Kristen

It's hard to believe that Chinatown star Faye Dunaway lives in such a reasonable house, but this duplex in West Hollywood, which she bought in 1998 for a mere $315,000, has been her main residence for the past 16 years. (Hence all the memorabilia and photographs, which can be included in the sale for an added price, although the awards are probably off limits.) Dunaway occupied the larger of the two units, while the smaller was unoccupied; in total, there are four bedrooms and three bathrooms in the building. The recently remodeled duplex sits on a large lot that's walled off from prying eyes by giant hedges; features original interior details including arched windows and crown moldings. Dunaway is selling it for $1.75 million.

· 901 N. Spaulding Ave. [The Agency]

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I loved the Muppet so much when I was a kid. I looked forward to watching The Muppet Show on Sunday nights all week and I remember running home from playing with the neighbor kids so I didn’t miss the beginning. I had a Kermit doll sitting on my bed and a poster of Miss Piggy hanging on the wall at the end of it. So obviously I was excited when Disney rebooted the Muppet movies a few years back. I wanted to revisit my old friends, but more importantly I wanted to share the Muppets with my boys. This weekend we watched the most recent installment, Muppets Most Wanted. (The movie will be available on Blu-ray Combo Pack and Digital HD August 12th at Disney.com but we got a sneak peak.) It’s jam-packed with all my favorite Muppets, of course, and it also has about a zillion cameos and songs. The kids thought it was hilarious (yay!) and after watching it I was inspired to make a Muppets bento box.

Shall I show you how to make one too? Yes, of course I should!

Here’s what you’ll need:

Ingredients:

• sliced whole wheat bread
• deli-sliced havarti cheese (or other white cheese)
• deli-sliced ham
• mayonnaise
• strawberries
• sugar snap peas
• teddy bear crackers

Equipment:

• 3-section bento box
• paring knife
• pig cookie cutter/stamp
• jewel picks
• black food marker

And here’s how I put it together:

I started by cutting the bread for a Miss Piggy sandwich. I cut two head shapes with the outer cutter, then I stamped a pig face on one of the slices of bread. (I saved the bread scraps in the freezer to use for bread crumbs or something later.)

Once you have the basic shapes for the head, it’s time to cut some hair. Miss Piggy has beautiful platinum blonde hair, so I chose a slice of havarti cheese to mimic it. Lay one of the bread pieces on a slice of cheese and then use it as a guide to cut Piggy’s hair out with a paring knife. I went with her classic long wavy hair-do, but you could do any other hair style you like!

The ears on the cutter I used didn’t match Miss Piggy’s pointier ears, so I cut them off and made my own. I squished the cut pieces down flat with y finger to make them easier to handle, then used the knife to cut them into tear-drop shapes. Once I had everything looking just right, I “glued” the hair to the bread with a little bit of mayo and then glued the ears on top of that. The inside of the sandwich was filled with ham and some of the cheese scraps. (Reserve a bit of the cheese for later).

After I assembled the sandwich I noticed that Miss Piggy’s hair was a bit droopy. If you’re less uptight about these things than I am you could just leave it, but I wanted my girl to look her best, so I stuck a couple toothpicks in each side of the sandwich to prop her hair up. Just remember to warn your kids that they’re in there so they don’t bite down on them at lunch time!

Add the sandwich to the largest section of the bento box. I had a lot of extra space left at the bottom so I filled it in with strawberries. And then I added some jewel picks because we all know how Miss Piggy loves bling.

Next we’re going to add Kermit into the lunch. I tried making an accurate likeness of him, but I couldn’t pull it off, so instead I decided to go for a symbolic representation. Good enough! I started by trimming some sugar snap peas so they were as long as the bento box is tall. Then I stood them on end in one of the side dish sections.

Next, I cut a couple of semi-circles and a pointy collar from the reserved cheese scraps. The eyes definitely needed Kermits signature pupils, so I drew those on with a black food-safe marker. Finally I laid the cheese bits on top of the snap peas. It’s not the perfect Kermit, but it will do!

