Nick Nolte appears in the January issue of GQ with a long, rambling interview that discusses all matter of drug-related subjects and his run-ins with the law. The man just might be flat out insane after his many years of “liquid ecstasy” (which he habitually mixed with cranberry juice) use, but he’s winning much praise as a possible Oscar contender for Warrior, which sees him portray an alcoholic father and a man who’s a thousand days sober. Here are a few excerpts from the interview (which might be worth pursuing in full), within which Nolte reveals his life experiences and drops a few details of what we didn’t know about his wild-man “mug shot” that is proudly displayed on his own website, NickNolte.com:

On Aging: “When you start thinking about death more than sex, you know you’re getting old. At 70, you crest that hill. In the sixties you’re still thinking you could do something about this slow disintegration of the body. As Katharine Hepburn used to say to me: ‘Aging, Nick, is boring.’ Now I know what she means.”

On His Big “Return” In Warrior: “All of a sudden, it’s this rediscovery thing.” Nolte says this quite amiably, in the accepting tone of a man who has watched such tides go in and out long enough to know what little influence he has over their motions. “I never went away, you know,” he shrugs.

On The Value Of Not Winning “You don’t learn anything from success. You know, it’s comfortable, it’s nice, it’s warm, but success just leaves you kind of feeling a little bloated.”

On Whether He’d Like An Oscar “I can’t say it doesn’t matter to me…,” he says, and leaves this hanging there for a moment. “But it doesn’t matter to me. I can’t say that, but that’s what I’m going to say. Because it doesn’t really matter in the final end. Especially as you get closer to death, it really doesn’t matter. If I do have a chance to get it, I’d like it to be before I’m ten days to death. Because that’s going to be an ugly picture.”

On His Infamous Wild Man Photo: The common misconception about the freak-haired-wild-man photo taken that day is that it was Nolte’s police mug shot. It was not. (He did pose for a mug shot, but that has never leaked.) At the hospital where Nolte was taken for a blood test, a young officer asked him if he could take a Polaroid. “I said, ‘Come on, you don’t really want to ask that, do you?’ ” Nolte recalls. But he did. Nolte figured that the officer had been talking to the others about how this might be worth having, and so Nolte made him agree that, if he posed, the young officer would share any proceeds with his colleagues. “And I let him shoot the Polaroid.”

On Becoming A Father Again At Age 66: “You’re just so much more aware, so much more present. Your time is precious now. I’m basically overall healthy, but at this age you just don’t know, so it’s really been a treat. A real joy.” Sophia was born in a water pool in the bedroom right here, three midwives in attendance, and spent her first forty minutes resting on top of her mother before the umbilical cord was cut. “If you can let her stay attached for a long time, those stem cells build up,” Nolte explains. “We didn’t see a doctor until the next day. It was a great experience.”

[From GQ]

The guy is as nutty as a pot-laced fruitcake, right? He’s got a known history of studying his own blood under a microscope and readily admits that he’ll one day take GHB again (but only if it’s “medically supervised“), and that thing about the umbilical cord stem cells building up, well, it sounds wacky, to be honest. Does anyone know if there’s something to that theory?

Here are some recent photos of Nolte on the set of Gangster Squad. You thought it was just some Ryan Gosling movie, right?

Photos courtesy of GQ and Fame

I’ve often wondered if Sharon Stone has gotten some minor tweaking over the years. If she has, I can’t tell. It’s not one of those situations where I can’t put my finger on what a celebrity has gotten done, but I know for sure that they look different. Sharon always looks natural to me, in that she’s not full of fillers and Botox, and she’s never appeared to suddenly have a completely new face. She’s 53 years old, and we should all be so lucky to look this good at her age.

Of course, in these photos, Sharon is being helped by professional hair and makeup. These are from the set of Gods Behaving Badly, where Sharon is playing a goddess living in NYC. The film also stars Alicia Silverstone and Christopher Walken (he’s playing Zeus).

