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King’s Hands Free
Whopper Holder is
a real thing. A real,
really gross thing.
Leah McSweeney wears one of her Supreme Bitch T-shirts. Sales exploded when Rihanna
wore a hat with the logo while she was on vacation. / BESS ADLER, RIHANNA’S FACEBOOK
A Supreme
court battle
THOUSANDS OF COURSES.
State University of New York
A MILLION REASONS.
Fashion Institute of Technology
Where creativity gets down to business.
Damani Lomas
Accessories Design
Fair wage. Intern
Justice says it
is filing several
lawsuits this
summer over
unpaid internships.
After 10-hour days photographing for look books
and adding to a website for
a fashion designer, Erica
van Rabenswaay, 24, wondered whether she should
be paid for her internship.
Van Rabenswaay sued
designer Norma Kamali
last week, saying the company violated federal labor
laws by requiring her to
work full-time without
pay.
For three months, her
only compensation was a
MetroCard, she said.
She took the internship understanding it was
unpaid, she said. Instead
of mentorship or training,
she alleged in the lawsuit,
which demands back wages, van Rabenswaay said
what was an “apprenticeship” was instead helping
Kamali, for free.
Her court filing is only
the beginning. Intern Justice, a group that helps
interns sue employers,
warns it is the first of similar lawsuits they will issue.
“Young people think
they are getting a toehold
in their chosen profession,” Maurice Pianko, the
founder of Intern Justice,
said. “Many employers are
just looking for free labor.”
Ultimately, the designer hired van Rabenswaay
-— for a month, she said,
when she was abruptly
fired. She soon spotted
an advertisement seeking
another “apprentice,” she
said, but offering no pay.
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BOWEN
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Teacher evaluation plan finalized
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“There are strong
measures to help
remove ineffective teachers and
principals, but
let’s be clear: New
York is not going
to fire its way to
academic success.”
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Fighting back against
unpaid internships
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Survival of the fittest. Leah McSweeney is being sued by streetwear
line Supreme for infringing on the brand with her Supreme Bitch
T-shirt. Two of a kind. “I’ve never claimed to be original,” she says. PAGE 04
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Monday, June 3, 2013
Dennis Walcott will head the new system. / GETTY IMAGES
Public safety
City offers free
self-defense
classes after
hate crimes
The City Council is offering free self-defense
training throughout the
city in light of a recent
spike in reports of hate
crimes.
The training will
teach violence prevention strategies and
New York City public
schools finally have
a teacher evaluation
system, handed down
by Commissioner James
King at the State Department of Education.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo
charged the state DOE
with coming up with a
plan by June 1 after the
city’s Department of
Education and the United
Federation of Teachers
failed to agree on a plan
on their own.
At the Celebrate Israel
Parade, Mayor Michael
Bloomberg called King’s
plan “a huge rebuff to the
UFT’s obstructionism.”
However, Michael
Mulgrew, the teachers’
union president, expressed satisfaction.
“The New York City
Department [of Education]
will not be able to fire its
way to a great school system,” Mulgrew told NY1.
With King’s evaluation system, 40 percent of
teacher evaluations will
be based on student performance, and 60 percent
on other measures.
According to NY1,
teachers who get the
lowest rating two years in
a row can be fired, even
with tenure.
DANIELLE TCHOLAKIAN
Underground
safety tips to the LGBT
community, according
to the council.
The first class will
take place at 4 p.m. on
Saturday, June 8, at the
LGBT Center.
Other classes will
soon be added.
Interested New
Yorkers can register by
calling 212-788-5613
or emailing events@
council.nyc.gov
DANIELLE TCHOLAKIAN
Second Avenue
subway has bad
track record
Residents near dig sites
have long complained
about the disruption
caused by Second Avenue subway construction, which began in
2007. A Daily News
investigation has now
uncovered a series of
safety violations by con-
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tractors at the tunnels
on the east side.
Within the last two
years, investigations
have turned up 18
safety violations.
Violations have
involved hitting live gas
lines, exposure to silica
dust, improper handling
of contaminated soil
and a “controlled” blast
that sent debris shooting six stories high.
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Hot dogs
Nathan’s
re-opens in
Coney Island
When Nathan’s
opened its doors quietly yesterday ahead
of a bigger grand
re-opening tomorrow,
hot dogs were still the
staple of the menu.
But the establishment
has added a raw bar
and expanded its
beverage options to
include wine and a
bigger beer selection.
Customers who want
more than the usual
hot dog and crinklecut fries can get a
dozen oysters for
$17.50, according to
the Daily News.
NEWS
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CULTURE
EMILY JOHNSON
Pipeline stirs
safety concerns
New Yorkers march through the city to protest fracking and the coming of the Spectra pipeline. / ERIC WALTON, OCCUPY THE PIPELINE
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Tsarnaev brothers
more American than
Chechen
Public concern. The
new pipeline will
carry natural gas
that is extracted
from fracking.
Concerns are growing
about the planned Spectra
pipeline on the west side
of lower Manhattan, but
what some may not know
is that their concerns
may be coming too late:
The pipeline is already in
place.
The Spectra pipeline
runs along the Jersey
Shore under the Hudson
River to Gansevoort Street
and to a Con Ed power
station at 14th Street and
Ninth Avenue, according
to Sane Energy Project cofounder Denise Katzman.
According to Katzman,
the pressure of a pipeline
becomes more intense
the bigger the radius of
the pipeline. The Spectra
pipeline has a radius of 30
inches. That is the same
size as the pipeline that
exploded in San Bruno,
Calif., in 2010.
Nothing in common
“The only thing that our pipeline and the
San Bruno pipeline have in common is that
they are natural gas pipelines.”
Spectra spokesperson
Claire Donohue, Sane
Energy Project co-founder,
noted that the well-known
San Bruno pipeline accident occurred in a suburban area in California and
wreaked massive damage,
killing eight people.
A Spectra spokesperson
said that these concerns
are completely unfounded,
and that the pipeline was
“built to meet or exceed all
federal safety regulations.”
DANIELLE
TCHOLAKIAN
danielle.tcholakian@metro.us
Hate. Latest in string
of anti-gay attacks
happens in New York
Quoted
“If you are
victimized,
harassed,
assaulted—we
want to know
about it.”
Ray Kelly
A march against hate crimes took place Monday. / AARON ADLER, METRO
Early yesterday, another
hate crime occurred in
Manhattan, just days
after a man was shot by
another man shouting
homophobic slurs.
Two men were walking in SoHo when two
men started shouting
anti-gay slurs, police said.
The shouting developed
into a confrontation.
Anti-gay attacks are
up almost 70 percent this
year, according to Police
Commissioner Ray Kelly.
Kelly and Mayor
Michael Bloomberg
condemned the attacks
in a press conference
yesterday afternoon.
DANIELLE TCHOLAKIAN
Traffic accident
School bus
crash injures
three in
Brooklyn
Three people were
injured when a school
bus collided with a car
in Brooklyn yesterday
morning, DNAinfo.
com reported.
The crash, near
East Fifth Street and
Avenue C in Kensington, left both the
front of the bus and
driver’s side of the car
badly damaged.
Two of the injured
were taken to Kings
County Hospital while
the third was taken to
Maimonides Medical
Center. The ages and
identities of the patients have not been
released. EMILY JOHNSON
Web giant
Yahoo moves
into old NY
Times office
Yahoo Inc. announced
that its New York
employees would be
moving into the old
home of the New York
Times on 43rd Street.
The Californiabased web giant currently employs a New
York workforce of
500 people scattered
across three office
spaces across the city.
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TELEVISION
10
Guzzling martinis
with Lucille Bluth
Interview. Jessica
Walter slips right
back into the boozy
matriarch role that
made her famous
— again.
By her count, Jessica Walter has been a member of
the Screen Actors Guild for
50 years, a period of time
that encompasses a vast
body of work — dramatic
(“Grand Prix”), suspenseful
(“Play Misty for Me,” opposite Clint Eastwood), supernatural (“Dr. Strange”) and,
most recently, comedic
(“Archer”). But for Walter,
the forthcoming return of
“Arrested Development”
offers a reassuring reminder that her career has transcended not just different
genres, but different generations.
“Certainly demographically, there are probably
people who thought I was
dead,” Walter jokes.
Returning as boozy matriarch Lucille Bluth, Walter says virtually every line
of dialogue in the 15 new
episodes creator Mitchell
Hurwitz wrote has a double
(or even triple) meaning,
much like those in the 53
episodes of the show that
were broadcast during its
three seasons on Fox. But
because each episode now
focuses on a different character instead of simply following Jason Bateman’s Michael Bluth, conversational
contexts shift frequently
— a change that provided a
considerable challenge for
the cast as they navigated
Hurwitz’s latticework of
plot strands and one-liners.
