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"Due to access restrictions that limit who can see your profile, there are no ’stars’ there. I wonder - does this detract or attract? It’s kind of nice not to be confronted with celebrity at every turn."
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Mika Brzezinski of MNSBC rips Paris report
"MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski refuses to talk about Paris Hilton as a *Lead Story* on the Morning Joe show."
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YouTube Starts Paying Star Users
"A select group of content creators will get promotion on the YouTube platform, and we will help them monetize their content. This will help erase the the stigma around the user-created content, and, to be honest, these guys are media entities. . . "
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Anil Dash on Michael Richards: "Michael Richards lost his shit for the same reason white people always get mad when black people talk at the movies."
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Why Paris Hilton Is Famous (Or Understanding Value In A Post-Madonna World)
"What makes Paris brilliant is that she used the attention she had and gave it to others thereby garning more attention for herself. And it’s been profitable."
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Lonelygirl15's Online Diary Is the Birth of a New Art Form
"It’s the birth of WikiTV: a television show created by a broad community of participants and built not of sequential, hour-long episodes, but of two-ÂÂminute interconnected parcels."
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The purple monkey comes clean about the whole thing.
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Danger Mouse, Banksy Burn Paris
"Danger Mouse's management confirms he's the "DM" behind the pranksta remixes of Paris Hilton's new album."
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Mystery Fuels Huge Popularity of Web's Lonelygirl15
"The videos are a hit on YouTube, but some wonder if the teen's posts are real or a marketing ploy."
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Lonelygirl15 : A Message From the Creators
"We hope that you will join us in the continuing story of Lonelygirl15, and help us usher in an era of interactive storytelling where the line between "fan" and "star" has been removed, and dedicated fans like yourselves are paid for their efforts."
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'Guerrilla artist' replaces heiress's CDs in shops with doctored versions
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Banksy creates 500 of his own remixed version of Paris's new CD and drop lifts it at music stores around the UK.
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Internet killed the TV star from Guardian Unlimited
"Hardly a day goes by now without the minting of a fresh internet celebrity. Some of them will no doubt go the way of Mahir Cagri and the Hamster Dance, but most no doubt hope that they are making their first steps towards mainstream stardom."
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"Money and power are handy, but millions of ambitious people are after something other than the corner office or the beach house on St. Bart’s."
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The man behind the 'Girls Gone Wild' soft-porn empire lets Claire Hoffman into his world, for better or worse
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"Web 2.0 never changed the rules on what makes something successful, it simply gave us more tools to play the game."
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The Race To The Bottom ( Or Oprah, Lesbians, Jason Calacanis And The Future Of Blogs)
"So now what’s happening to blogging is the same thing that has happened to all successful media before it.Tits, ass, celebrity, music and sex."
Colbert Tells College Graduates: Get Your Own TV Show
"His suggestions for securing the U.S.-Mexico border went beyond walls to include moats, fiery moats and fiery moats with fire-proof crocodiles."
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A Guest Blogger, and an Unwritten Law
George Clooney doesn't really write a blog post. Arienna Huffington refuses to apologize and says the medium is not the message. Everyone gets real mad. Huffington finally realizes she's wrong and apologizes. Times picks up story.
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"There are many reason to pepper a celebrity with fan mail: admiration, a sense of kinship, obsession, even boredom. Any are acceptable, all are believable, until you try to explain your motives to others."
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A deep look into the psychological effects of the reality television process on its stars.
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Most people will, at some point, have played "six degrees of Kevin Bacon", the game that challenges you to link the prolific film star to any other in five steps. But Bacon's own thoughts on the game will finally be published next month in a new book.
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Late night legend. Wild animal beast. Who will win?
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New Yorker: "She’s petite. And I was over in the big run and . . . I am in love. I can’t be cool."
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Interview > Mark The Cobra Snake!
"The now famous 'party photographer' took some time out of his busy schedule to tell us all about his baby, LA Weekly, hot girls, his truck jewelry, and eventually traveling to outer space."
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Forgotten pictures of popular people
Don't miss Hasslehoff's chest hair on page four.
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"Ladies and gentlemen, Tom Cruise has tossed off the shackles of Hollywood oppression and is piloting his Scientology-fueled funny car straight towards you."
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Whatever happened to the five kids in the movie "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory"?
"As far as the actors go, we're happy to report they all escaped the chocolate factory unscathed."
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"Late-night infomercial clown Matthew Lesko has authored nearly 100 books on government grants. His formula? “I don’t write,� he says. “I plagiarize.�"
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How Do the Paparazzi Sell Their Pics?
An introduction to the celebrity photo game.
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David Galbraith: "Blogebrity is an interesting experiment to see if you can create a viral meme where there is almost no information payload within the replicator by making it highly attractive to potentially contagious hosts, a 'headline only' meme."
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Things That Are Just Barely Thicker Than Peter Gallagher's Eyebrows.
McSweeney's Internet Tendency: "Molasses"
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SPIEGEL Interview with Tom Cruise and Steven Spielberg
Actor Tom Cruise talks about his 20-year membership in the Church of Scientology as he and Director Steven Spielberg discuss the filming of the soon-to-be-released "War of the Worlds."
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A fantastic resource for all those random Vin Diesel fact fanatics
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Inside TV markets itself as a "TV Guide for women."
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The Deadest Party That Ever Was
Defamer: "A reader reports from what truly may have been the Most Celebrity-Starved Hollywood Party of All Time, last night’s launch party for Inside TV magazine at White Lotus"
Britney Spears: "Do you, Us Weekly, In Touch, Star and other desperate magazines want employees who are honest, or those who are liars? "
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Why Britney Spears Hates HDTV!
The top 10 best and worst looking celebrities on HDTV
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Berry gets worst actress Razzie
Halle Berry thanked the makers of Catwoman for "putting me in a God-awful movie" when she turned up to collect her worst actress Razzie award.
The contents of the ever famous Oscar gift bag
Turns out that her secret question was the name of her favorite pet . . . idiot
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Paris Hilton's Sidekick Was Hacked
Not sure it's true, but this site has her pictures, addresses and notes . . . pretty funny
In case you ever wanted to know how tall Lil' Kim is (4'11")
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