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    Image of labyrinthine IS DOING THIS labyrinthine IS DOING THIS
    09/18/09

    In reply to Paula Abdul's Ellen-Inspired Single White Female
    why do we have to read SO MUCH into everything? I doubt it's a dig on Ellen's ego, I doubt it's a dig on her being gay (zomg the horrors!), it's just silly ironic-but-actually-not-ironic humor.
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    Image of NewsBunny NewsBunny
    09/18/09

    In reply to Paula Abdul's Ellen-Inspired Single White Female
    She looks like Judith Light.
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    Image of Macloserboy Macloserboy
    09/18/09

    In reply to Paula Abdul's Ellen-Inspired Single White Female
    I enjoyed how Paula clearly demanded that her own vocal work be acknowledged and the producers who selected Miley Cyrus as a "Diva" clearly had no leg to stand on in order to refuse her.

    That said, the show sucked but for Adele and India Arie.
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    Image of Amarain824 Amarain824
    09/18/09

    In reply to Paula Abdul's Ellen-Inspired Single White Female
    Can we just all admit that Paula should host everything on TV? That was the best train wreck I have ever watched. I include Brit Brit's infamous return to MTV in that evaluation
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    Image of scroll_lock scroll_lock
    09/18/09

    In reply to Paula Abdul's Ellen-Inspired Single White Female
    Actually, Idol should be commended for its consistency in choosing two female judges in a row who can't sing.
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    Image of unclevanya unclevanya
    09/18/09

    In reply to Paula Abdul's Ellen-Inspired Single White Female
    This post was so dry, my lips cracked while reading it.

    I need a hug.
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    09/18/09

    In reply to Paula Abdul's Ellen-Inspired Single White Female
    The hijinks continued later when she knocked on Portia's door with a strap-on.
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    Image of Zombosa Zombosa
    09/18/09

    In reply to Paula Abdul's Ellen-Inspired Single White Female
    Judith Light, lookin' good!
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    Image of Sneeze In Bed Sneeze In Bed
    09/18/09

    @Zombosa: YES. Yes.
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    Image of BattistaPashnani BattistaPashnani
    09/18/09

    In reply to Paula Abdul's Ellen-Inspired Single White Female
    By suggesting that it was Paula's "love of money" that cost her the American Idol gig you make her appear very greedy. Women still consistently earn less than men all across this country and I would never categorize any of them as greedy if they decided to take a stand for themselves. Even though I don't think anyone really needs to earn the amount of money she was demanding I applaud Paula for being strong and publicly outing the inequity - it was a pretty sizable gap in their salaries that is insulting on any level.
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    Image of Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate
    09/18/09

    @BattistaPashnani: Agreed. She sure was rude to turn down 10% of Cowell's salary. It's called a group effort, and that's just an insult.
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    Image of Matt Cherette Matt Cherette
    09/18/09

    In reply to Paula Abdul's Ellen-Inspired Single White Female
    I don't think Paula is smart (or sober) enough to intimate any of the above-mentioned; seems like quite a stretch to take three words of a song and use them as the sole evidence for an analysis like that.
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    Image of ampersandparade ampersandparade
    09/18/09

    @mattchew03: Agreed, but that's not nearly so egregious as the idea that her "love of money" cost her a place on the show, especially since, as the female judge since the show's inception at the turn of the century, she made less than her male counterparts and absolutely deserved some sort of pay raise.

    The likely culprit is a production man who thought this would be kind of funny in a just-dim-enough for VH1 sort of way, presented it to Paula, and in her haze of Percocet and vodka she found this to be satisfactory to her life goals at the moment, one of which likely includes finding someway to dig at her former employers.

    Or she's a homophobe who thinks Ellen has a big ego.
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    Image of Matt Cherette Matt Cherette
    09/18/09

    @ampersandparade: Logic? I've missed you!
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    Edited by Matt Cherette at 09/18/09 3:35 AM Matt Cherette was starred Matt Cherette was unstarred
    Image of BowlingForDollars BowlingForDollars
    09/18/09

    @ampersandparade: Yeah, agreed. I saw it live and just thought it was a campy romp, not some big political reflection on lesbians and underpaid women.
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    Image of hilikusopus hilikusopus
    09/18/09

    @BowlingForDollars: It's been shown empirically that women receive lower wages and salaries than men. Having said that, I'm not sure that's the case with Paula, at least not the whole story. Was she every really worth more money? Cowel's obviously the top dog, it's his show, but the antics between he and Paula, and the antics of Paula by herself, were dragging the show down. How many times last season did a contestant stand on stage nervously awaiting their critique that never came, because all the time was taken up with some inter-judge bickering or awkward inside joke. I think her lower pay was a hint that she wasn't worth it to them, she tried to call them out on it, and they weren't bluffing. Anyway, what does Randy make?
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    mattchew03 promoted this comment Edited by hilikusopus at 09/18/09 2:21 PM hilikusopus was starred hilikusopus was unstarred
    Image of Sheila Sheila
    09/04/09

    In reply to Diva Tech Reporter Throws Ridiculous Fitt
    I went to Brazil once. I applied for my visa with time to spare to ensure I could into the country. Wasn't that hard.
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    Image of snugbug snugbug
    09/04/09

    In reply to Diva Tech Reporter Throws Ridiculous Fitt
    Wait, is this the same Sarah Lacy who epically wrote, "People who would never use MySpace or Digg or Twitter are joining Twitter" in a Business Week opus?!

    Get outta town, Lacy. Srsly. You suck.
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    Edited by snugbug at 09/04/09 12:23 AM snugbug was starred snugbug was unstarred
    Image of macbeach macbeach
    09/03/09

    In reply to Diva Tech Reporter Throws Ridiculous Fitt
    Hilarious!
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    Image of iplaudius iplaudius
    09/03/09

    In reply to Diva Tech Reporter Throws Ridiculous Fitt
    Countries like Brazil, Russia, and many others require U.S. citizens to apply for visas as a point of pride. They do it not because there is any great risk in facilitating the entrance of U.S. citizens into their country as tourists. Rather, they do it because the U.S. requires their citizens to apply for visas. The U.S. generally requires visas of citizens from countries where the citizens frequently wish to immigrate to the U.S. The U.S. is worried that casual visitors from such countries may remain illegally and uses the mechanism of the visa to control entrance and make tracking more effective. Countries like Russia and Brazil are, in turn, insulted. ("We have such wonderful country! Why would we want to stay there!") Hence the red tape and the sometimes absurdly high processing fees (Russia, e.g., is over $100 for standard processing. What’s that exchange rate again?).
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    09/03/09

    In reply to Diva Tech Reporter Throws Ridiculous Fitt
    It's not scary when wikipedia updates events in near real time, or writes things like "In September 2009, Lacy was widely criticized and ridiculed on Internet discussion boards..." when we're only 3 days into September. It's only really scary when they report on things that happen the day after they're written about.
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