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Passing the torch
If you thought that whole Britney/Christina Video Music Awards smooch was Madonna’s way of choosing her successor, well, you thought wrong. “Kanye is the new Madonna,” she told the New York Daily News. “Kanye is the black Madonna.” How so? They’re united in their desire to push buttons. “We know, and recognize, that we have that in common. We’re comrades in the envelope-pushing genre.” It’s pretty tough to argue with that.
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THE DIGIT
$19.69
That’s the price of a “Mad Men”-themed lunch at 34 New York restaurants in a promotion honoring the show’s final episodes, thr.com reports. From March 23-29, the spots will offer either a two-course meal or, if you’d rather drink your lunch, two cocktails at the era-appropriate price. Because in New York, $20 was an appropriate lunch cost 45 years ago?
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Faith can’t wait
When Paloma Faith wants something, she asks for it. But the British singer is worried that might bite her in the butt when it comes to the upcoming Bond film. “You’re supposed to pretend that you’re really cool as a cucumber and stuff just comes to you, but I’m not really that type of person,” she told the BBC of her desire to sing the theme song for “Spectre.” “But now I’ve messed it for myself because I’ve told everyone that I would like to do it.” Patience is not our strong suit either.
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THE DIGIT
$4,500
That’s how much it’ll cost you per night to stay at Leonardo DiCaprio’s Palm Springs home, thr.com reports. There’s a two-night minimum stay at the six-bedroom home, which does not include actual face time with the “Wolf of Wall Street” star. But that doesn’t mean you can’t sniff the sheets for traces of him.
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Heartwarming heroes
Chris Pratt and Chris Evans made good on their Super Bowl bet over the weekend. The “Guardians of the Galaxy” and “Captain America” stars visited Seattle Children’s Hospital on Saturday—Evans in costume—to chill out with some young fans, thr.com reports. Details of the visit were kept secret ahead of Saturday to keep the focus on the kids, which is how a real superhero would have wanted things.
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THE QUOTE
“Some of these images still make me cringe. Maybe one day I’ll make a friend at Google and they can all be taken off the Internet.”
—Andrew Keegan, to Vulture, on shirtless photos of him as a teenager posing for magazines like Bop and Tiger Beat. Hey man, that’s our childhood you’re talking about here.