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01 Jun 2010 12:36

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Culture: NOOO! Al and Tipper Gore separate. Twitter reacts



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31 May 2010 23:46

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Culture: Guess who said this quote, and we’ll tell you later

  • I feel like I’ve been pregnant more than a year. I never gave up. But I can tell you that it was physically and emotionally exhausting.
  • Celine Dion • Regarding her new pregnancy (finally!); Dion had been trying in-vitro fertilization for a while before it actually happened. She was successful on her sixth attempt, and now her spawn will start spreading Diane Warren-inspired over-the-top light-pop vocals in about 16 years or so. Sigh. We can wait. source
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30 May 2010 19:39

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Culture: Super Mario Bros. Crossover: Some mad genius nailed a mashup

Here’s what’s great about this game. Not just the idea, but the mechanics. It NAILS the gameplay strengths and weaknesses of the various characters. source
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30 May 2010 16:31

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Culture: “Sex and the City 2’s” box office way off from the first movie

  • 90% of the people in the audience for
    “Sex and the City 2” were women
  • shrek the only force more powerful
    than those women source
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30 May 2010 13:51

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Culture: Gary Coleman’s former classmate: He was dealt a rotten hand

  • Of all the bad hands people have been dealt in life, of the people who I have known up close, compared to the starving in Mongolia, Gary had as about a rotten combination as anything I’d seen.  I won’t give the details, but there was very much a horrifying tragedy about his life, a desperation that I think at age 16, was too big for us his classmates to comprehend or take in.
  • Blogger Richard Rushfield • Regarding his former high school classmate, Gary Coleman, who died on Friday. Rushfield makes it clear that Coleman’s great tragedy is that he was forced into a lifestyle that wasn’t normal and milked him of his fortune, but more importantly, of a normal life. “As I grew older and watched now from afar, the reports his life get stranger and stranger, it became more clear how much what had happened in those days had cost him,” Rushfield writes. source
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29 May 2010 16:25

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Culture: Dennis Hopper’s death not as Twitter-overtaking as Gary Coleman’s

  • 1.9% of all tweets were about Hopper’s death source
  • How does it compare? It drew less than half the attention of Coleman’s on a slower day. (That factoid has been tweeted a lot today, by the way.) Part of it might be due to the sheer shock of Coleman’s versus Hopper’s more-known health problems.
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29 May 2010 13:53

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Culture: Dennis Hopper’s death, in pictures: From “Easy Rider” to “Speed”

Once a hippie, now a legend. The Washington Post remembers Hopper, who died of cancer, in this pretty awesome photo gallery. source
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29 May 2010 13:48

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Culture: Dennis Hopper dies at 74; Twitter takes in the sad news



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29 May 2010 12:29

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Culture: Gary Coleman is staying on “Avenue Q,” despite his death

  • The play gave Coleman a tribute, complete with weeping. “Avenue Q” has gotten a lot of mileage out of making fun of Gary Coleman over the years, a fate which looked fraught with controversy in the wake of his death. But despite that, the show went on with him last night, and it looks like it’ll continue to go on with him. “After watching it tonight, I would miss him too much,” said the play’s book writer, Jeff Whitty. “Personally, I would miss him terribly.” source
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28 May 2010 19:50

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Culture: When Gary Coleman died, Twitter blew up big time

  • 4.8% of all tweets were about Coleman’s death source
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