Blake Lively, as always, looks drop dead gorgeous in the Gucci Première mini film that was recently released. Watch the Gossip Girl actress give her best bombshell performance yet. Fashion etc.

Karl Sigerson and Miranda Morrison were once the poster children of luxe shoe design. Their dream of making their Sigerson Morrison line the next Manolo Blahnik was quickly taken away from them after Marc Fisher fired them from their own company and took over their self-named business. The New York Times.

Nasty Gal is taking on design!

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Yes, there was a flying stage, and the production was packed with all sorts of moving video screens that morphed into different shapes and configurations.

But behind the razzle-dazzle at Carrie Underwood’s concert at the Palace of Auburn Hills Sunday, there was something almost quaint about the show. The focus was on Underwood, the 29-year-old former “American Idol” winner, as she sang songs from her four hit albums. Take away the tricks and doo-dads and the show could have unfolded at a tiny country western club.

Underwood, to her credit, sang live for the entirety of the 23-song, 110-minute show, and was in good voice throughout.

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Few believed the acclaimed 2001 novel “Life of Pi” could be made into a movie — including its eventual director, Ang Lee. “I also thought it was unfilmable,” he says, “up to like three days before I delivered it.”

He’s joking. Mostly. But it’s easy to see why the adaptation presented such huge challenges, both from a technical and storytelling perspective.

The saga begins with middle-aged, Indian-born Pi Patel (Irrfan Khan) telling his incredible life story to a writer (Rafe Spall). As a child, his family ran a zoo, and his father decided to move to Canada, taking a ship loaded with their animals across the ocean. The ship sinks, a

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The Who’s “Quadrophenia,” released in 1973, is one of the best, if not the best, conceptual rock albums. I’d argue it surpasses “Tommy” in scope, range and emotional impact and is right up there with Pink Floyd’s “The Wall.” And nearly four decades past inception, it remains somewhat daunting to perform.

After The Who cranked it up for 90 minutes at TD Garden in Boston on Friday, its creator, guitarist-singer Pete Townshend, said, “It’s a hellish ride, I can tell you that “» an unrelenting journey.”

What: “Quadrophenia and More”

Next regional show: Dunkin’ Donuts Center, Providence, R.I.

When: Feb.

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In case you were interested in what the plot of the new Star Wars movie will be, Carrie Fisher just told somebody at her booksigning that she has already been cast. The Force reports:

One of our rebel readers, Curt, wrote in with the following: “I was at Carrie Fishers booksigning in Cherry Hill, NJ on November 15, and the interview she did started with the question ‘Are you really going to be in a new star wars movie?’ and Carrie answered quietly ‘Yes….I thought it was already common knowledge.’ She did not elaborate, as she probably doesn’t want to crow too loudly at this point in the project development.

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