“ATHLETES ARE GOING TO BE THE NEW MEDIA STARS” -ANDY WARHOL

POST WARHOL PREDICTION:IN THE FUTURE PLASTIC SURGERY PROGRESS WILL PUSH FASHION TRENDS

LOOK ASIAN FOR SUMMER!
LOOK BLACK FOR FALL!
LOOK LATINO FOR WINTER!
LOOK WHITE FOR SPRING!

“IT'S CALLED GOSSIP AND OF COURSE IT'S AN OBSESSION OF MINE -ANDY WARHOL

Two very different events opening in Melbourne next week have interesting takes on this. Sydney-based artist Hazel Dooney has a photography exhibition called Porno opening at MARS Gallery, and AFI winner Bojana Novakovic has directed a Serbian play called Fake Porno, on at Lupa gallery. Interestingly, both Porno, and Fake Porno use the notion of pornography to explore intimacy. "I wanted to present an alternative", says Dooney, whose sometimes explicit photographs are of herself, her lovers, and friends and their lovers. "I've called the exhibition Porno because I wanted to show that the word itself is no longer taboo; it now hints at the socially acceptable. Making a sex video is now a career move, as is being photographed getting out of a car with no underpants on.

-The Age
July 27 2008

“I'M A DEEPLY SUPERFICIAL PERSON” -ANDY WARHOL

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

“Win or lose, we go shopping after the election.”

-Imelda Marcos

STRAIGHT GUYS IS THE NEW GAY

“THERE'S NO COUNTRY IN THE WORLD THAT LOVES “RIGHT NOW" LIKE AMERICA DOES" -ANDY WARHOL

Britney's father to remain in control.

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“IT'S CALLED GOSSIP AND OF COURSE IT'S AN OBSESSION OF MINE -ANDY WARHOL

There may be too many celebrity lists, but there's only one Will Smith. Smith is the kind of performer that fans love to love, playing big, affirmative characters who seem to match the person he is in real life. "It's just Will Smith every time you see him," says Ellis Cashmore, author of Celebrity Culture. "That's a supposed part of the secret of remaining on the A list--to imprint your own personality on the roles. People go back to the box office because they know they're going to like it."

-Forbes
July 28 2008

SHOWING OFF ON BIG BROTHER FOR 15 MINUTES OF FAME

WORKING THE FAME FORMULA TO PERFECTION

“Madonna is an excellent example of a celebrity working the fame formula to perfection. From her early days as a sharp-witted 80s party girl, she has moved onwards and upwards in her quest to stay famous, creating controversy through videos of her kissing a black Jesus, her Sex book and her flirtation with lesbianism, changing style for every album, acting parts in movies, adopting children, writing books for children and becoming a member of the English landed gentry by dint of marriage and money. Even her sporadic film roles, lambasted though many of them have been, are part of her success. Each new innovation has caused her fame to spike and kept her in the media spotlight.”

-The Guardian
July 28 2008

AN ADVERTISING TREND ANDY WARHOL WOULD HAVE LIKED

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

“A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.”

-Oscar Wilde

GAY/STRAIGHT MARKETING FOR THE EARLY 21ST CENTURY

3-Stripe socks: gay

Ankle socks : straight

MODELING FOR 15 MINUTES OF FAME

“IT'S CALLED GOSSIP AND OF COURSE IT'S AN OBSESSION OF MINE -ANDY WARHOL

Some brands will forever be linked with their celebrity endorsers. What would women's wear line Kate Moss Topshop be without, well, Kate Moss? Or Gisele Bündchen's sandal line, Ipanema by Gisele, without the supermodel's name, image and unrelenting promotion? And yet other bold-face celebs have chosen a decidedly less in-your-face approach. Who but the most fanatical know that the William Rast jeans line isn't owned by anyone named William Rast, but instead is backed by the guy who "brought sexy back," crooner Justin Timberlake?

-Forbes
July 28 2008

“GEE THAT'S GREAT”

Artwork by Jeff Koons

THE FAME GAME IN 2008

In 1968 the American pop artist Andy Warhol forecast that "in the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes," as the fleeting celebrity of pop culture developed. But now PR "guru" Mark Borkowski has come up with a "fame formula", by studying a range of well-known people, to calculate the shelf-life of a celebrity career.Mr Borkowski believes that Warhol was almost correct, but concludes that people who are pushed into the limelight in this era can expect their initial fame to last for 15 months.

