French Vogue has gotten into some more haute controversy.
This month's issue of the fashion magazine features a photoshoot with white supermodel Lara Stone in blackface, according to Jezebel.com.
No stranger to shocking shoots — it recently featured a faux-pregnant model smoking a cigarette— the magazine enlisted photographer Steven Klein to shoot the 14-page spread, styled by editor Carine Rotifeld.
The story that goes…
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Everyone's heard of Persians and poodles, but a pet show in Manhattan this weekend will also showcase some of the more obscure breeds - like a cat that resembles an owl and a dog that looks like a teddy bear.
The "Meet the Breeds" extravaganza at the Javits Center aims to introduce the public to the cats and dogs recognized by the American Kennel Club and the Cat Fanciers' Association.
"Everybody loves cats and dogs, and people are…
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There are limits to being a crime victim, as a woman who called Saginaw County sheriff's deputies to report the theft of marijuana found out.
Detective Sgt. Randy F. Pfau (FOW) says the 54-year-old woman was arrested early Sunday after reporting two men had broken into her home in Brant Township, 80 miles north-northwest of Detroit.
Pfau says the woman told deputies the men fled after one of them demanded her marijuana plants. He says…
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Republican firebrand Meghan McCain’s skimpy pajamas have her conservative followers all atwitter, forcing the daughter of failed 2008 presidential candidate Sen. John McCain to apologize for posting a racy photo of her décolletage.
The trouble started around 8 p.m. Wednesday when The Daily Beast columnist uploaded a photo of herself in a low-cut tank-top reading a biography of Andy Warhol.
"[My] 'spontaneous' night in is my Andy Warhol…
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COLUMBUS, Ohio - A woman being driven around in a rented limousine pulled up at a coat store and announced she'd won the lottery and would pay for everyone's purchases, police said, but she ended up causing a riot when customers realized it was a hoax.
Angry customers threw merchandise around and looted, leaving the store looking as though a hurricane had passed through it, police said.
Linda Brown was arrested Tuesday after an…
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We couldn't help but help but be reminded of the Svedka robot when the voluptuous Amber Rose hit the VMAs red carpet in this curve-hugging snakeskin onesie. Perhaps our memory was triggered by the sight of Kanye West swigging straight from a bottle in the background ...
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An experimental runaway balloon that was thought to be carrying a 6-year-old boy through the Colorado sky landed Thursday afternoon - but without the child inside.
Falcon Heene was missing from the flying saucer-shaped balloon when it wafted gently to earth in the middle of a field, according to reports.
The empty craft suggested the child might have fallen from the balloon as it sailed wildly for more than an hour - or that he never…
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LOS ANGELES - A former bodyguard for Anna Nicole Smith testified Wednesday that he saw Smith's lawyer-boyfriend Howard K. Stern cook a crushed Valium pill on a spoon and suck the liquid into a syringe for the Playboy pinup in October 2006 -- four months before her fatal overdose.
Maurice Brighthaupt said the episode unfolded in Smith's Bahamas bathroom as the tragic model rested naked in the adjoining bedroom. He said Smith had been "begging" for…
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He may be a big Yankees fan, but Jay-Z isn't so hot on a pro-Bombers radio parody that's based on his hit song "Run This Town."
The tune, "Yankees Run This Town," has been repeatedly requested on the "Elvis Duran and The Morning Show" on Z100 (100.3 FM).
Producer David Brody, who wrote the pinstriped spoof, told the Daily News he hoped the hop-hop mogul and Bombers booster would agree to perform the souped-up version.
"It…
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Madonna may have jumped off a skyscraper after her messy divorce from Guy Ritchie last year - if only she had the time.
"It was a challenging year," the icon admits in the November issue of Rolling Stone, which hits stands tomorrow. "I may have thrown myself off a building. I think work saved me, and I'm very grateful [for that]."
Some of that work included teaming up with Justin Timberlake, whom Madonna describes as a "sort of Cary…
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Janet Jackson will duet with her late brother Michael Jackson on her new greatest hits album.
Janet, a music icon in her own right, will include "Scream" -- her duet with the King of Pop -- in her new greatest hits collection Number Ones. The album will also include a new track, titled "Make Me."
With a hot new pic from famed photographer Mark Liddell, Janet looks stunning in dark shades and lighting. Official album cover art is yet to…
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Rihanna adapts into some stunningly outrageous looks at the photoshoot for her new album in Berlin, Germany on the weekend. She showed off her fur coat with huge padded shoulders and her nude coloured underwear. She was wearing a pair of white high ankle heeled shoes, it was a pared down look for the singer - but of course with the added ranch factor which she is so fond of at…
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PALM BAY, Fla. — Police in Florida say a mother, father and 15-year-old son died after being electrocuted while putting up a ham radio antenna in their Palm Bay home.
The victims were not identified Tuesday morning.
Authorities say rescue crews responded to a 911 call about the electrocution Monday evening when they found the three on the ground not breathing.
Authorities say the family was attempting to raise the antenna…
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BERLIN - A German man mooning railway staff in a departing train got his trousers caught in a carriage door and ended up being dragged half naked along the platform, out of the station and onto the tracks.
The 22-year-old journalism student shoved his backside against the window of a low-slung double-decker train when staff forced him off in Lauenbrueck for traveling without a ticket, a spokesman for police in the northern city of Bremen…
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Looking fierce, Tyra! Miz Banks posed for a photo shoot in New York City on Monday, lounging in Madison Square Park and even rolling in some fall foliage. The shoot was a promo for "The Tyra Show," airing Tuesday on the CW. You go, girl!
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He's cute and cuddly, but until Monday 4-month-old Alex Lange was considered too chubby for insurance.
The Colorado baby was denied health care coverage because he tipped the scales at 17 pounds and measures 25 inches.
"We can't put him on the Atkins diet or on a treadmill," said Alex's father, Bernie Lange, a part-time news anchor for KKCO-TV in Grand Junction, Colo.
News reports made Alex the poster baby for national…
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Shauna Sand is trying to block the release of a hardcore sex tape she made but says wasn't supposed to be released.
The former Playboy model admitted to TMZ.com that the video does exist and that Vivid Entertainment, which acquired the video via a third party, has no right to distribute it. She said she would fight the Oct. 19 release of the DVD.
Vivid.com, however, has already launched a page with clips of Sand and an unidentified man…
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Owners of Sidekick phones may have lost all the personal info they put on the device - including contact numbers - because of the failure of high-tech computer servers that stored the data.
The incident is a huge blow to the reputation of the Sidekick and is a reminder of the dangers of trusting a single provider to safeguard personal files.
The phones are made by a Microsoft subsidiary and sold by T-Mobile USA. The companies said many…
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So now Christian Louboutin thinks Barbie has cankles.
The French stiletto maker is redesigning the classic American doll to come out here in May.
Considered a genius by Ciara and Angelina Jolie for slathering red lacquer on the bottom of 5-inch heels, Louboutin "found Barbie's ankles too fat," Women's Wear Daily reports.
Never mind that Louboutin's people now insist it's not the ankles, but the arches, that the designer is…
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