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	    <title>Jessica Sanchez Tackles Aerosmith Classic On 'Idol'</title>
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    <published>2012-05-17T07:52:57Z</published>
    <updated>2012-05-17T08:28:12Z</updated>
    
    <summary>The top three took to the stage on "American Idol" (Wed., 8 p.m. ET on Fox), and put on a great show. Of the three,...</summary>
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        &lt;p&gt;The top three took to the stage on "&lt;a href="http://www.aoltv.com/category/american-idol" target="_hplink"&gt;American Idol&lt;/a&gt;" (Wed., 8 p.m. ET on Fox), and put on a great show. Of the three, there is no clear favorite to win this season. Many considered Jessica Sanchez an early favorite, considering her powerful voice and incredible range, but did her song selections hurt her this week?&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The judges chose one of Mariah Carey's more subdued songs in "My All," while Jimmy Iovine gave her The Jackson 5's "I'll Be There." That one didn't connect emotionally. But perhaps the boldest pick was the one she made herself. Sanchez decided to tackle a power anthem made famous by judge Steven Tyler with Aerosmith.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;She put a sweeter voice on "I Don't Wanna Miss a Thing" -- a song that came out when she was three years old. The other judges pointed out that Tyler never enjoyed when someone tackled one of his songs, but he seemed genuinely impressed.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;"You just took a great song and made it greater," Tyler told a stunned Sanchez. But did she do enough to outlast Phillip Phillips or Joshua Ledet?&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Find out in the results show Thursday at 9 p.m. ET on Fox. Then tune in next week for the finale, shifted to Tuesday at 8 p.m. for the performance show and Wednesday at 8 p.m. ET for the season finale.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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	    <title>'Ghost Hunters': Grant Wilson's Finale Investigation</title>
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    <published>2012-05-17T06:24:27Z</published>
    <updated>2012-05-17T07:06:11Z</updated>
    
    <summary>Grant Wilson closed the chapter on his time with "Ghost Hunters" (Wed., 9 p.m. ET on Syfy) by investigating the inn he owns with fellow...</summary>
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        <name>Jason Hughes</name>
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        &lt;p&gt;Grant Wilson closed the chapter on his time with "&lt;a href="http://www.aoltv.com/show/ghost-hunters/391602/main" target="_hplink"&gt;Ghost Hunters&lt;/a&gt;" (Wed., 9 p.m. ET on Syfy) by investigating the inn he owns with fellow TAPS founder Jason Hawes. And he wasn't to go out quietly, as the inn lived up to its haunted reputation.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The team watched, with cameras rolling, as a door inexplicably opened slowly. It had been closed all night and no one was visibly opening it. At another point, a deadbolt lock kept relocking when Jason would try to unlock it. Once they got that door open, there was no one inside the room who could have been doing that.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The Spalding Inn has been plagued by spirits for 80-plus years, making it the perfect place for a final investigation for the new co-owner. There were plenty of sounds caught on camera, including footsteps in empty rooms above where the investigators were, and windows and doors opening and closing on their own. Even more eery, a woman's voice rang out a few times.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The final tally is that the house is definitely rife with spiritual activity. That and the fact that it's own by the "Ghost Hunters" stars should ensure it does a brisk business.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;"Ghost Hunters" has been renewed by Syfy, and will return for an ninth season, without Grant as part of the investigative team.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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	    <title>'Don't Trust The B': June Accidentally Sells Van Der Sex Tape</title>
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    <published>2012-05-17T05:41:36Z</published>
    <updated>2012-05-17T07:02:47Z</updated>
    
    <summary>A copy of "Rain Man" proved to be something else entirely when June donated some of Chloe's things during a spring cleaning bout on "Don't...</summary>
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        &lt;p&gt;A copy of "Rain Man" proved to be something else entirely when June donated some of Chloe's things during a spring cleaning bout on "&lt;a href="http://www.aoltv.com/show/dont-trust-the-b-in-apartment-23/8529168" target="_hplink"&gt;Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23&lt;/a&gt;" (Wed., 9:30 p.m. ET on ABC). Instead of the modern classic film, the DVD was a sex tape Chloe and &lt;a href="http://television.aol.com/celebs/james-van-der-beek/1941069/main" target="_hplink"&gt;James Van Der Beek&lt;/a&gt; made during St. Patrick's Day 2007.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;June donated it to her pastor friend, who sold it for thousands of dollars. When James got wind of it, he watched the tape to see what might be getting out there, and was none too pleased with what he saw.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Hoping to improve his performance and get a heads up on the people threatening to release the video, he and Chloe planned to recreate the scene. But they realized they couldn't, now that they care about one another.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;That was June rubbing off positive things on Chloe. The opposite rub came when Chloe convinced June to give casual sex a try. She proved rather horrible at it, but with a little help from her roommate, she at least was able to break it off with the guy she'd never intended to get involved with in the first place.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;"Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23" wraps its short first season next Wednesday at 9:30 p.m. ET. It has already been renewed for Fall 2012, where it will be paired with "Happy Endings" on Tuesday nights.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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	    <title>Gloria Tries Whispering On 'Modern Family'</title>
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    <published>2012-05-17T05:15:19Z</published>
    <updated>2012-05-17T06:59:01Z</updated>
    
