... Sept. 29, 2008
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Quickies: Posh Rubs the Lotion on Her Skin

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After all the care Posh takes to pamper her tootsies, she then crams them into these heelless, tippy-toed torture devices masquerading as a $6,000 pair of PVC boots.

Victoria Beckham gushed last week that she still gets butterflies when she sees husband David Beckham, but he may be experiencing a different sensation when he lays eyes on her at bedtime, like, say, a giggle-fit. "I put really thick foot lotion on with socks before I go to sleep," the perpetually posing, pouty Posh says of her nighttime beauty regimen (via the London Sun). "I also use thick hand cream with gloves at the same time. David must think I'm loony, because I get into bed with gloves and socks on." The gloves, socks and moisturizer aren't necessarily loony, but given that she's previously fessed up to sleeping in the nude, the combination sure seems like comedy gold. Anyhoo, another area of primping Victoria never neglects: her eyebrows. "I spend more time on them than I used to," she explains. "I always thought, 'Oh, they're just brows.' But now I pay attention to them. I brush them and I'm careful not to over-pluck."

Meanwhile, in a far less believable but bizarrely similar story, the National Enquirer alleges Brad Pitt practices the exact same grooming ritual as the aforementioned Mrs. Beckham. "Once a week, Brad lubes up his hands and feet with olive oil-based creams to keep his skin supple and wrinkle-free," a source tells the tab in its punnily titled "Potions Eleven" item. "He even wears gloves and socks to bed to make sure the cream works while he's sleeping." And just like Posh, the oft-scruffy A-list father of six, who recently teamed up with beauty company Kiehl's to create an earth-friendly, charity-benefiting Aloe Vera liquid body cleanser, is said to be dedicated to the care of his brows. The Enquirer claims Angelina Jolie's supposedly higher-maintenance half does the plucking himself.

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Paul Newman at his New York apartment in 2001

"I wanted, I think, to acknowledge Luck: the chance of it, the benevolence of it in my life, and the brutality of it in the lives of others; made especially savage for children because they may not be allowed the good fortune of a lifetime to correct it." So said Paul Newman in his introduction to "I Will Sing Life," the 1992 book about his Hole in the Wall Gang Camp for seriously ill children (do yourself a favor and read co-author Dahlia Lithwick's remembrances of his visits to the camp here). On Oct. 27, the likes of Julia Roberts, Tom Hanks, Jack Nicholson, Sean Penn and Warren Beatty will hit the stage at San Francisco's Davies Symphony Hall to perform a reading of "The World of Nick Adams," with proceeds benefitting the Painted Turtle, Newman's Hole in the Wall Gang Camp in California. And if you, too, want to acknowledge Luck, and honor the legacy of the man who helped and inspired so many (and always looked awesomely cool while doing so), consider making a donation to the camps. Then maybe eat a hard-boiled egg -- or 50.

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