Maurice Sendak on the first book he wrote and illustrated in 30 years
A conversation with author Where the Wild Things Are in his latest creation, Bumble Ardy

Maurice Sendak illustrated new book, Bumble Ardy, has long been making - the earliest incarnation was the animated short was created for Sesame Street in 1970. The book tells the story of a young pig named Bumble, who throws illegal, chaotic birthday party for herself to compensate for the life of uncelebrated birthdays. Like classic Sendak, where the Wild Things Are, Bumble Ardy begins with the rebellious hero feels like a child, which is limited to the inner life of the stricture, and who invents a way to explore his wild energy.

Sendak told me by phone from his home in rural Connecticut. We talked for a long time of the Bumble Ardy is how children use fantasy and imagination, his most beloved characters of young hate anti-fans, and why - after 60 years - writing and illustration for children remains fundamentally mysterious process.

Because out there, you've been incredibly busy - designing operas, illustrating contemporary works and classical texts. But this is the first book you wrote and illustrated in 30 years. Bumble Ardy was long in the making, or that you refrain from working with your own words?

I've been doing other things. I became a designer for the opera. I am a big fan of opera, I love classical music, and I need a timeout. I have been touring the country and Europe, and in retrospect, a very good choice, because I sure as hell will not do it now. So it all takes, I did not do anything, but I was too busy with other things.

And then when I came home, and old age and illness began to settle on me, it made sense to make the book again - if I could. I played with this idea on and off for years. It started as a small thing for Sesame Street, which was negligible. I do not really remember why it was done, except for his year of birth was given to me - to come up with a little poem about her age. Then I forgot about it, and I turned it into something else after a few years, but I was unhappy with it, and put it back.

It often happens - you're working on for years and years, until eventually something comes up. I did not know [Bumble] was supposed to be a pig, I did not know, all kinds of things when I started. But then I started fresh again. I do not know how long it took me over the long term - but it is a concept that I suddenly sat up in bed, had an idea, and they sat down and did a book is stupid. It was around my neck for a long time. And I'm so glad it's finished, it is published, and from my life.

Bumble parents, for eight long years, did not allow him to celebrate his birthday. Then he throws a great lap, while his aunt is not home, but she got him the first-ever gift and cake. This duplicity of the response to the mistreatment of the original parents?

He does not trust anyone. His betrayal of her aunt, who seems kind of small, typical of what I feel like it. He is an orphan, after all. And why should he trust anyone? And in order to gain the trust of a child - you may know or not - it is very difficult thing to do. They are so used to not believe an adult - because adults tell stories and lies all the time. I wanted it to be suspicious. And I wanted him to be aggressive for their own use. There was not any reason not to tell him his aunt, it was simply better in their own living conditions, to disrupt it. He does not know why. And I do not know why. This is the book for me many questions, few answers.

I think for children, there is something as exciting and terrifying about the idea of ​​living without supervision - a life without parents. It was something you studied in bumblebees Ardy?

Most of the children - I know what I did when I was a child - to dream another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents. They do not tell their real parents about it - you do not want to tell mom and dad. Children lead a very private life. And I was a typical child (I think). I was a liar. I had to protect my parents from hard truths. Although what I assumed was the hard truth was, in fact - it is difficult to understand that it may be now.

Bumble is a tough little bastard. And he struggled from the word "go." And he knows that he must be good and kind, and all the things that are expected of children. When he tells her that he would never turn 10, it tells you how he did not understand a matter of life and death. And this is something so much on the minds of children. They can not bring it because they do not want to bother their parents - but kids do a lot to not disturb their parents. And they know a lot.

I knew a little girl, who told her parents - because her school was near the twin towers when it happened - and she told her father that she saw a butterfly out of the windows. And only then he said: "They were not butterflies They were people.." But she lied, first, to make it more comfortable. And that's what kids do - they are very brave. And they sacrifice a lot. And they're trying to play dumb and stupid, because - well, it's kind of waiting parents.

This is what all fairy tales, all mainly about - about the vulnerability of children and how they figure out ways and methods, living in peace and are the parents. Make-believe parents. And I think that this is probably one of the toughest jobs in the world. Being a parent, and not succumbing to failure. I think that people should be given the same test as test driver, what could be their parents! It is an art form. I talk a lot. And I think a lot. And I draw a lot. But never in a million years would I have been a parent. It's just a job, it's too hard.

Because it is so much responsibility.

Yes! God knows that it is enough just to have kids. It's easier than taking a test driver. But I do not know how many people think twice about it.

Aunt Adeline, seems to be one of those people who does a good job - she'd parents pass the test.

She is naturally good. It's large, kind woman - but even if it is not her son, she will kill to protect it. I love to watch movies of animals on television. The only thing I watch this movie animals. I love animals - I love animals more than I love the human animal. And watch the mother bear, or leopard, or something, take care of a child - and the kind of intensity that cares about what kind of protection - that's great. It is built into being. And so it is impressive to see the bear look like it will kill you if you take one more step. And this is the only way these children survive.

Aunt Adeline, in her fierce loyalty, reminds me of a mother bear in the book Little Else Holmelund Minarik Bear, which you shown.

When I was doing this book, I was quite young. And I wanted to bear. I wanted someone like that in my life. My mother was troubled, and she was an ordinary man, but I had high hopes for it. I did not know about her problems. I did not care about their problems - I thought she was there for me! And if it was not there for me, it was not a very good mother. Thus, expectations of children are very charged and difficult.

So bear was better fantasy mother, gentle looks, kindness of her body. The way she moved, as she sat with her as she spoke - it was a dream. The dream of the mother.

Adeline gift Aunt Bumble makes it a good one: a cowboy suit allows him to play. The suit allows him entry into the realm of fantasy and imagination, so it's a good gift - even if he takes it too far.

Characters who come to the party, would you let them into your home?

No [laughs]

Will not I. But in the book where you do not have to pretend to be civilized, and you should not pretend that he is aware that it is necessary that the little boy could go wrong in itself, but to bring people and strange creatures, where he feels safe in between . And that is something that's difficult to describe and difficult to explain. And I had the instinct of the people I had not planned to go high or great lady lady or a fat pig or whatever. But if I was a kid, those types of people I would like to have in my party.

I found them frightening! By changing their shape - it's hard to say that this is a mask, and that person. Maybe I fear the imposition of an adult about it. Maybe for a child it will be simply breathtaking.

But you are an adult. You should do what your body tells you to do. Children can distort, and play with numbers and ideas, with turnover that strains of us - that we grow out of. Except if you're an illustrator of children's books, and you in your mind. [Laughs]. I'm 83 and I'd like to believe that I was civilized, but I'm not. Otherwise, I could not do the work I do. I do not know how to make a book for children. I do not even know that children's book. I always know that my work is appropriate - is more appropriate - for children. I do not believe, but who cares? Who cares.

Why do not you believe that you're writing for children?

I do not know what that means. How do you write for children? I've never really figured that out. So I decided to just ignore it. I knew that my book would only be published as a book for children. And I was once vehemently opposed to it. I would like Outside Over There, should be implemented as a complex work of art. Well, it's not. And I had to live with it. And yet, perhaps, in some ways, this is my favorite book of all that I have ever done. But it is a strange book. It is a strange book. It's a strange world.

