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Bing Upholds Microsoft's Tradition of Stealing Whatever Designs Interest It
Think these screenshots of Microsoft's Bing search engine and travel website Kayak look similar? So does Kayak, and an independent software-copyright attorney contacted by GigaOm. Can you tell which is which? More »
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By Ryan TateComment by ninety_nine: If I could see the screenshots, I might be able to respond to that query. 4 Responses | Other threads
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Elisabeth Hasselbeck: Book Thief?
Potential plagiarist, at least! When author Susan Hassett sent her book Living with Celiac Disease to screechingest View hostess Hasselbeck, perhaps she was seeking some advice or PR. Instead, Hasselbeck published her own similarly-themed book a year later.
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Comment by Stacy Davis: is it just me or is Celiac Disease another one of those "peanut allergy" diseases? I never heard of gluten-free... 56 Responses | Other threads
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Phil Spector, Un-Wigged
Producer extraordinaire Phil Spector killed somebody and went to jail and now he's not allowed to wear his wig. How unfortunate for everyone involved. Click through for Spector, be-wigged: More »
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Comment by Fry_Bread_Power: Who keeps a mullet under his wig? Ugh. 8 Responses | Other threads
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Bankers vs. Spies: A Lifestyle Comparison
The CIA is looking to hire a few good former hedge funders and investment bankers to put their "skills" to use on behalf of the USA. But could I-bankers really stand the rigors of the CIA lifestyle? Let's compare: More »
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Comment by moochyshuckworth: CIA: Work hard to keep identity quiet and remain anonymous Bankers: Do not. you think the man in the four thousand dollar... 3 Responses | Other threads
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pundits
Nate Silver is Beavis, No?
Two weeks ago Fox News, in reference to Rachel Maddow's "teabagging" jokes, said her MSNBC show was like Beavis and Butthead. Last night she had number-wizard Nate Silver on. Maybe it's just us.
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By John CookComment by Barry Petchesky: Rachel scores with more chicks than Butt-head. Also, I think Glenn Beck is the Great Cornholio. 2 Responses | Other threads
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sex panther
A Jake Tapper Question Waits for No Man (or Woman)
ABC News' Jake ("The Octogon") Tapper just can't keep all his tough-as-nails, ballsy, hard-hitting questions inside, so he's started interrupting his fellow reporters and posting about it on his blog IN BOLD. More »
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By John CookComment by SpecialK: So let me get this straight. You're advocating reporters be polite to government spokespeople now? And ask meaningless fluff question... 5 Responses | Other threads
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lookalikes
Is This Bernie Madoff Dressed As a Pimp?
Online photo service ScanCafe tells us a customer in upstate New York submitted this photo, ostensibly of Bernie Madoff, about a week ago. We were skeptical, but check out the nose and the smile. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by ChivasMcSadSack: Excuse me for one moment: ARE YOU ALL FUCKING RETARDED!!!!1111 I apologize. Let me regain my composure. The man on the left side... 18 Responses | Other threads
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George Washington and Bernie Madoff Are Brothers From Different Mothers
The internet is very upset that Bernie Madoff looks like George Washington. Could it be because it's like being made love to by a woman with the same mannerisms as your mother? We investigate. More »
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By Joshua SteinComment by wasurhandle: One "built" America, and the other tore it down. Is that even Washington's real hair? Didn't they wear wigs for... 1 Responses | Other threads
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Obama Stealing Bill Clinton's Hair PR Strategy
Those stories coming out about Obama's barber saying how Obama's hair is already turning grey? Total ripoff of hero president Bill Clinton's own first term PR strategy: More »
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Comment by Murph1908: Funny how multiple media outlets had the idea for the same story on the same day. The White House Press Machine... 2 Responses | Other threads
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The Evolution of Zombie RadarOnline
RadarOnline was once an intelligent site, written by funny people. Really! Now, it seems to have degenerated into all Octomom, all the time. What's happening here? More »
