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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 25, 2009

yale's annual list

 The Year's 10 Best Quotes 

Health care inspires top pick; iPhone slogan makes the list

LOOKING AT YOU, KARDASHIANS

 Overexposed in 2009 

We'd like to see less of these people in 2010

decade in review

 Top Cultural Game-Changers 

What will we still be talking about next decade? Britney, for one

 Beyoncé Leads Grammy Pack 

She nabs 10 nominations, Swift gets 8

KANYE-TAYLOR REUNION?

 How to Freshen Up the Grammy Awards

Getting rid of the polka category was good, but more should be done

 Greatest Albums of the Decade 

From Radiohead to Bon Iver, Paste hits the highlights

DEAD HORSE RIDES AGAIN

 Kanye Lives!  And So Do 
 These Other Hoaxed Celebs 

Fake rumors of celebrity death from Kanye West to Frank Sinatra

WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE?

 Kanye Exorcises Demons 
 in Short Jonze Film 

Clip, briefly on rapper's site, includes projectile vomiting, cutting himself open

 West-Gaga Tour Canceled 

No word on what killed the 'Fame Kills' partnership

 WWE Offers 
 Kanye $10M to 
 Get Into Ring 

West would have to do some 'light wrestling,' sources say

 Maybe Obama's 'Half-White 
 Side' Is Racist: Limbaugh 

Also, president's media 'lust' is Castroesque

 Kanye Calls  
 Taylor to Apologize 

Rapper reaches out after Swift's appearance on The View

music review

 Kid Cudi's Debut 
 'Ridiculously 
 Intriguing' 

Rap's up-and-coming name follows in the footsteps of Kanye West, Andre 3000

OPINION

 Brooks: Humility Is Dead 

Kanye, Joe Wilson lead age of attention-seeking

REVIEW ROUND-UP

 New Leno Show 
 Numbingly 
 (or Pleasantly) 
 Familiar 

It's pretty much the Tonight Show in a new time slot

 Obama: Kanye's a 'Jackass' 

Off-the-record remark gets on Twitter; rest is history

Kanye's Latest Apology Spices Up Leno Debut

'It was rude, period,' says rapper, who asked for chance to speak on Jay's new show

 Ten Pre-Kanye Stage Rushes 

West even makes the list with a pre-Taylor Swift intrusion

OPINION

 Kanye's Tantrum Smells Staged 

VMA debacle with Taylor Swift 'merely a way to distract' from MTV's lacking lineup

 Kanye Wigs Out 
 During Taylor's 
 MTV Award 

'I'm sooooo sorry,' he writes on blog after crazy rant

 Rihanna 
 Joins 
 Jay-Z 
 on Stage 

9/11 benefit marks her first live show since Chris Brown assault

LeBron Doc Soundtrack Lands Some Heavy Hitters

Eminem, Kanye West join Drake, Lil Wayne

 Jay-Z, Rihanna, Kanye 
 Take on the Apocalypse

Three of hip-hop's biggest team up in video for new single



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Off the Grid a Michael Wolff Newser Column

Is This, Finally, the End of Rudy Giuliani?

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Dec 23, 09 | 8:06 AM BY Michael Wolff

It certainly feels like we dodged another bullet, Rudy deciding not to run for governor or for senator. But it seems suspicious, too. Why would he huff and puff about his designs, first on the governor’s race and then on the Senate seat, and then, with a whimper, shrug his shoulders and withdraw? What’s up his sleeve? Is this a feint? A brand-building exercise? A reflexive bid for attention? Just more incomprehensible and nutty Rudy stuff? Certainly... More »

Brittany Murphy: Does Her Death Count?

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Dec 22, 09 | 8:39 AM BY Michael Wolff

I want to draw my personal line at Brittany Murphy. It’s a death without worthy pathos. It does not even invite much morbid curiosity.... More »

A Dozen Good Reasons Why You Should See Avatar

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Dec 21, 09 | 10:14 AM BY Lewis Grossberger

1. So you can have some conviction in your voice when you join in the national debate over whether it’s any good or not . 2. Even though they’re blue, 10-feet tall and tend to growl and bare their fangs a lot, those Na’vi babes are hot. 3. Best plant life in any movie since The Thing. 4. To answer the age-old question: Who would win a fight between a paraplegic avatar and a hot Na’avi babe against a macho Marine in a robotic armored... More »

‘Let’s Talk About Health Care.’ ‘Please, God, No!’

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Dec 21, 09 | 8:25 AM BY Michael Wolff

What is in the health care bill? The Senate version? The House version? I have been looking through the coverage—the vast sturm... More »

Chuck Schumer Speaks for Me

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Dec 18, 09 | 9:12 AM BY Michael Wolff

Among the worst things you can do in upper-middle-class, politically-correct, don’t-call-attention-to-yourself culture is insult... More »

Berlusconi Strikes Back

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Dec 17, 09 | 9:20 AM BY Michael Wolff

Some people have all the luck. Or, some people, familiar with adversity and reversals of fortune, know merely to wait until someone... More »

Is Tiger Woods Good or Bad for You?

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Dec 16, 09 | 8:18 AM BY Michael Wolff

There is a more and more insistent question being asked by right-thinking people about why we dwell so obsessively on the domestic problems... More »

Joe Lieberman Is a Piece of Work

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Dec 15, 09 | 10:37 AM BY Michael Wolff

What’s Joe Lieberman’s game? Or, what do you do when you’re cut loose from colleagues, standing, and future? ... More »

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