Having moved on from Milan Fashion Week, where the Italian police tackled him when he stormed a runway show, Sacha Baron Cohen's fashionista character Bruno has moved on to Paris, where Carine Roitfeld assumes her Anna Wintour role on home turf. It was in the City of Lights where, yesterday, Bruno decided his attendance would be welcome at Stella McCartney's runway show. Sitting there in the second row, perhaps he was an invited guest. Or, you know, not. Because he did gross, disgusting things. But leave it to British Vogue to write so eloquently about his stunts while noting his fashion choices: CONTINUED »
You're looking at the loneliest Prada store ever built. Its big opening was in 2005, but there was no party, and Miuccia Prada did not show up. Though behind the glass walls you will find shoes priced in the high three-figures, no money has ever changed hands here. Not a single swipe of an American Express card. That's because this Prada store — Prada Marfa, located in Marfa, Texas, on an empty stretch of Highway 90 — is not a Prada store at all. CONTINUED »
Shut up, television. Don't use our high gas prices and recent economic woes to sell us your September line-up under the guise of your made-up holiday, National Stay at Home Week. That is really some b.s. right there, especially since ABC, the network that is spear-heading the campaign, starting on Sept. 21, to convince us that everything our parents taught us was wrong, only has two new shows coming out this season. Well, joke's on you, ABC; you might get more publicity with your week-long fakery than your nemesis in April, TV Turnoff Week, but you know that while we're home we are going to be glued to our computers, watching re-runs of 30 Rock on Hulu. And that's how you get hoisted by your own petard.
This "frightening" scene from WWE's Million Dollar Mania shows chairman Vince McMahon getting injured by some scaffolding, and then being "rushed to the hospital." Except as most WWE fans and the breathing American public know, stunts like these are part of WWE's fictitious plotlines — a manly alternative to, say, Desperate Housewives. That the whole scene was a well-choregraphed set up was lost on Houston affiliate KHOU, which reported the gimmick – or the press release – as an actual news item. [KHOU via BOH]
What happens when a televised public service announcement also carries a possible jail sentence? Gabriele Paolini is about to find out. Dubbed the "world's most prolific television hijacker," the Italian prankster (and the Guinness Book of Records) claims he's to have disrupted some 20,000 live broadcasts, among them: crashing a fashion program broadcast to promote condom use. Calling himself the "prophylactic prophet," Paolini face is well known to Italian TV audiences, especially since his antics, which he claims are only to promote AIDS awareness, often have reporters fighting back, like the time one correspondent kicked him in the shins during a live broadcast.
It was all fun and televised games, but now Italy's Supreme Court is holding him accountable, upholding a 3-month suspended sentence against him, which was brought when he interrupted a June 2001 report on the state broadcaster RAI. So if he pulls another stunt, he's headed to jail.
But the court's ruling won't just affect Paolini world record setting — it'll also crack down on anyone who purposely puts herself in front of a TV camera in a public place. Just imagine what a law like that would entail … CONTINUED »
