Blonde Anne Hathaway

Anne Hathaway took a page from Debbie Harry’s rockstar playbook and dyed her pixie coiffed hair platinum blonde. As my own colorist always says, “It’s just hair, and you can always go dark again.” True, though I’ll never forget my past bought with blonde. That bleach is enough to set your scalp on fire, and the upkeep… don’t get me started!

I am once again, happily brunette. I prefer dark sultry locks, anyway. But the blonde things! It’s something all of us girls need to get out of our system at least once.

SO what do you think of Anne Hathaway’s platinum blonde locks? A great change or a hair color wrstling match gone wrong? You know, the kind where you have a head on collision with a bleach bottle and nobody wins?

I say, it’s only hair, and hey, she can always go dark!

Sly with Sage Stallone in Happier Times, circa 1990

Sylvester Stallone’s late son, Sage Stallone died in his Hollywood home mysteriously on July 13, 2012 just days before he had planned to marry his longtime girlfriend, and leaving the world to assume Sage’s was yet another Hollywood drug overdose. A grieving Sylvester Stallone, along with countless friends and family insist that the reclusive son of the Hollywood legend was not an illicit drug user, and in fact, did not even drink alcohol.

The fledgling film producer who intended to follow in his famous father’s footsteps was said to be a heavy smoker, and a recent coroner’s report ruled that Sage Stallone’s untimely death at the age of just 36 was the result of a heart attack that the young filmmaker suffered while home alone in Studio City, California, a Los Angeles suburb.

According to reporting by the Los Angeles Times, “Sage Stallone, the son of Sylvester Stallone, died of coronary artery disease, and coroner’s officials said his smoking might have played a role. Coroner Chief Craig Harvey said Sage Stallone had a history of being a heavy smoker, but his family said the amount had diminished lately. He was most recently smoking an electric cigarette. Among the chief causes of coronary artery disease is smoking because it can cause elevated blood pressure, raising the risk of clots.”

We all remember when a fourteen year old Sage Stallone acted alongside his father, Sylvester Stallone, in the fifth installment of the Rocky film saga, playing Rocky Balboa, Jr. Rocky V shows Rocky suffering from brain damage after fighting Dolph Lundgren’s Russian character in Rocky IV, losing  his fortune to unscrupulous accountants and being forced to move his wife and son back to his old Philadelphia neighborhood. We watched sweet onscreen moments between Sylvester Stallone and a young Sage Stallone as the father and son duo played fictional versions of themselves, though the father-son moments looked poignantly real.

Sage Stallone is survived by his parents, Sasha Czack and Sylvester Stallone and siblings: Seargeoh Stallone, and Sistine, Sophia, and Scarlet Stallone.

Sage Stallone (May 5, 1976 – July 13, 2012) RIP

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After a public emotional journey mired by  miscarriages, multiple  rounds of in vitro fertilization, and a very public and heartbreaking battle with breast cancer, Giuliana Rancic has finally made her baby dreams come true and we are so happy for her! Giuliana and Bill Rancic’s son was born last night, August 29, 2012, in Denver, Colorado via a gestational carrier. Giuliana and Bill were in the delivery room to watch their bundle of joy enter the world.

Little Edward Duke Rancic was born Wednesday evening weighing in at just over 7lbs., making the Rancic’s first time parents and completing their arduous journey towards parenthood.

Giuliana Rancic released the following statement to E! News:

“Bill and I are blessed beyond words to welcome Edward into our lives. Thank you so much to everyone who supported us along the way. We are so in love with the little guy already!”

As for Bill Rancic, he took to Twitter to announce his joy, tweeting:

“”The ‘Duke’ has landed! Edward Duke Rancic was welcomed into the world last night at 7lbs 4oz. G & I feel blessed beyond words…We did it!” Bill Rancic cut the baby’s umbilical cord and teh couple announced that their surrogate had a fairly easy and uneventful four hour labor.

According to E! News, everyone is happy, healthy, and resting comfortably.

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Farrah Abraham with daughter Sophia

These days Farrah Abraham is a pseudo reality television star with a cute as a button daughter and a figure to die for. She is often spotted parading around the beaches of Miami and she’s a staple in the celebrity weeklies, but there’s more to Abraham’s picture than what is skin deep or splashed throughout the celebrity weeklies.

