Questions for the Zeitgeist- April 15, 2008

-As we were getting our taxes done, we had TONS of questions today so we threw all of them into today's edition of "Questions for the Zeitgeist". Do YOU have any questions on YOUR mind? How about any ANSWERS to the questions below? Did YOU file YOUR taxes?

In this issue:
DEION, TYRA, AND HEIDI HAVE NEW PROJECTS, 'MS.' KELLY ROWLAND REVIVES HER OLD PROJECT, AND VOGUE MAGAZINE'S "QUESTIONABLE" OVERSEAS PROJECTS...


REALity shows get REAL serious

1- Will Deion "Primetime" Sanders make good on his middle name with his new reality show with wife Pilar, "Deion & Pilar: Prime Time Love"? (premieres tonight, April 15th, 10:30pm EST)

2- Roadkill on the 'Runway'? Now that the show is scheduled to jump from Bravo to Lifetime, is 'Project Runway' going to "jump the shark"? Will it be "Fierce", "Ferocious" or just a FLOP? Just in case it IS a flop isn't "Project Runway" host/supermodel Heidi Klum being smart by introducing In An Instant, her own skin care line?

3- Speaking of jumping the shark, will Tyra Banks make it three successful shows in a row when she produces 'Fashionista', a NEW reality show on the CW network that focuses on contestants vying for a spot at Elle magazine as a fashion assistant? Will the winner of the show get to work for the new Fashion Director, now that Nina Garcia has left the magazine?

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4- "Brangelina" adopted Maddox (from Cambodia), Zahara (from Ethiopia), and Pax (from Vietnam). Madonna adopted David from Malawi. Tom and Nicole adopted Isabella and Connor (African -American). Steven Spielberg and Kate Capshaw adopted Theo (African-American). With all of these Hollywood stars adopting children outside of their culture, what would happen if Will and Jada started adopting red-headed children from Ireland?
















5- If your dentist's office looked like this...

Wouldn't you make an appointment to get those molars cleaned TODAY?
Famed New York City-based dentist Eda Ellis‘ new Denta Spa (an exclusive holistic dental clinic with a suite of Zen-inspired rooms which overlooks Central Park) offers massage treatments and the only place in the country offering Oxygen facials! Yeah, they also offer teeth cleaning, whitening, and fillings! Do you think they take US Healthcare?
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Ms. Kelly redux...

1- Why hasn't Kelly Rowland's single, "Daylight", seen "the light of day" on the Billboard charts?


2-While its no "B day", why hasn't her 'Diva Deluxe' re-issue of her CD "Ms. Kelly" sold either?

3- Does the admission that she recently got breast implants give credence to the rumor that she's set to pose for Playboy (for a reported $500,000 to $1million)?

4- Is Kimora Lee mad that Rowland jacked the cover of her book, 'Fabulosity', for her new PR pics?










5-Does Kelly feel that British-born singer Estelle has jacked her solo career? By the way, who HASN'T heard Estelle's HOT hip hop/dance track 'Just A Touch' or the hip hop/garage track she has with Kanye, 'American Boy'?







6- Isn't 'Comeback' Kelly's HOTTEST video to date? Given her record sales, isn't a "comeback" exactly what she needs?


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Cover Wars...
1- Who is excited about the upcoming full-length feature release of 'Iron Man'? How HOT are Steven Klein's photos of Gwyneth Paltrow (one of Iron Man's stars) in next month's Vogue?




2-Speaking of the house that Anna Wintour presides over (at least in the Americas)...There's no doubt that Vogue is THE fashion bible. But with non-Asian models like Christy Turlington, Kate Moss and Natalia Vodianova on three of its most recent covers, what is Vogue Nippon trying to say about JAPANESE beauty?




Moreover, with this being the first cover of the newly-minted Vogue India cover in February, what is Vogue saying about INDIAN beauty?

...Interestingly enough, Vogue also put Gemma Ward on the inaugural issue of Vogue China in 2005 (thanks, StyleChile!)...

Are we to conclude that, according to Vogue, ethnic beauty in every corner of the world can't stand on its own or isn't legitimate without being compared to Caucasian beauty?
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The Fashionista Files...




1- Is the belt in Versace's Fall 2008 collection just a little too close to the infamous Hermes Belt?
It looks like Kelly Rowland is rocking the belt in "Daylight", her video with Travis McCoy of Gym Class Heroes...








2- Is Roberto Cavalli going all "Abercrombie and Fitch" on us with his new underwear ad campaign for his Just Cavalli line (to begin in June 2008) featuring Montepaschi Viadana, the Italian rugby team?


3-Every Fashionista puts their hard-earned money into his pockets. Oprah wears his famous red-soled heels almost every day on her show. But...Does anyone REALLY know what super-cobbler Christian Louboutin looks like?

What about Manolo Blahnik?

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WE REMEMBER...
Earlier this week, Mary Ida Vandross- mother of the late superstar Luther Vandross- passed away after being in a coma for more than a month. Mary Vandross, 82, was the last surviving family member in the immediate Vandross family having lost her husband, all four of her children and only grandson to either strokes or diabetes. Up until she took ill, Mrs. Vandross traveled all over sharing her message of love, prevailing faith and the power to end stroke and Diabetes. In 2005, Luther died of complications from stroke at the age of 54. Look's like Luther got what he was wishing for in his smash hit "Dance With My Father"...
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FLASHBACK...
Luther Vandross gave us a little taste of what he had planned for us when he released his first single back, "Never Too Much", in 1981..."