Robert Pattinson beat every other man in existence to win the title of People Magazines “Sexiest Man Alive”. If this doesn’t prove that print is an unreliable resource that can’t be trusted I don’t know what will…

Harper’s has officially lowered their standards and became Star.

Growing up in the 90’s, travelling the world, I witnessed the great influence of American Pop Culture wherever I go, Tom Cruise’s 1986 TOP GUN poster stapled on a barber shop in Boystown, Pattaya-Thailand, Brad Pitt’s 1994 Legends of the Fall poster in a “mostly censored” movie rentals in Al Khobar-Saudi Arabia, Leonardo Dicaprio’s life-size cardboard cutout in the streets of Lan Kwai Fong-Hong Kong, Jason Priestley and Luke Perry’s of Beverly Hills 90210 in the 1990’s all over the notebook covers of teenage girls (and boys) in my highschool in Manila, I have to confess I bought my first Tiger Beat with River Phoenix cover to wrap my Calculus Textbook (to get me through my most boring class ever).

James Dean
(February 1931 – September 1955)

In an “fun experiment” by Irina Aleksander on her article “The New Male Beauty” (June 23, 2009) for The New York Observer. She suggested that the latest “It boys”sort of look alike– High School Musical’s Zac Efron, Twilight’s Robert Pattinson, Gossip Girl’s Chace Crawford, Star Trek’s Chris Pine, Hairspray’s James Marsden, Fantastic Four’s Chris Evans and the list goes on, and she calls it the NEW MALE BEAUTY: those wide-set eyes, the narrow nose that flares up at the tip just so, the childish puffy cheeks and the not-too-rugged jaw lines, topped with carefully placed strands of layered hair. (http://www.observer.com/2009/style/new-male-beauty)

Although I agree with her that this twenty-something James Dean doppelgänger’s has been dominating the box office and prime time tv this decade, whats new? Since James Dean starred in Rebel Without a Cause (1955), he’s reincarnation’s in the “Male Beauties” of the 60’s (Warren Beatty), 80’s (Tom Cruise), 90’s (Leonardo Dicaprio) has always been prominent. The 2000’s Young Hollywood cannot deny the fact that “another swoopy-haired, pretty-faced actor dominating the box office” has started in the 50’s. Although I was born in the 80’s and Tom Cruise was the king, I acknowledge the fact that on my list of top 10 Male beauties of all time, it’s a not a Mr. Pattinson or a Mr. Efron topping my list- its the original, Mr. Dean.

River Phoenix
(August 1970 – October 1993)

The American film actor who starred in Gus Van Sant’s 1991 Semi-documentary footage of Seattle street hustling “My Own Private Idaho” is one of the reason I fell in love with american filmmaking, not only its sexiest Homosexual road movie ever made, its casted perfectly with beautiful talented stars all at the top of their respective games. The film’s success solidified Phoenix’s image as an edgy actor with leading man potential, without even trying, he is the most authentic reincarnation of James Dean’s beauty and talent in the 90’s.

Brad Pitt
(December 1963)

Yes, its not a surprise Mr. Pitt’s in the list, has been cited as one of the world’s most sexiest men over and over again in some top 10 list all over the world. But I can’t help but put him in this one, because am only human. Most of my favorite movies of all time are starred by Brad Pitt, and three of the sexiest and most beautiful characters that the silverscreen ever produced he had played – J.D., the cowboy hitchhiker who seduces Geena Davis’s character in the 1991 road movie “Thelma & Louise”, as Louis de Pointe du Lac in “Interview with the Vampire” (1994) – the most referenced vampire of this decades’ teen vampires and Tristan Ludlow in the 1994 drama “Legends of the Fall”, how can I resist?

Johnny Depp
(June 1963)

There is something so mysterious about this American actor that I find so mesmerizing and beautiful, after 50 films and running, from “A Nightmare on Elm Street” to “What’s Eating Gilbert Grape” from “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” to “Pirates of the Caribbean”, he just makes me ask for more.

Joe Dallesandro
(December 1948)

Aesthetically speaking if the Greek philosophers will have a perfect mold for the male beauty, it will be “Little Joe”s face. Thanks to Andy Warhol, the 70’s underground films will always have their nude James Dean. Although he never become a mainstream film star like Mr. Dean, Mr. Phoenix, Mr. Depp and Mr. Pitt –Mr. Dallesandro is a sex symbol of the 20th century in his own right, and an iconic beauty on my list. Like Mr. Phoenix he starred as as a beautiful teenage street hustler in the 1970’s film Flesh and hailed as one of the 10 most beautiful men Scavullo had ever photographed. As a photographer how can i disagree?