“We didn’t know a whole
lot a lot of the time, which
makes it much more difficult,” she admits. “In the
end, it all worked out, but
it’s a strange way to work
because you don’t have all
of the materials.”
Still, even after a sevenyear hiatus between the
show’s cancellation and
its Netflix rebirth, Walter
says she slipped easily back
into the role. “The thing
about our show, which I
think you probably realize
from watching it, is that
the writing is so characterspecific,” she observes.
She says her maternal
instinct kicked in as soon
as she encountered actor
Tony Hale, who plays her
tragic son Buster, maimed
after he ignored a warning to beware of what he
thought somebody was
saying was Lucille. As viewers will remember, it was
really a loose seal, which
ate his hand whole.
“Once I heard Tony’s
voice and once I saw him,
there he was with the hook
and his pathetic demeanor
— he was my little Busty
again.”
Between “Arrested Development” and “Archer,”
on which she plays another alkie mom, Walter finds
herself in the midst of a
remarkable career renaissance, a fact she’s grateful
for, regardless of whether
people know her prior to
playing these cantankerous, irresistibly manipulative mothers.
“I’m so glad they think
of something,” she says
humbly. “At my age I’m
privileged that they think
of something, so it doesn’t
bother me a bit if they
think of me as Lucille.”
Quoted
“People have been
really nice — they
don’t seem to think
of Lucille as horrible,
thank God. But as
long as they’re
thinking of me, it
makes me happy.”
Walter
TODD
GILCHRIST
letters@metro.us
Flashback
Do not play
‘Misty’ for her
We did not ask Jessica
Walter about that movie
where she has sex with
Clint Eastwood. For his
1971 directorial debut
“Play Misty for Me,” Clint
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SPORTS
SPORTS
www.metro.us
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
The Cavaliers won the
top pick in the NBA
Draft for the second
time in three years last
night.
Cleveland had a
15.6 percent chance to
win the lottery after
finishing with the
third-worst record in
the league. Orlando
had the worst record
in the league but will
pick No. 2, while the
Wizards got a nice
bonus as they moved
up to No. 3 despite
having the eighthworst record. METRO
loved ones with a knifewielding fury. She was so
good she was borderline
uncastable for years —
that’s how terrifying
her performance was.
But she’s not known for
that character as much
anymore, thankfully.
“I have
people that
are my age
and older
who know
who I am, who
remember some of my
work from the old days,”
says Walter. “Then I used
to get, ‘Wow,
my mother
really likes you.’
Then I’d get, ‘My
grandma really
likes you.’ And now I
get ‘I really like you!’ So
how can I be unhappy
about that?”
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Thursday, April 25, 2013
GOING OUT
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Charity
Durant
donates
$1M
Oklahoma City
forward Kevin Durant
announced yesterday
he was donating $1
million to the Red
Cross in Oklahoma
after a devastating
tornado hit Moore,
Okla., on Monday
afternoon. Durant
has been with the
franchise all five
years they’ve been in
the state. The Thunder organization also
announced it would
be donating $1 million to recovery.
Online
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The Nets gave Phil
Jackson an offer he
could refuse.
Jackson told Dan
Patrick on his radio
show yesterday that
he was impressed by
what the Nets offered
him to take over as
coach — just not
enough to actually
accept.
“The Brooklyn
situation is a good
situation,” Jackson
told Patrick.
The reason Jackson
didn’t accept the
position was because
it “was coaching basically.” Jackson would
prefer to have a say in
personnel issues if he
takes over with a new
team. METRO
The Rangers now see their season slip sliding away after a late goal by the Bruins in Game 3. / GETTY IMAGES
Bruins nab 3-0 lead
on late Game 3 goal
NHL playoffs.
The Rangers now
face an almost
insurmountable
deficit in the series.
The Rangers’ best effort
in the Eastern Conference
semifinals simply wasn’t
good enough.
As a result, a season
which began with expectations of playing meaningful games in June is one
Highlights of
Bruins-Rangers
Game 3 at MSG
Rangers notes:
Girardi earns
Tortorella’s trust
Playing the Field:
What cities should
host the Super Bowl?
Game 4
If the Rangers are going
to pull the reverse of the
infamous Yankees-Red
Sox series in 2004, they
need to start in Game 4.
The Bruins have lost after
leading by three games
before — in 2010 against
Philadelphia.
•
Bruins at Rangers
Game 4, tomorrow
at 7, CNBC
Lundqvist could not find it,
and Paille pounced on the
loose rebound.
As the Bruins celebrated, Lundqvist stared up at
the pinwheel ceiling, frustration etched on his face.
The Rangers led 1-0
through two periods on a
goal by Taylor Pyatt in the
first period. Johnny Boychuk tied in 3:10 into the
third period.
DENIS
GORMAN
Knicks’ brass emphasize positives
2
3
loss away from ending.
The Rangers trail the
Bruins in the best-of-seven
series 3-0 after dropping a
2-1 decision in Game 3 last
night at the Garden.
Daniel Paille’s goalmouth tap-in at 16:29 of
the third was the gamewinning goal.
The sequence that led to Paille’s
goal began with a Shawn
Thornton shot that hit
Henrik Lundqvist and
popped behind the goaltender. The puck never
crossed the goal line, but
Woodson wouldn’t comment on Amar’e Stoudemire’s status for
2013-14, only saying they would “play it by ear.” / GETTY IMAGES
The Knicks wrapped up
their season-ending media
obligations by ushering
head coach Mike Woodson
and president Glen Grunwald in front of the masses
at their facilities yesterday.
Neither wanted to discuss personnel decisions,
but they were eager to
heap praise on a team not
many pegged to go deep in
the postseason. Grunwald
refused to get into the specifics of what he plans on
doing with the roster this
summer, but he did allow
Quoted
“I still say that
based on where we
started and how we
assembled our team,
this was, to me, a
wonderful season.”
Mike Woodson, Knicks head coach
that changes will be made.
“[The team’s salary cap]
probably is not likely to
get under the tax thresh-
olds, but sign-and-trades
are available, although you
just can’t acquire a player
that way if you’re over the
threshold,” said Grunwald.
“We’ll see how it all plays
out. Free agency is always a
little unpredictable.”
Woodson is looking forward to stacking on another training camp to further
emphasize his schemes.
“To win our division,
[and] to secure the second
seed, people didn’t think
we could do [any] of those
things.” TONY WILLIAMS
There are 30 types of oysters on the menu at the Oyster Bar in Grand Central Terminal, which recently celebrated its centennial. / BRYAN SMITH
Top 3
Tips from
a pro
1
Start small: Chef
Sandy Ingber of
Oyster Bar in Grand
Central advises: “Blue
Points are my choice for
beginners to start with.
They’re plump and
mild, easy to eat.”
2
Get naked: “I personally like to chew an
oyster naked at first to
get the full flavor profile,” says Ingber. “Then
I will put stuff on top.
Always try them naked
first and chew.”
3
Choose carefully:
When purchasing
oysters from fisheries, they must come
from certified waters
and must be tagged.
Ingber’s tip for buying
directly: Look for a
tag. “Don’t buy them if
there is no tag — ask
to see it. Also, oysters
must be closed tight.
Don’t use if they’re
gapped or smell bad.”
WELLBEING
22
Fitness. RDJ’s
trainer gives us the
moves that turned
him into the hero.
No thanks
Jackson liked
offer from
Brooklyn
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The ‘Iron Man 3’ workout
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cast her as a woman
who becomes
obsessed with his
sexy radio DJ. Walter
became cinema’s
first-ever crazed onenight stand victim,
who begins attacking him and his
28
Lottery jackpot
Cavaliers win
top pick in
NBA draft
New York City
is your oyster
Bonkers for these
bivalves? Here are
our favorite spots
to slurp ’em.
Ernest Hemingway waxed
poetic about them in his
posthumous memoir “A
Moveable Feast.” The late,
great lover Casanova was
said to eat a dozen of them
for breakfast. And scientists have confirmed that
they are indeed aphrodisiacs (as if we didn’t know).
So it’s no wonder that
oysters are as popular as
ever. Read on for our guide
to eating the best bivalves
across the city, and at great
prices to boot.
Maison Premiere
With a happy hour in
place all year round, this
Williamsburg cocktail
den boasts an impressive
oyster list of more than a
dozen fresh picks sourced
from bays across the country. For $1 each, diners can
choose from little gems
including the East End,
Montauk Pearl, Kenny’s
Malpeque and Peters Point.
Check out our interview
with new chef Lisa Giffen
on the next page.
The best part of happy
hour at The John Dory Oys-
BLT Fish Shack
Monday-Friday, 5-7 p.m.
21 W. 17th St.
212-691-1011
Crave Fishbar
Monday-Friday, 5-7 p.m.
945 Second Ave.
646-895-9585
L&W Oyster Co.