What readers are children? Why is that something be given to children means that it is not literature?

They have no money, so they can not go out and make their own choices. So my mother or grandmother or someone brings them a good book. And they will do anything to make adult content, so that they would like a book. Children are very good. And they will not offend anyone by saying: "I hate this book." Except when they write to me and they said: "I hate this book."

Has that happened to you?

Ah, yes. And those same letters of thanks. I have pierced their armor.

The little girl who wrote said, "Why are there babies in Outside Over There, What the hell happened to them and why they all wear hats and why they all wear big, swimmy clothes?" She was furious! She said: "Do not you know how to dress a child properly?"

Well, it's not what put it on - but that's what she thinks she put it. Her mother turned a little note saying that she was angry all the time - not the mother, child. Because my mother was pregnant, and she explained to me very carefully how happy her daughter will be when the child came into the house. And her little daughter said to her - but not to be heard - I do not want a baby in the house. Throw it in the trash.

It was wonderful, because she found what she was talking to her indignation. So I was so happy for her.

So it's a sign of success - what you call it emotional about something.

Yes. I knew how to interpret her anger. I knew how to sympathize with her anger. And you know, is that the book should be once in a while. I love to read. I love reading - is one of the best reasons to stay alive. Reading. I experienced a lot of emotional, traumatic things in my life - reading.

On the first page of bumblebees Ardy, a Bumble read the newspaper, which says, "We read banned books!" Is this just a clever author of invasion, or knowing nod to smart parents? Or is it somehow address or inform the content of this book in particular?

I was not allowed in my life. I was banned during the night in the kitchen. Because the boy had a beak. A boy without a woodpecker - that is what I would condemn him. But it is a pointless thing to get angry about. But you see, if this is a children's book - if you do not have a beak. Well, garbage. Boys Boys and girls are girls. What the hell are we fighting about?

So I have a lot of arguments about what they consider appropriate or inappropriate for children. I think not wanting to, I was out of place. No, not on my terms - on their terms. But it does not matter. It does not matter.

But as an artist, you decide what is appropriate and that it is inappropriate for children?

I do not think about it. I just want to be picked up by the idea and get all excited. And put a symphony by Mozart for the player and get more excited.

Music was such an important part of your process.

Yes. I was surprised at the [10th anniversary] 9/11--I tried to spend a whole day of it. I do not want to get involved in it again. And that night on Channel 13, they planned to Mahler Symphony number 2. I am a big fan of Mahler, but I never liked Symphony № 2 - "Resurrection" Symphony. But I was blubbering and crying at the end of the symphony. And that's just what music can do. I have not heard of any of the speeches, I do not want to watch, I do not want to hear. But I need someone to pull me out - and it was Mahler! And I greeted with tears, and I welcomed my ability to respond so passionately to the arts - especially music. I love music above all other art forms. This is a reason to go on living.

This demonstrates the wordless power of music to make us feel emotions.

Unbelievable. And at the end of the Resurrection Symphony, he inserts the words, which, in the performance of two women - it is so incredibly beautiful. It's so clear! As it should be. It should not be understood. Except for the way that the girl hated those little children: a passion inside so that you do not need to explain. That you do not have to tell your therapist about.

In interviews, you talked disparagingly about what you call "Kiddiebookland," the kingdom of saccharine, squeaky clean books that depict children, innocent and guileless. Why the authors and publishers of these books underestimate children and childhood?

Well, when a child says to me - as a child made me write - and says. "I hate your book, I hope you die soon is welcome.". Well, the combination of "I hope you die soon" and "heart" that's fine. It shows how puzzling it all was for her - and for me.

She was allowing herself to hate. "I hate your book." But she learned in school that you have to finish writing the word "heart" or "best wishes". And so they combine the two, not thinking something stupid in the sort of thing. But that is their charm, and that's what we lose on growing - lose, lose, lose. And if we're lucky, it will happen again when we are old. And I would like to believe that this is happening to me. Things that were so wonderful to me to go back now. I am very grateful - because I do not know how to begin anyway. But it happens. And I think bumblebees Ardy first for me in many ways.

Michelle Salahi was neither kidnapped nor forced it to Neal Schon
Tareq Salahi claims that his wife is 96 months (ERR 8 years), Michelle Salahi, with whom he is in the news, a lot of time for all the wrong reasons, was kidnapped. The police say they have talked to Maverick lady and I know that this is not true and that she put up with middle-aged guitarist. But he did not believe anybody.

A couple stole the spotlight on their habit of cracking in all types of unwanted software, including one that was organized by President Obama to visit Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, his first state dinner after the entry into dolzhnost.Rassledovanie is still ongoing in the case as of as they were unwelcome in the White House?

The duo has been publicly seeking a couple who wanted to be in the news by any means. I am under the impression that they thought that their lives will be a reality show where they could resort to anything to win it.

Tareq Salahi yesterday went to the city, claiming that his wife has been kidnapped. But this theory was destroyed when officials said it was a 57 year old guitarist Neal Schon and rode with him on tour.

TMZ report says: "... is not stole ... Michelle Salahi ran away with Neal Schon, guitarist for the band leader Journey".

Tareq Salahi So you say now? Meanwhile, he later told his wife she might have been forced to do so.

Demand for the Missoni line so hot it breaks down the Web site at the target
Website Tag collapsed Tuesday, as the devotees who love Missoni fashion invaded, scrambling to buy couture Italian designer to the song.

With its limited edition Missoni for the target line, presented on Tuesday, and other cheap designer collections, Target is trying to position itself as the most luxurious of discount stores. Clothing Missoni, usually cost hundreds or thousands of dollars, but he developed a number of cheaper products for Target, a $ 40 skirt its signature zigzag design and $ 600 patio set. Nevertheless, a limited edition fashion were more limited than the target may have wanted.

In an unusual spending time at a large retailer, the problem was not ready to starvation of online shoppers for the items. Target.com site was destroyed during the greater part of the day, the company said that demand for the items was higher than it was a normal day after Thanksgiving, and that is usually the biggest shopping day of the year.

"The excitement for this limited-time designer collection is unprecedented," said Morgan O'Murray, spokesman for Target, in an email. The website aims at working properly again around 11 pm Eastern time on Tuesday.

But on Twitter and other social networks, frustrated customers posted messages rage and sympathy to refuse a site with a few bragging that they made it through in a short period, Target.com worked.

Marketing experts said the blunder was an amateur, though, and said that there should be no lasting effect on the reputation of the target.

"It's a little embarrassing one of the largest retailers in the country to have a web site that can not support a peak - it's not like they are strangers to racing," said Ian Schafer, CEO of digital marketing firm Deep Focus. "He said:" We have become so popular, we had to turn people away at the door. "Then get more space."

The problems come just three weeks after Target, which rely on the back of the Amazon on its Web site, has moved to its own platform. But Ms. O'Murray said the site was crashing due to demand for exclusive products.

Missoni line was the latest in a series of cheap designer collections for Target. Past members have included Calypso St. Barth, Liberty of London, Rodarte, and Zac Posen.

All collections are available both online and in stores, said a representative of the target, Joshua Thomas, and many items from the collections were sold quickly. In the event, Missoni, in his words, the scale and immediacy of the demand was unprecedented.