-Telegraph
July 29 2008

“MUSCLES ARE GREAT:EVERYBODY SHOULD HAVE AT LEAST ONE THAT THEY CAN SHOW OFF" -ANDY WARHOL

MODELS & ATHLETES

“You get used to being with models and with people who live off their good looks. Then you're around all these athletes and you start thinking that they do the same thing, when they're actually out there because they're doing a good job, and when they stop doing a good job they're washed up even if they still look great”.

-Andy Warhol

“MORE THAN ANYTHING PEOPLE JUST WANT STARS” -ANDY WARHOL

Chace Crawford.

“THERE'S NO COUNTRY IN THE WORLD THAT LOVES “RIGHT NOW" LIKE AMERICA DOES" -ANDY WARHOL

Dark Knight makes 300 millions in ten days.

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WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

“Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.”

-Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

STRAIGHT GUYS IS THE NEW GAY

“THERE'S NO COUNTRY IN THE WORLD THAT LOVES “RIGHT NOW" LIKE AMERICA DOES" -ANDY WARHOL

Paris Hilton feel like a grown-up now.

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“IT'S CALLED GOSSIP AND OF COURSE IT'S AN OBSESSION OF MINE -ANDY WARHOL

Both Beckham and Ljungberg have posed in gay magazines, the beefy former England rugby ace and married father of two Ben Cohen has brought out a nude calendar marketed at gay men and talks about “embracing my gay fans”. Some, such as Becks and Welsh rugby glamour-boy Gavin Henson, have even argued over them. “I think I have lost a lot of my gay fans to Gavin,” Beckham once said. “It is a shame, as I really love them.”Being equal-opportunity flirts, today's sporno stars want to turn everyone on. Sportsmen, like porn stars, are by definition show-offs. Besides, it also means more money, more power, more endorsements, more kudos.

-The Times
July 28 2008

“THE WORLD FASCINATES ME” -ANDY WARHOL

POST WARHOL PREDICTION;IN THE FUTURE BRITISH ROYAL FAMILY MEMBERS WILL CREATE SEX TAPES TO REVIVE THEIR POPULARITY

ANDY WARHOL ET LA QUESTION DE LA BEAUTÉ

Warhol était de son propre aveu obsédé par la beauté. Or ce qui est intéressant c'est qu'il était sensible à celle-ci sous toutes ses formes. Résultat inévitable de cela les propos tenus lorsque réfléchissant à cette dernière ne peuvent qu'être contradictoires. Son petit livre candide de philosophie en témoigne. Ici il déclare qu'il est toujours en train de parler d'un ou d'une telle comme étant une grande beauté. Puis de dire ensuite qu'il ne sait en fait pas trop de quoi il parle. Ailleurs il affirme préférer les gens qui parlent ou font des choses aux beautés ajoutant que “si tout le monde n'est pas une beauté alors personne ne l'est.” Tout cela en faisant tout bien sur pour être plus près des beautés ou mannequins du moment...

“ATHLETES ARE GOING TO BE THE NEW MEDIA STARS” -ANDY WARHOL

“IT'S CALLED GOSSIP AND OF COURSE IT'S AN OBSESSION OF MINE” -ANDY WARHOL

Mark Wahlberg ready for marriage.

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POST WARHOL PREDICTION:IN THE FUTURE A COSMONAUT RABBI WILL DECLARE: “GOD GAVE MARS TO THE JEWS”

“GEE THAT'S GREAT”

THE “LIKE US” DECADE

Andy Warhol used to say he loved movies and taking pictures because everybody could do it. He would really have loved this first decade of the 21st century. In addition to Bonnie Fuller and her «Stars are like us» pictures of celebrities doing ordinary things in gossip magazines, we even had for eight years a president of the US telling Yale students: you too can be c-students and one day be president of the United States. «We were bad at school and don't know much but hey we'll vote for this guy because he doesn't know much either! Presidents are like us! Everybody can run a country”.

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

“There's no life without humour. It can make the wonderful moments of life truly glorious, and it can make tragic moments bearable.”

