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As Exciting As Stroller Set Gossip Gets

1:26AM Brian Moylan | Amy Sohn’s new book, Prospect Park West, sure does have some some hot dish: Sean Penn’s bad in bed, Robert Downey Jr. cheats, and Kate Hudson is an evil bitch…in her mind. The celebs don’t care, but the New York Post does! More »
Small Screen

Today Investigates High School Hug Madness

1:59AM Pareene | Oh, good, Today covered the teenage hug menace. “High school hugging has turned into a cultural phenomenon, studied by sociologists, and written about in The New York Times.” A phenomenon studied by bullshit pseudo-scientists and written up as a trend in the Times? Hugs are the new hipster farms! Is the best part when the students act out hugs as Chris Jansing describes them or is the best part the fact that everyone in America is a retard?
Flotsam & Jetsam

Smart Media People Moonlight In Booze

4:18AM Hamilton Nolan | We’ll give you one guess: Which is the heaviest-drinking class of “professionals” in England? If you said “the media,” you are well acquainted with the media’s habits! In fact, we hear that some media workers here are going into the booze business as a dependable second job: More »

5:29AM STV | License to Kill? Yet another delicious dish to add to the all-you-can-eat James Bond Minutiae Buffet: 5 Bond Girls Who Died After Wearing A Bikini. “[O]ut of 11 Bond girls who had ‘bikini moments,’” we’ve learned, “five died before the end of the film. That’s 45 percent, making the wearing of a two-piece bathing suit in the company of James Bond just about the most dangerous activity a woman could engage in anywhere on the planet at any time in history.” Not so fast! They could always work with Alan Ball. [Spout Blog] More »