“Mad Men” resident bombshell Christina Hendricks is featured on the cover of New York Magazine’s Spring 2010 issue clad in a corset.

Don’t ask her to talk about her famous curves though, she finds talk of her body boring. “It just leaves a bad taste in my mouth,” she says. “Anytime someone talks about your figure constantly, you get nervous, you get really self-conscious. I was working my butt off on the show, and then all anyone was talking about was my body!”

Read the full interview at New York Magazine.

Gossip Girl hunk Penn Badgley opens up in the February/March 2010 issue of UK’s Wonderland magazine.

In the article, which features these shots by photographer Mariano Vivanco, the 23-year-old actor spoke about Gossip Girl fan hysteria.

“I remember the first time we did a Gossip Girl fan event and about 600 people showed up. And they were all screaming. How do you not let something like that go to your head? The answer is that you just can’t. The first two seasons, I was definitely into it. I admit it. It was an interesting thing to be a part of. Not just seeing yourself on billboards, and getting invited to all these parties, and whatever, but the weirder aspects, too, they were interesting to explore.”

“But now I’m sort of over the whole thing. I don’t resent the attention, but I don’t necessarily invite it, either. I think it’s when people do that – when they become so obsessed with their public image that they don’t feel like themselves when they’re out of the spotlight – that’s when they crack-up.”

Source: Wonderland

New photographs of Marilyn Monroe lounging at the New York apartment of photographer Len Steckler nine months before she died were unveiled on Friday after being held in a private archive for more than 45 years.

The photos were taken in December, 1961, when Monroe unexpectedly arrived at Steckler’s apartment to visit his friend, Pulitzer-prize winning poet Carl Sandburg.

The photographer is offering the images for a sale on his website as a limited edition series called “Marilyn Monroe: The Visit.”

The pictures show Monroe wearing pointed, thick-rimmed sunglasses and a short sleeve dress while talking and laughing with Sandburg.

More at the photographer’s official site, thevisitseries.com

Source: Reuters

Actor James McAvoy is rumoured to be the top contender to portray James Bond author, Ian Fleming, in a $40 million biopic currently in development by Palmstar Entertainment and Animus Films.

The story will specifically focus on his younger years as a playboy growing up in the shadow of his famous family and his real-life exploits during WWII which served as inspiration for the character of 007.

Matt Brown (“Ropewalk”) wrote the screenplay which is based on Andrew Lycett’s book Ian Fleming: The Man Behind James Bond. A director is currently being sought.

Source: Empire Online

Portrait of model Cory Bond by Gregory Vaughan.

Advertisement for Dolce & Gabbana’s Light Blue featuring model David Gandy. We should all be so lucky.

Jamie Dornan and Lara Stone photographed by Alasdair McLellan for i-D magazine.

Model Robert Perovich is the new face of Jean-Paul Gaultier’s Le Male.

Robert was born in British Columbia, Canada on January 1st, 1976 and is 6′2″ tall. How do say *sigh* in french? Oh yeah, ooh la la!

See him in action at jeanpaulgaultier.com. Photo by Jean-Baptiste Mondino.

We don’t want to say we told you so, but we did.

Back in June 2007 Gotham Journal reported that Donald and Ivana Trump’s daughter, Ivanka, had been getting cozy with Jared Kushner, publisher of the New York Observer. Well kids, today came official word that Ivanka, 27, married Jared, 28, in a ceremony held at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J., on Sunday.

Among the 500 guests were: Russell Crowe, Natalie Portman, Barbara Walters, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo and Regis Philbin, who sang for the new couple.

Ivanka, who got engaged on July 15, wore a Vera Wang gown inspired by Grace Kelly and is said to have converted to Judaism in order to marry Jared, who is Orthodox Jewish.

The newlyweds are planning to honeymoon in Africa.

Source: People

Above: male models share a room in Chinatown.

From an article in NY Mag:

“Financially speaking, male modeling is not unlike being a straight-male porn star: The men have always made less than the women, and very few become big names. For most magazine work, models are paid less than $250. Twenty percent of that goes to the agency, which also bills models for their board and expenses.”