Bjork Performing @ Hammersmith Apollo - London

Goddess Bjork performing at London's Hammersmith Apollo on April 13Th and looking simply FAB! I love Bjork for all her originality and genuine fearless fashion sense, not to mention that she has got one of the most unique set of pipes out there. She always brings a little Nina Hagen to mind, another music-warrior-woman who has been beating her own drums since the 80's. Bjork's videos are a joy to watch as they are as out-there as her music can be. I own this live DVD set in which she performs at this church-like building, along with some Icelandic tribal chorus, that is simply amazing. Love you Bjork!

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Via Popbytes

What A Sell Out: Madonna Hocks Sunsilk

Lazy Sunday afternoon watching the telly, no big whoop. Suddenly Madonna appears. Is this a commercial for her new album "Hard Candy"?? No, she is selling shampoo on TV! Not sure what to make of it but does she really need the money that bad? Isn't she like a gazillionaire by now? Shampoo, really?? Nothing against celebs making some dough out of their images but I have high regards for Goddess Madonna and Sunsilk is not up her alley at all. A whiff of desperation enters the room...

Dita Von Teese @ New York Academy Of Art Celebration

Dita Von Teese attending the New York Academy of Art celebration of 25 years with ‘Take Home A Nude’ at Phillips de Pury and Company on April 16th, looking as GORGEOUS as ever.
I actually had a dream about Dita two nights ago, serious. She was caught in a surveillance camera killing this guy on a dark Gotham-city-like street by swinging this guy up & down, like Bam Bam. She would move about on a motorcycle wearing a Wonder Woman outfit (it was a dream, people) with a long red cape and she also had two hot female goons with her. I went to her fabulous apartment to let her know that I had just seen that on TV and soon the police would be there to arrest her. I help her pack a suitcase and was so worried that she had to flee soon. I also worried about all her beautiful clothing and collectables and what would happen to them once the police arrived. She was wearing black satin ballet shoes by the way and kept her feet on point the whole time. Then I woke up.

Via HCH

Dita Von Teese @ Mont Blanc Event

What's a better way to start the weekend than drooling at new images of burlesque Goddess Dita Von Teese? Even if I were to try really hard I can't come to find faults with her ever-perfect personal style and flawless beauty. Check out her manicure job! Click to enlarge the images and savour in delight of her peachy skin and minimal make-up. If I had to be extra-picky I would say ditch that cigar, Dita. I am sure that on a fetish level they do work for some but cigars REALLY stink and smoking is just gross altogether. Otherwise you can do no wrong!

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Madonna Elle Covers Double-Dose

One Madonna is never enough in my book. The Can-Do-No-Wrong Goddess is featured on the covers of Elle Magazine's May 2008 issue here in the US and also across the pond on the UK's version. I personally prefer the edgier British cover for it's cleaner lay out and semi-minimal text spread. The American version looks more like Glamour than chic Elle, with so much crap written all over that makes one go dizzy. Does anyone really read all those teasers before buying a mag? I don't. I buy a publication regardless of the cover type but for it's cover subject or I'll pick it up if I'm already familiar with it, like an i-D or Wallpaper.

Via OMG Blog

Madonna @ Vanity Fair's May 2008 Issue

Goddess Madonna is the cover star of May 2008's Vanity Fair issue. The feature entitled "Madonnarama!", interviewed by Andy Cohen and photographed by Steven Meisel, coincides with the debut of her latest album "Hard Candy". A little snippet from the article's header:

As she nears 50, Madonna’s narrative is shifting. Yes, there’s another new super-pop album, Hard Candy, with Justin Timberlake and Pharrell Williams. But there’s also Filth and Wisdom, the feature film she’s co-written, produced, and directed, and I Am Because We Are, her documentary on Malawi, the aids-ravaged country where she controversially adopted her third child. Whisked to L.A. for an intense prep session, followed by an almost two-hour interview, the author explores the evolution of the Madonna myth as she harnesses her image-making genius to a cause, a philosophy, and the search for her true self.

I can't wait to get my own copy and will be on the look out for it in my mail box, as Vanity Fair is one of most anticipated publications every month, next to New York Magazine and Entertainment weekly.

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Madonna @ Interview Magazine

With her new album "Hard Candy" coming out on April 29TH, Madonna has started her media blitz promoting her new musical effort. She is the cover girl of the new issue of Interview Magazine posing spread-legged on a boxing ring, a-la Christina "Dirrrty" Aguilera. This raunchy pose is so old-Madonna and I thought she had gotten over those cheap provocations many years back. At least her face looks normal on this image as she has been looking very odd lately, with some very puffed-out collagen cheeks.

The Goddess is also on the cover of the new Dazed & Confused issue and as the mag states she is "ready for anything".

Via PopBytes

Madonna's Hard Candy

Madonna has already claimed her new album, Hard Candy, will "kick your ass." Turns out, she wasn't kidding! Witness the cover of her upcoming album, due April 29, featuring the pop diva sporting, yep, a wrestling belt. Featuring production by Pharrell Williams, Timbaland and Nate "Danja" Hills and an appearance by Justin Timberlake, Madonna's rep says the album's "about the juxtaposition of tough and sweetness."

Via People Magazine

Wonder Woman x Catwoman: Then & Now

TV's beloved Wonder Woman, actress Lynda Carter in an image taken this week. She is still glorious at 56, as gorgeous as ever. I remember being a kid and gawking at Wonder Woman on TV thinking how could anyone be so beautiful. Every so often I catch her on the telly doing some bit part in one of the many series on American TV or at a made-for-cable movie.