Gabriel Aubry
(January 1976)

“Quick, name one male model.” asked by Lauren Streib on her article “The World’s Most Successful Male Models”(May, 07 2008) for Forbes Magazine. Gabriel Aubry, Mark Fisher, Marlon Teixeira, Jon Kortajarena, and Greg Knudson and yes, Fabio doesn’t count. In my personal list of Top 10 Male Beauties of all time, it only make sense that half of them are models and three out of five are signed with Wilhelmina Models in New York City. All five of them have the moviestar goodlooks minus the Zoolander ego that plagued most male models this decade.

Signed to Wilhelmina Models in New York City, the only male model to ever appear on the cover of Uomo Vogue while appearing in 4 different campaigns at the same time, in the same magazine. Aubry is a Canadian male model, that has been the face (and body) of blue chip clients like Gianni Versace, Calvin Klein, DKNY, and Valentino, achieved supermodel status after modeling for Hugo Boss.

Mark Fisher
(January 1976)

One source of male beauties for me back in college are the men’s fashion magazines, I have converted my room in a mini-magazine library and nobody can avoid all the muses for more than four decades of the legendary photographer Bruce Weber, Mark Fisher is my favorite. Mr. Fisher is an American model best known for his campaigns for Abercrombie & Fitch, Polo, Versace and Ralph Lauren. In my book he is one of the original male models that carries the James Dean charm without even knowing it.
Fisher was born in Detroit, but grew up in Atlanta and considers himself a little boy from the South.

Marlon Teixeira
(September 1993)

Signed to Wilhelmina Models in New York City, Teixeira appeared on Dior Homme Campaign, the provocative Diesel Ad shot by Terry Richardson, the face of the 2009 Christian Dior Summer/Spring collection to name a few. The brazillian beauty is half Portuguese and has Indian and Japanese origins and at the very young age and early of his career he is becoming one of the top working male model right now.

Jon Kortajarena
(May 1985)

Those chiseled cheekbones, full pout and sexy stare has placed Spanish male model on my top 10 male beauties, signed to Wilhelmina Models in New York City,
Kortajarena has been the face of Just Cavalli, Tom Ford, Bally, Etro, Trussardi and now on his film debut on the upcoming directorial debut of designer TOM FORD “A Single Man (2009)” alongside Colin Firth, & Julianne Moore.

Greg Knudson
(November 1978)

Whenever people ask me who’s my favorite model I ever photographed, this American male model, native of california always come to mind,
I never thought I’ll ever meet a real life James Dean in my lifetime, but I did, and his body covered by Oriental tattoes of his gang memebrship on his teen years,
a troubled teen like the characters that James Dean, River Phoenix, Johnny Depp would ussually play in their films and his striking resemblance to Brad Pitt is uncanny.

Excerpt from my book Acknowledgement “STARK”: I remember buying my first photo book, Just Between Us by LA photographer Greg Gorman, when I was in Fine Arts college majoring painting. I will never forget that, because I had never before spent so much money on a book; but that day and from this day on I knew it was all worth it. The moment I saw Greg Knudson on the book cover in the display, I considered him the most beautiful person on the planet, and I still feel he is.

When I shot him in LA last year—8 years after I bought the book—Greg told me I might be the last photographer he would ever work with since he is thinking of retiring; he has worked with most of the top photographers in the 1990’s. Now he is gracing my photo book, and I am elated.

My sister, the ultimate Twilight fan, sent me a link to this silly little picture. I’m sorry, but I think Robert Pattinson is really hot, and I think this guy is really NOT. I guess if the Twilight characters were emo, they’d look a little like this.

Get ‘New Moon’ gear at Hot Topic (you too can impersonate Edward and Bella)

LINK LOVE: Twilight Lexicon

November is going to be an amazing month! I will admit that I love so many of these cheesy cult films, but I think that combined with my Kristen Stewart obsession that is really fueling my love for the Twilight Saga. I think this movie is going to be great, I’m so excited for November 20th!

LINK LOVE: Oh No They Didn’t

Shot by Hedi Slimane and styled by Nicola Formichetti.

Kristen and Robert each banked $2 million paychecks for the first Twilight movie, which grossed close to $200 million in the box office. According to the Chicago Sun-Times, both Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart were paid $12 million dollars each to reprise their role for New Moon plus 9% of the box office. Anyone else think this is a bit much?

Now, this actually looks decent!

Too much eye makeup for Kristen Stewart? I wish Robby left his hair long. Check this out soon in Entertainment Weekly

LINK LOVE: Livejournal

Twilight merchandise is starting to get creepy. Now you can have  a life-sized Edward Cullen sticker watch over you when you sleep. That’s right girls, you too can make Robert Pattinson your stalker boyfriend.

