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Lending New Meaning to the Word “Deadhead”

Three Houston teenagers are accused of digging up the body of an 11-year-old boy who died in 1921 and using his skull as a bong to smoke marijuana in, undoubtedly, the most heavy metal story of the year.

 

Breaking Glass

Over the past few weeks, I’ve noticed this eyesore, which is the poster for season two of Showtime’s This American Life, popping up everywhere like an epidemic of smug.

 

This American Life, which is based on the occasionally amusing NPR show of the same

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Lovitz a Battlefield

Jon Lovitz was at an AIDS benefit recently and made a Jeremiah Wright/AIDS/racist joke that the crowd didn’t quite appreciate.

 

But before anybody goes comparing this to the Michael Richards’ meltdown,  please consider the lifetime pass Lovitz earned on

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A Case in Behalf of Gillette Shaving Cream

The star of Jury Duty and Bio-Dome has moved on to bigger and badder things. Pauly Shore has a new web documentary-style video report called Pauly Shore’s America. After involuntarily watching a 15-second commercial for Edge shaving cream, you will see a

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Sequelle Magnifique

In Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle, Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg (profiled not long ago in one of America’s most prestigious magazines) gave us one of the greatest Jewish lines in the history of film. In Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay,

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Grand Kvetch Auto

Grand Theft Auto IV hit stores this week and everyone went apey for it. I was pretty excited about the testosterone-fueled title myself, especially considering that its “Liberty City” setting was supposed to be an elaborate re-creation of NYC.

 

But, alas,

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Mr. Weinstein Goes to Washington

Hillary Clinton supporter and movie mogul, Harvey Weinstein and Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, recently held a private phone conference, but don’t hold your breath for the least erotic political sex scandal since George Washington gave a hooker splinters

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Not For the Teacher

Last week, The Howard Stern Show held an “Ugliest Guy, Hottest Wife” contest in which three couples competed for a $5,000 prize. Connecticut school teacher Marie Jarry (and her worse half) took home the loot, only days later to find herself fired from her job

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Method to Their Madness

Negotiations between the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) temporarily ended on Wednesday when AMPTP representatives walked, significantly lowering the probability that an agreement will be reached by

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High School Bake Sale

It’s no longer April, but it’s still 420. Or at least it is for 17-year old Austinite Heather McCurry who sold pot brownies to schoolmates this week for just $4 a piece. A shame that the fuzz charged her with a second degree felony.

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