Steve Carrell Says Goodbye to The Office

Tonight Steve Carrell says goodbye to The Office after seven seasons of playing Michael Scott. Boy, will I be crying tonight. Not just little tears, but big, embarrassing sobs. I've been a fan of the show since season one and a loyal viewer. It's a bit like the end of an era.

The super sized episode of The Office airs tonight at 9pm on NBC.

Check out Angela Kinsey's flipcam interview with Steve Carrell:

I can feel the sobs starting already deep down in my gut.

The Outnet's $2 Anniversary Sale & Weekend Sample Sale Roundup

Last year the Outnet (Net-A-Porter's sale site) had a $1 sale to commemorate their first anniversary. It was a hot mess. First of all, it started at an ungodly hour on the west coast (think 4:30am), and while it featured tons of fab items, the traffic on the site was crazy because people managed to buy more than one item. Needless to say, this resulted in tons of angry shoppers and plenty of happy resellers that unloaded all their $1 goods onto eBay and made a hefty profit on Pucci dresses, Matthew Williamson caftans, and other fancy shmancies. Thank goodness I was jobless then and could stay up at all hours staring at my gmail, willing my inbox to load an email from the Outnet that the sale was on. Unfortunately I only managed to nab a Marc by Marc Jacobs terry dress that was a size too big.

This year the Outnet announced a $2 anniversary sale, except this time only 2,000 shoppers were invited to shop the sale. Let me put this in perspective: the Outnet has 100k fans on facebook and about 25k fans on Twitter alone. 2,000 invites mean squat. So I entered the drawing without any expectation, and then BOOM. I get an invite! OH OUTNET, HOW I LOVE THEE.

This morning I trekked it to work, coffee in hand, and game face on. I sat down at my desk and played that same waiting game, except this time around the Outnet was kind enough to provide a time window for the start time. When the email finally hit my inbox, I was off to the races. I wanted to take my time and scroll through all the pretty, but I was frantic with shopping anxiety. I clicked through the shoes, made sure the pair of Alexander Wang boots I'd been stalking on the site weren't on sale for $2, made a quick pass at the dismal selection of bags, and headed over to the clothing.

I hemmed and hawed over this Proenza Schouler leather dress, but ultimately decided the chest situation was a no-go. Uni-boob is not so cute on me. I bet the leather on this dress feels like BUTTAH though.



I ultimately ended up with this pretty little Anna Molinari number. Retail was $2695. Yikes! It it doesn't fit I may just cry. Just a little bit.


The sad thing is that the Outnet shut you out of the sale after you made your purchase, so I couldn't get a lay of the land, I couldn't survey all the pretty that was out there! If anyone bought anything from the sale, I want to see!

Alright, if you didn't get an invite to today's Outnet $2 sale, there are still other deals to be had.

I'm thinking of checking out UO's sample sale this weekend at Space 15 Twenty in Hollywood. They're providing eco-totes, and it's an all you can grab situation, where anything that you can fit in the bag is a flat $50. Sounds pretty sweet. $5 from each sale will also go to the American Red Cross:


Space 15 Twenty: 1520 N. Cahuenga Blvd., Los Angeles 90028

Other sales happening this weekend:
Mighty Fine Easter Friends and Family sale: Stock up on graphic tees with Hello Kitty, NBA, Marvel Comics, etc. 2010 E. 15th St., Los Angeles 90021, 4/15: 3:30-6pm

LnA warehouse sale: basic tees, leggings, tops, and more. 6344 Arizona Circle, Los Angeles, 90045, 4/15: 9-5pm

BCBG Friends and Family sale: footwear, handbags, accessories, clothing, and more. 2737 E. 54th St., Vernon 90058, (entrance on 54th St. off Pacific). 4/16: 8-3:30pm.

Happy shopping, all!

FOX Renews "Fringe"!

HOLY MOLY. Time to eat my words. Friday night isn't the place where shows go to die. Not at FOX, at least. The brilliant sci-fi underdog, Fringe, has been renewed! Now that is some damn good news. I mean the dance in streets, yell at the top of your lungs, and clearly embarrass yourself kind of good news. I've never been happier to be proven wrong. To top it all off, it has also received a full season order of 22 episodes! Hooray! I am seriously so excited. My favorite scientific drama lives to see another season! With gems like the sheer genius of John Noble's Walter Bishop and the made up term 'vagenda' (YES, it is exactly what it sounds like), what's not to love?

Floating "Up" House Scene Recreated in Real Life

How amazing is this?






Incredible, right? These pictures make me giddy! Just look at how huge and colorful those balloons are! Makes my inner eight year old squeal with delight!

This unbelievable feat was created by the brilliant team behind National Geographic and a group of talented scientists and engineers. The house measures approximately 16'x16'x18' and it reached an altitude of approximately 10,000 feet.

