2012年7月26日星期四

Rhinestone lips, rock-hard abs, expensive cars and an army of dancers: Jennifer Lopez debuts new music video Goin' In

She may have turned 43 just yesterday but Jennifer Lopez is doing her best to show fans she still has the moves in her latest music video.
Armed with a team of talented dancers, the singer does her share of rump-shaking in the four-minute clip for new single Goin' In, penned for the Step Up: Revolution soundtrack.
Opening the video in an electric pink cape, flanked by a pair of snow white wolves, JLo blows a gust of air from her rhinestone lips that transforms a dandelion into specks of glitter.
But the colourful display leaves something to be desired.
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Pink lady: Jennifer Lopez debuted her new music video, Goin' In, 
today on MTV
Pink lady: Jennifer Lopez debuted her new music video, Goin' In, today on MTV

Goin' In debuted on MTV First: Jennifer Lopez on Wednesday.

And while some of the visuals may be eye-catching, the video fails to tell a story through styling, movement or effects - nor does it connect with the random clips from the dance movie it was made for.

 

Several costume changes show Jennifer writhing in stomach-baring numbers, including a yellow crop top and glittering leggings that showcase her famous shape.

Lasers reminiscent of her 1999 video for Waiting for Tonight fill the screen and alongside a team of back-up dancers, JLo, later in sparkling hammer pants, pantomimes her way through the lyrics.
A familiar scene: The singer writhes around in several 
stomach-baring outfits
A familiar scene: The singer writhes around in several stomach-baring outfits
Poor styling: A neon pink cape is paired with rhinestone lips and 
tinted sunglasses - but the image doesn't pop
Poor styling: A neon pink cape is paired with rhinestone lips and tinted sunglasses - but the image doesn't pop


Radiant: Jennifer's skin looks flawless in an extreme close-up of 
her face and rhinestone lips
Radiant: Jennifer's skin looks flawless in an extreme close-up of her face and rhinestone lips
The visuals effects -  drums beating with colourful bursts of powder and fire hydrants spraying electric hues of liquid - distract from the lack of story, rather than add substance.
True, it's meant to be a club-thumping dance track. But the poorly-executed production leaves one plucking through problems with lighting and costuming that when paired against the multi-million dollar budget of the Step Up franchise simply look cheap.
Rapper Flo Rida makes a brief appearance, the lyricist pictured at one point rhyming in front of a neon green sports car.

Perhaps surprisingly, Jennifer's tour choreographer, Casper Smart, does not feature prominately in the new clip - a departure from her April release for Dance Again, which featured the new couple in several provocative scenes.
Making her look good: A team of talented back-up dancers mimics 
her movement
Making her look good: A team of talented back-up dancers mimics her movement
That famous shape: Jennifer flaunted her curves throughout the 
clip
That famous shape: Jennifer flaunted her curves throughout the clip

The obligatory sports car: Flo Rida was also featured in the 
video
The obligatory sports car: Flo Rida was also featured in the video

Random: Two white wolves flank Jennifer as her cape is obviously 
pulled open by wires
Random: Two white wolves flank Jennifer as her cape is obviously pulled open by wires
Cameo: Flo Rida appears shirtless through most of his scenes
Cameo: Flo Rida appears shirtless through most of his scenes

Electric: The singer opens the video blowing a dandelion, which 
transforms into specks of glitter
Electric: The singer opens the video blowing a dandelion, which transforms into specks of glitter
The dancer had then followed in the footsteps of Jennifer's ex-boyfriend Ben Affleck, who famously appeared in her 2002 video for Jenny from the Block, in which the actor was seen nuzzling into JLo's bikini and untying her hot pink top.

The Oscar-winner later said he regretted doing the video.

But one could surmise Casper won't be sharing those feelings.

The choreographer has been photographed with his girlfriend around the world while on her world tour, Dance Again, and are currently in the U.S. for several tour dates with Enrique Iglesias.

Soundtrack: Goin' In was penned for new dance movie Step Up: 
Revolution
Soundtrack: Goin' In was penned for new dance movie Step Up: Revolution
Just yesterday, Casper and Jennifer celebrated her 43rd birthday with a party on a luxury yacht in New York City.

The singer split from husband Marc Anthony last July after seven years of marriage, and began dating 25-year-old Casper later that year.

