How Britain's fashion world reacted to the news that London will be the host of the 2012 Olympics:

"This is such great news," said Manolo Blahnik. "This will be absolutely an inspiration to me. There will no doubt be some Olympic boots in a future collection."

And Stella McCartney, whose Adidas collection is a best seller, is already planning her contribution, too. "I would love to get the team looking extrafine in our gear," she said. "My favourite events are the gymnastics and tri-athletics," said Julien Macdonald. "And my designs for the Games would be very glamorous."

This will be the first time the Games have been held in London since 1948 and the city will be the first to have hosted them three times. While TopShop said yesterday that it was already gearing up to handle extra shoppers with an expanded shop format that will be unveiled later in the year, Caroline Collis, founder of Browns Bride on Brook Street, says it will simply affect everything. "Retail, property, the economy – and people's spirits," she said. "I never really thought of myself as the patriotic sort, but London really deserved this."

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The scoop on Christina's injury:

Christina Aguilera's right arm is in bandages after an altercation in a nightclub with a crazed fan.

The star has been advised to wear a sling, but the singer is not letting this stand in the way of her distinctive style - she sported a black bandage to match her sharp black suit at a recent Paris, France fashion show.

A source says, "Christina hurt her arm after a scuffle with a drunk fan at a nightclub. "It's nothing serious but her doctor told her she should wear a sling until it heals."

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Click here for a list of the Top 10 Downloads of the Past 10 Years.

Chances are, you have (or had) most of them on your computer.

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Mariah Carey's troubled, HIV-positive sister has been arrested for prostitution — for a second time.

Suffolk County police said they picked up Alison Carey, 43, after she solicited an undercover cop at the West Shore Marina in Huntington, Long Island, on June 13. "She offered to engage in sexual conduct for $250 in cash," a police source said.

Explaining the long lag time between Carey's arrest and the public release of her family ties, another source said, "We don't ask for the family tree when someone is put under arrest for prostitution."

It was Alison's second prostitution arrest. She was previously busted in April at her Huntington home, police said. She pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct and was fined $200 on June 2. Eleven days later, she was back on the streets, police said. The new charge carries a maximum of three months in jail.

Alison Carey has been out of tune with her family for years. She has claimed in interviews that she started turning tricks as a teenager, and that her work paid for limos that took her younger sister to her early gigs. In the early 1990s, Alison was so broke and strung out that her mother got custody of the young woman's son. She gave birth to another boy, and spent years in welfare motels and sleeping in a car. But she later lost custody of that boy, too.

In 2000, she shopped a tell-all book about her life and her famous sister, whom she called a "vain and heartless multimillionaire." The book was never published, if it was written at all.

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1 I'm glad I'm not the only person who struggles with a made-up face being a different color than my cleavage! You'd think her staff could spray paint her body the same shade as her foundation!

Posted by: pjdjd at July 08, 2005 08:44 AM (e3ftc)

2 It's one of the first things I noticed, too. I'm betting most guys, however, will not notice that.

Posted by: Lawren at July 08, 2005 10:22 AM (bJB+W)

3 You are correct Ms. Lawren. I only looked at her clevage, did not bother looking at her face.

Posted by: at July 08, 2005 12:07 PM (FwXMW)

4 Ha! After the poor foundation color choice, my second thought was, "DAMN, how big ARE those diamond earrings?" Third thought: the boobs.

Posted by: Lawren at July 08, 2005 12:11 PM (bJB+W)

5 If I hadn't pulled up these comments, I'd've never noticed the foundation problem meself either (oh, the shame...)

Posted by: LDH at July 08, 2005 12:23 PM (bqPDz)

6 Diamonds, what diamonds?

Posted by: at July 08, 2005 01:22 PM (FwXMW)

7 I must really be getting old. The difference in makeup was the first thing I noticed. And Alison sounds like a real treat, eh?

Posted by: buzz at July 08, 2005 03:39 PM (eHBP5)

8 Actually, the first thing I noticed about this pic was the jaundiced face compared to the rest of her skin. She's painted thicker than an anchorwoman.

Posted by: Kevvy the Unnamed Source at July 08, 2005 03:48 PM (qb+8W)

9 Stage lighting ... come on, fellow theatre-istas! You know why they have her make-up like that .... you don't paint the chest area the same as the face for the stage!

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Actress Jennifer Aniston has collapsed on the set of her new movie The Break Up after complaining of nausea and severe headaches.

