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14 Jul 2009 20:19

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Culture: My, TMZ, what an … uplifting … gallery of celebrities you have

All of these stars have had work done on their faces. Julius has been considering a facelift too. Too bad he’s made of metal. source
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13 Jul 2009 12:56

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Culture: Sorry JT, it looks like Ryan Reynolds is the new Green Lantern

I think we can all breathe a collective sigh of relief now that we know Justin Timberlake didn’t snag this role. He should really just focus on bringing sexy back. source
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13 Jul 2009 10:04

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Culture: Ryan Seacrest’s ubiquitous self is getting a huge cash-in

  • $45 million over three years to grin for American Idol’s cameras source
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12 Jul 2009 13:01

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Culture: MTV reality star pens book about reality star, makes loads of cashola

  • If someone said to me five years ago when this all started that I would one day make the New York Times Best Seller list I wouldn’t have believed it.
  • MTV reality star and first-time author Lauren Conrad • On the success of her novel, L.A. Candy, which has topped the best seller list for two weeks now. For those of you who don’t know, Conrad starred in the Hills for four years after moving to L.A. when she was 19. Her novel? It’s about a 19-year-old girl who moves to L.A. and stars in a reality show. Yeah Lauren, we can’t really believe it either.  • source
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12 Jul 2009 11:44

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Culture: “Brüno” did böffo at the böx öffice this weekend

  • $30.6 million in sales for a man pretending to be gay source
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11 Jul 2009 12:30

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Culture, Tech: Greg Grunberg: “Heroes” star, Yowza iPhone app maven

  • At the beginning it was a tough chicken and egg situation. Where I was calling and saying ‘Hi it’s Greg Grunberg, star of NBC’s Heroes, can I talk to the head of marketing please,’ and I would get them on the phone.
  • Greg Grunberg • On his pretty solid side career producing the Yowza iPhone app, a GPS-aware coupon-referring program that has become a hit. He claims that he’s always been a bit of an entrepreneur and that it’s a solid backup plan just in case he gets killed off on “Heroes” someday. (Not that he should have a problem with that, because his character can read people’s thoughts.) • source
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10 Jul 2009 19:20

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Culture: Mr. Potter is Mr. Popular in the US. Well, everywhere actually.

  • 300 midnight showings are already sold out across the country, and that number is expected to rise “dramatically” before the movie is released July 15. source
  • Reuters is even reporting that Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the sixth film in the series, could gross between $800 million and $1 billion. source
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10 Jul 2009 15:44

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Culture: Well, that sucks. Appears major critics aren’t so hot on “Bruno”

  • The Washington Post’s Ann Hornaday, savaged Sacha Baron Cohen’s mock-doc, saying “the skits don’t add up to anything substantive, and even his swipes at U.S. politicians here seem gratuitously cruel.”
  • While Colin Covert of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune says Cohen’s latest is “a bit of a letdown” and notes that it feels padded, he still says “he’ll never run out of bigotry, idiocy and hypocrisy to spoof.”
  • cold
  • lukewarm
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09 Jul 2009 22:48

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Culture: Know Dan Deacon? He wasn’t tripping acid when he made this

  • Beyond his awesomely bizarro music career, player piano supergenius Dan Deacon is the constant target of viral videos, most famously “Drinking Out of Cups,” a Liam Lynch video based on a sonic experiment Deacon made over half a decade ago. Well, after a handful of comedians linked to this video (2.9 million views and counting), he was forced to clarify to the world: No, he wasn’t on acid when he made this. To make up for that, we were on acid when we watched it.source
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08 Jul 2009 22:57

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Culture: This is the last time we ever post about Michael Jackson’s death

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