Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck took their daughters Violet, 6, and Serephina, 3, to learn how to decorate cakes and cupcakes. Duff’s Cakemix on Melrose Avenue provides yummy cakes and lessons on how to decorate for kids. While they decorate they can nibble on various cake samples. It sounds like a lot more fun than the stuff we used to make in an Easy Bake Oven.
#madonna #janetcharlton
Apparently Madonna expected to be deafened by loud cheers when she told her concert audience in New Orleans to vote for Obama. Imagine her surprise when she was heartily booed – and some of her audience even walked out! Maybe some were Romney fans, but we bet a lot of the crowd just didn’t want to hear about Madonna’s political choices and resented her telling them how to vote. Most of Madonna’s fans are no longer impressionable kids and as adults they want to hear her sing – not vent her politics. Will she ever wise up?
#fergie #angeline #janetcharlton
Halloween parties are all over the place in Hollywood and Derek Hough posted this photo from last night on Twitter. We’re not sure who everybody in the photo is, but Derek is the Jedi in the middle, and Ryan Seacrest and Julianne Hough are Bonnie and Clyde. Our favorite costume, however, is Fergie done up in leopard as local billboard pin-up “girl” Angeline. We think Angeline will be flattered.
#michellepfeiffer #janetcharlton
Michelle Pfeiffer at 54, looks as dazzling as ever at this Cedars Sinai charity event. She’s working on a new French movie by Luc Besson that sounds like fun. It’s called Malavita and it’s the story of a mafia family relocated to Normandy by the witness protection program. Robert De Niro plays her husband and the family has a difficult time trying to change their manner of living and adapting to the French life.
#kimkardashian #hurricane #janetcharlton
Kim Kardashian and her sister Kourtney want you to know that they are PREPARED for the “Frankenstein” hurricane that is expected to hit Miami. The sisters stocked up on water and necessities at the local Price Choice 24 hour Food Market and made sure they looked good while doing it JUST IN CASE cameras turned up.
Photo Credit: Pacific Coast News
#courtneylove #janetcharlton
Courtney Love has sold a lot of her wardrobe on eBay and now she’s introducing her own special collection of “rock chick” clothing that’s called “Never the Bride.” It’s everything from lingerie to pantsuits with a Victorian/Edwardian edge. Many vintage garments are pieced together and heavily embellished. Very reminiscent of Courtney’s thrashed stage look in the early “Sid & Nancy” years. We bet Taylor Momsen will be the first one in line for this.
#lanawachowski #janetcharlton
Ever since we heard that one of the Wachowski brothers (they did the Matrix trilogy) was having gender reassignment, we’ve been curious to see the newly minted person. Andy Wachowski’s younger brother Larry is now Lana Wachowski and the brothers, along with German director Tom Tykwer, wrote and directed “Cloud Atlas.” The above photo features Andy on the left, Lana in the middle and Tykwer on the right. And Lana looks like a real hipster girl! Lana is the happiest she’s ever been in her life and she looks great. Good for her.
It takes a lot of hefty men to protect Taylor Swift,22, from her incredibly passionate fans. The fact that she and Conor Kennedy,18, are going their separate ways for now makes sense – she’s busy touring with her album and he’s in high school. Feelings are still there and we predict he might spend some of his Christmas holiday time off with Taylor- and who knows, after Conor graduates they might get back together for some summer lovin’.
#andersoncooper #janecharlton
Anderson Cooper graduated from Yale in 1989 and he went to work for Channel One in Los Angeles as a low- level fact checker. When he failed to get promoted on-air, he made a fake press pass and used it to gain access to film his own news segments, which he ultimately sold to the network. He did what he had to do – and it worked. Plus, he was REALLY adorable!
Kirstie Alley gets lucky every time she appears on Dancing with the Stars. Opportunities seem to pop up out of nowhere and now she’s doing a pilot for TV Land called “Giant Baby.” Kirstie plays a Broadway star whose life changes when her long lost son turns up to reconnect after his adopted mother dies. Her loyal but tormented assistant played by Rhea Perlman urges her to welcome the twenty-something young man into her world. Kirstie’s character decides the nerdy son needs a makeover and she struggles to make him cool. Sounds like a good fit for Kirstie, but hopefully the title will change if the pilot becomes a series.