Cooperation usually bring in regular customers who are willing to trust a piece of glamor to the fraction of the price, along with fashion fans who like to wear cheap chic novelty piece made by a designer favored. Missoni pieces at Target mostly below $ 40, for example, while Missoni items in Bergdorf Goodman worth up to $ 12,000.

Target drumming up publicity for the heavy line Missoni until Tuesday, releasing photos of products fashion bloggers, keeping the party with celebrities and fashion editors, as well as the creation of a pop-up shop last week in New York, where goods are sold in six hours. Even Vogue has given the collection a few pages of coverage in its August issue, perhaps the first and last time that the $ 30 carpet made it to that journal.

By last week, the excitement was so great that actress Jessica Alba and Jessica Simpson, both of which are no doubt not afford full-price Missoni, said on Twitter about the line. "I dreamed about Missoni 4 Target bike last night," Ms. Alba Post, referring to the $ 400 bike is covered in zigzags. "I want a bike too! How cute!" Miss Simpson said.

On Tuesday, Target made the Missoni products available online at 6 am to 7:47 am, on the main page was down, with "connection timeout" error, according to AlertSite, a company that controls the speed of the network. By 8 am, the task was put up courtesy of a page, the site said the problem being worked on.

Other than a few minutes here and there, the problem continued until late evening. By the time the goal was to put people in sort of a queue, the automatic update to those who have been patient can reach the site.

Even when buyers did pass, many complained that items were disappearing from their baskets, or that they were unable to verify. Alex Gagne, 23, marketing director at Mission Viejo, Calif., said she stopped at her target store from early morning to buy a vase and Missoni shoes, and spent most of the rest of the morning trying to get to the site.

"It was a nightmare," she said. When she is finally on site, "at one point I entered payment information, and she was gone."

"Their site was absolutely, 100 percent are not ready for this," she said.

While Target has recently stopped using e-commerce platform Amazon, to make your Web site work, analysts said on Tuesday the problems were probably caused by a sudden demand for Missoni.

"It is difficult to attribute to the division site is the Amazon, although Amazon Web Services offers a flexible computing power that would help with this surge in demand," said Matthew Nemer, an analyst at Wells Fargo Securities, who covers e-commerce, e-mail.

Targeted physical stores have been long lines on Tuesday, and many sell their range of Missoni in minutes. But it was a problem site, which drew anger from customers continued. Actress Mindy Kalinga messages on Twitter that "@ target broke my heart today when I could not access the site once every 9 hours for Missoni".

Another customer announcement: "Seriously so angry @ TargetStyle. Why do not you prepare for the Missoni line for Target?"

There were other ways to obtain them. Lohman, buyers, and advised readers to call the toll free number Tag to order items by phone. Some posters on Twitter suggested using the mobile site. And at 5 o'clock in the evening, after the products were only available at 11 hours, eBay listing was for 6600 points of Missoni Target.

Miss Universe 2011 Contestants
The new Miss Universe Leila Lopes hopes her victory will help her native Angola to avoid further his stories of war and poverty and said that she plans to focus on the fight against HIV in the world.

Speaking in a timid voice on Tuesday morning shortly after taking the crown in the largest city in South America, 25-year-old Lopez said that the "Miss Angola I have done much to help my people."

"I worked with a variety of social causes. I work with poor children, I work in the fight against HIV. I have been working to protect the elderly and I have to do everything that my country needs," she said. "I think that now, as Miss Universe I can do a lot more."

Replying to questions, Lopez said she never had cosmetic surgery of any kind and that her three tips for beauty had to get plenty of sleep and block the use of armed forces, even if it is not sunny and drink plenty of water. She said that her smile was her best weapon in the competition.

Responding to a question about racism in light of the fact that she is one of the few blacks ever Miss Universe, Lopez said that "any racist to ask for help. It is not normal in the 21st century to think that way."

Lopez is the first winner of Angola. She walked 88 other competitors to win the title for the 60th anniversary of the biggest beauty pageant in the world. It replaces last year's winner, Ximena Navarrete of Mexico.

She deftly handled the interview question asked by the remaining five contestants. She was questioned about what physical trait she would change if she could.

"Thank God, I am very pleased with the way God made me, and I would not change anything," said Lopez. "I think of myself as a woman endowed with inner beauty. I bought a lot of great principles of my family and I intend to follow it for a lifetime."

First Vice-was 23-year-old Olesya Stefanko Ukraine and was second vice-Priscila Machado Brazil. The third was Miss Philippines and Miss China fourth.

Participants spent the last three weeks in Sao Paulo, trying to learn samba dance steps, visiting underprivileged children and kicked a football for the cameras, as Miss Universe has come to Brazil for the first time.

Despite the struggle against the country's favorite, Lopez won the audience, speaking in a common language to Portuguese. Angola, Brazil, is a former Portuguese colony.

"She captivated the crowd and we were all behind her," said the Brazilian Natalie Bursztyn, 20, who was in the crowd inside the Credicard Hall, where the event occurred. "It was great that the judges also saw that the fans saw and gave her the crown. Her dress was beautiful, and she knew exactly what to say when they asked her questions about her appearance."

Another fan in the audience, Carolina Rocha, said Lopez win was "well-deserved, we were rooting for her all the time. Her smile and her friendliness was what set it apart from others. She also answered her question very well that the probability helped her a lot. "

U.S. broadcast journalist Connie Chung was one of the top judges, said before the competition that she was taking the competition seriously.

"I know my job and I'll be tough, but fair," said Chung. "You have to keep in mind that these women are not objects but would be considered. They have to be taken seriously. I want to choose someone I really and the world seriously, too."

Paula Shugart, president of the Miss Universe, has been hyped for the night.

"It's our 60th anniversary, this is a very great show," she said. "We are close to a billion viewers in anticipation of the whole world."

Shugart said it is assembling the biggest beauty contest of the globe will be held in Brazil at this time, as the country prepares to host some major events in the coming years.

"I do not think that is any doubt in the mind the rest of the world that Brazil is a place between the Olympics and the championship of the world," she said. "I like the fact that we're going to blow it. I always say that we" World Cup "beauty."

Participants should not have been married or had children, and must be at least 18 years of age and under 27 years to February 1 of the competition year.

Competition organized by the NBC "Today" anchor Natalie Morales and Andy Cohen, Bravo network, has been broadcastr live on NBC and distributed to approximately 170 countries. Contest co-owned by Donald Trump and NBC, and celebrity judges included Chang and two well-known Brazilian, supermodel Isabeli Fontana and Indy race car driver Helio Castroneves.

Morales, who is half Brazilian, said that "the most important thing for women to be beautiful inside and out."

For Cohen, the task of hosting an easy one.

"It's a fun job. All I have to do is stand and smile and shout the names of countries," he said.

Sharply dressed men and women pushed to the chance to have their photos taken with the stars on the red carpet. Some traveled the world to support the contestants.

Jehona Dreshaj, 17, arrived from Kosovo, to cheer on his sister, Aferdita Dreshaj, representing a European country.

"It does not matter the result, she was the winner in our eyes, and we are so proud of her," she said. "It was an incredible experience for her and for us all. It's great for her to represent our country in an event like this"

There have been no headline-grabbing blunders going in the competition this year, unlike in previous years, which saw the debates of various stripes. Show went off without a hitch.

