How ZOOEY DESCHANEL ‘Put a Spell On You…’ by Elizabeth Searle

There’s something about ZOOEY DESCHANEL: edgy sexy Girl Next Door for our Twilit times.  Actress/singer Zooey is the official It Girl of our blog.  She possesses my favorite artistic combo, one that was a mantra of mine when I was writing my  Tonya & Nancy: The Rock Opera: ‘Dark Yet Perky.’

In her recent hit performances as a singer, paired with M. Ward as ‘She & Him’, Zooey Deschanel demonstrates her blend of dark and perky, sweet and spooky.  Check out the YouTubes below for your Summer 2010 Zooey fix.

Singing Dream a Little Dream of You, Zooey manages to look both vampiric and innocently girlish, with Theda Bara eyes and Marlo Thomas hair.  As one YouTube comment from Zee1198 noted: “Zooey Deschanel doesn’t look like Katy Perry. Katy Perry looks like Zooey Deschanel.”

In her She & Him video, Zooey dances fetchingly in vintage clothes and keeps her head while cartoon blood and axes fly round her.

She dons a white baby-doll dress to tear into I Put a Spell On You with womanly passion.

Generation Twilight (to use our star writer Libby Cudmore‘s phrase) is way too cynical for girly girls.  But with her cutting edge performances and fifties-with-a-twist style, Zooey manages to have her Devil’s Food cupcakes and eat them too.  So let’s dream a little dream of Zooey…

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Supercouples on Ice: PDA Sweepstakes & the Next Brangelina by Elizabeth Searle

Supercouple celebrate Superbowl

Olympians Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo are our Supercouple of the week– at least on ice. Brangelina was rumored to be ‘on ice’ too.  But a picture’s worth a thousand tabloid headlines– especially if PDA pic.s are broadcast during the most-watched TV event ever.

Brangelina put on a super show of affection at the Superbowl– and launched a super lawsuit against a British tabloid. Is their latest Public Display of Affection for real?

Meanwhile, Brangelina’s third-party Jennifer Aniston has found  new man labled by STAR as ‘Jen’s Revenge.’

At the Golden Globes, Jen had her own showy PDA-fest with her alleged ‘revenge,’ Gerard Butler.  The AllieisWired blog reports:”They put on an affectionate show… so over the top that event organizers were gossiping about it on their walkie-talkies.”

Jen and Gerard promptly gave the world more to talk about by flying to Mexico to celebrate Jen’s birthday at poolside.  How  much longer will the Brangelina-plus-Jen show dominate walkie-talkie gossip and headlines?  Who will take over as next king and queen of red-carpet, not to mention of PDAs?

Neil Gaimon and Amanda Palmer get a vote on our StarLit. page as ‘Gaimanda.’ Huffington Post lists the latest ‘media supercouples,’  including George Stephanopoulos and his wife, who just performed a very public ‘striptease’ for him on Good Morning America. And how about newlyweds Katy Perry and Russell Brand?  Or Robert Pattinson and his dog? Who’s your bet for the next ‘Brangelina’?

(photos: thisislondon.co.uk, justjared.buzznet, Star.com, latimesblog.com)

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Grammy Gazing: Choose Your Dueling Diva

Most Honest Acceptance Line: “We’re all a little drunk but happy drunk” from the Kings of Leon, who also promised, “Anyone we forgot, we’ll buy them shots.”

Theme of the Night: “Welcome to the Future;’ spoken by will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas plus Darth Vader masks in one of many bizarre sci-fi production numbers intended to shore up Grammy’s shaky grip on the ‘cutting edge’…

Entrance of the Night: Lady Gaga dumped into a flaming Fame machine and emerging, covered in soot with a similarly smudged yet sparkly Elton John…

Dueling Divas of the Night: Beyonce dressed in the evening’s bewilderingly militaristic sci-fi style grabbed her crotch in If I Were a Boy, upstaging sweetly simple yet flatter-voiced Taylor Swift, who nevertheless nabbed an upset Album of Year– but did Poker-Faced Lady Gaga upstage them both?  Who do you think won the Diva Duel?

Fatherly Advice of the Night: Stephen Colbert telling his daughter, “Stay away from Katy Perry“

Most Bizarre of the Exhaustingly Bizarre Production Numbers: Pink in a see-through sparkle-crotched body suit, drenched and dangling above the disconcerted-looking crowd, shaking herself off like a dog so electrically lit droplets rained down on hundreds of hair-do’d stars, all of whom could have used….

The Accessory of the Night: Imogene Heap‘s plastic parasol…

Most Intriguing New Voice: young Prince Jackson, son of Michael, spoke with feeling in a strikingly deep and husky voice; heaven help him if he has inherited his father’s gift for singing, but he and his equally ethereal sister already know how to stop a show…

Add your own Grammy-gazing rants and raves on our Comments…
(photos: USToday [Pink], oskaya.com, grammy.com, hardspotonline.com, flickr.com, billboard.com)

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