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The Weinstein Fire Sale Begins
Have the Weinstein brothers done anything lately that doesn't signal a desperate need for cash? Now Bob Weinstein, the less violent and insane half of the pair, is trying to unload his Central Park West duplex for $34 million. More »
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By John CookComment by BadUncle: Gargantuan coatroom? Feh. I prefer Pentagruelan. 1 Responses | Other threads
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real estate
Buy Candy Spelling's $150 Million House! (Please?)
Candy Spelling has a book to sell. And a $150 million manor to sell. Both are good reasons for the widow of Hollywood megaproducer Aaron Spelling to be talking to 20/20. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by MyNameIsChris: Candy Spelling lives in a condo downtown now? Really?!?!!? That's the most amazing part of this story to me. 7 Responses | Other threads
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recessionomics
Poor Annie Leibovitz Has Pawned All Her Photos
We knew that celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz had some serious financial problems. But we didn't know they were so bad that she had to sign over all of her photos to a pawn shop:
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Comment by Carmine A Ramdeer: Karma's a bitch. Annie used to recruit Harvard College students as unpaid summer interns in her studio in NYC and... 49 Responses | Other threads
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wma
Behold! WMA's $143 Million Gas Pump
When the gang at William Morris Agency sold their headquarters last week for $143 million, stunned real-estate observers wondered how the agency could command such lucre near the bottom of the market. However, a new picture finally reveals WMA's secret bargaining chip: the parking-lot gas pump where agents seek refuge from the retail class. More »
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By STVComment by Bentoboxx, Now part owner of General Motors: I hope no moron at William Morris tried to put Gas into that hydrogen powered GM car sitting there by... 2 Responses | Other threads
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ed mcmahon
Ed McMahon's Realtor Makes Donald Trump An Offer He Can't Refuse
Cheers to Ed McMahon, whose week started with more miserable news about lawsuits and money owed but ends with word that he's managed at least one solution: He's found a buyer for his Beverly Hills manse, which was mere weeks away from foreclosure after the beleaguered 85-year-old legend defaulted on $4.8 million in loans with Countrywide. Alas, the inevitable catch: The buyer is Donald Trump, who boasted to the LA Times about his "honor" in leasing the home back to McMahon, adding, "When I was at the Wharton School of Business, I'd watch him every night. How could this happen?" More »
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By STVComment by Little Mintz Sunshine: "When I was at the Wharton School of Business, I'd watch him every night. How could this happen?" Mr. Trump?... more » | Other threads
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roland emmerich
Come Tour Roland Emmerich Estates, The House That Hackery Built
We have to admit that while viewing a slideshow of features from Roland Emmerich's quirky London townhouse, we felt a momentary pang of affection for a man whose work had given us such personal and professional displeasure over the years. Seriously — how can anyone stay mad at a guy who has a waxwork of Pope John Paul II under his stairs (reading his own obituary, no less) or who pits a taxidermied zebra against massive Mao murals in his living area or, deliciously, keeps Prince Charles and Princess Diana dolls displayed in his fireplace? More to the point, how was this man responsible for 10,000 B.C.? More »
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By STVComment by CorwinAlexiares: The Mahmoud photo in all its glory but the truly vulgar piece here is the alarm c(l)ock...! more » | Other threads
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too close for comfort
Olsen Twins Set Up New Party Palace In The Wrong Part Of Town
We still can’t figure out why, but the tiny former child stars-turned-designers Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen remain terribly convinced that they are very important. So important, in fact, that they treat their various Manhattan apartments like Bel Air mansions and generally shit all over their neighbors. As one next-door resident put it, “you’d think the President was living here.” Sure, if Dubya got decked out in shiny skirts and pounds of jewelry before partying til the wee hours and coming home soaked in vintage wine and memories night after night (which, by all means, he might). More on what kinds of trouble the little rascals are rousing in their downtown party casa after the jump. More »
