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DevilsAvocado
03/04/09

In reply to Who We Talk About When We Talk About Gossip
Sub-prime superstars have been going supernova for some time now.

Case #1: "The Hottie and the Nottie".

Starring Paris Hilton.

Release date: 2/8/2008.

US Box office: $27,696

Case #2: "Blonde Ambition".

Starring Jessica Simpson.

Release date: 12/21/2007

US Box office: $6,422
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KristaJulieva
03/03/09

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Times really have changed. Two years ago I got a DUI, and it was all like, so glamorous! Just like Paris and Lindsey and all! Now, I'm just drunk in my apartment like everybody else because we have no moneys.
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DeadliestSin
03/03/09

@KristaJulieva: You're just cooler than the sloven masses who make going to the bar a generally unpleasant experience.
If you want to sit at home in your sweat pants and drink yourself into oblivion while watching various tuesday night investigational detective-type shows, Right on ya!
...not that I do that. Not at all.
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Phyllis Nefler
03/03/09

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But Richard, Wanda Hendrickson cares about Jengelina! WHERE WILL SHE GET HER MAGAZINE CUTOUTS NOW!?

Oh right. She doesn't need to make a schedule anymore.
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belltolls
03/03/09

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But without celebrities won't life just be an endless stream of "cat in the bong" stories?
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Spirit Fingers
03/03/09

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Well somebody will probably bring it up, might as well be me...

What category do we put America's baby-faced sweethearts, who are either dancing phenoms or platyporpoises with the ability to warble almost coherently i.e. sing, or grease up and sluice through the water to eight gold medals while A) toking up or B) beating the sense out of Cover Girl songstresses?

Do they get their own category?
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DevilsAvocado
03/04/09

@Spirit Fingers:

Hey, Falcor. Leave our platypii out of it.

And, apropos of nothing, did you see this, oh great Luck Dragon?

[marklisanti.tumblr.com]
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FormerEnglishMajor
03/03/09

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Do you remember the first-post-Sept. 11 Onion headline? Reminds me of this topic: "A Shattered Nation Longs To Care About Stupid Bullshit Again".
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Mama Penguino
03/03/09

@FormerEnglishMajor: I think of another classic Onion headline that got us into this mess: "Funyuns Still Outselling Responsibilityuns."
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TwiceShy
03/03/09

@FormerEnglishMajor: I'm starting the slow clap build up for your comment.
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Steve Holt's Mother Part Deux
03/03/09

@FormerEnglishMajor: I'm still worried about, "Why does my computer hate me?"

(Computer Counterpoint: "God, do I hate that bitch."
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FormerEnglishMajor
03/03/09

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I don't know if the Hilton/Kardashian/Lohan thing faded out because WE couldn't afford to party like them, as much as it is the venues who were paying them to show up couldn't afford the "appearance fees" anymore.

Otherwise, kudos - this is what is happening. I thought the Angelina cut-away during Aniston's presentation was a clearer sign of the Apocalypse than Dow < 7,000.
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CaptainFantastic
03/03/09

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I wonder what Paris Hilton is doing right now.
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Rumpelstilskin
03/03/09

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Richard, this sounds like a cry for help or a suicide note for the site. Don't you believe in Gossip? Everytime you say that a celebrity dies! Everyone, start clapping if you believe in Gossip!!! Come on, come on....look! Paris is reviving, she's getting dressed, sans panties, putting on her warface.

Keep clapping!
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Pop Socket
03/03/09

In reply to Who We Talk About When We Talk About Gossip
So, basically the same old stuff.
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momo
03/03/09

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Because I'm smart enough not to give a cunt's ass about the octuplet mom, I though that was Julia Allison with the "Freaks" sub-head.
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ginger rant
03/03/09

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I've thought this before, and I'm thinking it now, after reading this: when is some editor going to smarten up and give you a book contract, Richard? (And I already have my star, so I'm not sucking up, incidentally.)
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TedSez
03/03/09

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"Access Hollywood" and "Entertainment Tonight" got on the freak bandwagon years ago. They're like the Ripley's Believe It Or Not Museum tacked on to previews of the upcoming "CSI."
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Baroness
03/03/09

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The way Tina Brown always has her hand attached to her face in photos is kind of brilliant- conveying a world-weary, knowing ennui, as well as a "poor-woman's face-lift".
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saythatscool
03/03/09

@Baroness: She's a finger-sniffer and a habitual panties adjuster. You can never really trust a woman like that.
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Artur Van Asinine
03/03/09

@saythatscool: THe dean of my grad school program was a finger sniffer. it provided 2 years worth of entertainment.
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saythatscool
03/03/09

@Artur Van Asinine: Are you an OB-GYN?
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Artur Van Asinine
03/03/09

@saythatscool: that would make sense, but no, more of a policy/IA kinda thing.

I'm thinking perhaps on a visit to a far off place (the sorts of visits deans of policy type programs are wont to take), engaging in the local custom he partook of the foodstuffs with his hands, and permanently stained them with the commodious perfume of some foreign spice, the likes of which he never again encountered. And, as the years passed, he continually sniffed his fingers in a vain effort to experience, but for a second, that same wonderful flavour that passed his olfactory lobes, lo those many years ago.

either that or he picks his bum and can't help but sniff his fingers.

we were never sure which.
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saythatscool
03/03/09

@Artur Van Asinine: International Affairs 2- Ass Play is one of my favorite movies. There was a lot of finger sniffing in that one too.
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Oy Veh (Informality Reigns)
03/03/09

@saythatscool: A finger sniffer is better than a scab picker/eater. My ex-boss did that-a lot. Of course, that was better than the one time I remember dining with her in a decent restaurant in San Francisco--she took a fork from the table and shoved it down the back of her pants to scratch her butt.
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saythatscool
03/03/09

@Oy Veh (Informality Reigns): I didn't know that you ever worked for Tina Brown.
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Oy Veh (Informality Reigns)
03/03/09

@saythatscool: Would that it was her.. would that it was.
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saythatscool
03/03/09

In reply to Who We Talk About When We Talk About Gossip
And don't forget the gossip about the gossipers. Where would I be without Julia and Emily, the Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland of this lackluster generation?
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Strehle
03/03/09

@saythatscool: I'm wondering what Douglas is up to.
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saythatscool
03/03/09

@Strehle: [gawker.com]

I am no afraid to service a dog.
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Strehle
03/03/09

@saythatscool: Good times ... gooooood times.
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Thatcornellguy
03/03/09

@saythatscool: I mean, the death of the subprime celebrities pretty much spells the end of the Lemoncake Stupidhead Society as we know it.

Oh and as long as Gawker exists, they'll be plenty of gossip on JA for years to come...
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