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PandoraSpocks
01/30/09

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Caroline on SNL would be fun, plus her kids will either love it or die of embarrassment: win-win for a mom with teenagers.
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Rumpelstilskin
01/30/09

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Will Ellen Barkin play Ellen Barkin? Sort of like "Being Ellen Barkin" but set in Tiffany's.
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Weegee's bored
01/30/09

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What bar let a Kennedy run a tab for six years?
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Housebroken(mostly)
01/30/09

@Weegee's bored: What bar hasn't let a Kennedy run up a six year bar tab?
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Aaron Altman
01/30/09

@Housebroken(mostly): Heh, and @Weegee's bored Hah!
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NotChoinski
01/30/09

In reply to Caroline Kennedy Going On SNL?
If I wanted to reinstate my previous level of privacy after a very public bruising over a failed Senate bid, I too would pick a forum nobody really watches anymore. Checkmate, Mme Kennedy!
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FormerEnglishMajor
01/30/09

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Is Caroline Kennedy really that tone-deaf? Appear on SNL? The place where Britney Spears hosted and had fake boobs move around in circles?

Someone please explain to her the difference between laughing "with" you vs. "at" you.

Plus - avg age of SNL viewer = her kids' age = audience saying "Kennedy? Isn't that that where Toronto is?"
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Smitros
12/07/08

In reply to People's Brangelina Pics Free of Puff-Piece Promise
That cover seems to involve two sets of twins.

Maybe People isn't so big on corrections.
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Weegee's bored
12/07/08

In reply to People's Brangelina Pics Free of Puff-Piece Promise
Whatever happened to the old-fashioned being nice to reporters so they like you?
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Banjo-Sea Kitten
12/07/08

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We'll all look back at these covers and have a sad chuckle in a few years. Angie can have any man in the universe and I sense that she likes darker, weirdo types (don't we all?) and Brad will just be boring the snot out of her soon. Then they'll put on the happy collective face, end the non-marriage and there will be even more nannies, private jets and paid hangers on to help aid in the rearing of these adorable rug rats, hopefully keeping them from turning into little cocaine huffers and Ibiza-partying no-accounts.
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Banjo-Sea Kitten
12/07/08

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At least no elephants or monkeys are being harmed in this circus.
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Wrapitup
12/07/08

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Wait, Owen, why are they making you write posts about movie star PR?? I thought you would still cover the shenanigans at Twitter and Wikipedia?
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mfnher
12/07/08

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Is that baby's smile photoshopped? I don't know anything about babies, but doesn't it take awhile before they start to smile?
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BookishLookish
12/07/08

@mfnher: Now I can be old-school and quote all my great-aunts: "That's just gas."
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BookishLookish
12/07/08

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Who fucking cares, says BookishLatkeish.
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Fishnets and Cigarettes
12/07/08

@BookishLatkeish: not me.
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GirlyWhirl
12/07/08

@BookishLatkeish:

My exact sentiment.
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Calraigh
12/07/08

@BookishLatkeish: I hate stating the obvious but we're all here.

But I agree. I don't fucking care. I do fucking care about explicitly stating that I don't fucking care about People's ''OMG THEY MAYBE WROTE A LIKE, OBVIOUS PUFF-PIECE. IMAGINE! '''

Then again I don't fucking care about the Koobface Virus, Internet ''blowhards'', lawyers in Silicon Valley, rich people in Silicon Valley, silicon, Silicon Valley, valleys, fucking Facebook investors or trying to analyse the retardation that is Wikipedia.

But that's just lil ol' luddite me.
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BookishLookish
12/07/08

@Calraigh: To rework a line from the great Lena Olin in Enemies: A Love Story, "People magazine and all those like it mean about as much to me as last year's frost."
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Calraigh
12/07/08

@BookishLatkeish: God I love Lena Olin. Everything she's ever said/done on film should be reworked into everything. I'm thinking in particular about Romeo is Bleeding. That's the woman I want to be when I grow up. Like, without the actual murdering part.
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BookishLookish
12/07/08

@Calraigh: It's always nice not to have to kill anyone, but it's nice to have a backup plan. As my grandmother used to say, "Man plans, God laughs."
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kloew
12/01/08

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Miss Norma, I understand what you are saying but I question your argument that she is doing it 'sheerly for altruistic reasons'. That's my point. She is doing it for other reasons too. Namely, to off-set negative publicity. I think that's shameful and crosses the line. There are plenty of ways to raise awarenesss for your cause without always making it entirely about yourself. By the way, as much as I like U2 and admire Bono and his humanitarian work, he walks a fine line between humanitarian and complete douchebag. Bono and Jolie should lay off the self-congratulatory masturbation they always engage in especially when you consider they're the kind of people who meet with world leaders to discuss the global food crisis while dining on a 27 course meal of roasted duck and truffle risoto. Or fly around in private jets every five seconds while they lecture others about Global Warming. It's hard to take people like that seriously.
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MissNormaDesmond
12/01/08

@kloew: But I didn't say she was doing it sheerly for altruistic reasons. I said, "even if you [i.e. she] were", which means that I don't think she is. I understand what you're saying about her, what I question is whether she's really as anomalous as you're claiming she is.
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kloew
11/30/08

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What all of them failed to point out is that Angelina Jolie is the only celebrity out there who exploits people who are starving to death to generate positive news coverage for herself. She launched a trend that has celebrities putting price tags on their own children to generate news coverage. It's one thing to pad an interview and control blurbs that are written about you, but hasn't Jolie crossed a line somewhere?
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MissNormaDesmond
11/30/08

@kloew: Just for the sake of argument, not because I hold any particular brief for Jolie -- are you trying to say she's caused actual harm somehow? She certainly trumpets her charity work, but there's really nothing new in that; Bono's been doing it for decades, for example. And really, a big part of the value of doing this sort of thing as a celebrity, even if you were doing it sheerly for altruistic reasons, would be to bring publicity to a cause you ostensibly care about. I can't see how she's really opened up any new territory in this endeavor, just going at it with a bit more ferocity than usual.
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ObtuseIntolerant
12/02/08

@kloew: She's not the first celebrity to focus on charity work in the third world, or adoption of children from there. Audrey Hepburn, Mia Farrow. The world - and the incestuou inanity of Hollywood - existed before the Nineties, geez.

And who's to say they aren't using their fame to draw attention to those issues rather than those issues to draw attention to their fame?
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Seeräuber Jenny
11/30/08

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I'm feeling bitchy and sensitive, but someone who appeared on Reliable Sources today needs to look up the pronunciation of "adulatory."
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