PWEVIOUSWY ON PWOJECT WUNWAY: Blah, blah pretty dresses, crazy dresses, auf, auf, auf, Irina, Carol Hannah, Althea.
We open in the golden light of the girls' apartment, where Carol Hannah tries to brush her teeth while Althea and Irina gossip about her over breakfast. Althea informs Irina that "Carol Hannah got really sick last night" and Irina says, "Really? Why?" Because she's SICK like she was YESTERDAY, you self-obsessed twit.
They meet up with their aufed minions in the workroom — Logan gives the rocky and barfy Carol Hannah a hug and interviews sympathetically about her situation; Christopher is kind to her as well. The designers go to hair and makeup.
The one and only Collier Strong meets with Irina, who shows him the helmety mohawky cloches she's made for her models. She wants dark shadows.
But wait! Althea wants dirty" glamour — "almost, like, smudged," as Collier digs out ye olde kohl pots again. Carol Hannah wants soft and pretty, because she's made of unicorns and rainbows and kittens.
Express' Karmah Elmusa details a small-scale, world-class battle.
AH, THE BOCUSE D'OR. It's that famous cooking competition ( that no person not immersed in the culinary world has ever heard of it), which is held annually for a slew of international competitors.
And this week on "Top Chef: Las Vegas," the chefs get to participate in a mini-Bocuse, thrown by Padma, Tom and a really big name in the culinary industry. Find out who has the skills to make it to the top four and the finale in Napa Valley.
WWE SUPERSTAR CHRIS JERICHO knows how to work smart, telling stories inside the ring that make both him and his competition shine.
He's also an enormous smart ass, delivering withering insults to fans and his fellow grapplers from his heel character's perspective of a self-absorbed elitist with a predilection for large words.
This combination of athletic ability and verbal jousting is what Hulk Hogan was referring to when he recently called Jericho the "complete wrestler," and one of the main reasons why he's one of the few superstars to appear regularly on WWE's two biggest TV shows, "Smackdown" and "Raw."
Jericho, 39, will put all his skills on display in a headlining match for the WWE's "Survivor Series" pay-per-view, which takes place at Verizon Center on Nov. 22. Unified tag-team champ Jericho will face his partner The Big Show and current world heavyweight champion Undertaker in a Triple Threat to determine who will hold the strap.
But recently Jericho was in a less combative environment: riding around Phoenix, Az., doing press alongside WWE Diva Kelly Kelly.
"We're riding in an expensive, high-class limousine right now — that she paid for," Jericho said. "I actually had a Taurus."
Express spoke with the athlete/actor/comedian/entertainer/vocalist/author also known as Christopher Irvine, born to former NHL player Ted Irvine, about the follow-up to his 2007 New York Times best-seller "A Lion's Tale: Around the World in Spandex," his hard rock band Fozzy, professional burnout, life on the road with WWE and how his chatty, chatty mouth sometimes gets him in big, big trouble.
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"THE 2,000 YEAR OLD MAN" was never intended to last one year, let alone 60.
In the early 1950s, friends and fellow comedy writers Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks started doing the routine at parties: Reiner would play the interviewer and straight man, asking Brooks a series of questions that he would answer as the world's oldest man. For example:
» REINER: What was the means of transportation then?
» BROOKS: Mostly fear.
» REINER: Fear transported you?
» BROOKS: Fear, yes. An animal would growl — you would go two miles in a minute. Fear would be the main propulsion.
Neither had experience in stand-up comedy, and neither nursed ambitions in that direction, yet the private routine became such a hit among friends and party-goers that Steve Allen and Sid Caesar pushed them to introduce the 2,000-year-old man to a wider audience. Allen even offered to pay for the studio if they would make a record. It took them ten years to go through with it.
The rest is, ahem, history.
FOR ANYONE WHO isn't past caring about which giggly scissor-monkey will take the big prize, we're going to plunge boldly into the first part of the season finale. But a warning: It's as boring as the previous episodes, only with a higher percentage of pretty girls. And we only see Heidi for a minute.
