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| Fleiss eyes exit as relations with Trump cool Former Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss told Big Brother bosses she was "ready to go home" as relations with new housemate Ivana Trump proved frosty. breakingnews.ie |
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The amazing truth about Zoolander | Hadley Freeman Did you think Zoolander was just a funny film about the fashion industry? Really? It is, I'll have you know, all trueFor far, far too long the glorious 2001 film Zoolander has been dismissed as a mere comedy about the fashion industry, featuring Owen Wilson wearing a set of Âangel wings. An important contribution to culture, clearly, but not life-changing. But, I tell you, my hand humbly pressed to my chest, I have Âalways known otherwise.Before this weekend, though, I Âfocused on the career-guidance qualities of the movie. It was because of this fine work that I spent the next seven years of my life working on the Guardian's fashion desk in the hope of one day being lucky enough to meet a man at a fashion show who played a Âmermaid in a perfume advert. Wait, sorry – "Merman . . . Merman!"But like Middlemarch, this fine work only gets richer with repeated examination and it now behoves me to thank a gentleman by the name of Mahathir Mohamad for confirming my dearest hope: Zoolander is not just inspirational – it is true.Last week, Mahathir, who I think I can safely describe as my favourite former prime minister of Malaysia, Âannounced that he has unarguable proof about who was actually behind the 9/11 attacks: America. And if that wasn't extraordinary enough, guess who gave the game away? Film director James Cameron."There is strong evidence that the attacks were staged [by America]," Mahathir railed at an international Âconference, apropos of, apparently, nothing. "If they can make Avatar, they can make anything."Now, leaving aside the response, "Yes, well, it's a shame they couldn't make something other than those stupid plastic 3D specs with which to watch Avatar's third dimension, giving the experience less of a cutting bleeding edge effect and more one akin to being in the 1950s", this comes as an enormous sense of relief to me and my fellow Americans. We fretted that perhaps the election of a truck-driving former Cosmopolitan centerfold as Massachusetts senator might have made America go back up a notch on the hick-o-meter in the eyes of the world. Happily, Mahathir still appreciates America's brilliance, at least in terms of its ability to make pretentious movies about blue people. "'So good it proves America staged 9/11!' – The former prime minister of Malaysia," would surely prove at least as Âpersuasive on Avatar's film posters as "'a rip-roaring, white-knuckle, belter of a ride!" – DJ Rentaquote, High Street FM.But let's get back to Zoolander. As everyone knows, this film is about a male model, one who fears neither cheese nor mockery, and whose Âsignature looks, known as Blue Steel and Magnum, are things of beauty. The film also features a homeless-inspired fashion show which is so self-parodic it can only be a cover for something – and it is: a plot by the designer, ÂMugatu, in which he brainwashes male models to kill . . . the prime minister of Malaysia.Well, it just so happens that last week Vivienne Westwood showed a homeless-inspired menswear collection and Westwood's explanation about just how she totally, like, vibes on homelessness ("The nearest I have come to it is going home and finding I don't have my door key. I mean, what a disaster that is, Âdying to get in your house and you can't. And what if it wasn't there any more?") bears more than a smack of similarity with that of Mugatu on the same subject: "Homelessness is a fashion, a way of life inspired by the very homeless, the vagrants, the crack whores that make this wonderful city so unique." Oliver Stone, where are you when you're finally needed?As for a real-life version of the Blue Steel look, um, hello? Cristiano Ronaldo's new adverts for Armani Âunderwear, featuring some very Âfamiliar hand-in-front-of-eyes gestures and a piercing gaze into the middle distance.So to conclude, Ronaldo is being brainwashed to become a political Âassassin; Vivienne Westwood is trying to kill the prime minister of Malaysia, and, while I can't vouchsafe that Avatar proves America was behind 9/11, there does seem to be some kind of Âantagonistic US-Malaysia situation, and I would advise Mahathir to stay away from fashion shows. And you thought Brangelina maybe-yes-no-who-knows breaking up was the only big news of the week. There really is more to life than just being really, Âreally good looking.In the name of charity One of the odder quirks of the celebrity charity single is that it is always sung by people you would pay never to hear again, singing something that makes you wish you could pay to have your ears removed. And lo, Simon Cowell, that stickler for established formats and aural pain, is to launch a charity single for Haiti, featuring the much-loved likes of James Blunt, Michael Bublé and Miley Cyrus singing Everybody Hurts. Was Shiny Happy People already taken? Surely Losing My Religion would have been more appropriate, at least from the point of view of the American Christian evangelist Pat Robertson, who pontificated last week that Haiti had brought the earthquakes on itself, having made "a pact to the devil". I think someone has been drinking from the same cup as the former prime minister of Malaysia.MalaysiaSimon CowellCristiano RonaldoJames CameronBen StillerHadley Freemanguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds guardian.co.uk |