Below we see actress Julie Newmar, at 74, also during an event this past week. She played the original and hottest Catwoman ever, in the campy Batman TV series in the late 60's. Sadly she does not look as elegant and poised as this other former Catwoman as her outfit of choice is very inappropriate for her age. Considering is 74 she does look fab (thanks doctor!) but still not as her fans would like to remember her.

Dita Von Teese @ Cavalli Party In Paris

Goddess Dita Von Teese at the Just Cavalli party in Paris this past week.

What else can I say? She is just perfect! Always!

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Madonna @ Dazed & Confused

Goddess Madonna is the cover girl for Dazed & Confused's latest issue. In the April issue of the magazine, out March 13th, undisputed heavyweight champ of reinvention Madonna talks exclusively to Dazed & Confused's Jefferson Hack about her latest incarnation. In her first interview about her new album Hard Candy, worked on with Justin Timberlake, Pharrell, and Timbaland, Madonna discusses her many different, and occasionally contradictory, roles – as performer and provocateur, mother and artist, style icon and campaigner. Photographed by long-time collaborator Steven Klein with art direction by Giovanni Bianco at Studio 65, the queen of pop looks as uncompromising, tough and sexy as ever. This unique tribute issue also features 70 pages of Madonna-inspired fashion and art, including contributions from Katy England and Alasdair McLellan, Emile Larsson, Nicola Formichetti and Benjamin Alexander Huseby, plus new works from artists such as Matthew Stone, Alex Rose, and Daniel Sannwald.

Dita Von Teese @ A Diamond Is Forever Party

I really need no excuses to post Dita Von Teese pictures, as you might know. The Goddess of Perfection has a guaranteed spot on Little-Pumpkins whenever I come across new images of this sultry beauty. Click to enlarge and savour every inch of this lesson in style chic!

Via HCH

Madonna, Lourdes & Dita @ Gucci

Madonna was the hostess to a celebrity-studded event in New York City on the lawns of the United Nations to aid Malawi orphans, UNICEF and to inaugurate a new Gucci store. Madonna brought daughter Lourdes in tow, looking very grown up for her 11 years of age. Time flies as it seems like yesterday when Lourdes was just a little tyke. Madge is looking a little weird on the face, like she got implants or something, not that I want to add to plastic surgeries speculations...

A staggering £300,000 was paid for four VIP tickets to a Madonna concert, which were part of a package that included business class flights, two nights in the Ritz-Carlton and a private dance aerobics class with Madonna and Gwyneth Paltrow. It was one of seven lots on auction at Raising Malawi and Unicef, one of the biggest charity events in New York which took organiser Gucci a year to plan. Later, a mystery Japanese businesswoman bought the Madonna tickets. Businessman Arpad Busson bid £30,000 for Gucci fashion show tickets and the chance to have a bag named after him. Lourdes narrowly missed out on tickets to American Idol and first-edition Harry Potter books, which eventually went for £47,000. Salma Hayek outbid American Vogue editor Anna Wintour to pay £175,000 for a private hour playing football with David Beckham. Madonna, wearing a sexy Gucci jersey dress, told the crowd:

"I've earned a reputation for many things: pushing the envelope, for being a provocateur, for never taking no for an answer. For endlessly reinventing myself, for being a cult member, a kidnapper. For being ambitious, outrageous and irreverent. And for never settling for second best."

Also in attendance was Little-Pumpkins favorite Dita Von Teese, looking as fabulous as ever at the Mallawi benefit last night. Leave it to Dita to outshine everyone else...

Via This is London

Marilyn Monroe By Bert Stern @ Galeria Estação - São Paulo

For three days in 1962 photographer Bert Stern shot one of cinema's biggest and most enigmatic icons - Marilyn Monroe - in a Los Angeles hotel suite. Unknow to both at the time this was going to be Marilyn's last photo sitting and perhaps one of her most revealing, where she shed her clothing to reveal more than mere flesh. Even after more than 45 years after her death she is still revered as Hollywood's larger-than-life screen goddess, who was unafraid to expose her vulnerability to Stern's camera, surgical scar and all.

Now at São Paulo's Galeria Estação you can view this complete sitting in the show titled "Marilyn Monroe - O Mito (The Myth)". The exhibit goes from January 26th to March 16th and if you happen to be visiting Brazil's largest city you shouldn't miss it.

Happy New Year!!

Happy New Year from Little-Pumpkins & Dita Von Teese!

May 2008 bring you lots of health, happiness, love & success.

Sincerely,

Pumpkin Man

1953 Playboy Premier Issue Reprint

It's the one that started it all: the December 1953 issue of Playboy featuring Marilyn Monroe as the Centerfold. All of the original copies from that first production run have long since ended up in the hands of Playboy fans, subscribers and collectors, but now you can own the next best thing: an exact reproduction of that landmark publication and coveted piece of pop culture history. These reprinted issues present all of the original articles, advertisements and photographs precisely as they appeared back in '53, including the notorious Marilyn Monroe red background centerfold and pictorial by photographer Tom Kelley. The images were taken when Marilyn was a young model and aspiring actress and later published when she was already an established Hollywood star.

Only 20,000 single copies of this reproduction will be made available to the public, at a cost of US$25.00 each.

Available at the Playboy Store