LA VIE EN ROSIE

I know this is grabbing at weird celebrity obsession straws here, but if anyone shares my Ask Ro fixation… Yesterday (or maybe the day before) Rosie mentioned Edith Piaf on her blog. Then this happened:

Lucinda writes:

What’s the best movie you have seen this year?

la vie en rose

Ooooh, me too! It was sprawling and messy but cor, what a tragic icon. Marion Cotillard was stunning and I’m a sucker for anything with the line “Marlene” offered as a self-introduction to Dietrich because the actress looked nothing like her…

And that’s your Ask Ro update for today.

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WELL, NOW, ISN'T THIS EXCITING

Allow me to enter happy teen geek mode. The prospect of a new Joss Whedon series excites me as much as the new My So-Called Life box set (more on that later). Add Eliza Dushku into the mix and I’m sold, especially since Joss is an official Polyester hero.

The new show, currently known as Dollhouse, is kind of complicated and is explained thoroughly in this EW article, but it sounds even better in the words of his leading lady:

“It's this whole mindtrip of objectification. It's going to have sex and heartbreak and violence and hilarity. That, to me, is a hot show."

On an unrelated note, Eliza should totally have played Edie Sedgwick in Factory Girl. She’s the spit. Or has this already been done to death on IMDB boards? Am I too 2006 for the second time today? Yeah, well, fuck you. Now that wasn't very nice, was it?

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WNIO TAKES HALLOWEEN

LOADS of people in America dressed up as Amy Winehouse for Halloween, boys and girls alike. Literally hundreds. Probably thousands. Maybe millions. I like the idea of a Winehouse Zombie Army rampaging through America drawing scraggy felt-tip tit-tattoos on their victims...

BrooklynVegan has 90+ pictures here, while Perez has gathered up some that feature the Perez-a-likes too, here.

On that note, anyone got any ideas for a Celebrity Rehab costume for this weekend? Is Mary-Kate too 2006?

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