Week four ofDirty Soap addresses Jenna and Galen&8217;s differing views on having more kids, Kirsten&8217;s health issues and Brandon&8217;s insecurities about being vertically challenged. Keep reading to find out what went down on theE! reality show.

Dirty Soap Recap: Fashion Shows, Babies And Health？Fashion US G,best handbags wholesale At home with the kids, Jenna tells Galen she wants to have a little girl. He doesnt seem as enthused about having another child and points out they could end up having another boy if she got pregnant. She tells him she does all the work anyway since he&8217;s at Days of our Lives all the time, so he shouldn&8217;t care that much. Jenna also tells him there is such a thing as gender selection and he goes with her to talk to the doctor. The doctor explains a couple of options to the Gerings with in vitro being the best way to go designer handbags, but confirms it could result in multiple births. Galen is not happy with that possibility or the thought of giving a sperm sample to be tested. Galen wants to think about it more and not rush into it. Later,Ugg Boots Australia as the Gerings hike, Galen shares his doubts about adding another kid to their mily. He wants to enjoy life right now and worries having another child won&8217;t ensure that. Jenna agrees, but they decide not to permanently close the door on the topic.

At home Sale Ugg Boots, Brandon tells Nadia he&8217;s going to be a model at Fashion Week in New York. He&8217;s hesitant though because he feels too short and doesnt have the right body structure. Nadia doesn&8217;t feel he has any reason to be insecure and is proud of him. She hopes she can be there,Cheap Brand Handbags but her movie might interfere.

During a photo shoot forDirty Soap, the whole cast gathers and takes note of Kirsten walking off the set to sit down. Kelly wonders if Farah&8217;s presence has anything to do with Kirsten&8217;s low energy. During another set up, Kirsten is seen laying her head down and wrapped in a blanket looking ill.

While on the General Hospital set handbags wholesale, Kelly sees Kirsten laying down in between scenes. After they wrap for the day,Handbags Discount Kelly finds Kirsten and asks what&8217;s wrong with her. Kirsten immediately tears up but just says she isn&8217;t feeling well. Kelly asks if she went to the doctor and Kirsten gets more emotional, but she doesnt want to talk about it. Kelly is concerned and assures her she is there when she&8217;s ready to talk.

In New York, John-Paul hangs with Brandon while he&8217;s there for Fashion Week. JP is happy to have someone to run with for one of his last jogs in Central Park before the big move. JP is in awe of Brandon&8217;s abs and states he would back out if he were invited to do the shion show because his abs apparently dont hold a candle. Nadia&8217;s schedule frees up and she joins Brandon in New York. Farah and JP accompany them to some parties for the event and they discuss Nadia&8217;s crazy schedule for the movie. Nadia then stuns them with the news thatKirsten is being temporarily recast on General Hospital due to illness. Farah is sick to her stomach and wishes she knew what was going on.

Back at her place handbags online cheap, Farah looks online for news about Kirsten. She then calls someone in Kirsten&8217;s camp named Tifny to try and find out what&8217;s going on. Tifny doesn&8217;t take well to Farah calling after all this time,Designer Handbags Discount but does inform her that Kirsten has endometriosis. It&8217;s serious. Tifny and Farah bicker about Farah&8217;s place in Kirsten&8217;s life and they hang up.

Farah&8217;s mom visits her and they spend the day laying out by a pool. Farah brings up Kirsten and how worried she is about her. She cries as she says things have beeFashion US Girln put in perspective for her regarding their feud.

After Nadia is forced to head back to L.A. for the movie, Brandon prepares for the shion show. He gets some tips from a professional runway model and his nerves de the closer he gets to strutting his stuff. It goes off without a hitch and he&8217;s proud he went out of his comfort zone and conquered it. Once he gets back in L.A., he and Nadia discuss spending more quality time together.

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Fashion US GWashingTelevision: Homeland Recap, Clean Skin,Print –>In the third episode of Showtimes newest drama, Brody plays peacemaker, Lynne gets a gift, and Carrie gets a helping hand from Saul.

BySophie Gilbert

Morena Baccarin as Jessica Brody and Diego Klattenhoff Mike Faber in Homeland, episode three, Clean Skin. Photograph by Kent Smith, courtesy SHOWTIME

[Alert: Spoilers ahead, from the first sentence onward]

Judging by the laws of television, Lynne Reed’s character wasn’t destined to be with us for long. From the minute Carrie (Claire Danes) assured Lynne (with breathtaking mendacity, one might add) that a surveillance team was watching her 24/7, despite the ct that said team had been denied to a girl described as just an escort recruited in Bahrain, it was obvious that Lynne’s chances of lasting the season were slimmer than a rookie model during shion week.