The John Dory
Oyster Bar
Ainsworth Park
Every Tuesday,
5-8 p.m.
111 E. 18th St.
212-673-2467
Cafe Tallulah
Monday-Thursday, 5-7 p.m.
and Friday-Sunday, 4-7 p.m.
240 Columbus Ave.
212-209-1055
Offered Monday-Friday, 4-7 p.m.
298 Bedford Ave., 347-335-0446
At this market-driven
oyster bar, the atmosphere
and menu are decidedly
nautical. Weekday specials
include $2 oysters —
sourced from both the East
and West coasts — including hard-to-find varieties
like Belon oysters from
Maine (only 5,000 of the
zinc- and umami-packed
delicacies are harvested
each year).
Offered Monday-Friday, 5-7 p.m.
254 Fifth Ave., 212-203-7772
Found!
Where to go
for $1 oysters
Dig in at Maison Premiere. / MELISSA HOM
ter Bar is that it’s offered
twice a day. Included is a
choice of a half-dozen oysters or clams and a choice
of a glass of bubbly or an
English pint of Sixpoint
Oyster Stout, a beer made
from the oyster shells
shucked at the restaurant
($18).
Offered daily, 5-7 p.m. and
11 p.m. to midnight
1196 Broadway, 212-792-9000
Grand Central
Oyster Bar
At this Midtown mainstay,
executive chef Sandy
Ingber says after the late
1990s and the economic
boom, many varieties of
oyster became available
from all over the country.
Now they’re as popular as
ever. “I have 30 varieties
on my menu every day
and cannot keep them in
the house,” Ingber says.
Oyster Bar specials include
Blue Point oysters ($1.25
each) and fried oyster sliders ($8.95) in the lounge
and saloon only.
Monday-Wednesday, 4:30-7 p.m.;
Saturday, 1-5 p.m.
89 E. 42nd St., 212-490-6650
CINDY
AUGUSTINE
letters@metro.us
“Superheroes have good
bodies, even if they have
Ph.D.s,” says Brad Bose,
who would know: He’s
Robert Downey Jr.’s personal trainer. “So it was
important that Robert
was extremely fit and had
a good muscular build —
only it had to look realistic. He’s meant to be a
billionaire playboy. You
don’t want him to get too
big and end up looking
like Captain America or
The Hulk.”
Fortunately, Downey
Jr. was almost ready to
go for his third stint as
Tony Stark in the new
film opening Friday.
“He’d recently finished
filming ‘The Avengers,’
so he was in good shape,”
Bose says. “But holding
on to that muscle mass
and definition for long
periods of time isn’t easy.
He had to get ‘re-buff.’ We
were doing two-hour sessions, three to four days
a week. By the time we
were done, he’d gained
five pounds of muscle
and trimmed 10 pounds
of fat.”
ROMINA
MCGUINNESS
romina.mcguinness@metro.lu
Robert Downey Jr. is back as Tony Stark in “Iron Man 3,” opening Friday. / ZADE ROSENTHAL
The Robert Downey Jr. workout
How he got
there
“Robert’s cardio was
never an issue,” Bose
tells Metro. “A lot of
people don’t want to talk
about it, but the truth is,
he’s 48. He’s above the
curve when it comes to
being a fit individual,
but this is a young man’s
training he’s doing.”
In order to gain
On his day off
muscle bulk, Downey
Jr. spent the first month
doing traditional weight
training: push-ups,
bench presses, etc. Once
he and Bose were satisfied with his mass, they
moved on to functional
performance training, a
technique that engages
all muscle groups simultaneously: “FPT isn’t just
for aesthetics,” says Bose.
“All the exercises are
designed to get you muscular through strength.
As opposed to body
building, where you’re
working one muscle
group in isolation, FPT
gets as many muscles
and as many planes of
movement engaged at
any one time (as possible),” he explains.
The logic behind the
moves is this: “The body
functions as a unit. Every
time you’re doing an
upper-body movement,
your legs should never
be completely dormant.
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is Michael Jackson’s
first posthumous album,
“Michael.” A lineup of
guests like Lenny Kravitz,
Akon and 50 Cent — along
with superstar producers
such as Teddy Riley and
Tricky Stewart — have all
been tapped to contribute
to the 10-song CD. But even
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that were in various states
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Jackson is “disrespectful.”
A Michael Jackson album
without his input could be
a disaster for his legions of
fans eagerly awaiting the
CD, especially since the
King of Pop was known for
his attention to detail. But
there are some who are optimistic.
“It’s not like they found
a bunch of old records and
decided to put out an album to make money. These
are songs he was involved
with,” explains Pup Dawg,
the music director at JAMN
94.5 in Boston.
The real question will
be: Does it live up to Jackson’s other work?
Some within the industry are still skeptical. But
many fans won’t care, and
their curiosity will drive
them to the store or online
— a troubled Michael Jackson album is better than
none at all, to them.
“The song with Lenny
Kravitz is a Michael record.
That just feels like a
Michael Jackson record,”
says Geespin, assistant program director for New
York’s Power 105.1 radio
station. “Truth is, I’d rather
hear music from the
biggest and best artists
than not hear it. It’s still
Michael. It’s still the biggest
artist of all time. Would you
rather not hear it?”
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The first phase of Weezer’s career is an embattled one for singer Rivers
Cuomo. With their self-titled 1994 debut, they
achieved instant and massive buzz based on their
fun singles and silly videos,
which MTV played on
heavy rotation. (Yes, it was
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shallow success wasn’t
enough for Cuomo. So with
the band’s second album,
“Pinkerton,” he got more
personal, and hoped critics
and fans would follow him
into the deep end. They
didn’t — at least not right
away — and it would be
five years before anyone
would hear another note
from the band.
“I guess part of me assumed that it was going to
be very successful and I’d
become like this superstar,
because the record was so
focused on me. And I probably entertained some
Their duet,
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debut, which has come
to be known as “The
Blue Album” because of
the background against
which the band stands,
and their 1996 followup, “Pinkerton.” On the
first night of the engagement, the band goes
through a short set of
greatest hits in reverse
chronological order and
plays the first album in
its entirety. On the second night, they begin
with a different set of
hits and then play
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doubts, maybe it will totally
fail and sell half as much as
‘The Blue Album’ or something,” says Cuomo. “And it
came out and sold a tenth
of ‘The Blue Album’ —
which, in those days, was
an incredible drop. And it
wasn’t just commercial, but
the critics pretty uniformly
hated it. And it was just the
beginnings of online feedback too, so you could go
on Amazon and see all the
negative feedback from the
fans of the first record. And
boy, that was just crushing
for me, all of that together.
And it took awhile to build
up the confidence to even
step back in the spotlight
again.”
During the band’s hibernation, fans began to take
to the brash sounds and
emotional lyrics of “Pinkerton,” and the album arguably became responsible
for the advent of the genre
known as emo. But when
Cuomo did step back into
that spotlight, Weezer
emerged as something of
an armored unit, with an
arsenal of songs that mostly
seemed to be short, poppy
and almost escapist, like
“Island in the Sun” and
“Hash Pipe.” And listening
to the recently released
deluxe edition of “Pinkerton” with rare acoustic versions of devastating songs
like “Why Bother?”, one
has to wonder if Cuomo
thinks he ever reached
down so deeply again in his
songwriting.
“Yes. I do,” he says before
a long pause. “But — I
know some of our core fans
would get upset when I say
something like this — but I
feel like ‘Beverly Hills’ was
an extremely honest and
deep song, and they take it
to be the opposite, which
has always perplexed me.”
PAT HEALY
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Trend. With “Girls”
a hit and plus-sized
models becoming
the norm, we
wonder: Are the
days of the blonde
bimbo over?
star/creator Lena Dunham
is, well, average-looking.
She’s a chubby, tattooed,
thin-haired
26-year-old.
She’s normal.
The hype comes at
the perfect time for the
“real beauty” movement
— and for this Metro Sex
Issue, themed “Feel Good
Naked.” Within the past
month, plus-size model
Jennie Runk made headlines when H+M debuted
her modeling swimwear
(despite being a dress size
14-16, not 0). Dove soap, on
the tails of an ad campaign
featuring plus-size women,
launched an “anti-Photoshop” app that restores images to their original form.
And “amateur” porn is the
most popular category on
YouPorn, ranking higher
than “blondes.” The house
that Jenna Jameson built is
crumbling. The question is:
How quickly?
The biggest sex story of the
past year didn’t happen
between Christian and Anastasia in some porn your
mom read — it happened
in Brooklyn when Adam
banged Hannah and probably gave her an STD. The
HBO series “Girls,” with its
frank depiction of bad dirty
talk, venereal diseases,
abortions, miscarriages and
condom spill, is all about
sex. But unlike “Sex and the
City” before it, this show is
a global hit partly because
The model
The editor
“It’s ridiculous that
people are arguing.
