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PALM SPRINGS, Calif. George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie and other red-carpet veterans joined some Hollywood newcomers in the Southern California desert this weekend to kick off the two-month-long movie award season at the Palm Springs International Film Festival.

“When you’re of age: drink,” Clooney noted to the newbies at Saturday night’s gala awards ceremony. “That’s good advice to pretty much anybody.”

Among those relative newcomers were Clooney’s co-stars from the drama “The Descendants.” “It is the first time we have dressed up all season,” said actor Matthew Lillard. “We have a couple months to put on nice dresses and suits.”

“Don’t forget the shoes,” injected actress Judy Greer. “Oh man, am I going to need a massage when the next two months are over.”

Clooney, star of both “Descendants” and the drama “The Ides of March,” was given the festival’s “Chairman’s Award” for acting, directing, producing and writing. “They gave me a gavel on the way in,” he joked. “And I’m feeling like I might actually get protested now.”

Among other honorees: actresses Michelle Williams (“My Week with Marilyn), Jessica Chastain and Octavia Spencer (“The Help”) and Glenn Close (“Albert Nobbs”).

Pitt was handed the Desert Palm Achievement Award for his performances in “Moneyball” and “The Tree of Life.” Gary Oldman (“Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy”) was dubbed International Star of the Year – the significance of which seemed to baffle its recipient.

“I am on an international stage, rather than a local one,” Oldman noted. “I guess that is what that means?

Or perhaps he simply no longer needs a passport.

“Who designed the award?” Oldman asked. “Maybe I have just that and it gets me through customs.”

As excited as Jolie was to support partner Pitt the latter walking with a cane, following a skiing injury home in LA was where their hearts were. “We are rushing back to the kids tonight,” Jolie explained. “We have a birthday party in the morning with our daughter.”

Next stops on the entertainment honors gauntlet include Wednesday’s People’s Choice, Thursday’s Critic’s Choice, Friday’s Los Angeles Film Critics and Sunday’s Golden Globes awards.

“I found that the last time I was (at the Golden Globes), it was a very fun day,Replica Ed hardy,” said actor and director Kenneth Branagh, a Globe nominee for his performance in “My Week With Marilyn.”

“The fact that it is a smallish room by comparison with some of the bigger awards rooms means that it has an intimacy and a kind of slightly raucous quality that is very, very carefully adhered to,” Branagh explained. “I was very intoxicated.”

WASHINGTON 2012 looks to be another year of opportunity for the few who can afford to buy or refinance a home.

The average rate on the 30-year fixed mortgage fell to 3.91 percent this week, Freddie Mac said Thursday. That matches the record low reached two weeks ago.

The average on the 15-year fixed mortgage ticked down to 3.23 percent from 3.24 percent. That’s up from 3.21 percent two weeks, also a record low.

Mortgage rates are lower because they tend to track the yield on the 10-year Treasury note, which fell below 2 percent this week. They could fall even lower this year if the Fed launches another round of bond purchases, as some economists expect.

Still, cheap mortgage rates have done little too boost the depressed housing market. For eight straight weeks at the end of 2011, the average fixed mortgage rates hovered around 4 percent. Yet many Americans either can’t take advantage of the rates or have already done so.

High unemployment and scant wage gains have made it harder for many people to qualify for loans. Many don’t want to sink money into a home that they fear could lose value over the next few years.

Previously occupied homes are selling just slightly ahead of 2010′s dismal pace. New-home sales in 2011 will likely be the worst year on records going back half a century.

Builders are hopeful that the low rates could boost sales next year. Low mortgage rates were cited as a key reason the National Association of Home Builders survey of builder sentiment rose in December to its highest level in more than a year.

But so far, rates are having no major impact. Mortgage applications have fallen slightly in recent weeks, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association.

To calculate the average rates, Freddie Mac surveys lenders across the country Monday through Wednesday of each week. The average rates don’t include extra fees,Inflatable Bouncers, known as points, which most borrowers must pay to get the lowest rates. One point equals 1 percent of the loan amount.

The average fee for the 30-year loan rose to 0.8 from 0.7; the average on the 15-year fixed mortgage was unchanged at 0.8.

For the five-year adjustable loan, the average rate declined to 2.86 percent from 2.88 percent. The average on the one-year adjustable loan rose to 2.80 percent from 2.78 percent.

The average fee on the five-year adjustable loan rose to 0.7 from 0.6; the average on the one-year adjustable-rate loan was unchanged at 0.6.

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Mugler ingenious mentor and Lady Gaga stylist Nicola Formichetti has had a big quondam pair of days. Last week, he set up mart city center with his pop-up notion store, Nicola’s; yesterday, he hosted a introduction for 9 emerging Chinese designers in an exertion apt commemorate worldwide talent; this afternoon, Formichetti (who has worked with Uniqlo for over five years and currently stands as the brand’s shape director) debuts his latest project for the Japanese retailer. He has created a new line, shrieked Uniqlo Innovation Project, by with the company’s designer director, Naoki Takizawa, and creative director, Kashiwa Sato.

“We wanted to create someone for the future,” Formichetti tells Style.com. “Something functional, stylish, and new.” The collection of parkas, hoodies, and alley pants for men and women, made of cutting-edge materials favor Uniqlo’s infamous Heattech, hits stores October 14.

What’s next from Nicola? “I’m actually thinking of sending Nicola’s to other cities,” he says. “I adored conference my virtual friends, but in a physical space this period.” Oh yeah, and there’s the Mugler collection he’s hard at work above, which hits the runway in Paris September 29. Here, Style.com has the preferential 1st see at Innovation Project.
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The Oscar-winner, who pampered in a $350 facial before the Emmys and namely “obsessed” with the Clarisonic Opal Sonic Fusion ($185) and Mia skin-cleansing brush ($149), also touted Dr. Perricone’s No Foundation Foundation and Super Berry Powder with Acai supplement.

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Want peel favor Gwyneth Paltrow? Get prepared apt dine a lot of salmon.

According to Paltrow’s interview with the doc, savage salmon not only acts as a “natural anti-depressant,” yet it also keeps skin youth and radiant. His other “superfoods” include dark leafy greens (which helps protect opposition UV harm), more virgin olive oil and pinot noir.

In her latest GOOP bulletin, the 39-year-old superstar revealed namely she’s a huge flare of Dr. Nicholas Perricone, a celebrity dermatologist who tells customers to eat the Omega 3-rich fish double a daytime (even for breakfast!).

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