The last touch was to add some teddy bear crackers to the remaining compartment. Who do they look like? Fozzie, of course!

Ta da! Muppet in a lunch box!

Muppets Most Wanted is available on Blu-ray Combo Pack and Digital HD August 12th at Disney.com.

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Catching our eye on Craigslist today is a sweet 1940s cottage up for grabs in Toluca Lake. Per the ad, the cottage is one of nine units and features two bedrooms, one bathroom with separate tub and shower, living and dining rooms, hardwood floors, crown molding, wainscoting, vintage tile and stove, a new dishwasher, and new central heat and air. Located within walking distance of Trader Joe's, Honey Baked Ham, and Bob's Big Boy, the cottage also comes with one garage space. Monthly rent is $1,875.

· $1875 / 2br - Cute Cottage in Toluca Lake with 2 beds & 1 Bath [Craigslist]

January 14, 2014

This B list mostly television actress known for her curves from a very hit cable show has lost 20 pounds in the past six weeks because she has been turned down for every role as "too fat." Apparently she also spoke to a plastic surgeon about a breast reduction.

Christina Hendricks

Next in our Delicious Disney series, Chocolate, Peanut Butter and Banana French Toast from Chef Mark Buan at Surf’s Up! Breakfast with Mickey & Friends at Disney’s PCH Grill in Disney’s Paradise Pier Hotel at the Disneyland Resort.

Chef calls it French toast, but it’s more like a bread pudding made with rich challah, a traditional Jewish yeast bread sweetened with honey. And is there any more perfect combo than chocolate, peanuts and sweet bananas? It’s perfect for a breakfast buffet, or we’d serve it for dessert with a generous drizzle of warm chocolate sauce.

Chocolate, Peanut Butter, Banana French Toast
Serves 4

Ingredients

• 8 thick slices day-old challah bread
• 2 ripe bananas
• 1/4 cup chocolate chips
• 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
• 6 eggs, lightly beaten
• 3/4 cup low-fat chocolate milk
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• Chocolate syrup and powdered sugar, optional

Assembly

1. Preheat oven to 350ºF. Coat a 9x13x2-inch baking pan with nonstick spray. Set aside.
2. Cut bread into 1-inch cubes and place in a large bowl. Slice bananas into 1/2-inch slices, and add to bowl. Stir in chocolate chips.
3. Combine peanut butter, eggs, chocolate milk, cinnamon, and salt in a blender. Process until smooth.
4. Pour egg mixture over bread mixture. Stir gently until bread cubes have absorbed egg mixture.
5. Pour mixture into prepared baking pan. Bake for 35 to 40 minutes, or until top is golden brown.
6. Before serving, drizzle with chocolate syrup and dust with powdered sugar, if desired.

Chocolate, Peanut Butter and Banana French Toast from Disney’s PCH Grill at Disneyland Resort by Pam Brandon: Originally posted on the Disney Parks Blog

Carine’s Icons–With her role as Harper’s Bazaar’s global fashion director; Carine Roitfeld has tapped what she describes as “iconic women” to appear in the magazine’s September issue. The covers revealed on WWD feature pop star Lady Gaga, supermodel Linda Evangelista (who also recently covered Vogue Japan) and actress Penelope Cruz photographed by Sebastian Faena. “For all the icons, I used fishnets. Fishnets are like my link,” she said, noting that in the portfolio they can be seen as tights, gloves or as part of dresses, for example,” Carine told the news publication about her styling for the shoot.

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We heard news today that firm Colony Capital, owners of Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch, are putting the famed property up for sale. The Los Olivos ranch, which once had a giant slide and carnival rides on the premises, occupies over 2,600 acres of land. We've found a video exploring the expansive grounds but mostly focusing on the less-often-seen interior of the main house, which used to contain crazy knickknacks (the Academy Award for Gone With the Wind!) and still has flooring ripped from an Eighteenth-Century French home. Elizabeth Taylor got married here, Marlon Brando hung out here—the house is full of stories.