    <summary>Struggling to be honest with the ones we love. All that concern about hurting their feelings. It proved a crippling factor throughout this week's installment...</summary>
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        &lt;p&gt;Struggling to be honest with the ones we love. All that concern about hurting their feelings. It proved a crippling factor throughout this week's installment of "&lt;a href="http://www.aoltv.com/show/modern-family/10515644/main" target="_hplink"&gt;Modern Family&lt;/a&gt;" (Wed., 9 p.m. ET on ABC). Phil abhors confrontation of any kind, so he was reluctant to let Mitchell go -- Mitchell had agreed to help on the legal end with Phil's new business on a temporary basis.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;At the same time, Mitchell was trying to figure out how to tell Phil he really didn't want to keep helping much longer. Yes, they were on the same page, but afraid to say anything to one another.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The funniest moment came when Gloria got jealous of a waitress and convinced Jay they should be more open and honest with one another. So he told her she was just a little bit loud. The only thing funnier than loudly yelling Gloria is quietly yelling Gloria.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Luke, on the other hand, taught Manny that sometimes in life one gets rewarded for lying. He got a medal for putting out a fire at school. What the school didn't know was that he started the fire as well.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Tune in for the "Modern Family" season finale next Wednesday at 9 p.m. ET on ABC.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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	    <title>Bérénice Bejo: Noise</title>
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    <published>2012-05-17T00:05:57Z</published>
    <updated>2012-05-17T00:06:45Z</updated>
    
    <summary>It's beautiful, all these people from around the world who loved this film in which the French are silent. It's like a message sent to everyone: just shut up.</summary>
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        <name>Bérénice Bejo</name>
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        &lt;p&gt;Good evening,&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I love this silence. In it I hear the sighs of the characters of Wong Kar-wai, the cries of the lovers of Pedro Almodovar, the shots of Quentin Tarantino, the laughter of Marcello Mastroiani, and closest to me, Michel Hazanavicius, who tells me:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;"Dear, I have a great idea. You're going to be quiet for an hour and forty minutes."&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;That's what he suggested, all smiles, two years ago. A man's dream. And it feels so good for everyone -- including me -- that we can only say thank you. For that matter, I want to thank the Cannes Festival, where it all began last year. Thierry, Gilles, thank you.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;It's beautiful, all these people from around the world who loved this film in which the French are silent. It's like a message sent to everyone: just shut up. &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We are all born in noise. The sound of the crowd that argues right before the movie starts. And before that, the sound of a film shoot. And even before that, the sound of a technical team that is working in the sound of the director yelling, "Silence," and at the beginning, the sound of the writer who types on his keyboard in the middle of the night. A man's dream.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;And then there is the wait between the end, for those who make the film, and the beginning, for those who watch the film. A great emptiness, a silence.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;And the noise begins again. The sound of laughs, of hearts, the sound of collectivity, of applause and the sound of Cannes, the cries of the photographers who scream your name. The cries of photographers who scream your name so that you get out of the way of their shots of Catherine Deneuve. The sound of Ferraris that roll in at 3 mph, stuck on the Boulevard de la Croisette.  The sound of a helicopter landing on a yacht and and the sound of my voice, yelling, "Did you see that? There's a helicopter landing on a yacht!"&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;And tonight, I stand before you.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;So, I'll speak: be quiet. &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;You who tell your child not to dream, that dreams don't come true. Be quiet.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;You who nit-pick, you who whine, you who would have wanted the film to be more like this or like that, you who make fun of all those who watch movies with the round eyes of children. Be quiet.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Men don't cry? Be quiet.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Movies that don't work, that are predictable? Be quiet.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Movies that work, as expected? Be quiet.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;And above all... above all, you who answer your phones right in the middle. Be quiet. &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;And now, I am going to follow my own advice and be silent, letting cinema speak for itself, because it always has the last word. &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Thank you.&lt;/p&gt;
        
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	    <title>Domenick Scudera: Glass Houses</title>
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    <published>2012-05-16T23:42:00Z</published>
    <updated>2012-05-16T23:42:38Z</updated>
    
