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Idris Elba

Republicans fume over Obama virginity ad as creator Dunham gloats, plus celebrity costume faux pas

‘Girls” creator Lena Dunham has made an ad for President Barack Obama, and it’s sending shockwaves through the right. “Appalled,” “pathetic” and “disgusted” were used by various pundits to describe the spot that likens young people’s first time voting for Obama to losing one’s virginity. In the video, called “My First Time,” Dunham says, “You want to do it with a great guy. It should be with a guy with beautiful … somebody who really cares about and understands women.” Read More

Was Lindsay Lohan on Tom Cruise’s radar?

Everyone’s talking about the Vanity Fair piece on Tom Cruise that alleges he “auditioned” wives through some wacky Scientology filter before he settled on Katie Holmes. (Why is this a surprise?) But now a source tells the Huffington Post that none other than Lindsay Lohan was under consideration at one point. Wow. Who knows which Thetan level you have to reach to be attracted to that vain, vapid and voodoo-hoodoo hot mess … but thankfully, Lindsay dodged that bullet. Read More

British Elba brings depth to ‘The Losers’

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A native Londoner, Idris Elba speaks with an almost undetectable British accent. It’s one he’s masked successfully as Stringer Bell, a Baltimore drug lord in HBO’s celebrated “The Wire,” and, most recently, as Roque, an ornery black-ops specialist in the action-comedy “The Losers,” which opens ­Friday. Read More
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