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Hollywood's Puppy Palace protesters speak out at city meeting

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By Mitchell Sunderland, Amanda Jones
| hollywoodgazette.com
UPDATE:  The ordinance is due back before the Hollywood Commission Weds., June 1, 2016 at 1:45 p.m. at City Hall. Local animal activists let their voices be heard at a recent Hollywood Commission meeting to urge prohibition of the sale of so-called “puppy mill” dogs in retail pet stores in Hollywood, and switch to a humane business model.
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Playboy Model Sentenced to Clean Graffiti in 'Body-Shaming' Case

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By Mitchell Sunderland
| Broadly Verified
Proving Snapchat photos last forever, a Los Angeles judge sentenced Playboy's 2015 "Playmate of the Year" Dani Mathers to a month of cleaning graffiti off walls after she posted an image of a nude, elderly woman showering at the gym.
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The Bizarre Reason You Rarely Hear Martin Luther King Quotes in Movies

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By Mitchell Sunderland
| Broadly Verified
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's "I Have a Dream Speech" is one of the most famous addresses in world history, but the remarks have remained off screen in the few biopics created about the late civil rights activist. Attorney Clarence Jones filed the copyright for the speech for King in 1963. Since his death, the executors of King's estate—his children Bernice, Dexter, and Martin III—have refused most filmmakers' requests to use the speech and King's other quotes and writing.
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RIP Jordyn Woods, 21, Cancelled for Kissing a Kardashian's Fiance

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By Mitchell Sunderland
| Penthouse Magazine Verified
March 1, 2019 Mitchell Sunderland She was gone before we knew her. This week, Kylie Jenner’s live-in best friend Jordyn Woods, 21, was cancelled. Her quick death began on Sunday, February 17. On that fateful evening, Woods made out with Khloe Kardashian’s boyfriend-cum-baby daddy, the C-list NBA player Tristan Thompson. Jason Lee, a Hollywood Unlocked blogger, spotted Woods.
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Dead Fashionista Karl Lagerfeld Cancelled for Being a Fashionista

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By Mitchell Sunderland
| Penthouse Magazine Verified
22 Feb 2019 Mitchell Sunderland Columns, Everything, In Memoriam February 22, 2019 Mitchell Sunderland For each person cancelled in 2019, we are publishing an obit. When you’re cancelled, you might as well be dead. The fashion industry has long peddled in sexist ads, fatphobic comments, and sexual harassment. But after the Twitteratti ran out of people to cancel this week, they exhumed the corpse of Chanel legend Karl Lagerfeld over his sexist, racist, fatphobic remarks.
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We Invented the Human Centipede in a 1970s Comic

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By Mitchell Sunderland
| Penthouse Magazine Verified
February 20, 2019 Mitchell Sunderland
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O.J. Simpson Prosecutor Marcia Clark on Her Unexpected Redemption

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By Mitchell Sunderland
| Broadly Verified
At Pedalers Fork, a restaurant in Calabasas, CA, Marcia Clark is smiling. Since the end of "the trial," as she refers to the O.J. Simpson case, she has accomplished her dream of writing mystery novels, publishing four successful books. Next month, her fifth book, Blood Defense, hits stores, and her publicist has just told her about a positive early review. "The book just [received a] starred review!" Clark yells.
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Crush of the Week: Amy Klobuchar

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By Mitchell Sunderland
| Penthouse Magazine Verified
15 Feb 2019 Mitchell Sunderland Crush, Everything February 15, 2019 Mitchell Sunderland Amy Klobuchar sounds like a boss from hell. According to HuffPost and Buzzfeed, the Democratic Minnesota Senator’s employees allegedly cried and Klobuchar once “accidentally hit” a staffer with a binder.
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Carter Cruise Has A Plan

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By Mitchell Sunderland
| Penthouse Magazine Verified
In the summer of 2015, 24-year-old Carter Cruise summoned me to Los Angeles’s Line Hotel. Sitting on an oval-shaped café couch, Carter was beaming. She had just won AVN’s Award for Best New Starlet and Best Actress — a feat accomplished only by Jenna Jameson — and she’d recently hired a publicist.
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'Perverting the Youth of America': The Oral History of Teen Classic 'Jawbreaker'

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By Mitchell Sunderland
| Broadly Verified
Studios produced disturbing teen movies throughout the 1990s, from Buffy the Vampire Slayer to Cruel Intentions, and low-budget Jawbreaker capped the decade as the most disturbing film of all. The cult classic tells the story of a teen clique called the "Fabulous Four." Three of the four kill their best friend, Liz, in a prank gone awry: To celebrate Liz' birthday, her friends plan a fake kidnapping, in which they tie her up and toss her in a car trunk.
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Mr. Bad Faith | Penthouse Magazine