So is Sharon all-natural, or is her surgeon just one of the best in the business? Does she get tweaked, but keeps it as close to natural as possible, or does she simply take great care of herself and have great genes? I still don’t know. I like the mystery, though. I wish more ladies had such natural-looking faces. I feel that way when I look at Meryl Streep too – at this point, I think ladies look YOUNGER when they are un-tweaked.

Photos courtesy of Pacific Coast News.

Julianne Moore is the cover girl for the May issue of InStyle UK. At first I thought this was a completely new piece, but I just discovered that it’s just the UK edition of a recent American InStyle cover shoot and interview. Still, we haven’t covered it before, so enjoy. The interview was conducted by Tom Ford! Surprisingly, the excerpts aren’t that juicy. I think Tom might identify Julianne with his mother (something I read when they were promoting A Single Man), so perhaps that’s why there are no dirty revelations or stories. Or maybe Julianne just isn’t a dirty person. The photos are quite beautiful, aren’t they? Julianne is 50 years old, bitches. We should all be so lucky to look this awesome. Here are some highlights from the interview:

Julianne Moore has made more than 50 films, clocked up four Oscar nominations, posed nude for Bulgari and found time to write a few children’s books. And she’s a dab hand at modelling too. The 50-year-old actress looks seductive and amazingly youthful in a new photo shoot for the May issue of InStyle.

The actress is interviewed by fashion icon Tom Ford in the magazine where they talk about fashion, ageing gracefully and why they both love this season’s Seventies trend. The mother-of-two shared her beauty secrets and how she keeps her skin looking so soft and wrinkle-free.

‘I say this to every young person I know,’ Moore shared. ‘Stay out of the sun! I have very fair skin and it would have been super-damaged. I always wear sunscreen and I walk on the shady side of the street.’

When asked at what point does she feel her sexiest Moore laughed: ‘I think you need to be away from your children. Doing the mummy stuff does sort of squash that area of your life… I can feel that way when I’m alone with Bart or when we take a trip. But the day-to-day of picking up kids and going to the eye doctor and then dropping them off at basketball and then going to the middle school concert, that stuff doesn’t make you feel very sexy! That was my day yesterday.’

Moore also spoke about which decade of fashion she loves and loathes.

‘I don’t like Fifties clothes. I wear them in movies, or they appear on the runway, ladylike waists and all that. I’m like, “No!” I hate them on me, because I have no waist. I go straight up and down. So in my lifetime, I’d have to say the Seventies [are her favourite era]‘.

She also claims to favour clogs and Birkenstocks over Manolo Blahniks and Christian Louboutins.

The Hours star also dished about her favourite comfort food, which going by her great figure, was obviously not going to be anything too fattening.

‘Dover sole and French fries,’ Moore said of the food she loves to indulge in. ‘It’s really boring, but I’ll be in hotels where I’ll eat that every night. And ice cream’.

Julianne has been fortunate enough to star on the big screen with some gorgeous leading men.

Of Mark Ruffalo who she starred in with Blindness in 2008 and his Oscar-nominated turn in The Kids Are Alright last year, Moore said: ‘He’s warm, quick and easy to connect with. He’s an emotional guy. It’s all right there in front of you. I love that about him.’

And she loves her British actors including Colin Firth who she said is ‘like diving into a pool of words and fun with him’. She starred with him in A Single Man in 2009. She also said Clive Owen, who she starred in with Children of Men in 2006 has her constantly laughing.

Julianne’s latest role will be starring as Sarah Palin in an upcoming film. But she has not exactly received a ringing endorsement from the former governor of Alaska. The one-time US vice presidential candidate shared her views about the film Game Change saying: ‘I think I’ll just grit my teeth and bear whatever comes what may with that movie’.

[From The Daily Mail]

See, I don’t like those loosey-goosey 1970s styles because they look like tents on me – because I’m not tall and lithe, like Julianne. Some of us need some tailoring! Oh, and I cannot wait to see her as Sarah Palin. I bet she nails it, don’t you? I’m betting that Julianne is so good that I’ll come out the movie having sympathy for Sarah Palin. Also: MORE CLIVE PLEASE.

By the way, Julianne auditioned for the role of Hillary Clinton in the HBO movie The Special Relationship – the part eventually went to Hope Davis. But Julianne was in the running long enough to do a makeup and wig test, and here’s the photo of Julianne as Hillary. Not bad, right? She’s such a chameleon.

More InStyle photos:

Photos courtesy of Buzzfeed & The Daily Mail.

Sofia Vergara is the cover girl for the March issue of Shape Magazine. I have no idea why the hell people are mad about cut-out dresses now. The cut-outs always seem to be on one of the toughest parts of a lady’s body, at least for me. You couldn’t pay me to wear a dress with that part of abdomen showing. I would stab a bitch who tried. Still, I love that Sofia is now a cover girl for major magazines. I anxiously await her potential pictorials when she (hopefully) gets invited to be a cover girl for Harper’s Bazaar or Elle, or even Vogue. Here are some excerpts from her cover interview:

Sofia on lipstick: “If I walk outside without lipstick, I feel naked.”

On her favorite body part: “I’m sure men would tell you it’s my boobs, but I like my eyes,” she tells the mag. “They have a natural cat’s-eye shape, so I try to play that up.”

Training with Gunnar Peterson: “Oh, I hate it! But I also know that at my age — I’m almost 40! — I have to do it to maintain my figure. When I can, I try to do Latin dancing for exercise because it’s so much fun and I just love the music. Two hours before I go [to the gym], I’m already wishing it was over. I psychologically fool myself into believing it’s part of my job.”

On aging and weight: “I think when women reach a certain age, they look better with a little fat in their face… I’m lucky I’m Latin because people expect me to be a bit more plump.”

On dealing with her boyfriend Nick Loeb’s car accident: “It was hard for us because it happened in the middle of the most fun, sexy time. And then he was in the hospital, and you know men, they become such little babies! [But] he kept his sense of humor despite the situation. I don’t know if I could have stuck it out with him if he hadn’t been able to laugh at himself and be happy even under the worst conditions. When you see people in difficult times, that’s when their true nature comes out.”

[From Us Weekly & Just Jared]

My mother is like that about lipstick too – she will not leave the house without her lipstick. I’ve always thought of it as a Southern thing, but maybe not. Personally, I can’t remember the last time I even wore lipstick. My lips are naturally dark, so I usually just put lip balm or lip gloss on and that’s it.

Cover courtesy of JJ. Additional pics by WENN.

Jack Nicholson has an extensive interview in the Sunday Mail, and it’s been enchanting me for some reason. Probably because I recently had a sex dream about Jack, and after reading this interview, I’ve convinced myself that I could be his last great romance. Don’t judge me. Yes, he’s older than my father. I don’t care. I love Jack. Anyway, since Jack rarely gives interviews, this one is a special treat. Jack at the age of 73 is quite interesting – he’s still a hellraiser/hippie, but he’s also quite thoughtful and introspective. Sigh… if he met me, he would want me to be his last great romance, right? The full Sunday Mail piece is here, and here are the highlights:

On picking up women: ‘I’m definitely still wild at heart. But I’ve struck bio-gravity. I can’t hit on women in public any more. I didn’t decide this; it just doesn’t feel right at my age.’ He pauses to get straight to the heart of his own theory of life. ‘If men are honest, everything they do and everywhere they go is for a chance to see women. There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I’m not in that state now and that makes me sad. But I also believe that a lot of the improvements in my character have come through ageing and the diminishing of powers. It’s all a balancing act; you just have to get used to the ride.’