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Ben Stiller Ripped Off That Joaquin Phoenix Impression
Ben Stiller reportedly flipped out over his Oscar script the day before this year's show. But the Joaquin Phoenix impersonation he came up with as a replacement was hardly original. More » -
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Your Super Bowl Freaky Fan Gallery
Just in case there was any doubt: Yes, the Steelers and Cardinals fans who made it out to Tampa are, in fact, insane. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by SwissMister: Is there any way to watch this fucking game online? I don't have a TV!!!! HELP!!!! MUST SEE GAME. 3 Responses | Other threads
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Obama vs. Clinton: The Youngest Guns
If power does not corrupt, it certainly ages. The bright young things in the Obama administration will never look as good as they do now. Remember when Clinton's minions were just as fresh-faced? More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by seekingwhat: Thats it! I'm wearing a tuxedo everyday from now on. 4 Responses | Other threads
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Faux-bama Hot, Young, Less Dorky
Staff Sgt. Derrick Brooks, 26, looks enough like the handsome president-elect that he's already kind of a big deal. Barack Obama doesn't see the resemblance. Jealous much? More »
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By Ryan TateComment by raesanni: i don't see the resemblance either, but damn the younger one's a HOTTIE! also, is there a reason he has on... 5 Responses | Other threads
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Foreign Cosmo Runs the Same Angelina Jolie Covers Over and Over Again
Cover Awards notices that Angelina Jolie got "duped" by German Cosmopolitan, because she looks weird. Well, she also got duplicated, as a tipster points out to us. More »
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dead trees
Arianna Huffington Says She Believes In Newspapers. Buy It?
Seeing Arianna Huffington in the LA Times Sunday, someone who has worked for the internet publisher tipped us to a purported lookalike: Ursula from the Little Mermaid. Mean and juvenile! But maybe appropriate! More »
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New Photos Highlight Illegal Obama/Bambu Resemblance
Our supercool, smokin' President-elect has already inspired ironic T-shirts, lawsuits based on those T-shirts, and now a classic "this thing looks like that thing" post, all in one week! More »
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By PareeneComment by eXXX: I love that in the picture above, the word "PAPERS" is cut off so it looks like it reads "PAPI." 6 Responses | Other threads
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What's the Obama-Blago Volleyball Connection?
People keep trying and utterly failing to draw some kind of significant tie between the president-elect and disgraced Illinoid Gov. Rod Blagojevich. But is anyone listening to Google Images? CONNECT THE DOTS. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by DennyCrane: I always feel like ... somebody's watchin' meee .... 1 Responses | Other threads
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The Bernie Madoff Case Is Basically the Plot of Arrested Development
You know what we just noticed? The 'Bernie Madoff Robs Everyone and Alienates His Family' story is kind of similar to that of the Bluth family from the brilliant-but-canceled Arrested Development. Let's do a who's-who comparison! More »
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Comment by bjonston: The only hole I see in this hypothesis is that the Madoffs are not likely to go for "hot ham... 7 Responses | Other threads
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Blago a Huge Nixon Groupie
In 1980, a vacationing Rod Blagojevich camped in front of Richard Nixon's home, with a friend, until the pariah ex-president emerged and this picture was taken. What the hell is wrong with this guy? More »
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By Ryan TateComment by I ♥ Bitchy Trampolines: Hair Origins: I bet Nixon complimented his 'do and he never again changed it. That being said, i would totally do... 4 Responses | Other threads
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The Evil Genius of the New York Post
Credit where it's due, people: the Post's cover this morning (click to enlarge) is simply a work of tabloid art. Sure, it's easy to sell papers when there's big news. But on a slow day, can you pull off a cover that combines revulsion, a perverse obsession with strange diseases, and a mythical monster? That's the news business at its finest. It's a heartwarming narrative: freaky baby born with freaky condition, doctors stumped, he begs for salvation, and it's finally delivered! Something we can all get behind. The Post is actually far more subtle than its tabloid ancestors: More »