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By Mitchell Sunderland
| Penthouse Magazine Verified
He had a wine glass in one hand and an iPhone in the other. Right-wing internet celebrity Mike Cernovich was soaking in the hot tub at his Orange County, California, home. One of his hired hands—Cernovich calls them “weaponized autistics”—had dug up director James Gunn’s racist tweets. In a few months, Cernovich was planning to premiere the documentary Hoaxed, his cinematic debut, which predictably covers “fake news,” and he worried mainstream reporters would comb through his own old tweets.
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What A Dead Pimp Can Teach America About Forgiveness

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By Mitchell Sunderland
| Penthouse Magazine Verified
Dennis Hof left behind a complicated legacy—and a map to lead us out of the culture wars. After the larger-than-life owner of the Moonlite Bunny Ranch died, his whores asked, “What would Dennis want us to do?” Alice Little, America’s highest-earning legal prostitute, concluded he would want her to charge a john be her funeral date. When I wondered what Dennis would want me to do, I concluded he would want me to write. Dennis loved free press as much as pussy. I first met him in 2015.
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My Week Inside the Moonlite Bunny Ranch, America's Most Famous Brothel

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By Mitchell Sunderland
| Broadly Verified
Day 1 On my flight to Reno, everyone smells like a casino or bubblegum. I'm traveling with photographer Amy Lombard to live in World Famous Moonlite Bunny Ranch for a week. I'm gay (I only fucked a girl once, and I lost my boner after 30 seconds), but I have always dreamed about visiting the Bunny Ranch. As a child, I learned about sex on Cathouse, an HBO reality show about the brothel, its hookers, and its owner: Dennis Hof, the proprietor of most of Nevada's legal brothels.
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Judge Convicts Parents After Baby Dies from Vegan Diet

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By Mitchell Sunderland
| Broadly Verified
This week Belgian judge Mieke Butstraen sentenced two parents to a suspended six-month jail sentence over the death of their seven-month-old baby Lucas. The couple owned a health food store in Beveren and fed the child vegetable milk made of "oak, buckwheat, rice, and quinoa," according to the BBC. He died weighing nine pounds, which is at least seven pounds underweight according to CDC numbers, and had organs that shrunk to half their normal size.
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Going into the Dark

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By Mitchell Sunderland
| Penthouse Magazine Verified
Once upon a time in Las Vegas, the Los Angeles-born son of a stripper and an occultist grew up devouring the sex-filled novels of Henry Miller and stoking an interest in beautiful women and art. Smart, bookish, and visually gifted, Gregory Dark ended up going to Stanford University, where he graduated with a Masters in Fine Art, before heading to New York University’s prestigious graduate film school.
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Shadows in the Valley

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By Mitchell Sunderland
| Penthouse Magazine Verified
Early this March, Nikki Hearts was preparing to speak on a sex-positivity panel in Los Angeles when a bad feeling hit her. The woman she’d married, fellow porn star Leigh Raven, was shooting a scene in the Valley, and Hearts hadn’t heard from her. Leigh should be done by now, she thought. She tried calling. No answer. So she contacted Rico Strong, Raven’s male costar. “We good,” Strong texted when Hearts asked if all was well with Raven and the shoot.
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Rhinestone Queen Dolly Parton Shares Her Gems of Wisdom

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By Mitchell Sunderland
| Broadly Verified
Dolly Parton is one of the most successful women in history. She has sold over 100 million records, released 42 Top 10 country albums, and opened the profitable theme park Dollywood. At age 70, she will release her 43rd album, Pure and Simple, on Friday. She has also embarked on her 12th headlining tour to support the album—her biggest tour in 25 years.
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Revealing Stormy Daniels

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By Mitchell Sunderland
| Penthouse
First she allegedly fucked the president. Now she’s the Penthouse Pet of the century. Legendary porn star and director Stormy Daniels confesses all. What the hell? … Strutting the Solid Gold runway in six-inch heels and sequined Little Red Riding coat, Stormy Daniels found herself taken aback by the crowd. Middle-aged men occasionally brought a wife or girlfriend to the show, but this was unexpected. Straight women commandeered the front row.
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Meet the Six-Year-Old Behind the Most Oscar-Worthy Performance of the Year