On being thought of as an icon: ‘I hate it. I don’t want to be treated like the Medusa or the Lincoln Memorial. People have an idea of me which is not the reality. On set I’m an actor like every other actor. Most times, for every part I play, I can think of other actors who would be better. I worry from the moment I take a job. I worry about how I’m going to do it, if I can do it. I try to work out what I have to do on set and how I do that. I get extremely anxious. I panic. I can’t get it. It happens every time, and I get myself into this state, and then I walk on set and the director says, “Roll”, and all of a sudden all of it disappears and it’s all happening, and I relax and I’m doing what I do and I’m not even thinking about it. And I relax up until the moment they yell “Cut”.’

On taking supporting parts in romantic-comedies: ‘It’s very important. I am from a different era of movie acting. My career doesn’t depend on explosions and pyrotechnics. What I liked about this script is that the same rules apply. It hasn’t got people flying off walls and lots of guns and yelling. It’s a movie that’s based on a good script and good acting, and it’s supposed to move you. It’s the sort of movie I want to be a part of. In these times people need to be able to laugh.’

On plastic surgery: ‘I haven’t had surgery. I don’t want to be judgemental, but some of the things you see these days in Hollywood are a bit horrifying. I mean, I don’t know what’s going on here, but I don’t want to scare people. I’ve never been comfortable about surgery. I was on the receiving end of one of the very first chest augmentations. When I touched what felt like polythene, that was it. The fuse went out. Maybe it’s childish, but I couldn’t cope with it. I mean, if someone can fool me with a new chest or lips, then I’m happy to be fooled. But I have to admit I have a prejudice against it. I’m not worried about wrinkles, in myself or in women. I find them interesting. I can’t see so well, so sometimes I look in the mirror and I see how I was as a young man. But a few years back I noticed I don’t have any hair below my sock line, and I thought to myself, “Jackie, that’s an old man.”’

On knowing how to treat women: ‘I was raised entirely by women. My grandmother ran a beauty parlour and I spent most of my time there. She taught me manners and I learned how to be around women, what women liked. I am insanely well mannered and polite, and because of that I have nothing but gratitude for my upbringing.’

On mortality: ‘One of the toughest parts of ageing is losing your friends. At first it starts quietly, then pretty soon it’s every month, and you can’t help but think, “When is that bell going to go off for me?” And on top of that you feel this constant loss. At this time of life, you feel just a sword’s point from death. It’s frightening – who wants to face God and the clear white light? I know I definitely don’t. Yet.’

On still smoking pot: ‘I don’t tend to say this publicly, but we can see it’s a curative thing. The narcotics industry is also enormous. It funds terrorism and – this is a huge problem in America – fuels the foreign gangs. More than 85 per cent of men incarcerated in America are on drug-related offences. It costs $40,000 a year for every prisoner. If they were really serious about the economy there would be a sensible discussion about legalisation.’

On his more than $100 million worth of art: His home is stuffed with art by Matisse, Warhol, Tamara de Lempicka and Picasso; the collection is estimated to be worth over $100 million. ‘Now I’m at home so much more, there are these moments once in a while when I think, “Jesus, look at all that.” Those pictures actually intimidate a lot of people. I’m totally solid with the “truth is beauty/beauty is truth” idea. But if I’m around it too long I start to feel trapped in this material world. I think I mustn’t get owned by my possessions, I mustn’t fall prey to materialism. Sometimes I think, “Hell, I’m going to burn them all.”’

Not enjoying the night life: ‘My life has changed. I don’t enjoy the things I used to so much. I don’t go out to nightclubs, I don’t like clubs any more. I don’t go out raging, looking out for women; now it’s just a game that isn’t worth the candle. The last three times I’ve been in New York filming, I didn’t leave my hotel room for one single night. People won’t believe that, but it’s true. But you adjust your life to your circumstances, and I can spend a lot of time on my own. I think of myself as social, but my friends are always telling me, “Jack, you need to get out more.”’

