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Deal Or No Deal

Loose Lips Kirstie Alley has inked a deal with Oprah's Harpo Productions to create television shows, possibly including her own talk show. Is Oprah a Scientology crony? Can you think of another logical reason to employ Kirstie Alley? • Ethan Embry, the adorable boy-next-door hero from Can't Hardly Wait, just settled a lawsuit with his ex-girlfriend, a Deal or No Deal model named Angelina Roudeva. Embry had allegedly left Roudeva by the side of the road after he crashed his motorcycle, and instead of calling 911, he tried to treat her shoulder injury at home with ice and rubbing alcohol. Ethan sounds more like the asshole-next-door these days! • Is Lilo dating Samantha Ronson for reals? The evidence: Lindsay was photographed wearing a ring with the initials "SR" on it. [Gabsmash, TMZ, dlisted, last item]

Those models on Deal or No Deal? They're like totally more than just pretty faces. No, like seriously. Reports the New York TImes: "Stacey Gardner, the usual holder of suitcase No. 2, graduated from law school and says she passed the California bar exam in 2005. Pilar Lastra, No. 14, was Playboy's Miss August 2004. Aliké Boggan, No. 20, interprets services for the hearing-impaired at her church. Aubrie Lemon, who usually carries No. 23 but who was No. 6 at a recent taping, plays the harp and says she passed the qualifying exam for Mensa." And yet, says the Mensa-aspiring harpist, "It's nice to kind of exercise my brain a little bit and show I still have it up there. It can just go numb if you sit here for 10 or 12 hours. But a lot of us here are very smart. You would be surprised because we all have this Barbie-doll facade." [NYT]

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How To Make A Model Cry: Dress Her In A Fat Suit


I love Entertainment Tonight and The Insider because they put the "sensational" in "sensationalism." The shiny graphics, fatuous tone, and intense focus on all matters trivial is so reminiscent of the TV shows in RoboCop. It's like, "Damn. Paul Verhoeven was right. This is what TV is like in the future." In the clip above, from last night's episode of ET, two models from the game show Deal or No Deal—you know, the chicks that hold the suitcases—don fat suits to find out how much it sucks to not be them for a day. For real, one of the girl cries when she looks at her fat-suited self in the mirror and repeatedly says, "That's not me!" In true ET style, the "undercover investigation" is an ongoing thing, that spans across episodes. Tonight, tune out as the girls find out what it feels like when fat people...go ice skating! I'd buy that for a dollar!