    <summary>Bristol Palin's child lives in a single-parent home, and she is about to exploit him for her own financial gain. Nevertheless, she is telling me that I cannot legalize my 16-year relationship with my partner because kids are better off with two parents.</summary>
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        <name>Domenick Scudera</name>
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        &lt;p&gt;To defend her stance against same-sex marriage, Bristol Palin &lt;a href="http://www.patheos.com/blogs/bristolpalin/2012/05/hail-to-the-chiefs-malia-and-sasha-obama/" target="_hplink"&gt;wrote in a recent blog post&lt;/a&gt; that "in general kids do better growing up in a mother/father home."  I am gay, and I have no children, so this is illogical to me.  Bristol Palin, an unwed single mother, is more concerned about my fictitious children than she is about her own living, breathing child, Tripp.  She has just signed up her boy and herself to star in a reality show, &lt;em&gt;Life's a Tripp&lt;/em&gt;.  Her child lives in a single-parent home, and she is about to exploit him for her own financial gain.  Nevertheless, she is telling me that I cannot legalize my 16-year relationship with my partner because kids are better off with two parents.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Newt Gingrich, in an ad designed to urge North Carolinians to vote for the anti-gay Amendment 1, stated, "Marriage between a man and a woman is at the heart of our civilization. It's a belief that is now under attack, yet it's at the very core of defining who we are."  This opinion is proffered by a man who is a thrice-married adulterer.  &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;This past week presumptive Republican presidential nominee Willard Mitt Romney &lt;a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/12/mitt-romney-liberty-university-speech_n_1511621.html" target="_hplink"&gt;declared&lt;/a&gt;, "Marriage is a relationship between one man and one woman."  He also said that we should not discard 3,000 years of history of one-man/one-woman marriages.  This comes from a man whose Mormon ancestors were polygamists.  This comes from a man who was the governor of Massachusetts when that state became the first in the U.S. to legalize same-sex marriages. &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Rush Limbaugh, a man who has been married four times, believes that President Obama is waging a "&lt;a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/10/rush-limbaugh-obama-gay-marriage_n_1505798.html" target="_hplink"&gt;war on traditional marriage&lt;/a&gt;" to distract Americans from real issues.  He &lt;a href="http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2012/05/10/the_media_and_obama_on_gay_marriage_much_ado_about_doing_absolutely_nothing" target="_hplink"&gt;states&lt;/a&gt;, "You and I are in the midst of one of the most incredibly coordinated media swarms that we've been in in a while. ... The distraction going on here, the effort to distract, the effort to mislead, to misinform, it's in full-swing." House Speaker John Boehner, agreeing that marriage is the union of one man and one woman, also &lt;a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/10/john-boehner-mitt-romney-gay-marriage_n_1506665.html" target="_hplink"&gt;believes&lt;/a&gt; that the Democrats are using this issue to distract American voters: "The president and the Democrats can talk about this all they want, but the fact, is, the American people are focused on the economy and they're asking the question, 'Where are the jobs?'"  Have Limbaugh and Boehner forgotten that, in numerous past elections, the GOP has used gay rights as a wedge issue?  "Hallelujah," &lt;a href="http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/03/doma-fight-seen-as-turning-point-in-politics-of-gay-rights.php" target="_hplink"&gt;says Barney Frank&lt;/a&gt;. "The fact that we've now evolved to the point where the Republicans are complaining about the fact that we introduced this bill because it causes them political problems is a great sign of progress. It used to be the other way around."&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Progress?  Maybe.  Hypocrisy?  Definitely.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;What is next?  Will John Edwards make a statement about how gays are ruining traditional marriage?  Maybe Larry King will tell us about the virtues of one man being devoted to one woman?&lt;/p&gt;
        
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	    <title>Zinnia Jones: Bristol Palin The Victim? I'm Not Buying It</title>
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    <published>2012-05-16T23:20:00Z</published>
    <updated>2012-05-16T23:20:59Z</updated>
    