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Comment by aurora*raby: Wolf Boy is hot. I wish I were covered head-to-toe in beautiful silver fur. 2 Responses | Other threads
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Obama As Lincoln Comparison Shows No Sign of Abating
We understand the insatiable need for the media to compare Obama to Lincoln, we really do. There's no need to rehash the potential similarities all over again, because Newsweek is devoting their cover story this week to doing exactly that. On one hand, comparing a president-elect to a another guy from Illinois who did the job well makes all the sense in the world. And above all else, Lincoln was a good man. On the other hand, there are elements of this comparison that are wildly not suggestive of BO:
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Comment by bellesouth: The opinions may not be the same regarding race; but wouldn't you say Lincoln's opinion of race is similar to... 8 Responses | Other threads
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Palling Around With Monuments
The urge to draw, literally, a link between Abraham Lincoln and Barack Obama would have been irresistible to editorial cartoonists even if both men were not Illinois legislators, outspoken against a foreign military adventure and exploitive of their hardscrabble upbringings in the national hinterlands. Who better to juxtapose with the country's first black president than the commander-in-chief who emancipated American slaves (even if Obama's ancestors were not among them)? More »
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By Ryan TateComment by ellagood: let's hope obama stays away from the theater. 9 Responses | Other threads
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We Get The BTO Joke Already, Thanks
Sure, it was kind of a McCarthyite move by freshman Minnesota Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann, calling Barack Obama "anti-American" on MSNBC's Hardball. But you know what else it was? A chance for editors across the country to gleefully brandish their pattern-matching skills and knowledge of Canadian classic rock. Hence all of the references to Bachman-Turner Overdrive (hits: "Takin' Care of Business," "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet") in the screenshots above, all courtesy Eric Spiegelman. As usual, the Daily Show adds that extra dash of awesome.
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By Ryan TateComment by lawyergay: You would have thought that at least one person would have gone for "Bachmann pretzel something"? "Bachmann Bakes Up Pretzel... 4 Responses | Other threads
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Invasion Of The TomKat Snatchers
Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes attended a cocktail party for the cast of the revival of All My Sons last night at Hermes's flagship store in New York, shocking fans and jaded paparazzi alike as they emerged from their limousine to reveal that the two had morphed into virtually the same person—a freak evolutionary byproduct of Cruise having spent every waking moment since May 2005 obsessively observing his wife for signs of resistance or flight. Granted, Holmes still enjoyed one distinguishing feature in her six-inch height differential, but that should even out in no time once the ancient Scientological practice of calf-binding completes its painful, appendage-condensing process. More » -
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Is This Your New Spock From 'Star Trek,' Or a Melty-Faced Katie Holmes?
Today, Entertainment Weekly released images from its upcoming issue devoted to J.J. Abrams's reboot of Star Trek, and featured on the cover were the two clearest looks yet at Zachary Quinto as Spock and Chris Pine as Kirk (what, were Tyler Perry and Winona Ryder busy?). Heroes star Quinto has seemed like a natural to don Leonard Nimoy's ears ever since the casting was announced, but we must admit that this cover gave us pause. Is it the amped-up drag queen eyebrows? Or is it that Quinto, with his severe bob and vacant expression, resembles a Marfan's-afflicted Katie Holmes? Let's do a side-by-side: More » -
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Details' Gayness Increases Tenfold With Gossip Girl Cover
This here website (among many others) has been asking the same question for years. Is Details magazine gay? I mean, yeah, they pretty much are with all their fancy fashion ads and fancy men who are always gracing the cover. This month's bois are the dudes from teen soap Gossip Girl, and look! The cover is eerily similar to the fellas' Out cover appearance from back in March. (Heck, when New York Magazine featured the show, they included the ladies.) Note in these two gayish covers that resident twink Chace Crawford is sandwiched in the middle on both. Heh. Subtle. Click for larger comparison.