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Comment by SteamyMcFirecrotch: Can they help it if the ghost of Heath Ledger keeps following them around?! Somebody please get James Van Praagh... more » | Other threads
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michael jackson
Time for more Jackson Manse financial woe, only this time it in regards to the L.A. house in Encino that members of his insane family has lived in for years. Records filed with the L.A. County Recorder's Office showed Michael had "$153,910 in missed payments as of January 17 on a $4 million loan serviced by Pasadena-based mortgage lender IndyMac Bancorp." We can only pray Jackson can refinance in time, lest LaToya find herself homeless and turned out by Dr. Mustard, Ventura Blvd.'s most notorious pimp and part-time Wienerschnitzel manager. [AP] -
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real estate
Michael Jackson Keeps Neverland In The Family
Reports circulated earlier in the week saying Neverland Ranch, Michael Jackson's personal Touch Mahal, was in jeopardy: If the debt-ravaged superstar failed to pay the $24,525,906.61 required of him, the estate, including all "fixtures and appliances, furniture, and...merry go round type devices, any rides" on it, would be put up for auction March 19 at Santa Barbara's downtown courthouse. Now comes the happy news that the necessary financing is being drawn up, and that no auction will take place. Also, records show there was a release of lien on February 4, showing Jackson "paid off all or part of delinquent taxes to the state of California." Perhaps, finally, the rusted arms of the Great NeverClock will start up once again, the llama skulls and monkey bones will finally be cleared from the yellowed lawn, and the ghostly halls of Jackson's kiddie Valhalla will fill with the sound of children's laughter, their overjoyed host calling out, "Last one to the bottom of the IKEA ballroom in their underwear is a rotten egg!!!" More »
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By SethComment by Whiteboyfunfark: @jasonelias: Maybe...I'm speculating that once the contract for the blond/blue eyed homosapiens had been fulfilled (rendering the now leg-humping/feces throwing... more » | Other threads
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real estate
The Los Angeles City Council is expected to vote next week on whether or not to preserve the bungalow where the hard-living and harder-drinking poet and author Charles Bukowski wrote his first novel. The city's Cultural Heritage Commission is attempting to designate the nearly 90-year-old property as a historic monument, which would effectively rescue it from certain destruction at the hands real estate developers who are just itching to put up some condos in its place. Wonder if someday someone will do the same for the apartment off The Strip that the members of Mötley Crüe once lived in? Somehow, we doubt it. [Reuters]
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By Mark GrahamComment by SteamyMcFirecrotch: I can hear all the little kiddies out there - "Charles Whokowski?" more » | Other threads
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future landmarks
Hollywood Hills Real Estate Listing Brings Us One Step Closer To Mt. Mogulmore
With news that 138 acres of land just west of the H in the Hollywood sign have been put up for sale yesterday by Chicago investors, the last impediment to Mt. Mogulmore—Les Moonves's masterplan of constructing an enduring companion monument to the nine-letter icon—is but a mere $22 million check away. More » -
heath ledger
Inside 421 Broome Street, Site of Heath Ledger OD
So by now we've all seen what the building where Heath Ledger overdosed looks like from the outside. But over at Corcoran.com, the NYC-based real estate site, they have photos of what the apartments at 421 Broome look like on the inside. There is a three-bedroom loft space currently renting out for $23k a month. [Corcoran, 421 Broome] -
defamer
It seems the towering structure at Sunset and Vine, an accursed building that's fallen victim to fires and a tragic Transformers mega-billboard mishap last April, is finally getting some windows—but according to a Defamer operative, its biggest disaster is yet to come, and happening slowly before our eyes: "Having taken it down to the structural steel, they've started to put glass on it. There's just one problem: it's LEANING. Go check it out - very noticeable." Before any frantic Chicken Littles run into Amoeba Records to pronounce the sky is falling, we'd first like to throw it open to Defamer readers in the area to send us photographic evidence. And no Photoshop shenanigans—Giant Fucking Buildings Are Falling!