Some participants complained about the local media about the amount used in several bikini photo shoots, and Miss Mexico Karin Ontiveros saying they were "very small".

That was enough to draw chuckles in Brazil, where women from all walks of life, not just beauty queens, sports, barely there swimsuits on the beaches across the country.

Miss USA Alyssa Campanella, California, failed to end a long losing spell for the U.S. competition. American has been named Miss Universe Brook Lee won a title in 1997.

The contest began as a local bathing suit revue in Long Beach, California, organized by the swimwear company.

Kristin Chenoweth, Being gay is not a sin, period.
Kristin Chenoweth, the perfect actress, singer and self-identifying as a Christian, said that being gay is not a sin, and that she thinks that being gay is the same as it was short - it's just the way people are born.

These comments were made as part of an interview with the gay glossy's lawyer, in which Chenoweth, perhaps best known for her role as Glinda in the Tony-winning musical adaptation of Wicked, talks about his participation in the upcoming ABC drama a good Christian and Belles release their fourth studio album, Some Lessons .

In an interview Chenoweth says that just because she is a Christian does not mean that she blindly follow what others are saying that her religion requires it, and that instead it relies on the old adage, "What would Jesus do?" Claiming that it is indifferent 't believe that Jesus walked around saying "You're going to hell" and "You're wrong, you're wrong, you're wrong," but instead will take and loving person.

Chenoweth, who herself just a woman, also detail its view of people born gay, saying: "What would I do if it was a sin to be short? That's how God made me, so what could I do? Let's see, I can wear heels, I can tease my hair, and maybe on a good day I could be 5'1 ". But the point is that I'm 4'11 "and just as I had put together. And that's what I think about homosexuals."

When asked how she feels about being criticized for this belief other Christians, Chenoweth says she respects their right to their opinion, but asked they respect her right to an opinion.

When asked if she thinks Christians are "bad," Chenoweth says yes, but suggests that some groups call themselves Christian can in practice bring it on themselves. She adds:

"But I also think there are many Christians who believe as I do. My family is very similar to me. But I grew up in the Bible belt - and you know what's going on with it. My grandmother Chenoweth told me something, when I grew up. My [gay] best friend - I talked about it many times, his name's Danny. I asked my grandmother Chenoweth: "It may be that he's going to hell? I just do not think that [it is] right "and she said," Well, Chris, I read the Bible, as I eat fish. I take the meat, and it serves me well, but I do not choke on a bone. "

And I think she's on something. "I take the meat, which serves me well, but I do not choke on a bone." I read my Bible and pray, and all that - I really am. But at the same time, I do not think that being gay is a sin. Period.

Rachel Zoe Stylist, as a Celebrity Designer
In the locker room at Saks club on the third floor of its flagship Fifth Avenue, Rachel Zoe advises petite, strawberry-blonde 17-year-old shopping with her mother on how to wear a white blazer sequins. "I like to wear it a little more, so you can be zero or two or four," she tells her. "If this part is too small," she says, explaining that the seam does not have to hit below the shoulder for cool slouchy effect, "you can not fool him." As a stylist, film star Zoe reportedly pay $ 10,000 per day for this advice to dress, but today, it is not just style, it is also to sell her new clothing line, Rachel Zoe Collection, which hit more than 100 retail sales floors in the U.S. and Canada four weeks ago.

Seventies and Boho-style products, which include a suitable, long dresses, blouses, sequin minidresses, jackets and furs errors, look exactly like something Zoe would wear. "It's un-chic," she tells her next client, a 30-ish hedge fund manager, helping her in the camel cape. "I do not want to sound like a walking advertisement, but it is." This is a $ 695 wool cape is sold in Nordstrom, which will rearrange it before the weather actually feels like fall, and then they'll probably sell it again.

Zoe was a bold tabloid title since 2004, when she made over Nicole Richie in her Boho chic look. But she became a star in her own right after her reality show Bravo Rachel Zoe Project debuted in 2008, the last season finale attracting 1.1. million viewers (the show premieres its fourth season tonight.) So when her collection debuted at New York Fashion Week last February, he made it as just another clothing line from celebrity. But Zoe line, unlike many celebrity lines, is neither cheap nor fleeting, nor forgettably gray. The difference can be fashion credibility it gained after working for years behind the scenes, not just dressing people like Britney Spears and Jennifer Garner, but the style of fashion shoots for magazines such as Harper `s Bazaar and advertising campaigns for brands such as True Religion.

Nobody knew what the red carpet stylists lasted until Barbara Tfank smartly dressed Uma Thurman in the 1995 Oscar Prada (it was one of the first cases in which the star had appeared in that you can actually bribe from the bar, as opposed to specifically dress) . Since none of them became as famous as Zoe, by increasing public fascination with the machinations of the fashion industry (in part because of the reality show like it!) And the rapid spread of fashion sites in need of their celebrity. Now stylists like Zoe, Nicola Formichetti (who became creative director Mugler after laying Lady Gaga) and Taylor Tomasi-Hill (which advises the Sigerson Morrison) is almost as famous as they dress the stars, as well as the creation of identity is part of the job - something the agents look for when signing new talent.

For the first time line, the launch of Rachel Zoe collection was unusually high. Nordstrom, Bloomingdale, at Saks Fifth Avenue, Bergdorf Goodman, Neiman Marcus and Intermix all picked it up, and they argue that they already have trouble keeping units, which range from $ 250 to $ 700 in stock. "It's been a long time since we took a risk with the first designer in Bloomingdale", said Stephanie Solomon, director of women's fashion chain, which usually starts new line only "a handful of stores" (Zoe is in line eight). Nordstrom vice president of designer apparel, Jennifer Wheeler agrees that something felt, features this line: "It's great when you have a name, but if you do not have the goods - if the collection was not good - it will not work" she says. Nordstrom executives say sales through rate four times expectations. Colleen Sherin, fashion director of Saks senior, also describes the amount Sachs bought the collection as "unusual." "It's not just a season these things," says Shereen. "She is a serious business."

Zoe, whose favorite word "May" (short for "key") and "banana" and "I die," may not sound like your typical business woman. But she strongly prefers to call himself that, instead, and strategic moves she did in conceiving of this line show that it really is an entrepreneur, "celebrity." - and very good. Firstly, it has partnered with Li & Fung, a highly successful producer who makes $ 20 billion in U.S. sales annually and employs House of Deréon, Kohl line Jennifer Lopez and Sean John clothing sportswear men among their brands. Catherine Moellering, executive vice president of Tobe, the retail consulting firm trends, suspects Li & Fung has given retailers confidence, from a practical point of view. She explains, " From Li & Fung, [retailers] feel very comfortable leaving him in terms of production. It's going to be perfect, and there are not always great examples of celebrities startups that can be done. Li & Fung does not know how to do this - they understand the profitability of the dance. "

Secondly, Zoe line is positioned in a lack of market. Price point Rachel Zoe Collection puts it "right on the verge of a bridge" - a category which includes Tory Burch and Elie Tahari - ", which remains the most problematic in the puzzle department store", Moellering said. Moellering wonders if Li & Fung, which boasts strong relationships with many retailers, and tapped his network to find out where the largest share of the market will be for Zoe: "In relation to the market, and where there is a void that seems very smart, to me. "

Zoe says that she made a conscious decision about the prices, "because I think that there are enough brilliant design makes a fashion designer at this point." She adds: "I was really obsessive about keeping the price. And I remember there were some parts that I liked the sample, and I sat with my design team and it was so, the amount of money and I would be, I'm not going to that the higher price category. It's too expensive. "

She made a bold debut tailoring, which is never easy to do, and certainly not for the first collection, including trouser suits in plaid, black and tan. Sequined dresses and tiered cocktail dresses in cream and leopards also figure prominently. Outerwear includes faux-fur jackets and coats with artificial fur panels - easy shortcut for those who want to look up trademark stylist. Line is more glam than LA New York cool - stylish, but not so stylish that it's scary to casual observers of fashion.

