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Lauren Duca is uncomfortable talking about herself in the third person but has heard that it can be effective for things like this. She is a writer, journalist and winner of a middle-school poetry contest, and she is based in New York. She graduated magna cum laude from Fordham University with degrees in English, psychology and philosophy. Her specialty is snarky social analysis, but she would also make for an outstanding manager of a small-town Starbucks.

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Obsessing Over Kim Kardashian's Baby Photos at an Oklahoma City Funeral-Cum-Public Appearance

(13) Comments | Posted August 20, 2013 | 10:43 AM

The recent paparazzi shots of North West draped in a blanket are so indistinguishable that they could be photos of any other baby. They could be photos of a small cat or rhesus monkey. And yet, the media is predictably freaking out. "Kim Takes Baby On First Trip,"...

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The Ryan Gosling Chrome Extension Will Change Your Life

(0) Comments | Posted August 19, 2013 | 11:40 AM

Hey girl, does the Internet ever get you down? Well, there's a solution! We know you still have a major crush on Ryan Gosling, and you still want him to write you letters and kiss you in the rain. He's never going to do that, but now there's a Google...

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Lindsay Lohan And Oprah Live-Tweet Post-Rehab Interview

(88) Comments | Posted August 19, 2013 | 8:18 AM

By now, we've all heard about Lindsay Lohan's talk with Oprah. However, it's possible to have missed another important exchange: the Twitter interview. LiLo and O broke out 140-character bursts of #wisdom and #poetry, tweets that constituted a #NextChapter all their own:

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Most Memorable Celebrity Excuses

(45) Comments | Posted August 15, 2013 | 3:12 PM

Lindsay Lohan: "I don't even know whose pants these are!"

Charged with a DUI, following a high speed car chase in 2007, Lohan was caught with cocaine, which she claimed was not hers. Or maybe the pants weren't hers? The only person more confused is Lilo herself.

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Justin Bieber's Brawl Probably Won't Lead To Deportation, But Here's How It Could

(346) Comments | Posted August 15, 2013 | 12:05 PM

When Rolling Stone asked Justin Bieber if he had plans to become an American citizen, he spit back, "You guys are evil. Canada's the best country in the world." Well, guess what that means? He can totally be deported!

After Bieber's Hamptons brawl, Star reported that the petit...

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Prince's Twitter Includes A Selfie And Some Weird Pepper Salad

(11) Comments | Posted August 14, 2013 | 8:24 AM

As Vulture reports, a 3rdeyegirl Twitter account was created in January, "like some kind of entity with the ability to leak new Prince music." Yet, as of Tuesday night, Prince appears to be running the feed himself, and it is kind of the best thing ever....

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Beyonce Wins Twitter With Her Superbowl Performance

(34) Comments | Posted August 13, 2013 | 12:36 PM

In case you needed any additional evidence that Beyonce is the Queen of the Universe, research has just emerged proving that she generated more Tweets during her Superbowl performance than any other event over the course of the past two years.

With 268 million Tweets per minute,...

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Gwyneth Paltrow's Cookbook Event Did Not Go So Well For The Other Authors

(547) Comments | Posted August 13, 2013 | 11:33 AM

Gwyneth Paltrow has been looking "white hot," and "going make-up free," and bringing her kids to her book signing events, but what you haven't heard about the bare-faced, diet evangelist is how she is treating her fellow writers. Spoiler: Not super well.

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Angus T. Jones On Verge Of Breakdown? 'Two And A Half Men' Star A 'Shadow Of Himself'

(1353) Comments | Posted August 12, 2013 | 5:27 PM

Angus T. Jones, aka the half man of "Two and a Half Men," is causing his friends and family quite a bit of concern. Jones was spotted looking like a much scruffier version of his character Jake Harper, reportedly as an effort to break with the...

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'Bachelor' And 'Bachelorette' Couples' Success In Infographics

(6) Comments | Posted August 12, 2013 | 2:22 PM

It's a familiar scene. Chris Harrison walks solemnly out from behind the satin curtain, as music akin to the "Pirates of the Caribbean" soundtrack pulses to a crescendo. "This is the final rose tonight," Harrison announces. He stays strong, though his heart is heavy with the pain he...