On relationships: ‘I’ve had everything a man could ask for, but I don’t know if anyone could say I’m successful with affairs of the heart. I don’t know why. I would love that one last real romance. But I’m not very realistic about it happening. What I can’t deny is my yearning. I’ve been in love in my life, but it always starts with obsession that lasts exactly 18 months and then it changes. If I’d known and been prepared for that, I may have been able to orchestrate the whole relationship thing better. But when I’m with someone I’ve often defied every one of my conventions. I’ve been so struck I’ve said, “Come on, let’s go, let’s get married.” But no woman has ever recognised what I say as being legitimate. They think of my reputation, Jack the Jumper. I’m damned by what people think. Now I think I have a gap I won’t ever cross.’

On his split from Anjelica Houston, and regret: ‘The reality was that I was annihilated emotionally by the separation from Anjelica. That was probably the toughest period of my life.’ Asked if he wishes he could turn back time, he shakes his head. ‘I may have made a mistake, but I don’t want to go back and correct it. I would rather deal with it.’

On lady friends and love: ‘I would never complain about my life, even though I really would like to have a mate. It’s not like I’m starved for company – I have a few very good lady friends – but there’s only a certain amount of times a woman wants to see you and never go out for dinner. I got tired of arguing with women about going to have dinners, so I hired somebody to cook. The food is better at my house.’

[From The Daily Mail]

They really did break the mold with Jack, didn’t they? So, what do you think? Do you think he would go for me? I’m more than 40 years younger than him, I have big boobs and I love modern art? I think he’d like me.

Photos courtesy of WENN & PR Photos.

These are photos from the Green Hornet photo call in Spain today. This junk doesn’t come out until January, so I don’t know why they’re rushing the promotional blitz, especially when they’re going head-to-head with awards-contenders. Beyond that, it’s nice to see the principle actors show up for the photo call – Seth Rogen has the lead, as the Green Hornet, Christoph Waltz plays the villain, and Jay Chou is the sidekick. And then there’s Cameron Diaz, who plays Seth’s love interest. I think Camy is an interesting choice for the comic book hero’s love interest: is it a smart move for an actress nearly 40 years old to take on the kind of role that’s usually filled by ingénues? Camy is a decade older than Seth too – is that awkward? Eh.

Anyway, I was looking through the photos, thinking about how Camy looked pretty good – she’s just wearing jeans and a simple blouse, and I like the length of her hair right now, and her skin has cleared up. Then I saw this article at The Sun bashing Camy for her wrinkles – they say her “face was strangely wrinkled.” Like, “How dare Camy not be Botoxed to within an inch of life? HOW RUDE.”

Maybe I’m just a late defender of Camy, though. She’s been growing on me so much the past few years. I like her attitude, and I like her commitment to aging naturally. Should she take better care of her skin? Sure. But she’s still a beautiful woman – and I tend to think she’s more interesting-looking now then she was when she was “strangely unwrinkled.”

But if you want to hate on Camy, read this piece at LaineyGossip. You won’t like that version of Camy. That Camy seems desperate and sad.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Reese Witherspoon is the cover girl for the January issue of Glamour Magazine. The photos shoot is meh (go to Glamour’s slideshow here), but the interview is surprisingly un-Reese. She’s talking about sex, y’all. Can you believe that? Hearing Reese even reference any sex act is like hearing a nun fart. Reese tells the magazine that she feels “more confident” in her sexuality now that she’s in her mid-thirties. My guess is that it has less to do with age and more to do with dating a heterosexual man who knows how to give a woman an orgasm. Applause for Jim Toth. Well done, dude.

Reese on her sexuality: “I think as a woman, you get older, you feel more confident in your sexuality. You’re not as intimidated by it, not as embarrassed by it. Sexuality and femininity is an accumulation of age and wisdom and comfort in your own skin. I feel better – so much better now than I ever did in my twenties… I am calmer; I know who I am. And as a result, I feel much sexier.”

Advice to young women/young actresses: “There’s always going to be somebody younger or sexier. That’s why I like to say, and it’s become my famous line, ‘Funny doesn’t sag.’”

On rom-coms: “I watch them all the time. I love all my fellow female romantic comedy queens, like Jennifer Aniston, Jennifer Garner and Katie Heigl. I also think that the questions romantic comedies ask about men and women are universal.”