We should focus on
embracing all sizes.”
“We don’t airbrush.
There’s something
sexy about that.”
Arielle Loren
founder, Corset magazine
Jennie Runk
plus-size model for H+M
So yes, how
quickly?
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THE SEX ISSUE
IN 2013
‘FATKINI’
DESIGNER
GABI GREGG
Tip from Corset editor
In one year, or in five? “I
don’t think five years is
enough,” says Gabi Gregg,
26, a plus-size blogger. Her
work went viral last year
after she posted photos of
herself looking sensual in
a “fatkini” and, this week,
she launches her own line
of swimwear (see story, at
right). “But peo-
ple like Lena
Dunham and Louis
C.K. are opening doors.
Just the fact that her body
makes people so angry —
if you read the comments,
people are telling her to
put on clothes. She has said
that only makes her want
to do it more. It’s my favorite show.”
Arielle Loren doesn’t
watch “Girls,” but also traffics in blunt depictions of
sex. Her magazine Corset
(www.corsetmagazine.
com) features graphic nudity and first-person erotica,
and resembles someone’s
beautifully photographed
diary. It became profitable
after a year, and Loren sees
it as part of a movement.
“The way we learn about
sex, the pornography industry drives a lot of that
consciousness,” says Loren,
a 27-year-old American. “It
starts to inform the way
we think about ‘sexy’ from
•
Do the self-work. “Start
by walking around your
house naked. If you have
a roommate, shut your
door and walk around
your room naked. The
more you get comfortable with your naked self
— not covering yourself
up with a towel every
time you take a shower,
taking the time to be in
your body and open like
that — your confidence
will slowly and steadily
increase.”
Loren, on how to feel
good naked
The Gabifresh.com
blogger just crafted
a line for Swimsuitsforall.com.
In school, did you realize
you were bigger than
everybody else?
Yes and no. I wasn’t teased
too much, luckily. It was
mostly internal, feeling insecure next to my
classmates, if they were
thinner than me or had
blonde hair. Nobody had
to say anything. And I
started trying to diet when
I was in middle school and
high school, and it wasn’t
until college that I came to
accept myself.
Dunham is just one of the “Girls.” The actress has said she wouldn’t want a body like a Victoria’s Secret model. / HBO
an early age. But there are
multifaceted aspects of sex
and what it can really be,
which we explore in the
magazine. That goes from
everything you can do in
the bedroom — physically
— but also how we understand our bodies.”
A recent Corset photoshoot, “Breasts in Erotic
Daylight,”
features
a
brown bosom with stretch
marks. “We definitely
don’t airbrush,” says Loren.
“There’s something very
sexy about that. Being able
to see the hair follicles on a
breast or the stretch marks
on a woman’s stomach.”
She now has subscribers
here, in Canada, Peru, Brazil, Sweden and beyond.
And yet post a photo of
a plus size-model online
and you see not everyone’s
as accepting. Exhibit A: Jennie Runk.
Junk in
Runk’s trunk
The excitement (and de-
9
bate) over Runk’s H+M
campaign made it all the
way to Italy, where she was
working in May. It led to at
least one sleepless night. “I
was thinking about all the
media I’ve been getting
and my mom reads a lot
of the comments and she
said, ‘I can’t believe somebody called you fat,’” remembers the 24-year-old,
“and some people on the
other side were like, ‘The
curvier bodies are better!’
and it’s so ridiculous that
people are having these ar-
guments. What if some girl
looks at these pictures and
looks exactly like me: How
is she going to feel?”
She turned to Facebook
with a post. “I’ve noticed
that people like to debate
what kind of body is better
than another,” she wrote.
“This is all wrong! To me,
true beauty is defined by
a healthy lifestyle and a
genuine personality. Bodies are just meaty things
that carry our personhoods
around for us.” A week
later, Runk is still riled up.
She notes that “bigger”
models are getting more
work, but “we should focus
on embracing all sizes,” she
says bluntly.
“Should” is different
than “are.” The chart below
shows the Sex Symbols of
2013, as selected by our editors from a pool of working
actors who have notable
projects this year — there
are more shapes and sizes
than there would have been
in 1985, but it’s still very
thin and white. “We’re going in the right direction,”
says Gregg, “but ... ”
“This argument,” adds
Runk, “is going to be a
thing of the past when —
honestly, I don’t know.” On
Facebook, she was more
hopeful, saying it’s “our
differences that make us
remarkable.”
She laughs when she
hears that again. “I’ve been
told before I’m a little too
naive.”
SAM
CASTONE
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How do the suits, um,
work?
What do you mean by
work? [Laughs]
They fit so well. Is it made
with a binding material,
with latches or something?
Actually, no. I’ve had
people ask about support,
of course, but there’s nothing special about the fabric
of the suits. It’s normal
bathing suit fabric. In
terms of the Galaxy suit,
what makes it so special
is the print — it’s graphic
Quoted
“It wasn’t until
college that I came
to accept myself.”
Gabi Gregg, writer, designer
and fun and looks great
because it’s so busy that
it — I don’t want to say it
distracts the eye, because I
don’t care about that sort
of thing, but that’s what it
does. And the high-waisted
cut looks great on all
women.
Are you OK with the term
“fatkini”?
Yes. I didn’t use it this
year because it went so
viral last year, and it was
inspiring for many people
but took away from it, for
others, because they were
stuck on the word and got
angry and started commenting. It’s a reclamation
of the word “fat,” especially in our community,
we all get it. When it goes
outside the community,
people get angry and send
emails. But I’m fine with it.
At the end of the day, it’s a
fatkini because I’m fat and
wearing a bikini. [Laughs]
How much do you weigh
now?
I believe I’m around 225.
How tall are you?
I’m 5-foot-5.
Do you get flack for not
being “fat enough?” Early
on, there were some
comments.
I don’t get a lot. Once in a
while, like when the bikini
pictures come out. It’s funny to see half the people
commenting are disgusted
by my body and the other
half are like, fat women
saying, “She’s shaped so
nicely so it doesn’t count!
I have fat hanging from
my arm that she doesn’t
have!” I try to avoid the
comments on other sites.
