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• Live Blogging the Top Chef All Stars Dinner [Top Chef]

  Number of comments: 712
  newVideoPlayer("/Carla.flv", undefined, NaN,""); Hootie-hoo, crew! There's no regular Top Chef episode tonight, because—well, I don't know. WTF, Bravo? But they're airing an all-star special...

  
  

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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 9:00pm EST
  by MisterHippity

• Michael Lohan is a Cheap Sellout and Women Are Baffling, Say the Twitterati [Twitterati]

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  Celebrity gossip merchant Bonnie Fuller slammed Michael Lohan for selling celebrity gossip; Gina Tripani was baffled by women, as a group; and a journalist tried to pull rank at a very nerdy...

  
  

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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 8:44pm EST
  by Ryan Tate

• Yelp-Fight Participant: I Was Trying To Apologize [Yelp Rage]

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  The Yelp reviewer supposedly attacked by a store owner just got a zero-star rating for honesty. The store owner says it was the reviewer who attacked, even though the owner came in peace to...

  
  

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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 6:36pm EST
  by Ryan Tate

• Shimmer Shimmer Ya [Pic Of The Day]

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  A close-up view of Barry Diller's palace, the IAC Building in West Chelsea, makes things look a little shaky. Image via Bob Jagendorf's Flickr]

  
  

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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 6:29pm EST
  by Brian Moylan

• Gwen Stefani Would Not Sing About Sex with Prostitutes, Suit Claims [Games]

  Number of comments: 23
  Poor Guitar Hero. All they want to do is show cartoons of rock stars bouncing around and having fun, and now everyone's gotta get all uptight about it. First Activision, Guitar Hero's maker, had to...

  
  

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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 6:29pm EST
  by Richard Rushfield

• Glenn Beck's Heroic Appendix Attempts To Kill Him [Health Care]

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  Hey, this frankly amazing Onion video almost kinda came true! Glenn Beck suffered an appendicitis attack on-air today. It was during his radio program, so sadly there is no video of Glenn clutching...

  
  

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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 5:52pm EST
  by Pareene

• This 16-Year-Old Has 120,000 Twitter Followers, Brighter Future Than You [How Things Work]

  Number of comments: 65
  Dear redundant old-media bigwigs: Meet your eventual replacement, a 16-year-old with gigs as a professional journalist for TechCrunch, a marketing evangelist for Qik and as CEO of his own startup....

  
  

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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 5:19pm EST
  by Ryan Tate

• Bangs, You're Dead [Open Caption]

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  [Taylor Momsen is lucky she doesn't run into something dangerous with all that hair in her face on the set of Gossip Girl today. Image via Pacific Coast News]

  
  

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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 5:00pm EST
  by Brian Moylan

• Fake Trends Morph Into Old Person Sex Thing [Trendwatch]

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  Here is how fake trends turn into troubling fake trends: Wooed into masculine complacency by male body lotion ads, men become metrotextual and start signing their text messages with "Kisses." Next...

  
  

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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 4:47pm EST
  by Hamilton Nolan

• Pagan Wins Council Seat! [Pagans]

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  Hah, the Republican pagan won in Queens. Breaking! What does that say about the mood of the electorate, exactly? (That they dislike Asians, maybe?) As we mentioned on Monday, Dan Halloran is a...

  
  

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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 4:37pm EST
  by Pareene

• Melrose Place : The Long Wait Continues [Crystal Balls]

  Number of comments: 9
  Only two more weeks before Heather Locklear returns to save us from this dreadful show. As always, we have some predictions on how it might work. We looked into our Melrose Place Crystal Ball...

  
  

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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 3:49pm EST
  by Brian Moylan

• This Next Bubble Is Going to Be So Awesome [Recessionomics]

  Number of comments: 23
  The Way We Live Now: Bubblicious. The Great American Real Estate Bubble is so one bubble ago. People are already gulping in fear for the new bubble. Will it be stocks? Asian currencies? Failed...

  
  

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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 3:49pm EST
  by Hamilton Nolan

• Microsoft Flacks Banned 'Forever' Over a 'Significantly Less Blue' Scoop [Feuds]

  Number of comments: 15
  Michael Arrington, the TechCrunch publisher and noted feuding diva, has "banned" Microsoft's PR firm Waggener Edstrom for a blown embargo. Forever. What huge scoop was stolen from him, by Microsoft's...

