The Cut caught up with Alex McCord of the “Real Housewives of New York,” who revealed that she’ll be walking in five fashion shows this season, including Susan Cianciolo and Malan Breton of “Project Runway” fame. She told The Cut, “There are these girls out there who are 15, but there’s definitely room for women who are not 15…like me,” and that the designers weren’t prepared for how tall and skinny she is: “They saw me and they were gonna ask how I wanted my hair and makeup, and they said, ‘We’re gonna put you in the show look,’ and I was like, ‘Yes, put me in the show look!’ and they said they would because I looked like a model. Their words, not mine.”
Cobble Hillbilly Jenny Slate will not be part of the new season of Saturday Night Live the New York Times reports. Slate, famously dropped the F-bomb on the show’s premiere last season and never quite recovered:
NY Times: Jenny Slate, who finished her freshman year at “Saturday Night Live” in the spring, will not have her contract picked up for a second season, the source said. Ms. Slate, a veteran of the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater, had a bit of a trial by fire at “S.N.L.” when she accidentally used an obscene word during the first episode of the 2009 season. But after settling in at the show, Ms. Slate went on to portray quirky characters like the television pitchwoman Tina-Tina Chaneuse. She also appears in the HBO comedy “Bored to Death,” and recently had a hit viral video with “Marcel the Shell With Shoes On,” a stop-motion animated short that she wrote with its director, Dean Fleischer-Camp, and for which she provided the voice of the title character.
Poet Jonathan Thirkield and Ema Yamashiro are moving to Cobble Hill according to Blockshopper. Thirkield was chosen for the Academy of America Poet’s Walt Whitman Award in 2008 for his collection The Waker’s Corridor.
The NY Post profiles Cobble Hillbillies Talk Stoop host Cat Greenleaf and her news producer husband Michael Rey. Mostly, they talk about the schweet deal they got on their townhouse, which we’re not mad at:
NY Post: At a time when even badly run-down brownstones in the area were going for $1.3 million, he asked the couple for only $850,000. For that amazing price, they got three floors and a full basement — a total of 2,300 square feet — and a garden.
Greenleaf and Rey opted to convert the ground floor into a two-bedroom rental, and they and their 15-month-old adopted son, Nick (whom they call Primo), have taken over the top two floors. On one floor is the open living space, which includes the living room, dining area and kitchen, as well as one bathroom. The top floor has three bedrooms, one bathroom and a laundry room. (An added patio and the updated 100-foot-deep garden are shared with their tenant.)
Cobble Hillbilly/ Real Housewives of New York City cast member Alex McCord has some thoughts about the main conflict playing out on this season of the New Jersey version of the reality series: Continue Reading →
The luxury high rise BellTel Lofts was the place to be last night, as CHB faves Alex McCord and Simon van Kempen hosted the American Cancer Society‘s “Eat, Drink and Be Hopeful” food and wine event. Alex and Simon were among the many on hand to check out some of the tasteful silent auction items and raffle prizes, and of course to sample some of Brooklyn’s finest purveyors of food and drink, including Brooklyn Brewery, DuMont, Henry’s End, Palo Santo and many more. Margo Lewis, the brains (and brawn) behind Cake Bliss and the newly opened Ms. Dahlia’s Cafe, presented a cake decorating lesson in the VIP room. For Ms. Lewis, it’s personal: she’s a cancer survivor herself.
Alex McCord explained her inspiration for offering to host the delectable evening:
Simon and I were so happy to support the Brooklyn chapter of ACS – cancer unfortunately touches so many people and between the two of us have friends and family who have fought and survived the disease and have also sadly lost a few as well. We need to continue raising money for both R&D, early diagnosis and also not forget the caregivers who give of themselves to those who are fighting the disease.
Last night we had a chance to give back in so many ways – raising money to fight cancer, celebrating Brooklyn and all the great small business owners who provided the food and drink!
