Just for LOLs:

Here are a couple pics of manly man Gerard Butler out and about on the streets of Greenwich Village here in NYC over the weekend sportin’ a nifty new man bag:

See, even a hunky slab of masculinity like Mr. Butler realizes that the man bag is an essential part of the modern man’s ensemble. Don’t you think the rough yet supple leather of his manbag offers the perfect accent to his overall manliness? The toothpick is nice touch as well. I feel I must salute Gerard Butler for helping to advance the state of manbagdom, showing dudes all around the world that yes, indeed, it is okay to rock the manbag!

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The incredibly beautiful Aussie popstar/actress Holly Valance is featured on the cover and in the pages of the September issue of FHM magazine. Here is her hawt cover:

After the jump, check out a bunch of supersexy pics from this FHM photoshoot along with a few cute quotes from her interview … (more…)

New York magazine, known for its generous hyperbole and wit, has put the face of Madonna on the cover of its latest issue to accompany a story about the new trend in plastic surgery that rebukes the traditional idea of pulling skin tight and taught and, instead, plumps up the facial features. Apparently the mag feels that our lady Madonna is the new face of The New Face:

Women have been availing themselves of new faces since the dawn of plastic surgery, but suddenly it seemed that there was a better new face to be had. There is a New New Face, very different from the old one, and both my friend and Madonna now have it. Once I starting thinking of it in these terms—the face as the new handbag, say—I started seeing New New Faces everywhere: Demi Moore, Michelle Pfeiffer, Liz Hurley, Naomi Campbell, Stephanie Seymour. They all have it! Even the Olsen twins seem to have a starter version of the New New Face, with their big crazy doll eyes and plush lips. Just to be clear, I don’t presume to know exactly what any of these women have done to their faces, if anything at all. It’s possible (though in some cases before-and-after pictures would seem to suggest otherwise) that this face is occurring entirely naturally—after all, these are women who are famous for being beautiful. The point is that there is a noticeable aesthetic shift happening in the face, and that it’s dovetailing with quantum leaps in plastic surgery and dermatology. Through some unholy marriage of extreme fitness and calorie restriction (and maybe a little lipo), women have figured out how to tame their aging bodies for longer than ever. You see them everywhere in New York City: forty- and fiftysomethings who look better than a 25-year-old in a fitted little dress or a tight pair of jeans. But this level of fitness has created a new problem to which the New New Face is the solution—gauntness. Past a certain age, to paraphrase Catherine Deneuve, it’s either your fanny or your face. In other words, if your body is fierce (from yoga, Pilates, and the treadmill), your face will have no fat on it either and it will be … unfierce. It was only a matter of time before a certain segment of the female population would figure out how to have it both ways, even if it means working out two hours a day and then paying someone to volumize their faces, as they say in the dermatology business. As a friend of mine recently pointed out, there is now a whole new class of women walking around with wiry little bodies and “big ol’ baby faces.” And they look, well, if not exactly young, then attractive in a different way. A yoga body plus the New New Face may not be a fountain of youth, but it’s a fountain of indeterminate age. Psychologists and anthropologists have long tried to nail down what makes us perceive one face as beautiful and another not. There are theories about the math of it, the “Golden Ratio” — how, if you take careful measurements of the lines and triangles formed by a beautiful face, they will add up to the same proportions first noted by the Greeks to be aesthetically pleasing. More recently, a scientist named Michael Cunningham took it upon himself to study the faces of 50 women, half of whom were finalists in an international beauty pageant. In “Measuring the Physical in Physical Attractiveness” (italics mine), he wrote that the width of an eye, if it is to be part of a beautiful face, should be precisely three-tenths the width of the face, and the chin ought to be just one-fifth the height of the face, while the total area of the nose had better be less than 5 percent of the total area of the face or … you is ugly!

LOL! It’s an interesting article, one that I think has some bit of merit, but the cover is misleading. The assumption is that the writer knows specifics about the sort of nip/tucking that celebs are enjoying these days … when, in fact, the article is just an entire piece on assumption and conjecture. I don’t know that Maddy would take too kindly to being made the posterchild for this piece but I suppose she’s as good a candidate as any. At the end of the day, Madonna looks pretty amazing these days (well, except for that odd off day or two) and whatever it is that she does to keep looking so good is OK with me. On a playing field where the new starlets are getting younger every day, well, you gotta do what you gotta do. If plump is the new hot then plump away, I say.

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Details magazine just released new video of Shia LaBeouf talking to the mag about things as varied as the Walgreens drug store chain to his desire to become the 4th Jonas brother … check it out for yourself:

He’s a funny guy, I really hope he gets his shizz straight … it’d be such a shame to watch him fritter away all of his success so soon into his career.

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Yesterday was our first full day back in NYC after our amazing European vacay and to be honest, we didn’t do much. David did a healthy bit of … resting … and I tried to keep things as chill as possible. We stayed in for the majority of the day but managed to wrestle ourselves from the comforts of David’s apartment to meet up with his aunt Judy, her partner Susan and his sister Eden for a sunset drink on the roof of Judy and Susan’s building, followed by a nice dinner together at Frederick’s Downtown. To be honest, there isn’t anything all that exciting to expound upon … it was just a nice evening with members of his family. It was the perfect way to rest, relax and reacclimate ourselves back to our regular routine. I don’t fly back to LA until tomorrow evening so I still have one day left in the big city to hang out with my boo. I think we might venture out for a movie … but, again, the laziness of staying in also has its appeal.

I am a bit anxious to get back to SoCal tho … I miss my baby, Wolfie ;)