-Rufus Wainwright

“MUSCLES ARE GREAT:EVERYBODY SHOULD HAVE AT LEAST ONE THAT THEY CAN SHOW OFF" -ANDY WARHOL

“IT'S CALLED GOSSIP AND OF COURSE IT'S AN OBSESSION OF MINE” -ANDY WARHOL

LONDON (AFP) — Mick Jagger, the snake-hipped, rubber-lipped frontman of the Rolling Stones, celebrates his 65th birthday Saturday but shows no signs of slowing down, despite officially becoming an old age pensioner.At an age when most British men are retiring from work and claiming state pensions, Jagger is dating a woman some 25 years his junior -- stylist L'Wren Scott -- counting his millions after the Stones' record-grossing "Bigger Bang" tour and branching out into film production.
His behaviour may not be as hellraising as that of fellow Stone Ronnie Wood, who last week entered rehab to receive treatment for alcohol abuse after running off with a 19-year-old Russian cocktail waitress.

SHOWING OFF FOR 15 MINUTES OF FAME

“THERE'S NO COUNTRY IN THE WORLD THAT LOVES “RIGHT NOW" LIKE AMERICA DOES" -ANDY WARHOL

New Kids On The Block not recording with Madonna.

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PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: ART

I wonder what will be left of Murakami, Hirst & Koons in 50 years from now. Will they be considered to Andy Warhol what Juan Gris is to Picasso nowadays?

PERSONNALY I LOVED PORNO AND I BOUGHT LOTS OF IT ALL THE TIME" -ANDY WARHOL

Photo: Randy Blue

POST WARHOL PREDICTION:IN THE FUTURE THE MERGER OF HUMAN & ROBOTS WILL MAKE RELIGION OBSOLETE OR OMNIPRESENT FOR EVERYBODY

“IT'S CALLED GOSSIP AND OF COURSE IT'S AN OBSESSION OF MINE -ANDY WARHOL

Andy Puzder isn't afraid of fat. The president-CEO of Hardee's and Carl's Jr. has made a name for his chains -- and boosted same-store sales -- by bragging about the caloric and fat content of products such as the Monster Thickburger and unabashedly championing meat. Sexy ads haven't hurt, either. Mr. Puzder credits the infamous Paris Hilton car-washing commercial with much of Carl's Jr.'s brand awareness outside of the Western U.S. Last year, a TV spot featuring a comely schoolmarm raised the hackles of a teachers union, and Carl's Jr. pulled the spot. Mr. Puzder, an attorney, said it would have been better to use a librarian.

-AdAge
July 25 2008

“MY FAVORITE THING TO BUY IS UNDERWEAR” -ANDY WARHOL

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

“To me, bad taste is what entertainment is all about”

-John Waters

“THERE'S NO COUNTRY IN THE WORLD THAT LOVES “RIGHT NOW" LIKE AMERICA DOES" -ANDY WARHOL

Simon Cowell named favorite Reality -TV villain.

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“MORE THAN ANYTHING PEOPLE JUST WANT STARS” -ANDY WARHOL

PEREZ HILTON THE ADVERTISING WORLD AND THE PORN QUESTION

How telling of our time. Mainstream advertisers refuse to buy ads on porn sites (even the most popular ones) judging them too offensive but willingly buy ad space on Perez Hilton where bitching and nasty comments of the worst kind are suddenly not considered offensive. Go figure..

POST WARHOL PREDICTION:IN THE FUTURE GENITAL PARTS IN PUBLIC WILL BE ALLOWED AS LONG AS THEY ARE COVERED WITH ADVERTISING

“MUSCLES ARE GREAT:EVERYBODY SHOULD HAVE AT LEAST ONE THAT THEY CAN SHOW OFF" -ANDY WARHOL

“IT'S CALLED GOSSIP AND OF COURSE IT'S AN OBSESSION OF MINE -ANDY WARHOL

Since its launch in 2005, YouTube has been a hub for users to post short video of some of their most interesting and embarrassing moments. But with 10 hours of new video being uploaded every minute and some 84 million videos already on the site, how will anyone ever find yours?"There's a couple of key factors to getting noticed," says Hollywood talent scout Frederick Levy. "Firstly, if you have true talent, you will rise to the top. There are plenty of talented people out there who have gotten record deals and network deals and pilot deals all based on videos they posted. "Secondly, you have to be extroverted, be a type-A personality with a lot of energy. You also have to keep your video very short. Nobody wants to sit through a 10-minute amateur video. These videos are often watched during breaks at work, before heading out for the evening or just when someone wants a quick distraction, and so that's why the shortest ones are usually the most popular."

