Only the batshit insane

I don't know how she travels with that thing on her head? She must get around in a party bus or something. And how much self-control must that bodyguard be practicing to take her seriously???

It didn't end well

After being missing for almost 3 weeks, the body of Boner was found in a park in Vancouver. His parents gave a press conference earlier today. Truly, the WORST nightmare a parent can go through.

Actor Andrew Koenig, who had been missing since February 14, committed suicide, his father told reporters after his son's body was found Thursday in a park in Vancouver, British Columbia.

"My son took his own life," Walter Koenig said at a news conference in the park.

The body of the former "Growing Pains" star was found by several friends who conducted their own search of Stanley Park, where Andrew Koenig liked to walk, his father said.

Koenig, 41, was reported missing by his parents after he did not board a flight to Los Angeles from Vancouver last week.

Walter Koenig -- himself an actor, known for his role as Pavel Chekov in the "Star Trek" series -- flew to Vancouver with his wife, Judy, on Tuesday to help with the search.

"He was obviously in a lot of pain," Walter Koenig said.

The Koenigs said they received a letter from their son last week in which he wrote in a "despondent tone."

He had stopped taking medication for depression about a year ago, his father said.

Unknown to his parents at the time, Andrew Koenig sold or gave away many of his possessions and moved out of his apartment in Venice, California, before traveling to Canada, the family said.

Koenig fell in love with Vancouver in 1988 when he first visited to film an episode of the TV show "21 Jump Street," his father said.

Koenig appeared in 25 episodes of "Growing Pains" from 1985 to 1989, playing Richard "Boner" Stabone, according to a filmography posted on the Internet Movie Database Web site. He also appeared in episodes of several other television shows.
He was described as "a gifted and passionate multitalented young man" on his father's Web site.

He performed at The Improv and had roles in movies that included "NonSeNse," "InAlienable," "The Theory of Everything" and "Batman: Dead End." He also acted on television in "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine," "G.I. Joe," "My Two Dads," "21 Jump Street," "My Sister Sam" and "Adam-12," the Web site said, and edited, directed, produced and wrote a number of films.

Koenig was an activist interested in many causes, his father's Web site says. He was arrested at the Rose Bowl in 2008 while protesting U.S. involvement in the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in China. He opposed U.S. participation because of China's support for a repressive regime in Myanmar, also known as Burma, the Web site says. [CNN]

Watch the heart wrenching news here:

Recognize this face?

You knew him as Boner, Mike Seaver's BFF on Growing Pains. The sad thing is that he's MISSING!!! WTF???

On Feb. 16, Walter Koenig received a note from his son Andrew, which caused his father to grow concerned about his whereabouts.

"He sounded despondent," says Walter, who spoke to PEOPLE from his Los Angeles home. "Nobody has seen this [note] but my wife and I."

Andrew Koenig, 41, who starred as Boner on the late 80s sitcom Growing Pains, was set to arrive in Los Angeles on Feb. 14 after a trip to Canada, according to the Vancouver Police Department.

"He went to visit some friends in Toronto and after there, he went to Vancouver," says his father. "It’s a place where he felt very comfortable. He lived there for a few years."

Andrew still hasn’t returned to his Venice, Calif., residence. His father says there wasn’t a specific situation that would’ve prompted his disappearance.

"I think it’s something that has been a part of his makeup for a long time. There’s no single trauma. There’s no episode. There’s nothing of that nature," says Walter, who added that drugs were not an issue.

The former child star, who discovered Vancouver while filming an episode of 21 Jump Street in the late 80s, returned to live there in the early 90s and would often take walks in the city’s Stanley Park, according to police.

He had recently finished shooting a trailer for a feature film that he wanted to direct, says his father. Andrew had also grown into an outspoken environmentalist and human rights activist, as well.

For now, his family continues to wait and encourages anyone with information to contact their local police department, who will in turn reach out to Vancouver authorities. [People]

BAFTA: Red Carpet Review

The last major Red Carpet affair before the Oscars took place across the pond just hours ago. (To watch the ceremony, tune to BBC America tonight at 8pm EST). But, if you can't wait to see how it all went down -- well, look no further.