· Michael Jackson's Neverland Is About To Be Sold [Forbes]
· Neverland Ranch archives [Curbed LA]

avantblargh:

gaaaaaaaaaambit:

all the tracks from quill’s AWESOME MIX from guardians of the galaxy

[listen]

YASSSS

i’m already way too excited to see this movie, since i’ve decided it’s the only marvel movie worth watching.

Ketchup. I personally love the stuff. I dip fries into it. It goes onto my burgers and hot dogs. I’ve been known to put it on steak. All incarnations of chicken — when not slathered in Buffalo wing sauce — get ketchupped.

But recently, I requested ketchup at Crew’s Cup Lounge in Disney World’s Yacht Club Resort when having a little lunch there. And I met with the Worst. Ketchup. In. Disney World.

If I’ve piqued your interest, here’s a pic of the offending condiment: Dickinson’s Ketchup. In one of those teeny tiny room service jars, no less. (Apparently the Crew’s Cup kitchen is the same one that manages room service. Sigh. Double sigh.)

As I see it, there are three major problems here. Shall we?

Problem #1: getting the ketchup out. Um…it’s impossible. There’s ketchup in there, all right, but it’s uber thick and pretty much just stays in there no matter how long you tip the thing upside down. So you have to get your knife involved in scraping the stuff out, which not only provides a nails-on-a-chalkboard (or, knife-on-glass, as it may be) irritation, but also dirties your knife.

Problem #2: the taste. I know that most ketchup starts with concentrated tomatoes — like tomato paste, I’m thinking — but this seems, well, entirely too tomato-y to me. It’s, like, mega-tomato. There is such a thing as too much tomato.

But THEN there’s Problem #3: the texture.

Once you wrestle it out of the jar — and really, you should have a tiny rubber spatula for this feat — you see that it really is the consistency of tomato paste. You could probably make a little ketchup sculpture out of it. And that’s just wrong.

So I have made a mental note to myself: when staying at Walt Disney World, I’ll squirrel away a packet or two (or 6) of good, old fashioned Heinz if and when I see them. It may be tough, what with all those ketchup dispensers at condiment bars. But I’m gonna try.

Gloppy ketchup. Gross. Sorry Dickinson Family.

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追うまると逃げるはな。
Maru chases Hana, and she escapes.

まる：「待て待てー。」
はな：「待たなーい。」
Maru:[Hey, wait!]
Hana:[I don't wait!]


ソファ上に逃げるのは、はなのいつものルート。

はな：「たぬきさんこーちら！」
Hana:[Come here!]


しかし色々ぼけてますが、はなさん密かにクラッシュ。
This photograph is out of focus, but Hana crashed.

まる：「何をやってるんだか……。」
Maru:[Are you ok?]


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連載第２９回目は本日AM１０時頃の更新です。

The truth was out there.

The landmark 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles kicked off 30 years ago this week; with their tight budget and heavy sponsorship, they changed the way Olympics are run, and they also brought us some amazingly goofy pageantry. The opening ceremonies had their Gershwin and rocket men (hat tip to A Walker in LA for that one), but the closing ceremony—marked by a live performance of "All Night Long" by Lionel Ritchie in a sequined jacket-and-shirt combo that must have weighed about 20 pounds AND the appearance of a UFO that hovered over the Coliseum communicating with the crowd—was pretty clearly the pinnacle of the games. They'll be tough to top if LA wins its bid for the 2024 Summer games.

Lionel Ritchie put on an awesome performance of his classic jam for the crowd at the Coliseum in some of the booty-cuppingest white pants known to man, flanked by breakdancers popping and locking their hearts out while stage-mounted pyrotechnics flashed to the oohs and aahs of the crowd.

