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Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Project Runway: Lipstick, bungled
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The high: Watching Blayne and Daniel live to see another round. Those are two overly sensitive, well-meaning young designers. They looked crushed to not have Brooke Shields’ approval.
The low: Seeing clips of next week’s drag queen challenge. Can you say “stereotype”?
The lower low: Hearing Terri’s vulgar potty mouth.
A random thought on the “Project Runway” models: Does anyone really care about them? Every week Heidi makes a big production out of which model stays and which model goes, but I honestly can’t tell one from the other because I just don’t pay close attention.
One suggestion would be to skip the model portion (even though it’s only worth a few seconds of airtime) since the winning designer tends to stick with his/her same model anyway.
Moving on, then: “Cashmere Mafia” may have Patricia Field, but “Lipstick Jungle” needs Tim Gunn and gang to inject some pizazz into its costume design. Winner Keith was the designer that tapped into Wendy’s (played by Brooke Shields) fashion psyche. But I thought his feathery dress with convertible sleeves (right) was not fashion-forward, even though the judges (and Tim Gunn) clearly loved it. It looked old-fashioned; the high waist and loud print would not flatter 6-foot-tall Brooke Shields.
A better choice for Wendy, IMHO, would have been Korto’s sweet-potato ensemble, which needs a tall, broad-shouldered woman to carry it off. Plus, the color would have looked good with Shields’ chestnut hair.
On Tim Gunn’s blog, he remained dubious, but I thought it was unusual and very striking.
To make an apples-to-oranges comparison, in my head I recast Sarah Jessica Parker as “Lipstick Jungle’s” Wendy Healy and immediately dressed her in Jerell’s bias-cut dress. There’s no question there as to what TV’s fashion icon emeritus would have worn on her female-friends-in-New-York TV show.
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8/13: Atlanta radio personalities work the video
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
I’m on the road today so I don’t have time to fish around for any real news so here’s some video from radio land for you to enjoy in the interim:
The Regular Guys have “Southside” Steve Rickman doing several bits a week, probably the most of any personality in town:
Here’s the one he did back in March with WGCL-TV’s Dagmar Midcap because well, this is just an excuse to show Dagmar Midcap:
Star 94’s Morning Mess last week posted a “behind the scenes” video on YouTube:
WSB-TV online did a “behind the scenes” piece about Kevin & Taylor of 104.7/The Fish:
And here’s video of Kevin Avery in high heels:
The “A Team’s” Beyonce at Hot 107.9 posts video, too. Here’s a bit she did with Chris Brown skateboarding:
Q100’s Bert Show only occasionally puts up video for big events, such as Jenn Hobby skydiving a couple months back:
V-103’s Nina Brown, the Frank and Wanda producer, occasionally does some video, too. Here are some post-show shenanigans:
And if you want to know what Mara Davis looks like on Dave FM, here’s some video of her on YouTube though most of her videos are here on edave.fm.:
Jane Monsures, part of the morning show at Dave, does video here. but I can’t embed it. You have to scroll down. On August 6, she did a piece with a mixologist at Twist.
And Adam Bomb emailed me to note he does some videos. Here’s the latest:
