On the one hand, thousands of religious loons want you dead; on the other hand is Padma Lakshmi:
Salman “you’d look smug too” Rushdie and Padma Lakshmi
Meanwhile, WTF?:
Helena “I am hoping the giant spider on my head will distract you from my dress” Bonham Carter
[stolen from MSN]
What’s really alarming about Helena’s getup — leaving aside the horrifically wrong purse and shoes — is that she had to know that *we* couldn’t know for sure whether that hemline crisis was intentional or not. That’s just not the kind of question you want to create in people’s minds when you’re on the red carpet. We should be thinking — hey, she was good in those movies with the hats and the corsets! What’s she up to lately? Any movies coming out? Not — uh oh. Helena’s lost her marbles.
This worries me a little. She used to be costume-drama A-list, and now she can’t afford a stylist? She doesn’t even have a best girlfriend to say Helena, I’m blocking the door with the piano until you get yourself into some respectable Badgley Mischka? A little intervention is called for here…
How does Salman do it? I had a long chat with him shortly before he pissed off the Ayatollah Khomeini, a tough critic. It was at a party in New Zealand House held by the Pakistani glitterati I worked for. He comes across as a really nice interesting bloke, but sex god? I just can’t see it. Maybe it’s true what they say about beautiful women and ugly men. Please say it’s true.
Yes he is ugly no doubt.