Natalie Portman joined Toby Maguire for the premiere of their new movie Brothers in which they star alongside Jake Gyllenhaal in a modern take on the prodigal son parable. Portman plays Grace Cahill whose husband Sam, played by Maguire, is the model citizen, war hero and son of a combative Vietnam veteran. His brother Tommy is played by Jake Gyllenhaal. Tommy is a drunk who has recently been released from prison but when the news of the suspected death of his brother reaches the Cahill family, the delinquent brother turns over a new leaf to protect Sam’s children and wife. Tommy falls for Grace only for his brother to miraculously return from harrowing torture in Afghanistan and a battle for the beautiful Portman’s affection ensues. Focusing on political apathy for war and the troubles faced by families of servicemen, Brothers has been tipped for award success in the new year.

I only recently heard about this movie when I saw a trailer for it on TV … now that I’m learning that the film is a modern re-telling of the Prodigal Son parable, I’m even more intrigued. Despite my intense love for Jakey poo, I think this film looks really good overall (ie. I’d prolly see it even if Jake weren’t starring in it). From what I’ve seen thus far of Maguire’s performance in the few clips I’ve seen already, it looks like his character is really … intense … and poor Nat is stuck in between the two brothers. I, for one, am looking forward to seeing this flick … despite it’s serious tone, it looks like a movie I’d deffo want to see in theaters, despite the holidays.

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While it pains me to no end that David and I couldn’t be in NYC this weekend to celebrate Christian’s birthday with him, I do want to take this opportunity to send out all my love and birthday wishes to Christian today on his birthday!! I understand that everyone had a great time celebrating with Christian last night. Please join me in sending out all our Birthday Lurve to Christian today along with our wishes for many, many happy birthdays to come! xoxo

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Designers from “Project Runway” have come and gone — sadly, mostly gone. But Christian Siriano has shown he plans to stay. Siriano’s spring 2010 collection shown Saturday was his third at Mercedes Benz Fashion Week following his stint on the reality show, and in that time he’s made his way to the windows of Saks Fifth Avenue and to the shoe aisles of Payless. The collection was a lush take on Mediterranean travel, concluding with three intricate ball gowns that elicited spontaneous applause from a crowd that included actresses Mena Suvari and Tori Spelling and model Alessandra Ambrosio. A satin-faced organza strapless gown in blush, elegantly draped and with a beaded bodice, cried out for a red carpet. “I feel like a proud dad,” said Tim Gunn, the “Project Runway” mentor. He said he knew Siriano would be a standout from the competition, and thinks he’s evolved into something more: “I believe he’s this generation’s Marc Jacobs. I do.”

Christian Siriano is such a stunning talent, it’s really great to see him grow into his own. After the jump, see a few of the pieces he crafted for his Spring ‘10 collection and read the rest of this glowing review of his show …

Some of Siriano’s most striking pieces were made from a fabric print created using an aerial photograph of the Italian coast line — “flipped, modified, repeated and saturated with Volcanic and Oceanic colors,” as Siriano described in his notes. The result was a richly intricate pattern that looked almost animalistic rendered in reds and orange and like a deep ocean cartography in blues. Siriano is a natural showman, so wearability seems beside the point. But his weakest moments came when he strived for it — as in a fitted khaki funnel neck dress with blue piping — and when he totally ignored it, as in an ocean print body suit that was unflattering on the model, who looked famished even by model standards.

But he showed a capacity to wow with some of his tamer pieces in shades of blush, nude and khaki — there was elegant draping, delicate pleating and gathered flounces at the shoulders and hips, two body parts getting a lot of attention at Fashion Week. Also meant to be wearable: the sky-high shoes for his third Payless line with a curved, pointed heel and sometimes upturned toe. Just don’t try walking too far. It wouldn’t be fierce. Nina Garcia, a “Project Runway” judge and fashion director of Marie Claire, said she agreed with Gunn’s assessment of the designer, calling Siriano “pretty amazing.” “Go to the Saks Fifth Avenue third floor and you’ll see him among all the big designers. So clearly it’s not just us who think that way but I think also the retailers,” she said. “Christian had just fearlessness about him, he just kept pushing the envelope. At the end of the day you have to have that to make it.”

