New research calls into question a study suggesting circumcision halves a man's chances of contracting HIV, a claim detailed at length in 2006 in this former "Most E-Mailed" New York Times article. According to one expert, the latest data shows the 2006 findings to be "spurious and unsupported" and more related to behavior than physicality. Whoops.
Sorry you got such a bad rap, hooded friends. To make you feel more included, after the jump, we've made a list of all your ALLEGEDLY uncircumcised brethren in Hollywood.
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So we’ve gone a little crazy with People’s archive of covers — 34 years X 52-ish issues a year = too much content — and one of the better searches we’ve done is “Sexiest Man Alive.”
There have been the classic choices — ZOMG Brad Pitt!! — but also some incredibly bad choices. For example:
• Nick Nolte (a-hem)
• Sean Connery at 60 (”Older, Balder…and Better!”)
• L.A. Law’s Harry Hamlin (quote: “Certainly when I look in the mirror, I don’t get turned on.”)
• JFK Jr., who is dead, which makes us sad, but OK, he’s still incredibly attractive
So what can we learn by perusing the archive of People’s sexiest men?
Here's the trailer for Tropic Thunder, the upcoming comedy starring Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Nick Nolte and Robert Downey Jr, who, as you can see, is featured in blackface.
We've been worrying for a couple weeks that the blackface element might ruin a perfectly bad movie, but – and we're loath to admit this – we kinda, sorta don't mind it anymore. We even giggled at the line, "Man, just because it's a theme song don't make it not true."
Crisis: what to hate on now? Where's our steadfast indignation? How about we get disgusted about a war comedy during actual wartime? Yeah, that's the ticket. War isn't funny.
Though we're still not sure we're 100 percent at ease with it, there are two mitigating factors to consider before getting angry about Robert Downey Jr's turn in blackface in the upcoming film Tropic Thunder: 1) he looks authentically black, not cartoony and 2) when not in blackface, he's practically in whiteface. See what we mean after the jump.
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In an effort to bolster the ever-assailed decorum of the Internet, Mollygood looks to poetry with Someone Haiku. Each day—using 17 syllables or less—you’re given the opportunity to wax poetic about some piece of flotsam or jetsam that’s washed up on the shores of Mollygood. Hopefully this Zen practice will not only bathe you in self-discovery, but also bring a touch of Eastern class to a global network of information that’s devolved into nothing more than tit websites and provocative MySpace pictures.
Today's Someone Haiku winner is LDT:
What happens if ol’
Calock Bostock gets cock-blocked?
“Hello, um, Denise?”
Well done, LDT. This one (#21) was a very, very close second.
New Someone Haiku after the jump.
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Sorry, teetotalers, but it's fun to get lit at the airport. Besotted travelers everywhere know that not only does the drinking help calm pre-takeoff jitters, it also makes talkative neighboring passengers less annoying. And hell, if you're drunk enough, talkative neighboring passengers have a way of becoming much less talkative! However, if those four initially perfectly timed Bloody Marys end up preceding a delayed flight, you're in trouble. All of a sudden you're shitfaced, bored and, as the hypnotists say, you're getting very sleepy. What to do? If you're Nick Nolte, seen here in Hawaii recently, you pass out on the floor with your head cocked awkwardly against metal pole.
I'm not surprised to see an ostensibly drunk Nick Nolte asleep on the floor of an airport in Hawaii, as history has shown that he loves drinking and Hawaii. What's surprising is that the people brazen enough to stand directly above him and snap shots of his face didn't have to retrieve their cameras from their nasal passages.
Here's to you, Nick.
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