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Comment by What it is: wait. I thought the playboys of tech feature increased the gayness tenfold? 4 Responses | Other threads
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Toby Young Cheerfully Admits to Sort-of Plagiarism
It took years and years and the attention of a new movie, but someone finally uncovered a smidge of plagiarism in the fired Vanity Fair Brit's How to Lose Friends and Alienate People. Daily Intel found near-identical passages from the book and a New York Times article by John Tierney. Young was unruffled, saying it wasn't plagiarism but loose English journalistic standards at work: More »
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By SheilaComment by TheHonJudgeSmails: Journalism in the UK, much like dentistry, is kind of an amateur pursuit. 7 Responses | Other threads
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Sarah Palin To Command the Death Star?
At left is the wicked (and blessedly dead) Grand Moff Tarkin, high-powered henchman to Darth Vader, from the 1977 space documentary Star Wars. At right is Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin speaking at a campaign rally in Colorado yesterday. Note the similarities. We're not sayin', we're just sayin'. [Palin image via Splash]
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Comment by PrincessKashmir: --Jeremiah Wright as Lando Calrissian (black! and traitor! who may be redeemed after all) --Karl Rove as Jabba the Hut (no... 5 Responses | Other threads
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Ted Kennedy Wins Rave Reviews
We were told Ted Kennedy, who's battling advanced brain cancer, had mere weeks to live. We were told there'd be a macabre video salute to the man in lieu of an actual appearance in Denver. So when he actually showed up on stage at the DNC to deliver a genuinely rousing speech, well, it was an emotional moment. So emotional that the major tabloids of both New York and Boston could not come up with original headlines. More »
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By PareeneComment by WasatchMan: He's dying. The only thing the papers can do is mouth cliches. Let Chappaquiddick rest until it's time... more » | Other threads
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Gossip Girl Stars Reenact Sweepingly Gay Period Drama
When we first saw the photos of Gossip Girl stars Chace Crawford and Ed Westwick lounging on the grass between takes—as louche and laissez-faire as two successful young men in the primes of their lives can be—something about the photos struck as familiar. But we weren't quite sure what it was until today, when a helpful tipster pointed us in the right direction. It's straight out of Brideshead: Revisited! More »
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Comment by Severine: It will be Brideshead all over again pretty soon, there's a new feature film adaptation about to be released (October... more » | Other threads
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Copycat Blogger Hate-Loves Sloane Crosley
A blogger recently "reviewed" uber-book-publicist Sloane Crosley's book of essays, I Was Told There'd Be Cake, on her personal blog. "I too am a twenty-something year old self-absorbed, middle-class angst who can relate to quite a few of Sloane’s shenanigans. Oh you know, the standard white-girl fare..." Cute, whatever. But! This very same blogger, we notice, can relate to quite a few of Sloane's shenanigans: she's written essays in the past month on her blog about a.) being a bad vegetarian, b.) being a pack rat, and c.) spending a childhood playing the videogame Oregon Trail. Coincidentally, Crosley's book features essays about each of these subjects. Hatecrush alert! Let's compare and contrast: More »
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By SheilaComment by TerseNursePornstein: @lcr1234: I guess you didn't read the samples posted above? more » | Other threads
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Jennifer Love Hewitt Echoes Nora Ephron
Actresses always think they're so smart after they've read a book or two—usually on spirituality or something. We think the annoyingly sunny Jennifer Love Hewitt must be reading Nora Ephron right now, because she's (unconsciously?) passing off Ephron's wit and wisdom as her own. Check out their lookalike quotes: Hewitt recently told Health magazine, ""I wish I had been nude from the time I was 12 until I was 28...." More » -
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James Franco: The Next Heath Ledger
The untimely death of Heath Ledger left a void in the acting community. In terms of his actual person, yes, but also in what he represented. A subdued, thoughtful actor who shied away from the press, who made a quiet regular guy life for himself when he wasn't emoting really well for lots and lots of money. So, for useless speculation's sake, who will fill that role now, where is our next, uh, sorta-dark knight? Ledger's Brokeback Mountain costar Jake Gyllenhaal is too splashy. Other broody types like Josh Hartnett haven't quite got that leading-man-with-gravitas movie star thing down. So we think it might be James Franco, who is, like Ledger before he died, just beginning the second act of his career. More » -
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Windmills Will Win the Election!