It pains me that I could not attend his show yesterday … our travel plans were already in place by the time the invite arrived but seeing the fruits of his labor in these photos almost makes up for not being able to see them in person. I agree with Tim Gunn that Siriano is this generation’s Marc Jacobs but, to be honest, I could see how CS could go even further and be any generation’s Christian Siriano. Well done, CS … this looks like a fabulous show.

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VS Make-Up is launching The Cristian Siriano Collection at their stores all around the country and Christian himself made his way to LA for the launch here. I have to say … it’s really great to see Christian smiling so fiercely these days! His smirk was cool but I much prefer it when he flashes his pearly whites ;)

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The MTV Movie Awards were a blood bath Sunday night with “Twilight” taking five trophies, including best movie. But it was Sacha Baron Cohen who gave the show its trademark bizarro moment when he landed upside-down on the lap of Eminem, who may or may not have been deeply offended. “Twilight,” the popular vampire drama starring Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart, sucked up golden popcorn trophies for best movie, best fight, best kiss, breakthrough male performance and female performance during Sunday’s freewheeling and often-bleeped ceremony at the Gibson Amphitheatre in Universal City, Calif. “The fans are the ultimate driving force,” Stewart said while accepting her best female performance trophy (which she promptly dropped on the floor, breaking off a chunk of the golden popcorn). Awards were decided by fan votes. Other winners included “High School Musical 3: Senior Year” star Zac Efron for male performance and his co-star Ashley Tisdale for female breakthrough performance. Miley Cyrus accepted the best song from a movie prize for “The Climb” from “Hannah Montana: The Movie,” preventing “Twilight” from sweeping all six nominated categories. An award new to this year, the “WTF moment,” went to Amy Poehler’s scene in “Baby Mama” where she urinates in a sink. But even that was upstaged by Baron Cohen, who flew in on a wire, hanging above the audience. Dressed as flamboyant character “Bruno” in a pair of feathery white wings and his rear end mostly exposed, the comedian crashed into an overhead obstacle and was lowered headfirst into the lap of Eminem, his bare hindquarters in the rapper’s face. “Is the real Slim Shady about to stand up?” chirped Baron Cohen. Eminem seemed visibly upset by the encounter, and members of his entourage roughly removed Baron Cohen as the rapper struggled to get out. But had the rapper’s self-styled homophobic character been punked by Baron Cohen and MTV, or was he in on the elaborate stunt? Free of the scene, Eminem stormed out with his entourage in tow — and cameras rolling — and hit the exits. Baron Cohen’s descent to the audience was included in rehearsals, but Eminem — who performed Sunday night — didn’t take part in that piece of the run-through. As the rapper stormed off, it sounded as though he was wearing a microphone, and cameras were in position to record his fast exit, but he was not seen or heard from again. Baron Cohen’s publicist, Matthew Labov, had no comment when reached after the show. A spokeswoman for MTV would not confirm whether Eminem was caught by surprise, and representatives for the rapper did not immediately return requests for comment Sunday night … Besides handing out awards for movies from the past year, MTV debuted new footage from the upcoming films “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen,” “Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince” and “New Moon.” The highlight of the “Twilight” sequel clip: A newly buff Taylor Lautner transformed instantly into a giant, menacing canine, fans’ first look at one of the storyline’s werewolves.

LOL. I was surprised that Twilight only won 5 awards … from watching the show, it seemed like the movie won every category announced. It’s very clear that the Twilighters have spoken … and they love their vamps! They also love their awkwardly, fidgety starlet Kristen Stewart … who fumbled and itched her head thruout her acceptance speech for Best Female Performance (she looked like a crack addict pheenin’ for a hit) — and then dropped her award trophy onto the ground. In case you missed it the first time or just wanna watch it again, you can watch the full video of her onstage acceptance speech (and fumble) after the jump …

RuPaul played host of the night’s festivities and a whole slew of really fun awards were handed out thruout the evening. The show won’t air on LOGO until June 13 so you’re just gonna hafta wait to find out who won all the fun awards ;) I will say, tho, that RuPaul was so awesome as host … she looked FABULOUS and managed to grace us with 3 costume changes thruout the night. Vanessa Williams was a nice surprise … there were just a lot of really fun folks there last night. We had blast. Our table was situated right next to Sia’s table and we bonded with her immediately. She came over to me to tell me that she loves reading my “bloggy” and uses it as her source of all the fun “gossy”. She is just insanely adorable. I have a few fun photos to post in the TV Guide post later on today .. but for now, congrats and love goes out to all the NewNowNext Award winners … and to Cheyenne Jackson for being hot.

