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Our Favorite Movies of 2010 [Year In Review]

It’s the end of the year, which means it’s time for best of the year lists! Here Gawker entertainment writers Richard Lawson and Brian Moylan weigh in on the best movies they saw in 2010. More

These Are the 10 Hottest Players on the U.S. World Cup Soccer Team [Things We Actually Like]

Soccer players are sexy. It’s the constant running and propensity to rip off their shirts after scoring, I guess. Rather than take a look at the U.S. team’s chances at the World Cup , let’s just take a look at them. More

Author and Page Six Vet Paula Froelich Is Taking Your Questions [Gawker Book Club]

The paperback edition of Paula Froelich ‘s bestselling novel Mercury in Retrograde came out this week. She’s celebrating by hanging out in the comments section of this post and suffering the indignity of answering your questions. Ask her anything! More

How To Blog About Your Messy Divorce [Relationships]

Justine Musk ‘s divorce from her high-profile-CEO husband could be much uglier: There’s a new younger woman, five kids and a big fight over money. But her blog, and even her blog comments, have been admirably graceful. Let’s look: More

Hey, Jennifer Lopez, Don’t Let the Door Hit You in the Famous Ass on Your Way Out [Buh-bye]

She hasn’t had a good song or a hit movie in years, and now her record label dropped her and the opening of her new movie has been repeatedly pushed back . It’s official, J to the Lo. You’re done. Her story was always an appealing one. A Latina from the Bronx who started off as a fly girl on In Living Color who pulled herself up by her boob straps and became famous thanks to hard work, talent, and a famous bedonkadonk. She made her splash starring in the Selena biopic, earned critical plaudits for her role in Steven Soderbergh’s Out of Sight in 1998, and was a box office hit in The Wedding Planner and Maid in Manhattan . Her real downfall, however, was a little thing called Bennifer that was on the cover of every tabloid every week for months in the earlier part of the last decade, kicking off the “let’s combine celebrity couples names into a cute nickname” phenomenon that just won’t die. That wasn’t her first round in the tabloids, of course. After all, she dated Sean Puffy Combs and was embroiled in his “carrying a gun in public” brouhaha, but this time something different. It was all her and Ben Affleck all the time. Everywhere. Every detail of their lives, their courtship, their disgusting togetherness. It just went on and on and on. Then they broke up and dropped the horrible Gigli and The Jersey Girl into our laps. They were the kind of critical and box office turds that, even if you can wash the actual filth of them off, the stink is going to follow you around for years. Starting then, we were no longer fooled by the rocks that she got, and it was a quick nose dive. Other than when she tortured LL Cool J with some weird za za za za sounds, her albums were so forgettable, we don’t even remember them coming out (however, her single “Louboutins” was so horrible we will never forget to hate it and it did produce one unforgettable fall at the AMAs). And her movies? Turkeys all. Monster-In-Law was so-so, but Shall We Dance , An Unfinished Life , and El Cantante , her salsa vanity project with now husband Marc Anthony , were all travesties. And if the release date shuffle is any indication The Back-Up Plan is going to be no saving grace either. So, sorry, Ms. Lopez, we’re through with you. You can’t sell a track and you can’t open a film. Also, you’re bland, boring, and otherwise not as talented as plenty of the other people who are competing for our ever-diminishing attention. We’re not going to care about your movies or songs. We’re not going to read about your babies or break-ups. We’re not doing to follow the “10 Steps to JLo’s Butt” article in Shape . You’re over. We are taking away your star status. You can go ahead and continue selling your horrible perfume(s) and a bunch of crazy diehard fans will lap it up and still love you. As far as the rest of us goes, you’re through. I’d like to say it’s been fun, but it really never has been. And I’m pretty glad that it’s over. [ Image via Getty ]

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Hey, Jennifer Lopez, Don’t Let the Door Hit You in the Famous Ass on Your Way Out [Buh-bye]

Evil Genius Japanese Cartoons: Google’s Latest Subversive Move Towards World Domination

You have to admire Google’s attempts at appearing friendly while becoming the all-controlling Eye of Sauron through Big Brother -esque takeovers of every piece of information in the universe. Starting with pretty, Kindergarten Kolor logos to this dangerously twee Japanese cartoon. Video via Jenny 8 Lee , and credit where it’s due: Ryan Tate offered that the “U.S.

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Evil Genius Japanese Cartoons: Google’s Latest Subversive Move Towards World Domination

British Sunday Times Writer Who Thinks New York City Pretty Much Sucks: A Formal Response

Oh, hello there, Stephanie Marsh of the Sunday Times . When you write an essay called “New York has lost its edge,” and you live here, it’s okay. When you’re writing from London …

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British Sunday Times Writer Who Thinks New York City Pretty Much Sucks: A Formal Response

Forget Balloon Boy, Today’s All About Train Baby

If Balloon Boy and his family were looking for publicity, they’ll find it’s fleeting. There’s a new amazing tot on the horizon, and this one survived being hit by a train. This poor Australian mother must have had a stroke when her 6-month old’s stroller, which should have had its brakes on, rolled on a train’s tracks and was promptly hit .

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Forget Balloon Boy, Today’s All About Train Baby

The Secret, Shameless Sleaze Of MSNBC’s Richard Wolffe

Salon columnist Glenn Greenwald posted a scathing column about the armistice between GE and News Corp meant to end Bill O’Reilly and Keith Olbermann ‘s fueding. It’s a chilling read , and brings in a tangentially related player: Richard Wolffe

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The Secret, Shameless Sleaze Of MSNBC’s Richard Wolffe

Has Chris Brown’s Career Been Rehabbed By A Wedding Party In Minnesota?

Have you seen the viral video of the wedding party from Minnesota dancing down the aisle to their nuptials?

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Has Chris Brown’s Career Been Rehabbed By A Wedding Party In Minnesota?