Some women wish they
could see women bigger
than me in a bikini and I
understand that but I can
only be myself. SAM CASTONE
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Instead of mentorship or training, she alleged in the lawsuit, which demands back wages, van Rabenswaay said what was an “apprenticeship” was instead helping Kamali, for free. Her court filing is only the beginning. Intern Justice, a group that helps interns sue employers, warns it is the first of similar lawsuits they will issue. “Young people think they are getting a toehold in their chosen profession,” Maurice Pianko, the founder of Intern Justice, said. “Many employers are just looking for free labor.” Ultimately, the designer hired van Rabenswaay -— for a month, she said, when she was abruptly fired. She soon spotted an advertisement seeking another “apprentice,” she said, but offering no pay. 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Customers who want more than the usual hot dog and crinklecut fries can get a dozen oysters for $17.50, according to the Daily News. NEWS 2 CULTURE EMILY JOHNSON Pipeline stirs safety concerns New Yorkers march through the city to protest fracking and the coming of the Spectra pipeline. / ERIC WALTON, OCCUPY THE PIPELINE Top 3 Trending online at Metro.us 1 London woman blames unemployment on good looks 2 PHOTOS: Devastation caused by Oklahoma tornado 3 Gerard Depardieu: Tsarnaev brothers more American than Chechen Public concern. The new pipeline will carry natural gas that is extracted from fracking. Concerns are growing about the planned Spectra pipeline on the west side of lower Manhattan, but what some may not know is that their concerns may be coming too late: The pipeline is already in place. The Spectra pipeline runs along the Jersey Shore under the Hudson River to Gansevoort Street and to a Con Ed power station at 14th Street and Ninth Avenue, according to Sane Energy Project cofounder Denise Katzman. According to Katzman, the pressure of a pipeline becomes more intense the bigger the radius of the pipeline. The Spectra pipeline has a radius of 30 inches. That is the same size as the pipeline that exploded in San Bruno, Calif., in 2010. Nothing in common “The only thing that our pipeline and the San Bruno pipeline have in common is that they are natural gas pipelines.” Spectra spokesperson Claire Donohue, Sane Energy Project co-founder, noted that the well-known San Bruno pipeline accident occurred in a suburban area in California and wreaked massive damage, killing eight people. A Spectra spokesperson said that these concerns are completely unfounded, and that the pipeline was “built to meet or exceed all federal safety regulations.” DANIELLE TCHOLAKIAN danielle.tcholakian@metro.us Hate. Latest in string of anti-gay attacks happens in New York Quoted “If you are victimized, harassed, assaulted—we want to know about it.” Ray Kelly A march against hate crimes took place Monday. / AARON ADLER, METRO Early yesterday, another hate crime occurred in Manhattan, just days after a man was shot by another man shouting homophobic slurs. Two men were walking in SoHo when two men started shouting anti-gay slurs, police said. The shouting developed into a confrontation. Anti-gay attacks are up almost 70 percent this year, according to Police Commissioner Ray Kelly. Kelly and Mayor Michael Bloomberg condemned the attacks in a press conference yesterday afternoon. DANIELLE TCHOLAKIAN Traffic accident School bus crash injures three in Brooklyn Three people were injured when a school bus collided with a car in Brooklyn yesterday morning, DNAinfo. com reported. The crash, near East Fifth Street and Avenue C in Kensington, left both the front of the bus and driver’s side of the car badly damaged. Two of the injured were taken to Kings County Hospital while the third was taken to Maimonides Medical Center. The ages and identities of the patients have not been released. EMILY JOHNSON Web giant Yahoo moves into old NY Times office Yahoo Inc. announced that its New York employees would be moving into the old home of the New York Times on 43rd Street. The Californiabased web giant currently employs a New York workforce of 500 people scattered across three office spaces across the city. EMILY JOHNSON Under ‘Arrested’ Get Funke-D up at Metro.us • Photos of yesterday’s Never Nudes Unite convention in Times Square • New footage of the upcoming season • Two full minutes of the best Tobias Funke moments • How visitors to the Bluth banana stand responded to the “big yellow joint.” www.metro.us Weekend, May 17-19, 2013 TELEVISION 10 Guzzling martinis with Lucille Bluth Interview. Jessica Walter slips right back into the boozy matriarch role that made her famous — again. By her count, Jessica Walter has been a member of the Screen Actors Guild for 50 years, a period of time that encompasses a vast body of work — dramatic (“Grand Prix”), suspenseful (“Play Misty for Me,” opposite Clint Eastwood), supernatural (“Dr. Strange”) and, most recently, comedic (“Archer”). But for Walter, the forthcoming return of “Arrested Development” offers a reassuring reminder that her career has transcended not just different genres, but different generations. “Certainly demographically, there are probably people who thought I was dead,” Walter jokes. Returning as boozy matriarch Lucille Bluth, Walter says virtually every line of dialogue in the 15 new episodes creator Mitchell Hurwitz wrote has a double (or even triple) meaning, much like those in the 53 episodes of the show that were broadcast during its three seasons on Fox. But because each episode now focuses on a different character instead of simply following Jason Bateman’s Michael Bluth, conversational contexts shift frequently — a change that provided a considerable challenge for the cast as they navigated Hurwitz’s latticework of plot strands and one-liners. “We didn’t know a whole lot a lot of the time, which makes it much more difficult,” she admits. “In the end, it all worked out, but it’s a strange way to work because you don’t have all of the materials.” Still, even after a sevenyear hiatus between the show’s cancellation and its Netflix rebirth, Walter says she slipped easily back into the role. “The thing about our show, which I think you probably realize from watching it, is that the writing is so characterspecific,” she observes. She says her maternal instinct kicked in as soon as she encountered actor Tony Hale, who plays her tragic son Buster, maimed after he ignored a warning to beware of what he thought somebody was saying was Lucille. As viewers will remember, it was really a loose seal, which ate his hand whole. “Once I heard Tony’s voice and once I saw him, there he was with the hook and his pathetic demeanor — he was my little Busty again.” Between “Arrested Development” and “Archer,” on which she plays another alkie mom, Walter finds herself in the midst of a remarkable career renaissance, a fact she’s grateful for, regardless of whether people know her prior to playing these cantankerous, irresistibly manipulative mothers. “I’m so glad they think of something,” she says humbly. “At my age I’m privileged that they think of something, so it doesn’t bother me a bit if they think of me as Lucille.” Quoted “People have been really nice — they don’t seem to think of Lucille as horrible, thank God. But as long as they’re thinking of me, it makes me happy.” Walter TODD GILCHRIST letters@metro.us Flashback Do not play ‘Misty’ for her We did not ask Jessica Walter about that movie where she has sex with Clint Eastwood. For his 1971 directorial debut “Play Misty for Me,” Clint 3 SPORTS SPORTS www.metro.us Wednesday, May 22, 2013 The Cavaliers won the top pick in the NBA Draft for the second time in three years last night. Cleveland had a 15.6 percent chance to win the lottery after finishing with the third-worst record in the league. Orlando had the worst record in the league but will pick No. 2, while the Wizards got a nice bonus as they moved up to No. 3 despite having the eighthworst record. METRO loved ones with a knifewielding fury. She was so good she was borderline uncastable for years — that’s how terrifying her performance was. But she’s not known for that character as much anymore, thankfully. “I have people that are my age and older who know who I am, who remember some of my work from the old days,” says Walter. “Then I used to get, ‘Wow, my mother really likes you.’ Then I’d get, ‘My grandma really likes you.’ And now I get ‘I really like you!’ So how can I be unhappy about that?” + www.metro.us Thursday, April 25, 2013 GOING OUT 36 Charity Durant donates $1M Oklahoma City forward Kevin Durant announced yesterday he was donating $1 million to the Red Cross in Oklahoma after a devastating tornado hit Moore, Okla., on Monday afternoon. Durant has been with the franchise all five years they’ve been in the state. The Thunder organization also announced it would be donating $1 million to recovery. Online Trending online at Metro.us The Nets gave Phil Jackson an offer he could refuse. Jackson told Dan Patrick on his radio show yesterday that he was impressed by what the Nets offered him to take over as coach — just not enough to actually accept. “The Brooklyn situation is a good situation,” Jackson told Patrick. The reason Jackson didn’t accept the position was because it “was coaching basically.” Jackson would prefer to have a say in personnel issues if he takes over with a new team. METRO The Rangers now see their season slip sliding away after a late goal by the Bruins in Game 3. / GETTY IMAGES Bruins nab 3-0 lead on late Game 3 goal NHL playoffs. The Rangers now face an almost insurmountable deficit in the series. The Rangers’ best effort in the Eastern Conference semifinals simply wasn’t good enough. As a result, a season which began with expectations of playing meaningful games in June is one Highlights of Bruins-Rangers Game 3 at MSG Rangers notes: Girardi earns Tortorella’s trust Playing the Field: What cities should host the Super Bowl? Game 4 If the Rangers are going to pull the reverse of the infamous Yankees-Red Sox series in 2004, they need to start in Game 4. The Bruins have lost after leading by three games before — in 2010 against Philadelphia. • Bruins at Rangers