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Tony Stewart Flaunts College-Level Reading Skills In New Richard Petty/Trace Adkins Video Richard ReadSometimes, we get press releases that make us die a little inside.
We'll receive an email about new air-fresheners or nutria-trimmed seat covers or those seriously creepy car lashes, and it'll make...
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LA Lakers' Andrew Bynum Clocked Doing 110mph In His 2010 Ferrari 599 GTB FioranoThe LA Lakers' Andrew Bynum has been through a lot of physical therapy lately, in the hopes of getting his right knee ready for a return to the courts. He's been working with trainers, doing the medicine ball thing, and docs say he could be practicing with the team in a week or so. But you know how...
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Celebs And Cars: This Week's High (And Very, Very Low) Points• Remember that clip of 50 Cent jamming $2 million into a Lamborghini Murcielago? Not to be outdone, Verne Troyer has posted a photo reply, featuring the actor with stacks of (possibly real) dough in his own Lambo Countach. It's supposed to represent $2 million, but it looks a little short to...
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Today, In Things Rappers Like: 50 Cent Stashes $2 Million In A LamborghiniHear are some questions we're pondering on this peaceful Zen Tuesday: 1. What is the sound of one hand clapping? 2. Why do birds suddenly appear every time you are near? 3. What do you do with a drunken sailor? 4. Who's on first? 5. Why in the hizell would 50 Cent stash $2 million in the boot of a...
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Vladimir Putin Continues To Compensate For Something[Ed. note: We haven't been able to install background music here at CelebsAndCars -- mostly because that crap is seriously annoying -- but if you could hum the tune of "Macho Man" while reading this, that would be just great.] The 2012 election cycle hasn't really geared up in America yet, but to...
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Video: Eva Longoria Rallies For Kids With CancerWhat with all the gay cars and 70s-icon hit-and-runs, we're a little behind on sharing some of the more pleasant celebs-and-cars stories. One such item: the recent Rally for Kids With Cancer in Los Angeles, headed up by one of America's favorite (though not particularly desperate) housewives, Eva...
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Gary Collins' reign of terror continues! The former TV regular and human driving hazard -- better known to Southerners as Mr. Mary Ann Mobley -- is now wanted for hit-and-run in Jackson,...
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Fast & Furious Tempts OC Gearhead To Illegally Import Nissan SkylineFrom Bullitt to The Bourne Identity, movies have a way of boosting in particular brands of cars. Sometimes, that's a great thing, but what happens when films hype cars that consumers can't buy? That's the question that Daryl Alison of San Clemente, California posed to himself after seeing several...
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Ron Howard: If Electric Cars Can't Be Gay, The Terrorists Have WonIf you keep up with Hollywood and/or the car scene, chances are pretty good that you're aware of the whole "Electric cars are gay" conflamma surrounding Ron Howard's new film, The Dilemma. But just in case you've been out of the loop, here's what you need to know: (a) there's a new movie called The...
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Snoop Dogg Rents Pristine Packards For Wife's Roaring 20s Birthday PartyLast time we saw Snoop Dogg, he was introducing Larry King to his very mellow, very yellow 1967 Pontiac Parisienne convertible. But as many people know -- and many more should -- yellow is a tricky color to pull off, so for his wife's 35th birthday party, Snoop played it safe: he changed the color...
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Video: Pamela Anderson, Ed Westwick & A Lotus In Movie Shot On Nokia SmartphoneYou'd think there's be more shenanigans afoot in the celeb world, what with Halloween weekend approaching. But no, our feed reader is quiet, and our appeal to Brit-Brit and Lilo clearly fell on deaf ears. Or unconscious ears. Take your pick. But all isn't lost. Surely you don't think we'd leave you...
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Video: Hyundai Sonata Roams The Red Carpet With Jessica Biel, Eva Mendes, Rachel WeiszOn Wednesday, we told you about Volkswagen's "See Film Differently" film project. Now Hyundai has decided to align itself with movie buffs by sponsoring three film screenings called Glamour Reel Moments. Glamour Reel Moments is an ongoing project of Glamour magazine, and over five years, it's given...