    <summary>It's bullying to dismiss our rights simply by uttering the word "tradition." It's bullying to assume that excluding us from marriage demands no more justification than merely vomiting out your opinion. And pretending to be the victim after you've attacked our families is the act of a bully.</summary>
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        <name>Zinnia Jones</name>
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        &lt;p&gt;It wasn't hard to tell what direction things would take after Bristol Palin's &lt;a href="http://www.patheos.com/blogs/bristolpalin/2012/05/hail-to-the-chiefs-malia-and-sasha-obama/"&gt;recent statements&lt;/a&gt; about President Obama and his newfound support for gay marriage. Where the Palins are involved, the sequence of events is firmly established and completely predictable: One of them will say something ridiculous, everyone else will react, and the Palins will proceed to make the entire episode about themselves and how victimized they are.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.patheos.com/blogs/bristolpalin/2012/05/hate-in-the-name-of-love-bullying-in-the-name-of-tolerance/"&gt;Bristol Palin's latest post&lt;/a&gt; is a textbook example of this. After being widely criticized for falsely suggesting that Obama only supports gay marriage because of his daughters, and claiming without evidence that "kids do better growing up in a mother/father home," she now says that the response to her remarks has been "a lot of hate and a lot of bullying."&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Ironically, she accuses everyone of failing to make any arguments and then proceeds to spend several paragraphs talking about how mean people have been. Maybe she would have received more serious responses if she had actually presented any arguments of her own in the first place, rather than misrepresenting what Obama had said and disparaging families with gay parents for no justifiable reason.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;If she's looking for a real debate on the issues, she has a strange way of showing it. Instead of providing any explanation of her earlier statements, she claims that a generic monolith named "Hollywood" is uniformly intolerant of any dissent on the issues of gay marriage or abortion, and "anyone who disagrees is stupid, hypocritical, hateful, or bigoted."&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Not once did she consider that it might actually be hateful to assume that same-sex couples must be inferior parents when all studies indicate otherwise. And she doesn't seem to think there could be anything bigoted about expecting people to teach their children that same-sex parents don't deserve to be married. That's because not being hateful and bigoted just isn't her concern here; this is all about people calling her names and making her feel bad.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;In that vein, she presents a selection of comments from people wishing for her death and generally being rude. While this is obviously unacceptable, it's definitely not a unique occurrence. We could just as well gather up all the violent and hateful comments made about Obama and his family, same-sex parents, and the LGBT community as a whole. But it would be incredibly dishonest to focus the entire discussion on hostility, incivility, and tone in order to ignore any substantial criticism of what we've actually said.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;This is what Palin has done here, and it's practically guaranteed that we'll soon see a torrent of op-eds using the latest incident to make sweeping statements about how hostility and threats are never an acceptable mode of discourse, no matter the target. But this, too, only serves to make the entire event about Bristol Palin the Victim rather than what she actually said about our relationships and our families.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Palin may or may not be aware of this, but when you try to make yourself the center of attention here, you're just running away from your own remarks. If she'd prefer to back away from her arguments -- insofar as she has any -- then she should issue a retraction and apologize to President Obama and the countless same-sex couples whose parenting skills she insulted.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Until then, we're not going to forget this quite so easily. Sure, Palin can talk the talk about "hate" and "bullying"; she just won't admit who the bullies actually are. But it really is bullying to use your platform as a national celebrity to deny the equality of our love. It's bullying to dismiss our rights simply by uttering the word "tradition." It's bullying to assume that excluding us from marriage demands no more justification than merely vomiting out your opinion. And pretending to be the victim after you've attacked our families is unquestionably the act of a bully. Is this who you want to be, Bristol Palin?&lt;/p&gt;
        
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	    <title>Tiger Woods' Ex Is Back On The Market</title>
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    <published>2012-05-16T22:25:12Z</published>
    <updated>2012-05-16T22:59:40Z</updated>
    
    <summary>Elin Nordegren is reportedly single again. People magazine reported Wednesday that Nordegren, Tiger Wood's ex-wife, broke things off with her businessman boyfriend Jamie Dingman in...</summary>
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        <name>Brittany Wong</name>
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        &lt;p&gt;Elin Nordegren is reportedly single again. &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;People &lt;/em&gt;magazine reported Wednesday that Nordegren, Tiger Wood's ex-wife, &lt;a href="http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20596091,00.html" target="_hplink"&gt;broke things off with her businessman boyfriend&lt;/a&gt; Jamie Dingman in January. &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;"She says Jamie's a great guy –- and they're still friends –- but I think it was just too early [after the divorce] for her to get serious with anyone," an unnamed source told the magazine. &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The 32-year-old former model &lt;a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/15/elin-nordegren-new-boyfri_n_899993.html" target="_hplink"&gt;reportedly began dating the investor&lt;/a&gt; last summer, though the couple had kept a low-key profile since. &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Nordegren, now a part-time college student studying psychology, was &lt;a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/13/elin-nordegren-moving-on-_n_796002.html" target="_hplink"&gt;last linked&lt;/a&gt; to a 35-year-old South African student whom she met at the Florida college where they both were studying. &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Nordegren &lt;a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/23/tiger-woods-divorce-final_n_691486.html#s81031" target="_hplink"&gt;finalized her divorce&lt;/a&gt; from Woods in August 2010, after the golfer's &lt;a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/07/tiger-woods-mistress-coun_n_383441.html" target="_hplink"&gt;numerous extramarital affairs&lt;/a&gt; came to light. &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Wood's ex &lt;a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/16/expensive-high-profile-divorces_n_774453.html#s166042&amp;title=Tiger_Woods_and" target="_hplink"&gt;reportedly received $110 million&lt;/a&gt; and joint custody of couple's two children in the divorce settlement. She and daughters Sam Alexis and Charlie Axel live in &lt;a href="http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20596091,00.html" target="_hplink"&gt;North Palm Beach, Florida&lt;/a&gt;, according to &lt;em&gt;People.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Click through the slideshow below to see other celebrities' post-split rebound relationships.&lt;/p&gt;

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	    <title>FIRST LOOK: Trailers For 'Elementary,' 'Vegas' &amp; More CBS Shows</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/16/cbs-trailers-elementary-vegas_n_1522636.html"/>
    <id>tag:www.huffingtonpost.com,2012:/thenewswire//2.1522636</id>
    
    <published>2012-05-16T22:18:51Z</published>
    <updated>2012-05-16T22:18:48Z</updated>
    