On having more kids: “I would love to have more kids. Kids are the best part of my day. I don’t wake up to make movies. I wake up to hang out with my family.”

On being grateful: “I’m really, really lucky. I’ve got a lot of love in my life. I’ve got great friends. I have two great kids whom I make pancakes for every Sunday. I’m very blessed.”

On her pregnancies: “Both of my pregnancies were easy. I didn’t know anything; I just went into it. I never held a baby until I held my own baby.”

On her boyfriend Jim Toth: “…what I’m finding out is that it’s very comfortable to be with somebody who understands my career, but doesn’t do what I do. [Jim Toth]’s a great guy. He’s wonderful.”

[From Us Weekly and Celebrity Baby Scoop]

I like this Reese – but I’ve always been a fan of hers. I like how Southern and anal retentive she is, because I identify with exactly those qualities. I know she’s supposed to be a bitch in real life, but she seems like she maintains a good façade of hospitality and professionalism in her public life, so I don’t really care how she is in private – it’s none of my business. I also think she’s probably going to end up marrying Jim Toth – as well she should, he seems like a nice, quiet guy who is happy to let her have the spotlight.

Glamour cover courtesy of Celebrity Baby Scoop. Additional pic courtesy of Glamour online.

Do you remember where you were when you realized you were too old to stay out partying most of the night and still go to the work the next day?

Some of you may not have had that realization yet, but for the rest of us, it’s a grim step on the long ladder towards maturity.

Johnny Depp is apparently one of those who hasn’t given in to maturity yet, and it’s taking a toll on his looks. That’s unfortunate, because he is the Sexiest Man Alive, no matter what People magazine says.

Those eyes, those cheekbones…

Those eyes are apparently plenty bloodshot lately, because 47-year-old Johnny has reportedly been spending too much time with the High Priest of Partying, 66-year-old Keith Richards, in London.

Because of the partying, Johnny needs to dunk his head in a tub of ice water to get his “bloated face back into leading man form,” an eyewitness told The National Enquirer.

Johnny Depp has taken to dunking his head into a tub of ice water to recover from recent nights of drinking with his Pirates of the Caribbean co-star Keith Richards.

Depp, 47, and Richards, 66, have been boozing it up so much that the film crew has resorted to the morning-after ice treatments….”Johnny’s movie star good looks are completely wrecked after a night of drinking with Keith,” a set insider told The Enquirer. “It’s gotten so bad that Johnny wakes up and his pretty boy face is bloated from the boozing. Keith, who quit doing drugs in the late ’70s, still likes to drink, and he and Johnny have been overdoing it almost every night.”

It’s impossible to tell if the much-wrinkled Keith has had a rough night, “but with Johnny it’s very obvious,” said the insider. “That’s why the crew has a tub of ice ready for him every morning.”

[National Enquirer, print edition, November 29, 2010 issue]

Johnny’s rep denies he’s getting dunked in ice for his hangovers.

Keith is reprising his role as Captain Jack Sparrow’s father in the fourth Pirates of the Caribbean film, but the two have been friends for over 15 years.

“Johnny and Keith’s friendship is based on a mutual respect for music, art — and drinking. Let’s just hope Johnny doesn’t end up looking like Keith when he gets older!”

[National Enquirer, print edition, November 29, 2010 issue]

Amen to that.

I thought Johnny looked a bit bloated in the previews for The Tourist, but I was hoping it was due to the facial hair.

Hopefully Johnny isn’t really is losing his looks now, after all his years of drugs and drinking. Tone it down with Keith, Johnny. Alternate alcohol and water. And cherish the sanctity of those cheekbones before they turn into jowls.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Heidi Klum is the December cover girl for Self Magazine. I’m kind of meh on the cover – I like that Heidi still gets magazine covers, but she’s less of a high-fashion model these days, and more of a reality celebrity who is embraced by the masses – so no more high fashion for Heidi. Anyway, the interview is very interesting (to me at least) because Heidi talks a lot about aging and how she approaches things in her late 30s. Heidi says that for now, she’s not doing any Botox, and she says she doesn’t see herself doing it any time soon. But the most interesting part was this advice: “The ultimate beauty secret for a woman getting older is, Don’t be too thin! It is always better to have a little meat on your bones.” It’s like that old saying – you have to make a choice between the body or the face – do you want to look thin, or do you want your face to look good? By the way, I agree with Heidi – a little extra weight does help the face at a certain point.

