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#150my favorite designs
Posted: 2/21/05 at 11:14amI actually watched the marathon yesterday and it's ironic to see that everyone got along well with Wendy. I didn't realize she won the party dress challenge, though I liked Austin's a lot.
ScarletRose
Swing Joined: 2/10/05
#151my favorite designs
Posted: 2/21/05 at 12:26pmI loved Austin's dress in that episode! I still don't know why the judges didn't!?!
me101
Featured Actor Joined: 10/25/04
#152my favorite designs
Posted: 2/21/05 at 12:38pmI didn't like on the epsiode where they had to make outfits for 2025 when they asked Wendy what she thought of whatshisfaces leadership and she said that he wasn't a good leader, and all the other designers had said to the camera earlier that they thought he was a weak leader. Then when they were on the runway they all said that he was a good leader and then made Wendy look like the bad guy. And now she's supposed to be the crazy bitch of the show
#153my favorite designs
Posted: 2/21/05 at 1:12pm
After watching these episodes I wouldn't have been surprised to find out that Kevin was the one who drew on the picture of Wendy's daughter.
Nora should have been canned for her meltdown and not Vanessa after the group project episode.
I noticed a major contradiction. During the wedding dress challenge, Heidi mentioned that the dress could be anything the designer wanted, be it a traditional white gown or a red mini skirt. Granted, I didn't like what Austin came up with, but the first thing Heidi said was, "it didn't look like a wedding dress." Well, neither does a red mini skirt for that matter.
#154my favorite designs
Posted: 2/23/05 at 3:04pm
Finale tonight!
Set your Tivo!
How do we think sweet Kara, funny Jay or nasty Wendy will do?
#155my favorite designs
Posted: 2/23/05 at 3:09pm
And hopefully we will get another season...
SEASON 2 FOR 'RUNWAY' IN DOUBT
By DON KAPLAN
February 22, 2005 -- 'PROJECT Runway" may get snipped from Bravo's lineup, despite becoming a hit this season.
The second season of the popular cable show — which follows a group of designers competing for a big-bucks contract to produce a line of apparel — is in jeopardy because of the expected split between Miramax, the studio that produces it, and Disney.
While it is clear that Bravo wants to renew the show, there is currently no deal in place because TV executives are not sure who will have the rights to "Project" next year: Disney or Miramax.
"It is our heartfelt intent to be able to go to season two," Bravo president Lauren Zalaznick told the industry trade magazine Mediaweek. "But nothing is a given."
Producers "still need to figure out how they can cast another season of the show and come up with a different set of challenges," she said.
The real challenge may ultimately be sorting out who actually owns the show.
Miramax chiefs Bob and Harvey Weinstein have employment deals with Disney through September 2005, according to published reports.
At the moment, when those agreements end, Disney is believed to have the option of keeping the rights to some or all of Miramax's properties, including "Project Runway," unless the studio chiefs are able to renegotiate.
Whether the Weinsteins or Disney walk away with the rights to the show remains to be seen.
A network source told The Post yesterday, "We are looking at it from every angle," and that the likelihood of a Disney/Miramax split "has nothing to do with the situation [of renewing the show]."
Calls to Miramax were not returned yesterday.
Tomorrow's two-hour "Runway" finale will feature a showdown between the show's three finalists: kooky comedian Jay McCarroll, 29, Air Force brat Kara Saun, 37, and ruthless, conniving designer Wendy Pepper, 39.
The winner, announced during the finale, will get a photo spread in Elle and $100,000 to launch a clothing line.
#156my favorite designs
Posted: 2/23/05 at 3:14pm
Clawing their way to the top
'Runway' face-off tonight
By MARISA GUTHRIE
The claws come out tonight at 9 when the rags- to-ratings hit "Project Runway" crowns its queen Bee on Bravo.
Get real, darling. It's the fashion business.
According to host Heidi Klum, there is a (gasp!) "huge fight" in the two-hour finale. See if you can tell who squares off.
Only Jay McCarroll, Kara Saun and Wendy Pepper remain from the 12 designers competing for $100,000 in seed money and a mentorship with the Banana Republic design team.
Their final test: Take four months and $8,000 to come up with a Fashion Week collection to parade for designer Michael Kors, Nina Garcia of Elle and pixie actress Parker Posey.
Winning simply means losing 11 people along the way, says Pepper, a 39-year-old mother from Middleburg, Va., the show's resident evil character.
"The point is not to become friends with 11 people," she says. "The point is to get rid of 11 people. If you want to call that villainous, you can, but I just call it realistic."
"[Wendy] is delusional," says McCarroll.
"She seriously thinks that everyone had a strategy on the show," he adds. "There are parts of her I cannot f— stand. She's a weirdo.
"Hopefully after this whole ordeal I'll never see her again."
McCarroll's Fashion Week display of bold sweaters and wraps with a futuristic bent receives more applause than Pepper's equestrian-inspired collection. Saun's spangly, sexy pieces accessorized with brightly dyed fur jackets does, too.
Much of the tension on the show was between Pepper and 37-year-old costume designer Saun, whose beautifully tailored designs and sunny disposition have positioned her as the contest favorite.
"Honestly," says Saun, "in the beginning, I was rooting for [Wendy]. Then you see her whole strategy thing and it's like literally being stabbed in the back. This is not 'Survivor.' You do not have to do it that way."
But such ugliness is a natural part of the world of high fashion.