    <summary>Want to know what's coming to CBS for the new 2012-2013 season? Take a look at Lucy Liu and Johnny Lee Miller doing Sherlock justice...</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Leigh Weingus</name>
        <uri>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/leigh-weingus/</uri>
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    <content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/thenewswire/">
        &lt;p&gt;Want to know what's coming to &lt;a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/16/cbs-tv-schedule-2012-2013_n_1520682.html" target="_hplink"&gt;CBS for the new 2012-2013 season&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Take a look at Lucy Liu and Johnny Lee Miller doing Sherlock justice in the detective drama "Elementary," Dennis Quaid and Michael Chiklis going Western in "Vegas," former "Numb3rs'" David Kumholtz and "Ugly Betty" alum Michael Urie returning to the small screen in "Partners" and British newcomer Janet Montgomery with a Garden State accent in "Made In Jersey."&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;To view trailers and see full descriptions of CBS' new shows, click through our video slideshow below.&lt;br /&gt;
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  <entry>
	    <title>Male Celebrities Who've Tried Stripping</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/16/from-joey-lawrence-to-magic-mike-male-celebrities-who-have-tried-stripping_n_1522680.html"/>
    <id>tag:www.huffingtonpost.com,2012:/thenewswire//2.1522680</id>
    
    <published>2012-05-16T22:12:41Z</published>
    <updated>2012-05-17T03:30:45Z</updated>
    
    <summary>It's an age we've all been waiting for: the age of the male stripper! With news that former "Blossom" star Joey Lawrence will join the...</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Youyoung Lee</name>
        <uri>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/youyoung-lee/</uri>
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        &lt;p&gt;It's an age we've all been waiting for: the age of the male stripper! &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;With news that former "Blossom" star&lt;a href="http://www.tmz.com/2012/05/16/joey-lawrence-stripper-chippendales/" target="_hplink"&gt; Joey Lawrence will join the notorious male revue Chippendales&lt;/a&gt; in Las Vegas, and of course that scintillating "Magic Mike" trailer, we look back on eight male celebrities who've tried their hand at stripping down -- from The Situation to Brad Pitt (yes, really).&lt;/p&gt;

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	    <title>Deion Sanders Ordered To Pay Hefty Child Support</title>
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    <published>2012-05-16T22:04:35Z</published>
    <updated>2012-05-16T22:08:34Z</updated>
    
    <summary>A judge has ordered football legend Deion Sanders to pay $10,550 in monthly child support to his estranged wife, Pilar, TMZ reported Tuesday. Though Sanders...</summary>
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        &lt;p&gt;A judge has ordered football legend &lt;a href="http://www.tmz.com/2012/05/15/deion-sanders-pilar-child-support/?adid=hero4" target="_hplink"&gt;Deion Sanders to pay $10,550&lt;/a&gt; in monthly child support to his estranged wife, Pilar, TMZ reported Tuesday.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Though Sanders doesn't have to pay spousal support, he will have to cough up $275,000 to cover his ex's legal fees, &lt;a href="http://www.tmz.com/2012/05/15/deion-sanders-pilar-child-support/" target="_hplink"&gt;TMZ reports&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The child support order is just the latest chapter in the couple's contentious custody battle, which began with an &lt;a href="http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/entertainment/2012/05/deion-sanders-explains-tweeting-pictures-of-kids/" target="_hplink"&gt;April 23 domestic dispute&lt;/a&gt; at their Dallas-area mansion. After the altercation, both parties made allegations of assault. Pilar was arrested and held overnight in jail for &lt;a href="http://espn.go.com/dallas/nfl/story/_/id/7849042/deion-sanders-wife-pilar-denies-attacking-husband" target="_hplink"&gt;misdemeanor family violence&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;According to the Associated Press, the judge ruled Tuesday that neither party had &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/texas-judge-awards-child-support-housing-costs-in-deion-sanders-divorce-case/2012/05/16/gIQAqtruTU_story.html" target="_hplink"&gt;committed domestic violence&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Sanders &lt;a href="http://www.tmz.com/2011/12/27/deion-sanders-divorce/" target="_hplink"&gt;filed for divorce&lt;/a&gt; from Pilar in December, but the &lt;a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/07/deion-sanders-children-temporary-custody-pilar_n_1498603.html" target="_hplink"&gt;pair reportedly still shared their Dallas home&lt;/a&gt; until Pilar's arrest. &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The football great certainly isn't the first professional athlete to go through a messy divorce. Click through the slideshow below to read about some of the nastiest sports star splits.&lt;/p&gt;

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  <entry>
	    <title>Will Chris Harrison Be The Next 'Bachelor'? Probably Not</title>
    <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/16/chris-harrison-bachelor_n_1522556.html"/>
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    <published>2012-05-16T21:58:01Z</published>
    <updated>2012-05-16T21:59:05Z</updated>
    
