Daring new art exhibit stomps into Causeway Bay.

Wow! We saw this exhibition the other day at Times Square in Causeway Bay and applaud the management for going such an avant garde artist to display in light of the Olympic games - we were really expecting a bunch of lame horse art, but kudos to the TS people to exhibit the New Disco-bolus, a giant rusted Mao-jacket and a huge red dinosaur in a cage - and that’s just in the piazza. The exhibition is on until August 19th.

And if you act fast, you can take a piece of this art home with you in the form of these cool limited edition “New Disco-bolus” graphic T-shirts! To get one all you have to do is donate HK$40 or above to the Community Chest, you can get one T-shirt for free. First come first served, available while stock lasts.

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Super-spy spoof remake smartens up Hong Kong on Thursday.

Get Smart (opening in Hong Kong this Thursday) is the new movie remake of the classic TV show we reported about here. And thanks to Warner Bros. we were able to give out some free tickets to the advance screening. So what did we think of all this? In the words of Maxwell Smart himself: “Missed it by, THAT, much!”

First, the good: For those not even remotely aware that this movie is based on a 1960’s TV series and are sold on the spy-comedy elements, then by all means it was a funny, exciting and well-casted Summer flick. Steve Carell plays a CONTROL analyst, that dreams of becoming a field agent, when an attack on Control leaves them agent-less, Max is promoted to 86 status and teams up with the veteran Agent 99 (Anne Hathaway) against the evil of KAOS run by Terrence Stamp and, yes, the fat guy from Borat.

For all the site-gags, and spy-fun, it holds its own as a tribute to the TV show and making it its own. Great turns by The Rock and of course Carell’s co-star in Little Miss Sunshine, Alan Arkin who plays the Edward Platt role of The Chief, as perfect as the comedy stylings of the “cone of silence” itself.

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The best damn tour hits The Venetian Macao for 1-night only.

Avril Lavigne returns for another show in our area on September 26th - this time in Macau at The Venetian’s Cotai Strip Cotai Arena. She either loves it here, or the fans really do show up in droves to support her.

Tickets are on sale now at Ticketmaster and from The Venetian direct.

Tod’s jumps into online video with Paltrow & Dennis Hopper.

Tod’s is also casting its brand online with Iron Man’s girlfriend Gwyenth Paltrow in a short film directed by no-less than Dennis Hopper entitled “Pashmy,” and of course that is the name of the bag that Tod’s is promoting.

The short sees Paltrow being interviewed by a devastatingly handsome journalist played by the Italian actor Daniele Savoca. During their interview, the paparazzi descend and Paltrow flees, accidentally leaving behind her precious “Pashmy” bag in her determination to escape. Trying to do the honorable thing – reunite her with her precious “Pashmy” – the journalist sets off to find her and eventually tracks her down at a glamorous ball, just outside Rome. “Cinderella had her shoe,” says Hopper, “Gwyneth has her Tod’s bag.”

The film will be coming online soon, in September during Milan Fashion Week, but if you go to Tods.com now you can watch a behind-the-scenes video on the making of the film with quick cuts and biting electric guitar score. Will it be just a long commercial or have a real narrative behind it? With Hopper in charge, it should at least be something to pay attention to.

Show us how ’smart’ you are, and you can win tickets…and love it!

Get Smart - the movie remake of the classic TV series starring Steve Carell, Anne Hathaway, The Rock and Alan Arkin - opens in Hong Kong on August 7th, but Warner Bros. Hong Kong has allowed 10 lucky Butterboom readers to get free tickets to the advance preview screening on July 29th (next Tuesday) in Tai Koo Shing, Hong Kong side.

To win, all you have to do is show us how smart you are…

In the comments box below, all you have to do is type in a smart or funny line for Agent 99 (Anne Hathaway) and Agent 86 (Steve Carell) in the scene below - its that easy!

UPDATE: July 24 - 12:13pm - Contest is now closed! Thanks to all who entered. Winners will be getting an email in the next hour on how to pick up to get their pair of tickets and binoculars.

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Now you can see what all the noise was about from his visit last year.

The Dark Knight opens in cinemas (and IMAX) across Hong Kong today (1-day before even the US gets it)! As you recall from our coverage of the press conference from last November, director Chris Nolan and stars Christian Bale and Morgan Freeman were in Hong Kong (Central, specifically) to shoot a sequence for the film.

We can only imagine the scenario: to conceal his Batman identity, Bruce Wayne flies to Hong Kong for a luxury shopping trip and runs into The Joker at the same sale at the IFC mall. The ensuing rooftop fight has him jumping off the IFC and soars down to Lan Kwai Fong where he parties with the ladies until dawn.

Also of note, the notorious Edison Chen resurfaces in a very small role in the film. We think, if you don’t blink, you’ll see him. Let’s see if the 2 sentences he gets to utter gets him a Maggie Q-type career.

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Not only show off your new iPhone, but what’s ON it too!

Today is the big day: Hutchison 3 rolls out the iPhone across Hong Kong, and once you transfer all your contacts to the iPhone, and play around with some of the 3G features, all you fashionitas will want to see how this new technology can make your even more stylish.

Apple has a series of free videos - about everything from Gucci to Vogue to bikinis - available on their website you can easily download to your new iPhone by 3G, Wi-Fi or by just syncing with your computer with iTunes. We’ve rounded up the Top 5 choices of “vidcasts” we think every Hong Kong fashionista should have on their iPhone:

STYLE.COM

One of our favorite magazines has a great vidcast available for download here. The Style vidcast features 3-minute videos on runways, fashion parties and more. Right now you can download a bunch of videos featuring Fall 2008 runways from all the big fashion brands like Louis Vuitton, Chanel, Givenchy, Dior, Versace and so much more from Paris and Milan. These may have been released earlier this year but this a good start to add to your vidcast collection. You can subscribe to this feed and it will automatically update you with the newest episodes when you sync your iPhone with iTunes.

Click here to see Style directly in your iTunes.

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New spy comedy opens in Hong Kong on August 7.

Get Smart, the new Steve Carell and Anne Hathaway movie, finally makes it to Hong Kong on August 8th.

Some of you may remember the original TV series with Don Adams/Agent 86 and Barbara Feldon/Agent 99 that poked fun at the super-spy genre of the 1960’s. Definitely one of our favorite shows when we were kids - hey he had a mobile phone in his shoe - is now back starring the ‘40-Year Old Virgin’ and boss of ‘The Office’ in the role as Maxwell Smart and of course you all know the lovely Ms. Hathaway from ‘The Devil  Wears Prada’ and as the face of Lancome.

See the trailer below, and keep an eye out for more goodies from Warner Bros. Hong Kong that we will be posting as we work towards its opening in 4 weeks time: