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26 Mar 2009 10:28

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Culture: Let’s make a Three Stooges movie with big-time serious actors!

  • Oscar-winning superstar Sean Penn’s already in place to play the nested-hair guy. source
  • Fellow Oscar winner Benicio Del Toro is in talks to play the ticked-off straight man. source
  • Jim Carrey is in talks to play the fat funnyman – but wouldn’t he be a better Shemp? source
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25 Mar 2009 22:46

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Culture: Really, who wouldn’t want to stalk Olympian Shawn Johnson?

  • Johnson, who’s 17, a gymnast, and kind of hot, got a creepy visitor at work – “Dancing With the Stars” – recently. A guy 17 years her senior apparently showed up to say haaaaaay. source
  • The man, Robert O’Ryan, was stopped by security. He had two loaded guns in his car and now has a brand-new restraining order against him. We imagine Woz gets this all the time, you know. source
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24 Mar 2009 10:52

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Culture: It runs in the family, sadly: Sylvia Plath’s son commits suicide

  • He was a loving brother, a loyal friend to those who knew him and, despite the vagaries that life threw at him, he maintained an almost childlike innocence and enthusiasm for the next project or plan.
  • Frieda Hughes • Sister of Nicholas Hughes and daughter of Sylvia Plath, on Nicholas’ death by suicide in Alaska. Hughes followed in his mother’s infamous footsteps; she gassed herself to death 46 years ago, creating a literary legend in the process. • source
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24 Mar 2009 10:45

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Culture: South Park probably has something clever to say about the economy

The show, famous for its quick turnaround time on cultural events, tackles the economic crisis tomorrow night. source
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24 Mar 2009 10:27

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Culture, U.S.: The International Space Station’s new room has a great name

  • 230,539 voted for “Colbert.” LOL. source
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24 Mar 2009 10:02

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Culture: Octet mom Nadya Suleman: My angels-in-waiting? Not really angels.

  • They were apparently spying on her. Suleman, who has 14 kids, in case you haven’t heard, claims the nonprofit Angels in Waiting has not exactly been very cool to her throughout their agreement. The group was providing training services to nannies paid on Suleman’s dime. (They initially offered around-the-clock service, but scaled back.) The group apparently was making complaints to child services. “It started out adversarial and never really resolved itself,” said Suleman attorney Jeff Czech. source
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23 Mar 2009 21:49

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Culture: David Letterman managed to get secretly married. Good for him.

  • I secretly felt that men who were married admired me … like I was the last of the real gunslingers.
  • David Letterman • On managing to stay single for a long period of time; something that changed recently when Letterman married his longtime girlfriend recently. • source
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23 Mar 2009 10:36

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Culture: Bruce Willis marries a new squeeze; like Demi, he went younger

  • 24 year age difference between Willis and ladyfriend Emma Heming source
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22 Mar 2009 11:48

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Culture: Why Harrison Ford and Calista Flockheart should get married already

  • 7 number of years they’ve been dating; they just got engaged source
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22 Mar 2009 11:10

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Culture, Offbeat: “Sideways” gets turned upside-down with Japanese remake

OK, the U.S. remake of “Ringu” was one thing, but this is just weird and odd and unexpected. There’s no Merlot-bashing, though. source
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