Farrah Abraham is a young single mother trying to find her way without the father of her daughter and navigating a contentious relationship with her parents. In her recently released memoir, My Teenage Dream Ended, Abraham recounts the detailed story of falling in love with her high school sweetheart, Derek Underwood, watching it all fall to pieces, discovering she was pregnant (despite the use of birth control pills), and learning that the love of her life had been killed in a car crash while she was seven months pregnent with their daughter.

My Teenage Dream Ended chronicles the journey of a happy-go-lucky and popular teenage girl living in middle America who had to shift her life overnight with the overwhelming anxieties and uncertainties of teen pregnancy, teenage motherhood, a tumultuous homelife, the crushing loss of her child’s father and working to make ends meet and finish school for her daughter.

In her memoir, Abraham leaves nothing out as she admits to an unhealthy sex-fueled relationship with the late Derek Underwood (Sophia’s father), panic over an unplanned pregnancy, contemplating an abortion, the ultimate decision to have her baby, violent fights at home with her parents, working menial jobs to make ends meet, dealing with postpartum body issues, illicet drug use, and finally finding some peace and balance as a young single mother.

My Teenage Dream Ended by Farrah Abraham goes behind the glossy MTV footage, red carpet appearances and weekly magazine stories. The book uncovers, in Abraham’s own words, the everyday realities of being a single teen mom, and ultimately a young single adult mom. There is a lot more to Farrah’s story than we see from her tan complexion sparkling smile on television.

The book is brave, revealing, griddy, emotional and worth the read, whether you are a teenager dealing with similar issues or a thirty-something adult like me who loves a fearless memoir chock full of the details that most of us shy away from.

I recommend My Teenage Dream Ended by Farrah Abraham. Speaking as a parent, this memoir gives insight into the mind of a teenager and sheds light on the importance of open and constructive communication between adults and adolescents. It is also a story of overcoming devastating loss and picking up the pieces.

Kudos Farrah!

Kathy Hilton on Family, Fashion &
Her New Collection of Special Occasion Dresses
By Allison Kugel

Dresses from The Kathy Hilton Collection

PR.com (Allison Kugel): Since you grew up in a home filled with girls how did that affect your personality and your style sensibilities?

Kathy Hilton: I would say growing up with two sisters, and my mother, who I loved and adored, and who was so elegant and loved fashion, we all love fashion yet we all have different tastes and style.

PR.com: What did you learn from your mom, and what do you emulate about her sense of style to this day?

Kathy Hilton: She was very glamorous. There are times I like to dress glamorous but then there are times I like to just be a little bit more… a little simpler. I have many different personalities, as you’ll see in my collection (The Kathy Hilton Collection).

PR.com: I’m not much of a fashion person. I’m usually in sweats and a tank top (laughs), but when I saw your dresses I wanted to reach through the computer and grab them. They are so beautiful! Your collection doesn’t show too much skin. The dresses are just very feminine and ethereal.

Kathy Hilton: They are very lady-like and feminine, and there are some that are very sexy. But I’ve also traveled a lot and I understand different styles. This all started because we have to go to a lot of events, and going into the stores and seeing the prices and how expensive things are; everybody is cutting back from this economy. I really wanted something for me, for my nieces, for my sisters, for my daughters, for all of their friends and for women that love beauty [and] quality. I’ve been lucky enough to be able to travel and wear all of the very wonderful designers and go to all the shows, and so I really love fashion. But I wanted something for everyone.

Read more of the interview with Kathy Hilton at PR.com

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Allison Kugel interviews Mike Tyson for PR.com:

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Vogue's 1st Country Covergirl

22 year old Country crooner, Taylor Swift, makes some candid and revealing statements in the interview that accompanies her Vogue Magazine cover. In the issue, Swift admits to superstitious fears about her fairytale life evaporating before her eyes, her need for a security teams due to stalkers, and how she deals with the pain of losing a boyfriend.

Holding little back, Taylor Swift tells Vogue Magazine, “There’s just been this earth-shattering, not recent, but absolute crash-and-burn heartbreak, and that will turn out to be what the next album is about,” describing her inspiration for her upcoming 4th studio album. Some could even speculate that she is referring to her intense yet brief relationship with Reese Witherspoon’s mutual ex, Jake Gyllenhaal. At one point things were looking pretty cozy for the pair, until Gyllenhaal abruptly ended their brief relationship.

