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Patricia Arquette on Not Straightening Teeth: I Didn’t Want to Look Perfect

Still celebrating her Oscars win,Patricia Arquette opens up about the pressure Hollywood places on actresses. Subscribe now to learn why she refuses to change.
When Patricia Arquette was in ninth grade, a male student who had voted her "best looking" in their class suggested she straighten her teeth so she could pose for Playboy.

Arquette – who had already told her parents that she Didn’t Want to straighten her pearly whites because "it Didn’t feel like it would fit who I was inside" – was floored by her classmate’s sexist suggestion.
"I said, ‘Why would I Want to be in Playboy?’ " Arquette, now 46, tells PEOPLE. "I just Didn’t Want to Look perfect. I Didn’t Want to have to change myself to be attractive. I Didn’t think that was my responsibility."

Even today, Arquette – whose new drama CSI: Cyber debuts Wednesday on CBS – is loath to discuss her appearance and what it’s like to age in front of the camera. Though she says it was "powerful" to do it for Boyhood, a movie that was shot over a 12-year period, Arquette doesn’t understand why, as an actress, she is constantly asked to talk about how she appears on camera.

"I’ve had so many of these conversations in my life … what I Look like on film, what I don’t Look like on film. What are we supposed to Look like? Men are not having these conversations," says Arquette.
"It’s like we’re trapped in wet wool or something. I just Want to be free of it so we can move to the next level as equals. Not that I don’t love being a woman, not that I don’t love the differences between men and women. I just mean, as an actor – why is this a conversation? Why is aging a conversation? It’s a one-sided conversation because it’s only ever had by women."

https://www.people.com/article/patricia-arquette-refused-change-looks-teeth

Anna Wintour, did she or didn’t she?

Nearly always seen with her sunglasses on, it’s hard to tell if she’s had work done or just so wealthy and fashionable her money/genes/personal care make her look good. She is (allegedly) 65.

Or perhaps she’s had the occasional tasteful nip/tuck?

I can’t decide. I think she is at the very least, quite a clever woman.

Patricia Arquette on Not Straightening Teeth: I Didn’t Want to Look Perfect

Dolly Parton didn’t sleep her way to the top

High heels at Glastonbury. Fried squirrel for lunch. A gun on her lap and a secret husband…

Dolly Parton looks like no one else on Earth as she walks into a downtown Nashville TV studio: the mountainous blonde wig, the painted red lips on that lifted face, the impossibly thin waist, the distracting breasts and the long vermilion nails are part of a look she has made uniquely her own.
‘He’s my curly-headed baby,’ Dolly starts singing, looking at my hair as I take my seat opposite her.
‘He used to sit on my mama’s knee.’
There is a lot to take in when looking at Dolly Parton: the lemon-yellow jacket that’s having its stretchiness tested to destruction by her figure; the black three-quarter-length trousers; the lethal stilettos and her heavily made-up face. I ask if she would consider a no-make-up selfie.

She smiles broadly: ‘That ain’t never gonna happen.’ It is 11.30 in the morning; Parton has, as usual, been up since three.
It is this relentless work discipline that has helped the 68-year-old become the most successful country singer in history, not to mention one of the most instantly recognisable figures inmusic, with an estimated fortune of £260 million.
She has written and recorded more than 3,000 songs – including the classics Jolene, 9 To 5 and Islands In The Stream – and sold an astonishing 100 million albums.

‘I don’t have maids or servants and my husband and I love waking up early and going to the 24-hour supermarket when there is no**** else there,’ said Dolly

She’s a hugely shrewd and successful businesswoman, too, who owns everything from radio stations and restaurants to her own Tennessee theme park, Dollywood, which has rollercoasters, a country fair and a museum devoted to Parton.
She’s first and foremost a family girl – Parton keeps a remarkable 100-plus members of the Parton clan on her payroll – but life is not all front-porch sweetness and dappled light.
She has a secret side to her that is rarely revealed to the outside world: she has been married to a man who hasn’t been seen in public for almost 50 years, which has continually fuelled rumours of a lesbian relationship with her closest friend since childhood.
And as she reveals during this exclusive interview, Parton holds views on gay marriage and gun control that may well surprise and shock many of her fans.

