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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.
By Heather Havrilesky

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  • Wednesday, December 26, 2007 06:42 AM

    HBO's "Extras" covered this in their finale

    I find Gervais' work simultaneously brilliant and cringeworthy. His season (series?) finale was excruciating.

    Part of the success of the Gawker/TMZ/gossips sites is that they are superb time-wasters at work. Have to participate in a boring telephone conference? Surf the internet while everyone else talking. Need to take break (but can't leave your desk?) Jezebel is there for you.

    I can't imagine how much productivity is lost at work by people who are surfing gawker sites.

    —Vincent Read Vincent's other letters

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