Goin' In is featured on Jennifer Lopez' greatest hits album, Dance Again... The Greatest Hits.

It is also featured on the soundtrack of Step Up: Revolution 3D, choreographed by Chuck Maldonado, scheduled for release on Friday.

Bringing the seXy Factor! Britney Spears steps out in tiny shorts and slinky sequins as her outfits appear to get even racier

Yesterday she was seen showing off some cleavage in a low-cut cream jacket with nothing worn underneath.
But today for another day of X Factor USA bootcamp filming, Britney Spears decided to put her legs on show.
The 30-year-old stepped out in a pair of very tight black denim Daisy Dukes, which displayed her muscular pins.
Pins on parade: Britney Spears slipped into a pair of tiny black 
denim shorts and a slinky sequined top for X Factor USA bootcamp filming
 today in Miami
Pins on parade: Britney Spears slipped into a pair of tiny black denim shorts and a slinky sequined top for X Factor USA bootcamp filming today in Miami
The sexy factor didn't stop there, the blonde star teamed the look with a slinky black sequin tank by Joe's, which exposed her black bra.
Britney accessorised the casual denim hotpants with some sky high heels, featuring miniature lion heads on the toes and toted a zebra print make-up bag.
The Toxic star once again wore her blonde hair of out in a blow wave and had her eyes done up in smokey make-up.
Her fiance Jason Trawick was once again right by her side wearing a pair of grey denim jeans and a black T-shirt.
Animal instincts: Britney accessorised the casual denim hotpants 
with some sky high heels, featuring miniature lion heads on the toes and
 toted a zebra print make-up bag
Animal instincts: Britney accessorised the casual denim hotpants 
with some sky high heels, featuring miniature lion heads on the toes and
 toted a zebra print make-up bag
Animal instincts: Britney accessorised the casual denim hotpants with some sky high heels, featuring miniature lion heads on the toes and toted a zebra print make-up bag
Meanwhile Simon Cowell was also seen on set today wearing his own obligatory T-shirt and denim jeans combination.
Today it was revealed that the 52-year-old splashed out an extra $500,000 for the X Factor contestants to stay in a more flashier Miami hotel.
According to TMZ, Simon wanted the 162 hopefuls vying for the 32 spots on the show to be more comfortable.
Sources told the website that the media mogul upgraded the large group from a 'regular hotel' to the luxurious Mondrian South Beach Hotel.
Obligatory combination: Meanwhile Simon Cowell was also seen on 
set today wearing his own obligatory T-shirt and denim jeans combination
Obligatory combination: Meanwhile Simon Cowell was also seen on set today wearing his own obligatory T-shirt and denim jeans combination
Yesterday Britney also wore a daring ensemble for her X Factor filming.
She sported a pair of eye-catching skinny jeans, also by Joe's Jeans, in a hot pink hue as she made her way to the boot camp of the X Factor USA auditions.
She teamed the colourful trousers with a very low-cut cream jacket, sporting nothing underneath, and left her ash blonde locks loose for her day of work.
Heavy metal: Demi Lovato toughed up her white broderie anglais 
white minidress with a heavily studded blue denim jacket
Heavy metal: Demi Lovato toughed up her white broderie anglais white minidress with a heavily studded blue denim jacket
Britney was once again joined by her fiancé Trawick.
Jason was dressed casually in a T-shirt and jeans and walked by his bride-to-be’s side.
Behind them strolled the star’s large entourage who she has on hand to help her look picture perfect at all times.
Britney has been shooting the boot camp section of the show alongside fellow judges Demi Lovato, Simon and L.A. Reid for the past few days.
Rainbow brights: Yesterday Britney sported a pair of eye-catching 
skinny jeans by Joe's Jeans in a hot pink hue as she made her way to the
 boot camp of the X Factor USA auditions
Rainbow brights: Yesterday Britney sported a pair of eye-catching skinny jeans by Joe's Jeans in a hot pink hue as she made her way to the boot camp of the X Factor USA auditions
The premiere of the second season of The X Factor USA is just weeks away and the new crop of judges seem to be feeling increasingly settled into their roles.
A new promotional shot for the show was released yesterday, and Britney and Demi looked incredibly comfortable as they posed next to veteran members Simon and L.A.
The foursome couldn’t stop beaming as they posed against a rainbow-coloured backdrop to promote the upcoming second season of the show.
Daring: She teamed the colourful trousers with a very low-cut 
cream jacket, sporting nothing underneath, and left her ash blonde locks
 loose for her day of work
Daring: She teamed the colourful trousers with a very low-cut cream jacket, sporting nothing underneath, and left her ash blonde locks loose for her day of work
Earlier this week the quartet took part in a press conference via a videolink where Simon hinted at what viewers can expect from the new additions to the panel.
'Demi is a brat,' he told reporters. 'But there's something likeable about her. Britney's quite mean, as you'll discover.'
'I was fascinated with her as a person, as a pop star, and there's something intriguing about her,' added Simon about Britney.  'And she's a really good judge.'
According to Britney, being a reality-show judge 'made sense' for her career. 'I adore Simon and it was something I really wanted to do,' she added.
Dream team: Judges Britney, Simon, Demi and L.A, Reid look happy 
in a new promo shot for the second season of the show
Dream team: Judges Britney, Simon, Demi and L.A, Reid look happy in a new promo shot for the second season of the show