-Calgary Herald
July 23 2008

“THERE'S NO COUNTRY IN THE WORLD THAT LOVES “RIGHT NOW" LIKE AMERICA DOES" -ANDY WARHOL

Heather Locklear leaves treatment center.

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“BEAUTY IS A SIGN OF INTELLIGENCE" -ANDY WARHOL

“IT'S CALLED GOSSIP AND OF COURSE IT'S AN OBSESSION OF MINE -ANDY WARHOL

"If somebody would have said, 'You're going to meet a man 25 years old and he's going to see being with you and having your three children as a bonus,' I would have said, 'Keep dreaming,'" says Demi Moore, 45.  But Ashton Kutcher, now, 30, turned out to be a dream come true. The couple has been married since 2005.  "At the risk of sounding really cliche, he's really an old soul," says Demi, who dressed as an old woman in a Saturday Night Live spoof opposite her husband.  "I don't care what people think," adds Ashton.  "Demi's the one for me, and I love her."

-National Ledger
July 16 2008

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: LOVE & HATE

People are more happy to see the failure of someone they hate than the success of someone they love.

STRAIGHT GUYS IS THE NEW GAY

POST WARHOL PREDICTION:WOMAN MAG:HOW TO MOVE YOUR HAIR LIKE A STAR WHEN JUMPING ON YOUR BED NAKED FOR A GROUP OF COLLEGE GUYS

“THERE'S NO COUNTRY IN THE WORLD THAT LOVES “RIGHT NOW" LIKE AMERICA DOES" -ANDY WARHOL

Patrick Swayze calls his recovery a miracle.

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“BEAUTY IS A SIGN OF INTELLIGENCE" -ANDY WARHOL

James Dean in the 1950's

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

“Eighty percent of success is showing up.”

-Woody Allen

“IT'S CALLED GOSSIP AND OF COURSE IT'S AN OBSESSION OF MINE -ANDY WARHOL

Mainstream editors used to be squeamish to the point of erasure when it came to unconfirmed same-sex relationships. Unless a star was willing to say, "Yep, I'm gay," as Ellen DeGeneres so famously did on the cover of Time in 1997 -- and as a trickle of others have too in years since -- print publications (including this one) have generally employed their own form of don't ask/don't tell when covering gay or bisexual celebrities who have not come out via press release or some other explicit declaration. While many celebrities themselves have stopped hiding their same-sex relationships, the media have not until Lohan followed suit. Michael Musto, an openly gay columnist for the Village Voice, who himself has never engaged in that kind of self-censorship, has noticed a change. As Musto sees it, we've reached a moment in which the Lohan-Ronson pairing can simply be reported as a fact because people have, you know, eyes.

-L.A Times
July 20 2008

SOMETHING ANDY WARHOL WOULD HAVE LIKED....

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

“I speak two languages, Body and English."

-Mae West

OVER & OVER

"It was his spontaneous intuition that not to be received as an image in the common consciousness is to be bereft of the only reality that matters. This thought may be enlisted to explain his propensity to repeat, over and over, the same image of the same personality -- Marilyn, Liz, Jackie, Elvis -- as if the quantity of iterated images increased the substance, in the only way possible, of those who had become labels for themselves."

- Art critic Arthur Danto

STRAIGHT GUYS IS THE NEW GAY

“THERE'S NO COUNTRY IN THE WORLD THAT LOVES “RIGHT NOW" LIKE AMERICA DOES" -ANDY WARHOL

Britney to pay K-Fed $20 000 in child support.

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“GEE THAT'S GREAT”

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: WORDS

Words are really everything. I like when they ask some model what he's doing and he says: I'm an adult actor».