Game 4, tomorrow at 7, CNBC Lundqvist could not find it, and Paille pounced on the loose rebound. As the Bruins celebrated, Lundqvist stared up at the pinwheel ceiling, frustration etched on his face. The Rangers led 1-0 through two periods on a goal by Taylor Pyatt in the first period. Johnny Boychuk tied in 3:10 into the third period. DENIS GORMAN Knicks’ brass emphasize positives 2 3 loss away from ending. The Rangers trail the Bruins in the best-of-seven series 3-0 after dropping a 2-1 decision in Game 3 last night at the Garden. Daniel Paille’s goalmouth tap-in at 16:29 of the third was the gamewinning goal. The sequence that led to Paille’s goal began with a Shawn Thornton shot that hit Henrik Lundqvist and popped behind the goaltender. The puck never crossed the goal line, but Woodson wouldn’t comment on Amar’e Stoudemire’s status for 2013-14, only saying they would “play it by ear.” / GETTY IMAGES The Knicks wrapped up their season-ending media obligations by ushering head coach Mike Woodson and president Glen Grunwald in front of the masses at their facilities yesterday. Neither wanted to discuss personnel decisions, but they were eager to heap praise on a team not many pegged to go deep in the postseason. Grunwald refused to get into the specifics of what he plans on doing with the roster this summer, but he did allow Quoted “I still say that based on where we started and how we assembled our team, this was, to me, a wonderful season.” Mike Woodson, Knicks head coach that changes will be made. “[The team’s salary cap] probably is not likely to get under the tax thresh- olds, but sign-and-trades are available, although you just can’t acquire a player that way if you’re over the threshold,” said Grunwald. “We’ll see how it all plays out. Free agency is always a little unpredictable.” Woodson is looking forward to stacking on another training camp to further emphasize his schemes. “To win our division, [and] to secure the second seed, people didn’t think we could do [any] of those things.” TONY WILLIAMS There are 30 types of oysters on the menu at the Oyster Bar in Grand Central Terminal, which recently celebrated its centennial. / BRYAN SMITH Top 3 Tips from a pro 1 Start small: Chef Sandy Ingber of Oyster Bar in Grand Central advises: “Blue Points are my choice for beginners to start with. They’re plump and mild, easy to eat.” 2 Get naked: “I personally like to chew an oyster naked at first to get the full flavor profile,” says Ingber. “Then I will put stuff on top. Always try them naked first and chew.” 3 Choose carefully: When purchasing oysters from fisheries, they must come from certified waters and must be tagged. Ingber’s tip for buying directly: Look for a tag. “Don’t buy them if there is no tag — ask to see it. Also, oysters must be closed tight. Don’t use if they’re gapped or smell bad.” WELLBEING 22 Fitness. RDJ’s trainer gives us the moves that turned him into the hero. No thanks Jackson liked offer from Brooklyn www.metro.us Wednesday, May 1, 2013 The ‘Iron Man 3’ workout PLUS 1 cast her as a woman who becomes obsessed with his sexy radio DJ. Walter became cinema’s first-ever crazed onenight stand victim, who begins attacking him and his 28 Lottery jackpot Cavaliers win top pick in NBA draft New York City is your oyster Bonkers for these bivalves? Here are our favorite spots to slurp ’em. Ernest Hemingway waxed poetic about them in his posthumous memoir “A Moveable Feast.” The late, great lover Casanova was said to eat a dozen of them for breakfast. And scientists have confirmed that they are indeed aphrodisiacs (as if we didn’t know). So it’s no wonder that oysters are as popular as ever. Read on for our guide to eating the best bivalves across the city, and at great prices to boot. Maison Premiere With a happy hour in place all year round, this Williamsburg cocktail den boasts an impressive oyster list of more than a dozen fresh picks sourced from bays across the country. For $1 each, diners can choose from little gems including the East End, Montauk Pearl, Kenny’s Malpeque and Peters Point. Check out our interview with new chef Lisa Giffen on the next page. The best part of happy hour at The John Dory Oys- BLT Fish Shack Monday-Friday, 5-7 p.m. 21 W. 17th St. 212-691-1011 Crave Fishbar Monday-Friday, 5-7 p.m. 945 Second Ave. 646-895-9585 L&W Oyster Co. The John Dory Oyster Bar Ainsworth Park Every Tuesday, 5-8 p.m. 111 E. 18th St. 212-673-2467 Cafe Tallulah Monday-Thursday, 5-7 p.m. and Friday-Sunday, 4-7 p.m. 240 Columbus Ave. 212-209-1055 Offered Monday-Friday, 4-7 p.m. 298 Bedford Ave., 347-335-0446 At this market-driven oyster bar, the atmosphere and menu are decidedly nautical. Weekday specials include $2 oysters — sourced from both the East and West coasts — including hard-to-find varieties like Belon oysters from Maine (only 5,000 of the zinc- and umami-packed delicacies are harvested each year). Offered Monday-Friday, 5-7 p.m. 254 Fifth Ave., 212-203-7772 Found! Where to go for $1 oysters Dig in at Maison Premiere. / MELISSA HOM ter Bar is that it’s offered twice a day. Included is a choice of a half-dozen oysters or clams and a choice of a glass of bubbly or an English pint of Sixpoint Oyster Stout, a beer made from the oyster shells shucked at the restaurant ($18). Offered daily, 5-7 p.m. and 11 p.m. to midnight 1196 Broadway, 212-792-9000 Grand Central Oyster Bar At this Midtown mainstay, executive chef Sandy Ingber says after the late 1990s and the economic boom, many varieties of oyster became available from all over the country. Now they’re as popular as ever. “I have 30 varieties on my menu every day and cannot keep them in the house,” Ingber says. Oyster Bar specials include Blue Point oysters ($1.25 each) and fried oyster sliders ($8.95) in the lounge and saloon only. Monday-Wednesday, 4:30-7 p.m.; Saturday, 1-5 p.m. 89 E. 42nd St., 212-490-6650 CINDY AUGUSTINE letters@metro.us “Superheroes have good bodies, even if they have Ph.D.s,” says Brad Bose, who would know: He’s Robert Downey Jr.’s personal trainer. “So it was important that Robert was extremely fit and had a good muscular build — only it had to look realistic. He’s meant to be a billionaire playboy. You don’t want him to get too big and end up looking like Captain America or The Hulk.” Fortunately, Downey Jr. was almost ready to go for his third stint as Tony Stark in the new film opening Friday. “He’d recently finished filming ‘The Avengers,’ so he was in good shape,” Bose says. “But holding on to that muscle mass and definition for long periods of time isn’t easy. He had to get ‘re-buff.’ We were doing two-hour sessions, three to four days a week. By the time we were done, he’d gained five pounds of muscle and trimmed 10 pounds of fat.” ROMINA MCGUINNESS romina.mcguinness@metro.lu Robert Downey Jr. is back as Tony Stark in “Iron Man 3,” opening Friday. / ZADE ROSENTHAL The Robert Downey Jr. workout How he got there “Robert’s cardio was never an issue,” Bose tells Metro. “A lot of people don’t want to talk about it, but the truth is, he’s 48. He’s above the curve when it comes to being a fit individual, but this is a young man’s training he’s doing.” In order to gain On his day off muscle bulk, Downey Jr. spent the first month doing traditional weight training: push-ups, bench presses, etc. Once he and Bose were satisfied with his mass, they moved on to functional performance training, a technique that engages all muscle groups simultaneously: “FPT isn’t just for aesthetics,” says Bose. “All the exercises are designed to get you muscular through strength. As opposed to body building, where you’re working one muscle group in isolation, FPT gets as many muscles and as many planes of movement engaged at any one time (as possible),” he explains. The logic behind the moves is this: “The body functions as a unit. Every time you’re doing an upper-body movement, your legs should never be completely dormant. The core [from the lower part of your rib cage to the lower part of your hip girdle] should always be engaged. The aim of FPT is to do things more dynamically. So we’ll push sleds, we use battling ropes, sledgehammers, tires and so on.” “Robert is constantly doing something. But in order to spend time with his wife, he does a lot of Tracy Anderson cardio classes. And he’s a brown belt in kung fu, so on the opposite days that he’s not working with me, he’s sparring with his coach, Eric Oram.” Bose healthy Eyes. Healthy Living. The Dalloway Daily, 5-7 p.m. 525 Broome St. 212-966-9620 Ditch Plains Tuesdays and Wednesdays beginning at 4 p.m., until they run out 29 Bedford St. 212-633-0202 Greenwich Project Monday-Friday, 5-7 p.m. 47 W. Eighth St. 212-253-9335 vision care for every stage of life Pediatric and infant vision care | Vision therapy | Children with special needs | Learning disabilities Adult vision care | Glaucoma treatment | Low-vision treatment | Diabetic eye care | Contact lenses Schedule an eye exam today. 