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By Mitchell Sunderland
| Broadly Verified
In the back patio of a West Hollywood restaurant, Tangerine director Sean Baker and two-time Oscar nominee Willem Dafoe are discussing their new film, The Florida Project. The movie follows a community of extended-stay motel guests—mostly made up of homeless mothers and their children—who live in the Magic Castle motel outside of Disney World in Kissimmee, Florida.
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Looking Back at the Outrageous Reactions to Jamie Lynn Spears's Pregnancy

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By Mitchell Sunderland
| Broadly Verified
This Week in 2007 is a weekly column looking back on Lindsay Lohan, the first iPhone, George W. Bush, and everything else we loved about the year 2007. This week, the Kardashians broke through the Trump news homology when youngest daughter Kylie Jenner announced she would be having a baby with rapper Travis Scott.
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The Autistic Children Who Are Labeled As Sex Offenders

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By Mitchell Sunderland
| Broadly Verified
Anthony*, a 14-year-old autistic boy, was making awkward overtures to his crush. Other kids thought the courtship was cute until, according to his attorney Nicole Pittman, Anthony got frustrated and sent his crush a picture of his genitals. "Parents flipped out," Pittman told Broadly, explaining that they requested authorities press charges against the teen. Now, Anthony is listed on the sex offender registry. He can no longer attend school or even be left alone in a room with his little brothers.
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Amber Rose Wants Melania Trump to March at Her SlutWalk

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By Mitchell Sunderland
| Broadly Verified
When Amber Rose launched her SlutWalk, a festival and march aiming to "impact and upift, while shifting the paradigm of rape culture," many people dismissed her.
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Dick Pics on Display: The Woman Behind the Controversial Art Show

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By Mitchell Sunderland
| Broadly Verified
When curator Emily Bell quit her cushy art director job a year ago, she was unsure of her prospects, having emptied her bank account to host "I Didn't Ask for This: A Lifetime of Dick Pics" in Los Angeles. She begged friends for unsolicited dick pics they received from men to display in a gallery converted to look like a woman's house. "I wanted the viewer to feel innately at home, to be completely comfortable," Bell tells Broadly.
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How 'TMZ Live' Became America's Guiltiest Pleasure

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By Mitchell Sunderland
| Broadly Verified
This Week in 2007 is a weekly column looking back on Lindsay Lohan, the first iPhone, George W. Bush, and everything else we loved about the year 2007. If you took a time machine back to 2007 and told Americans that Donald Trump would become president and his communications director would go on TMZ Live to discuss OJ Simpson's lawyer's son and his ex-girlfriend, you'd sound like a madman.
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Vanessa Hudgens Deserved Better After Her 2007 Nude Photo Leak

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By Mitchell Sunderland
| Broadly Verified
For the first two weeks of September 2007, High School Musical actress Vanessa Hudgens battled the most intense controversy of her career. A man had illegally leaked her nude selfies to the National Enquirer, and the photos later appeared on the gossip forum Oh No They Didn't and websites like Perez Hilton. Today, everyone from prominent figures to casual Twitter users would rightfully criticize this behavior as sexist and unethical, but in 2007, media piled on Hudgens.
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The Holocaust Survivor Using Her Trauma to Help Veterans

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By Mitchell Sunderland
| Broadly Verified
At 16 years old, Edith Eger was sent to Auschwitz with her family. After her parents were killed in a gas chamber, Eger—a trained ballerina and gymnast—was forced by Nazi officer Dr. Josef Mengele to dance for his entertainment. She obeyed, and received a load of bread as a reward from Mengele. Eger later shared the bread with her fellow prisoners, which led to her survival.
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Criss Angel Intended to Transform Britney Spears into Birds at 2007 VMAs

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By Mitchell Sunderland
| Broadly Verified
This Week in 2007 is a weekly column looking back on Lindsay Lohan, the first iPhone, George W. Bush, and everything else we loved about the year 2007. How do you top dancing around Radio City Musical Hall with a python adorning your neck? According to mid-aughts magic sensation Criss Angel, you explode into a flock of birds.
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The Real-Life Golden Girl Whose Handmade Clothes Made Her a Miami Icon

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By Mitchell Sunderland
| Broadly Verified
One day around the dawn of the new millennium, Irene Williams, an elderly Jewish woman, called the New York-based fashion designer Eric Smith. "Have you ever heard of Annie Leibovitz?" she asked. The photographer had stopped Irene on Lincoln Road, the Sunset Boulevard of South Beach, where she had lived since the 1960s, sewing her own clothes out of toilet seat covers and other found materials. "[Leibovitz] asked me to pose for her," Irene bluntly stated. "Do it!" Eric shouted.
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Never-Before-Seen Photo Suggests Amelia Earhart Survived Plane Crash