ANDY WARHOL ON WRESTLING: IT'S EXCITEMENT, IT'S SHOW BUSINESS, IT'S CHIC"

“IT'S CALLED GOSSIP AND OF COURSE IT'S AN OBSESSION OF MINE -ANDY WARHOL

“Imagine if the current crop of public figures had grown up during the Facebook era. We might have photos of John McCain in Florida slurping body shots off his stripper girlfriend. Barack Obama rolling a joint on a beach in Hawaii. George W. Bush passed out at a Yale frat party, 40-ounce beer bottles duct-taped to his hands. Hillary Rodham Clinton at a Wellesley peace rally, locking lips with her husband's future secretary of labor, Robert Reich. It's one thing to hear that your elected representative had a wild time in college. It's entirely different to have pictorial proof. Would you still vote for someone after viewing a photograph of him passed out in his own vomit? Our generation - high schoolers, college students and recent graduates - immortalizes the interesting and banal, the innocent and incriminating, all on the Internet. We update our Facebook status as often as we change our shoes, and upload party photos before the last reveler goes home. Non-participation is impossible: We file our job applications online and arrange first dates via e-mail. The upshot? America's standards for personal embarrassment, political scandal and appropriate disclosure are sure to change in the years to come.”

-San Jose Mercury News
July 17 2008

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: FUTURE

I wonder how cosmetics companies will do their advertising when targeting future immortal people...How to look 400 at 1000?..

“MUSCLES ARE GREAT:EVERYBODY SHOULD HAVE AT LEAST ONE THAT THEY CAN SHOW OFF" -ANDY WARHOL

“THERE'S NO COUNTRY IN THE WORLD THAT LOVES “RIGHT NOW" LIKE AMERICA DOES" -ANDY WARHOL

Salma Hayek's engagement called off.

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WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

“I couldn't have attended half the parties that I was supposed to have been to according to the newspapers. It bothers me. ”

-Calvin Klein

PERSONNALY I LOVED PORNO AND I BOUGHT LOTS OF IT ALL THE TIME" -ANDY WARHOL

Photo:Corbin Fisher

“IT'S CALLED GOSSIP AND OF COURSE IT'S AN OBSESSION OF MINE -ANDY WARHOL

Starting in September, Tinsteltown's largest indie studio (Lionsgate) will be able to monetize those film clips using Google's AdSense service: Sharing, uploading and "mashing up" those clips will be encouraged, because Lionsgate will profit from Google ads sold against them. Google's collaboration with a Hollywood studio stood in stark contrast to the adversarial posture that Hollywood's other entertainment conglomerates have adopted when it comes to YouTube: On July 15, Google complied with a federal judge's demand that it turn over YouTube viewer data to Viacom as evidence in a billion-dollar lawsuit that alleges widespread piracy of Viacom content, including shows such as "South Park," on the video-sharing site.
It was, Mr. Schmidt said, a perfect example of how Hollywood needed to change to adapt the "'anytime, anywhere' consumer model," vs. what he derisively termed "the lawyer model." In short, Viacom hopes to put the horse back in the barn. Mr. Schmidt wants to sell ads on the horse as it runs through town.

-AdAge
July 17 2008

“I BELIEVE MEDIA IS ART” -ANDY WARHOL

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. ”

-Oscar Wilde

POST WARHOL PREDICTION:CELEB MAG: STYLE STEAL: HOW TO TOSS YOUR HAIR LIKE JESSICA WHEN BUYING PLASTIC EARRINGS AT THE DOLLAR STORE!

“MY FAVORITE THING TO BUY IS UNDERWEAR” -ANDY WARHOL

“IT'S CALLED GOSSIP AND OF COURSE IT'S AN OBSESSION OF MINE -ANDY WARHOL

"I think most people identify with me more than they do with Nicole Kidman. Even though most women would want to be Nicole Kidman, certainly more than they'd want to be me - in fact, I'd rather be Nicole Kidman," Griffin said. "However, we look at these celebrities, we read everything about them, we see them behaving badly and going to jail and walking out of their cars without their panties - most people couldn't get away with that. I'm certainly at a level where I couldn't get away with any of that shit! And so I think the reason more people come to my shows now more than ever is because while we're obsessed with celebrity culture, I think we're getting appalled by the way most celebrities are above the law."

-Kathy Griffin

POST WARHOL PREDICTION:WOMAN MAG:HOW TO KEEP YOUR LIP GLOSS FLAWLESS WHEN CHOCKING ON HIS COCK:TEN TIPS FOR YOU!

