• Kate Moss says she isn’t a traditional beauty. Right, she’s like a super beauty. [People]

• Sarah Palin releases sneak peek at her historical memoir, including the book’s absence of a certain porn star to-be.[Gawker]

• Chris Brown struggles to understand why we don’t like him anymore. Really. [USMagazine]

• 50 Cent jealous of Chace Crawford. Fi-ty, you’re probably not alone. [EOnline]

• Meet Kevin Blatt, your friendly neighborhood sex tape broker. [DailyIntel]

• Taylor Jacobson finally leaves Rachel Zoe to style on her own. I die! [Fashionista]

• Justin Timberlake to play the challenging role of Boo Boo in the new Yogi Bear live action movie. What Laurence Olivier would have given to play that role! [Variety]

• Just like at your elementary school, Vogue celebrates birthdays with pizza and cupcakes! [The Cut]

• Chris Brown interview tonight. So Chris, please tell us what inspired you to beat your girlfriend? [ONTD]

• Bon Jovi, for some reason, will be breaking in the new Union Square Best Buy by signing his new cd. [Racked]

• The five worst nights in New York. We totally agree. [Eater]

• Check out these high fashion pieces that make dipping into savings worth it. [InStyle]

• Madoff’s “auditor” tooks his records “at face value.” Yeah, right, we believe you. [Gothamist]

• Chris Brown is “comfortable with is sexuality,” but these pants CANNOT be comfortable. [Awl]

• Watch out, iPhone, the Motorola Droid is here and it’s ready for a fight. [Gizmodo]

• Apparently, what the military really needs is some highly hungry trained bears. [HuffingtonPost]

• Ever been to Argleton, England? Use Google maps to get directions to this “fake” town. [Gawker]

• Senator Edward Kenndy loses his battle with cancer. This liberal icon shall be dearly missed. [WSJ]

• Vogue Brazil makes a spelling error, on the cover. Some Editor is majorly getting fired, today. [MadeInBrazil]

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• Iconic 80’s film director John Hughes is dead at 59, having suffered a heart attack while walking in New York. R.I.P. to this incredible artist. [USAToday]

• Water main break floods TriBeCa. Olivia Palermo buys adorable designer boat to make her lunch appointment. [NYT]

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[Kim Kardashian. Photos by Getty].

Kim Kardashian and her sister Kourtney were shopping their worries away at Diabolina in West Hollywood, Kim having recently separated from her fiance. Matt Damon was visiting friend/bromance buddy George Clooney at his home in Como, Italy. Jennifer Aniston and Julia Roberts were both on the sets of their new movies, while Catherine Heigel and Gerard Butler were on the red carpet in London for theirs. Chris Brown was travelling to L.A. in the brightest yellow shirt he could find, which is actually a great idea. Poor potential victims can see him coming and steer clear. eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee More»

Musical notes pervade our listening boundaries and scientifically have the infinite power to alter our moods. Let’s explore this notorious notion of listening to music by chronicling our daily diaries through the musical notes of our total faves…

8:12 alarm..ughh I just went to bed 2 hours ago…FML.
Holiday Parade: Getaway

OUCH! This waters so cold…scrubbing in the shower…
The White Tie Affair: Take It Home (super summer wakeup song)

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[Ashton Kutcher. All photos by GETTY] For reasons we, as biased New Yorkers, can’t quite get behind, Sean “Diddy” Combs held his Annual White Party in LA instead of the Hamptons this year. The event, which was co-hosted with Ashton Kutcher, raised money and awareness for Malaria No More, and featured models, people on stilts, and, apparently, Ashton Kutcher getting his Tarzan-on over a pool. Guests included Tyrese, Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon, Mrs. Ashton Kutcher aka Demi Moore, and Chris Brown, (who apparently showed off some of the Michael Jackson dance moves after he was banned from performing at last week’s BET awards) were present. Overall, the White Party sounds like it was amazing as usual, but we don’t get it, Diddy: What does LA have that NY doesn’t? More pics below… More»

[Chris Brown with Wrigley Girls]

I was obsessed with the Doublemint Twin commercials as a kid (one of my favorites is HERE). Now, as we previously mentioned, Chris Brown is giving the old jingle a new makeover.  Chris,  Julianne Hough, and Ne-Yo have all partnered up with Wrigley’s gum to remake the iconic “jingles” for Doublemint®, Juicy Fruit® and Big Red®. The updated jingles, which will be the backbone of a new August ad campaign, were unveiled during a private concert hosted at the Nokia Theater, Times Square last night.

