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Don Rickles Terrorizes 'The View,' Insults Elisabeth, Barbara, Jay Leno, World
Ever since Don Rickles appeared in the middle of the most painfully awkward Emmy ceremony ever and brought the house down by making fun of it, we've looked forward to the day when he would bring those same powers of incisive cruelty to The View. Today was that day. -
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Barbara Walters to Rosie and Star: 'Ladies, Get On With Your Lives'
While promoting her upcoming variety show Rosie Live yesterday, Rosie O'Donnell shocked exactly no one by dishing dirt on her former View cohosts. “[Barbara Walters] wanted everyone to believe and think and act as if we get along and are really good friends and happy and hang out together, and, you know, that’s just not the reality," O'Donnell said. “I’m not saying they loathe each other, but the fact of the matter is, there was not a lot of camaraderie off camera.” We've heard similar stories, but O'Donnell's comments at least compelled the co-hosts to summon some on-screen camaraderie today in order to denounce both Rosie and intermittent Barbara-basher Star Jones. Sadly, we fear that their ridiculously transparent "The Former Co-hosts Who Must Not Be Named" shtick will only open the door for a publicity-hungry Debbie Matenopolous to attempt an unsolicited, aggrieved rebuttal in the pages of Life & Style. More »
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Star Jones Finally Ready to Unload On Those 'Hateful' Women of 'The View'
Perhaps upset that Elisabeth Hasselbeck has usurped her crown as the most reviled woman ever to spout off on The View, Star Jones has warned the upcoming issue of Essence, "Star is back!" Batten down your hatches accordingly, then head into the mind of Star for her thoughts on everything from her gastric bypass ("If I had just been honest, there would not have been a backlash") to her pining, gay ex-husband ("I'm not in love with him") to...oh hell, we're just delaying the good stuff: Star slinging shit at the ladies of The View, who she deems "hateful"! More »
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Which Recent Makeout Session Tops List Of Legendary Stomach-Turning Celebrity Hookups?
We rarely like to take a mental walk down memory lane when it comes to the Most Nauseating Celebrity Hookups of all time, but news of the latest addition has unfortunately led us to revisit the grotesque list. We’ve already seen Liza Minelli and Phantom Of The Plastic Surgery Ward David Gest exchange saliva, Star Jones give Al an awkward lap dance and guiltily pleasured ourselves by witnessing wrinkly charmer Hugh Hefner and his thin lips attach themselves to the Girls Next Door. But after reading about one beach yoga-practicing, SUV-abandoning actor known for generally annoying everyone in Hollywood, and one scratchy-voiced “punk” rock chick known for generally hating everyone in Hollywood playing tongue twister in LA this past Tuesday, we may have a winner. The canoodlers in question, and just how far they went, after the jump: More »
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Oprah-Led Think Tank Deconstructs Mariah's Quickie-Marriage Logic
· Today, an Oprah you simply cannot afford to miss: Watch as she, Gayle, Kelly Ripa's husband, and some other lady try to reach a consensus over when, exactly, Mariah Carey knew she was going to marry Nick Cannon. We know! We told you! [Oprah] More » -
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Barbara Walters' Memoir Packed With Tales Of Former 'Lovahs', Including 'The Blackest Man' She Ever Slept With
The ladies of The View had a lengthy meta-conversation all about the "very beautiful!" and "sexy!" photos of their own Barbara Walters in this month's Vanity Fair. And while they do point out the photo spread's accompanying excerpt from Walters' new memoir Auditions, and Babs does allude to tales of past "lovahs," she fails to mention (until Oprah makes her next week) just how tantalizing some of those pages are. As today's preview in the NY Daily News reveals, Walters was involved in a long-term affair with an African-American senator back in the swingin' 70s. And from the sound of it, the affair was far spicier than all those Adrian Lyne movies about adultery:"When her lover...told the newswoman she was the oldest woman he had ever been with, she wanted to say - but never did - 'Oh yeah? Well you are the blackest man I have ever been with.'"
