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AmoreMagazine.com's Kate Casey: This Is What I Would Want In My Oscar Gift Bag

On Sunday a select Academy Award nominees will walk away winners when each walk away with a gift bag worth an estimated $150,000 as a consolation prize. The bags are offered to nominees in the Actor in Leading Role, Actress in a Leading Role, Actor in a Supporting Role, Actress in a Supporting Role and Directing categories. This year’s free gift bag recipients will be able to choose from luxurious items including a session with the founder of Enigma Life, Olessia Kantor, to discuss the nominee’s “2015 horoscope, analyze dreams and teach them mind-control techniques,” a custom-designed piece of furniture from EF+Facto, and a Rouge maple syrup package.

It made me think about the kind of items I would enjoy if given a consolation Oscar nominee gift basket.

• Cocktails with Diane Sawyer in her New York City penthouse so she can tell me about working with Richard Nixon, being married to Mike Nichols, and what she really thinks of Barbara Walters.
• A collection of Chloe bags.
• A lifetime membership to the spa where Tory Burch gets her facials.
• A weeklong stay at Mirival Arizona Resort & Spa so I can get an astrology report, a detox, and someone to scrub off at least three layers of dead skin.
• A hosting gig on Saturday Night Live.
• My own development deal with ABC.
• A walk on role on the next season of The Bachelor.
• Some super fancy bottles of balsamic vinegar and olive oil.
• A gourmet pizza maker. Not an actual apparatus, someone who will show up and make it in my kitchen.
• Beyoncé-sized diamond earrings. So I can dress up my running clothes.
• A golf cart, for shits and giggles.
• Cooking session with Curtis Stone so I can stare at him while he makes me halibut.
• Ventura Lipo-Light liposuction and fat reduction package. I don’t know what it is, but it sounds magical.
• Customized Taco buffet by Bobby Flay.
• Three nights at George Clooney’s Lake Cuomo Villa (so I can look through the medicine cabinets and dresser drawers).
• A fleet of chauffeured cars for the days I don’t feel like dragging my kids around town.
• O’Boises sour cream and onion potato chips, which I am pretty sure they no longer make.
• Entenmann’s raspberry danish, which is like heaven’s raindrops.
• A pocket sized Bill Murray and Martin Short to keep me laughing.

What would you want?

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Fifty Shades of Grey Wins The Valentine's Weekend Box Office!

 

(Photo: Universal)

Fifty Shades of Grey topped the weekend box office crushing everything on Valentine's weekend.

The Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson sex epic took in over $90 million, the biggest February opening weekend ever.

Second place was Kingsman: The Secret Service earning $35.6 million in its debut. Third was The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water, with $30.5 million.

American Sniper feel to fourth with $16.4 million. Jupiter Ascending finished in fifth place with $9.4 million.

Did you see any of these films this weekend and if so what did you think?

Lady Gaga and Taylor Kinney Are Engaged!

 

(Photos: Instagram)

Lady Gaga is engaged!!

Who ever thought it would really happen. She was asked the ever so permanent question by her actor beau Taylor Kinney while the couple were celebrating on Valentine’s Day at her family’s New York restaurant Joanne Trattoria.


She posted a photo of Instagram of her engagement ring, writing, “He gave me his heart on Valentine’s Day, and I said YES!”

To which he wrote with his own photo, “she said YES on Valentine’s Day.”

So what do you think?

Congrats to the soon-to-be married couple!

Kendall Jenner Tells 'Allure,' 'I Had Teenage Insecurities Just Like Everyone Else' [PHOTO]

(Photo: Allure magazine)

Kendall Jenner covers the March issue of Allure magazine, in which she says for their cover story that she had teenage insecurities just like everyone else.

Telling the mag that her childhood just happened to be on camera. The mag writes, “Jenner hasn’t known complete privacy since age 11. She learned about tampons from her sisters as the E! network filmed. It started so early that it’s the only thing I can remember,” she says. “Kylie and I had to grow up in front of people, and it was hard sometimes. Still, she adds, “But it was never a negative thing.”

She recalls for the mag, “I had just started ninth grade when I got my acne. And I had braces. I wouldn’t look people in the eye. It was not a good time for me — it just killed my self-esteem. I thought when I didn’t look at someone, they couldn’t see my face.”

She continues, “I still have a hard time looking at someone when I’m talking to them, and I get nervous.” She credits modeling, though, for helping with that. “When I started getting in front of the camera a lot, I think my confidence started to come out. It took a minute, because I had to believe in myself.”

Read more of her interview after the jump and check out the vid fo the shoot below.

[Allure]

Dakota Johnson in Steamy New Photo Shoot for 'W' with Her 'Fifty Shades of Grey' Co-Star Jamie Dornan

Wow we all know Dakota Johnson is going to heat things up in Fifty Shades of Grey, which hits theaters on Friday, but if you're looking for an early preview of what you might expect, check out the pages of W magazine.

The 25-year-old actress poses completely naked, laying on a carpet in front of her costar Jamie Dornan.

As for the rest ... check out the NSFW photos after the jump.

[W]

Meghan Trainor Talks Dating, Curves and More in 'Seventeen' [PHOTO]

(Photo: Seventeen)

Meghan Trainor talks her lack of dating, being curvy and more in the pages of the March issue of Seventeen magazine, in which she covers.

She never thought of herself as being popular, or for that matter looking like other pop stars, telling the mag, “When I saw photos of myself, I would think, I look awful. There’s a double chin!… I don’t look like Rihanna."

She says of a fan who approached her, soon after he first single All About That Bass was released, recalling, “this girl came up to me bawling and said, ‘You make me feel pretty again. Thank you.’ It really resonated with me that this girl was so gorgeous, and she didn’t even know it. It’s a mental thing.”

“Just recently I was thinking, ‘I’m confident now, and I look good,’ and that’s because I’ve started saying those words out loud more,” continues Meghan. “So now when I see pictures, I’m like, ‘Oh my God, why would I hate myself at all? I look incredible in that picture!’”

And when it comes to dating, she explains, “I knew my life would be complicated if my dreams of becoming a success in music came true. And I knew I’d have to work hard to achieve those dreams, and that they’d have to take a front seat in my life,” she says, further admitting, “So even though I went cray in high school, now I haven’t kissed a boy in forever.”

She continues, “I keep telling myself that the right guy is going to be worth the wait. When I find the one, it’s going to be like, ‘Damn, that’s why you took so long! ’Cause you’re awesome!’”

Read more of her interview after the jump and tell us what you think.

[Seventeen]

See New PETA Billboard Featuring Pink Naked! [PHOTO]

 

Here's a first look at a new 90 foot billboard that will cover Times Square featuring Pink for PETA's new "Rather Go Naked Than Wear Fur" campaign.

The songstress is seen sitting nude with her arms around her legs.

She told Us Weekly, "I’ve always felt that animals are the purest spirits in the world. They don’t fake or hide their feelings, and they are the most loyal creatures on Earth."

Many other stars have participated in this campaign for PETA including Khloe Kardashian, Wendy Williams, and Olivia Munn.

See the photo after the jump here.

What do you think?