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Earlier this week Lifetime TV released a new promo video that introduced the 16 new designers from season 6 of Project Runway and at the time I commented that I wasn’t really feelin’ the emotional vibe that the promo vid was puttin’ out. While it’s nice to meet the designers in this way, the video did not feel at all like it was “Project Runway“. Today we get our first look at the official trailer that Lifetime just released for PR season 6 and HOT DAMN it finally feels like Project Runway is BACK!! Here are a few screencaps from the just released official trailer:

Hell YES … Lifetime TV is really makin’ it work with this latest video. When season 6 debuts on Lifetime TV on August 20 it really look like the show will continue as if no time had taken place (altho much time has taken place) since season 5 bowed on Bravo TV. Not only is Lindsay Lohan appearing as a guest judge (as you can see in the screencaps above) but there will also be a mystery judge who is only described as a “five-time Grammy winner”. HMMMMMM. Who could it be now? I guess we’ll just have to tune in to find out for ourselves. After the jump, check out the official trailer for Project Runway season 6 in full …

Last night, Sarah and I were able to attend our second of three Tori Amos concerts (after seeing our first show of this tour in San Diego, CA on Thursday night). Tori played the Greek Theater (my fave outdoor LA venue) which is a beautiful venue for a show like Tori‘s:

So as not to spoil the show for any of y’all who have yet to see the Sinful Attraction Tour, I’ll keep the photos of the show behind the cut. For those of you so inclined, you can see some of the pics I snapped along with the full show setlist after the jump …

• “She has been on a destructive path for a while now” — a friend of Mischa Barton BTW, Mischa Barton is still hospitalized.
• One of Nadya Suleman‘s 14 children was rushed to the hospital.
• Freshly dumped Jessica Simpson lies low.
• Paul McCartney plays the first show at the NY Mets new home.
• Madonna‘s stage collapse accident becomes a manslaughter investigation.
• The release of the official results of Michael Jackson‘s autopsy will be delayed.
• Chace Crawford (Gossip Girl) is 24, Ryan Cabrera is 27, M.I.A. is 34, Vin Diesel is 42 and James Brolin is 69 years old today. Click HERE to see who else is celebrating a birthday today.
• La Toya Jackson re-releases a song in honor of her late brother Michael Jackson.

Here is this week’s batch of photos sent in by Pink is the new Blog readers — Ashley and Stephen from TX send in a pic of their twin daughters’ first birthday (you may recall we got to see the beautiful little girls after they were just born last year) — Aimee sends in a pic of her daughter Karlie‘s first trip to Disney World who enjoyed a Princess Jasmine make-over at the Bibbitti Bobbitti Boutique — Jessica sends in a pic with friends Jessica and Robyn dressed as cows for Chick-Fil-A‘s Cow Appreciation Day — Andrea and Niki send in a cute pic with Zac Efron in Vancouver, British Columbia — Christina sends in a pic with James Marsters (Spike from Buffy the Vampire Slayer) who she met at the F/X Convention in Orlando, FL:

How fun!! Birthday Lurve goes out to Ashley and Stephen’s daughters and love to YOU all for this fun batch of photos. Please keep the photos coming … they are all so much fun. I love them all!!! xo

Lindsay Lohan was snapped in Malibu, CA yesterday roaming the streets armed with a weapon to keep the ravenous paparazzi at bay. When approached, L. Lo brandished her weapon and began firing … the girl is deadly with a water gun:

LOL! You know, I’m actually surprised that more celebs don’t whip out water pistols to use against the photogs they claim to dislike so much. Not that I’m trying to instigate or anything but you fill those little toys with ink and you’ve got a formidable weapon. Tho, it’s prolly for the best and all in good fun that L. Lo loaded her pistol with harmless water … that way everyone can have a good laugh. Still … wouldn’t it be totally hilarious if next time she stepped out with a Super Soaker UZI water gun?

