(Editing by Greg McCune)
Rice, now a political science professor at Stanford University, played a duet with Franklin on "Say a Little Prayer for You", which Franklin introduced by saying: "You didn't think she could play it, right?"
The unlikely alliance of Rice and Franklin had its origins at a White House meeting between the two, after which Franklin suggested they join to raise money for a worthy cause, said Catherine Cahill, chief executive of Philadelphia's Mann Music Center for the Performing Arts, where the event was held.
"There's nothing political about this performance," Cahill said.
Rice, the Republican former aide to President George W. Bush, performed with the Queen of Soul, a committed Democrat who sang at President Barack Obama's inauguration, to raise money for underprivileged youth.
But the show really belonged to Franklin,Bape, who,Primp, dressed in a white satin gown, ran through classics including "Respect," "Chain of Fools", and "You Make Me Feel Like a Natural Woman."
The performance was expected to raise $580,000 for an annual program that invites low-income children to attend concerts and master classes at the center.
PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) – Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice abandoned international affairs for a Mozart piano concerto on Tuesday, teaming up with Soul legend Aretha Franklin to perform at a charity concert.
The first black woman to become Secretary of State, who justified the U.S.-led war in Iraq with discredited claims that it harbored weapons of mass destruction, bowed and smiled briefly to the audience after her nine-minute performance.
Rice is an accomplished pianist who considered becoming a professional musician before opting to specialize in studying the former Soviet Union. She was greeted with cheers and a few boos when she appeared to play a movement of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor with the Philadelphia Orchestra.
Get more Us! Follow us on Twitter, Friend us on Facebook, Subscribe to Us Weekly
The heel is black vinyl,Abercrombie t-shirts, and they work with just about anything. Just make sure you have something solid up top and bottom, whether it’s skinny jeans, pencil skirts, little black dresses… Even mix with charcoal gray.
These Very Volatile Leopard Heels from Hot Topic are really chic. I love the heel height — three and a half inches — as well as the price. It’s $29.99 — a $10 discount!
And although it’s not a “hot new trend,” the sexy staple always works no matter what the news or the climate is.
- Includes two replacement heel caps
- 3 1/2″ heel
- Man-made materials
- Imported
PRODUCT DETAILS
These pumps are a must-have for your ever-growing shoe collection. They have a soft tan leopard print,Boss, a black vinyl heel and a pointed toe. Chic and stylish!
Buy it here.
Buy it here.
Sized quite nicely from a 0 to a 20,Juicy Couture belts, this 100-percent cotton faded jacket is just great. Plus, it’s shrunken in all the right places and super-chic.
How to wear? It would look nice mixed with white, dark denim or red. Plus, it’s a nice switch from a moto jacket or anything edgy and rebellious.
That is, until now. I just adore this $88 Gap denim blazer. It looks so fresh and nicely tailored but also has that vintage look.
By Sasha Charnin Morrison for UsMagazine.com. To read more of the Recessionista blog, click here.
Stars love vintage,Calvin Klein, but what I don’t like about vintage denim is that it never fits.
Get more Us! Follow us on Twitter, Friend us on Facebook, Subscribe to Us Weekly
It is expected Lohan will serve her time at the all-female Century Regional Detention Facility in Lynwood, Calif. (where Paris Hilton served 23 days of a 45-day sentence for violating her probation in a DUI case in 2007).
“We love you, Lindsay!” he shouted as she was whisked out of court.
PHOTOS: Lindsay Lohan through the ages
PHOTOS: Stars who went from angels to devils
Michael Lohan couldn’t contain himself as he watched 24-year-old daughter Lindsay handcuffed out of Beverly Hills Superior Court Tuesday morning.
On behalf of Michael, his attorney Lisa Bloom addressed the press: “Michael spent the morning praying for his daughter. He doesn’t believe she should be incarcerated. He is devastated she is going to jail and he is ready and able to help her at any time.”
Get more Us! Follow us on Twitter,ugg, Friend us on Facebook,Seven, Subscribe to Us Weekly
The actress’ mother Dina also was in court but ignored reporters.
Lohan likely won’t spend 90 days behind bars. She could be released early due to overcrowding, but she is expected to serve no less than 23 days. (Still, that is more than the 84 minutes she spent in the slammer in 2006 for drug and alcohol cases filed that year.)
NEW YORK – Dennis Hopper’s posthumous retrospective that opened at Los Angeles’ MOCA last week makes abundantly clear that art played more than a bit part in the actor and director's life. But while Hopper's artwork — in particular, his photographs — is already renowned, the star's lifelong interest in collecting art is not as well known. That will change this November, when Christie’s holds a New York auction of the art that he owned,Dsquared, including several bold and brazen pieces he bought early on as an art-scene insider and self-professed "gallery bum."
