Richard Read, Reporter
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We're not ashamed to admit it: Eliza Dushku is a stranger to us. Not just in the sense that we've never met her -- though we might've and didn't know it -- but also in the sense that we don't know...
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Is Ashley Tisdale Really Short, Or Is She Just Embarrassed By The BF's BMW?Ashley Tisdale may be totally fine flaunting her celebutante Mercedes-Benz G-Wagen, leaving it out on the street for hours at a time, but put her in a BMW, and missy loses the fancypants right quick. See the pic at the link below? That's her in a BMW 3-Series, being driven around by current beau...
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Everybody Hates Chris (But They Love His Audi R8)When we think "Chris Rock", we don't immediately think, "Audi R8". Not that we dispute the fact that it's him behind the wheel of Audi's hottest ride, cruising the streets of Santa Monica and perhaps trying to dream up a new sitcom to take the place of the brutally murdered Everybody Hates Chris...
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Vanilla Ice, The Ford Mustang 5.0, And -- YES -- Tammy FayeTo commemorate the relaunch of the Ford Mustang 5.0, we rang up Robert Matthew Van Winkle, better known by his nom de mike, Vanilla Ice. We posted most of the highlights from that interview over at TheCarConnection, but there's one bit we left out -- something that has nothing at all to do with the...
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Ashley Tisdale's 15 Minutes Are UpDoes everybody have trouble telling Ashley Tisdale and Aubrey O'Day apart, or is it just us? They both young, they're both blond (vaguely), and they both sing (vaguely). Each has worked as a member of a teen-centric ensemble, but neither has gained fame on the solo front. Also, they both live in...
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Video: On Top Of (And Around) The World With Leonardo DiCaprio, Tesla And TAG HeuerIt would be really easy to make fun of Leonardo DiCaprio. Heck, if nothing else, the guy was in Titanic, which, according to our extensive research, is the sole reason for the continued popularity of Riverdance. In most countries, that would be worth a death sentence or two, or at least a good...
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There are plenty of reasons not to buy a Porsche Cayenne. For one, it boasts mediocre performance credentials and styling that could put coke fiends to sleep. For reasons two and three, we remind...
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Miley And Mom Are Crushing On Miley's Boyfriend. Also, Miley Has New M-Class.Miley Cyrus fell head-over-heels for Liam Hemsworth. Unfortunately, so did her mom. Proving once again that you can take the girl out of the South, but you can never take the South out of the girl, Miley said, "I don’t know who had a bigger crush on him at the beginning, my mom or me"...
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Jodie Foster Dodges The Paps In A Toyota Prius. Now, In Limerick Form!Though Jodie was beloved and adored, The flash of cameras she truly abhorred. When e'er she met a fan She just turned-tail and ran: Her ass was the paparazzi's reward. * * * * * To Jodie, her Prius was tops. Behind the wheel, she'd pop out to shop. She'd run up to Trader Joe, Then out to Tahoe...
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Nicholas Cage Loses Sleep (And Cash) Over 2002 Rolls Royce CornicheWe do not, as a rule, revel in the misfortunes of others. We don't enjoy kicking folks when they're down, or pointing and laughing as cruel Mistress Fortuna sets up phony traffic cones to direct them off the yellow brick road and down some back alley in Queens. It's just not our style. Correction...
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Video: Lady Gaga & Beyonce Borrow The P-Wagon (Not P-Wagen) from KILL BILLPoor Beyonce, we thought. The woman recently teamed up with Lady Gaga for a pair of songs: "Videophone" by Beyonce (featuring Lady Gaga), and "Telephone" by Lady Gaga (featuring Beyonce). The singles dropped around the same time, but Beyonce's didn't seem to stick around long -- barely a blip on...
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Video: Five People More Famous Than You Who Have Driven A Ford MustangCountless celebrities have driven Ford Mustangs. You probably aren't one of them, and frankly, we aren't either. But no matter: the great thing about the Mustang is that it's a Car of the People. Over its four and a half decade run, the Mustang has remained sleek and stylish (apart from a brief...