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Drop Everything: Baywatch's Alexandra Paul Wants To Hear Your Questions About The Volt NOW Richard ReadThis is actress Alexandra Paul. Perhaps you remember her from such films as Rough Air: Danger on Flight 534, Murder Dot Com, or her star turn on Baywatch. We don't. We remember her from the...
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Beyond Posh: Land Rover Taps More Celebs To Tout The New EvoqueOver the next 12 months, Land Rover will launch an all-out offensive to get its new Range Rover Evoque front and center of the cool kids. Borrowing some marketing techniques from Land Rover's former parent company, Ford, as well as General Motors, the Evoque is being handed over to 30+ "global...
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Today In Precious Metals: Adriana Lima's Bra Costs More Than Her Rolls RoycePoor Adriana Lima. We mean that in the metaphorical sense, obviously. Lima is one of the top-earning supermodels in the world, outpaced only by such overachievers as the indominable Heidi Klum. Being poor isn't on Lima's to-do list. No, when we say "poor Adriana Lima" we mean, "that poor girl...
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Kia Partners With The NBA, Or, An Open Letter To Lindsay Lohan And Britney SpearsDear Lindsay, Britney: Are you happy? Are you happy with yourselves? Have you gotten better, made it over the hump, cleaned up, dried out? We're thrilled. Sorry, that was mean. Seriously. We're happy that you've found some inner peace. We're happy that you've put the drink and drugs behind you so...
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Dodge Ramps Up The Halloween Hype On SyfyChrysler's marketing team has had some hits and some misses over the past year. For a while, Olivier Francois & Co. ran nothing but quirky branding campaigns, featuring the likes of Mikhail Gorbachev and Nelson Mandela cruising in Chrysler vehicles. That made dealers confused and mad, but...
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Princess Beatrice's BMW Bashed In BritainSo, apparently, there is a Princess Beatrice. And apparently, she's fifth in line to the British throne. We have already learned so much more than we usually do on Mondays. But wait, there's more: we now know that Beatrice drives a BMW 1-series. Or rather: drove, since the poor German coupe was...
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Earlier this week -- maybe Wednesday? -- Ke$ha was filmed leaving some restaurant or club or other place with a well-stocked bar and a velvet rope. Ordinarily, we'd be inclined to rag on the alleged...
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Black Beauty Builds Buzz For Green Hornet On National TourIn January of 2011, Sony will release The Green Hornet, starring a leaner, meaner Seth Rogen and one very fine Chrysler Imperial that is not so different from the one that Jon Hamm drove on Mad Men, except Seth's has guns. Big ones. If you're familiar with the Green Hornet storyline, you know...
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Transformers 3 Has Another On-Set Accident: The Crash Of The BumblebeeAs you might've heard, there's going to be a third Transformers film. Megan Fox isn't involved. Michael Bay is. We've already begun stockpiling tomatoes. The shoot for Transformers III: Lube Job (or whatever they're calling it) hasn't been going all that great. You might recall last month's tragic...
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The Conversation That Led To Mariah Carey's Hot Pink Porsche CayenneYou know what? We are not on top of everything. For example, we just found out that Selma Blair and Neve Campbell are different people. And apparently, the Olsen Twins can't feel one another's pain. And, pull tabs on sodas? WHERE DID THEY GO YOU GUYS? Also, according to our colleagues at Celebrity...
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Mazda2 Drives Mayer Hawthorne's Nationwide TourMazda has always been a slightly quirky brand -- just offbeat enough to develop a community of rabid fans. So it's fitting that the automaker would choose to sponsor a nationwide tour for the equally quirky musician Mayer Hawthorne. If you don't know about Hawthorne (nee Andrew Mayer Cohen), you...
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Atlanta Housewives Get Crunk, Then Get Driven Around. Legal Or Not?We have a theory, and the theory is this: reality shows make people crazy. Of course, some people have a head start. Like that nutjob, Seth Caro, from Just Desserts -- the dude who lost it over some ridonk paper cups? He was good length or two ahead of the crazy train. Other people go loopy after...
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