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"At a performance of A View From The Bridge, during intermission, Sienna Miller used the ladies room, did her business, and didn't wash her hands!!!!!!!!!!!

"She didn't even grab a paper towel. She just rushed out, all nervous, like she was gonna be recognized."

That's terrible hygiene, but I can certainly top it. I just took a poo from the bridge.

​I adore Bruce Vilanch and his sparkly mouth and have to express my condolences over having lost his assistant---to jail, that is.

According to the attached report, the assistant, Seth Apper--or Scott Adler, if you prefer his escort name--was busted not long ago for selling coke and sits behind bars without bail because this isn't the first time!

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Ass bombs have long been a problem in the club scene. You're standing next to someone, having a perfectly lovely conversation over diet sodas, and they suddenly detonate a gaseous substance out their butt that could make you plotz.

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​Three men say that as they passed McCoys bar in Hells Kitchen the other night, a drunken man flicked a cigarette butt that hit one of them. When they talked back, the drunk invoked the f word and urged them to move on. They kept confronting him, which led to the guy shoving one of the gays into a parked car and hitting another one in the mouth till he bled.

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​En route to a birthday barbecue for my friend Lynn Yaeger in the wilds of Pennsylvania, we stopped at a Perkins Restaurant and Bakery in Philipsburg for some sausages and pancakes. (Relax, I vomited afterwards.)

And we found quite a tasty treat there. Our waiter was Michael Turner, a young and reasonably attractive guy who recognized us from TV and lavished us with compliments in between trying to work us for his own possible career advancement. (He's sort of a model and has a site with all kinds of shirtless posing in "GQ-style" photos that would also be suitable for HX, if that still existed.)

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"Hello, my name is Mgabe Ungabwe, and I am your humble servant, an everyday solicitor in Malawi, Africa. My father sadly just passed away from esophagal cancer and as a result I need to redeem his fortune of $22 million, all bequeathed to me, as per Malawian trust.

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I'm so weary of reading the comments of people trying to blame Rihanna for her situation with Chris Brown or saying she slapped him first, or reminding us that she's said there's been abuse in her past, blah blah blah. Whatever! The point is that she needs to get out of this mad love affair immediately! The fact that there may have been hitting on both sides makes it an even worse situation, a couple with two perpetrators and two victims! That's all the more reason why both parties need to go their separate ways and seek help.

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Remember when Beyonce's video for "Get Me Bodied" seemed to include an exact replica of choreography from "Rich Man's Frug," the party sequence in Sweet Charity, directed and choreographed by Broadway mastermind Bob Fosse? Beyonce certainly made it all her own, but I believe all the money she made from the video remained all her own as well. Well, now she's up to her old diva tricks again! In her video for "Single Ladies (Put a Ring On it)"," the one-named chantoozie has once again drawn from dancin' specifically created by Fosse, this time for his dazzling routine called "Mexican Breakfast."

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There's a Dark Night curse going on, and not just for those who shell out $12 to see it. It seems as if virtually everyone who's in the thing is finding themselves in some unsavory scrape with either the law or oblivion, maybe because they all participated in one sequel too many. I was totally ahead of this curve—and this curse—when I blogged about it, but now that poor Morgan Freeman has gotten into a scrapeup, the curse has gotten into the dailies. Here's the Boston Herald piece about it. Read it and you'll turn into a black owl with fungus on its nails.

Heath Ledger dies, Christian Bale hits jail and now Morgan Freeman hurt: Blockbuster curse
By Stephen Schaefer

Is "The Dark Knight" cursed?

The box-office behemoth, expected to pass the $400 million mark this week, is notorious as being the late Heath Ledger's last completed movie.

Now Morgan Freeman, the 71-year-old actor who plays Batman's techie Lucius Fox, is in serious condition following a car accident in Mississippi late Sunday night.

The Oscar-winning actor was driving his wife's friend Demaris Meyer's 1997 Nissan Maxima when it rolled off Tallahatchie County Highway 32, flipping over several times. Meyer was treated for minor injuries and released.

Freeman, who was driving to his Charleston home, reportedly suffered broken ribs and was air-lifted to Regional Medical Center in Tennessee.

This tragedy follows assault allegations made last month by the mother and sister of "Dark Knight" star Christian Bale. The 34-year-old Bale denied the charges. He'll be back in court next month.

"Dark Knight," is dedicated to both the 28-year-old Ledger, who died of an accidental overdose last Jan. 22, and Conway Wickliffe, 41, a stunt supervisor who died in a freak accident in London while setting up a car crash. "The Dark Knight" joins a grim list of "cursed" flicks. The "Superman" hex struck Christopher Reeve, who shot to fame after starring in the 1978 movie, after he broke his neck in a horse riding accident. Television's original "Superman," George Reeves died in an apparent suicide in 1969.

The 1982 horror classic "Poltergeist" was haunted by the premature deaths of two of its female stars. Vanity Fair celebrity scribe Dominick Dunne's daughter Dominique was murdered by her live-in lover soon after the film was finished. And Heather O'Rourke, the film's child star, died in 1988 at age 12 of cardiopulmonary arrest prompted by Crohn's disease. [Boston Herald]

"Doesn't the composite drawing of Madeleine McCann's kidnapper look like her mother with a moustache?"