When it comes to looking beautiful, Heidi Klum doesn’t believe you’re either thin or you’re out. In fact, the Project Runway star, 37, says that as women age, bigger is better.

“The ultimate beauty secret for a woman getting older is, Don’t be too thin! It is always better to have a little meat on your bones,” Klum tells Self in the December issue. “When you are just muscle, you end up being gaunt in the face, and that makes you look older by 5 or 10 years.”

The model, who recently ended her professional relationship with Victoria’s Secret, also says she doesn’t sweat growing older – or getting wrinkles. “I don’t have anxiety about it, so I’m not running to get Botox. Maybe that will change, but I don’t think so. I feel comfortable in my skin and comfortable with aging, so I think it’s okay that I get wrinkles.”

In the meantime, she says sleep keeps her looking fresh (“I go to bed at 8:30 most nights”), as does self-tanner. “I like how it looks,” she says, “but sometimes I leave gold shimmery marks all over!”

Of course, looking beautiful isn’t Klum’s only focus. In addition to working on her show and designing a line of active-wear for New Balance, she’s also raising four kids with her husband, Seal, 47. Klum admits it can be overwhelming when Leni, 6, Henry, 5, and Johan, 3, bombard her with questions at the dinner table, or when Lou, 13 months, cries for no apparent reason, but she’s found a means to stay calm.

“I take a deep breath and say, ‘This is my world,’ ” she tells the magazine. “It’s a roller coaster. Sometimes you’re on top and everything is fabulous, and sometimes it’s crazy. But it’s what I wanted, and in the end, I love it.”

Another sanity-saver? Making lists.

“I’m a big believer in to-do lists,” she says. “I make them before bed. I think of five things in the shower, and when I come out, I write them down or I can’t sleep. I have daily lists and big-picture lists. I set goals and get my work done, but I have to plan for fun things, too. I’m always thinking about what will make my family happier.”

[From People]

I’m a list maker too, so I can relate. I love a good list. Just the act of sitting down and writing out a grocery list or a shopping list or a HGF list calms me considerably. Heidi has some good advice all over, right? Maybe I’m just back “in like” with her ever since she fought for Mondo on the Project Runway finale. She got my respect for at least trying to talk some sense into Michael Kors and Nina Garcia. Viva la Klum!

Here are some more photos of Heidi wearing Mondo!

Header image via JustJared

Cher is the December cover girl for Vanity Fair. She’s promoting her role in Burlesque, which looks like an even more budget version of Showgirls, only with more pancake makeup, I think. VF released some excerpts from the interview, and it sounds like no subject was off-limits for Cher, for which I give her credit. A lot of stars of Cher’s caliber and worldwide acclaim could just phone it in and demand that a lot of subjects be off-limits (hello, Madonna), but not Cher. She discusses in detail her struggles with her daughter’s gender reassignment from Chastity to Chaz, as well as Sonny Bono, aging, fashion and why Meryl Streep is a “stupid bitch”. Here’s more:

Cher tells Vanity Fair West Coast editor Krista Smith that she can’t believe “Sonny and I still aren’t in the [Rock and Roll] Hall of Fame, and it just seems kind of rude. Sonny was a good writer, and we started something that no one else was doing. We were weird hippies before there was a name for it, when the Beatles were wearing sweet little haircuts and round-collared suits…. We influenced a generation, and it’s like: What more do you want?”