  
  

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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 3:37pm EST
  by Ryan Tate

• EW Layoffs [Layoffs]

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  Time Inc. carnage: Eleven layoffs at Entertainment Weekly, Business Insider reports. Know more? Email us.

  
  

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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 3:09pm EST
  by Hamilton Nolan

• The Hills : Birthday Party Massacre [Recaps]

  Number of comments: 9
  Heidi Montag can't just have any old birthday party, she has to have an extravaganza in her glass coffin and invite all the dueling princesses to come. Drama ensues. But even more exciting than the...

  
  

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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 3:03pm EST
  by Brian Moylan

• TMZ Far Too Modest to Run Sex Tape [Lies]

  Number of comments: 103
  Protector of feminine virtue TMZ says it's had a homemade sex tape starring attractive but not smart beauty pageant loser Carrie Prejean for months. But TMZ's own sense of decency simply wouldn't...

  
  

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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 2:52pm EST
  by Hamilton Nolan

• First Shots from the Facebook Movie [The Social Network]

  Number of comments: 8
  The movie about how Harvard students Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin started Facebook — called The Social Network — is shooting at Johns Hopkins University today, All Facebook...

  
  

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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 2:48pm EST
  by Nicholas Carlson

• Hoodie Nation Gasps: Could the Conchords ' Flight Be Over? [Annals Of Quirk]

  Number of comments: 43
  In the annals of international quirk, nothing in recent years has touched more hot buttons than HBO's Flight of the Conchords series. But now that dream could be coming to an end. Corduroy, 70's and...

  
  

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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 2:45pm EST
  by Richard Rushfield

• What Twitter Does To Your Brain [Twitter]

  Number of comments: 5
  newVideoPlayer("/dorsey_jung_valleywag.flv", 500, 375,""); It's not the freak occurrence it might seem, Twitter's co-founder submitting to psychoanalysis before a New York crowd. No, this sort of...

  
  

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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 2:36pm EST
  by Ryan Tate

• The City : Lady Chatterly's Brothers [Recaps]

  Number of comments: 9
  Due to a firey Jitney accident on the Long Island Expressway last night, we were not able to watch The City last night. Thankfully we've pieced together the action thanks to some dispatches from our...

  
  

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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 2:03pm EST
  by Brian Moylan

• Time Inc. Layoffs Hit People, Essence [Media Crack]

  Number of comments: 10
  In your completely laid-off Wednesday media column: details on more Time Inc. layoffs and buyouts at People and Essence, Fortune Small Business folds, and various ways that magazine publishers are...

  
  

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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 2:03pm EST
  by Hamilton Nolan

• Italian Court Holds Mock Trial For CIA [Torture]

  Number of comments: 25
  An Italian court has convicted 22 CIA operatives and one Air Force colonel of kidnapping. The CIA grabbed Egyptian imam Abu Omar in Milan and flew him to Egypt to be tortured. This is "illegal" under...

  
  

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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 1:44pm EST
  by Pareene

• Reporter Rounds Up Hollywood's Most Wanted Celebrity Burglar [BH Bandits]

  Number of comments: 6
  While five young suspects in the robberies of some of Hollywood's finest celebrity homes have been arrested and await their day in court, one has remained at large, wanted and labeled dangerous by...

  
  

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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 1:28pm EST
  by Richard Rushfield

• The Last Days of Gourmet [Photography]

  Number of comments: 10
  Kevin Demaria's posted a whole mess of sad, beautiful photographs of the final days in the office of Gourmet magazine. Junk food abounded. Go see them all. [Last Days of Gourmet]

  
  

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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 1:17pm EST
  by Hamilton Nolan

• Are You Sufficiently Exploiting Your Child's Looks, For Money? [Parenting]

  Number of comments: 72
  Raising a child in our modern world can be expensive, what with their constant nagging for new "Gameboys" and "contraception." Fortunately your child's dewy, youthful innocence can be sold off to a...