My people’s vodka, Stoli, has been pretty good at getting some free PR from celebs like Robert Pattinson, who was seen wearing their logo tee over the weekend!

Seems like Hollywood has taken to a bad habit recently, smoking.  Celebrities like Katherine Heigl, Mary Kate Olsen, Lindsay Lohan, Mischa Barton, Robert Pattinson, and Kate Moss have all been spotted lighting up, but here’s our list of the top 10 celebs that are keeping it healthy.

1. Rihanna

2. Victoria Beckham

3. Leighton Meester

4. Heidi Klum

5. Justin Timberlake

6. Lauren Conrad

7. Usher

8. Chatum Tanning

9. Anne Hathaway

10. Rachel Bilson

Who do you think we missed? And how do you feel about young Hollywood’s decision to popularize smoking?

DuWop will launch a makeup collection inspired by the movie Twilight at the end of this year. It will include a movie version of Lip Venom, a lip plumper that looks like blood, which has already been used on set on Robert Pattinson.

This list was too big for just ten. Here’s 20 celebrity hairstyles that just bother us.

1. Kate Goesslin- I’m not really sure what she’s thinking with that little spike in the back. I mean, I know that it’s “her thing” but…why would you want that to be your thing?

2. Cassie/Carmen Electra/Amber Rose/Alice Dellal- Shaved heads on girls = not good, unless you’re a punk, which clearly, none of these girls are.

3. Billy Ray Cyrus- This is better than the Achey Breaky mullet, but the whole surfer/highlights thing is trying a little too hard for a 47-year-old dad.

4. Donald Trump- I don’t even know what is going on. How does he even get his hair like that?

5. Amy Winehouse- The beehive was cool for like, a day, but as soon as Wino started falling apart, so did her hive.

6. Megan Fox at the MTV awards- I don’t even need to talk about this…this makes her head look so oddly shaped, it makes me laugh.

7. Agyness Deyn- Sometimes I really like Aggy’s hair, sometimes I don’t. This looks a little Warhol, back to the drawing board for this mop-top

8. Carrot Top- I know it’s natural, but this is a little too carrot-y and disheveled.  And wtf is up with his eyebrows?

9. Celebrity sons that look like daughters- Cindy Crawford’s son is literally the most beautiful kid I’ve ever seen, but his hair makes him look like a girl. Kate Hudson and Sarah Jessica Parker’s sons also look like they could be daughters. Haircuts, please.

10. Betsey Johnson- I love her designs, but have always hated her hair. 

11. Robert Pattinson- Not my choice, I love him and his crazy hair, but I do agree, it’s a little too talked about.

12. Rihanna- Time for a new hairstyle, please. I still like it, I always liked it, but it’s getting old.

13. Victoria Beckham- She pioneered the bob, but that was years ago.

14. Katie Holmes- Same story as the two above. Moving on.

15. Zac Efron- The surf look is a little too grown out for Zefron, just a little bit shorter, please.

16. Brett Michaels- I’m not sure what bothers me more, the fact that Brett Michael’s lips look like a woman, or that I can’t wear a headband or scarf around my head without being called Brett Michaels.

17. Jethro Cave- Just a little too over the top. Corey, please don’t do this with your hair

18. Katy Perry- I loved Katy Perry’s hair long and curled. Grow it back out!

19. Adam Lambert- I know he’s trying to be the epitome of a ‘rock star,’ but scene kid hair is very 2006.  He probably takes longer to straighten and tease his hair than I do to shower and put on a full face of makeup.

20. J.Lo- Everyone’s saying it’s a wig, what do you think?

I’m prepared for the hate comments. Anyone you think we missed?

Attention Twilight fans and everyone who hates when I post bashes of Twilight:

They’re having a Twilight cruise. Yes, Forkes is a real place, and now you can really go there. And then you can go to Alaska, because apparently that’s what you do if you’re a vampire/crazed teenybopper who is overly obsessed with Twilight.

Before I start in in my opinion of this, I want you to know the details. You get in a boat with these ladies:

Second, you pay somewhere around $3000 to freeze your ass off in Alaska, only to get some ‘Q&A’ time with these guys:

Wait who was that second one? Who on earth is that? I don’t remember her being in Twilight, even though I saw it three times in theaters and twice on DVD (now you people can’t get mad at me for bashing, you know I’ve seen this movie almost as much as you have)

Wow. She looks really different. Now I may think that this Twilight thing was pretty cool if Kristen Stewart and/or Robert Pattinson were going to be there (I mean, if Robert Pattinson was going to be there, I would pay the $3000 and go, in a heartbeat), but why would I want to go on a cruise ship to a place that rains almost ever day, followed by a place that is below zero every day, and sometimes the sun doesn’t even come up, with SECONDARY characters of a movie.  Really, why?

