Teeny Manolo

It was a bit of a truncated week to be sure, but I think it’s safe to say that Johhny Depp has finally ended Ewan McGregor’s winning streak.  Awww, we love you Ewan! We’ll always have Moulin Rouge!

Now this week’s challenger might come as a bit of a surprise.   But hey, I like surprises, don’t you?

He first captured many hearts as some dude you might have heard of named Han Solo.  And maybe if you haven’t heard of Han Solo, you’ve probably heard of Indiana Jones.  That Calista Flockhart is a lucky woman, to be sure…

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Our evil nemesis Elmo has inspired our captioneers with his unique brand of debauchery and sadism, so naturally it was a dirty battle for the top spot, but we have a winner!

Bellamama Says:
September 7th, 2008 at 3:12 pm

Though he originally claimed it was a simple translation error, investigators have now revealed that Elmo signed a multi-million dollar contract with the hand soap companies in Japan.

Congratulations, imaginary swag, and effective sanitation to Bellamama! What shall we present as our virtual prize? I think this occasion calls for something a little different. Something powerful, yet feminine. Something irresistable. Something Prada
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My sincerest apologies for not posting the winners on September 6, as I said I would. A family emergency pushed things back a couple of days, thank you so much for your patience.

First I would like to thank the wonderful, generous folks at Stila Cosmetics, without whom, none of these giveaways would have been possible. I was thrilled when they contacted me, and it makes me happy to give away such fabulous products to our readers. Glinda adores spreading beauty and super fantastic-ness!

I would also like to thank everyone who took the time to pen a haiku and enter the contest. With over 80 entries, all were so creative and fun to read. I have always maintained that the readers of Teeny Manolo are some of the most intelligent women on the internet, and this contest proved it.

So after much deliberation between Raincoaster, the Manolo, and myself, we finally have our winners!

Our Runner-Up is Pepper, who wrote this amusing gem:

Tears make raccoon eyes
Lipstick smears on his collar
I curse cheap makeup.

And finally, our Grand Prize goes out to Eileen with this evocative haiku:

When I was little
I rouged my face with chapstick
and hoped for beauty.

Congratulations!

Ewan McGregor is on a tear. I’m going to have to throw the big guns at him.

The big guns I have been waiting for practically since the beginning of Celebrity Dad Faceoff, with those long ago first contestants of Jack Black and Will Ferrell. Remember them?

This particular matchup is really hard for me, as I really like both of them. And as for now, I’ll be keeping my vote secret.

Although I’m going to exercise my editorial discretion by taking my Johnny Depp with short hair and no beard. Ahhhh, yes…

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Oh, I should have expected this. So many stars, even those who are well-behaved at home, go a bit crazy once they get overseas. And we have heard ALL about Elmo!

Family.com, a Disney site, is sponsoring a contest in which you can actually win a prize for being badly dressed!  Well, when you were a kid, anyway.  Or maybe you can cash in on badly dressing your own child.

I’m thinking back to my own childhood, and for a while, my mother was dressing my sister and me like twins. Uh, except we were almost six years apart. I remember one year we were particularly resplendent in matching red Christmas outfits of scratchy polyester with peter pan collars and white rickrack trim. Good times, good times…

Photos Courtesy of Family.com

You couldn’t make it easy on me. Noooooo, you couldn’t just bring me George Stephanopoulis for my Labour Day long weekend and get it over with, could you? Oh, fine!

You want to win on merit alone? Okay with me. But next time I’m going to up the bribe ante to… I dunno, Anderson Cooper? We could watch classic movies and drink Martinis and bitch about our friends. Sigh.

In a heated contest in which seemingly everyone except me took the high road, we have a winner:

Elizabeth Says:
September 1st, 2008 at 11:30 pm

It’s amazing, next to John McCain EVERYBODY looks like a little kid!

Congratulations and imaginary swag to Elizabeth! With what patriotic hypothetical shall we gift her? How about a rather sexy reminder of the importance of national security, the Juicy Couture padlock leather bracelet:

The last product I’m going to review for this summer of Stila is the Eyeshadow Quad in Marrakesh.

And I can sum it up neatly in one word- beautiful!

Now as I age (ahem) gracefully, my ability to wear super-shimmery colors is getting a bit tenuous. Nothing shows up crepey eyelids like a bit of shine. The shadows in this quad have a teensy bit of shimmer, just enough to look awesome, yet not enough to highlight any signs of advancing closer to forty, or uh, (cough, cough) thirty-seven.

The colors can be worn together, alone, or in any combination. They would be extremely flattering to pretty much any skin tone. I love this quad, and I think you would, too!

As for the Super Fantastic Stila Giveaway Part Deux, we are going to carefully judge the haiku over the next week, and the winners will be announced on Sept. 6, 2008. Thank you to all those that entered, it’s going to be a tough decision! You all blew me away with your creativity!

On the right is four year old Rafael Smith. On the left is some civil servant dude. Captions in the comments, please. The winner will be decided by a secretive cabal of wealthy influence-peddlers. Or maybe by whoever brings me a pound of Godiva caramels first…

Oh Ewan! Are you unstoppable?

You managed the beat the very handsome Blair Underwood by a very large margin, so you seem to be on a bit of a roll.

But, enough with the actors, bring on a musician, says Glinda. The frontman for the British group Bush, he is better known in the States as Mr. Gwen Stefani. I don’t blame Gwen at all for defecting, not with that great hair!

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And remember, tonight at midnight (Pacific) is the deadline for the Super Fantastic Stila Giveaway Part Deux!