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Wednesday, December 26, 2007 12:00 AM

The year in celebrity scandal

From attention-seeking celebrities to roving nut jobs with automatic weapons to the self-deluded editors of mean-spirited gossip rags, this is the year that media-savvy lunatics took over the asylum.

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  • Wednesday, December 26, 2007 11:22 AM

    Just one quibble

    As a veteran of four formative years in Catholic school, to which I flash back as if it were 'Nam, I don't believe scrawling "Fuck You" all over the stalls of the girls' bathroom -- even in red Magic Marker -- constitutes sociopathy.

    Seems like a pretty reasoned response to me.

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