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Polly Higgins
Polly Higgins is Newsday.com's Lifestyle and Entertainment editor, covering home and garden, food, restaurants, pets, travel and entertainment. Her education includes a journalism degree from Indiana University and a masters in Media Arts from the University of Arizona. She called Arizona home for a number of years, working for both the Arizona Daily Star and (now shuttered) Tucson Citizen. In her spare time, Higgins can be found walking Otto the beagle in her Brooklyn neighborhood, logging miles on her running shoes and watching reruns of "Dallas."
Justin Timberlake's 'Suit and Tie' music video released on Valentine's Day
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Happy Valentine's Day! Forget roses and chocolate — Justin Timberlake is giving fans the best gift of all: the brand-new video for his single, “Suit & Tie,” featuring Jay-Z.
The collaborators are rumored to be touring together soon, and in other exciting JT news, the former NSYNC-er has recently joined Instagram. Sigh.
Watch the “Suit & Tie” music video and let us know what you...
Read more »Nina Garcia on Zac Posen: 'Sometimes we are at odds' on 'Project Runway'
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So there was a lot of hoopla about Zac Posen filling Michael Kors’ very big shoes on “Project Runway.” All good, all nice stuff, but did anyone ever take a moment to ask longtime judge and PR mainstay Nina Garcia what she thinks? We did.
“Well, it was weird at first (with Posen) but we’ve gotten into a groove,” said Garcia, after the Marchesa fashion show on Wednesday evening. “He is sweet...
Read more »Kate Middleton baby bump bikini photos: Palace denounces privacy breach, magazine reportedly defends pics
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The expectant royal couple's babymoon didn't stay private for long.
Editors of the Italian magazine Chi are reportedly defending their decision to publish photos of a pregnant Kate Middleton strolling on a Caribbean beach with Prince William, despite royal officials denouncing the shots as a “clear breach of the couple's right to privacy.”
Chi, the same publication that ran topless photos...
Read more »Miley Cyrus chats during Rachel Zoe at New York Fashion Week
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Singer Miley Cyrus caused a media frenzy Wednesday afternoon as she found her seat at Rachel Zoe's New York Fashion Week show at Lincoln Center.
Cyrus, dressed in a red jumpsuit by Zoe, her short platinum blonde hair in a faux hawk, sat between mom Tish Cyrus and Cosmopolitan editor-in-chief Joanna Coles. She chatted animatedly with Coles, hands flying throughout the show.
Zoe's Fall...
Read more »Mila Kunis admits to Ashton Kutcher romance?
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We've seen them getting cozy at a Laker's game, taking a break in Bali, sauntering in Sydney and spending Christmas together in Chicago, but Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher have been mum on any alleged romance that might have been brewing over the last oh, say, seven months or so. Ellen DeGeneres, however, managed to corner the coy Kunis this morning on her syndicated talk show.
Ellen...
Read more »'Pretty Little Liars' recap: 'What Becomes of the Broken-Hearted'
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Spencer, Spencer, Spencer, how I love the crazy new you. Ms. Hastings has hopped on to the loony locomotive and it hasn't just left the station, it's barreling down the tracks wildly out of control.
While the Liars are all concerned about Spencer's fast-paced unravelling, I happen to think this is the first normal response to all the things that they've been through. Her attack on Mona was...
Read more »Katherine Heigl at New York Fashion Week: 'I’m fashionably hopeless'
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Stunner Katherine Heigl came out for the Jenny Packham show on Tuesday at the tents dressed in the designer’s body-fitted midnight blue dress, which was dotted with crystals.
Heigl said she preferred the New York Fashion Week seen to the LA red carpet big time.
“In LA it’s all about if you mess up on the red carpet,” she said. Does she? “Oh yeah, plenty. I’m fashionably hopeless. I wish...
Read more »Gymnast Aly Raisman races to Badgley Mischka
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Gold medal gymnast Aly Raisman had a stressful start to New York Fashion Week, but anyone who watched the 2012 Summer Olympics knows this 18-year-old doesn't fold under pressure.
After arriving later than scheduled for Badgley Mischka's show at Lincoln Center Tuesday morning, Raisman didn't have much time to get ready. Because of her petite frame, the white dress the designers chose for her...
Read more »Jamie-Lynn Sigler pregnant and engaged
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Actress Jamie-Lynn Sigler, best known for her role on "The Sopranos," is pregnant with her first child, her rep confirmed to People on Tuesday.
Sigler, who grew up in Jericho and currently stars in NBC's "Guys With Kids," also recently became engaged to minor league baseball player Cutter Dykstra, 23. She took to Twitter in January to announce their impending nuptials.
This...
Read more »Vanessa Hudgens, AnnaSophia Robb come out for Alice + Olivia
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AnnaSophia Robb, 19, plays a young Carrie Bradshaw on "Sex and the City" prequel "The Carrie Diaries," and the actress hit New York Fashion Week on Monday night in style, just like Carrie would.
"I've been exposed to a lot more designers," Robb said of playing the fashionable character. "It's been a confidence boost," she added, saying that she has more...
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