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PHOTOS British boy sent home from school for wearing Christian Grey costume

  An eleven-year-old boy has been sent off by his school for coming dressed as Christian Grey, the S&M-obsessed titular billionaire from the Fifty Shades of Grey books. Tiny, cute-as-a-button Liam Scholes went dressed as Grey for World Book Day, an annual event during which already-adorable children go to school dressed as characters from their…

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MUG SHOT High school dean arrested for running drug ring, putting hit out on student

  Reverend Shaun O. Harrison Sr., an educator and administrator at English High School in Boston, has been charged with intent to murder, aggravated assault and battery, and unlawful possession of a firearm after an assassination attempt gone wrong. Harrison is a deeply respected member of his community, one whose “prominent antigang [activities]” and role…

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PHOTO Justin Bieber calls himself “fat” on Instagram, inspires legions of haters

  Justin Bieber may have, without even trying to do it, hit on the exact reason why people love to hate him. J–Bieb–Style posted the above picture of himself to Instagram yesterday, with the caption “Great birthday–and I’m not fat it’s the angle.” BB-Pants was doubtless trying to head off any fat-based comments at the…

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PHOTOS The biggest Bloody Mary in the world is intimidating

A Milwaukee pub has created the biggest Bloody Mary in the world. It is the most absurd, delicious, terrifying meal you have ever seen: a half-gallon Bloody Mary with a fried chicken on top. In case you’re starving, though, don’t worry: it’s mounted with way more food than *just* a chicken. The old belief that…

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VIDEO Cell phone footage of Harrison Ford’s plane crash surfaces

  Harrison Ford is in “fair to moderate condition” in a Los Angeles hospital after surviving an emergency crash landing on a golf course Thursday. Ford was piloting a 1942 Ryan Aeronautical ST3KR when his engines failed about 20 minutes after takeoff. The actor is an experienced pilot, and Christian Fry of the Santa Monica…

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Nick Gordon films “emotional” Dr. Phil interview en route to rehab

  Nick Gordon, whose pleas to see comatose girlfriend Bobbi Kristina have grown ever more desperate in the weeks since her hospitalization, is set to enter rehab for an addiction to alcohol and pills. Before going, though, he stopped by Dr. Phil’s show for a heartfelt chat with the popular daytime talk show host. The…

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PHOTOS Kim Kardashian steps out in revealing mesh dress for Paris Fashion Week

Kim Kardashian is nothing if not a human chameleon of sorts. Just two days after dropping a platinum blonde bombshell on Europe while in Paris for the city’s annual Fashion Week, Kimmy K decided she wasn’t getting the kind of attention she felt she deserved. The star of Kim Kardashian, Superstar turned heads and drew…

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What is the average penis size? British Urology Journal publishes study

What is the average penis size? The British Urology Journal has published the long-awaited results of its long-term study of penis size. Their goal: Answering the often-asked question “How big is average?” Their study: “‘Am I normal?’ A systematic review and construction of nomograms for flaccid and erect penis length and circumference in up to…

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Kanye’s afraid Amber Rose will share all his “freaky” secrets in her new book

  Kanye West is a pretty low-key guy. He likes to keep a quiet profile, and prefers not to draw attention to himself. Remember that whole Twitter dust-up between Khloe Kardashian and Amber Rose from a couple weeks back? Kanye hardly said a word about it. Except that he “had to take 30 showers” after…

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PHOTOS The “Fleshl!ght Launchpad,” a sex toy you can attach to your iPad, is now a thing

  The sex toy company Fleshl!ght (Sorry, we have to edit the name) has upped the ante for goofy gadgetry with its Launchpad: a custom-molded iPad case that has a mount for its Fleshl!ght product. The end result is that you can now masturbate with no hands. (Kind of.) How does the thing work? Well,…

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MUG SHOT Ohio man arrested after commenting on his own wanted poster on Facebook

  Andrew Dale Marcum, 21, of Hamilton OH, has been re-arrested this week. He was wanted by the Butler County Sheriff’s Department on a variety of charges, but it’s not a new crime that got him back in the pen. What tripped Marcum up was his own silly ways: the man decided it would be…

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MUG SHOT Man with facial 666 tattoo arrested for murder in a church

  William Everett Long, 53, of Duck NC, has been arrested for murder after stabbing a man to death at a homeless shelter in the city. Both Long and the victim, 61-year-old George Henry Provost, are homeless; they were staying at the Duck United Methodist Church for the night, due to unseasonably cold winter weather….