But first, her British festival debut this summer.

In June, Parton will make her first appearance at Glastonbury, where she will be playing in the Sunday early-evening legends’ slot, following in the footsteps of James Brown, Shirley Bassey and her old friend Kenny Rogers.
If you want to know why that could be one of the highlights of this year’s festival, you only have to imagine Parton belting out her classics in a sun-drenched field with 80,000 people cheering on.

Although she has already signed up to play, it quickly becomes clear that she hasn’t really done her homework. Do you know about the mud? I ask, pulling out my iPad, which I have helpfully loaded with some particularly appalling images of past Glastonbury festivals.
‘Oh no, look at that! Urgh!’ she shrieks, pointing at an image of a couple swimming in mud. When I ask if she will be investing in a pair of wellingtons, she shakes her head.
‘I am going to be wearing my high heels, but I just may stay in my bus until I have to get on stage.’
She is shocked by the photographs, but Parton is unlikely to be truly fazed by the prospect of wading through mud to reach the outside toilets.
‘That’s how I grew up,’ she says. ‘If I’m tramping to the toilet through mud, that’s no big deal for me.’

If there is such a thing as the American Dream, then Parton has lived it. The fourth of 12 children, she was raised in rural Tennessee in a two-room wood cabin without electricity or indoor plumbing and where the children slept four and five to a bed.
Years later she would buy and renovate that cabin, and there is a replica of it at Dollywood.
The family were so poor that as a treat, Parton’s mum would make ‘snow cream’.
‘We couldn’t afford sweets,’ she says. ‘In the winter my mama had some sugar stashed away, and she would mix it with a little vanilla flavouring and snow.’

Meanwhile, Parton’s father, an illiterate sharecropper, would go with his sons to shoot animals to eat: bears, turtles, groundhogs and squirrels.
So what does squirrel taste like?
‘Squirrel? Very sweet and tender, like the breast meat of a chicken.’
Dolly still owns guns to this day.
‘They’re in the house but I don’t carry them, they’re just for protection: if anyone walked in on me I would probably shoot them.’
In songs like Coat Of Many Colors, My Tennessee Mountain Home and Home, from her new album Blue Smoke, Parton has sung about the grinding hardship of those days, although she has always leavened it with protestations of the ‘we were poor but happy’ variety. But surely it must have been terrible being that poor?
‘We didn’t know we were poor until some smart alec told us.’

But there were four of you sleeping in the same bed; you had to walk two miles to school… weren’t there any clues?
‘You don’t think of it like that. That’s family, that’s home.
‘Your neighbours live like that, that was just the way it was. But when I started to grow I realised I didn’t want to sleep in a bed with four people – unless I had chosen them!’
Parton was a musical prodigy who started writing songs at the age of five and was singing on radio and television when she was only ten.
At 12 she was performing at the legendary country music stage in Nashville, the Grand Ole Opry.
The day after she graduated from high school, 17-year-old Parton left her home and headed to Nashville determined to become a star.
A spectacularly beautiful young woman with that soon-to-be-world-famous figure, she admits she would meet music industry men who offered to help her career if she would sleep with them.

‘Most people can’t understand two women being so close and devoted to each other. We’ve never been lovers, just good old pure sweet fun-loving friends,’ said Dolly of her childhood friend Judy Ogle

‘I did meet a lot of sleazy guys, but I never slept with anyone to get where I wanted to go,’ she says, firmly.
‘I had grown up with brothers and uncles so I understood the nature of men, and if they got out of line I would make it light-hearted and turn it into a joke.’

Among the first men Dolly would meet in Nashville was Carl Dean.
Two years later, the couple were married. Yet despite Parton being one of the most famous women in the world, Dean has maintained an astonishingly low profile.
A blurry photograph from their wedding in 1966 is one of only a handful of images of him, prompting rumours that he doesn’t exist. Parton rarely talks about him, but she opened up to Event about daily life inside their marriage, and how her husband copes with a wife who is often away.
‘Carl sees me today the way he first saw me,’ she says. ‘I’m not a star to him, and it has never dawned on me that I’m a star – I’m just a working girl.
‘I don’t have maids or servants and my husband and I love waking up early and going to the 24-hour supermarket when there is no**** else there.’