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A work-in-progress at the time of the superstar’s Dossier Wrap Omni Parker House Hotel 60 School Street, Boston RSVP: mba@suffolk.edu Omni Parker House Hotel 60 School Street, Boston RSVP: mba@suffolk.edu Boston Campus | Online death, the project has not been without controversy. Overseen by the Jackson estate, “Michael” takes tracks that were in various states of completion and puts them in the hands of Jackson’s collaborators to finish. will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas has said that finCOURTESY OF EPIC RECORDS Although the cover of “Michael” features idealized versions of the King of Pop, does the music within present the same picture? The world has turned and left them here Jackson’s controversial new CD, available today, features unfinished tracks left behind by the King of Pop Would the gloved one approve? Weezer revisit material they wrote more than 15 years ago with ‘The Memories Tour’ Singer Rivers Cuomo on how it feels when critics and fans misunderstand him DO K? YOU THIN R POST YOUTS @ ... COMMEN � WHAT ishing the project without Jackson is “disrespectful.” A Michael Jackson album without his input could be a disaster for his legions of fans eagerly awaiting the CD, especially since the King of Pop was known for his attention to detail. But there are some who are optimistic. “It’s not like they found a bunch of old records and decided to put out an album to make money. These are songs he was involved with,” explains Pup Dawg, the music director at JAMN 94.5 in Boston. The real question will be: Does it live up to Jackson’s other work? Some within the industry are still skeptical. But many fans won’t care, and their curiosity will drive them to the store or online — a troubled Michael Jackson album is better than none at all, to them. “The song with Lenny Kravitz is a Michael record. That just feels like a Michael Jackson record,” says Geespin, assistant program director for New York’s Power 105.1 radio station. “Truth is, I’d rather hear music from the biggest and best artists than not hear it. It’s still Michael. It’s still the biggest artist of all time. Would you rather not hear it?” G. VALENTINO BALL letters@metro.us Featured friends The new CD features a slew of guest stars, including: Weezer, as they appeared on “The Blue Album,” 16 years ago, from left: drummer Pat Wilson, Cuomo, former bassist Matt Sharp and guitarist Brian Bell. Akon The first phase of Weezer’s career is an embattled one for singer Rivers Cuomo. With their self-titled 1994 debut, they achieved instant and massive buzz based on their fun singles and silly videos, which MTV played on heavy rotation. (Yes, it was a different era, kids. Videos on MTV!) But the band’s shallow success wasn’t enough for Cuomo. So with the band’s second album, “Pinkerton,” he got more personal, and hoped critics and fans would follow him into the deep end. They didn’t — at least not right away — and it would be five years before anyone would hear another note from the band. “I guess part of me assumed that it was going to be very successful and I’d become like this superstar, because the record was so focused on me. And I probably entertained some Their duet, “Hold My Hand,” was the first single to debut. After will.i.am complained about the song’s release, Akon told the press, “These records would have come out whether he was alive or dead.” 50 Cent It’s hard to imagine Jackson and 50 Cent hanging out, but apparently, they had a connection: According to 50 Cent rival The Game, Michael called him once in hopes of ending the feud by recording a three-way track. For every letter to Sa that is stamped anta and posted at one of our special Santa Mail letter boxes, Ma acy’s will make a $1 donation to the Mak ke-A-Wish Foundation® up to $1,000,000. Tune into the CBS Ea Show at 7am arly for letter count upda throughout ates the holidays. To learn more, visit macys.com/believe m Lenny Kravitz “I know he stood behind it,” Kravitz has said of his duet, “(I Can’t Make It) Another Day.” METRO Thanks for ‘The Memories Tour’ Weezer’s current dates, dubbed “The Memories Tour,” celebrate the band’s first two albums — their self-titled 1994 debut, which has come to be known as “The Blue Album” because of the background against which the band stands, and their 1996 followup, “Pinkerton.” On the first night of the engagement, the band goes through a short set of greatest hits in reverse chronological order and plays the first album in its entirety. On the second night, they begin with a different set of hits and then play “Pinkerton” from start to finish. � POST YOUR COMMENTS Cuomo rocking out on a recent “Memories Tour” show. doubts, maybe it will totally fail and sell half as much as ‘The Blue Album’ or something,” says Cuomo. “And it came out and sold a tenth of ‘The Blue Album’ — which, in those days, was an incredible drop. And it wasn’t just commercial, but the critics pretty uniformly hated it. And it was just the beginnings of online feedback too, so you could go on Amazon and see all the negative feedback from the fans of the first record. And boy, that was just crushing for me, all of that together. And it took awhile to build up the confidence to even step back in the spotlight again.” During the band’s hibernation, fans began to take to the brash sounds and emotional lyrics of “Pinkerton,” and the album arguably became responsible for the advent of the genre known as emo. But when Cuomo did step back into that spotlight, Weezer emerged as something of an armored unit, with an arsenal of songs that mostly seemed to be short, poppy and almost escapist, like “Island in the Sun” and “Hash Pipe.” And listening to the recently released deluxe edition of “Pinkerton” with rare acoustic versions of devastating songs like “Why Bother?”, one has to wonder if Cuomo thinks he ever reached down so deeply again in his songwriting. “Yes. I do,” he says before a long pause. “But — I know some of our core fans would get upset when I say something like this — but I feel like ‘Beverly Hills’ was an extremely honest and deep song, and they take it to be the opposite, which has always perplexed me.” PAT HEALY pat.healy@metro.us If you go Weezer The Memories Tour Tonight and tomorrow The Orpheum One Hamilton Place, Boston SOLD OUT Sponsored Editorial PHOTOS: CARNIVAL/ANDY NEWMAN Set your vacation on cruise control cruising 16 SPONSORED BY + All hands, feet and bodies on the decks! From new lines to destinations, there’s a cruise for everybody Take a class on the high-seas with a life coach Or shake your hips with an Elvis impersonator Inside: Trends The beauty of St. Thomas is just a cruise away. The 130,000-ton Carnival Dream — Carnival Cruise Lines’ newest and largest ship — sits off the coast of Monaco, ready to patrol the waters of the Caribbean. 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With “Girls” a hit and plus-sized models becoming the norm, we wonder: Are the days of the blonde bimbo over? star/creator Lena Dunham is, well, average-looking. She’s a chubby, tattooed, thin-haired 26-year-old. She’s normal. The hype comes at the perfect time for the “real beauty” movement — and for this Metro Sex Issue, themed “Feel Good Naked.” Within the past month, plus-size model Jennie Runk made headlines when H+M debuted her modeling swimwear (despite being a dress size 14-16, not 0). Dove soap, on the tails of an ad campaign featuring plus-size women, launched an “anti-Photoshop” app that restores images to their original form. And “amateur” porn is the most popular category on YouPorn, ranking higher than “blondes.” The house that Jenna Jameson built is crumbling. The question is: How quickly? The biggest sex story of the past year didn’t happen between Christian and Anastasia in some porn your mom read — it happened in Brooklyn when Adam banged Hannah and probably gave her an STD. The HBO series “Girls,” with its frank depiction of bad dirty talk, venereal diseases, abortions, miscarriages and condom spill, is all about sex. But unlike “Sex and the City” before it, this show is a global hit partly because The model The editor “It’s ridiculous that people are arguing. We should focus on embracing all sizes.” “We don’t airbrush. There’s something sexy about that.” Arielle Loren founder, Corset magazine Jennie Runk plus-size model for H+M So yes, how quickly? 8 THE SEX ISSUE IN 2013 ‘FATKINI’ DESIGNER GABI GREGG Tip from Corset editor In one year, or in five? “I don’t think five years is enough,” says Gabi Gregg, 26, a plus-size blogger. Her work went viral last year after she posted photos of herself looking sensual in a “fatkini” and, this week, she launches her own line of swimwear (see story, at right). “But peo- ple like Lena Dunham and Louis C.K. are opening doors. Just the fact that her body makes people so angry — if you read the comments, people are telling her to put on clothes. She has said that only makes her want to do it more. It’s my favorite show.” Arielle Loren doesn’t watch “Girls,” but also traffics in blunt depictions of sex. Her magazine Corset (www.corsetmagazine. com) features graphic nudity and first-person erotica, and resembles someone’s beautifully photographed diary. It became profitable after a year, and Loren sees it as part of a movement. “The way we learn about sex, the pornography industry drives a lot of that consciousness,” says Loren, a 27-year-old American. “It starts to inform the way we think about ‘sexy’ from • Do the self-work. “Start by walking around your house naked. If you have a roommate, shut your door and walk around your room naked. The more you get comfortable with your naked self — not covering yourself up with a towel every time you take a shower, taking the time to be in your body and open like that — your confidence will slowly and steadily increase.” Loren, on how to feel good naked The Gabifresh.com blogger just crafted a line for Swimsuitsforall.com. In school, did you realize you were bigger than everybody else? Yes and no. I wasn’t teased too much, luckily. It was mostly internal, feeling insecure next to my classmates, if they were thinner than me or had blonde hair. Nobody had to say anything. And I started trying to diet when I was in middle school and high school, and it wasn’t until college that I came to accept myself. Dunham is just one of the “Girls.” The actress has said she wouldn’t want a body like a Victoria’s Secret model. / HBO an early age. But there are multifaceted aspects of sex and what it can really be, which we explore in the magazine. That goes from everything you can do in the bedroom — physically — but also how we understand our bodies.” A recent Corset photoshoot, “Breasts in Erotic Daylight,” features a brown bosom with stretch marks. “We definitely don’t airbrush,” says Loren. “There’s something very sexy about that. Being able to see the hair follicles on a breast or the stretch marks on a woman’s stomach.” She now has subscribers here, in Canada, Peru, Brazil, Sweden and beyond. And yet post a photo of a plus size-model online and you see not everyone’s as accepting. Exhibit A: Jennie Runk. Junk in Runk’s trunk The excitement (and de- 9 bate) over Runk’s H+M campaign made it all the way to Italy, where she was working in May. It led to at least one sleepless night. “I was thinking about all the media I’ve been getting and my mom reads a lot of the comments and she said, ‘I can’t believe somebody called you fat,’” remembers the 24-year-old, “and some people on the other side were like, ‘The curvier bodies are better!’ and it’s so ridiculous that people are having these ar- guments. What if some girl looks at these pictures and looks exactly like me: How is she going to feel?” She turned to Facebook with a post. “I’ve noticed that people like to debate what kind of body is better than another,” she wrote. “This is all wrong! To me, true beauty is defined by a healthy lifestyle and a genuine personality. Bodies are just meaty things that carry our personhoods around for us.” A week later, Runk is still riled up. She notes that “bigger” models are getting more work, but “we should focus on embracing all sizes,” she says bluntly. “Should” is different than “are.” The chart below shows the Sex Symbols of 2013, as selected by our editors from a pool of working actors who have notable projects this year — there are more shapes and sizes than there would have been in 1985, but it’s still very thin and white. “We’re going in the right direction,” says Gregg, “but ... ” “This argument,” adds Runk, “is going to be a thing of the past when — honestly, I don’t know.” On Facebook, she was more hopeful, saying it’s “our differences that make us remarkable.” She laughs when she hears that again. “I’ve been told before I’m a little too naive.” SAM CASTONE Metro World News How do the suits, um, work? What do you mean by work? [Laughs] They fit so well. Is it made with a binding material, with latches or something? Actually, no. I’ve had people ask about support, of course, but there’s nothing special about the fabric of the suits. It’s normal bathing suit fabric. In terms of the Galaxy suit, what makes it so special is the print — it’s graphic Quoted “It wasn’t until college that I came to accept myself.” Gabi Gregg, writer, designer and fun and looks great because it’s so busy that it — I don’t want to say it distracts the eye, because I don’t care about that sort of thing, but that’s what it does. And the high-waisted cut looks great on all women. Are you OK with the term “fatkini”? Yes. I didn’t use it this year because it went so viral last year, and it was inspiring for many people but took away from it, for others, because they were stuck on the word and got angry and started commenting. It’s a reclamation of the word “fat,” especially in our community, we all get it. When it goes outside the community, people get angry and send emails. But I’m fine with it. At the end of the day, it’s a fatkini because I’m fat and wearing a bikini. [Laughs] How much do you weigh now? I believe I’m around 225. How tall are you? I’m 5-foot-5. Do you get flack for not being “fat enough?” Early on, there were some comments. I don’t get a lot. Once in a while, like when the bikini pictures come out. It’s funny to see half the people commenting are disgusted by my body and the other half are like, fat women saying, “She’s shaped so nicely so it doesn’t count! I have fat hanging from my arm that she doesn’t have!” I try to avoid the comments on other sites. Some women wish they could see women bigger than me in a bikini and I understand that but I can only be myself. SAM CASTONE Hot list: The sex symbols of 2013. Blipp here to let us know which one of these celebs you’d most like to boff. See that little icon on the drive-in screen? Turn to page 08 to learn exactly what it does. / GETTY IMAGES Rebel Wilson Alison Brie Sofia Vergara Christina Hendricks Olga Kurylenko Ways to Blipp Jennifer Lawrence Emma Stone Mila Kunis Nina Dobrev Helen Mirren Anna Kendrick Zoe Saldana Emilia Clarke Kate Upton Zooey Deschanel Beyonce Knowles Aubrey Plaza Kat Dennings Mindy Kaling Bradley Cooper Jon Hamm Ryan Gosling Lena Dunham Channing Tatum Nikolaj CosterWaldau Idris Elba • Take a reader to your website • Purchase item advertised • Pop open a video clip • Reveal a digital coupon • Zip to a social media page Rodrigo Santoro Adam Driver James Franco Damien Lewis Omar Sy Joseph Gordon-Levitt Donald Glover Oscar Isaac Chris O’Dowd Benedict Cumberbatch Aziz Ansari Nick Offerman Louis C.K. Peter Dinklage
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- 23. Adding Metro USwill... www.metro.us Weekend, June 14-16, 2013 1940 1970 “The Spirit,” a noir comic by Will Eisner about a middleclass man who fights crime in a business suit, runs in Register and Tribune Syndicate newspapers. It later becomes a 2008 movie. SUPERHEROES 1978-80 The Spirit 1996 Monsieur Mangetout Comic Con France’s Michel Lotito, aka Monsieur Mangetout (Mr. Eat-it-all), consumes a Cessna 150 airplane. The first-ever Golden State Comic Book Convention is held in San Diego, Calif. It eventually grew into Comic Con, a yearly festival for costumed wannabes. 1999 Superbarrio King Tooth Daniel Browning Smith, Guinness World Records’ World’s Most Flexible Man (aka The Rubberboy), gets his first out of seven records. “King Tooth” Raja Gigi (Rathakrishnana Velu) pulls a train with six coaches attached weighing 297.1 tons for 9 feet at the Old Kuala Lumpur Railway Station using his teeth. Mexican superhero and satirist Superbarrio Gómez declares he is running for the U.S. presidential election. Superman, who? Meet a real-life, high-flying hero Jetman: Leaping the Alps in a single bound Matsumurav / CONTRIBUTED Radioactive Man: The animal savior of Fukushima When Fukushima’s nuclear reactor exploded in 2011, all people living in the area were evacuated. All except rice farmer Naoto Matsumura, 53. Just 6 miles from the plant, the town had a population of 16,000. Now it is only Matsumura there, with 17 times the safe level of radiation. He shelters the region’s wildlife, caring for everything from feral dogs to ostriches. He has the highest known level of radiation in Japan, which causes gradual cellular breakdown, but he may not feel the effects for 40 years. 2008 The Wright brothers may have been the ultimate aeronautical dreamers with the first airplane flight, but no one has come closer than Yves Rossy to making a human fly. Rossy, aka Jetman, is a former fighter pilot who says he had always dreamed of being a bird since he first witnessed an air show as a 13-year-old. The inspiration drove him to invent and patent a series of jetpacks that would fire him through even more epic and courageous voyages. From the first experiments in 2006, Rossy made his first public flight two years later, which took him over the Alps Quoted Pursue your dreams and “always have a Plan B.” Yves Rossy aka Jetman 2010 2010 The French Spider-Man “The French Spider-Man” Alain Robert scales the 52-story New York Times building without any ropes or harness. at speeds close to 200 miles per hour, at heights of 3,000 feet. The charismatic Swiss even found a moment to execute a 360-degree roll and later quipped, “That was to impress the girls.” This was followed by a 22mile journey across the English Channel to France, which he completed in under 10 minutes, becoming the first man to make the distance with a jet pack. The feat was broadcast live across the world with great uncertainty surrounding the outcome as Rossy himself confessed his calculations were fallible. Since then he has continued to break ground and world records for distance. In 2009, he performed the first intercontinental jet flight, and went on to fulfill a deeply held personal ambition to fly along the Grand Canyon. Not all of his missions have been successful, having crash-landed off the Spanish Rossy gets some sick air. / CONTRIBUTED coast when the weather turned pilot school Aerobility. Rossy threatening. Rossy is devoted also hosts master classes for to spreading his message — the next generation of jetpack pursue your dreams and pilots, which will surely produce “always have a Plan B.” His TED the next great flying human. talk remains one of the most downloaded, and he has also KIERON won praise for philanthropic efMONKS forts, such as performing shows kieron.monks@metro.lu for the benefit of disabled 2010 2011 Electron Boy Kick-Ass “Kick-Ass,” about a regular kid (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) who fights crime, is released, co-starring Nicolas Cage. A sequel is due this year. 16 2007 Rubberboy Phoenix Jones, aka Benjamin John Francis Fodor, begins fighting crime in Seattle, wearing a costume. He chases away car thieves, stops drunken drivers and leads a citizens’ patrol called Rain City Superhero Movement. He has also been arrested himself. PAGE 23 Al-Essawy / CONTRIBUTED Muscle Man: ‘This is what I do for my country’ NEW YORK Weekend, May 3-5, 2013 www.metro.us | t: MetroNewYork | f: MetroNewYork SUMMER MOVIE GUIDE Egypt’s economy suffered after the 2011 revolution that deposed President Hosni Mubarak, and Sayed AlEssawy, now 27, took it upon himself to revive the nation’s tourism industry with a fight to the death against a lion in front of the pyramids of Giza, proclaiming, “This is what I want to do for my country.” The self-styled “world’s strongest man” had noble intentions but was met by criticism from animal rights groups and the Egyptian tourist board distanced itself. Nonetheless, Al-Essawy entered the arena with shield and sword and took on the lion, although the animal looked bored. Man defeated beast. The gladiator was subsequently arrested, yet supporters point to the reopening of the pyramids and other major attractions after the fight as proof that AlEssawy was a national hero. Set your brain to stun. Robert Downey Jr. talks Tony Stark! Benedict Cumberbatch scares Trekkies! Multiple apocalypses! F. Scott Fitzgerald with rap in 3-D! There’s more to it than just newsprint. This is Metro’s first special interactive edition! PAGES 08-14 2012 Phoenix Jones More than 350 western Washington residents volunteer to help make 13-year-old cancer victim Erik Martin’s dream of being a superhero for a day a reality. Martin died in 2011. MEXICO WINS AT BRUNCH AND YOU CAN, TOO YOUR GUESTS WILL GO LOCO FOR CHILAQUILES. Super Rainn Wilson stars in dark comedy “Super,” a film about a man straddling the line between psychopath and hero after deciding to give purpose to his life by dressing up in costume to fight criminals. See that little icon on the drive-in screen? Turn to page 08 to learn exactly what it does. / GETTY IMAGES Thanatos Masked man Thanatos, 63, hands out clothes and supplies to people in need in Vancouver, Canada. 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