I’m sorry Twilight fans, and I’m sorry Kellan Lutz and Ashley Greene (see, you didn’t know their names either..I had to look it up), but I think that this cruise sounds like the WORST idea in the history of the earth. 

Just because I know that all of you don’t think it’s the worst idea, and in fact may think that me bashing Twilight for the third time this week is the worst idea in the history of the earth, you can learn more about this waste of money here

SOURCE: PopCrunch

Instead of bashing you all separately, I decided to create a giant post after visiting the MTV website and realizing that so many celebrities have no fashion knowledge, at all. 

Miley Cyrus: Boring, the wardrobe in Hannah Montana The Movie was fabulous, why couldn’t you snag a dress from there? And wtf is going on with the front of that dress?

Lauren Conrad: You can really pull of that ‘California’ look, stick with that. You have a really good body, don’t hide it under that poufy skirt…and is that tie-dye, or is it just me?

Megan Fox: WTF is going on with your hair?! I’m not even going to comment on the tattoo, but her forehead is too big to wear her hair like that, which is completely beside the fact that that hairstyle looks like you forgot to wash the conditioner out of your hair.

Zac Efron: Get a haircut, hopefully something a bit like Link in Hairspray, you were hot in that movie.

JC Chasez: You almost had it, I really like this outfit, but the scarf? Really? It looks ridiculous, it doesn’t make sense..at all.

Miranda Cosgrove: I love you, I love iCarly, but that dress (and those shoes) do NOT work for you. Did you get this out of your mom’s closet?

Kirsten Stewart: I already bashed you today, I don’t care anymore

Robert Pattinson: You’re so attractive, but seriously, have you ever heard of an iron?

I’m sure I’ll get some hate comments for this huge bash, but seriously, you saw the pictures, and there were pages and pages more.  Seriously Hollywood, fire your stylists.

See the rest at MTV.com

1. Twilight New Moon. Yes, we hate Twilight New Moon more than Twilight.  How can we come to this realization without actually seeing the movie? Because we just saw the preview and that living Troll doll Kristen Stewart is still in it. Even worse, there are now bad CGI werewolves. So basically this movie is a teener-bopper version of Underworld without hotties like Kate Beckinsale in it to make it bearable to watch. Worse of all it will probably make a load of money making Robert Pattinson the richest twink in the world. For shame…

2. Robert Pattinson. Do you really have to ask why?

3. Jon & Kate Plus Eight. Wait, people actually waste their time watching a chick with bad hair and a dude with a bald spot deal with their 8 brats? How in the fluck is the entertainment?!? I mean, if there was at least a creepy uncle/priest or a recent sex offender released in their neighborhood, there might be some entertainment value as they freak the fuck out everytime one of their kids goes missing, but I just watched an episode and they basically spend their time playing at the park. Really people? I’d question anyone who watches this show who isn’t a midwest wife with no life. Seriously, there’s something completely wrong with you if you find this entertaining. It literally defines you as someone who is (a) desperate for children, (b) can’t stand your own kids or (c) derive pleasure from watching other peoples kids. All of them are pretty bad, so please just stop.

4. Beth Ditto. I imagine her smelling really, really bad. Does that make me a fatist? Maybe, but the chick insists on a diet that consists of processed deli meats, McDonald’s french fries, and hairy fish tacos. Probably gonna get hate mail for  this, but can we get a slightly thinner/less vomit enducing fat style icon? 

5. MTV 2009 Movie Awards. For being Twilight’s bitch.

6. Bust-a-Nut Facials. For $250 this salon in NYC will rub sperm on your face. Currently wondering if they accept donations. 

7. College Musical. You know it’s coming. Expect Efron to “experiment”.

8. “Accidentally” Leaked Celebrity Nude Photos. Rihanna, Cassie, Vanessa Hudgens. We get that is sucks that your boyfriend beats you/is old enough to be your dad/doesn’t know you exist but that’s no reason to go around taking badly lit naked photos of yourself. Jebus, ladies have some self respect and call Hefner. At least he’d pay you for shots of your no-no zone.  

9. Susan Boyle. Wow, talk about a total let down. The hottest woman on Youtube lost to a group of Jabberwocky biters. 

10. The Montag Monster. Another genetically altered mutant freak washed up on the shores of the Hamptons only this time it wants you to buy it’s album on iTunes.

I’m a fan of Robert Pattinson, I’m fascinated by that disheveled hair and adorably handsome face. For some reason, I am really, really surprised that he has abs?  Maybe he’s been working out so he can kick some werewolf ass in the next Twilight movie?

SOURCE: Jezebel