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‘No Rain, No Rainbow’

6:29PM the cajun boy | On Monday night Conan had William Shatner on the Tonight Show to conduct a dramatic reading of a particularly poetic prose passage from Sarah Palin’s resignation speech. Tonight Shatner returned to conduct another dramatic reading of Palin tweets. More »

Crazy-Ass Things Britney Spears Has Recently Hand-Delivered To Her Enemies

8:30AM Defamer Hollywood | Star Magazine reports that Britney Spears’s threatening legal care package for her mother included a poem entitled “Dear Mama” – not the first time the singer chose to express herself in accusatory verse – in which she allegedly told the intervening parent that she “didn’t have a mum anymore.” Slightly more inscrutable was another personal delivery made by the increasingly paranoid pop starlet, who now includes the U.S. Postal Service among the government agencies plotting against her: a handwritten note delivered to X17 on Tuesday, explaining a now-legendary incident of SUV-cruelty captured by the paparazzi outfit. In it she writes: Dear X17 I want to apologise for the past incedent[sic] with the umbrella. I was preparing a character for a possible movie role where the husband doesn’t play his part so they swap places. Unfortunately I didn’t get the part. I’m sorry I got alil[sic] carried away with my role! Britney More »