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The Top 5 Attention Whores in Professional Sports
With Plaxico Burress garnering a bit of unwanted attention lately for shooting himself in an Upper West Side salsa club (give the man a break, we’ve all wanted to bring a concealed weapon into the Loehmann’s on 74th once or thrice), let’s turn our attention to smarter players and their talent for deliberately courting the [...]
The 3 Faces of Tina Fey
With election season over, Tina Fey has hung up her Sarah Palin impression. But the hysteria surrounding her spot-on SNL skits portraying the folksy would-be veep has earned the 38 year-old comedienne a whole new slew of fans. And those fans demand magazine profiles! Entertainment Weekly, Vanity Fair and The New Yorker [...]
The 10 Most Conservative Celebrities
The New Yorker interviewed Prince this week, touching on both his conversion into a Jehovah’s Witness seven years ago and his anti-gay marriage views. I don’t think I’ve been so shocked to learn a likable celebrity’s religious and political stance since I found out Beck is a Scientologist (and he’s just number 8 on Cracked.com’s [...]