Do YOU have Kardashian Kurves? Kim, Kourtney and Khloe launch contest to find plus-size model for their new denim line

Kim, Khloe and Kourtney Kardashian are on the hunt for a plus-size beauty to model their new denim line.
The sisters, aged 31, 28, and 33 respectively, took to Khloe's blog to announce the search which invites women over the age of 18 to send full-length photos of themselves to the famous sisters.
Kardashian Kurves, the new line, has been created in conjunction with Sears and will feature three styles, each inspired by one of the three sisters.
Model required: The Kardashian sisters (from l-r Kourtney, Kim, 
Khloe) have launched a contest to help them find the star of their 
upcoming plus-size denim line, which will be stocked in Sears stores
Model wanted: The Kardashian sisters (from l-r Kourtney, Kim, Khloe) have launched a contest to help them find the star of their upcoming plus-size denim line, which will be stocked in Sears stores
The chosen model will star in an advertisement for the line, which has not been given a release date as yet.
Khloe outlined the contest's grand prize, a round trip for one to Los Angeles to attend a photo shoot, on her blog.

 

She added: 'It's a venture we're really thrilled about!'
Kim: The 31-year-old's self-named pair of jeans is described by 
Kim as 'sexy, low cut and straight legged'
Kim: The 31-year-old's self-named pair of jeans is described as 'sexy, low cut and straight legged'
The prize also includes one night's accommodation in Los Angeles to ensure their model is in tip-top condition for the campaign's photo shoot.
The line was originally announced through social media also - via Kim's Twitter page.
She posted: 'Our Kardashian Kollection for Sears denim line is officially here!! There are three styles, each named after my sisters and me'.
Further images showed Kim wearing her own version in the line.
She added on Twitter: 'I'm wearing The Kim, which is a sexy, low cut, straight leg jean. Then Kourtney is wearing The Kourtney, a gorgeous skinny leg jean, and Khloe is wearing The Khloe, a tall curvy, high rise, boot cut!!'
She continued to gush: 'The jeans come in different washes so you can choose the fit and wash that’s perfect for you!'
'Nick Saglimbeni was the photographer and I love the way they turned out! Shoots with my sisters are the best!! Xo'.
All three sisters have posed in their first photos from the campaign, wearing their namesake trousers and identical button-down white shirts.
It is, of course, not their first collaboration with Sears.
They first launched the budget-friendly Kardashian Kollection for the chain store last August.
Unsurprisingly, Kim did not look to her ex-sister in law, Kaela Humphries, to model the line.

Rocking the denim: Khloe and Kourtney Kardashian wear their 
namesake jeans
Rocking the denim: Khloe and Kourtney Kardashian wear their 
namesake jeans
Rocking the denim: Khloe (left) and Kourtney (right) Kardashian are seen in their own namesake jeans
The sister of Kris Humphries is a plus-size model herself and is signed to Ford modelling agency.
Interested fans need to submit an 'essay' explaining what being 'kurvy' and 'konfident' means to them.