Do you watch the pennies?
‘Carl is so stingy you’d think we had no money at all.’
Is it hard for him to cope with you being away so much?
‘My husband knew that was what I came to Nashville to do. I told him, “If I am lucky and all things go the way I am dreaming and hoping and working towards, I am going to be gone a lot.” It has never been a problem.’
And why is he so rarely spotted? ‘He just wants to be left alone.’
Does he feel intimidated being married to someone more rich and successful than him?
‘He doesn’t care,’ she laughs. ‘I go out and make the money and he can sit on his backside at home. It’s a good gig for him!’

Dean’s invisibility has prompted repeated speculation – always denied – that Dolly is actually in a lesbian relationship with her childhood friend Judy Ogle, who accompanies her everywhere and is in the studio, sitting quietly on her own, during our conversation.
In her autobiography, My Life And Other Unfinished Business, Parton wrote: ‘Most people can’t understand two women being so close and devoted to each other.
‘We’ve never been lovers, just good old pure sweet fun-loving friends.’
She has also said that, were she gay, she’d be privileged to have Judy as her partner.
Today, she tells me: ‘I didn’t know any gay people in my childhood.
‘I do have a lot of gays in my family now, but some will never come out.’
Gay marriage is legal in Britain but in Nashville it is outlawed.
What if she had fallen in love with a Carla, not a Carl?
‘I think everyone should be with who they love,’ she says.
‘I don’t want to be controversial or stir up a bunch of trouble but people are going to love who they are going to love.
‘I think gay couples should be allowed to marry. They should suffer just like us heterosexuals. Ha ha ha!’

Dean and Parton discovered that they could not have children when the singer was in her early 30s, but in public at least she has remained upbeat about this devastating blow.
‘We knew what we were going to **** our children if we had had kids, but it never happened,’ she tells me. ‘And now we are older, we are glad we don’t have children.’
But at the time when you were trying, did you feel angry that you didn’t fall pregnant?

Dolly is a hugely shrewd and successful businesswoman, who owns everything from radio stations and restaurants to her own Tennessee theme park, Dollywood

‘I never did and my husband never did. I was focused on my career and if I’d had kids, I would have been more focused on that, so I probably would not have been a star. It was just not meant to be.’
This summer Parton’s British fans will have a chance to see her on tour as she supports Blue Smoke, the 42nd album of her career.
‘Every time I’m in Britain I try to go to Selfridges. I love buying costume make-up and glitter and lipstick there, and I really enjoy going to Indian restaurants. I just love curry!’
Parton is a huge Led Zeppelin fan and has recorded her own version of Stairway To Heaven. When I tell her that Robert Plant is also playing at Glastonbury, she shrieks with excitement.
‘He’s gonna be there? At the same time as me?’
Don’t rule out the possibility of a guest appearance with Plant or the White Stripes’ Jack White, who is also playing at the festival and who has covered Jolene.
‘Jack was at the same restaurant as me recently,’ she says, ‘We thought we’d order everything so we’d know what to order next time we went.
‘Jack was there and he picked up our tab! I never felt so bad in my life because that bill must have been outrageous.’

Dolly’s Nashville home. ‘I go out and make the money and he (husband Carl) can sit on his backside at home. It’s a good gig for him!’ she said

She clearly adores White but is less effusive about Bob Dylan, whose Don’t Think Twice (It’s All Right) she covers on the new album.
‘I’ve met him a few times but I never felt any warmth from him to me,’ she says.
‘I think I have offended him somehow by the way I looked or the way I was. I love his music but he’s a weird buckaroo.’
Although she is now nearing 70, there are no plans to retire.
‘I would only quit if I lost my voice or me or Carl had health problems,’ she says. ‘I hope to work till I fall over.’

