Single Person’s Movie: Very Bad Things

It’s 2 a.m. and you awake with a jerk, alone in your fully lit apartment and still on the couch. On TV, the credits of some movie you’ve already seen a billion times are scrolling by. It feels like rock bottom. And we know, because we’re just like you: single.

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Morning Memo: Peter Cook Speaks Out; Hawaiian Tropic Zone Gets Sued; Sarah Silverman and Jimmy Kimmel Probably Back On

In a killed profile for Elle by Kevin Sessums (the piece is now available on Tina Brown‘s Daily Beast), Jennifer Lopez is described as "weepy and fragile" and "flu-ridden." She also discusses potentially sending her children to Scientology school and her postpartum insecurity. [P6

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After ‘Brush’ With Law, Slater Closes On West Side Condo; Friars’ Synergy: Jack Klugman Signs Books at Open House

Less than three weeks after his headline-grabbing arrest in May, for allegedly groping a woman on the sidewalk after a night out in the bar-hoppy East 90’s, actor Christian Slater signed an $882,500 contract on a 1,100-square-foot piéd-a-terre on West 54th Street.

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After ‘Brush’ With Law, Slater Closes On West Side Condo; Friars’ Synergy: Jack Klugman Signs Books at Open House

Less than three weeks after his headline-grabbing arrest in May, for allegedly groping a woman on the sidewalk after a night out in the bar-hoppy East 90’s, actor Christian Slater signed an $882,500 contract on a 1,100-square-foot piéd-a-terre on West 54th Street.

Now, both deals are closed. Prosecutors have agreed to drop sexual-abuse charges Read More

In Today’s Observer

Michael Calderone reports that a few weeks after an alleged “groping” last May, Christian Slater bought himself a condo. And a new synergy comes to open houses in the form of celebrity book signings!

Matthew Schuerman chronicles the campaign the International Freedom Center is waging to stay at Ground Zero.

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We Loved ‘Pump Up The Volume’ Too

In honor of the 1,000th issue of Reader’s Digest, the self-proclaimed world’s most widely read magazine threw an oh-so-futuristic “interactive party” last week. According to Laura McEwen, one of the magazine’s VPs, the magazine is so “awesome and hip that the emphasis on the future was so right.” Grandparents across the country are high-fiving.

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Harrison Ford In a Doomed Submarine Thriller

You know you’re watching a bad movie when you keep glancing at your watch waiting for everyone to die. That’s how I spent the second hour of K-19: The Widowmaker , the dull, tired, by-the-numbers submarine thriller that brings the world once again to the brink of nuclear disaster. With all of the war movies Read More