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Call them the Fab Eight. Here's the best celebrity career and lifestyle advice of the past week:
By SHARON FINK, Times Staff Writer
© St. Petersburg Times
published August 17, 2003
HOW TO DRESS: Always lay out your work or play clothes the night before and take a picture of the outfit to avoid repeating ensembles in a 30-day period.
- Carson Kressley, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy fashion guru. (Sideshow thinks this is a no-brainer but realizes, as Carson does, that not everyone has our unerring fashion instincts.)
SPEAKING OF FASHION NO-BRAINERS: "Please don't dress the same as your daughters."
- Tracey Ullman, actor and comedian, issuing a plea to mothers of the world.
UNDERSTAND THE BASICS OF YOUR JOB: Acting is "a (expletive) simple job. . . . I'll turn up on time and give you my best work. I owe you that, but I don't owe you a good attitude."
- Russell Crowe, assuming that we couldn't figure out the "good attitude" part ourselves.
THOUGH HAVING A GOOD ATTITUDE HELPS. SOMETIMES: "I think it's a very unhealthy attitude to assume that you're not in business when you actually are."
- Liz Phair, singer-songwriter, whose latest album has been slammed by fans and critics as bad business.
HOW TO SUCCEED: "People who make it in this business, for the most part, have drive, passion and a strategy."
- Ryan Seacrest, pretty-boy professional TV and radio host, who forgot to mention that they also have pretty-boy looks.
HOW TO HANDLE AN AWKWARD SOCIAL SITUATION: "You can tell your news editors that you are too big for that kind of stuff, that you are better than that, that you rise above it."
- Ben Affleck, joking with reporters while refusing to answer questions about his alleged wild night with Canadian strippers.
REMEMBER THAT YOUR BODY IS A TEMPLE, NOT A RECEPTACLE FOR PEPCID AC: "No spicy foods so you keep your body at the fittest."
- Joel Grey, 71, on one of the keys to being healthy enough to do a Broadway show. And the Tony winner is about to start rehearsing for another one.
CURRENT EVENTS IN A NUTSHELL: " Arnold Schwarzenegger will win."
- Jacqueline Stallone, psychic and mother of Sylvester, relaying her psychic dogs' prediction for the California gubernatorial recall election. ("They only answer yes or no questions," she tells MSNBC.com. "But they're always right.")
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