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Did you know that Chris Brown’s “Forever” is a part of a gum commercial? No, really!

From MRod Nation:

Does that catchy hit song Forever by Chris Brown you dance to at your 2k dollar table at the club, where he sings “Double your pleasure, double your fun,” make you feel so fresh and so clean?  Well, there’s a good reason for that because it’s a freakin’ extended jingle for Wrigley’s Doublemint gum (a 30-second version will begin airing next month) as part of the company’s strategy to update their brands.

[Chris Brown's Forever is a Commercial]
[Chew On This: His Song is Gum Jingle] WSJ

Douglas Marshall IS the SINGLE threat

Back in 2006, the concept of a Triple Threat was a big deal. The high rollers who were building their own names into empires had to have multiple talents to keep themselves in the game - their personal branding was like a well diversified portfolio curated by Merrill Lynch. Triple Threat, I liked it. It meant that someone could sing, dance AND act. Then in 2007, as they were talking about how Justin Timberlake brought ‘Sexy Back’, they said he had to watch out for the newest ‘Quadruple Threat’: Chris Brown. Quadruple what? That crossed the Three Treat limit and I wasn’t buying it! I started thinking about the multiple threat conundrums and wondered: if I was pitted against these moguls, how would I stack up?

That’s just it; it doesn’t matter. I don’t want to be a Quadruple Threat. I don’t need to be a Triple Threat. I am a SINGLE threat and I am the one to watch.

While all the other haters were out perfecting their dancing, singing, acting and whatever the 4^th thing is to make them a Quadruple Threat, I was perfecting one thing. I was perfecting Doug. When you are unique enough to not be replaced, duplicated or forgotten - that’s when you get to call yourself SINGLE threat.

I have always been ahead of the curve long before I or anyone else knew what the curve was. I was the guy in 2^nd grade wearing Bowties and Penny Loafers to school while everyone else was wearing jeans. I was perfecting this look (20 years ago) long before Peter Davis made it hip on the scene today. In 4^th grade I stole my sister’s doll that had short hair, put it up in a pony tail and wired a longer ponytail (that I made by bunching together white kite string that I cut into many 9 inch strands) to her head. In essence, I gave the doll hair extensions before I knew what extensions were. Oddly enough, this was the same look that Madonna copped for her Blonde Ambition tour a few years later. At 14 years of age, back in the day when everyone was wearing lipstick, I would hide out in my bathroom at night putting red glittery children’s toothpaste on my lips and stare at my glaring full lipped pout in the mirror. My lips looked luscious and supple – similar to a look that a good lip-gloss of today would create. This was long before MAC built up their empire with the coveted LipGlass product. I was playing around with fierce trends before they even became trends. I understood all the secrets of the fashion/beauty worlds long before they had been revealed. To top all of this, throughout my childhood (in my world of make believe), I used to pretend that cameras were following me around recording my every move. I was always putting on a show and playing to a crowd. This was long before reality television came onto the scene – so I sometimes wonder, could I have been on the same wavelength as the individuals who dreamed up reality TV.

I am not saying I pioneered any of the above – BUT what I am saying is that I’m tapped into a higher body of knowledge that has revealed some great things to me well before they became massified. In some cases, I’ve been granted an early access pass. I’ve been invited to the proverbial trunk show and the concepts manifested in my mind and I played around with them. Yes, someone else brought them to market eventually, but I got the experience earlier on. That is a gift.