Articles Tagged with #celebrities
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Exploring the Language of the Stars
Cultural Literacy for Old People
Your eyes don’t totally glaze over when someone tells you the latest news about Chloe Moretz. Maybe you have a general sense that One Direction is a boy...
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Exploring the Language of the Stars
How We Break Up
In most cases they seem to stretch well past the sell-by date of whatever relationship they were originally attached to. It makes sense, narratively. The part of the relationship where...
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Divine Comedy
I Shall Be Heard
Andy Kaufman performed for more than just laughs—in fact, his goal often seemed to be something entirely different. A budding comic chases Andy’s ineffable comedy.
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Exploring the Language of the Stars
Behind the Scenes: Jennifer Love Hewitt’s Breast Insurance Policy
While promoting the second season of Lifetime’s The Client List, the 34-year-old actress admitted to USA Today that she would consider getting her breasts insured. “I need,...
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Exploring the Language of the Stars
Worst Job Ever: Suri Cruise’s Doppelganger
A tiny little body double leading photographers away from wherever Suri wanted to be, the latest scam in a long line of scams that began with Tom Cruise’s...
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TMN Weekender
Human Behavior
Over at Vulture, Brian McGreevy pleads with Girls fans (and critics) to stop calling Lena Dunham “brave” for daring to appear en deshabille onscreen despite her clinically average...
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Exploring the Language of the Stars
How to Spend Valentine’s Day With the Celebrity of Your Dreams
If you’re like me, you’re busily fashioning a full-size model of Ryan Reynolds from ordinary household objects. The things we do for love, am I right? ...
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Spoofs & Satire
A Supposedly Fun Thing I Will Probably Do Again
Yesterday morning, a plane landed at an airport. A man who was or was not a famous actor, and a writer who was or was not in love with him, stood on the verge of finally meeting. A Valentine’s Day story for the romantic and/or foolish at heart.
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Exploring the Language of the Stars
The Perpetual Need for TV Characters to Make Out
The only hour of the week you can even stand to be alive, the only time you can focus on something other than the terrible skin covering your ungainly blob...
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Exploring the Language of the Stars
The Beautiful Dark Magic of Lip-Syncing
The year was 1989. The place: Lake Compounce amusement park in Bristol, Conn. Two young warlocks named Rob Pilatus and Fab Morvan were performing a complicated lip-sync with their coven, Milli...
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Exploring the Language of the Stars
Three Shades of Celebrity Desire
It was nice, for a while, imagining that love is real. Remember when we knew they were together but they were playing coy? Selena telling Ellen that Justin was like...
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Exploring the Language of the Stars
The Impossible Expectations for Kim & Kanye’s Baby
For every baby in your life, you had to endure nine months of updates. We’re pregnant! We’re getting the room ready! It’s a boy,...