Moellering easy to see Zoe's brand is "full of life to" pretend to grow until it encompasses everything from clothing to jewelry swimwear for flavor. "Li & Fung, they do not, so it was $ 20 million dollars of business, they do it because they want it to be a multibillion-dollar business."

Zoe will tell you that she is fighting for it all. "I have worked with many designers. I do understand the design process," she says. "It's so fun, but it's a big job. I chose this glitter of ten thousand sequins, I chose the coat of wool of a hundred, I chose this artificial fur of the four hundred samples of fake fur." ​​Such statements are not unusual in celebrity lines with clothing, which often tell the press they know how to make a lot of clothes when they actually have little in common with the line that bears their name. But von Zoe as a stylist brings her more reliable. "She's a celebrity because she is an incredible stylist," says Wheeler, Nordstrom. "Two very interrelated. She always had a finger on the pulse of fashion, where there is, and it really helped push it in that direction. And she knows what makes women look good." Although Zoe says that she did not know it would be aesthetic huge on the runways, where she launched a line, that's exactly what happened. "Who really Boho and seventies better than Rachel?" Moellering said. "And those should be two of the biggest trends right now."

Zoe admits that it is not easy to go from stylist to designer in the rarefied world of haute couture. "I sat with these buyers and fashion directors of these stores have many, many years," she says. "And the Editor of the heads and stuff - the idea, judging by his petrifying. Petrifying." Added load line is an important obstacle, either. New labels tend to have more time to plan his first collection than their second, third, fourth and so on, and the subsequent collection really tell retailers how much the line has the stamina. Zoe says that she is primed to handle the pace of the legendary fashion. "Now I have a style in the spring for a presentation in a couple of weeks, but the next day we started doing sketches and fabric for fall, so it's kind of keeping your head in one place and be clear about what you're in the season .. But I always had to deal with how the stylist and fashion editor of a model wearing fur in June and December bikini "She says you can expect to reduce the load in the pants some iteration of each season - with sequins and faux fur, of course. In addition, in the works: fragrance, jewelry and cosmetics.

Back to Saks Fifth Avenue Club, when Zoe wraps her visits with private clients, CEO of Saks, Stephen I. Sadove Zoe pulls to one side. "You see your window? This feature our window," he tells her. It has not, but it will look like after she welcomed packed room full of fans at the cocktail party a few floors up.

"I will always be the style. This is the essence of what I do. It's who I am. I love my customers," says Zoe. Many of them are happy to support it by wearing the line. However, Zoe adds: "If they wear it, great. If they do not, that's okay too. Definitely not making it in the face." Still Jennifer Lopez, who is not a client of Zoe, already have pieces from the museum's collection in for two public performances. InStyle endorsed his party in Los Angeles in June, where celebrities like Amber Valetta and Ali Larter were happy to pieces. Marketing opportunities, as not only happen to someone clothing line - and that's why the name, as Zoe is so valuable.

Sons of Anarchy Season 3:
One of our resident botanists TV, Melissa Miller, Sons of Anarchy has prepared a kickass season 3 DVD review for you fans SOA. If you're wondering about what features are included, you should check your eye down and see what she thinks about all of the gag reel at the table read of the season.

It's September, so it means that we are just a few days after the start of the fall season and the premiere of Season 4 sons of anarchy. Before the boys get out of jail SAMCRO, I suggest you check out SOA DVD and see what went down last season. There are also many good features!

Just in case you forgot, at the end of last season, Jax and the boys returned from Belfast, where they were finally rescued his kidnapped son, Abel. Jax also struck a deal with ATF Agent Stahl, that would keep his mother from prison for the murder of his daughter and save Zobel imprisonment for a minimum of SAMCRO wards gun. Jax found out Tara was pregnant. Unser, no longer the main due to Hale, and helped to kill Jimmy and SAMCRO more troublesome Stahl. The guys also threaded over the Russian. A day in the charming, it was bloody, but it is cooked well enough. Except for an allusion to the future of the drama: Tara found a letter from John Teller to his other babymama, Maureen, who said that he felt if he had died, it would be on hand to Gemma and Clay.

So now you're caught up, let's look at the Sons of Anarchy Season 3 DVD special features.

The future starts now

This is my favorite part of the DVD (but they can also be found on Facebook SOA and iPhone / Android app). These four shorts that take place within 14 months period of the guys are in prison. Before watching season 4, I highly recommend checking these out. I've seen a few episodes of the first season 4, and these mini-episodes to shed some light on the events occurring in them, as with Russian letters and the discovery of Tara Johns. Also fun tidbit, Ryan Hurst (who plays Opie) sent two of them, "payphone" and "Mexican Basketball." If you Jax / Tara fan (who the hell not?) You should definitely see a Jax, where he met with his son, Thomas. To say that this is absolutely fascinating is an understatement. Even in those unflattering blues prison, Charlie Hunnam toss hot considering that boy. (My apologies to our readers men. I'll try to keep to a minimum of objectification Hunnam ....)

Author's Roundtable

This is exactly what it sounds like. This is Kurt Sutter and 5 writers sitting around the table answering questions, Kurt got on Twitter. (By the way - to help bring Kurt back to Twitter He is a fantastic out there, but left because of too much media attention get him in trouble when he gets to 66,666 followers, he will again premiere @ sutterink! ..) If you're like behind the scenes, and familiarity with warped minds who create these stories, you see in this series, check it out. I personally love these things - I'm a big TV Geek (obviously) and I love hearing these stories. Plus Kurt Sutter is just such a person is worth checking out. You'll also learn a few arcs that changed history, which I found interesting, though not always really amazing.

Custom Bike Build

I thought it would be just about the bikes on show, but actually on a bicycle, which was built to auction for charity - Wounded Warrior Project. They built the bike was a modern interpretation of Bobby Hurley. My personal knowledge of the inner workings of motorcycles is limited to whatever I saw on American Chopper back in the day. Thus, to be honest, much of it went over my head. Nevertheless, for all of you who do it, it's probably a fun 15 minutes later. These guys are obviously very good at what they do.They take a lot of time explaining the parts that they have chosen, the decisions they made and how it's done. Plus, as I said, it was for charity. You can not go wrong. Oh - and the bike was amazing.