PHOTO Kanye West announces new album title, reveals cover on Twitter
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PHOTO Kanye West announces new album title, reveals cover on Twitter

  Kanye is about to drop a new album on us, but one thing he isn’t dropping is the religious comparisons of which he’s grown so fond. So Help Me God is the name of the next record by KW; the man himself announced it super-late last night via Twitter. (Super nonchalantly, too: The announcement…

PHOTOS Lady Gaga plunges into Lake Michigan for charity, freezes her hair while doing so
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PHOTOS Lady Gaga plunges into Lake Michigan for charity, freezes her hair while doing so

  Lady Gaga, known perhaps more for her keen fashion sense and bizarre, unforgettable appearances than for her voice, appeared unusually vulnerable this weekend–and she shared the results with the world on Instagram. Gaga and her fiancé Taylor Kinney (star of Chicago Fire, no less), along with Chicago native Vince Vaughan and a host of…

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Netflix announces brand spankin’ new Pee-Wee Herman movie

  Paul Reubens has not had a starring role as Pee Wee Herman since Pee-Wee’s Playhouse went off the air in 1990. Since then, he’s revived the character every now and again for the occasional short film tied in to some other, larger purpose; or, during a brief stretch in 2011, Jimmy Fallon’s late-night program….

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VIDEO Justin Bieber gets a painful tattoo in new Comedy Central Roast promo as Kevin Hart shares some spoilers

  Sometimes, the best comedy is straightforward. That’s the product that Comedy Central is selling with its newest promo for the upcoming Justin Bieber roast. The short, sweet spot features J-Bibs sitting in a chair at a tattoo parlor in obvious discomfort. The reason why? He’s getting a giant, completely appropriate tattoo on his back,…

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MUG SHOT, PHOTOS Florida mother beats child with belt, sends her to school in shame shirt, becomes early front runner for “Worst Parent of the Year” award

  Melany Joyce Alexander, age 30, of Hernando County FL, is under arrest for child abuse after beating her daughter with a metal-studded belt and forcing her to wear to school a shirt on which the mother had written a long note about the daughter’s failing grades. A deputy from the Hernando County Sheriff’s Department…

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Bruce Jenner reportedly leaving Keeping Up With The Kardashians; rift between family members grows

  Apparently, Bruce is out–but not in the way you might expect. The patriarch of the Jenner family is quitting Keeping Up With the Kardashians, per sources. He and Kris aren’t seeing eye-to-eye with regard to the news of Bruce’s gender transitioning (and upcoming reality series based around that event), and the family is getting…

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VIDEO Netflix drops a new House of Cards trailer during the Academy Awards broadcast

  You guys: the new season is House of Cards is only five days away. And, technically, it’s even less than that, since the premiere’s going to happen at three AM Eastern Standard Time. Four days and sixteen hours! That’s practically tomorrow! Netflix knows it, too, which is why they teased us with a second proper…

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VIDEO Oscar-winner Graham Moore gives amazing acceptance speech about suicide and “staying weird”

  Last night, the writer Graham Moore won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for his work on The Imitation Game. The movie is based on Andrew Hodges’ biography Alan Turing: The Enigma. It’s a war thriller about Turing’s work as a cryptanalyst during World War II, and his later prosecution for homosexuality, which…

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VIDEO John Travolta creeps everyone out by holding Idina Menzel’s face at the Oscars

  John Travolta’s career post-Battlefield Earth is an atomic wasteland of the crazy, awkward, and bizarre. Last year, he somehow managed to butcher Idina Menzel’s name into “Adele Dazeem” while introducing the singer; this year, there was a fair amount of anticipation as to what Johnny T-Pants would do to make things right with the…

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How long do Oscar winners get to speak before the music plays?