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2012年7月21日星期六

What kind of man gets to date The Body? A £300m British banker whose ego is as big as his wallet

Elle Macpherson, veteran of bikini shots that reduce mortal women to tears, has been pictured in Ibiza.
At 48, she is still as annoyingly sun-kissed and leggy as ever, in that straw cowboy hat she must have been born wearing.
But hang on — one thing has changed this year.
Who is that rather uncomfortable-looking bald chap she is canoodling with so enthusiastically? A music mogul? A Hollywood titan? Well, no — he’s rather more controversial than that.
Not only is Roger Jenkins very rich like all Elle Macpherson's boyfriends (self-made women don't trust those without) but he also has extraordinary athletic stamina and a known taste for strong, glamorous women
Not only is Roger Jenkins very rich like all Elle Macpherson's boyfriends (self-made women don't trust those without) but he also has extraordinary athletic stamina and a known taste for strong, glamorous women
The Body’s new man is one of the big beasts of the City pages, the banker who saved Barclays and is known as Roger the Dodger. Or should we say tax avoider?
Roger Jenkins, 56, said to be worth £300 million, is a Scottish-born hard-nut who was at one time the highest paid man at Barclays when he ran their legal but much-criticised tax avoidance division.
Before he left in 2009, his pay packet was big news because, on a rumoured £40 million a year, he pocketed more even than his old boss at Barclays Capital, Bob Diamond of Libor fame.
They look like an odd couple, she so girlish and frisky, he as dour as a tax return. But on closer examination, this new couple make perfect sense.
Not only is he very rich like all Elle’s boyfriends (self-made women don’t trust those without) but he also has extraordinary athletic stamina and a known taste for strong, glamorous women.  


