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● Harvey Weinstein says that, assuming My Week With Marilyn does well in theaters, he would like to adapt the movie to Broadway where he thinks Katy Perry would just kill it as the screen icon. For some reason. [E!]

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Kim and Kris

● Kim Kardashian must have figured she would be married at least until the new year when she ordered her holiday cards, all of which feature her and Kris Humphries' wedding portrait. [NYDN]

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Okay everyone, we've really got to cool it with these subjects of entry-level cocktail-party conversations. Marilyn Monroe fanaticism rears its ugly head every few years. Just three years ago, we had photos of Lindsay Lohan (another topic of conversation we could do without) "channeling" Monroe for New York, and Lohan was inspired by Monroe again for her upcoming Playboy pictoral. But other than a pretty face and some roles in pretty popular films, what did she have to offer? According to one Daily Mail writer, "she has had a huge impact on our popular culture, but mainly in having helped spur the fashionable mood for victimhood, infantilism, vulgarity and self-absorption."

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No celebrity artifact is ever so trivial that somebody somewhere won’t shell out the big bucks for it. Scarlett Johansson’s snotty tissue fetched $5,300 on ebay, and a clump of Elvis’s hair brought in over $15,000 at auction. Now CNN is reporting that three chest x-rays taken of Marilyn Monroe's famed knockers were sold at a Las Vegas auction over the weekend. Any idea what those might be worth?

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● Landon Donovan, currently separated but not divorced, may have gotten a British woman pregnant, a fact he was informed of during the World Cup. Maury producers are scrambling to book a paternity test show. [People] ● The Lohan family, shockingly, is working on a reality show, which aims to disprove the idea that they have "crazy lives." It's so normal when compared to, like, The Bad Girls Club. [NYP] ● Katy Perry and Russel Brand may already be married, according to a slip of the tongue by the pop star, but they'll be divorced soon enough. [Celebuzz]

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● Heidi Montag is writing a movie she calls "Bourne-meets-Barbie," indicating that she'd love to be the "blonde Tomb Raider." As she would say: Jesus Christ. [US Weekly] ● The top ten hipster schools, as determined by the arbiters of cool, the Huffington Post. Ah, the liberal media. [HuffPo] ● What 15 celebrities would look like with The Situation's body. Hint: hot. [Celebuzz]

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I attended the Club Monaco event last Thursday for two reasons. First, I wanted to see their flagship store, take in their new advertising campaign and meet legendary photographer Bert Stern who shot it. Second, Patrick Duffy http://www.blackbookmag.com/article/mr-patrick-duffy-takes-paris/16728 told me I had to go. Patrick is all set to unleash BES, his new restaurant, on the world and it’s shaping up to be one of the best places in town. I’ll gladly kiss his world famous ass for a sneak peek. The Club Monaco event was a smashing success. The fashion set circulated in living color around the black and white Bert Stern campaign photos. Mr. Stern is famous for many things including his book Marilyn Monroe: The Complete Last Sitting. The images of Marilyn were taken just 6 weeks before her death and capture the icon’s beauty, frailty and pain. It is a window into the mind of the idolized star just before she burst all our misconceptions.

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“Who’s fighting and what for?” Mick Jagger Justin Ross Lee wrote on his website ClubPlanet that Richard Thomas, who is best known for working the door at Marquee and now Avenue, is the most hated man in nightlife. Numero uno, hands down, the worst guy around. Everybody with the possible exception of Richard Thomas knows that Justin was just being Justin. Justin has told me that he, himself, wants to be the most hated man in nightlife and has proceeded to “send up” a ton of people. It’s kind of ironic that Justin identified, for all to see, the person he wants to replace at the top of his most hated list. Many people enjoy Justin’s lampoon of nightlife, but many more are not amused. For the people who read him daily, despite all of his silliness, bad poetry and misadventures, there lies some truth.

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● Is Courtney Love angling to be Mrs. Hugo Chavez? The singer was certainly impressed by the charm he turned on at the premiere for Oliver Stone's documentary about the Venezuelan president. [NYDailyNews] ● The helicopters present at Khloe Kardashian and Lamar Odom’s wedding disrupted actor Danny DeVito’s quiet Sunday night, and he let everyone in the Twitterverse know. [Twitter] ● Speaking of: It should come as no surprise that there was a “Hollywood nightclub” theme to Khloe and Lamar’s wedding reception. No word on if Lindsay Lohan was there to give it an "authentic" club feel. [People]

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Forget the “Rachel” -- it’s the Hollywood starlets of yesteryear who truly embody the term "iconic." These classic styles have been showing up on red carpets since they were first flaunted decades ago.

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