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By SethComment by LosAngelina: I am looking at it as we speak...my office has a bank of windows facing The Tower of Terror, but... more » | Other threads
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defamer
Bravo To Introduce Yet Another 'Successful Crazy Person' Reality Show Tonight
Continuing its proud tradition of reality programming centered around larger-than-sane-life characters whose low-grade mental illness enhances their professional success (see Blowout's narcissistic personality disorder sufferer Jonathan Antin and Hey Paula's apparent dissociative identity victim), Bravo tonight unleashes Flipping Out and its house-renovating, compulsively abusive protagonist on the world. Notes the NY Times: More »
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By MarkComment by deusdiabolus: I have a better idea for a reality show. Gather a group of sensitive, picky, easily offended people and... more » | Other threads
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defamer
"The pink stucco, H-shaped estate, dubbed Beverly House by the late newspaper magnate, is spread across 6.5 acres north of Sunset Boulevard. It has just about everything a billionaire could want — including three swimming pools, 29 bedrooms, a state-of-the-art movie theater and even a disco." For $165 million, all you get is one disco? We're pretty sure Brett Ratner's house has a disco on every floor. [LAT] -
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Own Danny Masterson's Temple To His Clear, Slightly Paranoid Self
For a young actor making his way in Hollywood, nothing quite says "I've arrived" like plunking down your sitcom earnings for a first home in the Hills—a bachelor crib of one's own that can accomodate both raucous, hot-tub-mixer casting sessions, and quiet, introspective moments in a sauna-equipped oasis from the showbiz rat race. That's what this Beachwood Canyon home has offered former That 70s Show star Danny Masterson, a residence which can now belong to you, as the actor has decided to address his cramped-living-space thetans by putting it on the market. Our square-footage-obsessed pals at Curbed LA have some of the details: More » -
tom cruise
Today In "Tom Cruise Is Moving To The Dakota 'News'"
Our source on the "inside" at the Dakota (who could, let's bear in mind, be pulling all this stuff from the "inside" of his or her anal region) brings us the latest update to the TomKat Finds A Home saga:The Dakota board loves Cruise, he wowed 'em. Plus, he's a hero to the Wall Street worthies on the board —Top Gun, Jerry McGuire, Mission: Impossible, etc — they love that crap.
Stay tuned for a strongly-worded denial, oh, any minute now. More »
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By abalk2Comment by phil anderson: @badhatharry: No, they let John in. They thought Yoko was the nanny. more » | Other threads
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britney spears
Beverly Hills Home Latest Victim Of Britney Spears Shedding Spree
As a newly suedeheaded Britney Spears enjoys the fruits of her follicularly unencumbered, wash n' go lifestyle, the early spring cleaning continues for America's Unhinged Sweetheart, as The Scoop notes she has put the Beverly Hills home she only recently purchased back on the market:
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By SethComment by Little Mintz Sunshine: hmmm...Promises Malibu-adjacent has a nice ring to it.... more » | Other threads
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culture
Hancock Park 'House Of Davids' Owner To Take His Search For A Manservant To Basic Cable
Ask anyone in L.A. if they have ever seen the House of Davids, and you're likely to be greeted with an enthusiastic round of nodding heads and disgusted faces familiar with the infamous Hancock Park residence one might describe as an architectural interpretation of the top tier of Siegfried and Roy's fantasy wedding cake. But not much is known about the house's owner—until now, that is, as Losanjealous notes the following cast bio on the site for a new E! reality show already guilty of flagrant false-zip-code-advertising, High Maintenance 90210: More »
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By SethComment by wildfarmer: Growing up in LA can have it's perks, and in an amazing twist of fate, during my high school years,... more » | Other threads
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universal
Universal To Spend Next Two Decades Supersizing Studio And Tourist Trap Facilities
There is little we find more scintillating than news that a moviemaking concern is planning on sinking billions of dollars into the more efficient development of an underexploited, extremely valuable parcel of land in its control, so we note that NBC Universal has announced that it intends to supersize its local production facilities, office space, and overrated theme park over the next 12-25 years, a massive project the company says will create tens of thousands of jobs and usher in an unprecedented, Universal-branded era of prosperity for all citizens of Los Angeles. Among the upgrades in store for Universal City, if neighbors expecting to be inconvenienced by untold years of constant construction don't first burn down the lot: More »
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By MarkComment by The Gen X Eurotrash Jetsetter Club: It's really smart of them to do this right when the housing bubble is bursting and Hollywood itself is churning... more » | Other threads
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real estate
Defamer Real Estate: Double-Murder Earns Lucky Buyers Great Per-Square-Foot Value