Elle is a fitness freak, known to live off calorie-calibrated salads specially delivered to her home and to spend at least an hour every day exercising (even her trainer/nutritionist James Duigan is famous now). 
But if anything, Roger’s sporting credentials are even more impressive than those of Elle — he was an athlete who raced for Scotland at the Commonwealth Games.
Roger and Elle shared a secret break in the Bahamas together at Easter, but now they’ve gone public, frequenting Ibiza’s youthful, loud Blue Marlin beach (usually the preserve of twentysomethings and WAGS like Coleen Rooney) and having fun on superyachts.
He is said to own a marble-floored one called Utopia, which he rents out for at least £300,000 a week.
Tactfully, Elle has even been wearing Melissa Odabash swimwear, a company backed by Roger’s ex, businesswoman Diana Jenkins.
Elle is a fitness freak. She spends at least an hour every day exercising
Elle is a fitness freak. She spends at least an hour every day exercising
Both have two children: Elle’s two boys by her previous financier boyfriend Arpad ‘Arki’ Busson (who, meanwhile, has just had a baby with actress Uma Thurman), and Roger’s children Innis and Eneya with Diana, who was his second wife.
Before Edinburgh-raised Jenkins made a career out of tax avoidance, he was a rugby player and amateur runner.
He was thought to be more sporty than academic at his Edinburgh Academy private school, and was the second of three sons born in 1955 to his father Arthur, who worked as an oil refinery manager, and mother Vera.
Remembered for self-discipline rather than genius, Roger read economics at Heriot-Watt University.
He ran in the Commonwealth Games for Scotland and in 1975 won a silver medal in the 400 metres at the World Student Games in Rome.
But he turned down the chance to be in the British squad for the 1976 Olympics, partly because he couldn’t be guaranteed to actually run, and partly because he knew his brother David was better than him.
David was a British record holder for the 400m and won a silver medal for relay running at the 1972 Olympics in Munich.
His career went sensationally off track when he confessed to taking performance-enhancing drugs, and in 1988 he was found guilty of smuggling steroids into the U.S. and sent to jail.
He served only ten months of a seven-year sentence and now the former cheat runs a very successful sports food and drink company in California.
While David became engulfed in scandal in the quest for a fast buck, Roger built his career at Barclays, joining as a graduate trainee, and eventually becoming one of the most inventive tax experts of his era, running The Structured Capital Markets (SCM) bit of Barclays Capital.
Unsurprisingly, the culture at this ‘tax management factory’ inside Barclays HQ in Canary Wharf was extremely macho.
One former employee said: ‘The tax avoidance was so enormous it became the engine of growth for the whole of the investment banking arm.’
Roger Jenkins was so powerful he used to call in directors of Barclays and tell them he would fire one of them if their next deal failed. Apparently it wasn’t a joke.
The place was rife with internal politics, at which Jenkins was said to excel. He worked with another Scot, former lawyer Iain Abrahams.
Team-building ‘away days’ featured the two of them playing poker, with staff divided up into ‘big boys’ and ‘babies’ tables, and Jenkins and Abrahams were said to have a couple of hundred thousand pounds to gamble between them.
‘Abes’ once pretended to put a director in a electric chair with the music playing: ‘I hate you and I hope you die.’ 
Elle has two boys by her previous financier boyfriend Arpad 'Arki' Busson, who has just had a baby with actress Uma Thurman
Elle has two boys by her previous financier boyfriend Arpad 'Arki' Busson, who has just had a baby with actress Uma Thurman
Still, it was all legal.
As Lib Dem peer Lord Oakeshott once said, HMRC’s attempts to detect the bank’s tax avoidance were like ‘a fat policeman chasing a speeding Ferrari’.
The other extraordinary thing to happen to Jenkins, apart from his lucrative career, was his marriage to his second wife.
The Bosnian refugee turned philanthropist and entrepreneur, who met Jenkins in a gym in London’s Barbican, has never revealed quite how she made it from Bosnia to London.
With her help, he allegedly saved Barclays from collapse by persuading the Qatari royal family to invest billions in the bank so it didn’t need a public bail-out.
Sanela Dijana Catic, who changed her name to Diana, arrived from Sarajevo speaking no English and with no money or family.
She says she worked as a cleaner, waitress and babysitter, and ‘ran a jewellery stall on the streets’ and lived off Toblerones before enrolling on a computer course.
She met Roger and married him in 1999, the same year their son, Innis, was born. Their daughter Eneya was born three years later.
Diana’s past was grim — she had been brought up on the 12th floor of a communist tower block — but it was also tragic; while she was in London her younger brother was murdered.
Roger's ex-wife Diana, arrived from Sarajevo speaking no English and with no money or family
Roger's ex-wife Diana, arrived from Sarajevo speaking no English and with no money or family
She changed her name and reinvented herself to cope with her grief.
Somehow, when she met Roger, they both changed.
His career went into the ascendant and this woman, who had grown up watching Dynasty and made it her ‘blueprint for life’, became the celebrity networker bar none.
Her charity fundraising parties featured everyone from George Clooney to Cindy Crawford to Elton John.
But although her friendships with Qatari royals are said to have helped save Barclays from collapse, she found London snobby.
The relationship foundered.
One night she was photographed partying late into the night with footballer Rio Ferdinand, which didn’t seem ideal for a married mother of two.
When I was editor of Tatler, she told the magazine she had been treated like a mail-order bride, and moved to Malibu in a huff.
When we were publishing a feature on Mr and Mrs Jenkins, he offered to buy 30,000 copies of the magazine if I put his wife — The Governor, as he called her — on the cover; I’m not sure if he was joking or not.
The couple split in 2009.
Jenkins said that Diana, once described as a ‘one woman tsunami of adrenaline’, would receive half his money, believed to be about £150 million, because she deserved it as they had built their fortune together.
If it was her social skills that led the Qataris to invest £4 billion with Barclays during the credit crunch then he has a point.
As they split, she went to found a drinks company called Neuro (she had always wanted to be a businesswoman in her own right, rather than someone’s wife) and he left Barclays and launched Elkstone Capital in Dublin.
After that ill-timed venture, he took a position as managing partner at Brazilian bank BTG Pactual, where he made even more money from the bank’s £10 billion flotation — his share was worth £122 million.
He now spends his time between London, Sao Paulo and California — and, thanks to his ex, mixes in circles a long way from those of the Scottish runner who became a Barclays trainee.
Circles in which he met Australia’s most famous model, underwear tycoon, swimwear poster girl and all-round big person, Elle Macpherson.
Long separated from Arki, Elle had last been seen on the arm of Jeff Soffer, a property developer and hotelier (he inherited a hotel chain from his father) five years her junior who she had said she might ‘take the next step with’ before he disappeared on the arm of a young Colombian model.
Self-made Roger seems more up Elle’s street than a young heir anyway. Those in their circle believe they might be rather well-suited.
‘Both have strong egos and an absolute determination to control events and succeed.’
Certainly, you wouldn’t want to mess with the combined force of Roger the Dodger and the Body.