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Is There Something Extra-Special -- And Extra-Stressful -- Between Sisters?

Much has been made about Margaret "Peggy" Seltzer, the writer whose gang violence memoir, Love and Consequences, turned out to be a fabrication. But, the New York Times asks today, what of Cyndi Hoffman, Peggy's older sister? Hoffman is the one who turned "tattletale" and blew the whistle on Peggy. Her own sister. "We have powerful expectations of loyalty from a sister," Marcia Millman, sociology professor and author of The Perfect Sister: What Draws Us Together, What Drives Us Apart tells the Times. "But along with the idealized image of sisters, that they are always close, there is a stereotype that sisters are very competitive. It's the two extremes." They say blood is thicker than water, but is the truth thicker than blood? More »

1:00 PM on Tue Mar 18 2008
By Dodai
5,477 views, 172 comments

Latest by lola82: Dude, my big sister ratted my ass out for shit I didn't even do when we lived together...we tolerate each other know. The Unabomber's brother "ratted" him out. Thank jesus. Would I rat her out over a book? I dunno. Guess it more »

Will the shameless promotion of Jessica Seinfeld by her husband ever cease? In addition to insisting on his wife's utter genius as a chef and author Jerry Seinfeld has now taken to proclaiming the little missus worthy of a sitcom. Says Seinfeld, "I guess if I did another sitcom it would be about marriage. I'd just call it Mrs Seinfeld." [News.com.au]

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Amy Winehouse's In-Laws Are As Douchey As Her Husband

The fight between the Winehouses and the Fielder-Civils is beginning to get nastier than that bloody row between their kids Amy and Blake last week. Blake's parents—Giles and Georgette Fielder-Civil—were interviewed on the BBC's Radio Five Live about the drug problems of the singer and her husband. Giles said:
We would urge Amy's fans to send a message to Amy that her addiction and her behavior is not acceptable. Perhaps its time to stop buying records. I believe the record company have a responsibility. They can either cease the contract and say: 'Until you sort yourself out we're not doing any more work together,' or take responsibility and make the pair enter a proper rehabilitation unit where they can't leave until they're sorted out.
Mitch Winehouse, Amy's dad, shot back at his in-laws comments later in the day: More »

5:00 PM on Tue Aug 28 2007
By Slut Machine
3,498 views, 18 comments

Latest by Marikins: @JESSICALOVEJOY No kidding! They seem to me people who have done an awfully irresponsible job raising their children that now want the entire village and the village record company to raise their children. But I will say this for them, more »