Directing Finale w / Kurt Sutter

This is just a short short that puts you in the process of Kurt about how he loves to the end of each season. As the author of the roundtable is for people who are interested in what it takes to get this show done. I think Kurt Sutter endlessly fascinating, so I used to hear his thoughts. I think all of you smart enough to know what to expect from this kind of extra!

Table Reading season finale (NS)

Remember, how about 2 minutes ago I just said that the mini-episodes of my beloved? Total lie. This is my favorite. It's not often you get to sit and watch something like this. If you do not know that the table reading - a kind of rehearsal, they make for a TV show. Before shooting, er, they sit down and read the script (as the name would indicate), just to get a sense of dialogue and story. You also get the opportunity to hear all the notes scenario - a movement which is written, thought the characters should have. A lot of the show is shown in the corner, so you can recall about the actual episode. If you have 45 minutes to invest in feature - I recommend it.

Gag Reel

Gag reel ... just kidding. You know what it is - actors screwing up. Or in the case of one scene, chic makeup screwing up. I particularly like each bit with Kate Segal (Gemma) and Ally Walker (Agent Stahl), because those girls are, of course, giggly. And really - is not it more, we always want to, regardless of the DVD?

Deleted scenes

Each disc has some deleted scenes for an episode on it. If you have time, I tell them to watch. I have discovered that SOA deleted scenes are more interesting than many deleted scenes I've seen on other DVD-ROM drive. The reason is that, unlike those films tend to reduce the time and not for content. When the scene got to drive, this means Kurt felt it was worth a look. They do not always have something significant to them, and some offer additional insight into the characters. And SAMCRO never bad.

Fox Movie Channel Presents World Premiere: SOA Season 3

This is a short that aired on Fox Movie Channel premiere of the party for Season 3 last year. Tava Smiley is organized, which I found funny, because she used to be on General Hospital. (Bet you never thought that would be shouting GH in this article!) There are some funny interviews, including Charlie spoke with his real accent, which is just damn cute.

Dancing with the stars 2011
Although ABC won’t officially announce the Fall 2011 cast of “Dancing With the Stars” until Monday night, the blogosphere has been speculating for weeks about which celebs will compete for the hideous mirror ball trophy.

Names tossed around include Chaz Bono, Ron Artest, Snooki, Rob Kardashian and Tiffani Thiessen, though some have offered quick denials.

Here’s the speculative list making the rounds today:

David Arquette, actor and frequent Howard Stern guest

Ron Artest, Los Angeles Lakers forward whose wife, Kimsha, is currently starring in VH1’s “Basketball Wives LA”

Chaz Bono, (born Chastity, daughter of Sonny and Cher), and the subject of OWN documentary series “Becoming Chaz,” which chronicled his life following sex reassignment surgery

Elisabetta Canalis, model (but more importantly, George Clooney ex-girlfriend)

Kristin Cavallari, “The Hills” protagonist and ex-fiancee of Chicago Bears quarterback Jay Cutler

Nancy Grace, Headline News commentator who made headlines with her exhaustive coverage of the Casey Anthony trial

Rob Kardashian, of E!’s “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” and brother of Kim, etc.

Ricki Lake, actress and former talk show host

J.R. Martinez, Iraq war veteran and actor on ABC's “All My Children"

Ryan O’Neal, actor and recent star of OWN’s “Ryan & Tatum: The O’Neals”,trying to mend his relationship with daughter Tatum

Chynna Phillips, singer and actress

Hope Solo, U.S. women soccer team’s goalkeeper

We’ll be live blogging the official announcement tonight, so come back to see which names will actually take the stage.

Tyler the Creator wins best new artist, disses Bruno Mars
Crisis averted. Tyler the Creator, the winner of the MTV VMA Best New Artist in 2011, will not kill themselves on Sunday (August 28).

Let's back up: During the pre-show, when Tyler knew he was at the bottom of useless Tweet MTV Tracker's while Bruno Mars was upstairs, he told MTV host Sway, the music that Mars "suck." Not only that, but if he lost best new artist award on Mars, Tyler said: "I ​​could kill myself."

Twitterverse was quick to point out that the victory of one of Tyler, "Yonkers" contains potentially homophobic lyrics.

Nick Ashford, 70, wrote hits for Ray Charles, Diana Ross
As a partner songs, Nick Ashford and his wife, Valerie Simpson, wrote chart-topping rhythm and blues hits for Ray Charles, Marvin Gaye and Diana Ross, and then went on to become stars themselves singing in the 1970s and 1980s, as Ashford & Simpson.

Ashford, 70, died August 22 in New York City from throat cancer, his publicist told the Associated Press.

He and his future wife began writing together in 1964 and found success early, when a one-time adjustment of the Party, "Let's Go Get Stoned" (written with a third partner) went to number 1 on the R & B charts for Charles in 1966.

A couple of staff writers later became Motown and churned out a series of hits in the late 1960s by Gaye and his singing partner, Tammi Terrell, which included inciting "Do not No Mountain High Enough", "Your Precious Love" and "Is not Nothing Like Real Thing ".

Early in his career, primarily Ashford wrote lyrics while Simpson has written music for piano.

"We still have no formula," Ashford told Washington Post, in 1977. "I could come up with one or two lines. Valerie could hear me singing and trying to catch up on the piano. But then I could hear her play and come up with an idea."

The pair also wrote for Gladys Knight and the Pips, Smokey Robinson, Aretha Franklin, Marvelettes, Teddy Pendergrass and Chaka Khan.

"They were magic and that is what creates those wonderful hits that magic", Verdine White of Earth, Wind and Fire, told the Associated Press. "Without those songs, those artists would not be able to go to the next level."

Ross and The Supremes scored the hit "Do not No Mountain" in 1968. Two years later, she recorded a solo version, which became her first hit number 1.

Ashford and Simpson wrote and produced all but one song on the debut solo album, Ross "Diana Ross" (1970), including a durable hit "reach out and touch (Hand Some)."

"We've been friends a long time," Ross said in 1980, "and I knew what they were songwriters. ... Nick and Valerie were my good luck charm."

Motown founder Berry Gordy objected when the songs the duo wanted to branch out and pursue an artistic career. As a result, they left Motown in 1973 and found considerable success as an R & B-disco crossover of a well in the 1980s. Their hit 1984 "Solid (as a Rock)" reached number 1 on the R & B charts and number 12 on the pop chart Billboard.

During the presidential campaign in 2008, Ashford and Simpson struck to find a second life when "Saturday Night Live" skit to reconfigure it as "solid as Barack."

Nicholas Ashford was born in Fairfield, South Carolina, May 4, 1941. (Many reference sources claim that he was born a year later, but public records confirm his birth year in 1941.)

He grew up in Willow Run, Michigan, and received his musical start in a Baptist church. He briefly attended Eastern Michigan University before moving to New York to pursue a career as a dancer.

He slept on park benches and was homeless for several months when he met Simpson in a church in Harlem.

Soon they teamed up to write gospel songs before turning to songs about love.

Joan Crawford on TCM: Mildred Pierce, flamingo road, when the ladies meet
Joan Crawford, Daisy KenyonJoan Crawford Turner Classic Movies "next" Summer Under the Stars "star. At Monday, August 22, TCM will show 13 Joan Crawford movies, in addition to Peter Fitzgerald documentary Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star, narrated by Anjelica Huston. ( It is curious that Crawford was nowhere in any of 40 + films directed by Anjelica Huston's father, John Huston.)