The LAT's Hot Property column reveals a very handy home-buying tip: a willingness to ignore a languishing listing's blood-drenched history—and a daily visitation by a bus full of noisy Crime Scene Tour gawkers—can result in some significant savings: More » -
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By SethComment by kween of everything: Throw in the vomitting bed and pancake batter stairs as well as that handy rubber wall, and you sir, have... more » | Other threads
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defamer
Nicholas Cage Buys A House As Creepy As He Is
As international airport security checkpoints are being frantically refitted with urinals and spitbuckets in a panicked effort to confiscate every last drop of errant fluid that may later be turned into a deadly detonation device, it seems, for better or worse, that World Trade Center couldn't have chosen a more appropriate weekend to premiere/re-scare the shit out of us. Satisfied that his work here is done, WTC star Nicholas Cage has reinvested some of the dividends from his Campaign of Healing™ into himself, purchasing his very own castle way off in, of all places, low-on-terrorists'-to-do-list Bavaria: More »
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By SethComment by Norma Desmond: Darn, I was hoping you were going to say Neverland. I wouldn't mind having a Schloss or two myself. more » | Other threads
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jack nicholson
Jack Nicholson To Turn Brando's Estate Into Botanical Bachelor Paradise
As legal wranglings continue to cloud the fate of Marlon Brando's Tahitian estate, the deceased legend's local real estate holdings—i.e. the delapidated, mold-infested Mulholland Drive property friend and neighbor Jack Nicholson snapped up for $6.5 million upon his death—has a firm date with wrecking ball, the NY Daily News reports: More » -
defamer
Candy Spelling Denies Plan To Sell Iconic Family Estate And Move Into Modest 42-Bedroom Condo
With Aaron now out of the picture, and her children having either flown the coop and/or waging bitter tabloid battles against her, rumors have arisen that Candy Spelling is looking to dump the famed 56,500-square-foot Holmby Hills mansion the family has called home since the late 1980s. TMZ.com was first to report the estate was on the market, priced at a Sultan-friendly $150 million, but a quick denial was issued, and TMZ updated their story, specifying it was a "pocket listing." (Which, from as best as we can gather, is a listing on the downlow.) Today's LAT addresses what a sale like this would mean to the obnoxiously overpriced real estate market: More »
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By SethComment by King of All Hacks: Besides, what person with a functional olfactory system would want to pony up millions for this architectual abomination? Can you... more » | Other threads
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ryan seacrest
Defamer Real Estate: Seacrest Buys Confirmed Bachelor Pad
This weekend's LAT Hot Property column reported the sale of Kevin Costner's Hollywood Hills spread to American Idol Ryan Seacrest for $11.5 million, a passing of the luxury real estate baton from fading movie star to inexplicably popular, general-use TV host. A brief rundown of the estate's features: More » -
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Defamer Real Estate: Getting Close To Brad Pitt
The Defamer Special Real Estate Correspondent returns not with a walkthrough of an open house offering a glimpse of how the other half lives before upgrading their living quarters, but with an exciting opportunity for those employed by (or perhaps merely dabbling in) the exiting celebrity-stalking industry. Less than $5,000 per month will get you within telephoto lens range of one of the tabloids' favorite photographic subjects: More » -
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Defamer Real Estate: The Former Bennifer Love Nest
In his wanderings, the Defamer Real Estate Correspondent inadvertently came across a property formerly owned by the first Bennifer incarnation (for those of you who suffered blunt head trauma around January of 2004, we're referencing the tabloid-friendly partnership of Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez). In filing his report, he transports us back to a more innocent time, a time when two overexposed stars were on top of the world, unencumbered by flagging movie careers, more successful (Affleck) or creepy (Lopez) spouses, and the demands of new parenthood (Affleck only). Says our expert on ostentatious property: More » -
real estate
Defamer Real Estate: The Ellen DeGeneres Report
It's always a special treat when the Defamer Special Real Estate Correspondent weighs in with a virtual walkthrough of a C-list celebrity home or drops by to pick nits with the LAT Hot Property column. Today, he files a report about the recent property moves involving talk show host/budding local land baroness Ellen DeGeneres, whose acquistions seemingly won't stop until the entire city is blanketed in love nests for her and Portia de Rossi: More »
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By MarkComment by Miss Anne Thrope: They need room for Portia's giant eyebrows. more » | Other threads
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jessica simpson
Update: Defamer Real Estate: Nick and Jessica's Camera And Dolly Friendly First Home
Just in case you still held a shadow of a glimmer of sparkle of a doubt in your "Nick and Jessica 4-Ever" hoping hearts that their love was truly dead, comes this tidbit buried in today's AP wires: More » -
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Secret Celebrity Neighborhood Revealed!