  
  

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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 1:01pm EST
  by Hamilton Nolan

• Miramax Steps Out for a Sad Little Swan Song [Trade Round-up]

  Number of comments: 3
  It's a season for endings and beginnings and new beginnings and final endings and a reboot or two. Today's trades make Hollywood look like one of its own over-handled franchises. • What may be...

  
  

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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 12:33pm EST
  by Richard Rushfield

• A Note on Sourcing on The Spitzer Files [Spitzer Files]

  Number of comments: 36
  This morning, we published e-mails between New York Times reporters and Eliot Spitzer's flacks. Some commenters have suggested the post demonstrates a lack of familiarity with "journalism." Actually,...

  
  

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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 12:32pm EST
  by John Cook

• Tom Cruise Controls Books and Bottles With His Mind [Scientology]

  Number of comments: 81
  Tom Cruise! He is so crazy, what with the Scientology madness. It's been so long since we heard examples of his craziness. Thank god there is a new tell-all book! In which Tom Cruise controls...

  
  

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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 12:26pm EST
  by Hamilton Nolan

• Carly Fiorina Announces Senate Candidacy, Immediately Highlights Political Ignorance [Carlyfornia Dreamin]

  Number of comments: 16
  It's fitting that Carly Fiorinia just announced her senate candidacy with the word "Admittedly." The former HP CEO hated voting, and promises to be more engaged in politics now. Too bad she's still...

  
  

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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 12:18pm EST
  by Ryan Tate

• What Yesterday's Elections Actually Mean For Barack Obama [Winners]

  Number of comments: 70
  We told you about Mike, and about The Gays, but there were a couple other elections that news people are talking about today. These were, obviously, early referenda on Barack Obama, and he lost....

  
  

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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 12:10pm EST
  by Pareene

• Jeff Bewkes Motivates Remaining Time Warner Employees With Management-Speak [Internal Memos]

  Number of comments: 2
  Following encouraging quarterly earnings, Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes sent this internal memo out to his minions, instructing them how to innovate for future success, provided they're not laid off in...

  
  

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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 12:01pm EST
  by Hamilton Nolan

• New York's Last Remaining Glory Hole Featured Prominently on the NYTimes.com [Indecent Expsoure]

  Number of comments: 13
  Thanks to an ad for the New Museum's Urs Fischer exhibit, the NY Times Arts section homepage currently features an animated ad of a tongue coming out of a hole in the wall. New York is edgy again!...

  
  

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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 11:31am EST
  by Brian Moylan

• Don't Invest in Newspapers [Money Matters]

  Number of comments: 3
  You may be aware that deathly newspaper company stocks have experienced a brief resurgence recently, amidst speculation that things aren't so bad after all for the newspaper industry. If you...

  
  

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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 11:25am EST
  by Hamilton Nolan

• It's Simply Impossible to Keep All of Sienna Miller's Ex-Boyfriends Straight [Mistaken Identity]

  Number of comments: 9
  Page Six ran an item today saying Sienna Miller was seen shopping in SoHo with her ex, DJ Slinky Wizard (above right). We got a tip that she was in the store with ex Balthazar Getty (left). What's...

  
  

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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 11:04am EST
  by Brian Moylan

• Whoops, Barack Obama Forgot to Care About the Gays Again [Losers]

  Number of comments: 110
  Congratulations to the National Organization For Marriage, a group dedicated to making sure a large segment of the population cannot get married, on their successful campaign to scare people in...

  
  

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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 10:57am EST
  by Pareene

• Sluggish Microsoft to Fire Hundreds This Morning [Layoffs]

  Number of comments: 2
  Microsoft will begin its third 2009 layoff round as soon as this morning, TechFlash reports, because the software giant's growth has slowed. Conference rooms are already reserved. If you learn...

  
  

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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 10:57am EST
  by Ryan Tate

• Successful Baldwin Brother in Weezy Cake-Buy Deny [Corrections]

  Number of comments: 15
  FACTUAL CORRECTION: Alec Baldwin denies purchasing his daughter Ireland this terrifying cake in the shape of rap personality and famed drug consumer Lil Wayne. It must have been Kim Basinger who...

  
  

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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 10:48am EST
  by Hamilton Nolan

• Mike Bloomberg Wins! [Winners]

  Number of comments: 58
  Brilliant executive, richest man in town, and beloved mayor-for-life Mike Bloomberg joins Ed Koch, Fiorello LaGuardia, and Robert Wagner (not the actor) in the third-termers massive failure lame duck...

