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Actress Ellen Barkin got into a bit of a tangle with the NYPD on New Year's Eve. She was walking in her Manhattan neighborhood with her boyfriend, Sam Levinson, when she says the cops were arresting people who weren't doing anything illegal. She saw one girl who she says was getting randomly arrested and tried to intervene. At that point, Barkin said on Twitter, one of the officers pushed her: More »
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When a photographer started harassing a young model, her friend took action — by posting his number on Twitter. We talked exclusively to the victim about her stalker's creepy messages, and her friend's Twitter response. More »
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• Kirsten Dunst has a obtained a restraining order against her stalker, who keeps showing up at her house. In the order, Kirsten states: "Mr. Smith's sudden, aggressive, and harassing efforts to contact me are extremely frightening. I fear not only for my own personal safety, but also for the safety and well being of my housemate and assistant." [ET]
• William Balfour, the prime suspect in the slayings of actress/singer Jennifer Hudson's mother, brother, and nephew, has been formally charged with murder. [TMZ]
• Brad Pitt is high… On the delight that only comes from building homes in New Orleans. [People]
• After a night of partying at the Viper Room — newly owned by onetime Lindsay Lohan BF and Hard Rock Cafe scion Harry Morton — Brandon Davis backed his car into a BMW in the parking lot… and it belonged to Pink! The crash was caught on video. [Perez Hilton]
• Speaking of Lindsay, she and Sam are not breaking up, she sez on her Facebook. [Queerty]

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"Kate Brennan's" new book In His Sights is a first person memoir of her experience being stalked. Even just reading about it in review-form gives me the creeps, because it's a tale of exactly what the legal system can't protect you from and to what links someone will go to prove you don't get to choose to leave a relationship. Kate was a professor when she met Paul in 1991, and left him in 1994. He called, he stopped by, he canceled her mail-forwarding order and then he stopped leaving fingerprints. His friends would call to let her know where he was following her, her accounts were hacked, her place was broken into more times that she could count. He had exactly one conversation with the police who could do nothing more than warn him that if anything ever happened to her, they'd be knocking on his door. It's scary and over-the-top and incredibly hard to prove because it looks to some people like you're possibly just going crazy (and feels to you like you might be). How it feels to be stalked is, sadly, something I know a little bit about. More »
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Uma Thurman's stalker found guilty of stalking and being creepy. • Weather Channel anchor man wanted female co-anchor to allegedly "lick [his] swizzle stick." • Ecuadorian dudes who suck in bed protest women's orgasm education amendment. • Homeless mom is arrested after toddler drinks GHB at a house they both visited. • Miss Great Britain runs for Parliament, vows to put "beauty back into politics." • Japanese make "sweet, milky" pudding in super fun breast shapes! • Gals with long stems are less likely to develop dementia/Alzheimer's. • Woman gets evicted for 10-foot-tall weeds in her backyard. • Women are better managers in most areas than men. • The "Robbins" of Baskin-Robbins died. • Oh the horrors of women driving alone! Thank God for Polygas? • Serena Williams wins 16th consecutive match. • White Sox managers didn't realize inflatable female nude dolls would be inappropriate in the clubhouse. • NOOOO! Flats are bad for feet! • Biofuel plantations will evict female subsistence farmers in Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean. More »
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I have a stalker. I am not the kind of person who is scared, normally (paranoid, yes, but not scared), but the fact that this particular person will not leave me alone despite every single thing I have done to say no, dissuade him, insult him, scare him, threaten him, refuse to talk to or engage in any sort of dialogue with him and get the authorities involved concerns me deeply. It's his inability to connect his internal emotions to the reality of the situation that bothers me, and the fact that I basically have no legal recourse because he hasn't (yet) threatened or committed violence against me doesn't really help me feel any safer. Your movie-of-the-week plot/ detailed description of what not to do in this situation starts after the jump. More »
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