And then what? Does she believe in life after death?
‘I do. I am expecting to go somewhere far better than this, and I have enjoyed this.’
Before she goes I ask one final question: would she agree that her outrageous look is also a form of armour to stop us getting to know the real Parton.
‘Oh no, I really am not that deep or smart.’
I swear I spot a twinkle in her eye, because she must know she’s fooling no one. They don’t come much deeper or smarter than Dolly Parton.

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Oscar voter: Selma had no art to it so we didn’t vote for it

This is one of my favorite parts of the Oscar season, and I love that The Hollywood Reporter keeps doing this. For a few years now, THR sits down with Oscar voters from various branches (actors’ branch, directors’ branch, etc) and records them as they fill out their Oscar ballots. All of it is done under the condition of anonymity – all we know is which branch the voters belong to. THR published their first ballot article yesterday and it’s from a member of the “public relations branch” – likely a publicist working for a studio or a larger agency. These articles are just for unmitigated dirt and gossip about the inner workings of Oscar campaigns and what Oscar voters really REALLY think of nominees. I would suggest reading the full piece here. But here are some highlights

The voter is tired of hearing about Selma’s “snubs”: “What no one wants to say out loud is that Selma is a well-crafted movie, but there’s no art to it. If the movie had been directed by a 60-year-old white male, I don’t think that people would have been carrying on about it to the level that they were. And as far as the accusations about the Academy being racist? Yes, most members are white males, but they are not the cast of Deliverance — they had to get into the Academy to begin with, so they’re not cretinous, snaggle toothed hillbillies. When a movie about black people is good, members vote for it. But if the movie isn’t that good, am I supposed to vote for it just because it has black people in it? I’ve got to tell you, having the cast show up in T-shirts saying “I can’t breathe”— I thought that stuff was offensive. Did they want to be known for making the best movie of the year or for stirring up sh-t?”

On Birdman: “I never thought that it would make it all the way to the finish line like it has — but then I remember that it’s about a tortured actor, and when you think about who is doing the voting , at SAG and the Academy, it’s a lot of other tortured actors. I just don’t know how much it’s resonating out in the world.”

Voting for The Imitation Game for Best Picture: “On paper, The Imitation Game seemed to be the one to me. It’s a great story, well-crafted, [Benedict Cumberbatch] is really good and it’s been a big success. It’s what you call “prestige filmmaking.” So why isn’t it receiving more recognition? I’d like to believe it’s karma for Harvey [Weinstein]. But I’m going to hold my nose and vote for it anyway because when you vote for best picture, what you should try to do is vote for the movie that, years from now, people will still watch and talk about. ..(1) The Imitation Game; (2) Birdman; (3) American Sniper; (4) Boyhood; (5) The Grand Budapest Hotel”

Vote for Best Director: “I’m voting for Richard Linklater. I think that what he did — as a “thing” — is extraordinary. I’m absolutely comfortable with breaking up picture and director; I wouldn’t know [The Imitation Game’s] Morten Tyldum if I walked into him. I thought all of the others were fine except for one: I could have watched my hair grow during Foxcatcher — it was so slow.”

Vote for Best Actor: “I’m voting for [Birdman’s] Michael Keaton because I love him and for a lot of reasons, not the least of which is he seems like a completely sane person who lives in the middle of the country and works when he wants to work. I’ve loved every interview that he’s done. He seems grateful, not particularly needy, and I don’t know when he’ll ever get another chance at this; the other nominees will. What Keaton had to do was harder than what the others had to do because they had the benefit of playing real people. I mean, Eddie Redmayne did an amazing impression of Stephen Hawking, but Keaton created a character from whole cloth.

Thoughts on Jennifer Aniston: “I’m not sorry that Jennifer Aniston isn’t nominated; she was fine, but I thought her movie Cake was ridiculous. …The minute I saw Still Alice, I remember thinking, “This [best actress race] is over. Four other women are going to have to get dressed and go to 5,000 dinners knowing they have no chance.”

Best Supporting Actor: “J.K. Simmons’ performance was in a different league. It’s kind of ironic that he’s in “supporting,” right? I’m voting for him because he was great in the movie — and because he was in 5,000 episodes of Law & Order. In other words, he’s been acting forever, I’ve seen enough of his work to know he is a journeyman, and I’m happy to be able to recognize him.