    <summary>Ever since the news broke that "Bachelor" and "Bachelorette" host Chris Harrison and his wife of 18 years were getting a divorce, speculation that he...</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Alex Moaba</name>
        <uri>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alex-moaba/</uri>
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        &lt;p&gt;Ever since the news broke that "&lt;a href="http://www.aoltv.com/show/bachelor-13/188140" target="_hplink"&gt;Bachelor&lt;/a&gt;" and "Bachelorette" host Chris Harrison and his wife of 18 years were &lt;a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/03/chris-harrison-bachelor-host-splits-from-wife_n_1475633.html" target="_hplink"&gt;getting a divorce&lt;/a&gt;, speculation that he might be the &lt;a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/11/chris-harrison-divorce-wi_n_1510122.html" target="_hplink"&gt;next "Bachelor" has run rampant. &lt;/a&gt; Harrison co-hosted "Live! With Kelly" (weekdays on ABC) on Wednesday, and Ripa got right to the question on everybody's minds.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;"I know that ABC likes to give people enough time to recover from their personal situations, but have they approached you yet to become 'The Bachelor'?" she asked.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Harrison laughed off the notion and joked that watching him try to date after a 22-year-hiatus would make for some awful TV. "Is R.E.M. still on tour?" he quipped.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;TV Replay scours the vast television landscape to find the most interesting, amusing, and, on a good day, amazing moments, and delivers them right to your browser.&lt;br /&gt;
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	    <title>'The Good Wife' Stars Dish On Peter, Alicia &amp; Cary In Season 4</title>
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    <published>2012-05-16T21:32:45Z</published>
    <updated>2012-05-16T21:32:45Z</updated>
    
    <summary>The Season 3 finale of "The Good Wife" left viewers with more than one burning question about what's to come in Season 4. What will...</summary>
    <author>
        <name>Leigh Weingus</name>
        <uri>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/leigh-weingus/</uri>
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        &lt;p&gt;The Season 3 finale of "&lt;a href="http://www.aoltv.com/show/the-good-wife/3561536" target="_hplink"&gt;The Good Wife&lt;/a&gt;" left viewers with more than one burning question about &lt;a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/30/the-good-wife-season-4-spoilers-kalinda_n_1464842.html" target="_hplink"&gt;what's to come in Season 4&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;What will happen to gun-toting Kalinda (Archie Panjabi)  -- and her husband? Will Peter (Chris Noth) and Alicia (Julianna Margulies) get back together? How will Cary's (Matt Czuchry) relationship with the other characters change now that he rejoined Lockhart/Gardner.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The Huffington Post caught up with Noth and Czuchry at the Gersh Agency's upfront party in New York to find out the answers some of these questions. &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Noth doesn't have much hope for Peter and Alicia. When asked if his character would get involved with Alicia again, he admitted, "Probably not."&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The actor also enjoyed having "&lt;a href="http://www.aoltv.com/show/friends/183931" target="_hplink"&gt;Friends&lt;/a&gt;" alum Matthew Perry as a political archenemy,  Mike Kresteva. "He's a good actor. It's like working with any good actor. Easy, fun. I hope he comes back. He makes a great nemesis," Noth said. &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://tvline.com/2012/04/29/matthew-perry-good-wife-nbc-sitcom/" target="_hplink"&gt;Perry told TVLine&lt;/a&gt; that his "hope" is to come back, but that might be difficult considering Perry now has his own series, &lt;a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/20/matthew-perry-go-on-nbc_n_1441358.html" target="_hplink"&gt;NBC's "Go On,"&lt;/a&gt; to film.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Meanwhile, Czuchry's Cary Agos is back at Lockhart/Gardner, away from the gubernatorial campaign drama.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;"What's great now that Cary's back at the firm is that there's access to all of the those relationships again," he said. "In the past we've seen Cary and Alicia as competitors, and we'll now see them as collaborators. We've seen a complicated romance develop between Kalinda and Cary so that can further, and what we didn't have in the [last] season is this tension between Will [Josh Charles] and Cary. Each of those aspects are a little bit easier to get to now that they're back at the firm." &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;As for his small screen past, The Huffington Post had to ask if &lt;a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/07/mad-men-alexis-bledel-affair-pete_n_1493671.html" target="_hplink"&gt;he'd seen much of recent "&lt;a href="http://www.aoltv.com/show/mad-men/185595" target="_hplink"&gt;Mad Men&lt;/a&gt;" guest star Alexis Bledel&lt;/a&gt;, who he co-starred with on "&lt;a href="http://www.aoltv.com/show/gilmore-girls/184655" target="_hplink"&gt;Gilmore Girls&lt;/a&gt;."&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;"I've been watching her from afar, but I haven't talked to her personally," Czuchy admitted. "[The last time I saw her] was probably at the wrap party for 'Gilmore Girls,' which was about five years ago now. But everything about that show -- all the work that we did together -- it'll be there forever." &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/16/cbs-tv-schedule-2012-2013_n_1520682.html" target="_hplink"&gt;"The Good Wife" will return to CBS in the fall&lt;/a&gt; to its regular 9 p.m. ET timeslot on Sundays. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Check out photos from more new CBS shows below:&lt;br /&gt;
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  <entry>
	    <title>Arsenio Hall Talks TV Return, Rips Aubrey O'Day Again</title>
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    <published>2012-05-16T21:21:03Z</published>
    <updated>2012-05-16T21:21:36Z</updated>
    