Given that Lynne (Brianna Brown) was not only one of Carrie’s most trusted sources, but also the conduit for most of the gratuitous /nudity scenes in Homeland, it’s hard to see how the show will progress without her character (luckily Jessica Brody seems willing enough to drop her clothes at a moment’s notice). Clean Skin opened last night as Lynne was entertaining Prince Farid Bin Abbud in royal shion in a DC hotel room. After Farid left the room for a minute, Lynne took the chance to upload the contents of his BlackBerry to the chip Carrie gave her, prompting a momentously suspense-filled wait for the world’s slowest spy device to work. We, like Lynne, thought for sure that she’d been discovered, but it turned out Prince Farid only looked thoughtful because he was about to give Lynne a whopping great diamond necklace. Cue sighs of relief all round.

What was particularly interesting about this week’s episode was the lack of attention given to Brody’s secret life. Anyone who’d skipped the first two episodes completely might think Nick Brody (Damian Lewis) was just a kind, slightly scarred soldier returning home to a typically dysfunctional mily. This week the Brodys are preparing for a TV interview with MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell, prepped by an abrasive producer (Gaby Hoffmann) who looks a lot like Rachel Maddow, only with frumpier hair and less charm. Brody objects to the camera crew moving his furniture around (Carrie breathes a sigh of relief when he intercedes to stop a couch being moved, since the couch was hiding some of her surveillance equipment). I kept everything exactly the same the whole time he was gone, Jessica tells Mike, whose main role this week seems to be to look pissed off every time Jessica and Brody look happy together.

And teenaged rebel Dana (Morgan Saylor), who’s seen smoking weed on a riverbank with some of her unwholesome and unsupportive friends? She objects to everything—most notably the bulls^&t perfect mily image being projected for the cameras. Dana’s also—like any self-respecting teenager—angry at her mother, which means she compensates by nice with Dad. She accepts his offer of breakst to her mom’s chagrin, and watches YouTube videos in her room with him late at night (it’s safe to assume, since the pair are heard laughing,Bags Wholesale that Nick isn’t trying to indoctrinate his daughter with the collected works of Anwar Al-Awlaki just yet). Dana’s friends encourage her to do something drastic on-camera, something like tell the truth, which she mulls over thoughtfully. And while driving with her mom to pick up tacos, we discover what that truth is: Dana knows that Jessica and Mike have been having an afir, and she’s furious about it.

At the CIA, Carrie’s addressing the significance of Prince Farid’s visit to the US, which she suspects is to deliver funds for an imminent terrorist attack. Saul (Mandy Patinkin) isn’t so sure. The prince, he tells the room, comes to America at the same time every year to top off his harem, not to fund terrorism. To which we have to add, he comes to DC to top off his harem? DC? Not New York, or LA, or one of the myriad cities with a plethora of underemployed women with ke boobs and a penchant for diamonds? Showtimeil. Carrie thinks Saul’s giving her a hard time, and she asks him later if he’s ever going to forgive her for the illegal Brody surveillance screwup. You destroyed [my trust] when you lied to me and treated me like every other schmuck in this building, Saul replies.

Carrie meets with Lynne in a posh swimming pool locker room, where she picks up the chip from Farid’s phone. What are you looking for? Lynne asks, presumably torn between loyalty to her country and loyalty to her boss/boyfriend/giver of diamonds. I’ve been right beside him for a year, and all I’ve seen is a nice guy with a few ual quirks. There’s a nice moment where we see the similarities between the two women: both unconventional professionals, both married to their job, both women in a man’s world. Carrie gives the chip to a cryptologist, who unfortunately ils to find anything of significance, leaving Carrie understandably frustrated. She returns home to join Virgil (David Marciano) on Brody surveillance watch, which again entails watching Brody have an extremely unconventional ual encounter with his wife.

In his first of two interviews Brody does with O’Donnell during Clean Skin, the MSNBC host asks him about the two-page report on his scars and identifying marks. You were beaten, O’Donnell says. Tortured. To what end? We see flashbacks of Brody in incarceration, being kicked and punched, before Abu Nazir (Navid Negahban) arrives with a bowl of grapes and figs to feed the starving captive. In the present, Brody pauses. They want you to lose ith, he says. In your country, which they say is the devil. In your fellow Marines, who aren’t coming for you. In your wife, who they say has her arms wrapped around someone else. But you survive, he says Ugg Boots Australia, by having ith. Semper fi, O’Donnell responds. Yes, this Latin expression is almost certainly going to crop up again in the future.

