There are at this moment young men marching into barbershops all around the country requesting Keanus — by which they mean short Marine-style buzz cuts they hope will make their heads look like sleek seal fur and (by association) endow them with the kind of streamlined, high-definition, low-maintenance energy Keanu Reeves brings to his job as a bomb-dismantling cop in Speed. Reeves’ hair made headlines when the movie first opened — he’s best known for his dark, sensually lank, excellent dude look — and reports followed on how nervous director Jan De Bont was when he first got a look at his star cropped to the scalp. Read More...
We all don’t deserve Cyndi Lauper. That much was proven Friday night when the 66-year-old singer behind “Girls Just Want To Have Fun” and “True Colors” got stung by a bee during her Hollywood Bowl concert, pulled out the stinger, asked for her flip-flops, and just kept performing. “I’m tough, but really? That had to freaking happen?!” Lauper said into the microphone as she sat on a stool to treat the sting. Read More...
Looks like Cyndi Lauper has a head for business and a bod for sin. The Grammy winner has signed on to write the music and lyrics for Working Girl, a Broadway-bound adaptation of the 1988 film starring Melanie Griffith and Harrison Ford. Lauper will write the music and lyrics, while New Girl writer Kim Rosenstock will pen the book based on Kevin Wade’s original screenplay, Fox Stage Productions and Aged in Wood Productions confirmed Tuesday. Read More...