 

Anna Kendrick. 

This frock looks like it 2 sizes too big on her.

 

Audrey Tatou in what is unmistakably Lanvin. 

Lovely confection in bubble gum pink.

 

Carey Mulligan.

Too much dress. Too much print. Too much...blech.

 

Claire Danes.

She looks like she's been bandaged. 

 

Lovely and charming and ever-so-handsome, Colin Firth.

Kate Winslet.

I'd love to see her in a color once in a while.

 

Kristin Stewart.

Bringing her effervescent personality with her wherever she goes.

Yawn.

  

Mickey Rourke.

Proof why no celeb should be allowed to style their own hair.

 

Robert Pattinson.

Relax ladies -- calm your tubes. 

It's more than likely he's not interested in your vag-jay-jay.

Vera Farmiga.

Love this. Grecian. Flowy. Gorg.

 

HRH Prince William.

Ahh, lovely Wills. 

 

Know what I love best about this photo?

That hack James Cameron ain't in it.

Let's hope this is how it goes down Oscar night.

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I dunno, she might want to reconsider

Posh has already revealed what her Oscar dress will be. Not sure how I feel about it. It's so muted and I personally hate washed out colors like this. But she's a brunette so it won't be as bad as when a Nicole Kidman wears a dress like this. But with Posh's skeletal frame, I feel like this is going to cling in ways that I don't want to see.

While going over details of her "daring" and "sophisticated" new collection today, Victoria Beckham hinted at what she'll be wearing on Oscars night for the Elton John AIDS Foundation's annual Academy Awards party. A model stepped out wearing a stunning off-the-shoulder silk gown and Beckham said, "It looks effortless, it looks chic and I'm going to wear this to the Oscars". She also told the intimate crowd of editors that her refined fall lineup was inspired by 1940s-era Dick Tracy comic-strips. "It's '30s and '40s-influence mixed with cutting-edge uses of fabric," Beckham said. "To me, it symbolizes a relaxed elegance. It was my personal style goal to be more relaxed, and you can see that in the collection."

How freakin' true

They will photoshop everyone!

Tina Fey's scar has disappeared from the cover of the new issue of Vogue that she graces.




Here are some cool tidbits from the Vogue article:

**Fey, who is half Greek, grew up in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, a very Greek suburb of Philly. Though her mother favored comfort and natural fibers in the seventies, most of the women in the neighborhood preferred a zestier presentation: Candie's, red nail polish, dark eyeliner, maybe a tight-fitting animal print, décolletage, hair piled up. "I still kind of like all that stuff," says Fey. "It's certainly not my day-to-day thing, but it does appeal to me every now and then. Part of it is what works with your body. I don't have a WASP body. Preppy doesn't work on me at all. There's something about the Greek thing where there's only, like, two speeds. If you put me in something conservative, it looks matronly. And if you cut it down to here"—she gestures to her navel—"it looks slutty." For example, the character Fey played in Baby Mama, a film set in Philadelphia, was meant to be a WASP. "The woman who did the costumes tried to put me in these Waspy clothes, and it just didn't work. I feel like ethnicity and fashion go together. So, yeah, knockers up and tight skirts. Somehow it's better."

**"I don't weigh myself. I just go by if my clothes fit. I try not to participate too much in the incredible amount of wasted energy that women have around dealing with food. I just feel like being healthy is sort of a job requirement to be on TV, and being a writer is so much coping with fatigue and stress, and you just eat. You eat to stay awake." Since the day Fey went in front of the camera, she has kept the weight off. "I've never gone back up," she says. "Well…I have had a baby. I gained 35 pounds." She laughs. "And had a five-pound baby.