Best Supporting Actress: “Laura Dern was good, but I didn’t think she was as good as [A Most Violent Year’s] Jessica Chastain. Keira Knightley was fine and got in on the [Imitation Game] ticket. Emma Stone was pretty good [in Birdman], but she can do no wrong — she’s like Meryl Streep, although I wish [the film for which Streep is nominated] Into the Woods stopped after 20 minutes. But I’m voting for Arquette. She gets points for working on a film for 12 years and bonus points for having no work done during the 12 years. If she had had work done during the 12 years, she would not be collecting these statues. It’s a bravery reward. It says, “You’re braver than me. You didn’t touch your face for 12 years. Way to freakin’ go!”

Ballot #2: the voter is an Oscar-nominated member of the animation/short film branch. Thoughts on Best Picture:
Whiplash is offensive — it’s a film about abuse and I don’t find that entertaining at all. My kid would have told me if he had an abusive teacher. I would have sat in on the class, talked to other kids in the class and then said, “This a–hole has to go.” [The Grand] Budapest [Hotel] is beautifully made, but its story just isn’t special. I didn’t think Selma was a particularly good film, apart from the main actor [David Oyelowo], and I think the outcry about the Academy being racists for not nominating it for more awards is offensive — we have a two-term president who is a black woman [Cheryl Boone Isaacs] and we giveout awards to black people when they deserve them, just like any other group.

Birdman, I didn’t get it at all — I look around and it’s doing so well and I just don’t get it. American Sniper glosses over feelings — how do you feel when you kill 170 people? You just see him hesitating in the one scene with the boy who briefly picks up the rocket and then you see him sitting at a bar looking depressed]; that’s not enough. As far as The Imitation Game, Alan Turing was very much defined by his repressed homosexuality, and I just don’t think the film deals with that very well. I admired Boyhood and it didn’t bore me, but it doesn’t totally work.

But Theory [of Everything] I loved. It was the only one of the nominees that fully worked as a whole film — it was beautifully performed, nicely directed and it was about something — although Boyhood is pretty special for its own reasons. Just because the Academy gives you a preferential ballot with a bunch of lines doesn’t mean you have to fill them all out. Those are only two that I find worthy of the award. MY VOTE: (1) The Theory of Everything, (2) Boyhood
*This person voted for Richard Linklater for Best Director because “It’s not even close for me because I didn’t especially like the other nominees’ pictures.” The voter went with Eddie Redmayne for Best Actor because “it’s an amazing performance” and they also went for Felicity Jones for Best Actress (interesting). This voter thought Meryl Streep was “unbelievable” (in a good way) in Into the Woods and ended up voting for Meryl instead of Patricia Arquette.

And here are some highlights from Ballot #3, from a voter in the screenwriters’ branch.

*The voter had nothing but compliments for all of the Best Picture nominees, except they weren’t all that jazzed about Boyhood. This was their final vote: (1) The Imitation Game, (2) Birdman, (3) Whiplash, (4) The Theory of Everything, (5) American Sniper
*Best Director was between Richard Linklater and Alejandro G. Inarritu and the voter went with the crazy-ambition of Inarritu.
*Vote for Eddie Redmayne because his role was the most “transformative.” Same with Julianne Moore – this person voted for Moore because her role was the most transformative.
*Another vote for JK Simmons and Patricia Arquette even though “None of the [supporting actress nominees] blew my mind.”

[From THR]

Cele|bitchy | THR Oscar voter: â€˜Iâ€™m not sorry that Jennifer Aniston isnâ€™t nominatedâ€™

Would you touch this guy with a 10 ft. pole? I didn’t think so

Air steward who has spent £125,000 on plastic surgery in a bid to look like a Ken doll splashes out ANOTHER £5,000 – this time on a stem cell hair transplant

An air steward who has spent £125,000 on plastic surgery in a bid to turn himself into a real-life Ken doll has become the first person in the UK to have stem cell hair treatment.
Rodrigo Alves, 30, has undergone 20 cosmetic procedures including nose jobs, liposuction, six-pack and pec implants, calf shaping and botox fillers.
But that, it seems, is not enough for Mr Alves who recently had his 21st cosmetic treatment – a pioneering form of stem cell surgery that claims to fix baldness.