As for her daughter turned son, Chaz, Cher says, “If I woke up tomorrow in a guy’s body, I would just kick and scream and cry and f-cking rob a bank, because I cannot see myself as anything but who I am—a girl. I would not take it as well as Chaz has. I couldn’t imagine it.” While Cher remains a proud mother, she admits to Smith that she still gets confused: “She’s a very smart girl—boy! This is where I get into trouble. My pronouns are f-cked. I still don’t remember to call her ‘him.’”

Of her secret to remaining in the spotlight for the past five decades, Cher tells Smith, “I feel like a bumper car. If I hit a wall, I’m backing up and going in another direction. And I’ve hit plenty of f-cking walls in my career. But I’m not stopping. I think maybe that’s my best quality: I just don’t stop.”

Cher opens up about her feelings for Sonny, and their tumultuous marriage, saying that Sonny “told me when we were together, ‘One day you are going to leave me. You are going to go on and do great things.’ … I wouldn’t have left him if he hadn’t had such a tight grip—such a tight grip.” Cher tells Smith that Sonny treated her “more like a golden goose than like his wife…. I forgive him, I think. He hurt me in so many ways, but there was something. He was so much more than a husband—a terrible husband, but a great mentor, a great teacher…. If he had agreed to just disband Cher Enterprises and start all over again, I would have never ever left. Just split it down the middle, 50-50.”

Other highlights of the article include:

Cher on Sarah Palin and Jan Brewer:
“I got so obsessed with [C-SPAN] that it was kind of interfering with my life. Sarah Palin came on, and I thought, Oh, f-ck, this is the end. Because a dumb woman is a dumb woman.” On the subject of Arizona governor Jan Brewer, Cher says, “She was worse than Sarah Palin, if that is possible. This woman was like a deer in headlights. She’s got a handle on the services of the state, and I would not let her handle the remote control.”

Cher on her family and drugs:
“It’s weird, because both of my children had the same drug problems as their fathers—same drug of choice. My father was a heroin addict, and my sister’s father was an alcoholic. But it jumped us…. I didn’t not do drugs because of moral issues. I tried a couple of drugs, but I never felt good out of control. I have the constitution of a fruit fly. I can’t do coffee, but I can do Dr Pepper.”

Cher on aging:
“I think Meryl [Streep] is doing it great. The stupid bitch is doing it better than all of us! But I don’t like it. It’s getting in my way. I have a job to do, and it’s making my job harder…. I’ve been screaming at the top of my lungs at my family, ‘Work out! Work out! Old age is coming!’ At some point you will need the strength. Who would have ever thought you would get this old?”

Cher on parenting and whether her children are still angry with her:
“I think Chaz is pretty much finished with it, and I think Elijah has a little longer to go, but they both really love me a lot. But it’s hard… One time, when Chaz was little, we were on a field trip, and she said, ‘I’m so pissed off, Mom. You can never not be Cher—we can never just do something.’” She concludes, “So your kids pay. I did the best I could do, and yet it was definitely lacking.”

Cher on paying taxes:
“I would be willing to pay a lot more taxes, because I make a lot more money, but I don’t want to give them more to just f-ck things up more. It really should fall on people like me to get together and do things to help the people in this country. If you’re not worrying about how to put food on your table, you [should be] worrying about why other people don’t have food on their table. I remember a great America where we made everything. There was a time when the only thing you got from Japan was a really bad cheap transistor radio that some aunt gave you for Christmas.”

The December issue of Vanity Fair will be available on newsstands in New York and Los Angeles on Thursday, November 4, and nationally and on the iPad on Tuesday, November 9.

[From Vanity Fair]

I mean… at some point, Cher became the half-dressed old lady who sits on her front porch, screaming obscenities at the mailman. When did that happen? She’s still kind of fabulous though – and you can tell she’s joking about SOME of this stuff… like calling Meryl a “dumb bitch”. Just FYI, they are close friends! They’ve been tight ever since they did Silkwood back in the 80s. As for Chaz, you can tell Cher really is struggling, but that she still loves Chaz so much, and she’s willing to accept him however he comes.