“BEAUTY IS A SIGN OF INTELLIGENCE"

Andy Warhol by Robert Mapplethorpe

“THERE'S NO COUNTRY IN THE WORLD THAT LOVES “RIGHT NOW" LIKE AMERICA DOES" -ANDY WARHOL

David Beckham declares his love for L.A

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“MUSCLES ARE GREAT:EVERYBODY SHOULD HAVE AT LEAST ONE THAT THEY CAN SHOW OFF" -ANDY WARHOL

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

“Drag is when a man wears everything a lesbian won't.”

-Author Unknown

“IT'S CALLED GOSSIP AND OF COURSE IT'S AN OBSESSION OF MINE -ANDY WARHOL

”Eliasson and Murakami, along with Damien Hirst and Cai Guo-Qiang, form nothing less than the cutting edge of a contemporary avant-garde. Hirst, Murakami, Eliasson and Cai are the Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Juan Gris and Fernand Léger of an artistic sensibility that will likely be remembered as one of the essential stylistic developments of the day -- the rise of the "superartist." Jeff Koons is this phenomenon’s Paul Cézanne. Warhol is its Manet.”

-www.artnet.com

“GEE THAT'S GREAT”

Artwork by Raphael

“THERE'S NO COUNTRY IN THE WORLD THAT LOVES “RIGHT NOW" LIKE AMERICA DOES" -ANDY WARHOL

Britney working on new album

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POST WARHOL PREDICTION:IN THE FUTURE COSMOPOLITAN MAGAZINE WILL BE VOTED “GAYEST MAGAZINE EVER”

STRAIGHT GUYS IS THE NEW GAY

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: POLITICS & JEWISH CULTURE

Fascinating to see how everybody is questionning if Obama is Pro Israel and pro jewish enough while his defense of the idea of “tough love” for everybody is at the very core of jewish culture.

“IT'S CALLED GOSSIP AND OF COURSE IT'S AN OBSESSION OF MINE -ANDY WARHOL

Instead of getting offended, former Toronto Sun sex columnist Valerie Gibson took ownership of the cougar moniker, writing "Cougar: A Guide for Older Women Dating Younger Men" (Key Porter Books, 2002) the same year she first heard it in Canada. "I thought, 'That's a wonderful image of older women,'" Gibson says. "Throughout history, we have never been in charge of our sexual lives past 40, but now we are. We are vital. We are sensual. We do the choosing, dumping and picking. It's a wonderful control."In her book, and in the revised edition, due out next year, she talks about the new breed of single, older woman as "confident, sophisticated, desirable and sexy," a woman who knows exactly what she wants ("younger men and lots of great sex") and what she doesn't ("children, cohabitation or commitment"). The new edition will also have a section for pumas, or cougars in training.Gibson, whose last marriage was to a man 14 years her junior, is frank about why the age disparity works. "Women in their 40s and up are in their sexual prime and young men hit their sexual peak in their late 20s," she says.

www.ajc.com
July 16 2008

“BEAUTY IS A SIGN OF INTELLIGENCE" -ANDY WARHOL

BETTER THAN SEX & THE CITY

“I know a woman who calls somebody up every afternoon and says:“ I'll pay you a hundred dollars to fuck me”. Fabulous.”

-The Philosophy of Andy Warhol.

POST WARHOL PREDICTION:WOMAN MAG: HOW TO MINIMIZE YOUR EXPRESSION WRINKLES WHEN DISCOVERING YOUR MAN IS NOT REALLY BILLIONAIRE!

B-BOY BATTLE FOR 15 MINUTES OF FAME

“IT'S CALLED GOSSIP AND OF COURSE IT'S AN OBSESSION OF MINE -ANDY WARHOL

TYRA BANKS has been named the hardest-working person in showbusiness in a new online poll.The model, talk show host and TV presenter has become a minimogul since she stepped down from the catwalk in 2006 - and now she has landed at the top of a new survey aimed at finding America's hardest-working celebrity.Banks beat American Idol host and DJ Ryan Seacrest, Jennifer Lopez, Heidi Klum and Sean `Diddy' Combs to claim the top spot on Parade.com's annual Summer Pop Culture poll.The poll also claimed Oprah Winfrey as the celebrity most people would like as a next-door neighbour and Nicole Richie beat Mel Gibson and Tom Cruise to become the celebrity with the Most Improved Reputation.Meanwhile, voters chose Jennifer Aniston and John Mayer as the Most Unlikely Couple and Halle Berry beat out Jennifer Lopez and Jessica Alba to claim the Hottest New Mama crown.

