SATURDAY, JULY 24, 2010 NAMES & FACES
Kerrey nears MPAA job Former Nebraska senator Bob Kerrey is
in final negotiations to lead the Motion Picture Association of America, according to the Hollywood Reporter, which said Friday that a deal is “all but done.” Howard Gantman, vice president of communications for MPAA, declined to comment on the report. He instead pointed to statements Kerrey made last week during an appearance on Don Imus’s radio show; Kerrey, currently the president of New York’s New School, told Imus that he expects to leave the school in the fall.
If a deal is finalized, Kerrey — a
decorated Vietnam vet who turns 67 next month — will succeed current MPAA interim chief executive Bob Pisano, who took over for previous MPAA chairman Dan Glickman in April. The Friday report quoted an unnamed “Washington insider with strong ties to Hollywood” as saying the only remaining question is when Kerrey will start.
Lindsay’s visitors’ log Visiting hours for family and friends of
Lindsay Lohan have ended — for the weekend anyway, reports
RadarOnline.com. Her lawyers can still swing by. “Inmates are allowed two 30-minute visits a week, from family and friends,” Los Angeles County Sheriff ’s Department spokesman Steve Whitmore told the Web site Friday. “Those don’t include professional visits by attorneys. Ms. Lohan already has had her two 30-minute visits for the week.”
Although visiting hours for family and friends of inmates are generally on weekends, Whitmore said security concerns prompted jail officials to make an exception for the 24-year-old actress. The list of visitors during the first of an
expected two weeks of detention at the Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood, Calif., included Lohan’s mother, Dina, sister Ali and business manager Lou Taylor on Wednesday. Ex-girlfriend Samantha Ronson visited on Thursday, along with lawyers Shawn Chapman Holley and Blair Berk. Lindsay requested that her estranged father, Michael Lohan (of unrequited “I love you, Lindsay!” fame), not be allowed to visit. He’s due to appear in a Southampton, N.Y., court on Aug. 18 to face a harassment charge stemming from an alleged attack on his 27-year-old fiancee, Kate Major.
TMZ.com reports the Lynwood jail has been receiving roughly 100 calls an hour from fans during Lohan’s jail term.
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LOS ANGELES SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT VIA REUTERS
Lindsay Lohan, above, in her booking mug shot at the Lynwood, Calif., jail, was visited by her mother Dina, top right, sister Ali, center right, and her ex Samantha Ronson.
A ‘pirate’ weds Just a month after announcing their
engagement, Australian supermodel Miranda Kerr and “Pirates of the
Caribbean” actor Orlando Bloom have wed. Kerr, 27, famed as a Victoria’s Secret lingerie model, began dating Bloom in 2007. Kerr’s employer, Australian department store David Jones, announced Friday that Kerr would not be attending a spring season launch on Aug. 3 because she will be honeymooning with the 33-year-old British actor.
ASSOCIATED PRESS Gabor underwent surgery after a fall.
Zsa Zsa in critical condition Actress Zsa Zsa Gabor is in critical condition in a Los Angeles hospital, her husband, Prince Frederic von Anhalt, said Friday. The Hollywood legend, 93, underwent hip-replacement surgery Monday after a fall at her Bel Air home. “The doctors want to observe her over the weekend to make sure her condition improves, but right now it is not looking good,” von Anhalt told Reuters. —Christian Hettinger,
from Web and wire reports
titude she can muster, because life is about to throw her a Strasburg-caliber curveball. At the opening of Susan Isaacs’s new novel, “As Husbands Go,” Susie, as she calls herself, learns that her handsome, plastic-sur- geon husband has been stabbed to death in the apartment of a call girl, one Dorinda Dillon, formerly Cristal Rousseau, who, to add insult to injury, looks like a sheep. What’s a wealthy, not-that- far-from-gorgeous (if she does say so herself), loving mother of 4-year-old triplets, society flo- rist widow to do? Why, shrug off that tea- green Loro Piana cash- mere bathrobe, dab on a little Bio-Molecular firming eye serum, and solve the crime! It helps that Susie has not one but two Nor- wegian au pairs to take care of the boys while she sleuths. Not to mention the assistance of her scandalous, foul-mouthed, bisexu- al granny, still strut- ting around in pink Chanel at 80.
And Susie needs these allies because, frankly, she’s surrounded by losers. Her mother is an unemotional slug, and Dad doesn’t exactly have an expansive personality: “Other than despising my mother, an emotion he projected mostly by flaring his nostrils whenever she spoke, he had few strong opinions.”Mom-in-law is a med- dling witch, brother-in-law is a whiny jerk, and the best that can be said for dad-in-law is “you could take being with him.” Fortunately, aside from
Grandma Ethel and her sensible lover, Sparky, Susie has the aid of her snobby upper-class busi- ness partner, Andrea Brincker- hoff, who comes through for her in some tough spots, although Susie doesn’t seem to find An- drea all that satisfactory: She puts down her marriage, sexual promiscuity, emotional shal- lowness, self-indulgence, bad haircut and lack of intelligence (“Andrea was hostile to words over three syllables”). All around Susie, in fact, people come up short: A cop has offen- sive body odor, the maid cleans with a spittle-coated Q-tip and forgets to change the soap in the shower, and one of the au pairs
never washes her neck. Poor Su- sie, beset on all sides by people who just won’t quite do. Some of Isaacs’s snarkiness is
very funny, like this shot at Su- sie’s mother: “She went through an environmental-activist phase. It lasted about three weeks. But that was just when I . . . landed a designer job with the best florist in New Haven. When I told her about it, she did her quiet ‘oh’ first. She just says ‘oh,’ then stops. Gives you enough time for your heart to sink. Then she said, ‘There are some of us who believe nature is a not-for-profit corporation.’ ” Or this little classic of catti- ness: “Her nails, coated with Gi- gi de Lavallade’s Crème Cara- mel, precisely matched the hue of some new liver spots her der- matologist hadn’t gotten to.”
