When Angelina Jolie was bombarded with praise for her role in A Mighty Heart in June 2007, America suddenly remembered: Oh, yeah. She’s an actress, too, isn’t she?

She’s appeared in films regularly since 1999, but since 2004 she’s been best-known as a humanitarian baby-collector who trots the globe in search of orphaned children to adopt. She became so strongly associated with that, in fact, that the public forgot she’d also been a home-wrecker, breaking up Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston when she and Pitt worked together on Mr. & Mrs. Smith.

And before THAT, she was best-known for being a semi-creepy bisexual Goth chick who had a thing for blood, and who said she was in love with her brother at the Oscars. She was a nutcase, in other words. Men were turned on by her while simultaneously being terrified of her. And now she’s the acting equivalent of Bono, a professional do-gooder and a responsible citizen of the world.

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Perhaps no female superstar over the past 10 years has made the impact, and avoided the controversy that comes with it, better than Beyonce. From the driving force behind Destiny’s Child to a hugely successful solo career and even an impressive film career, Beyonce has done an incredible job keeping her head above controversy, well, expect for that PETA incident, but really, who hasn’t pissed PETA off? Beyonce has accomplished more before the age of 30 than most people could in two lifetimes. It’s scary to think what this diva has planned for the future. Stay tuned, we might find out sooner than we think…

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Who hasn’t written a (good) post or an article that wasn’t hijacked and turned into something only slightly reminiscent of the original? Imitation and flattery, together again.

When we wrote an article on Paris Hilton, it spread like wild-fire. It was posted on entertainment sites, blogs and other article repositories, mostly credited to us. But the best versions were the ones put through a synonymizer (article blender), resulting in new works that, bless those poor deviants’ hearts, were far more poetic and inventive than we ever thought possible — maybe even better than the original.

Here are some of best excerpts (in bold), with the original text included for reference:

1. Ah, City of Light Hilton [Ah, Paris Hilton]. bet you figured that one out.

2. So how did she go celebrated adequate to work her ever-burning mass media spotlight? [So how did she become famous enough to exploit her ever-burning media spotlight?] you missed that one?

3. …most of them aren’t on the presence page of the yellow journalisms every week [most of them aren’t on the front page of the tabloids every week] wow.

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While all of America and the world was giggling…

deriving guilty pleasure from the details of Paris Hilton’s prison ordeal and less than star treatment, our favorite silver-spoon-in-mouth jailbird was busy cultivating the ridiculously valuable and marketable brand, Paris Hilton.
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