Duck Dynasty's Sadie Robertson Makes New York Fashion Week Debut—Catch Up With the Family Backstage!

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Sadie Robertson is really just too cute—and chatting backstage with papa Willie Robertson and Uncle Si, we see where she gets her charm from.

The 16-year-old Duck Dynasty star made her New York Fashion Week debut on Monday, walking the runway at the Evening By Sherri Hill Spring 2014 show at Trump Tower.

Hill dressed the aspiring model in a black and white prom gown with a full-length, polka-dot skirt and a sleeveless sequined bodice topped off with sheer material.

Sadie admitted to E! News backstage before showtime that she was "a little nervous—but more excited than anything."

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"I've done small [fashion-related] things in Louisiana, but this is New York Fashion Week," she said. "This is a whole new ball game!"

Indeed it was, and not just for her!

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Sadie's great-uncle, Si Robertson, also told us backstage that this was definitely his first-ever fashion show—"and it'll probably be the last," he laughed.

And though Sadie's Sherri Hill prom dress will be the envy of any girl from any corner of the U.S., it had to get a very particular seal of approval before she could show it off in front of hundreds of people (and ultimately the entire Internet).

The dresses Sadie models are, of course, "daddy-approved," dad Willie assured us. "They have to make it once by me to make sure I give 'em the thumbs-up."

So, with that squared away, we now declare it open season on modeling offers for Sadie!

Be sure to watch the clip to see what Si has to say about beard-growing—and what he thinks of E! correspondent Robbie Laughlin's own attempt at facial hair—and tune into E! News weekdays at 7 p.m. & 11:30 p.m. for more coverage of New York Fashion Week.

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Joseph Gordon-Levitt Says "Porn's Fine," Talks What Makes Women Sexy in Men's Health

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Already swooning over Joseph Gordon-Levitt? Then brace yourself for the 32-year-old hottie's upcoming flick Don Jon.

The actor stars in his forthcoming self-directed and self-written film, which centers on a New Jersey stud whose addition to pornography inhibits his ability to find happiness with his potential true love (played by Scarlett Johansson).

"Porn's fine," the Men's Health October cover star tells the mag. "I'm aware that it can be hateful toward women. It can be addictive. It can get ugly. But it's only damaging if you allow it to be."

While JGL's personal opinion regarding porn may be a bit polarizing, his perception of costar ScarJo is seemingly something on which we can all agree.

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"Look, Scarlett is a gorgeous, gorgeous woman, but if you just compare purely physical features, plenty of girls are just as gorgeous," he explains. "But she creates this extra something. It's in her walk, her eye contact. The total package is just off the charts."

The actor also tells Men's Health he envisioned the newly engaged starlet in the role since day one.

"I didn't know Scarlett, but I spent more than a year with the image of her in my head playing this character," he admits to the mag (per People). "She couldn't not do this."

And since the actor landed his perfect leading lady, he was forced to step up his game when it came to getting in shape for the role.

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"I was big, but I wasn't healthy," he says of his Don Jon body transformation. "The feeling I'll have after playing basketball with friends for a few hours versus going to the gym and staring at myself for a few hours is the difference between exhilaration and hell. One's blissful, the other is sore, self-doubting, and lonely."

Still, there's no doubt dude looks good.

"I put on about 12 pounds," the actor reveals in the behind-the-scenes video from the cover shoot. "You know I went to the gym every day for a couple hours for six months and I ate and ate and ate, I ate so much food. No fat, no sugar, no dairy, no bread."

Hard work pays off! Don Jon hits theaters Sept. 27.

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Hacker-Artist's Mantra: 'Fun Makes The Politics Go Down'

Evan Roth's work titled "Internet Cache Self Portrait" on display in Paris.

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Evan Roth knows how to get a rise out of the people and organizations he targets.

Evan Roth considers himself a hacker-artist, work that puts "playful, clever interventions into existing systems."

Alex Mandrila Evan Roth considers himself a hacker-artist, work that puts "playful, clever interventions into existing systems."

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Over his career, the Michigan-born "hacker-artist" has taken on Google, the Transportation Safety Administration, and — most bravely of all — Justin Bieber's fans, Beliebers.

Some might call him a prankster, a rabble-rouser, or an enfant terrible, but Roth prefers "hacker-artist" despite the connotation that "hacker" might hold for some people.

He tells weekends on All Things Considered host Jacki Lyden that the hacker community that inspires him views "hacking as something that's a gift-giving culture. That's something that has to do with the playful, clever interventions into existing systems."

Roth's work has been exhibited at top museums and galleries worldwide, but he says he also tries to appeal to "the bored at work network" that exists online. And he does that using the mantra: "fun makes the politics go down."

"I love this idea that you can make politically motivated content that people click on not because of the politics but just because they want to see people driving around in a fake Google car," he says.

And he did just that with his colleagues at the Free Art and Technology (F.A.T.) Lab using a rental car, duct tape, cardboard and a few Google decals.

The result was a video featuring a fake Google driverless vehicle breaking rules with impunity. They got lost, ran over traffic cones, almost hit bicyclists, and drove donuts in front of Google's offices in New York City. "For me, this was a hack," says Roth. "But for me the end goal ... is personal empowerment."

Roth, whose new solo show opens Oct. 10 at Paris' XPO Gallery, is asked if his Internet age work can withstand the test of time in the art world.

"Without a doubt, yes," says Roth.

"Looking back 50 or 100 years ... institutions are going to want to see what artists were doing with this new medium."

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