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Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Flotsam & Jetsam

Six People Whose Quest For Fame Was Worse Than Richard Heene

9:02AM Brian Moylan | Yes, right now everyone is pissed off at Richard Heene, the man behind the Balloon Boy hoax, but there are some people whose need for fame has ended in with much worse collateral damage—including death. More »
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Saturday, August 9, 2008

The Top 5 Failed Crossover Attempts by Olympic Stars

8:30AM STV | The 2008 Olympics literally have us 19 ways of excited at Defamer HQ, where we’ve retrofitted our dungeon workspace with one television for each of the NBC channels broadcasting the summer games. But don’t get the wrong idea — we couldn’t care less about the pole vault or women’s rowing. No way. We’re talent scouting, babe, in search of the next Olympian to break through the ranks as a Hollywood star. It’s kind of a ritual around here, really, going waaayyyy back to the days when our old-media ancestors at the Defamer Star-Courier foretold gold-medalist swimmer Johnny Weissmuller’s ascent to fame as Tarzan. More »
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