Kinda spooky crane shots through futuristic windfarms are the new adorable little girls sleeping at 3 a.m.. Or puppies, maybe. Both Barack Obama and John McCain used the same damn shot in recent ads, suggesting that their energy policies are both based on pissing off Ted Kennedy and his neighbors. They really ought to have someone vet stock footage, right? Our own Richard Blakeley spotted the matching footage and put together the damning clip that will swing this election to Ron Paul. Paul only uses fiercely independent stock footage the mainstream media are too scared to show you. -
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Wintour Daughter Subtly Mocks J.Lo
Eagle-eyed commenter Raincoaster noticed something funny about the picture we posted last night of Bee Shaffer: The daughter of Vogue editor Anna Wintour was wearing an Oscar De La Renta dress last seen in July on the back of actress Jennifer Lopez. But it was barely on her back. As pointed out with varying degrees of cruelty on lolebrity and D-Listed, one photo showed how famously-voluptuous Lopez didn't quite fit the dress, so it had to be held onto her body with some sort of rope or scrunchy or something. Now Shaffer is prancing back into New York with that same dress elegantly draped over her wispy, fashion-friendly frame. COINCIDENCE? More »
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By Ryan TateComment by curlyqtips: @Carol Gardens: Was it Zorica who cited shoes? This outfit and its unfortunate waist are utterly salvaged by the 'mater... more » | Other threads
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Exact Same Poster Spells Doom For Both TV Show and Movie
Alan Ball's new HBO vampire series True Blood looks a bit campy in an annoying way (also, Anna Paquin?), and Jennifer's Body, a movie about a possessed killer teen, was written by irksome Juno wordsmith Diablo Cody, so I think it's funny that they've both bumbled and created exactly the same poster (seen above). My biggie b, tween twitterers. Honest to blog, it would be the mac in my cheese if you didn't mention it again! [via Videogum] Click thru for larger.
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Comment by Smitros: @Sleepyhead: One exception:Blood is an unfailingly evocative reference to my having shaved. more » | Other threads
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Joel Stein: American Original
Oh hey, beloved humorist Joel Stein wrote a fantastic column for the Los Angeles Times newspaper called "How to Make Fun of Barack Obama." Wait, sorry, that's the wrong link. That link goes to a post we wrote on Wednesday. We meant to link to Joel Stein's hilarious and original column, "How to make fun of Obama." Do you need reassurance that all is right with the world? Here it is: his advice directly contradicts ours, repeatedly. Did you know that Barack Obama is really gay? More »
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By PareeneComment by WasatchMan: Joel Stein is responsible for the upcoming death of TIME magazine: [www.foliomag.com] more » | Other threads
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The Backhanded Art of the Unflattering Cover
Hey, Julia Allison's on the cover of once-important lifestyle rag Wired! Ms. Allison, who's moved beyond the "dating columnist/celeb talking head" thing to become a noted dater-of-rich-nerds, is the subject of yet another of those interminable stories about becoming Internet Famous in Three Easy Steps. We haven't read the piece, except that we already did in a different magazine like a month ago. More importantly: editors and contributors who perhaps have some doubt as to your value as a cover model may undermine the honor with unflattering photoshop work and coverlines. ("Even if you're nobody," eh?) Just ask right-wing comedienne Ann Coulter. And consider yourself warned.
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By PareeneComment by Pussy Galore: Damn, she looks old and haggard in that photo -- much like the SATC episode. more » | Other threads
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