  
  

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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 10:37am EST
  by Pareene

• Time Staffers Have Two Weeks to Volunteer for a Dozen Buyout Packages [Internal Memos]

  Number of comments: 7
  The massive Time Inc. layoff-buyouts are now sweeping through the company's various magazines. Below, a memo that just went out to Time magazine editorial employees offering them buyouts. Run, don't...

  
  

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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 10:26am EST
  by Hamilton Nolan

• Oompa-Loompa and Veruca Salt: The Golden Years [Open Caption]

  Number of comments: 24
  [Fashion designer Valentino drags a Daphne Guinness to the DVD Launch party for the documentary Valentino: The Last Emperor at The Standard in New York last night. Image via Getty]

  
  

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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 10:23am EST
  by Brian Moylan

• He Has Tons of Black Friends [Justice]

  Number of comments: 5
  Louisiana judge Keith Bardwell, who stood up against interracial marriage, has resigned. What a character!

  
  

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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 10:12am EST
  by Hamilton Nolan

• Which Actress Has a Troublesome Girlfriend? [Blind Items]

  Number of comments: 52
  It's hard to be in the Hollywood closet. Either you're consoling your girlfriend in the ladies' room or buying expensive male escorts. A plastic surgery-obsessed star and dueling actresses are also...

  
  

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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 9:43am EST
  by Brian Moylan

• Dominic Carter Did Not Have a Good Vacation [Media]

  Number of comments: 9
  Declarative former NY1 newsman Dominic Carter already lost his job for unseemly name-dropping in court while on trial for beating his wife, then got barred from boarding a flight just because he...

  
  

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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 9:39am EST
  by Hamilton Nolan

• Jesus Was Not a Transsexual [Jesus]

  Number of comments: 29
  A play called Jesus, Queen of Heaven, about the bearded one wanting to take a walk on the wild side, hitch up his/her robes, paint his/her nails and become Jesus-ina or whatever is upsetting...

  
  

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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 9:08am EST
  by Ravi Somaiya

• PETA Protects Cat to Death [Kitty Kitty]

  Number of comments: 128
  Pity poor Lydia Netzer, who lived next door to the PETA intern house outside DC. Pity Lydia Netzer's cat even more. The PETA interns finally good-intentioned it to death. The Washington Post's...

  
  

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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 9:05am EST
  by Hamilton Nolan

• The Spitzer Files: How the New York Times and the Press Serviced Client No. 9 [Exclusive]

  Number of comments: 44
  The New York Times broke the story of Eliot Spitzer's hooker habit last year, launching a PR shitstorm of epic proportions. But according to e-mail traffic we've obtained, the Times showed Spitzer's...

  
  

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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 8:48am EST
  by John Cook

• Jared Kushner Is Like Michael Corleone [Media]

  Number of comments: 2
  Last week the well-respected interim editor of the Observer, Tom McGeveran, quit in mysterious circumstances. New York Mag tells a tale of feuds and (media) hit jobs that might offer some...

  
  

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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 8:37am EST
  by Ravi Somaiya

• Apparently There Were Some Elections [Front Pages]

  Number of comments: 25
  In a new roundup of the morning's front pages you'll be glad to hear that our measured press corps refuses to read too much into last night as a ridiculous referendum on Obama so soon into his...

  
  

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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 7:15am EST
  by Ravi Somaiya

• Sienna Miller's Old Undies Are Showing [Gossip Roundup]

  Number of comments: 24
  Sienna Miller is happy to wear other people's underwear, Michael Jackson liked to pee into cups in public and Rihanna says her life sucked so much after she got beaten up that she might as well have...

  
  

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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 7:06am EST
  by Ravi Somaiya

• The Smell of Death Lingers Over New York Hipster Clubs [Nightlife]

  Number of comments: 23
  Since Beatrice Inn and the Jane Hotel Ballroom closed down hipsters have been in a state of non-ironic panic. Earlier this week both were rumored to be reopening soon. The hipsters were happy! But...

  
  

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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 5:59am EST
  by Ravi Somaiya