"People will say, 'Oh, fashion magazines are so bad, they're giving girls a negative message'—but we're also the fattest country in the world, so it's not like we're all looking at fashion magazines and not eating. Maybe it just starts a shame cycle: I'm never going to look like that model, so…Chicken McNuggets it is! And conversely, I don't look at models who are crazy skinny and think I want to look like that, because a lot of them are gigantic, with giant hands and feet. Also, my dad is an artist—a painter by hobby—and I constantly would see realistic nudes. Because we were raised around art and went to museums and the women I grew up around were curvy…there wasn't this value on skinny, skinny, skinny. Curvy was clearly meant to be the winner. I go up and down a few pounds with a relative amount of kindness to myself. And I have a daughter, and I don't want her to waste her time on all of that."

**Of all the crazy, pinch-me-I'm-dreaming things that have happened to Tina Fey in the last year, by far the best was the day she was interviewed for O magazine. "Oprah came to my apartment," she says. "Oprah and Gayle were in my apartment, and they stayed for hours. It's like the most amazing thing that can happen to a white woman in the twenty-first century."

**Of the cleavage-baring Prada dress on the cover? "I am a fan of the deep V. These are the things I learned from my friends who are cutter/drapers: I have an hourglass figure; I do have a waist, but I have full hips and I have decent shoulders. So that V is good for me. I have learned enough that I can go to a rack and say, 'That's not going to work. That's going to work.' So at awards shows, I wear a deep V. Because it makes the triangles go the right way. Not good on me? Spaghetti straps. It looks like when you tie up a roast before you put it in the oven."

There's more here.

And one more cool photo!

The most amazing Valentine's Day cards one can ever send

Whoever created these is a friggin' genius. I love the Ben one with his crazy eyes, Hurley looks cute, I love that Jack is CRYING!, and the smirk on Sayid's face is hilarious cause he knows just how cheesy his V-day card is.

Yeesh, what an asshole

Linda Hamilton, who used to be married to Avatar director James Cameron, has spilled some of the beans of their marriage. Methinks this chick needs to write a book. What a glimpse into the man who brought us Avatar and Titanic.

Here are a few of the reasons it is difficult to be married to Cameron, according to Hamilton:

- When filming 'Terminator' Hamilton asked Cameron to see her playback and he refused. She got mad and he apologized and plied her with a bottle of champagne. "Then he told the crew that he'd made me work up that rage to get a better performance from me. Bull! So the apology didn't mean a thing. I thought: 'You creep!'"

- Cameron shouts 'Take a number, take a number,' when people want to talk to him.

- He would put his own family up in a hotel when they came to visit.

- When they were fighting Cameron would repeatedly move out and back in have his assistant move his home gym with him. "It got to the stage where I said: 'Let me at least keep your gym because this is really getting expensive.'"

- "His parenting techniques: Jim would go away for three years to do a movie then come back and treat her like a one-year-old and think she was going to be stolen in the playground."

- His mantra: "He used to say to me: 'Anybody can be a father or a husband. There are only five people in the world who can do what I do, and I'm going for that.'" [TMZ]

I, for one, was never impressed with Titanic and prayed that I was able to get those 3 hours of my life back. Now Avatar doesn't interest me in the least. And after reading this, forget it.

It's just seatbelts, but boy, do I want it!

Love the new Harveys seatbelt bag. Too freakin' bad it costs $234.


More info here.

LOST TONIGHT!

Tonight is the beginning of the end. Season 6 starts at 8 pm with a recap show and then the premier from 9-11. Here's a good link to look at if you need a refresher of everything that's gone down so far.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/01/31/arts/television/20100131-lost-timeline.html?hp

Oscar Noms!

We can't wait for March 7th. In the meantime, ponder the Oscar nominations.

Best Motion Picture of the Year

Avatar
The Blind Side
District 9
An Education
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Precious
A Serious Man
Up
Up in the Air

Achievement in Directing

James Cameron, Avatar
Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker
Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds
Lee Daniels, Precious
Jason Reitman, Up in the Air

Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role

Jeff Bridges, Crazy Heart
George Clooney, Up in the Air
Colin Firth, A Single Man
Morgan Freeman, Invictus
Jeremy Renner, The Hurt Locker

Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role

Matt Damon, Invictus
Woody Harrelson, The Messenger
Christopher Plummer, The Last Station
Stanley Tucci, The Lovely Bones
Christoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds

Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

Sandra Bullock, The Blind Side
Helen Mirren, The Last Station
Carey Mulligan, An Education
Gabourey Sidibe, Precious
Meryl Streep, Julie & Julia

Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role

Penélope Cruz, Nine
Vera Farmiga, Up in the Air
Maggie Gyllenhaal, Crazy Heart
Anna Kendrick, Up in the Air
Mo'Nique, Precious

Best Animated Feature Film of the Year

Coraline
Fantastic Mr. Fox
The Princess and the Frog
The Secret of Kells
Up

Original Screenplay

The Hurt Locker, Mark Boal
Inglourious Basterds, Quentin Tarantino
The Messenger, Alessandro Camon and Oren Moverman
A Serious Man, Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
Up, Pete Docter, Tom McCarthy and Bob Peterson

Adapted Screenplay

District 9, Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell
An Education, Nick Hornby
In the Loop, Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci and Tony Roche
Precious, Geoffrey Fletcher
Up in the Air, Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner

Best Foreign Language Film of the Year

Ajami (Israel)
El Secreto de Sus Ojos (Argentina)
The Milk of Sorrow (Peru)
Un Prophète (France)
The White Ribbon (Germany)

Original Score

James Horner, Avatar
Alexandre Desplat, Fantastic Mr. Fox
Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders, The Hurt Locker
Hans Zimmer, Sherlock Holmes
Michael Giacchino, Up

Original Song

"Almost There," Music & Lyrics by Randy Newman (The Princess and the Frog)
"Down in New Orleans," Music & Lyrics by Randy Newman (The Princess and the Frog)
"Loin de Paname," Music by Reinhardt Wagner; Lyrics by Frank Thomas (Paris 36)
"Take It All," Music & Lyrics by Maury Yeston (Nine)
"The Weary Kind," Music & Lyrics by Ryan Bingham and T-Bone Burnett (Crazy Heart)

Achievement in Art Direction

Avatar
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Nine
Sherlock Holmes
The Young Victoria

Achievement in Cinematography

Avatar, Mauro Fiore
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Bruno Delbonnel
The Hurt Locker, Barry Ackroyd
Inglourious Basterds, Robert Richardson
The White Ribbon. Christian Berger

Achievement in Costume Design

Bright Star, Janet Patterson
Coco before Chanel, Catherine Leterrier
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, Monique Prudhomme
Nine, Colleen Atwood
The Young Victori, Sandy Powell

Best Documentary Feature

Burma VJ
The Cove
Food, Inc.
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
Which Way Home

Best Documentary Short Subject

China's Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province
The Last Campaign of Booth Gardner
The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant
Music by Prudence
Rabbit à la Berlin

Achievement in Film Editing

Avatar, Stephen Rivkin, John Refoua and James Cameron
District 9, Julian Clarke
The Hurt Locker, Bob Murawski and Chris Innis
Inglourious Basterds, Sally Menke
Precious, Joe Klotz

Achievement in Makeup

Il Divo
Star Trek
The Young Victoria

Best Animated Short Film

French Roast
Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty
The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte)
Logorama
A Matter of Loaf and Death

Best Live Action Short Film

The Door
Instead of Abracadabra
Kavi
Miracle Fish
The New Tenants

Achievement in Sound Editing

Avatar
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Star Trek
Up

Achievement in Sound Mixing

Avatar
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Star Trek
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

Achievement in Visual Effects

Avatar
District 9
Star Trek

A few more things Grammy-related

Melissa's Best Dressed: Taylor Swift. Her scrunch face annoys me to no end, but at 16 years old, this broad has more class in her little finger than most who have been in the bidness for way longer.



Melissa's Worst Dressed: A great example of someone who's been in the bidness for way longer and doesn't have an ounce of class: Britney.



Questionables: Ricky Martin. Is he a robot now?



And Kesha (I REFUSE TO USE THE DOLLAR SIGN IN HER NAME -- FUCK THAT). I had no idea who she was when I saw her on the TV. I thought a crack head snuck in and got up onstage somehow. And next to a little girl, no less. But it's Kesha. She needs a new stylist and a new image -- stat.