How long do Oscar winners get to speak before the music plays? Polish filmmaker Pawel Pawlikowski won the Best Foreign Language Academy Award last night for his film Ida. He also, arguably, won the awards show, by ignoring the “walk-off” music that came on about twenty seconds into his acceptance speech, talking straight through it…

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Pope Francis appears to compare transgender people to nuclear weapons

  It sounds like the beginning to a joke: “What did the Pope compare transgendered people to?” But the LGBTQ community is not laughing at the latest publicized interviews given by Pope Francis, in which the pontiff appeared to compare transgendered people to nuclear weaponry. The interviews were actually conducted about a year ago, by…

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More sources come forward with tales of Bobbi Kristina’s drug use

    Several days after initial reports of Bobbi Kristina’s drug preferences surfaced, new sources have come forward with tales of a troubled 21-year-old who used hard drugs often. “Multiple sources” have confirmed that the daughter of Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown used “heroin, cocaine, and Xanax” regularly in the months before she was found…

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Kardashian family involved in Montana car accident

  Kim and Khloe Kardashian are fine after being involved in a one-car accident in Montana late Saturday. The pair were driving near Bozeman, where the Kardashian clan has been vacationing all week, when Kim lost control of her vehicle and it slid into a ditch. Most distressing to the sisters was the fact that…

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Guy Fieri to wed 101 gay couples in South Beach

  Chef Art Smith, host of the inaugural 101 Gay Weddings event taking place during the South Beach Wine & Food Festival, decided that he needed to do something even bigger and grander for the first-time shindig. So he decided to ask fellow celebrity chef Guy Fieri to officiate each wedding. Smith generally hosts a…

MUG SHOT Kentucky police arrest Queen Elsa from Frozen, charge her with “excessive winter”

  It’s cold out there, you guys. It’s so cold, Jim Cantore is jumping for joy over thundersnow in Boston. It’s so cold, Boston is practically one giant snowball. And it’s so cold that police in Harlan KY are looking for fictional characters to blame the unending February on–all in the name of fun, of…

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Jason Biggs announces he will not be in Season Three of Orange is the New Black

  To the delight of OITNB fans everywhere, Jason Biggs has confirmed that he won’t be returning to the show for its upcoming third season. Biggs’ character, Larry Bloom, has been roundly criticized as the weakest part of an otherwise well-rounded show, and, when Piper broke up with him during bathroom sex in Season Two,…

MUG SHOT Florida woman stops traffic to masturbate naked atop a stranger’s Lexus
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MUG SHOT Florida woman stops traffic to masturbate naked atop a stranger’s Lexus

A Florida woman was arrested this past week for running naked into the street, then mounting a stranger’s Lexus and proceeding to masturbate in full view of traffic. Orlandoite Amie Carter, 31, is at the center of the Florida woman stops traffic to masturbate story. According to the Orlando Sentinel, Carter jumped onto the Lexus’…

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New Bobbi Kristina reports point to intense family fighting, possible drug use

  While Bobbi Kristina’s health remains uncertain, the drama unfolding over her hospital bed continues to intensify. New reports from Atlanta indicate that the feud between Bobby and Jerod Brown is only getting worse, with each family member accusing the other of exploiting Bobbi for personal gain. This week, Jerod tweeted out his frustration with…

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VIDEO Surveillance video captures Bruce Jenner hitting both cars in fatal accident

  Surveillance video from an MTA bus caught the fatal Bruce Jenner car accident on camera, and it appears to show the former Olympian rear-ending one car (a white Lexus) into oncoming traffic, then continuing on and hitting the next car (a Prius) in front of him. While the actual surveillance video has not been…

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Krispy Kreme apologizes for accidentally creating the “KKK Club”

  Krispy Kreme is asking for worldwide forgiveness after a store in Hull, England accidentally advertised a “KKK Wednesday” celebration. The “KKK” was, of course, supposed to stand for “Krispy Kreme Klub,” an exclusive group whose members would wear white napkins and mutter incoherent phrases while eating wonderful doughnuts. The inconsistency was first reported by…

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Did James Lipton used to be a pimp?

  Did James Lipton used to be a pimp? Lipton is a kindly 88-year-old man best-known to the world at large for his long-standing role as host of Inside the Actor’s Studio. He is probably second-best-known for his small, but meaty role as Warden Gentles on Arrested Development. And he is probably third-best-known for being…

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Who is Taylor Kinney, Lady Gaga’s fiancé?

