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Granted, some celebrities still participate in embarassing commercials after making it big (in Japan, especially), but the greatest share of post-celebrity shame comes from unearthing old ads, those time-sensitive stepping stones to stardom. A recent Manofest listicle does just that, bringing together The 10 Most Embarassing Pre-Fame Celebrity Commercials. Our favorite would have to be [...]

Though the Obama inauguration (in case some media outlet hasn’t reminded you in the last ten minutes) is still one week away, the process of moving the new first family’s stuff into the White House has already begun. An exhaustive and expensive process (even though the Obamas have to hire their own movers to get [...]

In the shuffle of year-end lists, one of our favorites was the Huffington Post’s listicle of the 10 best YouTube clips from 2008. Bridging comedy, politics, news and entertainment, most of its entries seem poised to outlast the typical two week half-life of conventional memes. One of the most entertaining and concise of year-capping time-preservers [...]

In this edition of Weekly Wednesdays, our mid-week catch-up with the ever-accelerating cycle of online list-making, we take a look at some of the best movie-themed lists of the past seven days that we don’t have the time or energy to delve into completely (because, as Ben Affleck explains to Jay and Silent Bob below, [...]