Vain: Rodrigo Alves, 30, has undergone 20 cosmetic procedures including nose jobs, liposuction, six-pack and pec implants, calf shaping and botox fillers and now he’s had the first-ever stem cell treatment in the UK to grow his hair back

The procedure took just four hours and now, two months on, Mr Alves says he is seeing the first results.
Mr Alves, who lives in London, said: ‘I started seeing results after two months. I have lots of baby hair coming through – it’s amazing.
‘My hair was really thin and my temple was starting to recede but now it’s coming back in leaps and bounds.

High tech: The flight attendant became the first person in the UK to undergo the procedure, which saw doctors inject stem cells into his scalp by taking fat from his back and mixing it with his blood

One step closer to his ideal: He said that before the treatment, his hair was really thin and his temple were starting to recede but now it’s ‘coming back in leaps and bounds’

‘Seeing my hair begin to go like that was quite shocking. I was considering going to LA to have a transplant until I found these doctors. I’m getting so many compliments now.

‘The main results are on my temple. I don’t have a receding line anymore, I’m really happy with it all. It was well worth it.’

Mr Alves’ £5,100 ($8,000) procedure, which took place in Miami, began with liposuction on his back to extract fat cells.

Doctors then took 500ml of his blood and blended the two in a special machine before injecting the mixture into his scalp.

The latest treatment is Mr Alves’ 21st and he has had 12 major operations, eight smaller cosmetic procedures and spent more than £125,000 since the age of 20.
His long list of surgery includes splashing out £8,000 on botox and fillers, £30,000 on three nose jobs, £3,000 on liposuction to his jaw and £10,000 on pec implants.

He has also spent £22,000 on a fake six-pack, £7,000 on fillers to his arms, £7,000 on hospital bills, £7,000 on laser lipo, £6,000 on leg lipo and £3,000 on calf shaping.

He also indulges in twice-yearly Botox and filler top-ups and takes a cocktail of daily pills consisting of collagen tablets, anti-water retention and hair growth tablets.

Mr Alves said he ‘admires’ Barbie’s boyfriend Ken – because the toy looks like the ‘ideal man’.

He decided to go under the knife for the first time in 2024 after struggling with the way he looked since childhood.

Cosmetic fan: Brazilian-born Rodrigo has had 12 major operations, eight smaller cosmetic procedures and spent more than £125,000 since the age of 20, including Botox and fillers

As he grew older, Mr Alves realised he didn’t have to put up with his looks – and had his first operation when he moved to London.

‘I just want to present myself in a way I have always wanted to,’ he said. ‘Cosmetic surgery has really changed my life, it was a positive makeover for me. If it wasn’t for cosmetic surgery then I wouldn’t be the man I am today.

‘I’m not trying to reach perfection, I’m just trying to be the best that my **** allows me to be. I’m more confident now, I’m better looking and able to present myself in a different way.’

But his attempt at perfection nearly cost him him life when a Brazilian doctor injected a gel into his arms to make them look more muscly.

The 30-year-old was then struck down by a major infection which left him paralysed and unable to feed or wash himself.

As he was: Rodrigo pictured before he spent £100,000 on cosmetic surgery procedures to turn himself into a real life Ken doll

After three weeks in hospital with the support of friends and family, he recovered and flew back to the UK.

‘I am constantly researching for the best treatments and cosmetic procedures that can make me look better and stop the ageing process,’ he added.

‘I also still use a laser hair comb and many different vitamins and creams in other to improve the skin and hair condition.

‘Thankfully we live in a very modern high-tech society and I believe that now science meet technology and both meet beauty which can be beneficial to many people. It is a constant maintenance process.

‘I receive lots and lots of emails and messages on Facebook from people around the world asking for beauty and cosmetic advice.

‘I want to set an example of positive makeover and break the taboo about cosmetic surgery.’

Rodrigo Alves who has spent Â£125k on plastic surgery splashes out ANOTHER Â£5k | Daily Mail Online