Swank takes 40 supplements AND vitamin injections! Good Lord. Did she happen to mention how many high-pressure coffee enemas she subjects herself to each week as well? A little OCD.

...and thanks for Alicia Keys to start the day. At least one of the hot stars is still neither engaged nor pregnant.

"High-pressure coffee enemas"?

I thought the coffee coming out of Hilary Swank's nose was because she thought I was funny!

Oh, well. Another wacky misunderstanding, another restraining order. I'm used to it.

J/Alba's knocked up? NOOOOOOO!!! Dammit, I thought she was saving herself for me.

I haven't read the whole Mix yet but have to say that I watched Bleak House, twice, and NEVER KNEW that was Gillian Anderson playing Lady Dedlock. It's not that I was an avid fan that I would have known right off but still. Did she have her lips done? Somethin' ain't the same...

I guess the restraining orders are the 40 "supplements" we both have, eh, byoolin? Thank God for the rope line providing us a nice, even 25 feet, right?

Robin Meade just did a story on how Zubaz pants are making a comeback. I just threw up a little.

Since Johnny Depp is so above celebrity gossip (which why I love him), I will read Celebritology on his behalf.

i *heart* liz for that snappy, pony-laced comeback to daniel baldwin! oh, snap!

um, that was supposed to be 'methinks'. gosh, spelled my own handle wrong.

"Robin Meade just did a story on how Zubaz pants are making a comeback. I just threw up a little."

NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

But for some, they never went out of style!

Madonna is so evil she's somehow rigged my laptop to come up w/an Internet Explorer exception every time I try to read the story on her divaness.

This explains why the horse (tall pony?) threw her & dislocated her shoulder.

I hate to admit this, but what exactly are Zubaz pants?

Johnny Depp's comments make me love him even more.

wait wait wait...Queen Latifah has a long time personal trainer?

Daniel wants the arrest warrent canceled. Yeah well, byoolin would like the various restraining orders dropped AND a pony. After all, it's just a misunderstanding.

Jessica Alba pregnant - It was nice to know you Jess. The ONLY reason she was popular is because of her incredible looks and body. She can't act a lick, so unless she hires a trainer the minute the baby is born and does not get any stretch marks we will never see her in a movie again.

Yeah... I think they never went out of style for half of Jersey.

For those blissfully ignorant of the atrocity that is Zubaz, go to zubaz.com or look it up on Wikipedia. Be forewarned! You might want to claw out your eyes and forsake a lifetime of vision after seeing this, ummm... fash.. fashion(?).

Thanks Pompous - I just looked up Zubaz pants and all I can say is - Heaven help us.

Not exactly Zubaz, but close enough for a link to one of my favorite scenes from "Napoleon Dynamite" -- Rex Kwon Do!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlmIYHUxVA4

wow. liz is outdoing herself today...the rex kwan do link! how i do love that scene!

Per Zubaz pants -

You know, I never quite got the damn things. Great for working out itself I suppose (loose where you flex, clingy where they need to be to stay on), but as a fashion statement?

There was a guy who lived down the hall from us in college. Cute in a bookish way, very nice, pretty quiet, and he wore Zubaz pants and loose shirts a lot. We thought he just wanted to be comfy (who didn't in college?), or was just trying to fit in with the athletes with which he shared his suite.

Then my roommates and I ran into him at the gym - turned out he lifted weights pretty regularly (which is why he was rooming with the athletes - he knew them from the gym). He had the body of a Greek god under those stupid loose clothes!

While we admired his modesty and humility about his amazing physique (so many guys were always whipping off their shirts to play basketball in our parking lot - he never did), we assured him that girls did not find Zubaz attractive. He didn't give them up completely, but he did start wearing jeans more ;)

I remember Zubaz pants. Although I did not know they had a name. Why are they back? Why would anyone want to wear them? Just put on a pair of sweat pants and be done with it.

Zubaz pants...I blame Scrubs and Johnny C.

i just saw this link on the main page of the post website. fonzie & starsky are each playing capt. hook in a british pantomime production of 'peter pan'. sort of random, but i think it would be fun to see.

paul michael glaser was pretty fine in his day. i remember he was the revolutionary fiancee in the movie version of 'fiddler on the roof'...got his self sent to siberia.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/12/AR2007121200507.html

Go Pee Wee!

Zubaz pants ... Bow to your sensei!

Sorry, but Swank lost any kind of credibility when she starred in that film about the importance of staying in schools and getting an education while she herself was a high school drop out. Where do they find these people?

I know I know, she's "acting". But its just so blatantly disingenuous.

Is it wrong that I'm actually kind of thrilled to hear the Pee Wee news? I LOVED his first movie.

Lamentably, Zubaz still live on- I see plenty of wearers at football games and it never fails to skeeve me out.

Per Chasmosaur1's comments:

Yeah... I was in junior high. Boys going through puberty should not have been allowed in Zubaz pants. ...especially when the girls were running around in Umbro shorts.

It was like a step inside a Michael Jackson dream. In a word: traumatizing for all but the sick.

Hence, my horror at their return.

