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Wear Lip Gloss, Get Skin Cancer

June 11, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Hot — get it? — on the heels of my “sunglasses give you cancer” post is another story about how your everyday beauty accessories and products can potentially give you skin cancer.

This time, according to the MTV Switch blog, the culprit is lip gloss, which, if left on in the blazing sun, can apparently up the risk of frying and irradiating your tender lip-skin.

Next up: wear toenail polish, get skin cancer!

(I actually end up sunburning my toes quite a bit cuz I wear sandals.

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Robert Downey Jr Quit Drugs Because Of Hamburger

June 11, 2008 · 2 Comments

What was “Iron Man” star Robert Downey Jr.’s secret to finally kicking his drug habit?

A really skanky burger.

He tells OK! Magazine that one day his car pulled up to the Burger King drive-through with “tons of f****ing dope,” and he received the grossest hamburger of his life. Then he thew away the dope in the ocean.

We asked this man for a comment:

He said, “F**k Robert Downey Jr.!”

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Smurf Movie To Be Made; Gargamel Dream Casting

June 11, 2008 · 2 Comments

Sony Animation & Columbia pictures are collaborating on a big-screen adaptation of The Smurfs, Variety reports. Continuing a trend that includes Scooby-Doo, Garfield, and Alvin and the Chipmunks, the Smurf movie will be a mix of live-action and CGI.

Join me as we concentrate on the really important things, such as casting for Gargamel:

…not sure how the last one got in there. Did a search for “middle aged Alec Baldwin” and somehow took a steep left turn. Yummy.

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