    <summary>"Celebrity Apprentice" finalist Arsenio Hall stopped by "The View" (weekdays on ABC), where he talked about his desire to host a talk show again and...</summary>
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        &lt;p&gt;"&lt;a href="http://www.aoltv.com/show/celebrity-apprentice-1/188133" target="_hplink"&gt;Celebrity Apprentice&lt;/a&gt;" finalist &lt;a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/15/celebrity-apprentice-arsenio-lisa-fight_n_1347894.html" target="_hplink"&gt;Arsenio Hall&lt;/a&gt; stopped by "The View" (weekdays on ABC), where he talked about his desire to host a talk show again and threw some pointed barbs in the direction of recently-eliminated "Apprentice" rival Aubrey O'Day.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;"There was a moment where it was like seeing an old girlfriend I loved. I want a talk show again," Hall said. The entertainer walked away from "&lt;a href="http://articles.philly.com/1994-04-19/news/25863886_1_arsenio-hall-paramount-executive-paramount-television-group" target="_hplink"&gt;The Arsenio Hall Show&lt;/a&gt;" in 1994. &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;After that, Hall set his sights on his "Celebrity Apprentice" rival &lt;a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/14/celebrity-apprentice-three-becomes-two-who-fired-video_n_1513824.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+HP%2FBusiness+(Business+on+The+Huffington+Post)" target="_hplink"&gt;Aubrey O'Day.&lt;/a&gt; The two &lt;a href="http://www.ontheredcarpet.com/Celebrity-Apprentice:-Aubrey-ODay-fires-back-at-Arsenio-Halls-slut-slur/8651885" target="_hplink"&gt;clashed on the show&lt;/a&gt;, and their feud appears to still be raging. Hall told a story in which he claimed O'Day had showed off nude photos of black men she had slept with. "She had a collection of different men she had been with," Hall said.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;O'Day was apparently watching the appearance, and was none to pleased about Hall's story. &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/#!/AubreyODay/status/202787914344706048" target="_hplink"&gt;She tweeted&lt;/a&gt;, "Just got off the phone with @Teresa_Giudice! We were cracking up at how desperate Arsenio is with his lying... I think he got my phone pics and his phone pics confused."&lt;/p&gt;

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  <entry>
	    <title>'It's Not Your Competition, Dude': 'Hysteria' Director Talks Vibrators</title>
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    <published>2012-05-16T21:04:36Z</published>
    <updated>2012-05-16T21:08:33Z</updated>
    