As MGM and WB star, Crawford is one of the most visible stars on TCM. Every week, there is something Joan Crawford movie or other on TCM - From time to time, some of them. Nevertheless, there is plenty of room for diversity, as Crawford was about 60 films between 1930 and 1950, about her (radio station) while at MGM (1930's and early 40's) and the World Bank (at the end of 40 - x). There will be more opportunities for diversity when TCM shows more worried about silents Crawford. She appeared in about 25 of them, very few of them have surfaced so far.

Unfortunately, TCM, will not be a single silent Crawford on Monday, although most of them gathering dust in the vaults owned by Time Warner. Sally, Irene and Mary, twelve miles Out, an understanding heart, Taxi Dancer, while others are waiting for someone at TCM have the courage to program them - even without musical accompaniment. In the end, it is better to watch a silent movie silence than the absence of silent films in general.

Among TCM Crawford car will be, I would recommend Mildred Pierce (1945) for those who never watched it, despite the fact that he is on TCM about once every two weeks, I think. Crawford, fully deserved her Best Actress Oscar and the National Board of Review Award, while Ann Blyth and Eve Arden fully deserved their Best Supporting Actress Oscar. The film was also the best film, although it strange (and unfair), Michael Curtiz was bypassed.

I should add that, Mildred Pierce is regarded by many as the "camp". I could not agree more. In my opinion, this adaptation of James M. Cain novel, a dark drama - with very little social commentary - the highest order. In fact, I think, unfortunately, that Crawford, one of the greatest film actress of the last century, was the victim of murder to drag the reputation queenization. I have nothing against transvestites, but the actress herself - and her often brilliant performances - deserve more respect from film scholars.

Curtiz at Flamingo Road (1949) may not be great drama, but it should be better remembered - and better understand - what it is. Crawford is particularly good as a "low class" dancer who becomes a member of a small town community.

Torch Song (1953) offers a middle-aged Joan Crawford displaying a pair of slender legs (although Marjorie Rambeau was the one who ended up with an Oscar), while the Shining Hour (1938) has a screen sharing with Margaret Sullavan. Both Crawford and Sullavan equally well in this beautifully shot (George J. Folsey) and perfectly watchable romantic melodrama, again showing the issues of class and the dancer from the other side of the track. Frank Borzage directed. Melvyn Douglas, Robert Young, Fay Bainter, Frank Albertson, and Hattie McDaniel are a great part of the drama, too.

Crawford, Robert H. penalty Leonard When Ladies Meet (1941), although by the time she was at the end of his contract MGM. As a result, the studio (and producer Leonard) clearly put the dramatic focus in this romantic melodrama from the beginner to Greer Garson, who will reign over the years, as the queen of many MGM. Caution: When Ladies Meet, which also stars Robert Taylor and Herbert Marshall, begins slowly. How to stay as drama becomes a very intriguing time Taylor and Marshall almost disappear from the scene, leaving Crawford and (now) much underrated Garzon is on stand their dramatic things.

Damian McGinty, an Irish heart-throb at Glee Project "is the subject of love to crush a former member of Hannah McIalwain interview in Entertainment Weekly and Huffington Post.

Celtic Thunder star is in the final four projects that will see the winner have a major role in the upcoming series.

Hannah was depicted clipping hair Damian nose in one segment, a sure sign, she said she was in love.

"He absolutely knew that I loved him on the show. It was a known fact. It was one of those unspoken things. We talked about it, we work better as friends.


That's what good friends. Good friends pull the hair of friends nose. "

"He's a great guy, we're still very close, and he will be one of my best friends forever I think it's pretty funny, though: .. The way they portray it to show that this is kinda like I was crazy fangirl is only absolutely in love with him. He fully admitted to liking me back to the camera at one point. I'm not completely crazy. I might be a little crazy, but I'm not that crazy. Let it be known that Damian McGinty had feelings for this amazing ginger . He's a great guy. I suppose I might as well be honest. I do not want to show, so I'm not holding anything back now. "

Big Brother Spoilers
Sally Bercow, frankly wife Speaker of the House of Commons, joined lineup for the new series of Celebrity Big Brother, which also includes the former pop star Kerry Katona, and American Pie actor Tara Reid.

Bercow entered Big Brother house on Thursday, as a reality show axed by Channel 4 last year, has returned after an 11-month break in the channel of Richard Desmond 5.

Program producers promise "the biggest, most colorful and interesting names around." Regardless of the fact that the promise was fulfilled, will depend on audience expectations and knowledge of some obscure TVstars reality.

Other participants include David Hasselhoff, Pamela Bach, ex-wife, the former X Factor participants Jedward, and Amy Childs, a Bafta-winning star is unlikely reality ITV2 show, the only way to Essex.

Inclusion Bercow, likely to create the most headlines. Wife of John Bercow, it has already demonstrated the ability to create ads, posing for magazine photos in one sheet. She later confessed in a magazine photo of ES theEvening Standard in February, making it "idiot."

It remains to be seen, the producers of the program prepared for the housemates, even though he is likely to involve a lot of sauce up.Bercow not the first digit of Westminster, to appear on Celebrity Big Brother. George Galloway appeared on the series in 2006, when he was a member, remembers pretending to be a cat licking cream from the hands of Rula Lenska and robot dance in tights with Pete Burns.

Capacity to return the show has featured the usual feverish speculation tabloids - mostly drowned by the work belongs to Desmond, such as the Daily Star - possible housemates, including actor Charlie Sheen. His name was not on the list circulated to the media under embargo earlier on Thursday, but there were reports of his arrival at Heathrow during the day.

Pamela Anderson and Mike Tyson also said to be lined up for the show. There remains the possibility that additional participants will enter the house during the three-week run, when it will be aired at night on Channel 5. Only 11 names were confirmed by a dozen celebrities who were to take part.

Desmond staked largely on the success of the show and said he wanted 20 million viewers per day. More realistically, he will be hoping for at least 3 million viewers for its launch and show the typical nightly audience of about 2 million people.

Other contestants London born model Bobby Sabel, a celebrity photo agency owner Darryn Lyons, Waterloo Road actor Lucien Laviscount, and Paddy Doherty, one of the stars of Channel 4 docusoap My Big Wedding Roma.

Jeff Ford, director of programs at Channel 5, said that the show will offer viewers a little light with a difficult summer is dominated by gloom about the economy and turmoil. "We need a bit of escapist fun, and this show is totally back in the right time," he said. "I just can not wait to start the chaos."

Channel 4's Big Brother dropped after 11 episodes of the main show, and seven seasons of Celebrity Big Brother in September 2010. Rating show on Channel 4 has been in decline for several years, as the race row Shilpa Shetty in 2007.

The Daily Show
The Daily Show last night featured some reduction in the bookstore. The author and comedian John Hodgman Jon Stewart asked, "Do you know the book was available here in what was called a" bookstore? "

He continued a few words of choice for the bookstore trade:

"The employee chooses? Thank chubby neck beard counter guy for clueing me to Philip K Dick AGAIN."

And as for the author's testimony:

"The reality is that there's nothing more depressing than to see some pasty stop in the author's bare his soul to a half-filled a number of folding chairs. Believe me, I know."