"It’s an artist’s collection, it’s not the collection of a banker or mogul," chairman of Christie’s Americas Marc Porter told Bloomberg. "It’s the collection of a creative artist." It is, in fact, a testament to an artist who was deeply embedded in every aspect of the fine-arts world. Just consider: Hopper played art dealer Bruno Bischofberger in "Basquiat," the 1996 movie directed by artist Julian Schnabel and also starring David Bowie as Warhol. Not only did Hopper bring a personal familiarity with the period's art scene to his role, he owned work by all three of the artists involved.
Introduced to art by his "Rebel Without a Cause" co-start James Dean, Hopper was a voracious collector of Pop, folk, and found art throughout the 1960s — according to Vanity Fair he purchased Ed Ruscha?s very first Standard Oil painting, and an Andy Warhol soup can in 1962 for $75 — but he saw his collection broken up over the course of five tumultuous marriages. What remains will be sold off by his estate at Christie’s on November 10 and 11, including Warhol’s 1971 "Portrait of Dennis Hopper," which carries a high estimate of $1.2 million, and an untitled 1987 work by Jean-Michel Basquiat that the artist bought in 1988 for $17,000 to hang in his Frank Gehry-designed Venice Beach home, and which now carries a high estimate of $7 million. The sale is expected to fetch a total of $10 million. (An assortment of prints, lesser works,Moncler, and memorabilia from Hopper's collection will also be included in Christie's January 2011 interiors sale.)
Get more Us!hdmi hdmi cable hdmi cable Follow us on Twitter,Wholesale Red Monkey jeans, Friend us on Facebook, Subscribe to Us Weekly
In February, she addressed rumors that she was a hermaphrodite in Britain’s Q magazine: “We all know that one of the biggest talking points of the year…wholesale clothing.so why not give them what they want?”
The “Alejwholesale andro” singer,Wholesale Ankh Royalty, 24, probably doesn’t mind all the gender-bending buzz.
PHOTOS: See the singer’s rainbow wig collection
PHOTOS: Check out the singer’s crazy style
Though the person is identified as “Jo Calderone,” fans are buzzing that it is actually Lady Gaga in drag.
In an upcoming issue of Vogue Hommes Japan.brand clothing, a model appears in a black tuxedo jacket wholesale and unbuttoned dress shirt.
It’s a man’s world for Lady Gaga.
PHOTOS: More of Lady Gaga’s kooky costumes
Adding to the speculation? Gaga’s stylist Nicola Formichetti serves as the magazine’s fashion director.
The team at Marni loves a video—check out their animated takes on the pre-fall ‘09 and ‘10 collections, if you don’t believe us—so no surprise that for the label’s Spring ‘11 men’s collection, they set the cameras rolling. We’ve got an exclusive peek at the behind-the-scenes video, lensed at the Spring ‘11 lookbook shoot and starring model Tomek Szczukiecki. The flick screened tonight at the collection’s presentation in Milan, but if you didn’t happen to be there,Wholesale Giorgio Armani Jeans, here’s your first peep. It also includes a glimpse at the new Marni T-shirts—hence its title,Wholesale Lyle Scott clothing, 4×3 T-shirts. Twelve shirts take some time to get on wholesale and off, which perhaps explains the slightly slower-than-expected pacing.wholesale clothing. Still.brand clothing, we can think of worse ways to spend ten minutes than gazing at a male model—wholesale and, of course, some Marni.
PLUS: Check back with us soon for the full Spring ‘11 menswear collection and Tim Blanks’ review.
Versus is sponsoring the Art of Elysium’s second annual Bright Lights dance party this Friday, which means not only will Donatella Versace and Christopher Kane be in the house, but also that the label’s tiny cupcake-foil minidresses will be in large supply at Milk Studios. While hostesses Joy Bryant, Sara Moonves, Bee Shaffer, and Nicole Vecchiarelli do some last-minute vying for the numbers below (our personal suggestions from a Fall show full of worthy contenders), Kane will be playing guest of honor at Mount Sinai Kravis Children’s Center, where he will treat the young patients to a workshop in designing and making clothes for Barbies. “We’ll cut the fabric from scratch.brand clothing, use simple shapes, wholesale and glue on gemstones,Wholesale True Religion jeans clothing,” the designer told us. “I’m sure they’re gonna love it.wholesale clothing.”
