Evans as Leatrice. Collins and Evans will be joined onstage by Joe Farrell as Martin Klemmer, Tonye Patano as Aretha, Will Holman as Boom-Boom and Ethan Matthews as the Cop. Matthews will also understudy the role of Martin Klemmer; Chaundra Cameron is the understudy for the part of Aretha. Rehearsals begin in Manhattan Aug. 12, producer Ben Sprecher said. Broadway, London and Australia are all being explored as possible future destinations for the production, he told Playbill.com.... | |
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