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By Mitchell Sunderland
| Broadly Verified
For eight decades, aviation pioneer and author Amelia Earhart's disappearance has remained one of the biggest mysteries in US popular culture. Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, boarded a plane in June 1937. She had vowed to fly across the entire globe—a feat that would have made her the first woman to do so—but they were never heard from again.
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Florida Girls Are Pissed That Hipsters Stole LaCroix from Them

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By Mitchell Sunderland, Melanie Metz
| Broadly Verified
Photos by Melanie Metz. Makeup by Shideh Katei A Cuban-American Floridan, who asked to be called Jolene, was strolling past Los Angeles's trendy Line Hotel when she spotted a bearded man sipping from a yellow LaCroix can. "Stop appropriating my Fort Lauderdale slut water!" she screamed. She was not alone in her anger.
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Playboy Model Sentenced to Clean Graffiti in 'Body-Shaming' Case

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By Mitchell Sunderland
| Broadly Verified
Proving Snapchat photos last forever, a Los Angeles judge sentenced Playboy's 2015 "Playmate of the Year" Dani Mathers to a month of cleaning graffiti off walls after she posted an image of a nude, elderly woman showering at the gym.
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Inside the Electric, Eclectic L.A. Studio of Artist Rosson Crow, Fashion Darling and Pioneer Woman of the New West

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By Mitchell Sunderland, Pablo Enriquez
| W Magazine Verified
On an early morning in her Hollywood home, which is also her studio, the artist Rosson Crow stood before a massive, wall-size painting of pink and purple cactuses. In the middle of the canvas, a bumper sticker read: “Good cowgirls keep their calves together.” “I love bumper stickers...” Crow, 34, began, and then struck a purposeful smile. “...
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Remember Bill O'Reilly's Extreme Sexual Harassment 'Falafel Lawsuit' from 2004?

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By Mitchell Sunderland
| Broadly Verified
This week, sexual harassment allegations have besmirched Fox News pillar Bill O'Reilly after the New York Times reported that five accusers had received roughly $13 million over 14 years. O'Reilly has denied all accusations. His representative, crisis fixer and former Clinton White House lawyer Mark Fabiani, emailed Broadly O'Reilly's previously released statement: "Most importantly, I'm a father who cares deeply for my children and who would do anything to avoid hurting them in any way," it read.
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Lady Gaga Had The Perfect Platform To Send A Message To Trump, And She Failed Us

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By Mitchell Sunderland
| Complex Verified
Lady Gaga delivered a Super Bowl halftime show that was so tame Republican Senator Marco Rubio about how much he loved it. Many fans that predicted she would on President Donald Trump. Instead, she opened her show standing on the roof of Houston’s NRG Stadium singing “God Bless America” while drones formed a light-up American flag behind her.
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How Recovering Addicts Could Suffer if Trump Repeals Obamacare | Broadly

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By Mitchell Sunderland
| Broadly Verified
President-Elect Donald Trump has prompted anxiety amongst abortion providers, immigrants, and trans Americans. Thanks to recent interviews, he is also now sending ripples throughout California's sober community. Trump wants to repeal most of the Obamacare, the nickname for the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
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Britney Spears' VMA Performance Was The Comeback We've Been Waiting For

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By Mitchell Sunderland
| Complex Verified
In the past nine years, Britney Spears has released singles and launched one of history’s Las Vegas residencies. So of course the media her MTV Video Music Awards performance as a comeback event. There was some truth to the hype. Spears hasn’t performed at the VMAs since her disastrous 2007 “Gimme More” spectacle, where she wore her underwear and stringy hair extensions.
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Rhinestone Queen Dolly Parton Shares Her Gems of Wisdom | Broadly

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By Mitchell Sunderland, Sirin Kale Verified
| Broadly Verified
Dolly Parton is one of the most successful women in history. She has sold over 100 million records, released 42 Top 10 country albums, and opened the profitable theme park Dollywood. At age 70, she will release her 43rd album, Pure and Simple, on Friday. She has also embarked on her 12th headlining tour to support the album—her biggest tour in 25 years.
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'Parades Are the Worst': Miss America Reflects on Her Reign | Broadly