And the juice doesn't end there. More on Walters' fury over Star Jones' dieting claims and Rosie O'Donnell's Diana Ross complex after the jump. More »
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No Reason Yet Given In Star Jones's Divorce From Gay Husband
After three-and-a-half years of wardrobe-sharing bliss, standing side-by-side through the good times (the Branded Wedding of the Century, brought to you by 1-800-Flowers, Smirnoff Ice, and the Portugal Tourism Board) and the bad (her Barbara Walters-issued View death warrant), ETOnline is now reporting that Star Jones has filed for divorce from husband Al Reynolds. From their Star! On! Her! Own! Exclusive!: More »
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By SethComment by Superstarsteve: @mothrafairy: Honey, I met Terry McMillan's husband and he had so much sugar in his blood I had to turn... more » | Other threads
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Isaiah Washington Finding Creative Ways To Keep Victimhood Fresh
On the premiere of her new Court TV show today, Star Jones invited Isaiah Washington to again discuss how a vast conspiracy behind the scenes at Grey's Anatomy forced him to blurt out the term "faggot" at an inopportune moment, ultimately leading to his dismissal from the series. But just when you thought the actor's serial silence-breakings had covered every angle, an all-new football metaphor helped to shed yet more light on the always scintillating subject of Washington's victimhood: More » -
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Star Jones Finally Admits That Her Stomach Is Not Naturally The Size Of A Walnut
From the "no shit, Sherlock" department, Star Jones Reynolds is finally confessing what anyone with half an eye and a brain cell already knew: that her 160-lb. weight loss was due to gastric bypass surgery. After spending years denying that she went that route, in an upcoming Glamour column Star seems to gloss over the magnitude of that whole messy lying in favor of playing the insecurity card: More »
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Star Jones Finally Opens Up About Her Body In Leading Beauty Magazine
There's just over a month to go until Star Jones's return to TV, a full year after an ugly power play saw her squeezed out of her co-host chair at The View and publicly shamed by daytime potentate Barbara Walters. Of course, the pudgy, pampered Star of yore is virtually unrecognizable from the Star of today—streamlined, bespectacled, and ready for the serious business of yammering on interminably with D-list celebrities on Court TV. Jones is finally opening up about her dramatic physical transformation in an essay she penned for Glamour magazine: More »
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By SethComment by invalid-username: Please Star, even the recent pictures of you frighten the children. The message is more like, don't ever allow yourself... more » | Other threads
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Star Jones Committed To Bringing Some Decorum Back To Daytime Talk TV
From the first moment we laid eyes upon a Lilliputian, love-advice-dispensing Star Jones, we knew in our hearts that the stifling format of The View wasn't doing nearly enough to showcase everything this wise former D.A. had to offer her viewers. Kudos, then, to Court TV, who has scooped up the deposed daytime monarch to host her very own entertainment/law show. Sporting a brand new makeover (short hair + glasses + pantsuit + a face you can trust = instant credibility!), Jones offers TVGuide.com some thoughts on her journey away from The View's hysterics and back into our hearts: More »
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By SethComment by IKnowThings: I can just imagine Elisabeth's emails. Dear Star, omygod. You would not BELIEVE the meeting today. Rosie just totally took over and... more » | Other threads
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Star Jones Comes Full Circle
Fret not, Star Jones's legions of fans: The Daytime Talk Show Gods have heard your hungry cries for a return to a time when we could all rely on a regular dose of Starry-eyed wisdom to help get us through the day. The former Brooklyn D.A. has been hired back by the very network that helped launch her now-legendary famewhoring career:
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By SethComment by SugartitsMcFirecrotch: Starlet to Star to Starfuck Jones . . . with 37% percent more starfuckery. more » | Other threads
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Hollywood PrivacyWatch: Kirstie Alley Torn Between Disembowled Starlets And Brutal African Dictators
PrivacyWatch celebrity sightings are submitted by our readers, and are now posted several times a week—so start sending them in more often. Send yours to tips[AT]defamer.com (please put "sighting" or "PrivacyWatch" in the subject line) and let the world hear all about the time you spotted television's Blossom, Mayim Bialik, looking so damn fine she nearly knocked the gay right out of you. More » -
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Star Jones Careerwatch: Services To Payless No Longer Required