"It'll definitely make you a little weird if you're constantly being stared at," he says. So THAT'S why he's so odd! well, that explains it all! That said, I do heart me some Johnny - I'll still love you when you are old Johnny!

I also heart Pee Wee and will welcome him back! I love love loved Pee Wee's play house - maybe I'll ask Santa for a DVD...hmmm...

Britney Spears to play Virgin Mary - OH HAHAHAHAHAHA! Even the coffee all over my desk doesn't dampen the hilarity of that one. I wonder if they will make her wear underwear?

Zubaz are hideous - they won't be coming back in my house.

Daniel Baldwin - ugh, I wonder what happened to these boys as kids to make them so...so...icky?!? Maybe brother Alec should call Daniel up and call him names until he turns himself in...

Go Gwen, I guess. It's not like most of the peopel who lost their houses were exactly poor, but a good deed is a good deed none the less.

Why would Mikey hide in New Jersey? One would think he'd go somewhere with less people, like Wyoming.

Amy, of course they won't let you visit your husband in jail to resupply him in jail.

McConaughey eulogizes Evel. How perfect is that?

I join the hearting of Johnny Depp.

The ponies have gone meta.

The final is tonight. I'm relaxing.

"Is it wrong that I'm actually kind of thrilled to hear the Pee Wee news? I LOVED his first movie."

No, it is not wrong. Pee Wee's Big Adventure is a very underrated film.

Gillian Anderson was awesome in the House of Mirth. Just saying - she rocks the period pieces.

But I am pretty annoyed that they're doing a remake of Room with a View. Why on earth? Some things don't need to be remade - there's no improving upon Merchant Ivory's version... it was perfection and the cast was the best possible. I think I am going to boycott.

I can't believe Jessica Alba went and got preggers and didn't invite me to help. Geez, that's the last time I hold up her poster one-handed.

I second (or third) the approval of Liz's retort to Daniel Baldwin. Well-played Liz, well-played.

ep-good luck on the final. I still have one left to do before the merciful end of the semester.

okay...having nearly finished off a bag of kettle chips at 11:30 a.m., and read & posted frequently on today's Mix, i'm going to follow the lead of ep and ASinMoCo and get to work.
good luck on those finals, guys.

Could I love Johnny Depp more? He can even have my pony. But not Liz's.

There is something horribly askew in the world when a sock run over by Britney Spears sells on Ebay for some stupid amount of money & yet an Orson Welles Oscar doesn't sell at all.

Zubaz....uh...wrong on so many levels.

Daniel Baldwin wants his arrest warrant dropped, we all want ponies & Johnny Depp. Unfortunately I think we'd get those ponies AND Depp before he gets that warrant dropped.

I guess all of those supplements and vitamin shots are needed since Hilary Swank apparently doesn't eat real food. Has anyone told her the rest of us eat food to get some of these things.

re: johnny depp -- can't wait to see sweeney todd!

i am amazed to learn that zubaz is an actual brand trying to be taken seriously. i thought they were only sold through clown colleges and circuses as novelty items.

on a related note, does it skeeve anybody else out that tie-dye is now mainstream and no longer a counter-culture statement? the first time i saw a chunky woman in tie-dye and spandex pants i ran home and turned all my Ts into dust rags... well not all. I kept the one that says "grateful dogs." :P

Didn't Derek Jeter give Jessica Alba an STD? Hope that doesn't cause any complications at birth.

b:

tie-dye hasn't been counter-culture for about 35 years or so. I'm 44 - they were counter-culture when I was about 3, and then by the time I was 9, we all wore them.

And my 12-year-old made them years ago in preschool - a pricey, very establishment preschool in fact. Maybe you are from a different part of the country?

Gee. I liked the Zubaz pants in college, and I didn't even know they had a name. I would wear them today if I knew where to buy them. They were very comfortable. I got the less colorful ones.

Sorry, but Jessica Alba has been around -- quite a bit if you read interviews with her. So, I think your hope of her waiting for you was, well, just a little bit of a stretch.

While one does not need a remake of Room with a View (or Brideshead Revisited, for that matter), Andrew Davies is terrific. I look forward to all of his adaptations. This is the man who gave us wet Mr Darcy, after all. (i also really liked most of his Doctor Zhivago - the screwy with the plot in the end was OK in the hospital scenes because it provided information on the early Soviet state in a neatly encapuslated way, but why he changed the entire ending, I have no idea. Changing the ending of Tipping the Velvet wasn't so bad because Waters was utterly amateurish in how she ended the novel, but Pasternak didn't have that problem, nor was his end impossible to film. But still, the way the characters were drawn and developed was wonderful. And his Daniel Deronda was so dead on that it completely blew me away.)

But only a month or so until his Northanger Abbey!!! I've been looking forward to this adaptation since before production started.

Also, does the split mean we'll finally get better access to some of the other interesting work in the UK? BBC America kept screwing me out of stuff they promised (why hello, horrid woman on cash in the Attic - you were supposed to be Damian Lewis in Friends and Crocodiles!), and Masterpiece Theatre has been so period-heavy for years because that's what donors want, but maybe this is a chance to have some additional interesting stuff air in the US.

also, :heart: Johnny Depp :)