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

“Most girls don't know what to do with what they've got. ”

-Jayne Mansfield

“I THINK EVERYONE SHOULD BE BUGGED ALL THE TIME...BUGGED AND PHOTOGRAPHED” -ANDY WARHOL

“IT'S CALLED GOSSIP AND OF COURSE IT'S AN OBSESSION OF MINE -ANDY WARHOL

“I've always believed that all human beings -- male and female -- are born with a gossip gene. And when there's a real-life story or situation that is far better than fiction, whether it's the Brad-Angie-and-Jen triangle or the Madonna-Alex-Cynthia-Guy quadrangle, the need to know overrides what lesser marketers than Madonna might not understand. Madonna knows she initially made her mark as a Bad Girl, and returning to her roots will just elevate her sales power and, best of all, her image. All the new intense chat about her and A-Rod is music to her ears. And a home run. ”

-Bonnie Fuller
AdAge
July 14 2008

“MUSCLES ARE GREAT:EVERYBODY SHOULD HAVE AT LEAST ONE THAT THEY CAN SHOW OFF" -ANDY WARHOL

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

“With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn't consider dying.”

-Bette Davis

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: WOMAN MAG:ARE BOMBS DROPPING NEXT TO YOU IN IRAQ MAKING YOUR HAIR DRY? 10 TIPS FOR GLAMOUR HAIR ON THE BATTLEFIELD!

EVERYBODY'S SKATEBOARDING!

“Everybody's jogging and bike riding and working out in gyms and swimming and cross -country skiing or doing power stuff like triathlons. So if you just work at your office and then have a few drinks and go home and watch TV, just like everybody used to do, you're the minority and compared with everyone else you end up looking terrible».

-Andy Warhol.

“THERE'S NO COUNTRY IN THE WORLD THAT LOVES “RIGHT NOW" LIKE AMERICA DOES" -ANDY WARHOL

Mayor makes Jolie-Pitt births official

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ART & COMMERCE

"Yeah, but there are two different ways to look at that, obviously: homage or rip-off? There were a few incidences of direct, you know, lifts, and others are just flattering references," she laughed, adding that her group Blondie "started out with a uniqueness, but as soon as it became commercial then it was a routine in a way. We couldn't really escape it. The demand for the repetition of that same product was ungodly in a way. But I think that's the problem with art and commerce really."

-Debbie Harry (about music stars influenced by her)

“BEAUTY IS A SIGN OF INTELLIGENCE" -ANDY WARHOL

“IT'S CALLED GOSSIP AND OF COURSE IT'S AN OBSESSION OF MINE -ANDY WARHOL

“Research by Simon Baron-Cohen, a respected Cambridge professor, that began as an investigation into autism, puts a solid case for biological male/female differences in the brain, with boys tending to be “systematisers” and girls “empathisers”. This explains why boys generally are less keen on reading and comprehension, and lag behind girls in literacy. A lot of boys find it easier to explain the workings of a watch than to discuss how a character in a story is feeling. “But now,” says Palmer, “apart from the very bright ones, boys aren't even doing better at maths and science.”

-The Times
July 8 2008

STRAIGHT GUYS IS THE NEW GAY

“THERE'S NO COUNTRY IN THE WORLD THAT LOVES “RIGHT NOW" LIKE AMERICA DOES" -ANDY WARHOL

Nicole's baby doing fine.

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WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

“Don't keep a man guessing too long - he's sure to find the answer somewhere else.”

-Mae West

“ATHLETES ARE GOING TO BE THE NEW MEDIA STARS” -ANDY WARHOL

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: POVERTY

It's not poverty which is intolerable. It's waiting in line behind poor people at the dollar store...

