I don’t know how I feel about the choice of wardrobe- what little there is- but the girl looks hot! 

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Maxim magazine’s January cover girl Mischa Barton has gon back to her golden locks -THANK GOD – in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on Wednesday. She’s in the Emerald Isle promoting her period drama Closing the Ring.

In her days since playing Marissa on The O.C., Barton says it’s been relatively easy to leave that part of her career behind her.  She told press, “Even if I was a precocious teenager, it’s a New York vs. L.A. thing. I never experienced the ‘anything goes’ chaos we sold on The O.C.  Marissa was a nut case. I didn’t have much in common with her. In New York I’d want to go out at 15 or 16, but I got it out of my system.”

She even helped conjure up the concept for killing off Marissa.  “You have no idea how much fun I had doing that [scene]. I was on the set, yelling, “More blood! More blood!” She needed to go out with a bang.”

Who’s she dating these days?

Hate the shoes, hate the hair!  What happened to Marisa?  Keds must have one hell of a contract to make her wear these voluntarily.

Guys, get out your napkins now to wipe away the drool. Mischa Barton is scheduled to be releasing her new movie “Closing the Ring” soon and guess what…Men will finally be able to see what she looks like underneath her clothes without a “wardrobe malfunction”. The movie is set to release sometime in 2007.

The film opens in 1943 when a dying gunner, who was in a crash involving a USAF B-17 Flying Fortress, gives a ring to a local to return to his girlfriend in the United States. Fifty years later, a man finds the ring and tracks down the girlfriend and the history of this ring.

Here is Mischa Barton at  the Save the Children’s 75th Anniversary Celebration in New York City last night. Usually she wears some interesting fashion choices, but what do you guys think about this gold number?

Personally, I think she looks great. It’s definitely better than most of her outfits have been in the past.

What the crap are you wearing? Here is Mischa Barton at the Marc Jacobs spring 2008 collection show, 9/10.