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The Paris Hilton Burglaries: An Oral History

(40) Comments | Posted August 12, 2013 | 2:07 PM

Pretending to get robbed for attention would be a new low ... even for Paris Hilton. So maybe it's just a coincidence that as of July the heiress's Malibu mansion has been burglarized seven times. Perhaps it is just "bad luck" that her home was robbed yet again, while the...

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Jennifer Lawrence Discusses Her 'Unhappy' Childhood With Vogue

(540) Comments | Posted August 12, 2013 | 12:47 PM

Jennifer Lawrence sat down with Vogue to discuss paparazzi and the super "weird" past that made her the lovable star she is today. It turns out America's dream best friend had a pretty "unhappy" childhood.

"I was a weirdo," she said, candidly. “I’ve always just had this weird anxiety....

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Jennifer Aniston's Chickens Really Love Pasta, Are 'Popping Out [Eggs] Like Crazy'

(19) Comments | Posted August 9, 2013 | 4:41 PM

Obviously, the first association that comes to mind with "Jennifer Aniston" and "eggs" is not the kind that you scramble, but the kind that leads to a baby bump, and fuels the tabloid industry for nine long months. Alas, Jen is definitely not pregnant (and she's really sick...

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An Obituary For Beyonce's Hair, Tressa Fierce

(186) Comments | Posted August 8, 2013 | 11:04 AM

Tressa Fierce, an iconic hairdo that was largely responsible for making Kelly Rowland feel irrelevant in 2005, died Wednesday night, after being attacked by a pair of scissors. She was 22.

Ms. Fierce suffered a serious injury, after she became irreparably tangled in a fan during during...

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Justin Bieber's Social Rap Sheet: A Brief History Of Spitting And Peeing

(127) Comments | Posted August 8, 2013 | 10:10 AM

It turns out that Justin Bieber's Hamptons brawl was all "over a little white H&M; bow tie," and here we were thinking he was fighting about something really important and valorous. The petit Canadian is getting in trouble a lot lately and plenty of celebrities have

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Amber Heard Owns A Gun, And Her Dad Wanted Her To Bring It To Hollywood

(7) Comments | Posted August 8, 2013 | 8:28 AM

Amber Heard has emphatically stated that she does not want to discuss her personal life, but the warm and trusting Jimmy Kimmel must have made her feel super comfortable Wednesday night. The anti-celebrity actress confessed that when she left for Los Angeles, her father tried to give her...

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Jason Sudeikis Has No Sense Of Smell, Sniffs Butter Instead Of Promoting 'We're The Millers'

(1) Comments | Posted August 8, 2013 | 8:18 AM

Jason Sudeikis took to late-night television to announce he was leaving "Saturday Night Live," and he had another confession yesterday evening: He has no sense of smell.

The "We're The Millers" actor told Kimmel that he was simply born without olfactory abilities, and only really noticed that he was...

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A Cat Calls Back: The Problem With Sidewalk Harassment at Home And Abroad

(16) Comments | Posted August 7, 2013 | 5:25 PM

It had been a long, sweaty day of being "leered" at, and I was fed up and a little wine drunk on the steps of Montmarte when a Parisian man lobbed yet another come on: "I want to roll my d*ck on your a**."

Wait, what?

I am...

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Kristen Stewart And Robert Pattinson Might Possibly Have Hung Out Yesterday, Might Possibly Be Reconciling

(14) Comments | Posted August 6, 2013 | 2:47 PM

Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson make for some pretty entertaining celebrity theater. They met on set, then they broke up, then Katy Perry might have hooked up with Rob, but definitely didn't because actually she "properly farts" in front of him -- it's all so crazy! In the...

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Former Child Stars Who Have Stripped Down To Prove They're All Grown Up

(6) Comments | Posted August 5, 2013 | 1:50 PM

As young female stars transition to adulthood, they often take to magazine covers to prove they’re not little kids anymore. Stripping down to appear grown up, they pose in sexy exposés functioning as public announcements that seem to say, “Hey, I’m 18, it’s okay to objectify me now!”

Of...

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