“IT'S CALLED GOSSIP AND OF COURSE IT'S AN OBSESSION OF MINE -ANDY WARHOL

Anthropologist Grant McCracken points to this New York Times article by David Carr about former Us Weekly editor Bonnie Fuller and makes an interesting point about the ideological effects of the celebrity-gossip tabloid Fuller pioneered. The [article’s] most illuminated observation comes from Janice Min.... Here’s how Min explains Fuller’s success. “She is able to almost distill the id of the reader.  She channels them in a way few others do, and what she heard is: ‘I don’t care about your acting method in your last movie. I just want to know what workout you used to get that fabulous body.’ “
This suggests that there has been a shift in the celebrity culture, a movement from admiration to imitation. Fans now treat the star less as a god and more as a set of transformational pointers. Celebrities by this reckoning are better than us but not different from us. This is a very big change. Among other things, it marks the democratization of celebrity and the rise of a culture in which everyone imagines themselves a star, or at least transform themselves with a star’s effort and care.

-Pop Matters
July 10 2008

“THE WORLD FASCINATES ME” -ANDY WARHOL

“THERE'S NO COUNTRY IN THE WORLD THAT LOVES “RIGHT NOW" LIKE AMERICA DOES" -ANDY WARHOL

No boob job for Kournikova

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“MUSCLES ARE GREAT:EVERYBODY SHOULD HAVE AT LEAST ONE THAT THEY CAN SHOW OFF" -ANDY WARHOL

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

“Men should be like Kleenex, soft, strong and disposable.”

-Cher

“MY FAVORITE THING TO BUY IS UNDERWEAR” -ANDY WARHOL

“THERE'S NO COUNTRY IN THE WORLD THAT LOVES “RIGHT NOW" LIKE AMERICA DOES" -ANDY WARHOL

Britney excited to work with Madonna again.

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“IT'S CALLED GOSSIP AND OF COURSE IT'S AN OBSESSION OF MINE -ANDY WARHOL

“US Congress is currently debating legislation which will remove the penalty for copyright infringement if the creator of a work, after a diligent search, cannot be located. Libraries and archives are among the groups lobbying for the change to allow copying of so-called “orphan works”. The legislation would allow a rights holder who subsequently emerges to be paid the normal fee, but removes the currently costly statutory damages which rights’ holders can charge.”

-The Art Newspaper
July 10 2008

“GEE THAT'S GREAT”

Artwork by Andrea Mantegna

PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: POLITICAL CORRECTNESS

Funny how nobody is allowed to publicly acknowledge how most gay men and feminist lesbians just absolutely hate each other...

WARHOL CHILD

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

“Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine. ”

-Diderot.

“IT'S CALLED GOSSIP AND OF COURSE IT'S AN OBSESSION OF MINE -ANDY WARHOL

“I will not apologize for the extreme porn produced today in Los Angeles. It is the expression of the creativity of the people I respect the most. They are not afraid to reach. They are using their bodies in ways unimaginable before. It is art in the purest sense of the word -- art that challenges; art that makes you think.The crazy thing that porn has become is the most incredible expression of freedom. If you don't like this, if you are afraid of this, that is an expression of your approach to life, not ours. We're just achieving sexual gratification; is that so bad? Religion says it is -- to the point of torturing and killing, from the Jewish lesson of Sodom and Gomorrah to the Christians during the Inquisition to the radical Muslims who flew planes into buildings. It's all the same mentality.”

John Stagliano
Los Angeles Times
July 3 2008

PERSONNALY I LOVED PORNO AND I BOUGHT LOTS OF IT ALL THE TIME" -ANDY WARHOL

“THERE'S NO COUNTRY IN THE WORLD THAT LOVES “RIGHT NOW" LIKE AMERICA DOES" -ANDY WARHOL

Nicole Kidman very very pregnant

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PHILOSOPHY FOR THE 21st CENTURY: FEMINISM STRAIGHT MEN & GAY MEN: THE LAST TABOO

Straight men support feminism only if the girl is cute. Gay men only if the girl is very very cute...

“ATHLETES ARE GOING TO BE THE NEW MEDIA STARS” -ANDY WARHOL

POST WARHOL PREDICTION: THE FUTURE OF DIETING PRODUCTS AD: HAVE YOUR BRAIN REMOVED AND LOSE YOUR FAT CELLS FOREVER!

WARHOLIAN QUOTE OF THE DAY

"I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess." -

-Angelina Jolie

STRAIGHT GUYS IS THE NEW GAY