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As you can see, fashion designer Christian Mr. Fierce Siriano was also in the hiz for last night’s premiere … as was Olympic Gold Medalist hottie Ryan Lochte (has this guy gotten cuter in the past few months … cuz, damn!). These guys know good entertainment when they see it. I am having the hardest time deciding what to do today … I desperately want to see Obsessed but I also want to see Fighting and The Informers as well (Fighting has Channing Tatum in it, so, duh … and The Informers is based on a Bret Easton Ellis book and I just love his work). I fear I might have to pull a double feature and see 2 of the 3 movies today … and because David and I are flying out to Chicago tomorrow afternoon, I might have to see the third move in the Windy City. Ugh … so many great movies, so little time. All I know is I simply must watch Beyoncé whip some ass … I am so there. Are any of y’all planning a trip out to the movie theater this weekend? What are YOU planning to see?

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Christian Siriano is all about skinny legs and cool, voluminous pieces. His coats had all kinds of interesting billowy, stacked, winged and sculpted sleeves. In fact, these kinds of fabric manipulations were seen throughout the collection on blouses, skirts and dresses to much success. This designer has grown an incredible amount since his “Project Runway” win just a year ago. His work has gone from kitschy and costume-y to actually fashionable, particularly in the latter half of his collection, which featured floaty dresses and gowns we wouldn’t be surprised to see on a red carpet soon. It seems Siriano still has the Bravo mantle to carry. His audience was loaded with former “Project Runway” contestants (aka losers) and Countess LuAnn Shopsalot, or whatever her purchased name is, from “The Real Housewives of New York.” Tori Spelling, who provided the jewelry for the show, was also holding court.

Oh yeah, the boy’s got talent … it’s crazy how much creativity and style Christian’s design aesthetic entails. While I must admit that early on during his season of Project Runway Christian (and his antics in particular) rubbed me the wrong way, I really came to see the genius in his talent. He absolutely deserved to win his season of the show and his continuing body of work just proves how much of an exciting designer he really is. After the jump, check out a few more of his Fall ‘09 pieces as well as video of his entire collection making its way down the runway at NY Fashion Week last night …

I think it’s safe to say that Christian is among the most beloved contestants from Project Runway so I think there are many folks out there who will join me in wishing the fierce designer a Happy Birthday. Siriano has been running around like crazy in the past few months and is even considering a guest appearance on Gossip Girl in the near future (despite the fact that E! claims that he and Walsh are “engaged”, I can assure you that they are not … yet). It’s clear that Christian is showing no signs of slowing down any time soon … and the lad just turned a mere 23 years old! OY! He’s gonna need that youthful spunk because he’s got a long career ahead of him. I hope you had a very Happy Birthday, Christian … I can’t wait to see where you pop up next!!

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Heidi looks pretty amazing … as I may have mentioned previously, homegirl really goes all out for Halloween. I’m not entirely sure what Seal was dressed up as … Sinbad the Sailor perhaps? I mean, he looks a’ight but can anyone look great in a costume standing next to Heidi lookin’ like this? You may recognize the little person in the photo with Heidi in the last pic … yes, it’s Cruella de Vil but it’s actually Project Runway season 5 winner Christian Siriano. Christian was joined by Project Runway season 1 contestant Austin Sacrlett who dressed as a Japanese kabuki actor:

Heidi Klum ain’t playin’ around when she invites you to her Halloween parties … you come prepared or you don’t come at all. As always, Heidi turned it out. Looks like a pretty awesome time.

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