WHAT IS THIS???

Dean, from the UK, befriended me on myspace. His interests are meeting other born-agains and pregnant women!!! (I do admit to browsing wistfully in a maternity window yesterday.)

Of course, a lot of black guys have hit me up since I started using this photo as my main pic on my myspace page recently.



It was taken by Elaine Lancaster in South Beach recently. Save the beached whale jokes, already!

I guess he just added a few words of praise to the Lord and then copied and pasted some diatribe about red carpets and designers, which is actually kinda interesting.

HIS PROFILE RANT:



i belive in singing and praising God ALL WAYS, I CALL ON THE BLOOD OF JESUS EVERY DAY AS MY HAND GUN, IT IS MY WEAPON OF MASS DISTRUCTION, HES SO POWERFULL AND MIGHTY NO POWER ON EARTH CAN STAND HIM HIS THE LORD OF LORDS A-LIST HOLLY WOOD RED CARPET CHRISTIAN Red carpet revenue am an A-listhollywoodred carpet glamour celebrity gossip enjoy the red carpet awards,gossips,and events e.g Award shows give a look at celebrity style, but in a new era of deals between designers and actresses, a star's stroll can mean... The Hollywood fashion machine is crossing into a new, more commercial era in celebrity dressing as designers and jewelers have begun contracting with actresses to wear their labels at high-profile events. It's a turn in business as usual that could leave fans wondering if their favorite stars are becoming walking billboards for the highest bidder. Fashion and jewelry houses have long offered gratis designer gowns and sparkling accessories to red carpet-bound celebrities, hoping to catch the right eye and have the creations seen globally on telecasts and in the thousands of magazine pages devoted to awards show coverage. But with all the big-name designers wooing the same big-name actresses, it is a gamble as to what might end up being chosen. Many of those companies are no longer willing to play the odds. "It's the dawn of a new fashion deal in Hollywood," said Wanda McDaniel, who has been Giorgio Armani's Hollywood liaison since 1989, when the designer became one of the first with permanent West Coast representation. "When you are preparing your wish list [of celebrities] for the Oscar season, there is a new category and it's called 'off the market.' " According to McDaniel and other publicists and spokespeople, as well as a number of celebrity stylists, a handful of companies are offering either one-time payments or are signing celebrities to well-paid, exclusive product contracts. In addition, some actresses have begun demanding sole access to particular designers. This latest artifice of rigged pop culture risks squeezing smaller designers out of the promotional game and could signal the end of seeing any real personal style in Tinseltown, loading the red carpet instead with product placement dominated by a handful of mega-brands. The practice is also forcing those companies who don't pay celebrities to weigh their financial savings against the risk of being aced out. The stars' publicists would not comment on whether their clients accepted money to wear the dangling Chopard earrings, as noted in a Women's Wear Daily item after the event. Chopard spokeswoman Stephanie Labeille said the house did not have formal contracts with the actresses. But she did say the company has used money as an incentive in the past, defending the practice as commonplace. "Saying one brand pays stars, when they all pay stars is ridiculous," she said.

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