  Lady Gaga went and got herself engaged over the Valentine’s Day weekend. So, first of all: Congratulations to her! And to her lucky fella. The lucky fella? Her long-time beau, 33-year-old firefighter-on-TV Taylor Kinney. (Gaga, for those of you keeping score at home, is 28 years of age.) No offense to Mr. Gaga, though,…

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Oscar-winner Shirley MacLaine thinks Holocaust victims might have deserved it

  Noted actress Shirley MacLaine, who won an Oscar for her role in 1983’s Terms of Endearment and won a generation of new fans with her turn as Lady Grantham’s boisterous American mother on Downton Abbey, has found herself in a spot of trouble this week. But it’s not for anything that MacLaine did; rather,…

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Amber Rose and the Kardashians now involve nude photos in their feud

  The long-running Rose-Kardashian feud has gone to another level. After Rose took shots at Kylie Jenner’s relationship with Tyga–specifically, at Kylie’s age–Kim and Khloe took to Twitter separately to stick up for their family’s honor. The tweets mentioned Rose’s stripper past specifically, and asserted that the Kardashians always take the high road when it…

Where Are They Now: The Cast of Mad Men
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Where Are They Now: The Cast of Mad Men

  Mad Men is possibly the most acclaimed television show of this young century. It’s won more accolades–and style points–than most programmes will ever dream of. And the whole crazy ride will come to an end this spring: Sunday, April 5th, is the date the first of the final seven episodes will air. The whole…

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VIDEO Watch The Weather Channel’s Jim Cantore lose his mind over thundersnow in Boston

  Snow: New England is sick of it; the rest of the country’s gotten less of it than usual this year; and we’re all kind of at the exact worst point of winter besides. The major holidays are all done, but it’s going to be slushy and gray and not spring for at least a…

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PHOTOS Cindy Crawford’s husband posts loving Instagram valentine to his wife after untouched image leaks

  Cindy Crawford’s husband Rande Gerber has shared a loving valentine to his wife–and he’s done it for the benefit of the rest of us. Gerber took to Instagram this Valentine’s Day to share a stunning photo of his wife, bikini-clad and poolside at a resort. The photo itself was as undated as Gerber’s caption…

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Conflicting reports of Bobbi Kristina’s status continue; condition “grim” according to multiple family members

  Bobbi Kristina’s condition remains “grim,” according to multiple family members who have visited her bedside, but exactly how grim remains a mystery. Over the weekend, several reports emerged that suggested the 21-year-old’s organs were shutting down and that her death was imminent–perhaps only hours away. However, the weekend has come and gone, and, while…

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What is butter coffee, and why is it so popular?

What is butter coffee, and why is it so popular? Butter coffee: It’s the latest taste sensation to sweep the nation. (“Nation,” in this case, refers to America. Apologies to any offended overseas readers. Perhaps this particular taste sensation has already swept up your lands.) It’s supposed to be better for you than regular coffee;…

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MUG SHOT, PHOTO Drunk driver flees scene of car accident, forgets to take his prosthetic arm with him

  A Corpus Christi police officer, responding to a report of a single-car accident, found that the driver of the car had fled the scene…but that he had also left something rather important behind. That’s right: 23-year-old Juan Gutierrez was so drunk that he forgot to take his prosthetic arm with him before stumbling off…

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Bruce Jenner furious with the Kardashians for publicly discussing his transition

  According to new reports, Bruce Jenner thinks his family leaks like a newborn’s nethers, and he’s fed up with it. Jenner, whose reluctance to discuss his transition has rankled some in the transgender community, blames the Kardashian girls for the stream of information and misinformation about that transition–according to the Mirror, he’s even sharing…

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Family and friends gather to say goodbye to Bobbi Kristina

  Bobbi Kristina’s organs have begun shutting down and the 21 year-old is dying, according to reports from TMZ and the New York Daily News. The daughter of Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown, who was discovered unresponsive under drug-related circumstances similar to those of her mother’s overdose and eventual death in 2012, has been hospitalized…

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AUDIO Check out the amazing “Beckyoncé” post-Grammy mashup that’s sweeping the nation

  It’s a fairly simple story: Beyoncé was favored to win the Album of the Year Grammy last week. A couple of nominees said that if they won, they would hand the trophy to Beyoncé. Beck actually won the award. Beck acknowledged all of the nominees in his acceptance speech, but didn’t give the award…

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MUG SHOT Florida man, arrested for so very many offenses, gives “Drug dealer” as his occupation

  The tale of Robert Michael Phillips’ latest arrest is a bit convoluted, and is perhaps best told in individual steps. Consider, then, the following:   1. Phillips, driving in West Palm Beach FL, cut in front of an unmarked Sheriff’s vehicle and narrowly avoided an accident. 2. Now being tailed by the detective in…

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Woman has vagina repaired with pig intestine in groundbreaking surgery

  A Czech woman who suffered from a rare skin disease called scleroderma has had her critically narrow vagina widened using a graft from a pig’s intestine. The woman went to the gynecologist for help after sex became physically impossible. The gynecologist then sent the woman to hospital after finding the vagina so constricted that…

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Who is Frank Underwood based on?