Swift adds, “The only way that I can feel better about myself, pull myself out of that awful pain of losing someone, is writing songs about it to get some sort of clarity.”

Like most single women who have had their fair share of heartbreak, Taylor Swift claims that she is now armed with what she calls her dating “red flags.” One such red flag Swift fears are suiters who fall in love with her famous image rather than with her as a person. Another red flag for the Country singer, guys who are threatened or put off by her team of security that accompany her wherever she goes. Swift states, “I don’t have security to make myself look cool, or like I have an entourage. I have security because there’s a file of stalkers who want to take me home and chain me to a pipe in their basement.”

A third annoyance for swift is a male celeb’s rabid need for privacy to the point of absurdity. As Taylor Swift puts it, if two famous people are dating people will naturally be interested, but hey, get over it, it’s not that deep insists the singer. “If you care about privacy to the point where we need to dig a tunnel under this restaurant so that we can leave? I can’t do that.”

Admitting to her fair share of fear-based superstition about her amazing luck in the music business, Taylor Swift admits to Vogue that her biggest fear is that this will all go away one day, and as Swift puts it, “When is the other shoe going to drop?

“I am always living in fear. This can’t be real, right? This can’t really be my life.”

Happy Birthday Betty

Golden Girl and comeback “kid” Betty White celebrates her 90th birthday today and we want to wish her a very happy birthday with many more to come. I am personally proud of Betty White’s achievements, her admirable attitude about aging and her remarkable comedic talents. As many of my friends know, I have been a Betty White fan since childhood, and I was faithfully watching reruns of The Golden Girls nightly, for years, before Betty White was considered officially “back” by the entertainment industry.

The Golden Girls has always been one of my standbys in my arsenal of things I pull out to cheer myself up when I need a good laugh. I absolutely adore that show, but I also adore each of its remarkable cast members: the late Rue McClanahan, Bea Arthur and Estelle Getty as well as Betty White who we still get to have here on earth. I know that Betty White is now on to bigger and better projects, like TV Land’s smash hit, Hot In Cleveland, but what can I say? I am a Golden Girls superfan!

Here are one of my favorite Golden Girls clips below featuring great Rose moments:

Babies on Board for Kayte and Kelsey

In another publically crushing blow to Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star, Camille Grammar, ex-husband Kelsey Grammar made a shocking public announcement backstage on Sunday night, after his Golden Globes win. Kelsey Grammar announced to the press room backstage at the Golden Globes ceremony that he and his new wife, Kayte Walsh, are expecting twins.

Grammar’s jilted ex-wife, Camille, had allegedly heard this startling news, along with her two children with Kelsey Grammar, at the same time as the rest of the world did, during Grammar’s backstage announcement at the Globes.

According to AOL HuffPost, Camille and her two children were not aware that Kelsey and his wife Kayte were expecting twins until they heard the news through the media, leaving his two children with Camille in total shock that they were not given a heads up by their famous father. A source tells HuffPost, “Camille and the children had no idea. They found out about it from the media. Once again, selfish Kelsey decided to do what’s best for him with no concern for his current children. He needs to stop talking about his private life in public. It’s very hurtful for the children he already has.”

On the flip side, a jubilent, Kelsey Grammar happily told backstage reporters this his new bride is “extraordinary.” Kelsey went on to say, “[Kayte is] one of the most loving, amazing, warm human beings I’ve ever met. She’s funny and serious all at the same time. She’s an amazing person and I think she’ll blow [the kids] away.”

As for Kelsey and ex-Camille, the two are still embroiled in a bitter custody dispute over the ex couples’ two young children. Kelsey took a digg at Camille recently when he told Pierce Morgan that pulling his Hollywood strings to get his ex-wife Camille a gig in the Real Housewives franchise was his “parting gift” to his allegedly attention-hungry ex-wife who he claims “always wanted to be famous.” During his appearance on Pierce Morgan Kelsey added that he felt Camille thought she was married to his iconic alter-ego, Frasier Crane, and not the real Kelsey, during their marriage. Ouch!

Is Kelsey making big announcements about his private life as a public relations ploy to promote his new show?