Yes, this video does take a while to get good, but around the three-minute mark, when the spaceship starts descending and interacting with the crowd, à la Close Encounters of the Third Kind, it gets very cool. The two-ton, jet-fuel-powered spaceship, nicknamed "the Flying Taco" by the event staff, had a close call just a few days before the ceremony that almost grounded it. The secrets of how the craft was made were revealed in 2009.
· Out of the sky, some Hollywood magic [LAT]
· Here Are LA's Huge Plans for the 2024 Olympics [Curbed LA]

WASHINGTON—Interrupting various stages of excessive public intimacy to address the general population, the nation’s gratuitously sexual couples announced plans Thursday to wait in line at Six Flags amusement parks across the country. A represe...

まるさん、抜け毛の季節ですねぇ。　抜け毛の季節といえば――
Hey Maru, because it is hot, a lot of your furs fall out.

ヘアスタイルチェンジの季節でもありますよね。
So I make wigs for you.




どれがお好みですか？
Which do you like?

まる：「何でも似合いますけどね。」
Maru:[I match all.]


はなさんもちょっとお借りしなさいな。
Hey Hana, it is lent to you next.



はな：「あつくるしい！」
Hana:[It's too hot!]


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お知らせが遅れましたが、連載第３１回目が公開されました。

はなさん、お尻の下にあるのはなんでしょう？
The box is too small to use it together.

Barbie Gets a High Fashion Makeover–As a part of Mattel’s Barbie Collector series, a limited edition doll is being created in the likeness of iconic designer Karl Lagerfeld, reports WWD.

The doll, named Barbie Lagerfeld, will be dressed in the designer’s signature ensemble of a tailored black jacket, high collared white shirt, skinny black jeans and the look wouldn’t be complete without dark sunglasses and black ankle boots. The global vice president of Barbie product design says, “It’s not everyday that Barbie dresses like the world’s most famous fashion designer.” Barbie Lagerfeld is slated to be launched in the fall with further details about the doll being released at a later date.

Karl Lagerfeld’s cat Choupette is also in the spotlight with an upcoming campaign for Shu Uemura.

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[Eviction sign via Chris Dorney / Shutterstock]

In addition to the fact that AirBnB is likely not legal in your neighborhood, another potential downside to the vacation rental service is that you might have to take renters to court to evict them. Business Insider reports on an AirBnB host living who's having to do just that with her condo in Palm Springs. The "guest," a man whose profile identified him as Maksym, rented the woman's condo for a month and paid upfront, but after two days said he was dissatisfied and demanded a refund. And that's where the trouble began ...

The property owner, now feeling uneasy about the visitor, contacted AirBnB so that he could get his money back and leave. It turns out that, aside from the initial AirBnB fees, the company was "unable" to collect for actual time stayed in the condo. At a loss for what to do, and after a chain of "antagonistic texts" with the guy in her condo, the property owner decided to let him stay for the term of his reserved time, hoping he'd leave afterward.

But on the last day of his reservation, when the condo owner emailed the guest and told him to leave or she'd shut off the utilities, he responded with a caps-lock-riddled tirade claiming that he was occupying the condo legally and that he was going to sue her because his brother got an ulcer from drinking the tap water in the condo. It turns out, he was only partially crazy.

When the condo owner hired a lawyer, she discovered that, in California, tenants who rent property for 30 days are considered month-to-month-lease tenants, meaning that in order to kick her squatter out, she would actually have to go through the whole process to evict him. Eviction is neither fast nor cheap: it could take as much as half a year and cost around $5,000 in lawyer's fees. AirBnB always reminds hosts to be aware of their state's laws, but if they'd include a footnote about this exchange, maybe people would actually pay attention to that warning.
· Airbnb Host: A Guest Is Squatting In My Condo And I Can't Get Him To Leave [BI]
· The Few Places in Los Angeles Where Airbnbs Might be Legal [Curbed LA]

princesslifestylechoices:

valueplus and I as cats

true

Featured in the May 1950 issue of Arts & Architecture, this Pasadena post and beam was designed by architectural partners Douglas Byles and Eugene Weston III. Sited on a quarter-acre lot in the San Rafael Hills, the updated residence features three bedrooms, three baths, maple floors, walls of glass, beamed ceilings, clerestory windows, a wood-burning fireplace, and marble countertops, while the grounds offer lovely mature trees, a koi pond, and a saltwater pool with spa. Last sold in 2010 for $1.365 million, it's now asking $1.698 million.

