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...soap opera—still ongoing—might be comic were it not so gruesome. Name any modern plague and this grim tale has it: drug abuse, squalid greed, extended legal charades, shameless self-promotion, and phony, saccharine sentimentality. Feminists might decry Smith’s complete objectification, priests her unforgivable promiscuity, socialists her avarice—the task is simple: Grab a piece of the story and hold tight...

Author: By Juliet S. Samuel | Title: A Model Death | 4/4/2007 | See Source »

...word of advice for the gentlemen: don’t bring your girlfriends within a country mile of R. Kelly. As his shameless new video, “I’m a Flirt (Remix),” makes abundantly clear, he’s a flirt. He can’t help it, of course. It’s not his fault if “She checkin’ for a platinum type of guy.” All he has to do is glance in her direction, although it’s a wonder...

Author: By Daniel P. Gurney, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: POPSCREEN: R. Kelly | 3/15/2007 | See Source »

Well, if some campus conservatives have their way, it will. The college-sponsored event “Hooking Up at Harvard” has some students decrying what they view as shameless promotion of premarital sex by the college administration...

Author: By Daniel E. Herz-roiphe | Title: What's wrong with sex-ed? | 3/11/2007 | See Source »

...Understandably, any film following the “Lord of the Rings” might look to it for inspiration, due to its immense commercial success. But I never expected to run into Gollum again. Or the cave troll. Or any Orcs. However, I was greeted by all (or shameless approximations of) these creatures. Heck, even a stand-in for the mountain troll from “Harry Potter” made an appearance. I’m no historian, but a movie based on the Battle of Thermopylae probably shouldn’t have any monsters. Despite...

Author: By John D. Selig, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 300 | 3/8/2007 | See Source »

...announcement, then added, "In this way the Administration is trying to hush up the scandal over secret U.S. arms deliveries to Iran, which were carried out on the order of the White House." In a report last week, a Soviet TV correspondent in Washington called the Iranian affair "shameless and lawless, even by American legal standards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Different Degrees of Candor | 1/26/2007 | See Source »

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