  Who is Frank Underwood based on? The premiere of House of Cards‘ new season is just a touch under two weeks away, and anticipation is way past fever pitch. That’s because earlier this week Netflix accidentally made the entire third season available for about an hour, and screencaps, spoilers, and descriptions for the first…

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Lady Gaga to perform in mysterious “special tribute” at the Oscars

  Lady Gaga, fresh off her duet with Tony Bennett at the Grammy awards, is going to sing at this year’s Oscars. The show’s producers announced Gaga’s inclusion today, via Twitter. It’s the first time at the show for the Gagster, but the details of what exactly she’ll be doing remain scarce. All we know…

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Colorado florists offer pot bouquets for Valentine’s Day

  Colorado residents have a little extra incentive for Valentine’s Day appreciation this year. Thanks to the recent (and very popular) legalization of marijuana, florists across the Centennial State are offering cannabis additions to Valentine’s Day floral bouquets. Cindy Ollig, who owns Denver’s Perfect Petal shop, says it doesn’t make sense to add huge handfuls…

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AUDIO Kanye threatens another Grammy boycott over unfair voting practices

    Kanye “K-West” West made something of a triumphant return to the Grammy stage at this year’s awards ceremony. He ended a six-year Grammy boycott in typical K-West fashion: after performing twice–or, once more than anyone else, depending on how you choose to look at it–he jumped onstage during Beck’s Album of the Year…

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“Fifty Shades of Grey” is getting terrible reviews. Here’s a drinking game to help make it enjoyable!

  The magical day is almost upon us: tomorrow, Friday, February 13th, in this the year of our Lord 2015, we can all finally go see Fifty Shades of Grey on the silver screen. There’s been so much anticipation and buildup surrounding this movie that you could be forgiven for thinking it was actual first-time sex. Which…

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SPOILERS Details for House of Cards season three leak online

  The newest season of Netflix’s biggest hit premieres three weeks from yesterday. That means it’s fewer than three weeks away! That is super close, you guys. And, as usual, the show’s producers have kept the specifics of this season’s plot under a pretty tight wrap. The two brief trailers we’ve gotten so far tell…

MUG SHOTS A match made in dairy: Couple arrested for stealing 57 blocks of Wal-Mart cheese
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MUG SHOTS A match made in dairy: Couple arrested for stealing 57 blocks of Wal-Mart cheese

  Here’s one for you: The Caldwells, a sweet, cheery couple from Chattanooga Tennesee, have been arrested for attempting to steal $600 worth of household goods from a Wal-Mart in nearby Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia. Included in that $600 haul? Fifty-seven blocks of sweet, delectable Wal-Mart cheese. Store management called the police when they spotted Mr….

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Transgender community calls out Bruce Jenner for exploiting his transition

  It’s been all but officially confirmed that Bruce Jenner is transitioning from a man to a woman. It’s also been all but officially confirmed that a camera crew is documenting the transition for an upcoming reality series. There hasn’t yet been an actual, on-the-books, official announcement from Jenner, but, in addition to the comments…

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PHOTO Kim Kardashian shows off her butt again, this time for Love Magazine

  Kim Kardashian is at it again. The notoriously-happy KK, whose November antics in Paper Magazine garnered a fair amount of attention, is showing off her famous rear end again. This time, the culprit-slash-beneficiary is the UK’s Love Magazine, and the photo has leaked in advance of the Kimmy K-dedicated issue, which hits newsstands February…

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VIDEO Check out the first released scene from Fifty Shades of Grey: Does it sizzle, or fizzle?

  Universal has released the first full scene from the upcoming romantic comedy Fifty Shades of Grey. In it, Christian pays Ana a surprise–and sexily unsettling–visit at the hardware store, where Ana works, convincingly. He makes a series of innocuous selections, all of which could be used to bind together human hands and feet, if…

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VIDEO Arizona weather map predicts apocalyptic temperatures, weatherman just rolls with it live on the air

  The crew over at Fox 10 out there in sunny Phoenix AZ is made up of some good-natured folk, and some talented improvisers to boot. Earlier this week, there was a malfunction involving either the network’s green screen or the computers loading the information into the weather map, because that map started to project…