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Big fake boobs are a bust
05/12/2010
Last of the red-hot lovers?
05/05/2010
THE MOVIE KICK-ASS isn’t worth seeing, and it illustrates how gross, insulting and sleazy crap is offered up as entertainment. Actors Aaron Johnson and Chloe Moretz were here for a red-carpet premiere at AMC River East theater, and they should be ashamed of their stinky flick. Read more...
Kitty's litter is rehashed Oprah
04/28/2010
KITTY KELLEY’S OPRAH BIOGRAPHY is more than you ever wanted to know about our Oprah Winfrey, and most of what you’ve read before. Kelley has resurrected every interview, every salacious detail ever aired about the talk show host’s troubled early years, her TV success, her relationships to family, Stedman Graham, Gayle King, ad nauseum.
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Death is the ultimate reality TV
04/21/2010
WHY NOT A REALITY TV SHOW about death? The medium is already artery-clogged with corpses, bloody body parts, as macho and sexy detectives solve violent crimes with scenarios out of Mickey Mouse’s playbook. Some are so involved with macabre details they defy common sense, but that’s another column. Today let us look at pure and simple death.
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Blame nanny for cheating mate?
04/14/2010
BOYS WHO ARE REARED BY A NANNY, giving them a woman other than Mommy in their lives, may expect to have more than a wife in their beds.
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Training for marriage required
04/07/2010
YOU CAN’T LEGISLATE LOVE, but with divorce rates soaring some are pushing for mandatory pre-marital counseling. We take training and a test before we get a driver’s license and get behind the wheel, so why not prepare for that most serious step: a walk down the aisle … to heaven or hell?
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Your husband, my affair
03/31/2010
ALL IS FAIR IN LOVE AND WAR, and we are dealing with male animals who want all the fruits of their jungle. “Me Jane, you Tarzan” is OK for breeding purposes, but today, with wealthy, pampered celebrities like John Edwards and Tiger Woods, we are seeing Tarzans with hungry eyes for sexual sampling on a major scale.
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Hey grandpa! Ready to die?
03/24/2010
OLD PEOPLE SHOULD COMMIT SUICIDE, insists British author Martin Amis in a Sunday Times of London interview, suggesting having “euthanasia booths on street corners, where elderly people can end their lives with a martini and a medal.”
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Recession-style love means divorce
03/10/2010
THERE ARE COUPLES staying together because they don’t have enough assets to share in a divorce, but for others love recession-style means splitsville.
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Seeds of suicide sown in childhood
03/03/2010