"Every morning we open up the trashy magazines and we rip each other apart," says Klum.
"'Oh my god, look at her hair! She's fat! She's skinny! She looks like a cow! She had her lips blown up! She had her breasts done! She walks like a stork! Oh my God, what was she thinking?'
"That's what we do. In other businesses they do it, too; it's just we don't put a piece of paper in front of our mouth."
To hear Klum tell it, the most Machiavellian reality-show contestant has nothing on a catwalker with a raging case of envy.
"There's so many bitchy girls in the modeling world," Klum says. "They whisper things in your ear before you go out or they take your shoes and they switch the sizes so when you're walking down the runway your shoes are too big and you're falling all over the place."
And if the sharpened stiletto fits, Pepper is happy to wear it.
"I'm in the fashion business," she says. "People in the fashion business make a statement. Who will be remembered when this is over? It will be me."
Indeed, Pepper knows that in the cut-throat world of couture, spectacle sells.
"Did Wendy Pepper show up on the screen," she asks. "Yes! Did the editors have a grand old time? Yes! Did the viewers sit there on the edge of their seats? Yes!
"I'm counting the minutes they spend on me, and I think I come out pretty well.
"Some people didn't get me," she says. "They didn't understand me. They didn't know what I was trying to say. But it doesn't bother me in the slightest.
"I'm still waiting for my broom to come in the mail!"
#157Project Runway/ANTM
Posted: 2/23/05 at 3:48pm
O.K., I think next year we need a blending of the two most riveting shows on TV--Project Runway and Americas Next Top Model.
Instead of these generic model-girls getting booted every week in the first 10 seconds of Runway ("Auf Wiedersehen, you are OUT"), the girls from ANTM should be modelling the clothes from Runway, with two (simultaneous?) judging events--Michael and Heidi and the mean one from Elle on one side, and Miss Tyra and Janice and Nigel (Woof!) Barker on the other.
Each week, a model would be assigned to a designer, and there would be feedback from the designers about how the girl walked and how the clothes looked on the girl, and the models would have feedback about the wearability and craftsmanship of the clothes.
Each week would end with Tyra and Heidi wrestling in a different viscous substance.
me101
Featured Actor Joined: 10/25/04
#158Project Runway/ANTM
Posted: 2/23/05 at 3:52pmWhat an ingenious idea, bta!
me101
Featured Actor Joined: 10/25/04
#159Project Runway/ANTM
Posted: 2/23/05 at 3:56pmThey had a ANTM sort of thing for male mdoels a little while ago on Bravo
#160Project Runway/ANTM
Posted: 2/23/05 at 3:59pm
I'm all for adding boys to the proceedings. (Any proceedings, in fact).
I thought "Manhunt" was bogus, and Carmen Electra is NO Tyra or Heidi, but at least it's on Bravo, so there is actually some chance of it happening, as opposed to ANTM which is on a different network.
On the other hand Miss T. and Heidi are friends in real life, so who knows.....
#161Project Runway/ANTM
Posted: 2/23/05 at 4:00pmIt was "Manhunt" - yes I watched (as I am a Tivo junkie), but did not have the quality of "Project Runway" or "America's Next Top Model" (which I just started watching last season). The beefcake was nice...but no pizzaz.
#162Project Runway/ANTM
Posted: 2/23/05 at 4:04pm
Yeah--the pacing of the show was just deadly; it made ANTM seem like the golden age of television.
And beefcake is always nice at the end of a long day, but they put so much time into their sophomoric homophobia (I can't put makeup on my face! I can't wear a wig!! I can't wear colored contacts!!!!), it was just a bore. And ONE gay guy???? The pool should reflect male modelling in general--50% minimum vicious queens.
#163Project Runway/ANTM
Posted: 2/23/05 at 4:17pm
bts212 - you are right - 2 openly gay men in that crew...PLEASE!
And the self importance of Bruce Hulce was also a major turnoff.
#164Project Runway/ANTM
Posted: 2/23/05 at 4:50pm
Jimm--there were 2 gay guys??? I missed the earlier one, I guess. I didn't really watch until the last 2 or 3 episodes.
Was Bruce the male model who was a judge? TOTAL turn-off. Wooden, lifeless, boring and, as you alluded to, blinded with admiration for himself.
There may be something interesting buried here--perhaps we are not comfortable with men who are superficial and vain enough to be engaged in the Manhunt-type competition, but since we expect women to obsess about their appearance, we more readily accept the female version of the show.
Or maybe "Manhunt" just sucked.
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Featured Actor Joined: 10/20/04
#165finale!
Posted: 2/23/05 at 5:01pmooo the life of me! My (blood) great-uncle's wife's sister's husband died (did you follow that??) and the wake is TONIGHT! I always cry at these things, and now I'm missing PR? oo dear, centerstage is flooding up the funeral home. WOW that sounded very insensitive! Plus, I have no clue how to tape something unless I am watching it at the same time...well, off to play around with the VCR
#166finale!
Posted: 2/23/05 at 5:14pmHoney, hire a professional mourner and stay at home. Morty is dead, but you're alive--ALIVE I tell you--and you have to fight for what you believe in. Like seeing Kara kick Wendy's shapeless ass to the curb.
BWayBoy88
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/23/04
#168finale!
Posted: 2/23/05 at 10:15pmI really don't like Wendy, and I can't understand why Jay goes back and forth between Wendy and Kara Saun, when he doesn't even like Wendy.
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