Of the many blue chip brand names to which Star Jones has suctioned herself over the years, she was perhaps best known for her symbiotic, co-whoring arrangement with Payless Shoe Source. Alas, since Barbara Walters callously ejected her from The View by medieval catapult, Jones' celebrity stock has plummeted so low, not even football field-sized emporiums of sensibly priced footwear want to be associated with her: More »
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By SethComment by The Gen X Eurotrash Jetsetter Club: I'm just waiting for Tori Spelling to do 99cent store commercials and Star Jones to hawk products for Lee Press... more » | Other threads
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Page Six Running Out Of Ways To Insinuate That Al Reynolds Is Gay
Star Jones may be on a crusade to sniff out the rat who dared suggested there may be some sizable cracks forming in her marriage to stallion-legged husband Al Reynolds, but it will take more than threats of legal action to throw the tenacious gossip hounds of Page Six off Reynolds' suspiciously floral scent. Watch how, through the use of some carefully selected facts and turns of phrase, a simple item about someone accidentally ringing the neighbor's door at 4 a.m. manages to trumpet "Al's a Gay!" without ever saying the actual words (lightly encoded gay innuendo in boldface): More » -
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Star Jones Prepared To Sue Anyone Who Suggests Things Aren't Going Great With Gay Husband
Star Jones' "people" (at this point, we imagine she's just making the calls herself using a really fake sounding British accent) have issued an angry statement in response to Page Six's lengthy item today reporting that Jones appears to have finally woken up, smelled the "I married a Gay" coffee, and has been telling friends in the Hamptons that the marriage is over. From the Us Weekly blog: More »
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By SethComment by Scrumptrulescent: Didn't Nick & Jessica constantly threaten to sue the tabloids that claimed they were divorcing? more » | Other threads
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Star Jones' Gay Husband Explores His Divorce Options
As if she hasn't gone through enough already, embattled talk show casualty Star Jones may soon find herself having to part with a sizable portion of her earnings (and shoe collection), as MediaTakeOut.com is reporting that husband Al Reynolds was spotted slinking into the offices of a prominent New York divorce attorney:
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Star Jones Hatred Universally Beneficial
Satisfied that their nine-year Star Jones infestation has effectively been dealt with, the last of the festively striped fumigation tarps tented around The View's studios were dismantled by workers and the lady chatfest quickly went back to business as usual. Interestingly enough, the week following Jones' departure, which saw a rotation of guest hosts including Brandy and Susan Lucci, had some of the show's best ratings in years: More » -
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Rosie O'Donnell-Star Jones Feud Just Racist Misunderstanding
If you're anything like us, you too are searching for any crumbs of explanation for what could have possibly come between two beloved TV personalities who once called each other friend, Star Jones and Rosie O'Donnell. NY Daily News JV Gossip Lloyd Grove thinks he may have some answers, singling out O'Donnell's May 12, 2004 appearance on The View as the day their mutual loudmouth lovefest went sour: More » -
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Before They Were Unbearable Fame Whores: Starlet Jones, Attorney-At-Law
It's easy to forget, in all the controversy surrounding her recent dismissal from The View, that the almost impossibly glamorous Star Jones was once Starlet Jones, a highly principled and sober assistant D.A from Brooklyn. Delivering trenchant legal analysis to CourtTV audiences in a wardrobe limited to sensible leprechaunwear, the Starlet in this unearthed 1991 video seems worlds away from the rampaging couch diva and insufferable red carpet celebrity suck-ass we've come to know and loathe over the years. We'd go on about how this is a cautionary tale of what becomes a high moral character when egos and greed are driven to excess, but damn it if she doesn't look a zillion times better after she spent some of her millions on stomach removal surgery, a breast lift, and some chi chi designer duds. Celebrity 1, Integrity 0. More »
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By SethComment by Jacques Bauer: For the love of god, thank you for my best chuckle this year... Celebrity 1 Integrity 0 Public Humiliation 100 more » | Other threads
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Star Jones Not Evaporating Into Puff Of Smoke Fast Enough
Many of us snickered in delight as we witnessed the Circle of Celebrity Karmic Comeuppance do its thing and dispose of Star Jones. We erroneously assumed, however, that once the shit hit the spinning blades of Barbara Walters' unhinged fury, Jones would simply splatter against the faces of the studio audience, never to be heard from again. This does not appear to be the case, however, as she has emerged intact, and is doing the media rounds. Because we do anything we can to help you avoid listening to her speak, a Jones-on-the-offensive round-up: More » -