The former Friends star was officially diagnosed with heatstroke, after she fainted during filming in Chicago, Illinois. But sources on set insist the star passed out because she was overcome with emotion, after it was revealed her former husband Brad Pitt had fuelled rumors he's dating Angelina Jolie, by accompanying her to Ethiopia, where she adopted an orphaned baby girl.

Jolie and Pitt have repeatedly denied reports they are a couple since Pitt and Aniston ended their marriage in January, despite numerous photographs of the Mr. And Mrs. Smith co-stars holidaying with Jolie's son Maddox. An insider tells British newspaper the Daily Mail, "She's been walking around with a sad look on her face and has not been her usual self. While her collapse was blamed on heatstroke, everyone thinks it's more down to stress than anything else. She can't have escaped all the stories about Brad and Angelina and it looks like the situation has taken its toll on her."

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Pregnant pop princess Britney Spears is reportedly expecting twins.

The singer, 23, is expecting her first child in the autumn. Her husband Kevin Federline is already father to two children - Kori, two, and Kaleb, 11 months. The New York Daily News reports Spears recently discovered she will be giving birth to two babies.

Her spokesperson Leslie Sloane Zelnick admits she isn't sure how many babies Spears is expecting, saying, "If she's having twins, I have not been told that yet."

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AskMen.com has released the results of its Top Sitcoms of the '80's Poll. Click here for the results.

--Um, where the heck was The A-Team?

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Brad Pitt and his pal George Clooney just inked a deal with nightclub owner Rande Gerber to build a new Las Vegas hotel and casino.

But while the stars don't have to put in a dime, they'll get a hefty slice of the proceeds. "George and Brad are not putting in any money, but they will be getting a percentage of the profits," our well-placed insider says. "Brad will design the hotel and be the face of it with George. After 'Ocean's Eleven,' this makes perfect sense and the three of them are very good friends."

Pitt and Gerber first started talking about the project two years ago and recently brought Clooney into the deal. Gerber, who used to have a partnership with Ian Schrager but now works with the W Hotels, is getting out of the bar business altogether after "realizing he can make so much more by owning the hotel outright," we're told. The deal will be formally announced in November and ground will be broken on the Strip in January. Pitt's rep confirmed he was doing "some sort of business with [Gerber]" but declined further comment, as did Clooney's rep.

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Looks like Christina broke her arm:

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Chart rivals Jennifer Lopez and Britney Spears are set to do battle in department stores this September when they both launch new fragrances.

Latina beauty Lopez is releasing her fourth scent, Live Jennifer Lopez, on September 28 after the huge success of her previous perfumes - Glow, Still and Miami Glow.

Spears joined the beauty market last year with her eau du parfum Curious, and has decided to launch her new fragrance Fantasy.

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Pop music duo Daryl Hall and John Oates have postponed upcoming shows because Hall has been diagnosed with Lyme disease.

Hall, 55, is recovering at his home in upstate New York and is expected to make a full recovery, publicist Jonathan Wolfson said Wednesday.

Lyme disease is caused by the bite of infected deer ticks and can cause arthritis, neurological problems and encephalitis, a potentially fatal brain inflammation. Early signs include a red bulls-eye rash that slowly expands and flulike symptoms.

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Lenny Kravitz's love of all things retro is evident in everything from his style to his sound. Now, the rocker is showcasing it in his newest venture - a design firm.

"We started about two years ago," Kravitz told The Associated Press of the Miami-based Kravitz Design. "We were quiet at first, just doing some private homes, and then moved into doing a penthouse recording studio," the 41-year-old singer said of his two partners. "(Now) we're doing hotels. We've got three or four things on the table now."

"I love things that are rooted in classic styles," he told the AP in a recent interview. "You'll see quite a blend of furniture. You might see an art nouveau chair next to a chair from the '60s."

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I'm a big fan of designers pushing the line when it comes to fashion, being bold, daring, etc. But Kim Jones' new men's line is, um, just wrong:

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1 Ewwww!

Posted by: Andrea at July 08, 2005 07:42 AM (S2OGK)

2 I could see myself wearing that to class next fall. Strutten' my stuff in the atrium.

Posted by: at July 08, 2005 12:14 PM (FwXMW)

3 Please shoot me dead if you see me in either of those. Please, just put me out of my misery.

Posted by: ren at July 08, 2005 12:28 PM (2qlER)

4 Seriously! You'd be Ren and The Amazing Technicolor Cropped Jacket.

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Oprah Winfrey and Paul Rusesabagina, whose heroism in the face of genocide inspired the movie "Hotel Rwanda," were announced Thursday as recipients of the National Civil Rights Museum's top honors.

