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Lemondrop: The Best Makeovers of Fall TV (and People Who Still Need One)

You know the drill: Your favorite show comes back from the summer break and OMG WHAT DID SHE DO TO HER HAIR? (That was us, upon seeing poor Haley on One Tree Hill, and her new awkward hair color.) This week on Lemondrop.com, we examine the good, the bad, and the ugly of fall TV's makeovers...or lack thereof:

"We would, however, like to give Miss Tyra a high-five for her new, darker hair. After suffering through cycles of Top Model in which (a) she spent 13 episodes wearing a Bret Michaels-style bandanna, (b) her wig was consistently crooked, (c) her hair had a strange yellow stripe, or (d) her weave was teased up higher than a girl's bangs in 1985, it's refreshing to turn on ANTM and think, Damn, Tyra looks HOT."

Seriously, Tyra has been looking AWESOME lately. It's like, in 86ing Paulina, she magically absorbed some of Paulina's hotness. Well done, lady. Who else made the list? Read the rest of the column here.

Bye Bye Fugdie

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people we don't see out much

Yes, Gina Gershon, YES:

You inching ever closer, gloriously closer, to being the Liza Minnelli of your generation.

Fug or Fab: Halle Berry

"So I hear y'all bitches at the tabloids think I've been looking pregnant. Well GET A LOAD OF THIS. It's tight and it's low-cut and I'm wearing the shit out of it, and later I'll be sporting it at my audition for the obligatory Sexy Cylon Whose Dress Is Close To Falling Off Her Breasts role in Battlestar Galactica II: Galactose Intolerant. The only bumps you'll see are the ones spilling out of the top. GOT IT? GREAT."

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Elisafugga Canalis

Intern George never runs his girlfriends past us. No, he just rolls into work in the mornings, all, "Hark, you'll never guess what downtrodden princess I met in Las Vegas after she served me a gin spritzer." He never comes over and sits us down on our chaise longues and says, "Fair dames, I think love has a name, and that name is Girl Who Was In Those Soft-Core Emmanuelle TV Movies And Also Starred On Days of our Lives. Should I take her to Lake Como for the holidays and make her my own?"

So, of course, we don't have any great insights on Intern George's latest flame, Elisabetta Canalis. All we know is what we see, now that she's enjoying all of his current press tours.

I'm sure this dress looked gorgeous on the hanger. And it looks very nice on this lady-hanger, too. But that's really all she is here: a glorified, bronzed, flesh hanger. If she were WEARING the dress, as opposed to just letting it be on her, then wouldn't it look better on her bust? I just want to walk up to her and yank up the bodice a few inches and hand her some boob tape, and then tell her to ask George to make her his signature fugtini sometime, and that she shouldn't let him drink too much because he has a lot of work to do in the morning.

But to be honest, the dress itself doesn't get me as hacked off as this does:

Continue reading Elisafugga Canalis.

Unfug-or-Fab It Up: Rose McGowan

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Obviously, if you're doing something spiffy with the Museum of Arts and Design, you're going to be tempted to wear something very unusual -- something artsy, perhaps, and full of design. I just can't decide what to make of Rose's effort here:

My brain keeps whipsawing between the good and the odd. Tiny waist! Clunky shoes. Interesting neck! Terrible hair. And the skirt gives me pause: On one hand, it makes her look like a martini glass, all boring stem and then an explosion of fun up top. But on the other, what the hell DO you wear with that top? It's like when you try something on at the store and you love it but you don't have a thing that goes with it in your wardrobe, and so you think, "Well, I'll buy the top first and then I'll FIND SOMETHING to wear it with," and then you never do, and suddenly you've never worn it and you really want to and so you just throw any old thing with it and hope for the best.

Now, possibly, that's just sewn to LOOK like it's separates, but I just wonder if it's a waste of an architecturally interesting upper half not to make it a full ball gown, or have it flow into a tight pencil-cut dress. I am gripped with indecision on this fine Friday, and I don't like to end my week under such terrible stress. Indecision is for Wednesdays, people. Because then you get over it and you cake walk through the rest of the week. So help me out here, in sort of a hybrid Fug or Fab and Unfug piece -- talk up its relative merits and demerits in the comments, and let us all know what you'd do if you got to play stylist. Stay on topic, stay friendly, stay on target, stay with me, stay for a while, stay sweet and see you next summer, etc.

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Fugdan

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This is just so SUBTLE.

So UNDERSTATED. Gosh, I hope people don't stop paying attention to her! What if no one SEES HER? What if no one NOTICES HER? THE HORROR.

Unfug It Up: Audrina Patridge

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My friend Marissa and I have had the same discussion several times over the last few months, and it is this: Is it possible to wear over-the-knee boots without looking like Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman?

She says yes; I am more doubtful. Let's use Audrina here as a handy visual aid to illustrate both sides of that argument. From the front, to my way of thinking, she does not look as though she's practicing the world's oldest profession. She might be considering it, sure, but she hasn't pulled that trigger. And who hasn't been there, am I right, ladies? Ladies? Hey, you guys? Fine. But you hear me: it's saucy, but not SAUCY. It's sexy, but not SEX-Y. It's SEXY, but not... full-on PROSTITUTION-Y.

Let's look at it from the back:

Continue reading Unfug It Up: Audrina Patridge.

Lo Bosworfug

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I don't mind the trend of wearing boyfriend shirts, but there are better ways to do it than this:

[Photo: WENN.com]

That outfit right there is a walk of shame from your boss's limo. It's so half-assed. Put your WHOLE ass into it next time, please Lo.

Fuga Palmer-Tomkinson

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Tara Palmer-Tomkinson is known primarily on this side of the pond as being That British Lady Who Needs To Eat And Doesn't Do Anything Except Be Tan And Naked.

And, for the moment, That British Lady Whose Photo Is Not Safe For Work:

Continue reading Fuga Palmer-Tomkinson.

Fug or Fab: Sienna Miller

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Okay, I need you guys to sit down. Okay, actually, I assume that you're reading this sitting down, so I want you to stand up, and then sit down again. What I'm about to say is very shocking. Sienna Miller's posture is terrible, and she would, I think, look much better if this were NOT a jumpsuit but rather a dress. HOWEVER: She does not look so terrible in it that I want to barf all over my keyboard and then run outside, screaming until I lose consciousness from lack of oxygen. If she were not standing as though it were too short on her torso -- which I think is just a trick of the photo -- she might look....okay. Maybe? I mean, you know, considering.

I realize that saying this is sort of the equivalent of saying, "that time I got robbed was WAY better than that time I got murdered," but go with me. Let's talk this out, guys. Let's have that tough jumpsuit conversation. The longer I've sat here with this, the more I've hated it, but I realize that some of you don't feel as strongly. In fact, I believe it's possible that one of you reading this might actually be WEARING a jumpsuit. RIGHT NOW. So let's have the talk, guys.

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Lemondrop: The Best Makeovers of Fall TV (and People Who Still Need One)

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