    <summary>"Hysteria" director Tanya Wexler hadn't made a movie in years when producer Tracey Becker approached her with an idea: a romantic comedy about the invention...</summary>
    <author>
        <name>The Huffington Post</name>
        <uri>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lori-fradkin/</uri>
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        &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1435513/" target="_hplink"&gt;"Hysteria" &lt;/a&gt;director &lt;a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0923330/" target="_hplink"&gt;Tanya Wexler&lt;/a&gt; hadn't made a movie in years when producer &lt;a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1240204/" target="_hplink"&gt;Tracey Becker&lt;/a&gt; approached her with an idea: a romantic comedy about the invention of the vibrator. "I’ve made teeny little movies. Then I made a bunch of kids and so I was in the mom cave for a while," Wexler says. But when she learned about Joseph Mortimer Granville, the doctor responsible for the world's most popular sex toy, she couldn't resist. "Oh my god, Tracey and a friend of hers mentioned that this weird historical fact existed. She wrote up a two-page treatment idea, and I was like, 'OK, I’ll get the writers. I’ll find our co-producers. I don’t care what it takes. I have to see that.'" &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The resulting movie, starring &lt;a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0199215/" target="_hplink"&gt;Hugh Dancy&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/10/hysteria-star-maggie-gyllenhaal_n_1506486.html" target="_hplink"&gt;Maggie Gyllenhaal&lt;/a&gt;, premiered at the &lt;a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/15/null_n_965301.html" target="_hplink"&gt;Toronto Film Festival in September &lt;/a&gt;and opens in theaters this weekend. Wexler spoke to HuffPost Women about her reasons for making the film, working with her "dream cast" and rehearsing orgasm scenes.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What was it about this film that made you say, “OK, it’s time to make another movie”?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
I feel like there are these frothy romantic comedies. There are good ones too, but a lot of movies are just like every girl wants to get married and have a big rock and a pair of nice heels. I like those as much as the next girl and the good ones are great, but I just don’t think it’s the only thing that should be out there. I love &lt;a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098635/" target="_hplink"&gt;"When Harry Met Sally"&lt;/a&gt; -- I don’t think that’s light at all. It’s a romantic comedy, but it tries to talk about issues, you know? The best way I think this movie plays is people go in with their girlfriends or husband. They have a fun time and enjoy the ride, so to speak. Sorry, there are like a million puns and they will never stop. &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Yeah, I was going to ask you about that.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
It’s unending. &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So how much research …?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
[&lt;em&gt;Laughter&lt;/em&gt;] The writers used to joke that there are women doing research all over the world. &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I’m sure I’ll constantly be saying, “Oh, that’s not how I meant it.”&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Well, welcome to my life. &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So did you know anything about the history before you made the film? &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
I was a psych major in college, so I knew about hysteria -- it was this catchall diagnosis -- and I knew there had been very severe treatments like hysterectomy and institutionalization. I didn’t know about the manual massage, which is like, god, if you’re gonna get a massage, it’s the probably the best one to get. [&lt;em&gt;Laughter&lt;/em&gt;.] &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Maggie Gyllenhaal's character is the only one who seems to get it. She's the only one who uses the word pleasure -- for everyone else, it’s "treatment." And they never use the word orgasm.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
I think that lots of men and lots of women didn’t get it because their frame was, it's sex if there is a penis, right? I think that happens today. One of my roommates in college had a boyfriend in high school for two years, and she had never had an orgasm. And I was like, “Um, what? OK, you need a little education here. Why don’t you tell him?” She was like, “Well, then he will think he’s bad.” I’m like, “He is -- you’ll be doing him a huge service.” My partner’s a woman, but the guys in my life are not so frail and weak to be threatened by a vibrator or to be threatened by knowledge and good information. They love the women in their lives and they want them to feel good and be happy. I gave [a vibrator] to everyone in the cast. It was like, “Are you giving the guys too?” And I was like, “Yeah, mostly because it’s funny.” But then they were like, “I don’t want the competition.” And someone goes, “It’s not your competition, dude -- it’s a member of your team.” &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Can you talk to me a little bit about casting?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
You kind of fantasy-cast and you try to pick people who have aged out or who aren’t alive, so that you’re not writing a specific actor today and you get obsessed with that. The parts were written for Catherine Hepburn and young Hugh Grant. I think Maggie Gyllenhaal is the most Catherine Hepburn-y person out there right now. She’s strong and leads with her heart. And Hugh Dancy is awesome. He was on every day of that shoot, and his ability to make that physical Chaplain-esque comedy look like the most natural thing -- it’s the hardest thing to do. You don’t get to audition movie stars. You just hope they bring it, you know? And they brought it.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I had never seen the actress who plays &lt;a href="http://www.traileraddict.com/clip/hysteria/molly-the-lolly" target="_hplink"&gt;Molly the Lolly&lt;/a&gt; before. She was great.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0809956/" target="_hplink"&gt;Sherdian Smith &lt;/a&gt;is the best. She’s a big star in Britain. She was on a sitcom called &lt;a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0908454/" target="_hplink"&gt;“Gavin &amp; Stacey.”&lt;/a&gt; And she was on this show &lt;a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0278251/" target="_hplink"&gt;“Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps.”&lt;/a&gt; And she was &lt;a href="http://www.legallyblondethemusical.co.uk/about/cast/Sheridan_Smith.php" target="_hplink"&gt;Elle Woods in the musical “Legally Blonde”&lt;/a&gt; over there. I watched her and my jaw dropped because she took something that is fun and campy and there was pathos. I was like, "I can’t cry in 'Legally Blonde.'"&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;She’s the one who tests the vibrator for the first time. What was it like filming that scene? What was the comfort level on set? &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
Well, the jokes were unprintable. But we did orgasm rehearsal. I had this idea, like a privacy screen, like when you are giving birth, and it ended up looking like a theater curtain, and so we had the screen and the table and then the vibrator. And we were sorting out, what are they going put their hand on? I was like, “I don’t even know how to ask that question.” Thank god for Hugh Dancy. Hugh goes, “There are a million sandbags holding down all the lights -- why don’t we just put a sandbag under?” So there was a modesty sandbag. &lt;a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000596/" target="_hplink"&gt;Jonathan Pryce&lt;/a&gt; rubbed all the skin off of the knuckle on his fingers, like really getting into the role. The thing I was the most concerned about was the sound. I thought if it sounded too, uh, porny, it was not going to be funny, and if it sounded like comedy, it wasn’t going to be believable. Sheridan just kind of went for it. I remember one direction she just looked at me like, "You’re nuts." I said like, “Not quite so real.” [&lt;em&gt;Laughter&lt;/em&gt;] She was like, “What am I supposed to do with that?” &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1571222/" target="_hplink"&gt;"A Dangerous Method"&lt;/a&gt; came out last year and also dealt with hysteria. Do you think that’s a coincidence? Or, if not, why do you think there’s such an interest in this topic?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
I think that the bigger zeitgeist is kind of women and their bodies, whether it’s all the reproductive-rights talk that’s going on but also there are vibrators available on drugstore shelves. I feel like we are like, “It’s not so taboo for women to have desire anymore and women’s sexuality to be kind of be acknowledged.” I think that happens because the culture tends to shift. It is going to be very interesting to see where it goes.&lt;/p&gt;

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