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Last week Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails announced that a final batch of tickets would be going on sale for the FINAL Nine Inch Nails shows (possibly of all time) this week. Pre-sales for shows in smaller venues in NYC, Chicago and LA went on sale yesterday evening at 5pm local time at NIN.com. As is usually the case with online pre-sales, there were a few technical problems which cannot be avoided but all in all, the tickets were made available as promised … and sold out within seconds:

The NYC shows (Bowery Ballroom, Webster Hall and two shows at Terminal 5) went on sale first and went the fastest. If you were not logged in at precisely 5pm, you were locked out long enough that you weren’t even able to see the ticketing page to order tickets. The demand was just as high for the LA batch of tickets (Hollywood Palladium, Henry Fonda Theater, Wiltern and Echoplex). Because all of the tickets sold instantly, ticket scaplers have already put tickets on eBay for exorbitant sums. NIN posted the first listing at eBay warning buyers to NOT BUY SCALPED TICKETS:

Every effort is being made to thwart ticket scalping but for shows in such high demand, it’s understandable that this sort of thing is taking place. One hopes that real NIN fans will be able to see the shows for as little cost as possible. I am very, VERY happy to report that I will be attending the NYC and the LA shows. I’ll do my best to share the experience with all y’all. I know some of you also managed to get tickets for the shows you wanted … so I guess I’ll see you there!

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Yesterday we saw a few photos of Jennifer Lopez and her hottie co-star Alex O’Loughlin on the NYC set of their new movie The Back-Up Plan and today we learn that J. Lo is PREGNANT … in the film … hence the fake baby bump that she was spotted wearing on set this week:

I had forgotten how cute J. Lo looks with a baby bump. Now that her twin babies are basically toddlers, it’s been quite a while since we’ve seen Jenny from the Block with a baby protrusion. Even tho this is a fake bump, I think she looks great … perhaps she’ll get the itch to have another baby? I mean, at her age she still has a shot with all the modern wonders of science, right? On second thought, the fact that Marc Anthony was able to spawn and the children didn’t come out looking like baby zombies the first time around means we prolly shouldn’t tempt fate a second time. Perhaps a fake baby bump is best.

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Sad news to pass along today … Walter Cronkite, news anchorman who in his long career in journalism earned the reputation as “the most trusted man in America”, passed away yesterday at the age of 92. According to his son Chip Cronkite, Walter passed away due to complications with dementia. It was no secret that Cronkite had been ill in recent years but, still, any time that death strikes it is always a sad blow. Cronkite passed away peacefully at his home in NYC:

Walter Cronkite, who pioneered and then mastered the role of television news anchorman with such plain-spoken grace that he was called the most trusted man in America, died Friday at his home in New York. He was 92. The cause was complications of dementia, said Chip Cronkite, his son. From 1962 to 1981, Mr. Cronkite was a nightly presence in American homes and always a reassuring one, guiding viewers through national triumphs and tragedies alike, from moonwalks to war, in an era when network news was central to many people’s lives. He became something of a national institution, with an unflappable delivery, a distinctively avuncular voice and a daily benediction: “And that’s the way it is.” He was Uncle Walter to many: respected, liked and listened to. With his trimmed mustache and calm manner, he even bore a resemblance to another trusted American fixture, another Walter — Walt Disney. Along with Chet Huntley and David Brinkley on NBC, Mr. Cronkite was among the first celebrity anchormen. In 1995, 14 years after he retired from the “CBS Evening News,” a TV Guide poll ranked him No. 1 in seven of eight categories for measuring television journalists. (He professed incomprehension that Maria Shriver beat him out in the eighth category, attractiveness.) He was so widely known that in Sweden anchormen were once called Cronkiters. Yet he was a reluctant star. He was genuinely perplexed when people rushed to see him rather than the politicians he was covering, and even more astonished by the repeated suggestions that he run for office himself. He saw himself as an old-fashioned newsman — his title was managing editor of the “CBS Evening News” — and so did his audience. “The viewers could more readily picture Walter Cronkite jumping into a car to cover a 10-alarm fire than they could visualize him doing cerebral commentary on a great summit meeting in Geneva,” David Halberstam wrote in “The Powers That Be,” his 1979 book about the news media. As anchorman and reporter, Mr. Cronkite described wars, natural disasters, nuclear explosions, social upheavals and space flights, from Alan Shepard’s 15-minute ride to lunar landings. On July 20, 1969, when the Eagle touched down on the moon, Mr. Cronkite exclaimed, “Oh, boy!” On the day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, Mr. Cronkite briefly lost his composure in announcing that the president had been pronounced dead at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas. Taking off his black-framed glasses and blinking back tears, he registered the emotions of millions. It was an uncharacteristically personal note from a newsman who was uncomfortable expressing opinion. “I am a news presenter, a news broadcaster, an anchorman, a managing editor — not a commentator or analyst,” he said in an interview with The Christian Science Monitor in 1973. “I feel no compulsion to be a pundit.” But when he did pronounce judgment, the impact was large. In 1968, he visited Vietnam and returned to do a rare special program on the war. He called the conflict a stalemate and advocated a negotiated peace. President Lyndon B. Johnson watched the broadcast, Mr. Cronkite wrote in his 1996 memoir, “A Reporter’s Life,” quoting a description of the scene by Bill Moyers, then a Johnson aide. “The president flipped off the set,” Mr. Moyers recalled, “and said, ‘If I’ve lost Cronkite, I’ve lost middle America.’ ” Mr. Cronkite sometimes pushed beyond the usual two-minute limit to news items. On Oct. 27, 1972, his 14-minute report on Watergate, followed by an eight-minute segment four days later, “put the Watergate story clearly and substantially before millions of Americans” for the first time, the broadcast historian Marvin Barrett wrote in “Moments of Truth?” (1975). In 1977, his separate interviews with President Anwar el-Sadat of Egypt and Prime Minister Menachem Begin of Israel were instrumental in Sadat’s visiting Jerusalem. The countries later signed a peace treaty. “From his earliest days,” Mr. Halberstam wrote, “he was one of the hungriest reporters around, wildly competitive, no one was going to beat Walter Cronkite on a story, and as he grew older and more successful, the marvel of it was that he never changed, the wild fires still burned” … In 1952, the first presidential year in which television outshined radio, Mr. Cronkite was chosen to lead the coverage of the Democratic and Republican national conventions. By Mr. Cronkite’s account, it was then that the term “anchor” was first used — by Sig Mickelson, the first director of television news for CBS, who had likened the chief announcer’s job to an anchor that holds a boat in place. Paul Levitan, another CBS executive, and Don Hewitt, then a young producer, have also been credited with the phrase. The 1952 conventions made Mr. Cronkite a star. Mr. Mickelson, he recalled, told him: “You’re famous now. And you’re going to want a lot more money. You’d better get an agent.” Mr. Cronkite went on to anchor every national political convention and election night until 1980, with the exception of 1964 … In 1961, Mr. Cronkite replaced Murrow as CBS’s senior correspondent, and on April 16, 1962, he began anchoring the evening news, succeeding Douglas Edwards, whose ratings had been low. As managing editor, Mr. Cronkite also helped shape the nightly report. The evening broadcast had been a 15-minute program, but on Sept. 2, 1963, CBS doubled the length to a half-hour, over the objections of its affiliates. Mr. Cronkite interviewed President Kennedy on the first longer broadcast, renamed the “CBS Evening News With Walter Cronkite.” He also broadcast from a real newsroom and not, as Edwards had done, from a studio set. At the time the broadcast was lengthened, Mr. Cronkite inaugurated his famous sign-off, “And that’s the way it is.” The original idea, he later wrote, had been to end each broadcast with a quirky news item, after which he would recite the line with humor, sadness or irony … On his 90th birthday, Mr. Cronkite told The Daily News, “I would like to think I’m still quite capable of covering a story.” But he knew he had to stop sometime, he allowed in his autobiography. He promised at the time to continue to follow news developments “from a perch yet to be determined.” “I just hope that wherever that is, folks will still stop me, as they do today, and ask, ‘Didn’t you used to be Walter Cronkite?’ ”

Walter Cronkite was and will remain an American institution … he was the news for decades in this country. To think that he covered some of the most important news stories in modern human history is pretty amazing. I’m not aware of the how his final days were lived (ie. whether he was in pain or not) but I think it’s safe to say that Cronkite lived a very long, very important life. We all have benefited from his time here on Earth … and he will be sorely missed. Rest well, Walter … and that’s the way it was.

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