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Overnight Briefing & General Reality Check
July 13, 2010
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Prison countdown:
Just one week until LINDSAY LOHAN heads to jail! (Next Tuesday)
Filling a need:
Good news for shoe-lovers everywhere: Jimmy Choo, Hugo Boss, and Marc Jacobs are finally opening online stores.
These luxury retailers resisted the online thing for years because the so-called "boutique experience" of walking into a brick-and-mortar store is difficult to recreate with a website, but last year's eight percent drop in luxury good sales "forced these manufacturers to realize they needed to look for revenue wherever they could."
The NY Times notes that luxury retailers are also finding many features of the web to their liking: They get to keep a higher percentage of the money by cutting out the department-store middleman, and they completely control the marketing and presentation of their products. (Maiman)Gossip dep't:
Is LEANN RIMES about to be single again? Star magazine reports that boyfriend EDDIE CIBRIAN is tired of all the bad press the couple has been getting (they cheated on their spouses with each other) and has stopped thinking about marrying the country singer. (Myers)
Broadcast, cable and video news:
That new "Hot In Cleveland" show is not just about "women of a certain age." Producers announced yesterday that JOE JONAS (of the JONAS BROTHERS) has just signed to play VALERIE BERTINELLI's son on the show.
Zap2It.com says Joe's first episode will air in August; no word on whether this will be a recurring role on the show.ESPN Sports reporter ERIN ANDREWS has re-signed with the network. The Hollywood Reporter says Erin --who upped her visibility last season with an appearance on ABC's "Dancing With the Stars"-- has picked up a new multi-year deal which includes:
--ESPN's new "College GameDay"
--her usual sideline reporting for various sports events, and
--a new gig as a regular contributor to ABC's "Good Morning America."Grace notes:
PEARL JAM may be taking a long break. At the end of their performance Sunday at the Optimus Alive Festival in Lisbon, Portugal, frontman EDDIE VEDDER read a statement in Portuguese that translated as (quote), "Thank you for coming to our last show. Not our last ever, but our last in a long time." There has been no official statement from Pearl Jam about this. (Marino)
Your Body:
A new cosmetic procedure is catching on. And, it sounds like something out of the Twilight saga.
ABC TV says the so-called vampire facelift is helping people look younger. Here's how it works. A person's own blood is removed, then re-injected into the affected "wrinkly" areas.
The correct medical term for the process is Selphyl. And, technically, it's not really a facelift since the procedure is non-surgical. (Still)Types of toilet-paper consumers:
--Folders: 43 percent
--Crumplers: 41 percent
--Around the hand: 6 percent
--Other: 10 percent
Source: Mental Floss magazine.