Duran Duran still rocks. Call me crazy but I love ‘em. Always have, always will. (I even have a couple of songs from their latest album on my iPod. “Leave a Light On” reminds me of “Save A Prayer”.)  I may be “dating” myself badly here, but I remember the advent of MTV. When the vid for “Rio” was first released, it was a huge deal and it was in very heavy rotation for a very long time. Those gorgeous guys were tailor made for music videos.  Their popularity was based so heavily on their image at the time, that naysayers theorized the band would dry up when their looks did. Well one, their looks never did and two, the band has outlasted the music video.

For their latest single, “Girl Panic”, they’ve gone old school and back to their roots. There was a time when all a band had to do was fill three minutes of film with models and they had a hit. In fact this band’s first video was for a song called “Girls on Film”. (There was even a version that was too hot for MTV.) The most famous pairing of models and music was probably George Michael’s “Freedom ’90”.  With “Girl Panic”, Duran Duran has taken “Girls on Film”, “Freedom ’90” and mashed them with Robert Palmer’s “Addicted to Love” and come up with a totally cool, highly stylized hybrid of a long-form vid.

Cindy Crawford, Naomi Campbell, Helen Christensen (all three of whom are in their 40’s and look AAH-MAY-ZING!) along with Eva Herzigova all appear as the members of Duran Duran: John Taylor, Simon LeBon, Roger Taylor and Nick Rhodes respectively. (The actual members appear in supporting roles). An unnamed model represents the rotation of replacements for guitarist Andy Taylor who has left the band. You have to watch this. “No models were harmed in this production.”

This week’s Fashionista was a slam dunk!!  The very beautiful Cindy Crawford, 45, set the red carpet on fire this week at the Venice Film Festival in this one shoulder embroidered Roberto Cavalli  number with Chopard jewels.

Cindy and equally beautiful hubby Rande Gerber attended to show support for their friend, gorgeous George Clooney whose new film, The Ides of March, opened the festival.  All I can say to Randy is, “hold on to your woman!”

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Talk about a total shocker.  Little Miss Sunshine’s Abigail Breslin isn’t looking quite as “sunshiney” these days.  Immersing herself into teenager-hood at the age of 14, Breslin is being featured in the debut issue of Bullett Magazine.

If I am being completely honest, this photo is a bit on the frightening side.  It is kind of reminding me of Dakota Fanning growing up, but on the ‘dark side.’  I can only hope this look is purely for the magazine and that Abigail Breslin is still sugar and spice in real life.

The Pretty Reckless Premiere ‘Make Me Wanna Die’ Video

Thankfully Breslin keeps her clothes on no matter how depressing they might be.  This magazine sports some topless photos of their models, showing some of the fashion choices that common folk like myself wouldn’t be caught dead in.  And hello, what’s with the topless shots?  Do you want readers to see the fashion?  They aren’t looking at that scarf when there’s a big boob in their face!

Taylor Momsen, Cindy Crawford, Elizabeth Banks, and model Padma Lakshmi are also featured in this daring new magazine.

Photo: Bullett

It was a who’s who of Hollywood that showed up to lend their name and support behind the Stand Up To Cancer charity event last night in Los Angeles.

The hour long show featured cameos by a ton of stars as well as performances by the likes of Stevie Wonder, Neil Diamond, Leona Lewis, Natasha Bedingfield, Ann and Nancy Wilson of Heart and many more.

Stars like Christina Applegate, and Sofia Vergara that have battled cancer wore yellow shirts, while stars like Rob Lowe who lost his mother to the disease in 2003, wore white.  He paid tribute to her on his shirt with ‘In Memory Of Mom’.

Some of the stars attending last night:

• Anne Heche
• Apolo Ohno
• Cindy Crawford
• David Boreanaz
• Diane Lane
• Emily Deschanel
• Kelly Osbourne
• Kristen Bell
• Marcia Cross
• Olivia Munn
• Orianthi
• Vanessa Hudgens
• Zachary Levi

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Cindy Crawford is still gorgeous at 44 (and why shouldn’t she be? 40 is the new 30 y’all) she tells Ladies Home Journal:

“I think I’m holding up pretty well, but what I like most is the sense of power I have. So much of your life you spend trying to prove yourself, trying to make things happen, trying to get somewhere else. But then you get into your late 30s and 40s and realize life is pretty amazing right in front of you if you can just be present in it.“

Life is amazing as you get older, it really is.  Until I look in the mirror.  That’s when hell breaks loose and I spend the rest of the day in the closet a la fetal position.

Cindy says she really changed after having her babies.  I guess having them at home without drugs will do that to a girl. The experience, she says, gave her a sense of:

“owning my own body. More than anything in my life, it showed me how strong I am. And you need that strength when the kids aren’t babies anymore. Some days I’ll say to them, ‘Get dressed! Brush your teeth!’ 15 times and they’re still not listening.”

What do you think of the cover?

I feel like all those things I did over the years are paying off now. I never smoked, I didn’t bake in the sun and I started taking care of my skin at an early age. I’m pretty happy with the way my face looks.

“I’m 44, I don’t know what’s going to work for me in the future. I already see that when I lose a little weight, my face looks thin, drawn and tired.”

…on how living the good life has paid off

Cindy Crawford turns 44 on February 20 and all I can say is DAMN.  This is one sexy hot MILF who sizzles in the March 2010 issue of Harper’s Bazaar and the pages in between.

George Clooney attended the Los Angeles premiere of ‘Up in the Air’ with the two most important women in his life: his mom Nina Warren Clooney and his lady love Elizabetta Canalis.  From the look on mommy’s face, she approves of George’s latest lady.

The film centres on George’s character, Ryan Bingham, who goes around the country firing people.  Director (and writer) of the film, Jason Reitman tells WENN that he was impressed with the real-life people who agreed to be filmed sharing their personal experiences:

“I approached the shooting of the film when we were having one of the worst recessions on record. I had to adjust how to do these firing scenes (in the film), so satire just didn’t work anymore.  ”We were shooting in St. Louis and Detroit, two cities that just got pummelled and I put an ad out in the paper asking if there were people who lost their jobs and if they wanted to be in a documentary about job loss.  ”We said it was a documentary to weed out actors who were trying to sneak into the film. We had a startling amount of responses. I ended up putting 60 people on camera, 22 of which made the film.

“We interviewed them about what it was like to lose their job in this economy and then we’d fire them on camera and ask them to respond the way they did when they lost their job, or, if they preferred, the way they wish they had responded. It was an incredible experience to watch these non-actors improvise with 100 per cent realism. ”I don’t think I’ll use trained actors in the future.”

Cindy Crawford looks absolutely breathtaking at the premiere with her handsome hubby Rande Gerber.  The shoes are fierce, yes?  Also attending:

• Cheech Marin
• Jason Bateman
• Amanda Anka
• America Olivo
• Rhona Mitra
• Danny Trejo
• Christian Campbell
• Chris Lowell
• Olivia Munn
• Anna Kendrick
• Rebecca De Mornay
• Vera Farmiga

Pictures after the break

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