A lot of the novel
AS HUSBANDS GO
By Susan Isaacs Scribner. 342 pp. $25
is like this, a free- wheeling comic monologue, part satire, part whine, socially acute and skillfully vicious. But Susie’s superi- ority to almost everyone else drains off the fun. Yes, she’s on a right- eous mission. She’s not just trying to prove that her hus- band would never have slept with a
call girl; she really believes poor Dorinda is innocent. So she’s gutsy and ethical. And smart — she works out who the real mur- derer is (though later than the reader will). But she’s also self-regarding,
self-pitying and just generally a snot, which Isaacs either hasn’t noticed or doesn’t mind. At one point, Susie, brooding in a Re- gency chair with gilded arms and legs and creamy silk uphol- stery, concludes: “Even in that instant, petrified that life was about to give me the cosmic smack in the face that would make every woman on Long Is- land tell her best friend, ‘Thank God I’m not Susie Gersten,’ I knew if I were sitting in a repro Regency covered in polyester damask, I would feel worse.” You wait for Isaacs to deliver a satirical slap. Not gonna hap- pen. Looking back on her expe- riences, Susie reflects, “Maybe I’m still shallow, just deluding myself that after all that’s oc- curred, I’ve become a better per- son.”Maybe so, yes.
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Rose is a former chief theater critic for The Post.
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SHARP MINDS:“Manufacturers have realized that the blade market could be worth much more than the razor market,” says one expert. As for us, we took home a
Who needs to shave with six blades? Cut it out, already!
blade from C1
stroys the part of the brain re- sponsible for hair growth!” Clearly, however, these paro- dies only served as inspiration, as Gillette debuted its five-blade Fu- sion series just a few years later. Are you happy now, Will Ferrell? Are you happy? Let us call up Gillette and ask them to explain this madness. “It’s a scientific approach called ‘progressive geometry,’ ” says Damon Jones of Gillette. “It’s scientifically proven that multi- ple blades” will cut closer than just one. Shaving with a three- bladed razor is equivalent to shaving three times with a single blade — but, Jones says, even smoother. “We use technology that’s used in the semiconductor industry and the automotive industry to get the spacing just right be- tween blades,” he says. (Note: Maybe this is why the Mach ads featured cars?) “We’re talking mi- crons,” Jones says. “It’s a very deep technical science.” Gillette, by the way, recently
upgraded the Fusion razor to the Fusion ProGlide. “Turns shaving into gliding,” the slogan says, as if
the product were primarily used by ice dancers. (FYI, Dorco has been selling a six-blade razor since 2008. Crafty South Ko- reans.)
“I really think they peaked at
three,” sighs Mark Sproston, a.k.a. the Shave Doctor, who leads shaving seminars in England and who has surveyed approximately 14,000 men on their shaving hab- its. “But manufacturers have re- alized that the blade market could be worth much more than the razor market.” The Fusion ra- zor, for example, costs $10 at CVS, but four replacement blades run $16. Manufacturers have thus taken
to fiddling with the razor head in- stead of the handle. The U.S. Pat- ent and Trademark Office in Al- exandria, which places razors in the same category as miter saws, scissors, kitchen utensils and other “cutting tools,” receives a handful of applications every year from aspiring razor inven- tors: Aromatherapy razor heads. Fluid-dispensing razor heads. “Razor Cartridge with Skin En- gaging Member,” reads the de- scription for patent No. 20100122464. All of it made possible by a society that dictates
that men’s faces should resemble babies’ butts. But that sleekness, Sproston
says, is not necessarily achieved through a Mach5 or even a Mach5,000. He likes the Mach3 but prefers to shave clients with a single-blade razor, which he says is the best combination of close- ness and non-irritation. In his shaving surveys, the ma-
jority of his participants respond that they have sensitive skin. But when Sproston observes his cli- ents as they shave, he discovers that the actual number is closer to a piddling 8 percent. What they have is not sensitive skin, but sensitized skin — irritation brought on by bad habits and bad razors, by a relentless scraping that can, in untrained hands, re- semble skin grafting more than shaving. “Men tend not to discuss their
shaving habits and issues,” he says, profoundly concerned. “I wouldn’t say to my friends at the bar, ‘What was your shaving ex- perience like tonight? Mine was rather painful.’ ” Go ahead, men. Let it all out. “It’s a lot of trauma,” those mega-blade razors, says Michael Gilman, co-founder of the Grooming Lounge, a Washington men’s spa. “Not to mention, some of the bigger blades, you can’t manipulate as well. If you see those guys walking around clean- shaven but with four random hairs around their noses or lips,” you can likely blame some beast- ly Zeus-size razor. As for Gilman, he prefers a three-blade razor, reserving the more extreme ones for “guys who have faces of steel.”
ShaveMate Diva — the women’s version of the Titan, also with six blades (and pink) — and shaved our legs. Seemed to work fine. Couple of days later, the hair was back, same as usual.
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