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Spirit Fingers
09/02/09

In reply to Roxanne Shante's Feel-Good Story a Fake?
Bah! Since I've yet to hear any really crazy things about her in the last twenty years, and she's mostly stayed away from all things VH1 reality, then yeah, I'm gonna call this one true...until Cornell releases their own statement otherwise. Or the Real Roxanne says she has a Ph.D. from Georgetown and there is some sort of fight to the death marked by door knocker earrings and Le Coq Sportif tracksuits.
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oudemia
09/02/09

In reply to Roxanne Shante's Feel-Good Story a Fake?
Well, shit. Here I was about to paste in [www.news.cornell.edu] from Cornell itself in 2008 saying that she had earned her PhD. But it no longer says that! But it does say "This article was modified on Sept. 2, 2009."
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utensil42
09/02/09

@oudemia: But why would Cornell say she graduated if she never even attended? Are their records really so lousy that they don't know if someone attended their school? Is their PR dept. so bad that they can't fact-check before posting a news story on the school's website? Something does add up here.
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Anne Boleyn
09/02/09

@oudemia: God bless google cache! [74.125.93.132]

"Shanté retired from hip-hop in 1995 and went on to earn a Ph.D. in psychology at Cornell."

BTW I was totally at that event last year (I am a grad student at Cornell), although I don't remember if she ever explicitly said that she got her PhD at Cornell.
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Anne Boleyn
09/02/09

@utensil42: No - they keep good records. I could do some asking around with folks I know in administration. My guess is that she does have the degree but it may be under an assumed identity, which would compromise her physical or financial safety somehow. This smells like a coverup on Cornell's end, not on Shante's end.
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Tremonius
09/02/09

@saya: Dubius. I knew a screenwriter once. She used an alias in the online group where I met her, and wouldn't reveal her true name. She said she had to do that, because her real last name was the same as her father's, who was the chief of the Dept of Corrections in CA, and if ex-cons knew her name, she would be stalked. Real criminals would stalk her if they somehow encountered our group of 250 souls and realized there was a Chavez there. Hey, I know that name ...

Are you believing yet? She was a screenwriter, and she had no credits. She was actually the ex-wife of a teevee producer. They're all screenwriters without credit. Else they'd be stalked.
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IamnotStarJones
09/02/09

In reply to Roxanne Shante's Feel-Good Story a Fake?
I hope she finds a licensed therapist to determine why she is a congenital liar.
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Tremonius
09/02/09

@IamnotStarJones: I'm not really sure it has everything to do with genitals, despite the new Bernie tell-all.
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Jezebabe
09/02/09

In reply to Roxanne Shante's Feel-Good Story a Fake?
Wouldn't it be super easy for her to just say what her "alias" is and call it a rest? Can you really attend college under an alias? I attended college with a few Hollywood actresses (and actors) that didn't use their legal name as their professional name. If you'd look them up in the alumni directory under their acting name nothing would show up. When they were students, they had their name removed from the campus directory for "privacy" reasons. But they were students, and some of them did manage to graduate.
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Hydroceph
09/02/09

@Jezebabe: I like that. "Managed to graduate."
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RonMwangaguhunga
09/02/09

In reply to Roxanne Shante's Feel-Good Story a Fake?
Roxanne was unable to substantiate such claims?

She's all stuck up. Why do I say that? Cause she wouldn't give a site like Slate no rap.
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Hydroceph
09/02/09

In reply to Roxanne Shante's Feel-Good Story a Fake?
She can have my Ph.D. I'm not doing anything with it. She'll have to jump from social sciences to the humanities, however. Or she could just lie about that, too.
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madog
08/24/09

In reply to Lindsay Lohan's Little Italy BlackBerry Bodega Brouhaha
Givemethemotherfuckin'keyscocksucka.
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VoxPopuli
08/23/09

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It makes me sad that new Gawker has to explain what a bodega is.
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Foster Kamer
08/23/09

@VoxPopuli: Same here.
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strider_mt2k
08/23/09

In reply to Lindsay Lohan's Little Italy BlackBerry Bodega Brouhaha
This should never have been posted on Gizmodo.
The tech connection is so tenuous as to be laughable.
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Foster Kamer
08/23/09

@strider_mt2k: And you, sir, have never had a day of fun in your whole life. Who is this, Leo LaPorte?
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KW802
08/23/09

In reply to Lindsay Lohan's Little Italy BlackBerry Bodega Brouhaha
... "Hashan, 37, sprinted after Lohan, and banged on the window of her cab.

"I said, 'Is this your phone?'" he recalled.

"She said, 'Yes.'

"I said, 'Give me proof because there were more customers. If this is your phone, you know the number. If it rings, I'll give it to you.'" ....
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Wait, why would he run after one particular customer and then ask to prove the phone was hers?
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VoxPopuli
08/23/09

@KW802: Yeah, I know - it doesn't make sense to me either. But few things involving La Lohan make sense to me.
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08/23/09

In reply to Lindsay Lohan's Little Italy BlackBerry Bodega Brouhaha
I crossed paths with Lohan at Red Cat in Chelsea and she looked like a strung out drug addict. But what really struck me is her hair is mostly gone. She is just a few strands away from losing all of it. Which is a shame. But not surprising.
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MrBlahBlah
08/23/09

In reply to Lindsay Lohan's Little Italy BlackBerry Bodega Brouhaha
she looks waaaaaasted
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Conchie Birdie
08/22/09

In reply to Lindsay Lohan's Little Italy BlackBerry Bodega Brouhaha
Wow, if hell had a face.
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switchblade saints
08/22/09

@Conchie Birdie: HA. Or an ass
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Conchie Birdie
08/23/09

@sunofnothing: Wait, you mean Angelina circa Girl, Interrupted? Yeah, I guess I could see that... but this is way worse.
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Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
08/23/09

@switchblade saints: Or a boil on said ass, which resembled a face..
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snugbug
08/22/09

In reply to Lindsay Lohan's Little Italy BlackBerry Bodega Brouhaha
Classic "WTFight" scenario: bratty lady and cranky bodega owner get their douche on and brawl over absolutely nothing; NYPD needs to intervene and send them each to their respective corners, like in kindergarten. The only twinkle of light in this sordid li'l story: the name of that "Lohan pal" who called 911: Patrick Aufdenkamp. Ha-haaaaa.. excellent! I'd Google him right now, except he can't possibly be better in real life than what I'm imagining him to be right now.
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Baroness
08/22/09

In reply to Lindsay Lohan's Little Italy BlackBerry Bodega Brouhaha
Because I'm a congenital idiot who only believes what she reads in the New York Post (Maniac Stalks Olivia Newton-John), apparently the owner asked her to prove it was hers by having the degenerate friends she was with call her phone. They both tried on separate phones, and the calls mysteriously failed. The lesson: appearing on Lifetime will curse and fuck you up far beyond what you've done yourself.
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