AOL gossip site TMZ.com puts on its trendspotting glasses and declares the Bronson Canyon area the Hottest Neighborhood For Celebrities Who Can't Afford To Live Above The Sunset Strip: More » -
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Defamer Real Estate: Jessica Simpson's $3 Million Coping Mechanism
People magazine reports that Jessica Simpson, having spent a full two weeks mourning the dissolution of her sham marriage to Nick Lachey, has already found her groove again in the form of a $3 million home in Beverly Hills: More »
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By SethComment by MonkeyinDiapers: I hope her new BH home has a guesthouse big enough to accomodate her Papa Joe and his daughter-tracking mainframe... more » | Other threads
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holidays
A Very David Christmas
If the city were to award landmark status on eyesore merit alone, certainly the Hancock Park house lined with scores of leprechaun sized mini-Davids would be first on the list. It's a symphony of postmodern architectural pastiche, all white wrought iron rococo flourishes, DirecTV dishes, and the crowning touch, an SUV painted in gradient, sunset colors, parked permanently in the driveway. This year's seasonal embellishments: the letters "FHP" stand whimsically on the roof, a holiday reminder to "Feed His People"; every David gets his own version of a Jake Gyllenhaal thong; and an urban reimagining of Santa and the Mrs. snuggle up for a little mommy and daddy time after the elves have been put to bed. And should any of the well-to-do neighbors complain, the residents can always just shrug their shoulders and reply, "Would you rather an array of giant, spread-legged Paris Hilton portraits?" More »
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By SethComment by Franklin Avenue: You know that "War on Christmas" we keep hearing about? I believe this is Ground Zero. more » | Other threads
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brad pitt
Defamer Real Estate: Brad & Angelina's Lusty Camelot
Before the adoptions, before the Pakistani relief efforts, even before the official divorce, there were the pictures: our first unimpeded glimpses of the sexual sorcery sparking off "just friends" Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. Steven Klein's W magazine pictorial the one that would famously "appall" Jennifer Aniston was pornography for mid-century modernist aficionados, styled to within an inch of its existence, and shot entirely inside a desert Camelot somewhere in Rancho Mirage. Now, that dream can be yours, for a buck shy of $3 mil: More » -
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Brentwood's Magical Treehouse
What do you buy the infant who has everything? A gold-plated teething ring? A Himalayan yak-hair woobie? A new Beemer? Nah, all the neighbors' kids have those already. Behold, a a fairy tale from Brentwood: More » -
brad pitt
More On The Pitt-Clooney Gay Bar (And Because It's Fun To Say 'Boom Boom')
The LAT finds itself knee-deep in Boom Boom today, unearthing further details in the recent sale of landmark Laguna Beach gay bar The Boom Boom Room, which we noted Wednesday. While the involvement of airplane tycoon Steven Udvar-Hazy (so rich he has a Smithsonian building named after him) is undisputed, it's the widely rumored Brad Pitt and George Clooney-stake in the enterprise, and their subsequent denials, that has added a patina of A-list curiosity to your otherwise run-of-the-mill "greedy corporate breeders VS. pop n' pop shop" conflict. A little history: More » -
real estate
UPDATE: Goodbye, Marmont. Hello, Grove 2?
When he isn't sitting in model-tripping front row seats at Marc Jacobs fashion shows with main cupcake, Uma Thurman, Andre Balazs has a hotel empire to run. But could the jewel in his bed n' breakfast crown be up for grabs? From today's Page Six: More » -
halle berry
UPDATE: Realtors Render Agents Obsolete: Bruce and Halle Edition
...And this little piggie ran aaaall the way home, but then the sixth little piggie walked over to the neighbor's house, and got an A-list star who probably needed to get his mind off of things anyway to sign on to her latest project: More »
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