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UPDATE: Star Jones Still Lurking In Back Alleys Of ABC.com
We marveled yesterday at the cool proficiency with which ABC managed to blot out any trace of recent Barbara Walters' Shit List topper Star Jones from their website. (For those who still care, Jones swats back in today's NY Daily News, with more to come on Larry King Live tonight.) Several readers wrote in to inform us, however, that Jones' bio lives on at its original abc.com URL, a slightly modified version of the same bio that appears on StarJones.com. The last lines would indicate the information is somewhat out of date: More » -
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UPDATE: Barbara Walters Scrapes Star Jones' Remains From Couch
Amidst the cacophony of syrupy farewell tributes that seem to be clogging up the morning show rounds lately, there's something almost refreshing about the beyond messy thunderstorm of bile surrounding Star Jones' abrupt—yet somehow nine years too late—departure from The View. Nothing until now has quite reached the glorious levels of passive-aggressive, full-frontal cattiness of this morning's show opener, however (video above). On a very Star-free set (our closer-to-the-action sibling Gawker cites a source who claims Jones "refused to get into her towncar this morning,"), reigning View monarch Walters spills every petty, in-fighting bean: "We'd hoped she'd leave with dignity. But Star made another choice." Walters then reached behind the couch and retrieved a Bloomingdale's bag, spilling its contents on the floor in front of her. "But since our former colleague left us in this manner, I have absolutely no regrets about showing you the bag full of spare stomach staples and trimmed flesh from his last tummy tuck—God only knows why she saved it—that she forgot to remove from her dressing room. She chose this undignified path, not me." More » -
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Barbara Walters Expects Us To Believe She 'Loves' Star Jones
More information has emerged regarding Star Jones' earth-shattering sayonara announcement on this morning's The View. According to an AP interview granted by Barbara Walters after today's taping, it was ABC suits, not she, who had long ago decided not to re-up Jones contract, citing research which found that (surprise!) audiences mistrusted and disliked her. Meanwhile, those shouts of "Shocking!" and looks of feigned surprise from her co-hosts were in fact genuine, as Jones was supposed to hold off on making her statement until Thursday's show. More » -
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Star Jones Leaves 'View' To Spend More Time With Gay Husband
You may have heard the rumors that the Star Jones era at The View would soon be coming to an end: NY Daily News JV Gossip Lloyd Grove reports today that Jones has "signed a lucrative deal" at another network, and that the big announcement would come Friday. Lest Star's legions of fans think they had three more days to prepare for the news and subsequent grieving, we feel the need to warn our readers that the announcement came today: Calling her run "the most amazing nine years of my entire professional and personal life," Jones said she would be leaving mid-July and was "not sure what the future holds." And while we don't have the actual clip, we do have the above video of Jason Sehorn hitting Jones in the face with a football. It's a fitting illustration of what obviously hastened her departure, where Sehorn stands in for Barbara Walters, the football symbolizes Rosie O'Donnell, and an incapacitated, swollen-faced Jones represents, well, exactly that. More »
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Star Jones' Sham Marriage As Strong As Ever
As svelte, breast-reduced Star Jones' Countdown to Obscurity draws tantalizingly close to its predictable and utterly thrilling conclusion, the View star still possesses enough celebrity weight to make it onto the guest list for what Page Six touted as "party of the year"— L.A. Reid's 50th birthday party at Nobu in New York. Spotting the Sixers there, Jones bravely approached them to defend her husband: More » -
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Star Jones Leaving 'View' For Exciting Opportunity To Wallow In Obscurity
We try to subject ourselves to ABC's menopausal kaffee klatsch The View as rarely as possible, though we have to admit we were looking forward to watching their latest loud-lady addition, Rosie O'Donnell, squeeze the living breath out of Star Jones with one giant, lesbian bear paw. Sadly, however, that display of alpha-gal dominance may not play itself out, as Page Six reports Jones is leaving the show:
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Nothing Is Certain But Death And Taxes And Paris Hilton
With only three more deduction days 'til the anti-Christmas, i.e. federal income tax filing deadline, we thought we'd share some of the highlights from this ABCNews.com report from earlier in the week, in which tax experts are consulted on some creative accounting loopholes celebrities may want to explore:
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Near Death Agrees With Star Jones
Star Jones returned to The View today (video available from ABCNews.com) with her new rack, and all we can say is, whatever those babies cost her (nearly her life, from what we understand), they sure were worth it. Why, Al Reynolds you sly, lucky dog, you! More »
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By SethComment by Picka Little, Talka Little: A lift AND an enhancement! Give it up, Star. You've already lost the case. BTW, who's paying? more » | Other threads
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Star Jones' On-Again, Off-Again Near Death Experience On-Again
First came the alarming National Enquirer report that internet love guru Star Jones had nearly bled to death during a routine breast lift procedure. Then Star herself called into The View from her recovery bed to play the story down, as her co-hosts listened attentively, trying their best to hide their mild disappointment. But a 911 call obtained by NY Daily News JV gossip Lloyd Grove indicates the Enquirer might have been right after all: More »
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By SethComment by el smrtmnky: can't really call her a big fat liar anymore. more like a shrinking, tucked liar. i wonder when BGA's... more » | Other threads
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Rumors Of Star Jones' Breast Lift Death Greatly Exaggerated
Unlike Isaac Hayes, nothing could stop Star Jones from chewing through her hospital bed arm-restraints in order to deliver a first-person diffusion of her own widely rumored medical mishap. As she told her View co-hosts this morning, all the hubbub about her almost bleeding to death during a breast lift gone wrong was "overblown": More » -
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Star Jones And Al Reynolds Fall Victim To Their Tireless Pursuit Of Beauty
Star Jones remains mum on how her magically morphing body slimmed down so quickly, so we'll just assume it's a carefully calibrated and strict regimen of diet, exercise, and invasive surgical procedures that keeps her looking so fit. But according to America's #1 untrusted news source, The National Enquirer, a recent routine breast lift went seriously awry, leaving Jones fighting for her life: More »
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By SethComment by Transuranic: Well, if your recent loss of ten years' worth of thigh mousse suddenly left you with three and a half... more » | Other threads
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Tiny Star Jones Can Find You A Man
We're not sure what it says about the state of your love life when you find yourself seeking advice in the form of an 8-part streaming video coaching session from a terrifying Star Jones homunculus, but assuming for a moment things have gotten that desperate, "your AOL love coach" is just a click away. But before you get too impatient, slamming your fists on your keyboard and shouting at your monitor, "Get to the part about how I rope my own man-stallion, already!" Star needs to teach you about what kind of guy you don't want to end up with: More » -
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Star Jones' Stain Double Standard
We haven't sat down with the ladies of The View in a while to get their diverse (i.e. pre- and post-menopausal) take on the world. From what we hear, however, they are still fearlessly tackling the big issues head-on. For example, take this reader report of a spirited debate on today's show about the gender-specific incriminating properties of ejaculate: More »
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By SethComment by livingblinditem: Its equally disturbing to imagine vaginal fluid on his shorts as well...it would be like knowing that Jabba the Hutt... more » | Other threads
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We're Not Even Going To Ask What They Do With The Vegetable Juice
Asked to reveal the secret of what keeps Goldie Hawn frozen in a state of permanent sexpot desirability, even as she quickly approaches her discounted movie ticket-buying years, the actress recently revealed that much of it is due to creative roleplaying in the bedroom with life partner/jockey Kurt Russell: More » -
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Short Ends: Brokeback Beauty Treatment
· Finally, unexplored territory regarding Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal's rough cowboy love in Brokeback: "When we kissed it felt like we were exfoliating." More » -
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Star Jones' Husband Al Is Legged Like A Hetero Horse
Poor Star Jones. She finally nets herself a man, someone who can see past her unconventional looks to her inner non-beauty, and what happens? He's dogged with gay rumors, founded on utterly circumstantial evidence like being spotted on the gay part of Fire Island and at all-male Halloween parties dressed in a Speedo. Well, enough is enough! In her upcoming memoir, Shine, Jones attacks the issue head on, extolling husband Al Reynold's superhetero bedroom prowess: More »
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