Every sexy young starlet who comes along has a bit of a Marilyn Monroe complex. Such is the unattainable legacy of leaving this mortal coil before one’s time. But besides the flat-put imitators and (rest her troubled soul) Anna Nicole Smith, few have stepped so audaciously into the iconic sex symbol’s footsteps as Lindsay Lohan did recently. You see, Lindsay, the promising redhead turned paparazzi princess turned rehab veteran, has re-created Marilyn’s famed last photo shoot with its original photographer Bert Stern for New York magazine.

A troubled starlet imitating a doomed starlet? Oh, dear. While it’s admirable to want to emulate Marilyn’s legend, something seems untoward about a young woman with admitted substance abuse issues so happily reprising the icon’s final days. Marilyn’s 1962 photo shoot, simply called “The Last Sitting,” was completed just six weeks before her death from an apparent barbiturate overdose.

No nudity was spared for Lindsay’s shoot, though thankfully the booze that flowed freely during the original sessions was acutely absent at the re-creations. (See the full set here, but I’m not kidding about the nudity — it’s NSFW. And P.S., we’ve also edited out the naughtiest bits in this post for your safe-for-all-ages AfterEllen.com viewing pleasure.) … continue reading

If there were ever a time in my life I wished I were better at math, this is it. Mathematicians at the University of Cambridge — yes, Cambridge — have determined through careful calculations and tireless hours of grueling research that Jessica Alba has the best wiggle.

Yes, that’s right: Jessica’s strut is the hottest of them all, based on a formula that measures the proportions between a woman’s hips and waist. The academics determined that the closer the ratio is to .70, the better for maximum sexy sway. That ratio “provides the body with the right torso strength to produce a more angular swing and bounce to the hips during the walking motion.”

Raise your hand if you think this “study” was just an excuse for a bunch of math nerds to look at pictures like this and call it serious research. … continue reading

Nicole Kidman is reportedly set to remake How to Marry a Millionaire via her production company (Blossom Films) as a "potential starring vehicle." Not much else has been said about the project, though according to The Hollywood Reporter it will be "a complete overhaul of the original story" and the screenplay will be written by Sacha Gervasi (The Terminal and the film adaptation of the tv show Dallas).

I'm just hoping that the "overhaul" doesn't include changing the names of the main characters, Loco Dempsey, Pola Debevoise, and Schatze Page. They sound like canine competitors in Best in Show!

The original was made in 1953 and starred Betty Grable, Lauren Bacall and Marilyn Monroe as three eligible bachelorettes who set out to, well, marry millionaires but stumble upon true love along the way. Monroe, whose character was saddled with the debilitating problem of needing to wear glasses, stole the show and I'm guessing that Kidman will save that role for herself. Grable and Bacall, however, were equally brilliant, and the film featured a hilarious department store fashion show (topped only by the one in The Women -- a 1939 classic that a variety of A-list starlets have been trying to get remade for years).

Good luck to Kidman and Blossom Films in trying to top the tagline of the original: "The Most Glamorous Entertainment Of Your Lifetime in CinemaScope. You See It Without Glasses!"