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Your Brain Has
a Neuron Just for Tom Cruise

Oct 9, 2009 11:47 AM CDT

Your Brain Has a Neuron Just for Tom Cruise

...and another for every celeb you recognize, study finds

(Newser) - You have a neuron in your brain devoted entirely to recognizing Tom Cruise. Another specializes in Barack Obama, yet another LeBron James, and, yes, Jon and Kate are taking up two. By studying a decade worth of brain activity, researchers have discovered a series of cells that act like celebrity...

Why Do Twits
Grace Women's Mags?

OPINION

Sep 29, 2009 1:00 PM CDT

Why Do Twits Grace Women's Mags?

Women's mag covers have gone from models to celebs to Kate Gosselin

(Newser) - Aymar Jean Christian is fed up with the faces that appear on the covers of women’s magazines. Once upon a time, the women there were simply pretty. “Then sometime in the late 1980s and early 1990s, celebrity became more important than beauty.” And that was great, because...

Celeb Couples
Who Could Be Siblings

Sep 12, 2009 6:03 AM CDT

Celeb Couples Who Could Be Siblings

Sienna Miller, Jude Law: Separated at birth?

(Newser) - Judging by their love mates, some celebrities really are attracted to themselves above all others. Nerve lists five couples that look like siblings:

Sienna Miller and Jude Law: Back before the nanny breakup, they "seemed like the pretty, popular siblings all high schools seem to have."

Butler May Be
Aniston's New Beau

Sep 11, 2009 11:25 AM CDT

Butler May Be Aniston's New Beau

Would-be songbird Jen shares romantic dinner with Scottish co-star

(Newser) - When Jennifer Aniston said in a recent interview she still believed in love, she apparently had a specific reason: Scottish actor Gerard Butler. Aniston and her co-star in The Bounty met up for a romantic dinner this week, and they "appeared incredibly affectionate with one another," the New ...

Showbiz Scribe
Army Archerd
Dead at 87

OBITUARY

Sep 8, 2009 9:34 PM CDT

Showbiz Scribe Army Archerd Dead at 87

Column appeared in Variety for 52 years

(Newser) - Army Archerd, who chronicled Hollywood for 52 years as a columnist for Variety, died today of mesothelioma, the showbiz publication reports. He was 87; the cancer was thought to be related to exposure to asbestos during World War II. He was known for injecting a social consciousness into his reporting,...