Kate Gosselin: 'I'm Glad to Be Divorced and on My Own'
Her show was just canceled, and her marriage collapsed in 2009, but Kate Gosselin do not feel sorry about his tumultuous last few years.

"I know that I am happy to be separated and on my own," she says, referring to her ex-husband Jon Gosselin, 34, in an excerpt from the episode, Kate + 8, which airs Monday night on TLC, the final episode of the show will be aired September 12.

"I would not change my marriage because I have eight children surprising that I would not change," Kate, 36, said on an episode of Monday night. "But people change, and they are not who you thought they were and if they are not for you, move on. And I have."

She has no problem seeing her ex move in the same way.

"I do not care if his girlfriend changes weekly, yearly, monthly," Kate says in the clip. "I do not give it a second thought ... more power to him."

Laughing at the thought of having any kind of "jealousy" over the current life of love, John, Kate explains that her interactions with them are rare.

"If I have to deal with it, with kids, I do not [deal with], which is good because it keeps the peace," she says. "I always e-mail, calling or copied, anything - just for children, better for the children."

But backing up that she told people in June, Kate says that her ex has at least made positive changes in their lives since they were divided.

"It works now, so it definitely distracted elsewhere, and that's good," she says in the clip. "And he held it two weekends a month. And the kids come home happy and that's good."

So You Think You Can Dance Winner
Despite the strong performances of all four finalists, Nigel Lythgoe chief judge predicted that the winner of So You Think You, Can Dance on Thursday night would have been one of the two remaining women: Alex, Mallory and Melanie Moore.

Was he right? Victory or go to one of the men, Marco Germar or TADD Gadduang? Read on to find out.

Spoiler Alert: The winner will be announced later.

With 11.5 million votes, Lithgow was right: the competition boiled down to two women.

Melanie Moore has been crowned America's favorite dancer from the Top 47 percent of four votes.

"You two are exquisite dancers, you've got and it was amazing," Emmy-nominated host Cat Deeley said a double finalist - women as well as for the first time in eight seasons the show - just a few minutes before announcing the winner.

In the end, confetti fell from the stage and fireworks lighting up her face, Moore was crowned America's favorite dancer.

"Thanks," was the only phrase Moore could say, as tears streamed down her face before she was shot in the air the entire Top 20.

With 32 percent of the vote, Mallory took second place; Germar, third, and Gadduang, fourth.

Stiff Competition
What began with a pool of thousands of nine weeks ago, has been reduced to just 20 dancers vying for the $ 250,000 prize and a sponsorship deal - but in the end, only four could make it to the final.

Moore, 19, Marietta, Ga., has been a leader since the beginning of the season, when she was struck and Germar judges with their statues routine. With each new partnership, Moore jumped into the material and are often named not only a dancer, but the "actress".

Mallory, 23, Bakersfield, California, the contest is associated with Alexander Fost, a partner with whom she had trouble finding a connection. But as soon as she broke free, she jumped to the head of a package with the procedures and emotional - as the walls routine with season 7 in Kent Boyd - and powerful, like her lunch date with the 4th season in the twitch.

Germar, 22, took part in the competition after a shot in the shoulder a few years ago, but he never let his injury hold him back, and which, according to Judge Mary Murphy to be a "beast, like a girl." Own admission, "herald" Guam native was moved to tears at the beginning of this season, when his mother came to see him dance.

How Final Four only B-Boy, Gadduang, 25, of West Valley City, Utah, was considered weak, because he had to dance out of his style throughout the season. He is the only finalist who was always at the bottom this season, but his "cute factor Pie" has won over Murphy.

Powerball Numbers
Wednesday was the big drawing of Powerball since no winners on Saturday at the jackpot.

It is now at $ 220 million! Convenience stores in Lynchburg say the car was pumping out a lot of Powerball tickets the last few days.

Here's how you win: You must match all five white balls in any order and the red ball Power.

Richland Hills Exxon employee remembers when his client hit it big.

"One of my clients once won $ 250,000, as right around Christmas time. It was good for them. It was great," said Sterling Evers, Richland Hills Exxon employee.

"I would have to resort to buy it and live there forever," said Daniels, Amberley, who planned to buy a ticket.

Now the odds of winning Powerball Grand Prize - one in 159 million and some change. But do not let that get you down.

Rooms: 11, 18, 36, 41, 46 and Powerball of 38.

Rose McGowan Rocks a One-Piece at 37
We must pay tribute to her. Rose McGowan is still defeat in a bathing suit and shows it in the photo that appeared recently on the Internet.

That the shouting and Charmed star was up to lately? 37-year-old actress has not heard from a few years, but was named as an investor in a nightclub, Drybar, some time ago. You can check out a stunning peak of her in dark shades monokini and high-heeled boots in Hollywoodtuna.com.

It has long been a subject of conjecture whether the sexy brunette had some work to look better. In fact, a Google search on her name and "plastic surgery" reaps nearly 850 thousand results.

Despite this, her longevity in show business demonstrates that it is more than a pretty face. It showed a sense of humor and strong acting skills throughout their careers.

In any case, McGowan said a few months ago that she scrubs her face and moisturize as usual. Could this be his secret long fever?

Some experts suggested that McGowan has recently been an increase in lip and maybe some Botox injections, and even a boob job before becoming famous. But does it really matter? Should the public know every detail about the lives of famous people?

Gavin DeGraw hospitalized after being beaten in New York
Singer-songwriter Gavin DeGraw is recovering after an attack a group of people on the streets.

Police say DeGraw broke his nose and cut on his face after he was beaten by "unknown assailants men" early Sunday in East Villidzh.Rassledovanie continues.

The statement circulated by his press secretary said Monday night that he was taken to Bellevue hospital in an ambulance and is still hospitalized under observation.

DeGraw was forced to cancel a planned concert Tuesday in Saratoga Springs, NY

DeGraw has a new album, "sweeter", due out in September. He is probably best known for his hit "Chariot."

Lollapalooza Expanding to Brazil in 2012

How Lollapalooza kicked off its 20th anniversary edition on Friday in Chicago, organizers have announced plans for international ekspansii.Kontsert place in Brazil for the first time next year on April 7 and 8 in the Jockey Club of São Paulo. It will also make the return journey to Santiago, Chile on March 31 and April 1.

Festival founder Perry Farrell said in a statement, "Brazilians are very rich history of the holiday. If we (Lolla) can rub along with them, there is no one knows what heights that the party will reach."

10 best-paid musicians Lollapalooza tour began as a concert in 1991 and was revived as a destination in the 2005 festival held in Grant Park in Chicago. Lineup this year boasts 130 bands on eight stages, including Eminem, Foo Fighters, Coldplay, Muse, My Morning Jacket and Deadmau5.

The three-day ticket to the event to go as much as $ 215, and a record 90,000 people will uchastie.Festival site was expanded to 35 hectares to accommodate large crowds.

William Morris Endeavor and C3 Presents to produce an event in the U.S.; Lotus Producciones is a partner and Chilean GEO Eventos is its Brazilian partner.

WME Marc Geiger, co-founder of the festival, said the Los Angeles Times, which is looking at Lollapalooza stop the Third International in 2013.