Win a Signed copy of Tabatha Coffey’s It’s Not Really About the Hair
Enter for Your Chance to Win a Signed Copy of:
Tabatha Coffey, the star of popular reality show Tabatha’s Salon Takeover on Bravo, shares her compelling life story with fans, revealing not only the events that have made her so outspoken, driven and admired today, but the personal tenets that keep her centered and thriving.
First Annual Your It List Oscar Pool
This year’s Oscar season seems a bit more tame than past years. What with the 35 nominated films for Best Picture (none, by the way, being (500) Days of Summer, ahem). There are a lot of familiar names on the nominees lists, not quite as many “Who?” nominees… a lot of people seem to think the winners will be the obvious choices.
I’m hoping for a return to the surprise a la 1966 when Richard Burton lost the best actor nod for Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf to Paul Scofield in A Man For All Seasons. Luckily Mrs. Burton won that year for Virginia Woolf, though rumoredly the couple abstained from attending due to Mr. Burton’s fear of losing (and worse his fear of losing and watching Mrs. Burton win). It was the first time either Burton ever abstained from anything.
The votes have been cast, somewhere a really boring looking accountant has them in a sealed briefcase. But let your voice be heard in the first annual Your It List Oscar Pool.
Click here to let us know who you think is going to win (don’t forget to leave your email address so we can contact you!).
On Monday, the person with the most correct answers will win a FULL BOX of movie flavored books, including:
Heads On and We Shoot
Avatar
My Word is My Bond
Pieces of My Heart
George Lucas’s Blockbusting
Showgirls, Teen Wolves, Astro Zombies
Tales from the Script
Some Like It Hot Companion
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Shutter Island
Crazy Heart
Coraline
Making of Coraline
We’ll announce the winners on Monday!
Click here for complete rules.
Twitter Wit Sweepstakes – Winner!
And the winner we’ve selected for our Twitter Wit Video Contest is:
Congratulations to our Grand Prize winner, Steven Lewer, who will be receiving a copy of the book and an iPod Touch.
Click here to check out more of Twitter Wit, and make sure to sign up for our newsletter below for everything Your It List.
On a steel horse (or train) I ride…
A few days ago we caught you up on all the goings on with Bon Jovi. And there’s more!
New Jersey Transit Commuters – be on the look out for the poster below on your trains through out the month of November. Take a photo of the barcode on the bottom left with your barcode enabled smart phone, sit back and enjoy some great content on the Bon Jovi mobile website. It will make your commute fly by.
Then take a photo of the poster and email it to YourItList@HarperCollins.com and we’ll send the first 10 people a free copy of Bon Jovi: When We Were Beautiful.
Halloween Apparel
I clearly have Halloween on the brain, so this American Apparel costume contest is just what the fully-licensed physician ordered. The concept is pretty simple–submit a pic of a costume that incorporates an American Apparel item, and you’re in the mix for a $100 online gift certificate. If you don’t want to throw your hat in the ring, you can just browse and rate the entries–this being American Apparel, there are quite a few fine looking ladies and gents to choose from. We’re partial to the lovely but prickly cactus costume above (full disclosure–that’s friend of our blog Mara, who, like her costume, is lovely but prickly), although I’m itching to submit my own Tenebaums-inspired costume from 2003. None of the elements are actually American Apparel, but are they really going to call CSI in to authenticate the provenance of our track suits?
The Wittiest Twitter
In honor of today’s publication of TWITTER WIT: Brilliance in 140 Characters or Less edited by Nick Douglas, we’re excited to announce a video contest offering you a chance to win an iPod touch. It’s pretty darn simple, actually, and a lot of fun (unless you really hate making short videos; in that case it’ll be a nightmare). You just go here, pick your favorite tweet, make a short video, send it to us, and wait on pins and needles. In the meantime, since your video is definitely the best one, we’d suggest making a list of all the great music and apps and videos you’re going to add to the shuffle once you win it. Oh, and you’ll want to browse inside TWITTER WIT too. And buy it.
If you like it hot…
In honor of the 50th Anniversary of the classic film Some Like It Hot and the publication of Some Like It Hot: The Official 50th Anniversary Companionby Laurence Maslon, the Hotel del Coronado is hosting a contest to win a weekend this September at the famed San Diego hotel and setting of the “greatest film comedy of all time” (American Film Institute). Enter the sweepstakes here!
Not just any weekend at the Del, but a Some Like It Hot-themed weekend with special guest, the man himself, Tony Curtis. The package includes airfare for two, two nights in the hotel and invitations to the various Hot events over the course of the weekend.
Seriously. How can you not love Some Like It Hot? Tony Curtis. Jack Lemmon. Billy Wilder. Cross dressing, gangland shootings, hiding from the mob, musical interludes and the object of the world’s affection: Marilyn Monroe. Watch Laurence Maslon discuss the Some Like It Hot and discuss the impact of setting the film at the Hotel del Coronado.
Then pack your bag and get ready for a weekend to remember.