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By Molly Oswaks, Sirin Kale Verified, Mitchell Sunderland
| Broadly Verified
Identifying Miss America among a crowded room of lunchtime diners takes only beat. There she is, her long pageant locks cut into a russet bob, a mask of richly pigmented makeup on her face, slim limbs. There she is, Miss America: Baciliky "Betty" Cantrell, named for her Greek grandmother, whose name translates to royalty. There she is, clutching her paper Starbucks cup with both hands.
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'Perverting the Youth of America': The Oral History of Teen Classic 'Jawbreaker'

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By Mitchell Sunderland, Sophie Saint Thomas Verified, Hanson O'Haver Verified
| Broadly Verified
Studios produced disturbing teen movies throughout the 1990s, from Buffy the Vampire Slayer to Cruel Intentions, and low-budget Jawbreaker capped the decade as the most disturbing film of all. The cult classic tells the story of a teen clique called the "Fabulous Four." Three of the four kill their best friend, Liz, in a prank gone awry: To celebrate Liz' birthday, her friends plan a fake kidnapping, in which they tie her up and toss her in a car trunk.
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The All-Female Collective Championing Horror Films for the Girls

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By Sirin Kale Verified, Mitchell Sunderland, Poorer Latina, Texas Abortion Ban
| Broadly Verified
Like the Republican Party or Bill Clinton, horror films have not traditionally been kind to women. Although horror films need women, oftentimes they're little more than the sum of their body parts: the literal meat and grist upon which the genre is built.Whether fodder to be cranked through the torture porn mill or sliced and diced by truck-driving psychos, parts for female actors are often horribly underwritten (and underdressed).
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O.J. Simpson Prosecutor Marcia Clark on Her Unexpected Redemption

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By Mitchell Sunderland
| Broadly Verified
At Pedalers Fork, a restaurant in Calabasas, CA, Marcia Clark is smiling. Since the end of "the trial" (as she refers to the O.J. Simpson case) she has accomplished her dream of writing mystery novels, publishing four successful books. Next month, her fifth book, Blood Defense, hits stores, and her publicist has just told her about a positive early review. "The book just [received a] starred review!" Clark yells.
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Head over Hills: The Undying Love Story of Heidi and Spencer Pratt

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By Mitchell Sunderland
| Broadly Verified
Photos by Molly Matalon; Styling by Sideara St. Claire and Cherokee Neas At the Stonehouse Restaurant at the San Ysidro Ranch resort in Santa Barbara, CA, Heidi and Spencer Pratt are eating truffle fries and gluten-free bread and discussing how JFK and Jackie Kennedy celebrated their honeymoon at the same location. "It's why we like [the restaurant]," Spencer says. "Shout out JFK!" Like Lana Del Rey, Heidi and Spencer—also known as Speidi, a name Spencer invented for them—worship Americana.
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In Rachel Dolezal's Skin

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By Mitchell Sunderland
| Broadly Verified
On a gloomy Saturday night in Spokane, WA, roughly a dozen people gather in the penthouse suite of the Davenport Grand Hotel for Rachel Dolezal's baby shower. Hip-hop and jazz play on a flat-screen TV, and paper yellow duckies hang on the silver walls. While Rachel's 21-year-old adopted son Izaiah pops a bottle of champagne, Rachel's friends—her ex-boyfriend Charles Miller and several women—eat croissant sandwiches on disposable plastic plates.
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The Girls Who Use Grindr

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By Callie Beusman Verified, Mitchell Sunderland
| Broadly Verified
For women who are interested in men, online dating can often suck. This is a fact that's been documented extensively in articles, in blogs, and in wildly popular social media accounts. It's also one that several new dating apps have pledged to solve, including Bumble, Hinge, and Siren.
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My Week Inside the Moonlite Bunny Ranch, America's Most Famous Brothel

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By Mitchell Sunderland
| Broadly Verified
Day 1On my flight to Reno, everyone smells like a casino or bubblegum. I'm traveling with photographer Amy Lombard to live in World Famous Moonlite Bunny Ranch for a week.I'm gay (I only fucked a girl once, and I lost my boner after 30 seconds), but I have always dreamed about visiting the Bunny Ranch. As a child, I learned about sex on Cathouse, an HBO reality show about the brothel, its hookers, and its owner: Dennis Hof, the proprietor of most of Nevada's legal brothels.
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Bitchell: An Ode to Drunk White Girls

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By Mitchell Sunderland
| tab.co.uk
“Drunk white girl” bears little significance at Oxford, where 87.3% of the students are white and everyone is drunk 90% of the time. But in racially diverse America, the term conjures a specific breed of national embarrassment. Growing up with a diet of Bush sisters and MTV, Americans know the types and sub-types of drunk white girls.
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