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Whitney Houston, you have a problem.
The problem is this: most of us stopped caring about you during the second Clinton administration. We watched from a distance as you went down the stony end, did...
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Video: Iron Man 2 Looks Like Transformers 2 -- But, You Know, GoodWith the Academy Awards less than 24 hours behind us, there's a lot we could talk about today --- which stars showed up in which cars, which movies about cars did well, which documentary about GM got shafted. But no. Today, there's a different ringing in our ears, and it's not the the Oscar buzz...
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Elin Nordegren Likes Old ThingsBeing a thin, blond, Swedish model isn't all it's cracked up to be. Sure, it'll get you noticed. Sure, it'll get you jobs, dates, and a big hunk of wedding ring from the world's most famous golfer. But once you cross over to the dark side of 30, things change, man. You may still look good in a...
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Kellan Lutz Pumps An Audi A5, Or, When Will Twilight Fade To Black?Remember when we spotted Kellan Lutz scooting around town in an Infiniti G35? Remember how impressed we were that he hadn't fallen in with the G-Wagen crowd, or the Bentley crowd, or the SLK crowd? Well, we have some bad news: he's fallen in with the Audi crowd, which is, as everyone knows, the new...
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Jennifer Aniston Has Some Italian In Her (Note: Not Vince Vaughn)Nine things Jennifer Aniston could be saying as she drives a sweet but predictable (how appropriate) Bentley Continental GT through the crowded streets of Los Angeles, from the link below: 1) What, you think I can't afford a Bentley? That Ferris Bueller sitcom is still in syndication, ya know. 2)...
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Miley Cyrus Is Still Driving (Us Crazy)First, the good news. For starters, it appears from the link below that Miley Cyrus has learned to park in spots not reserved for the disabled. Score one for the ADA. Also: she's ditched her Toyota Prius for a 2010 Mercedes-Benz GL450. No, the 450 doesn't get the kind of fuel efficiency that the...
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What up, y'all!
It's me, your ol' Brit-Brit! I know how y'all like to see me drive around in my Mercedes-Benz G-Wagen and all, and I know how much you like to call it my P-Wagen, 'cause that joke...
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Peter Facinelli + Toyota Prius + Apple iPhone = We Are Not Amused
Dear Peter Facinelli: We will not beat around the bush. We will not dilly-dally. We will not digress. We will not mince words. We will get straight to the point. We will shoot from the hip. You, sir, have disappointed us. In case you haven't noticed, Mr. Facinelli, you are driving a Toyota Prius in...
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Video: T-Pain Shows Off World's Ugliest & Most Awesome Cadillac HearseHere's what we know for sure: 1) T-Pain is a pretty funny guy. Funny ha-ha, not funny hmm-hmm. Though he has his moments. 2) T-Pain's music isn't what we'd call The Bomb, but we've been known to bob our heads to it, even though we are sworn enemies of Auto-Tune and the legions of Ke$has and Heidi...
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Breaking: Ice Skater Evan Lysacek Makes Enough Dough To Buy An Aston MartinClearly, we are in the wrong profession. At some point, we were told, "Oh, yeah: writers make bank. You will totally do awesome if you string together words for a living." It made sense at the time, but several years and numerous credit reports later, we're less convinced. On the other hand, if we...
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Video: Nelly Gets A 2011 DUB Edition Ford Mustang 5.0Back in January, we heard that hip-hop superstar Nelly had been given a special 2011 Mustang 5.0 tricked out by the friendly folks at DUB Magazine. Now, we have proof -- in video form: So, here are some things to note: 1) Is it weird that Nelly is talking about his badass Mustang to a crowd of...
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ScarJo Mad! ScarJo Smash (A Lincoln Continental)!HELLO, PEOPLE OF EARTH: I am Scarlett Johansson, and yes, I am stunning. Thank you for noticing. (Never mind that I totally lifted my cat-eyes and my up-do from Deneuve circa The Hunger. Like, who would know that? Who was even born then? Old people with their complaining, that's who.) As I was...
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