The museum, built around the former Lorraine Motel where Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968, said Winfrey and Rusesabagina will receive its 2005 Freedom Awards.

Winfrey, who runs a media company that includes her television show, is being recognized for working to improve the lives of poor children in Africa and helping create a U.S. database of convicted child abusers. She will receive the museum's National Freedom Award in November. Past recipients include King's widow, Coretta Scott King, and former Presidents Clinton and Carter.

Rusesabagina will receive the International Freedom Award, which also has been given to Nelson Mandela and Bono.

The museum said a new Lifetime Achievement Award for civil rights activism will be given to actress Ruby Dee and her late husband, Ossie Davis.

--If you haven't yet seen Hotel Rwanda, run, don't walk, to rent it.

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Bill Haley was 30 in 1955, a family man with several children and a job as leader of a mildly popular band, the Comets. With his spit curl and paunch he looked like a salesman or, maybe, a disc jockey -- which, indeed, had been one of his previous jobs.

He'd had a couple major chart hits but didn't think much of rock 'n' roll; it was simply the hot thing at the time, something popular with the kids that got the dance halls jumping and paid the bills. Haley's background was in Western swing, a la one of his influences, Bob Wills.

So he may have been destined to be a musical footnote if it weren't for a movie, "Blackboard Jungle," and the song that blasted over the opening credits: "Rock Around the Clock."

Fifty years ago Saturday, "Rock Around the Clock" hit No. 1, a position it held for eight weeks on the Billboard charts. "Rock 'n' roll," an expansive term coined a couple years earlier by DJ Alan Freed, had now been to the pop mountaintop, a position it would never quite relinquish.

Within six months, a trickle of rock 'n' roll hits -- by artists such as Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Fats Domino and Carl Perkins -- would become a flood as the king of them all, Elvis Presley, emerged with a hip-shaking frenzy and changed the course of pop music for good.

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Vince Vaughn has point blank denied he is having an affair with Jennifer Aniston.

The couple have been spotted together recently, but he has been overheard saying the old "we're just good friends" line, reports The Mirror. They became friends while filming their new movie The Break Up - and were seen getting close on a beach last month.

But the paper claims that at the world premiere of his latest movie Wedding Crashers, Vince told pals they are both very much single.

He said: "We're making a film together, man. "Jennifer's a sweet girl but she is very vulnerable right now and has been through a really hard time. "I know people would love it if we were dating, but we're not. "She doesn't need to cry on my shoulder."

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Since Katie Holmes hooked up with Tom Cruise and the Scientologists, she's not allowed to be alone - ever.

According to The Philadelphia Inquirer, when Holmes accompanied Cruise to a recent taping of The View, eyebrows were raised when she wasn't allowed to go to the bathroom alone.

At one point, Cruise asked where the bathroom was and "took Katie with him into the men's room," an insider told the New York Post. Later, when Holmes needed to go, "three Scientologists followed her in."

A rep for the show said, "We don't follow guests to the bathroom." Meanwhile, some star-watchers were also concerned because Katie "looks like she hasn't slept in weeks."

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Pamela Anderson has kicked B-list boy toy Stephen Dorff to the curb and is back in the tattooed arms of ex-husband Tommy Lee.

Anderson and the rocker checked into the Four Seasons in Maui this week with their two sons in tow. A spy reports, "They were hugging, kissing and all over each other. You would never have known they were not married anymore." A rep for Anderson declined comment.

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Teen star Ashley Olsen is reportedly dating eligible Hollywood bachelor Jared Leto.

The pair have been spotted together in New York - where Olsen is a student at New York University. A source tells magazine Us Weekly, the 19-year-old TV and movie star is "like a giddy schoolgirl who has a new man". Olsen recently split from restaurant owner Scott Sartiano. After splitting from long-term love Cameron Diaz in 2003, Leto has been linked with a number of women including Scarlett Johansson.

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Lil' Jail Time:

Grammy-award winning rapper Lil' Kim was sentenced Wednesday to a year and a day in prison and fined $50,000 for lying to a federal grand jury to protect friends involved in a 2001 shootout outside a Manhattan radio station.

It was far less than the 20-year maximum she could have faced and the nearly three-year sentence prosecutors had sought.

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