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March 11, 2010

Gerard Butler In ‘Men’s Journal’: Talks Getting Laid, Trimming Jennifer Aniston’s Bush

Gerard Butler covers the April issue of Men's Health, and inside he discusses his sex life and continues to provocatively insinuate he is involved with 'Bounty Hunter' costar Jennifer Aniston.

You can see Gerard with a dirtied-up, lingerie-clad Jen here.

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Rove: Bush Is ‘Doing Really Well,’ Has A ‘Wonderful Life’

On Wednesday, Karl Rove joined CNN's Wolf Blitzer In 'The Situation Room' to talk about his new memoir 'Courage and Consequences: My Life as a Conservative in the Fight.' (See our 13 must-read passages HERE).

Naturally, the conversation turned to Rove's current relationship with his former boss. Rove told Blitzer and the former president are in touch almost every day, over either the phone or email.

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Kentucky Fried Wisdom

Some years ago I met and spent some time with a legendary business owner who personified a particular branch of entrepreneurship, that being those people who start a business later in life. Meeting a man with one of the best known faces in America was memorable and thinking of him today still makes me smile. That man was Harland David Sanders, better known as Colonel Sanders, founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken. Because his face was plastered on signs all over the U.S. and Canada at the time, walking down a public street with him was like being in the company of a megastar. People constantly waved, smiled and asked for his autograph.

Well, Mr. Sanders wasn't really a military Colonel, but was one of many people given the honorary title by the governor of Kentucky. However he was a real businessman who started the KFC franchise operation out of sheer desperation when he was 65 years of age. The small restaurant that was the sole income for him and wife lost most of its customers when a new interstate highway diverted passing cars from their location. Mr. Sanders decided to find other restaurant owners who would pay for his secret fried chicken recipe. His startup capital was money from his first Social Security check that he used to go on the road and call on prospective franchisees! I was in my twenties when we met and was simply amazed that he'd started a new business when most people are retiring to their hobbies and focused on spoiling the grandchildren.

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Nostalgia for Noodles: Pearl’s, the Best Chinese Restaurant in New York City, Is No More!

Years ago, I bumped into Pearl Wong while shopping at Macy's. Even though I'd known her my entire life, I'd never seen her outside of her restaurant.

Pearl's was unique. Not only was it the best Chinese restaurant in New York City -- it had become a celebrity itself, a hotspot. But before Pearl became Pearl's, it was Canton Village, a Chinese restaurant in the theater district near Times Square. Pearl was the hostess, and her husband Jimmy manned the bar and cash register. John, who had an office upstairs, we all assumed was the owner.

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Bachelor Jake Pavelka & Vienna Girardi: Fighting, Jealousy & Cheating

Bachelor Jake Pavelka has denied cheating on new fiancee Vienna with his ex-girlfriend, but those around them have trouble believing their relationship is real.

Life & Style released the following statement:

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March 10, 2010

‘Brad Pitt And Angelina Jolie: The True Story’: Jenny Paul Gives Exclusive Details

'Brad Pitt And Angelina Jolie: The True Story' comes out next week and asserts that Angelina slept with Mick Jagger when she was in her early twenties and that she and Brad plan to have 13 children, among other things. There were more than a few inconsistencies in the last Brangelina tell-all, so take what you will.

HuffPost exclusive: Author Jenny Paul gave the following details to Life & Style:

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How Law Schools Could Improve Law Firm Diversity

Last Friday I opened an invitation to my law school reunion and I realized how far I have come since my days as a 1L. I can hold my own with Westlaw and if my life depended on it I could still write a brief. I even remember a few of those zany Civil Procedure cases. Most important, though, I learned that none of these skills, alone, will make a law student into a firm partner.

My alma mater, like most of other law schools in America, did not prepare its students, particularly those from historically underrepresented backgrounds, for navigating their careers in law firms. For today's law schools to continue stressing the importance of Pennoyer v. Neff, rather than teaching its students about the business of law firms is absolutely criminal.

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March 9, 2010

Dogs Dressed As Superheroes: Saving The World With Cuteness (PHOTOS)

Life would much easier if dog superheroes existed. We're not saying it would be perfect, but we think the world would be a safer place if dogs were out there saving lives (and digging holes with super-canine speed). To bide the time until that day comes, we've collected some of the cutest superdogs we could find. We know that some of these aren't technically superheroes in the classic sense, but c'mon, they've got funny costumes on. Now's not really the time to get nitpicky.

(Also, this slideshow is best enjoyed while humming the Superman theme.)

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American Splendor

I don't know why, but I really like Paul Giamatti. I don't know what it is, maybe it's the way he comes across, a pathetic but harmless loser or maybe it's that I'm not used to seeing a bald, hideous, bug-eyed goblin star as a leading man on the big screen. Either way, there is something about seeing that guy in a movie trailer that makes me want to see the movie. But there after watching numerous Paul Giamatti movies, notably Duplicity, Lady in the Water, and Sideways (hiiiiighly overrated); I began to notice that all of his movies kind of suck, especially the ones he plays a large part in. For that reason, I have avoided seeing any Paul Giamatti movies that came out or haven't seen yet. And that brings us to American Splendor, a film released in 2003 starring everyone's favorite diminutive, balding troll of a man. This was a movie I know I SHOULD have seen years ago, but I was never really that enthusiastic about seeing it because I figured it would be another Giamatti suckfest. Thankfully, I was wrong.

American Splendor is the story of one man's life, Harvey Pekar. Harvey Pekar is a comic book writer who was living in Cleveland and began to write comics about the mundane details of his everyday life, which turned out to be anything but. The comic books were titled American Splendor and in them Pekar writes about any and all events; his job as a file clerk, his co-workers, meeting his wife Joyce, and eventually dealing with cancer, all in the terse prose that tiny comic book panels allow. The comics themselves are funny, poignant, and altogether fascinating; showing a side of life that most mainstream storytelling ignores, but that almost everyone can relate to. The movie is sort of a docufictiamentary (I bet that word would be a lot easier to read if I broke it up, docu-ficti-amentary), with Paul Giamatti playing a fictionalized Harvey Pekar, but one that is based heavily on the American Splendor comics. This is intertwined with some voice-overs by the real Harvey Pekar and unscripted scenes with the real Harvey and various people from his life who are also portrayed in the fictionalized portions of the movie. So to recap, it's essentially a fictionalized biography based on comic books that are based on real events which are portrayed by actors and mixed with real scenes by the real people that are the characters in the comic books, and thus the characters played by the actors in the movie. Got it?

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Is Undercover Boss the Most Subversive Show on Television?

Filed under: News, Original Content — Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , — Arianna Huffington @ 2:42 am
Is reality TV finally living up to its name?

Most of what we are served up under that rubric is actually the farthest thing from reality. The exploits of Snooki, Jake the Bachelor, and all those Real Housewives hardly reflect life as most of America knows it and lives it.

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