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VIDEO: Gwyneth Paltrow Shows Us How to Make Tacos, Because Why Not

In her GOOP manifesto this week, actress/lifestyle icon/aspiring Food Network Star Gwyneth Paltrow includes a video in which she prepares a Mexican dinner, family style. I think we can all agree how it’s remarkable that over the course of the six-and-a-half-minute clip, Gwyneth a) doesn’t ostentatiously brag about her utter fluency in Spanish and b) actually speak in Spanish for at least half of the running time to demonstrate said fluency. Also remarkable: the amount of baby food and stomach crunches her punishing personal trainer Tracy Anderson will inflict on her for daring to eat an actual meal . Hope it was worth it, GP. Video after the jump:

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VIDEO: Gwyneth Paltrow Shows Us How to Make Tacos, Because Why Not

Is Game Show Hosting a Lost Art?

Wrestling superstar Chris Jericho has been slated to host ABC’ s new game show Downfall , where contestants must plummet from a skyscraper if they mess up enough. There’s a semi-proud history of game shows with “falling” conceits, but the casting of Chris Jericho provokes an uncomfortable question: Is the era of the born-and-bred game show host over? As ’90s stars like Carnie Wilson and Alfonso Ribiero snatch up emcee opportunities on the Game Show Network to pay the bills, we forget that the procedure of reading questions, dispensing prizes, and yelling “Wrong!” at strangers was once the vocation of a smaller, privileged class. Is a viewer revolt the correct response?

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Is Game Show Hosting a Lost Art?