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A Defamer operative sent in this World! Exclusive! Photo! of a needlepoint pillow featuring the unmistakable likeness of perpetually put-upon screen comic Ben Stiller—an expertly executed craft set for prominent placement in the upcoming Farrelly Brothers production, The Heartbreak Kid (aka The Seven Day Itch). No background prop this, the painstakingly hand-stitched cushion plays a vital role in plot advancement, setting the star off on one of his trademark meltdown scenes that audiences—perhaps "love" is too strong a word here, but certainly expect—to see in a Ben Stiller film. Our operative explains all, after the jump:
I go to Needlepoint on Montana Ave. in Santa Monica. So do quite a few celebs, like Travis Barker (he stopped in a couple of weeks ago to buy his daughter a needlepoint project), Valerie Harper, Katherine Heigl, Kitty Bartholomew (HGTV) to name a few...Anyway, it turns out that DreamWorks hired Needlepoint on Montana to make a pillow for the new Farrelly Brothers/Ben Stiller movie, which is a remake of The Heartbreak Kid. I think they are now calling it The Seven Day Itch. Apparently, the pillow stars as almost a "character" in the movie because Stiller's on-screen wife needlepoints him a pillow that says "World's Greatest Husband" on it. I think the way the story goes is that the pillow sends Ben Stiller over the edge.
Well, Color Me Mine! We had no idea needlepoint had overtaken painting pottery as the craft project obsession of the moment. Still, we're holding out for a renaissance of the string art movement that dominated much of the 1970s, if only to see what the same nail-and-thread techniques that once provided the world with innumerable seagull and owl portraits could do with the wild, untamed beauty of the Butterscotch Stallion.
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You forgot knitting. Knitting came in between painting pottery and needlework. I'm hoping the next fad will be hook rugs myself. They're so deliriously tacky!
And here I'd given up on the idea of stalking Dr. McBooby.
Time to get me a hobby!
Two Words: Adderall..Decoupage
I've been knitting for years. Who knew it would become so "in".
I'm hoping pop top art would come back, but then cans with pop tops would have to come back, too.
How about gum wrapper chains?
Hilarity ensues when he accidently gets his penis caught on the pillow's zipper, and as a result, has to apply balm for seven straight days, if only he can stop itching it first! Can't wait!!!
Hook rugs are TACKY, you say? I'll have you know that I have accomplished several hooked rug projects for many famous celebrities, including one for Kevin Federline himself, which says, "World's Most Hated Househusband, Y'all"
I used to made a mean macrame plantholder.
Anyone for resurrecting Shrinky Dinks?
Kitty "It's not what you don't have; it's what you do with what you do have." Bartholemew!
Sorry, Xenu. My decorative impulses are limited to avant-garde Lite-Brite designs.
Amateurs, the lot of you.
Everyone knows that Colorforms are the true tools of a soulful artiste.
Trailer Park - Only if they are Garfield Colorforms.
Please. The true connoisseur does Heathcliff Colorforms. Philistines!
I prefer crayon pieces melted on wax paper with Mom's soon-to-be-ruined iron.
Why I am still scrapbooking? So much else to explore.
Whatever you do, it better have a crackle glaze, bitches!
One of new fave crafts du jour is the joy of funvelopes!
I grew up in NYC with radiators in every room, so that's how I melted my crayons, LMS.
LMS - Thanks for the run down memory lane with "ruining mom's iron" joke. Crayons also melted in the Easy-Bake oven, but only when left overnight.
I think I am going to have the girl upfront order me a spirograph and some scented markers in the next supply order and see if anyone notices. (Especially when my nose is covered with a rainbow of fruit colors.)
Have her throw in one of those pens with the four colors-in-one, the one with the selecter buttons at the top for blue, black, red, and green. Consider it my gift to you, TheStarterWife. You can put in Estelle Getty's purse...
Flair pens. You kids don't understand what life was like without them.
That is the creepiest pillow I've ever seen. And the best craft is glue + glitter!
I love how every thread related to growing up in the 70's and 80's quickly devolves into memory lane. Gen X stamps their mark on the world with multi-colored ink! Or with those little glass window pictures that you had to melt the little colored glass pieces into anyway...
Xenu, if you don't think I don't already have one of those pens, you'd be mistaken.
And if Gen-X crafts were really going to leave their mark on the world, it would be with "friendship braclets". You know you either made them or had someone make you one.
I think glue + macaroni would have something to say about that, Miss Anne Thrope.
I need to print out all of these delightful craft suggestions and file them in my cutest Lisa Frank folder for safe keeping!
How about sand art? Starlets could sit around a VIP table at Hyde and layer all the pretty colored powders in glass bottles, and then take them in to the bathroom to admire their handiwork under better light...
Have you people never heard of What Not to Crochet???
PS for once it's not a link to MY blog.
Sand art was always unsatisfying as a kid. My mom would never let me make it the way I wanted to, that is, with different colors of Pixi Stix.
What, no love for Play-Doh?
They were shooting this upcoming craptasticle in Potrero in San Francisco, a couple blocks from my house. It was a huge production and all of 18th street was closed off by rude interns.
My friends and I were walking by when we were suddenly yelled at for not being extras. Excuse me? My girlfriend was feeling snippy and asked one of the more stylishly disheveled interns what commercial they were filming. He got all huffy and said it was a feature film, but he said it in such a way that you'd have thought it was a Werner Herzog thing.
Then Ben Stiller walked by. He's looking old. His costar isn't Sarah Silverman, although my girlfriend thinks she is.
In the spirit of Raincoaster's crochet link, check out these crafty cuties at:
Tin Can Alley.
Makes me wanna learn how to crochet now!
Oooh, Limonata! That's upscale!
Actually, I could totally see that hat on Blue States Lose.
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