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Sloppy Seconds: Lindsay Lohan's Car Crash

Brian Fairbanks — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:01:00 GMT

An Italian doctor performing brain surgery suffered a heart attack during the operation, but completed it anyway at the risk of his own life.

Amy Poehler's new show is in trouble already.

If the police can't stop a woman's stalker from harassing her on and off for a year-and-a-half, isn't she allowed to take the law into her own hands? Isn't it self-defense?

Lindsay Lohan was involved in her third car accident in as many weeks. Then she goes and says she never "drinks, do[es] drugs, or lie[s.]" We believe that, yep.

It was inevitable: Nevada plans to tax prostitution at $5 a pop.

Robin Williams is in Ohio, recovering from heart surgery.

Sometimes sex tapes are helpful: a guy recorded a prositute giving him a blow job, then used the video as evidence when the hooker and her boyfriend robbed him.

Turns out, those weren't nude photos of Australian right-wing kook Pauline Hanson after all. Oh well, whatever helped her lose the election is fine with us.

Wacko Right-Wing Politician Hit With Nude Photo Scandal

World Naked Bike Ride Takes Over the Southern Hemisphere

PETA Has Really Gone and Done it Now

While You Were Sleeping: The Harry Potter Murder Case Ends

Brian Fairbanks — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 14:08:00 GMT

If any of our L.A. readers are going to see Kirk Douglas live on stage, consider yourselves very, very lucky... and envied.

The days of rock feuds have returned: Win Butler of Arcade Fire vs. Wayne Coyne of Flaming Lips.

Seems William H. Macy has always been babysitting Jeremy Piven.

If two Mexican drug cartels could set aside their differences, they could put a combined 100,000 henchmen to work against the United States... or take over the Mexican government, easy.

Horton Foote died at the age of 92. The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright scripted the film of To Kill A Mockingbird.

Reader Art J. alerted us to the trial of a twin brothers accused of attempting to have sex with a corpse that looked hot in a newspaper photo.

A man was convicted of killing another man who appears in the next Harry Potter film.

Call us crazy but this looks like harmless fun to us.

And Robin Williams is in intensive care after complaining of shortness of breath. Gawker notes that his "older brother died two years ago from heart surgery complications..."

Bearded Men On Craig's List: Or, How We'll Get Scanner Emily To Move Back To NYC

Who Would You Rather: This Week's Newsmaking Naked Mens

A Very Important Annoucement from Scanner HQ or: Why Scanner Emily is No Longer on the Road to Becoming a Crazy Cat Lady

The Robin Williams "Dead Penis Society" Mystery

Colleen Kane — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:33:00 GMT

Always trying to find a hot scoop with the requisite puerile twist, I followed a link promising to tell me me about Robin Williams being inducted to a Dead Penis Society at Sundance.

The only other infomation associated with this story is the claim that Robin Williams is arguably the world's greatest comic. (I beg to differ, unless by "greatest" they mean "most annoying.") Dozens of links from the past day come up in a Google search of "Robin Williams" and "Dead Penis Society," but they all lead to the same dead page on the E! Online website.

What is the Dead Penis Society? Either we have stumbled upon a secret Hollywood society, or E! was pranked and discovered their mistake.

Chris Rock is Spending Inauguration Day in the Whitest Place in America

Video of the Day: Triumph the Insult Comic Dog at Comic-Con

While You Were Sleeping: Mariah Carey's Big Movie Surprise

While You Were Sleeping: Emma Watson To Get Naked?

Brian Fairbanks — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 14:06:00 GMT

Catherine Hardwicke, who ruined it for female directors everywhere by having the biggest opening with the worst movie, will not be invited back for the followup to Twilight.

Jay Leno is sticking around late night after all. He'll host a show in the 10pm slot instead.

For $12,000, you could've had a boatload of fun with Anne Hathaway...

...the day after the Cracked X-mas Fundraiser where the actress auctioned off a drinking date with herself and a few of your close friends, we know that's as good a pick up line as any:
"I'm not usually very forward, but I thought if there was ever a crowd for me to do something like this, this is my crowd so I would like to auction myself off," Hathaway announced, "for drinks somewhere fabulous and basically get you totally s—- faced." Hathaway, 26, was embarrassed when her price kept going up... "Wow, I feel really good right now."

Keanu Reeves will make a brilliant, original, and totally not laughable samurai movie next.

Robin Williams on Sarah Palin. We won't spoil the joke.

A 70-year-old woman in India gave birth after fifty years of trying to have children. This is sure to be the plot of Sex and the City Part XVII.

Emma Watson waited a full eight months of being legal before announcing she's interested in doing a nude scene. Fortunately for you pervs, she wants to do one for Bernado Bertolucci.

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In Memoriam: Creepy Photo Booth Guys

sarahhepola — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 13:30:00 GMT

Let's all tip our 40's for the latest victim of the digital revolution: those guys who used to develop your film. The New York Times recently reported that as of September 15, Stop & Shop supermarkets will no longer be offering film processing at their 300 Northeast stores, and other chains are expected to follow suit as camera manufacturers move to digital.

We're a little conflicted about this, actually. Sure, nobody wants their personal photos ogled by pasty-faced teens, to say nothing of Robin Williams. But once, long ago, we had a clerk slip us her number in a packet of prints developed at the college union. Moving to digital makes it impossible for that to ever happen again, even more so than our having gotten fat and wrinkly. — Scanner correspondent Bryan Christian