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McSteamy v. Gawker Media, LLC

Eric Dane and Rebecca Gayheart filed a federal copyright suit against Gawker Media in California yesterday morning, seeking more than $1 million and an injunction against our publication of this video . Here’s the complaint

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Justine Bateman on the Lessons of ‘Shithead’-gate

Justine Bateman called to talk to us about how she called some Twitter users “human waste” and “jackass” the other day. And, in about a half an hour, the screenwriter and prolific Tumblr-er distilled some important lessons for everyone. The conversation, then, was not entirely unlike Bateman’s old show Family Ties

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Bloomberg to NYC: "Stop Eating All My Salt"

Michael Bloomberg is an imperious, irritable oligarch who has purchased the mayoralty of New York City for life. And the New York Times has something to say about him: He puts salt on his pizza . Bloomberg famously wants to regulate what you eat and how you eat it—he banned the use of transfats in the city, forced restaurants to post nutritional information, and has nagged New Yorkers about all the salt they eat

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Steve Jobs’ Command Performance

In the end, Steve Jobs didn’t have much to announce in San Francisco today — a new iPod Nano with a videocamera , a faster iPod Touch . But the Apple CEO knew he needed to show his face, and he did. Sure, Apple’s stock would have survived if he’d skipped out

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Melrose: The Place Where Disbelief Dies

The new Melrose Place is darker, grittier and perhaps even a bit sexier than its predecessor. It also tests America’s ability to suspend its collective disbelief. And it wins

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Annie Leibovitz’s Financial Doomsday Clock Hits Midnight

Poor Annie Leibovitz can’t catch a break! An Italian photographer’s suing Leibovitz for allegedly stealing his work and passing it off as her own. Of course, that’s hardly the worst thing on her plate right now. According to Paolo Pizzett, the litigious Italian in question, Leibovitz had him shoot potential locations for an ad campaign she was working on with Italian coffee company LavAzza

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Have Björk and Matthew Barney Split Up?

Oh, the art world ! Like any insular set of people, it’s always swirling with the best rumors. The mystery that arty people are currently exploring: has Matthew Barney left his hipster elf wife Björk for sometimes-lesbian painter Elizabeth Peyton

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Right’s Asinine ‘Indoctrination’ War Hurts School Kids

President Obama announced that he will give a speech welcoming America’s young students into the new school year. Conservatives, happy to fight about anything this man does, came out swinging against the President’s “socialist” intentions. And they’re winning! Basically, the speech amounts to nothing more than our nation’s Commander-in-Chief urging kids to stay in school, for, if they do, perhaps one day they’ll be president.

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Dominick Dunne, Author

Dominick Dunne , chronicler of crime, celebrity, and the intersection of the two, has died at 83. Dunne had been suffering from bladder cancer. He was diagnosed last year, and his decline was sudden and largely unexpected, though Liz Smith reported on his condition just yesterday

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Leak: How Mark Penn Converts His Wall Street Journal Column into P.R. Clients

Mark Penn , the strategist who dashed Hillary Clinton’s presidential hopes, is the Wall Street Journal ‘s “Microtrend”-spotting columnist.

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Leak: How Mark Penn Converts His Wall Street Journal Column into P.R. Clients