Kelly Brook has proved she is not yet on the slide even though she’s hit her 30s – by posing naked with a pair of skis.
The glamour girl – who was 30 last month – slipped out of her clothes for a festive celebration of her role in West End stage hit Calendar Girls.
Kelly appears naked in the show, which tells the story of members of the Women’s Institute in Rylstone, North Yorkshire, who famously stripped off for a charity fundraising calendar.
Also joining the cast soon is ex-EastEnders star Hannah Waterman, who similarly stripped off for the snowy photoshoot, as did fellow star Janie Dee.
“Gossip Girl” Leighton Meester has a wild side. And we’re not just talking about on the popular series in scenes with her GG character, Blair Waldorf’s, on-again, off-again lover, Chuck Bass (Ed Westwick). Read the rest of this entry »
The days of passing notes in class are long gone.
Teens now primarily use their cell phones to communicate with one another, frequently sending text messages. Read the rest of this entry »
The School of London has always posed a problem on this side of the Atlantic. The term was coined by the American ex-pat R.B. Kitaj for the 48 artists he included in a show called The Human Clay at the Hayward Gallery in 1976. Today we associate the term primarily with Kitaj, Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, Frank Auerbach, and Leon Kossoff. Of these artists, Bacon and Freud are of course the best known in the United States. Kitaj has hovered at the margins, a kind of literary curiosity that no one quite knows what to make of, while Auerbach and Kossoff have remained comparatively obscure. A major critical stumbling block has been the group’s inborn conservatism — having coalesced, as it were, at the moment the coffin lid was slamming shut on the art object in general and painting in particular. Kitaj’s criterion that the work in The Human Clay be exclusively “pictures representing people” was, for a Greenbergian, as intellectually bankrupt as a premise could get. Read the rest of this entry »
I am not a nudist, but I decided to try the Fifth Annual “Bare Buns Fun Run” advertised at the Nude Wreck Beach in Canada last July. The innocuous word “fun” seemed to balance the more threatening words, “bare” and “buns.” Read the rest of this entry »