To buy a $150 ticket to the dance—which supports the charitable work of other art, Hollywood,Wholesale Gucci jewelry, wholesale and fashion world types in hospitals across the country—visit www.theartofelysium.org. It won’t be an entirely selfless gesture: Limited-edition T-shirts featuring the original Bruce Weber Versus ad campaign (left) will be available for sale at the event, and items from Kane’s Fall collection for Versus will be available by special order.
Get more Us!,Wholesale Calvin Klein clothing Follow us on Twitter, Friend us on Facebook, Subscribe to Us Weekly
PHOTOS: Stars who fell in love on set
“Justin wholesale and I have laughed together for years. He is the funniest guy; you’ve seen the stuff he does on SNL,” she says. They have “absolutely” fallen into a natural rhythm on set.
It was, after all, humor that brought them together in the first place,Wholesale Ed hardy underwear, she admits.
Cameron Diaz is a fan of her own curves.
“Most booties that propel girls are usually the bigger booties. I have a little tiny one, but it is, nonetheless, juicy,” the Knight wholesale and Day star.brand clothing, 37, tells the August issue of Harper’s Bazaar.wholesale clothing.
“The more I work on my body at this age, the better it gets,” adds Diaz. “I feel so much more attractive now. A thousand percent. I’m appreciating my skin and my wrinkles and all those things.”
PHOTOS: Undercover lovers
“I grew up with the Dodgers, but now I’m a Yankees fan,” she says coyly.
“I’ve always loved men and boys,” she goes on. “I don’t get hung up on what boys do. I don’t have a nagging nature. I feel like I can be a woman but also relate to a man… Who doesn’t like the bad boy, until you grow up and realize bad boys are not the way to go? I’m done with that.”
She doesn’t find it to be awkward to work with ex Justin Timberlake on Bad Teacher, which is slated to hit theaters next year.
PHOTOS: Stars who love their bodies
The only way to stop aging “is if you die!hdmi hdmi cable hdmi cable” jokes Diaz. “But that’s not a great alternative.” (She admits to admiring Helen Mirren, 64. “That woman is drop-dead sexy. She’s not trying to turn back the hands of time, she is just taking care of herself… [And] she’s a nudist!”)
Also keeping her young: her relationship with Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez.
Currently all mainland users are directed to a new landing page on google.cn, a website in China that now has links to the Hong Kong site. Google has said it believes this approach complies with Chinese law.
China employs a vast system of Internet censorship dubbed the "Great Firewall of China" which polices what the world's largest online population can see and do on the Web.
"We are very pleased we got the ICP (Internet Content Provider) annual renewal. We are very pleased we can continue to provide products and services to our users."
The renewal comes after a period of uncertainty over the licence and follows a standoff between the US Internet giant and Beijing over state censorship.
This week, a top Chinese think tank, the China Academy of Social Sciences, said social networking sites like Facebook pose a security threat to China and are used as "tools of subversion" by Western nations including the US.
An official with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the main regulator of China's Internet industry, told AFP earlier this week that Google's application was under consideration.
BEIJING (AFP) – US web giant Google said Friday its licence to operate in China, the world's largest Internet market, has been renewed, ending weeks of tension over Beijing's handling of the issue.
"It was clear we had to end the redirect," the Financial Times quoted Google CEO Eric Schmidt as telling a symposium in the United States on Thursday.
But last week, the company reversed that decision out of concern for the renewal of its licence.
Beijing regularly invokes the need to stamp out pornography as a key reason for the controls but critics contend its primary purpose is to quell political dissent or content seen as threatening to Communist Party rule.
In its annual report on new media, the academy also accused Google of being tied to US government information services and bent on advancing America's global "hegemony".
China has more than 400 million web users, according to official data.
"Governments and the industry should send a very clear message to China that it must provide a business environment for foreign companies that doesn't force them to violate human rights," said Sharon Hom,Nike, executive director of Human Rights in China.
"Google is standing there alone," she said. Others "must step up to the plate and address this as a collective industry Internet challenge. They can't just say it's a Google problem."
Meanwhile, prominent US-based human rights group have urged governments and technology companies to support Google.
In March, Google said it would no longer bow to government censors and effectively shut down its Chinese search engine, re-routing mainland users to its uncensored site in Hong Kong.
"We have got the renewal," Google's Beijing-based spokeswoman Marsha Wang told AFP.
The spat between Google and the Chinese government spilled over into the diplomatic arena, with Washington and Beijing waging a months-long war of words on the issues of Internet freedom and troubles faced by foreign firms in China.
Last month,John Galliano, Google's chief legal officer David Drummond said in a post on the company's blog: "Without an ICP licence, we can't operate a commercial website like google.cn — so Google would effectively go dark in China."