· 320 SAN MIGUEL Rd [Redfin]

turtletot43:

boldlygiffing:

Season 3 - Episode 8 “The Price”

And who says J.J. Abrams was the first person to unnecessarily sexualize female characters in Star Trek.

this was apparently an ongoing joke of the writers to put Bev & Troi in the oddest scenes together, for the benefit of repressed teen nerds in the 90s

rollerderbyandotherheartbreakers:

Hyperventilating

threedaffodils loudcardigan

I should have known, after his Dior cruise show in New York, Raf Simons mentioned in passing about potentially exploring the “fantastical” that he had something up his sleeve.

And so we got something fantastical for Dior’s latest couture A/W 14-5 show.  A white drum of a set lit up like a space launchpad a la Kubrick’s 2001 Space Odyssey, landed in the middle of the Musee Rodin, with mirrored walls entirely covered with white orchids (incredibly how flowers get Instagram peeps really hot under the collar).  It was the perfect setting for Simons to confront and reflect upon the past to forge a new future.

It began with 18th century pannier dresses, curvaceous and bulbous but light as a feather seemingly as they circled around the set, exiting and entering from clinical sliding doors.  Hang on a minute, didn’t Simons eschew heavy historics, deeming it not particular modern?  Turns out he was questioning modernity and perhaps even turning back on himself by looking at the “far past” to eke out a new direction.  “I wanted to deal with a form language that looks to be almost the opposite of my original inspiration at Dior,” said Simons in his press notes. “It was an idea of confronting what people now think is an aesthetic that is modern – it felt more modern to go to the far past, not the ‘modernised’ look of the last decade. The challenge was to bring the attitude of contemporary reality to something very historical.”

Therefore those pannier dresses didn’t look like they needed to be paraded around with Marie Antoinette wigs and beauty spots.  They had pockets.  They were aerated with new tulle structures. The 18th century original garment whispered but what shouted was how evocative (if not wholly practical) it looked.

What followed was seven more passages of similar historical deconstruction and recontextualisation. Flight suits and boiler suits at couture? Yup, they were an ode to wartime military gear except they were rendered in silk taffeta and embroidered with finesse. 1910s Edwardian coats were stripped of their frou frou ornamentation to leave just a long sinuous line in perfect outerwear. The under garments of 18th to 19th century got turned inside out so that bodices became skirts, again delicately embroidered. The court coats of the 18th century were rendered in a Fragonard palette but worn over Beat-esque black polonecks and trousers, which looked fresh in itself.  To casually throw on an exquisite frock coat over something entirely pared back and dare I say “normcore” looking, seems to define a new direction in haute couture.  The flapper dresses of the 1920s are re-imagined with new technique such as a shaggy form of resin punctuated fringe, dubbed “alien fur” by the atelier.  Of course the Dior archives get a look-in too as the bar jacket gets elaborated on with exaggerated collars in the softest of cashmere.  They looked easy too, and freed of the perceived rigour of Dior.  Finally, we had pleated dresses, embroidered and decorated like an astronaut suiting.  We were after all ready to lift off inside this Dior time continuum.

“The past holds the key to the future,” is what Simons seemed to be saying and frankly, the further back you go into the past, you remove yourself from the danger of being referential.  How many designers after all have the balls to even attempt to reference those 18th century shapes, especially in this current climate of easy sportswear and simplified garments?  It also points to the sort of short term memory that the fashion world has, that collections from only five years ago are rehashed and recycled.  Going way further back almost feels like a new frontier.  When the likes of Vivienne Westwood, John Galliano and Alexander McQueen did it, it certainly felt that way.