Check out the house in action:

Rodarte States of Matter MOCA Exhibit

I spent a lovely Sunday last weekend roaming around L.A. with the wonderful bf. He knew I had been jonesing to go to the Rodarte States of Matter exhibit and me being me, I had to go ASAP. We strolled in at a perfect time as it was relatively empty and we scored a parking spot right in front of the exhibit. Nothing like free parking and free admission, and in L.A. no less. I'd say that's more rare than a piece of steak at the butcher's.




A couple of notes about the exhibit: no photography is allowed and admission is free, but it's located at the MOCA Pacific Design Center. The venue is very small, and I mean itty bitty. The exhibit is comprised of two small rooms with several distracting light installations that frequently flash on and off, and even leaves you in complete darkness for a few seconds at a time. Very odd. Pieces on exhibit include dresses from '08 and '10 collections, along with the original, unaltered costumes from Black Swan. They are phenomenal up close. I spent a good two minutes with my mouth agape. The detail that go into these pieces are so intricate and awe-inspiring. Trust me, you'll want to see these. If not to appreciate the sheer craftsmanship and art, then to appreciate how trim and teeny tiny Natalie Portman had to get in order to fit into those costumes. I don't know how the girl did it, but just looking at these costumes made my ribs hurt.

Rodarte States of Matter is on display at the MOCA Pacific Design Center from now until June 5th. Go check it out!

Oscars 2011 Recap: Winners and Best/Worst Dressed

Thoughts on last night's show:

• Oh boy. Last night's live show was like watching a sinking ship. Anne put up a valiant effort, but even she could tell it was going downhill fast and poor thing, she had to hold it together while James was somewhere off in nonchalant-land thinking about some homework assignment he missed. Don't get me wrong, I love me some James Franco and I appreciated his live-tweeting, but he seemed like he wished he was somewhere else last night, which leaves me to think things were happening in the background which threw the whole show off. I mean, I seem to recall him saying there would be some punchy musical numbers, but Anne was singing about Hugh Jackass up on that big stage all by her herself.
  
• Billy Crystal was the highlight of the night. Please host every show from now on Billy, pretty please.
• The musical parodies of The Social Network, Harry Potter, and Twilight? So awkward and out of place. Did I miss something? Was this the MTV Movie Awards in disguise?
• The Oscar folks recruited Anne and James to host the show in order to draw in ratings from a younger demographic, yet ratings were down 10% from last year. Oops.
• Disappointed that there were no shakeups this year. All the wins were exactly as predicted, and usually, we have a couple of surprises here and there. I'm still raging mad that Hailee Steinfeld didn't get the best supporting actress win she so deserved, and don't even get me started about best director. Fincher was robbed.
• Melissa Leo. Oh, Melissa Leo. First with the Oscar campaign she started for herself, and then with that blatantly rehearsed acceptance speech? I get it, Melissa, you can act.
• My heart breaks for The Social Network, especially for Jesse Eisenberg (although Colin is brilliant and shall from now on only be referred to as King Colin) and David Fincher. I can only hope that another project comes along that will eventually turn into an Oscar win for both of them.
  
• Last night's Oscar telecast was so depressing in so many ways for me that I had to pop in Love Actually to make myself feel a little better. That should pretty much sum up how I felt about the show right there.
• My Oscar ballot tally: 19/22 (I omitted best live action short and best documentary short subject)
  

The full list of winners and my assessment of the best and worst dressed below:

BEST PICTURE
127 Hours
Black Swan
The Fighter
Inception
The Kids Are All Right
WINNER: The King’s Speech
The Social Network
Toy Story 3
True Grit
Winter’s Bone

BEST ACTOR
Javier Bardem, Biutiful
Jeff Bridges, True Grit
Jesse Eisenberg, The Social Network
WINNER: Colin Firth, The King’s Speech
James Franco, 127 Hours

BEST ACTRESS
Annette Bening, The Kids Are All Right
Nicole Kidman, Rabbit Hole
Jennifer Lawrence, Winter’s Bone
WINNER: Natalie Portman, Black Swan
Michelle Williams, Blue Valentine

BEST DIRECTOR
Darren Aronofsky, Black Swan
Joel & Ethan Coen, True Grit
David Fincher, The Social Network
WINNER: Tom Hooper, The King’s Speech
David O. Russell, The Fighter

BEST SONG
“Coming Home,” Country Strong, Tom Douglas, Troy Verges and Hillary Lindsey
“I See the Light,” Tangled, Alan Menken, Glenn Slater
“If I Rise,” 127 Hours, A.R. Rahman, Dido, Rollo Armstrong
WINNER: “We Belong Together,” Toy Story 3, Randy Newman

BEST EDITING
127 Hours, Jon Harris
Black Swan, Andrew Weisblum
The Fighter, Pamela Martin
The King’s Speech, Tariq Anwar
WINNER: The Social Network, Angus Wall and Kirk Baxter