Lynne, meanwhile, is going out to a club with the newest member of Farid’s harem, who almost immediately makes the ux pas of coveting Lynne’s necklace and getting sloppy drunk on champagne (we told you looking for professional whores in DC was a bad idea). I’m not so sure about that one, Lynne tells Farid’s main assistant, the omnipresent, oh-so-creepy Latif Bin Walid (Alok Tewari). Bin Walid tells Lynne that the prince has requested she visit a new business acquaintance of his to sweeten an upcoming deal. Alarm bells ringing, Lynne calls Carrie, who assures her she’s being monitored, before rushing into a van with Virgil and trying to trace her source’s whereabouts. Only it’s too late for Lynne, who’s shot twice by a friendly seeming driver who tells her he’s merely taking her to the Hay-Adams. Lynne also has her ncy necklace purloined. Carrie and Virgil find the body, but Virgil’s professional instincts compel him to drive away before they’re seen. Carrie, there is nothing to be done here. They made her, he says. Carrie cries.

Jessica Brody is preparing for the big TV interview (the second with O’Donnell that includes the whole mily), only to find both her husband and daughter are AWOL. Turns out Nick Brody took his daughter for a walk, where he tells her to go easy on her mom. She’s struggling, too. You should cut her some slack. We all should. His pep talk works, because rather than go postal on live television, Dana makes nice and plays the model daughter during the interview. Jessica looks relieved and puts her hand on Nick’s thigh, prompting another uncomfortable look from Mike. Despite the ct that this week has helped solidify Nick’s image as the perfect ther (if not husband), it’s hard not to suspect that there’s more drama ahead with Mike, who’s about as welcome in the Brody home these days as a skunk at a garden party.

Carrie and the CIA bosses have a crisis meeting about Lynne, wherein we discover that DC police questioned Prince Farid and let him go (unless he hadexpired license plates), it was pretty much inevitable that MPD would il with a case of this significance). Carrie watches the interview video of Farid, who seems to be inconsolable about the death of a girl he describes as a beautiful soul. Is it possible, Carrie wonders, that Farid is innocent? Saul tells her to look for a money transfer elsewhere, which in the Nomadic culture, frequently involves jewelry. Turns out that Bin Walid happened to hawk Lynne’s necklace,Ugg Boots Outlet resulting in a cash transfer of $400,000. And the money? It’s not explicitly spelled out, but in the following scene, a nice young couple (Arabic man, white woman) are seen buying a house near the airport, with cash. The realtor apologizes for the sound of airplanes, but the couple doesn’t seem to mind. For us, it’s perfect, the wife replies. Is it possible they’re avid planespotters? Not really.

From which we can deduce the following: (a) Bin Walid is going to feature prominently in future episodes, (b) Carrie is probably going to suspect this and tell her bosses, who will reject the idea and try and hamper her investigation, and (c) the terrorist attack being planned, with or without Brody, is going to feature airplanes in some way—unoriginal, but there you go. Clean Skin was interesting mostly in the way it ignored Carrie’s dysfunctional life (barring her inability to shop for groceries) and made us sympathize with Brody, neglecting all mention of his Islamic ith and him seem like a pretty stand-up guy. So how exactly will the kindly, paternalistic, understanding soldier become involved in a plot to kill hundreds of thousands of people? We’re not sure, but hopefully with another three weeks left on her FISA warrant, Carrie will be able to figure it out before a nice blonde woman and her husband blow up Dulles.

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IT was many years after Marilyn Monroe&039;s death that Bert Stern heard the Hollywood star had called him the day she died.

Fashion US GThe last time I saw Marilyn Monroe,He never received the call, so he doesnt know if the story is true.

"If it was, Im so sorry I didnt get to talk to her," the 82-year-old photographer says.

"I would have done anything to help her, to save her."

Stern, then a shion photographer for Vogue, was shooting Elizabeth Taylor on the set of Cleopatra in Rome in June 1962 when he heard Monroe had agreed to be shot for the magazine by him.

He was 32, she 36, recently fired from George Cukors movie Somethings Got to Give, and mired in health and personal problems. She had become dependent on alcohol and prescription medication, the previous year she had divorced playwright Arthur Miller, she had recently had her gall bladder removed and had spent time in a psychiatric institution.

Five weeks after Sterns second shoot with Monroe in Los Angeles in July 1962, the symbol and rumoured paramour of John F. Kennedy and Robert Kennedy was found dead from an overdose of barbiturates.

Sterns startlingly intimate shoot with the star – with Monroe naked, covered in scarfs,fashion handbags jewels and flowers, and laughing and tousled in bedsheets – became a piece of history known as "the Last Sitting".

Stern had expected to "come away with one shot", but ended up taking 2571 photographs of an unguarded, joyful, reflective and tantalising Monroe.

These pictures, along with a 1973 essay on Monroe by Norman Mailer, are being republished in a new book, Marilyn Monroe (Taschen), just as Monroe fever returns ahead of the release of the film My Week with Marilyn. Starring Michelle Williams as Monroe, the film opens in Australia in January next year.