Today, Raf Simons handled the far past on his own terms and it paid off.  None of the outfits felt weighted down with history and concept, despite the eight-part format of the show.  People who are not remotely interested in fashion history need not have the lesson rammed down their throats.  They could just sit back and admire the perfect long line coat, the pretty embroidered loose shift dress, the lovely frock coat and of course those dramatic bulbous gowns for extra wow factor and if they’re the lucky people who are clients – they’ll happily pull out their chequebook and order up their choice pieces for their cocktail parties and cotillion balls.

Oh, and speaking of the past, Simons may have sent us on an epic time travel experience for Dior Couture but soundtracking each section of the show with a different Sonic Youth song (Flower, Teen Age Riot, Screamking Skull and Into the Groovey to name a few) was exactly the grounding type of sound you needed to accompany this journey of looking backward to go forward.  They’re songs of Simons’ personal past – and somehow made these garments of future past all the more real. Whatever that means today.

hellabloggin:

when did potatoes learn how to run

Located a couple blocks east of Occidental College, this 1907 Craftsman was once home to Oxy's law school dean, SG Pandit, and to Kathryn Scola, an early Hollywood screenwriter whose credits include the pre-Hays-Code Barbara Stanwyck classic Baby Face. Per the listing, the four-bedroom, two-bath residence's features include original oak hardwood floors, built-in bookcases, living room and master suite fireplaces with period tile work, double-hung windows, antique lighting, an original claw-foot tub, custom curtains, and original hardware. The 10,357-square-foot property also includes a freestanding guest studio; an attached storage shed; and fenced-off pool, spa, and koi pond. Last sold just eleven months ago for $850,000, it's now asking that exact same sum.

· 5135 Range View Avenue [Official site]
· 5135 RANGE VIEW Ave [Redfin]

Many people know that Exposition Park's Natural History Museum is a stunning venue for events, especially weddings. But how many people know that equally as impressive is the California Science Center, which has four available event spaces, including the hangar-like Samuel Oschin Pavillion, currently home to the space shuttle Endeavour. We're all seeing it, but yes, it appears that your party can take place right underneath the shuttle, the last orbiter built by NASA. (These photos were taken at 2013's CSC Annual Discovery Ball.) Surely that's got to top a beautiful garden or a stunning view of the city, right? This thing has been into space. It's known the unknown. Well, the unknown for non-astronauts. Get married under a metaphor for your journey into wedded life, or have your Bat Mitzvah/quinceañera/Sweet Sixteen under a metaphor for the journey into adulthood—it's a versatile metaphor.

· California Science Center [EventUp]
· Event Services [California Science Center]
· Space Shuttle Endeavour's Journey Through LA, By the Numbers [Curbed LA]

雑誌「ねこのきもち」７月号の記事にあった、猫の利き手を確かめる方法。
コップにフードを入れて、最初に出した手がその子の利き手ということらしい。
オスは「左利き」、メスは「右利き」が多いそうですが、まる＆はなはどっちでしょう？
I read with a cat magazine. A cat has a handedness.
This is an experiment to check the handedness of the cat.
The hand which a cat uses first is hand dominance.

まず最初にやってきたのははな。
Hana came over first.

はな：「あ、ごはん見つけた。」
Hana:[I found foods.]


躊躇なく右手を突っ込んで、
Hana used the right hand first.


器用にフードをげっと。
And she had food skillfully.


そこにまる、現る。
Maru came over, then.

まる：「ふむふむ、ここにカリカリが入っているというわけですね。」
Maru:[Wow, I found foods!]


まるさんが最初に突っ込んだのは――
What Maru used first is,

顔。　しかも残念、届かず！
his face. And unfortunately his face did not reach it!


ということで、はなは「右利き」、まるは「顔利き」ということが判明いたしました。
（まると同じく「顔利き」の子がいる場合は、フードの入れっぱなしにご注意ください）
Result.
Hana is right-handed.
And Maru is......face?

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連載第２７回目は本日AM１０時頃の更新です。

The fictional Grand Budapest Hotel was built out of 50,000 legos and will be on display at the A+D rchitecture and Design Museum through August. [ more › ]

An elderly woman was found dead on the porch of her home among mountains of trash and dozens of cats. [ more › ]