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Alice in Wonderland, Ken Ralston, David Schaub, Carey Villegas and Sean Phillips
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — Part 1, Tim Burke, John Richardson, Christian Manz and Nicolas Aithadi
Hereafter, Michael Owens, Bryan Grill, Stephan Trojanski and Joe Farrell
WINNER: Inception, Paul Franklin, Chris Corbould, Andrew Lockley and Peter Bebb
Iron Man 2, Janek Sirrs, Ben Snow, Ged Wright and Daniel Sudick

BEST DOCUMENTARY
Exit Through the Gift Shop, Banksy and Jaimie D’Cruz
Gasland, Josh Fox and Trish Adlesic
WINNER: Inside Job, Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs
Restrepo, Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger
Waste Land, Lucy Walker and Angus Aynley

BEST LIVE-ACTION SHORT
The Confession, Tanel Toom
The Crush, Michael Creagh
WINNER: God of Love, Luke Matheny
Na Wewe, Ivan Goldschmidt
Wish 143, Ian Barnes and Samantha Waite

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT
Killing in the Name (Nominees TBD)
Poster Girl (Nominees (TBD)
WINNER: Strangers No More, Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon
Sun Come Up, Jennifer Redfearn and Tim Metzger
The Warriors of Qiugang, Ruby Yang and Thomas Lenno

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
WINNER: Alice in Wonderland, Colleen Atwood
I Am Love, Antonella Cannarozzi
The King’s Speech, Jenny Beaven
The Tempest, Sandy Powell
True Grit, Mary Zophres

BEST MAKEUP
Barney’s Version, Adrien Morot
The Way Back, Eduoard F. Henriques, Gregory Funk, Yolanda Toussieng
WINNER: The Wolfman, Rick Baker and Dave Elsey

BEST SOUND EDITING
WINNER: Inception, Richard King
Toy Story 3, Tom Myers and Michael Silvers
TRON: Legacy, Gwendolyn Yates Whittle and Addison Teague
True Grit, Skip Lievsay and Craig Berkey
Unstoppable, Mark P. Stoeckinger

BEST SOUND MIXING
WINNER: Inception, Lora Hirschberg, Gary A. Rizzo, and Ed Novick
The King’s Speech, Paul Hamblin, Martin Jensen, and John Midgley
Salt, Jeffrey J. Haboush, Greg P. Russell, Scott Millan, and William Sarokin
The Social Network, Ren Klyce, David Parker, Michael Semanick, and Mark Weingarten
True Grit, Skip Lievsay, Craig Berkey, Greg Orloff, and Peter F. Kurland

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
127 Hours, A.R. Rahman
How to Train Your Dragon, John Powell
Inception, Hans Zimmer
The King’s Speech, Alexandre Desplat
WINNER: The Social Network, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
WINNER: Christian Bale, The Fighter
John Hawkes, Winter’s Bone
Jeremy Renner, The Town
Mark Ruffalo, The Kids Are All Right
Geoffrey Rush, The King’s Speech

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Hors la Loi (Outside the Law) (Algeria)
Incendies (Canada)
WINNER: In a Better World (Denmark)
Dogtooth (Greece)
Biutiful (Mexico)

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Another Year, written by Mike Leigh
The Fighter, Screenplay by Scott Silver and Paul Tamasy & Eric Johnson; 
Story by Keith Dorrington & Paul Tamasy & Eric Johnson
Inception, written by Christopher Nolan
The Kids Are All Right, written by Lisa Cholodenko & Stuart Blumberg
WINNER: The King’s Speech, Screenplay by David Seidler

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
127 Hours, Screenplay by Danny Boyle & Simon Beaufoy
WINNER: The Social Network, Screenplay by Aaron Sorkin
Toy Story 3, Screenplay by Michael Arndt; Story by John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich
True Grit, written for the screen by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
Winter’s Bone, adapted for the screen by Debra Granik & Anne Rosellini

BEST ANIMATED FILM
How to Train Your Dragon
The Illusionist
WINNER: Toy Story 3

BEST ANIMATED SHORT
Day & Night, Teddy Newton
The Gruffalo, Jakob Schuh and Max Lang
Let’s Pollute, Geefwee Boedoe
WINNER: The Lost Thing, Shaun Tan and Andrew Ruhemann
Madagascar, Carnet de Voyage (Madagascar, a Journey Diary), Bastien Dubois

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Amy Adams, The Fighter
Helena Bonham Carter, The King’s Speech
WINNER: Melissa Leo, The Fighter
Hailee Steinfeld, True Grit
Jacki Weaver, Animal Kingdom

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Black Swan, Matthew Libatique
WINNER: Inception, Wally Pfister
The King’s Speech, Danny Cohen
The Social Network, Jeff Cronenweth
True Grit, Roger Deakins