It is also Sterns own moment: a documentary about his life, Becoming Bert Stern, showing on the film festival circuit, shows his rise from mailroom boy and assistant to the art director at Look magazine to "the original Mad Man", sought after by Hollywood, Madison Avenue and the glossy magazines.

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Stern didnt want to do a shion shoot with Monroe.

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Before joining Vogue he had already shot the eras most beautiful women, such as Jean Shrimpton, Twiggy and Audrey Hepburn. A friend of Stanley Kubrick, he photographed actress Sue Lyon in heart-shaped sunglasses, sucking on a lollipop, for the poster advertising Lolita.

The Monroe shoot was set for the Hotel Bel-Air in Hollywood: her agent demanded that there be three bottles of 1953 Dom Perignon.

She was known for her lateness, so Sterns only hope was that she would turn up. At 3.30pm, 3 1/2 hours after the appointed meeting time, Monroe appeared, casual in jeans, scarf and no make-up.

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The pair walked into the studio he had set up, Monroe surveying the accessories he had brought.

"Do you want to go nude?" Monroe asked.

"Well, thats a good idea," the photographer replied.

Monroe asked Stern if she needed make-up. He told her she didnt. "How about a little eyeliner?" she asked.

She was nervous about showing her gall bladder scar. She didnt seem unhappy, he says.

Stern set up the lighting, Monroe started on the champagne: "I didnt realise it at the time, but the make-up guy was spiking it with vodka," he says. They shot from about 4.30pm to "one, two in the morning". Monroe was full of ideas, Stern says, "funny, provocative" and curious about him. However, even with Monroe sprawled on the bed, Stern is adamant he didnt flirt with her, nor she with him Ugg Boots For Cheap, "only for the camera".

Years later, when he photographed Brigitte Bardot, he was told that if she liked him she would let him shoot her however he wanted: "It was the same with Marilyn, maybe she trusted me, liked me." At the time Stern was married to his first wife, ballet dancer Allegra Kent, "so I knew a lot of beautiful Fashion US Girlwomen. I had always desired Marilyn Monroe. If she had said, Lets go for a drive in the desert or Come to my house then who knows, but nothing ever happened between us."

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The second shoot ended with Monroe lling asleep, Stern bidding goodbye before she closed her eyes. "I may have taken one picture of her asleep," he says.

He was with his daughter when he heard the news Monroe had died on August 5, 1962, her death ruled a "probable suicide".

"I knew shed been having a lot of problems and 36 is a crucial age for a symbol." he says. "I didnt realise the pictures would take on the significance they have."

Perhaps Monroe felt comfortable with Stern because she recognised a fellow turbulent soul. Stern himself had bouts of drug use, taking methamphetamines, and was briefly incarcerated in a mental institution at the instigation of his mily. At one stage Kent disappeared with their children.

As his me grew, Stern ran a studio in New York. When that business imploded in the early 70s, Stern fled to Spain without his mily. He returned to Vogue in the early 80s.

Thinking about the purported call he never received from Monroe the day she died, he says: "I would have flown to California if she had asked. If I had spoken to her I like to think I could have saved her. I really loved her."

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The supplement is named Marie ClaireWork, although given its roots it perhaps ought to be called Marie Claire au Travail. The supplement is described on the cover, which features the actress Katie Holmes, as your get-ahead guide for career, style and success.

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Marie ClaireWork is a brand extension in every platform fashion handbags wholesale, Ms. Cardone said.

Marie Claire would like to publish two Marie ClaireWork supplements next year, she added, in April and November, and we see it evolving into 2013 with additional frequency.

Ms. Coles said,buy designer handbags Our dream would be to do it four times a year.

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In the meantime, there are plans for a speaker series of four events, Power Lunch With Marie ClaireWork, which will also be presented by Express. The lunches are to be held in New York in October and November.

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Express, which creates its advertising internally, began buying ad pages in Marie Claire this year. Our customers are men and women in their 20s, the girl and guy out of college,Ugg Boots Cheap Online probably in a first job and discovering the first stage of a new life, said Lisa Gavales, executive vice president and chief marketing officer at Express.

Marie ClaireWork seemed to be targeting that exact same girl we were interested in, she added, a shopper who wants to look professional when dressing for work but not look like her mom in a suit.

As for undertaking a new venture in a dodgy economy, as we’ve reported for the last couple of quarters, our business is very good, Ms. Gavales said. It is not hunker-down time; it is build the brand, build business.

In good years and bad, she added, therFashion US Girle’s always somebody taking market share and somebody losing market share.

A version of this article appeared in print on October 17, 2011, on page B3 of the New York edition with the headline: Magazine Creates a Brand For Women Who Work.

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