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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 08:00 AM

    Money didn't protect John Lennon

    Gawker editor Emily Gould demonstrated the knee-jerk immaturity of the young have-not, asserting that celebrities are "protected by piles of money."

    John Lennon had piles of money. See how well it protected him?

    She's enabling mentally ill people who overidentify with celebrities.

    She's going to get someone killed.

    —Silenced Read Silenced's other letters

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