BEST ART DIRECTION
WINNER: Alice in Wonderland, Robert Stromberg, Karen O’Hara
Happy Potter and the Deathly Hallows — Part 1, Stuart Craig, Stephenie McMillan
Inception, Guy Hendrix Dyas, Larry Dias, Doug Mowat
The King’s Speech, Eve Stewart, Judy Farr
True Grit, Jess Gonchor, Nancy Haigh

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Best Dressed:

My two favorites up first:
Mila Kunis in Elie Saab: Mila is annoyingly gorgeous in every way and in this dress, she just gets even more annoying because she is perfect in it.
Cate Blanchett in Givenchy Couture: Cate is my top pick for best dressed. I am OBSESSED with this little Givenchy number with the crazy beading and armor-like cut-out in the front. It's gorgeous. It's like a couture ninja (and I when I say ninja, I'm totally picturing the Mortal Kombat ninjas) get-up and I love it.



Gwyneth Paltrow in Calvin Klein: If anyone can do simplicity well, it's my Gwynnie. This dress is like a silver waterfall. It's dripping with pretty.
Jennifer Laurence in Calvin Klein Collection: First thoughts. 1) Damn Jennifer Laurence has a banging body and 2) time to hide the snacks and hit the gym. I think Jennifer did a great job at keeping classy and keeping it sexy as all hale.



Hailee Steinfeld in Marchesa: Okay, how perfect is this dress on Hailee? She's like a mini Audrey Hepburn. This outfit is literally styled perfectly, from the thin hairband, to the neat, sleek hair, and the adorable little champagne pumps -- age appropriate and lovely, just lovely.
Mandy Moore in Monique Lhullier: I think this dress is gorgeous, but it would be so much more perfect if it were a shade darker than Mandy's skin color. She's just a tad too pale in it, but nonetheless, it's a gorgeous puff of a dress.



Hilary Swank in Gucci Premiere: The gag reflex is usually on autopilot when I see an excess of feathers, but this dress has the perfect balance of texture. Not too much, not too little. I also have a slight weakness for dip-dye, so I can't deny Hilary's beauty in this ensemble.
Michelle Williams in Chanel Couture: Michelle with her pixie cut and simple, yet lovely Chanel couture reminds me so much of Twiggy it's ridiculous.



Worst Dressed:

Nicole Kidman in Dior Couture: I just -- I just don't even know what to make of this hot mess. It's just atrocious. It baffles me as to why Nicole even chose this dress. She looks like a tacky, embroidered napkin, except I fear even that that may have looked better on her. Nothing could save this outfit, not even a life raft.
Jennifer Hudson in Versace: See, I respect the fact that J Hud wanted to show off her new bangin' body, but this dress is doing nothing for her except exposing a whole lot of boob. Imagine how gorgeous she would have looked in that Calvin Klein number that Jennifer Laurence wore. What a shame.



Anne Hathaway in vintage Valentino: I wanted to love this dress, I really did. I squinted my eyes, I tried to make justifications in my head, and at one point.. it was a 'it's vintage... I love it, right?!' kind of moment. See, folks-- this is a perfect example that just because it's vintage doesn't mean it's amazing. Or even remotely amazing. In the end, the bubble butt just couldn't be justified away.
Reese Witherspoon in Armani Prive: I think I understand where Reese was going with this, but in the end in just ended up looking like a bad high school prom outfit, and we all know that 60's high ponytail updo didn't help either.



Halle Berry in Marchesa: Tell me the bottom of this dress doesn't look like her kid ran around amok with some tulle and some super glue. You can't, can you?
Marisa Tomei in vintage Charles Edwards couture: This dress was gorgeous, but the bust line wasn't working for Marisa.



Jacki Weaver in Collette Dinniga: I'd say this is pretty self-explanatory.
Melissa Leo in Marc Bouwer: Really now, Melissa, really now? A doily with giant shoulders and a mandarin collar? This is what you wanted to accept your Oscar in?


Let's hope next year will be better!

John Galliano Arrested & Suspended from Dior

So here's a disgusting story. John Galliano was arrested last week for harassing bar patrons in Paris and making anti-Semitic remarks, and today a video surfaced online where he's heard saying, 'I love Hitler'. The video is out there, but I'm too appalled to even post it here. Galliano has been the head of the house of Dior since 1996. He's is now suspended from Dior pending an "investigation". I don't know how much more proof you can get. I don't care how talented or "important" you are, no one is allowed to make disgusting comments like that. What's even more puzzling is that Natalie Portman, who is Jewish, is the new face of Dior. I feel bad for all parties involved-- Natalie, the house of Dior, and everyone else affected by the hateful slurs that Galliano has put out there.

*Update 3/1: Galliano has been fired from Dior! Good riddance.*