So, Heidi charges the finalists — Althea, Irina and Carol Hannah — with creating a 12-piece collection for $9,000 and "a few months" to do the work. I'm telling you right now, ladies, you're going to have to do an extra piece.
Heidi and Tim celebrate sighting the finish line of this godforsaken season with silhouetted booty-shaking behind the PR Runway screen, and I must say, Tim Gunn acquits himself very cutely. Not that I want to ever see that again, but you take what you can get this year.
You Stole My Sweatergate drags on in the talking-head interviews, but no one cares anymore.
Express' Karmah Elmusa breaks down a night of culinary gambling.
THIS WEEK ON "Top Chef: Las Vegas," the final six turned cheesy inspiration into refined dishes (well, some did).
Also, I won't say who went home, but I will say I was satisfied with an episode's outcome for the first time in weeks.
Does that give you a hint?
Muahahaha.
Read on to find out more.
NO ONE WOULD discount the important instruction "Sesame Street" has provided preschoolers on the alphabet, counting and shape identification. The show — which is celebrating its 40th anniversary with a new season, a best-of box set, and a birthday party on Nov. 15 at Lisner — has taught young viewers less academic lessons as well.
Here, we reflect on the enduring messages the series has left with its very impressionable viewers (in a manner the Count would appreciate).
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DWINDLE, DWINDLE, LITTLE STARS. The five remaining designers will be sliced to three by the end of the episode, so the pressure's on, especially for Christopher, who's the last man standing. And, considering how copiously he cries, I use the word "man" advisedly.
Heidi sends them to meet Tim Gunn at "an iconic place," which turns out to be the Getty Museum. Ooh, I love that place. When I was little, I used to wander around there pretending I lived in it, wondering where to put the couch.
L.A. mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has nothing better to do than greet the scissor monkeys. Tim gives them their assignment: Explore the museum, the architecture, the grounds and the beautiful ocean view for inspiration, with their models at their sides to serve as muses.
"There's so much to see," says Lonely Boy. "So much to not touch." Say, Handsy McTearduct, have you ever been in a museum before?
MOVE OVER, ERIN BROCKOVICH.
Ronald Craven is the new (fictional, but still) messiah of indignant environmental activists everywhere.
As portrayed by Bob Peck (a well-heralded British actor who us Americans only know as the guy that played Muldoon in "Jurassic Park"), Craven is the main character in "Edge of Darkness," a BBC mini-series from 1985 that focuses on an international nuclear conspiracy that forever changes Craven's life when his activist daughter Emma (Joanne Whaley) is murdered because of it. And now that the much-praised, six-part collection is finally available on DVD in the United States, we turncoats can finally be pleasantly surprised by what all the fuss is about before Mel Gibson's movie remake comes out in Jan. 2010.
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WHEN THE NAMES of this season's "Dancing With the Stars" contestants were announced, D.C. flipped over the appearance of Tom DeLay. But now that he's damaged goods (stress fractures in both feet forced him to go bye-bye), Washington can focus on its real star: Mya.
The 30-year-old singer/actress was born and raised in this town, and she's doing us proud by consistently scoring high marks. Her favorite part of the process: wardrobe. But she couldn't put on any of the revealing, sparkly gowns if she didn't practice day and night with partner Dmitry Chaplin.
» EXPRESS: How did you prepare for the show?
» MYA: I only found out two weeks ahead of time. So, I started doing cardio, some boxing exercises and running outside with my dog. But I haven't been back in the gym since.
» EXPRESS: Because your schedule must be crazy now, right?
» MYA: Yes, we start early Monday mornings — 7:45 a.m. — with hair and makeup, fittings, consultations, dress rehearsal. It's a full day until the show ends. The next night we stay even later, and sometimes we'll go straight from there until rehearsals. Initially, we were limited to five hours a day, but now we do up to 12 the rest of the week.
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