OK, not actually—not yet, at least—unless you believe Jimmy Kimmel. But let’s all admit that this is what we’re anticipating here, this is what we’re waiting for: that the trainwreck that is Nadya “Octuplet Mom” Suleman will get trainwreckier in the trainwreckiest way possible. She’ll get pregnant again. Kimmel-as-Suleman is a not-that-over-the-top approximation of the original, who, instead of settling into a reassuring (to us, not to speak of the babies) cycle of feedings and diaper changes, seems to be more hysterical and media-hungry...
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Poor Madonna. The master marketer, who's thrived as an entertainment powerhouse, on good press and bad, for longer than just about anybody—her first album came out in 1983—is now getting press that's mostly... pitiable. She's always alternated between goddess and pop-cultural punching bag, but lately she can't catch a break. And we can't stop paying attention. Stories like "Sean Pokes Fun at Madonna's Boy Toy." The Sean in that headline is, of course, eons-ago hubby Sean Penn, who, according to British tabloid The Sun, ran into Madonna at a post-Oscars bash,...
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It all got so ugly, so fast. Last Monday, octuplet mom Nadya Suleman was attempting to soften her media image with a carefully stage-managed Today show appearance—but by the end of the week she was even more of a national pariah, having gone into hiding after receiving death threats. And over the weekend, her unnerved publicists—a husband/wife team who said they, too, got death threats—announced that they were abruptly dropping her as a client. What went wrong? Absolutely everything. Let's review: * On Today, Suleman told Ann Curry , "I'm not...
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