Cobble Hillbilly Norah Jones stars in the upcoming film Wah Do Dem, opening here on June 18:
Wah Do Dem website: Max (Sean Bones) lives in Brooklyn. He enjoys playing soccer, skateboarding, and drinking with his friends at local bars. Last summer he and his girlfriend, Willow (Norah Jones), won a free cruise to Jamaica but two days before the trip she dumps him cold. When his friends flake, Max winds up alone on the high seas, navigating the crowds of gray-haired cruisers. Over the course of several days he flirts with the staff photographer, drinks cocktails with the boat’s celebrity juggler and has several strange encounters with the only other loner (Kevin Bewersdorf).
When the cruise liner docks in Jamaica, Max escapes the tourist zone as fast as he can. At a local jerk stand he meets a charming Rasta who offers to show him a secret beach. Feeling irie as he lounges on the tropical sand with his new friends, Max loses track of time and his personal belongings. In his pathetic attempt to do something about it, he finds that the cultural divides he thought he could transcend are not so simple. Naked and broke in a foreign country where he stands out like a sore thumb, Max begins to make his way toward the American Embassy in Kingston. Along the road Jamaica is waiting to meet him.
Alex McCord tells E! online that her Real Housewives of New York City castmates Jill Zarin and Bethenny Frankel are totally on the outs for realz:
E!: “I wish I could say I can see them being friends again, but I don’t think it’s going to happen,” fellow Housewife Alex McCord tells us. McCord explains that the falling-out is worse than what we’ve been seeing on the show this season. How so? Read on for all the Big Apple dramarama details… “Sometimes you find things out about people that you didn’t believe and glossed over,” says McCord, who attended Frankel’s wedding last month. “You get to a point where you just can’t do it anymore and it blows up in your face. There’s so much going on between Jill and Bethenny. You don’t see 80 percent of it on camera.”
Earlier this week McCord — who is looking like the sanest member of the RHONYC cast this season — was the subject of a snarky piece in the NY Daily News:
NY Daily News: “Throughout my pregnancy, I gave into every craving I felt,” admits the Housewife in one chapter of the tome [Little Kids Big City], which will hit bookstands April 6th. “When I wanted to have a drink, I did.”
And this includes the night she went into labor with Francois: in fact, McCord says she was sipping on champagne when Simon escorted her to the hospital.
And we have a feeling the judgment won’t stop there: the duo also discusses bringing newborn Johan (when he was just 48 hours old) to the uber-fancy Mercer Kitchen while mom and dad had drinks.
But despite that bizarre outing, the couple insists they know they can’t bring their brood everywhere.
“We’re very lucky that we’re able to pay our nanny extra for two evenings a week to go out,” shares Alex.
Au contraire, say sources close to the fam. An insider with “Housewife” connections dishes that Alex may be a bit confused on the amount of time the duo spend outside their Brooklyn townhouse in the evenings. “They definitely go out A LOT during the week,” says the source. “They’ll go to practically any event to be seen.”
“The other Housewives have all made their own backhanded comments on the show about Alex and Simon’s parenting, and this book is only going to make things worse,” the insider continues. “If anything, it just highlights what everyone has been thinking all along.”
Each week we’ll feature a Cobble Hill (and beyond) neighbor/musician. This week (because our publisher is a super-fan) it’s Gene Ween. Here’s a clip of the Gene Ween Band playing P.S. 29 last year.
Have a neighbor/musician/rock star we should feature? Comment below!
Birmingham, MI native, now Cobble Hillbilly/stylist/Harper’s Bazaar contributing editor Mary Alice Stephenson (@maryalicestyle) is profiled today by the Detroit Free Press. She’ll be in the Motor City on May 1 for a benefit. She describes fellow Cobble Hill resident Alex McCord as “really cool and sweet”.
Freep.com: ”You, too, could look fantastic on the cover of a fashion magazine if you had the arsenal we are giving to these celebrities to make them look their best.”
They have stylists and hairdressers and make-up artists. Their photos are airbrushed, though Stephenson says “retouched” is the proper word to use these days.
“Most actresses and models are like you and I,” Stephenson says. “They have things that they hate about their body, things they love about their body. They have bad hair days. They get bad skin. They have stuff they don’t like about themselves. But they take time in the most important moments of their lives to look their best. They get manicures. They loofah their skin. There are certain things that stars do that really are not that hard.”
For example, Stephenson says that Jennifer Lopez is “pale in real life” but takes the time to apply self tanner.
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