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Aug 17 2012 09:00 AM ET

Lauren Conrad: What is your damage?

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Former Hills star and current hair role model Lauren Conrad posted a video tutorial showing viewers how to cut the spines off of books, glue them to a box, and then store non-book items in that box. She used seemingly brand new copies of Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events. (Ooh, foreshadowing!) This turned out to be a FATAL ERROR — a bunch of book purists freaked out, the clip went viral, and LC removed the video all within a few hours Wednesday night. I know I’ll remember where I was when it happened for the rest of my life. Ha, no.

Lemony Snicket himself commented on Lauren’s peculiar failure to Slate: “It has always been my belief that people who spend too much time with my work end up as lost souls, drained of reason, who lead lives of raving emptiness and occasional lunatic violence. What a relief it is to see this documented.”

Exactly. So why’d she have to take it down?

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Jul 17 2012 08:42 PM ET

Classic literature gets sexed up: 'Hands on yonder branch!'

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Jane Austen and zombies? Over. Now, thanks to 50 Shades of Grey, it’s Jane Austen and steamy sex scenes. Total-E-Bound Publishing has introduced Clandestine Classics, a collection of novels that have been raised — or lowered? — to guilty pleasure status. Allow us to quote from some of the descriptions:

Pride & Prejudice: “Electrifying sexual tension soon leads to an unexpected kiss and Elizabeth’s world is turned upside down.” You can do better. That doesn’t do the excerpt justice.

Jane Eyre: “He demands her abject surrender. In his strong and athletic arms, Jane submits to his darkest desires and discovers hers are every bit as searing, plunging her into a world she never suspected and never wants to escape.” There it is! Excerpt we can print: “Hands on yonder branch!”  READ FULL STORY »

Jun 6 2012 05:13 PM ET

Rainn Wilson, Morgan Spurlock and others tweet tributes to the late Ray Bradbury

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With the news that Fahrenheit 451 author Ray Bradbury passed away Tuesday night at age 91, celebrity admiration has been rolling in on Twitter all day.

Not surprisingly, the Twitterverse is alive with those admiring him and his work–particularly his sci-fi brilliance and commitment to reading. Check out a round-up of Tweets below: READ FULL STORY »

May 18 2012 05:56 PM ET

Say what?! EW presents YOUR best comments this week

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Here at EW, we care what you have to say. We really, really do. Hidden among the scores of comments are flashes of genius. Small gems of brilliance, if you will. To recognize our faithful commenters, we’ve scoured your remarks and compiled our favorites from this week. So keep commenting away, readers! You might see yours here. READ FULL STORY »

Apr 16 2012 05:03 PM ET

The 'Harry Potter' encyclopedia is finally in the works! Which burning questions should it answer?

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Where do Hogwarts professors go during their summer vacations? What are the 12 uses of dragon’s blood? What’s behind that locked door in the Department of Mysteries? And why in the world did Hermione and Ron name one of their kids Hugo?

I’ve been yearning for answers to these questions since 2007, when Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows marked the end of J.K. Rowling’s book series as we knew it. (Well, technically, The Tales of Beedle the Bard marked the series’ real conclusion — but since it’s a supplementary storybook, I don’t know if it should really count.) Rowling responded to a few pressing fan inquiries soon after the book was released; she revealed, for example, that Harry himself became the head of the Ministry of Magic’s Auror Department and occasionally moonlights as a guest Defense Against the Dark Arts speaker. But there are still plenty of mysteries about the wizarding world that remain unsolved.

Luckily, they won’t stay that way for too long. READ FULL STORY »

Apr 16 2012 04:27 PM ET

Barbara Walters talks '50 Shades' and sex on 'The View'

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Can you handle Barbara Walters talking about sex (and rough sex, at that)? The 82-year-old host led a discussion about knocking boots this morning on The View. Tied to the best-selling novel 50 Shades of Grey and HBO’s risque portrayal of 20-somethings in the new series Girls, Walters got frank about sex and S&M.

This isn’t the first time 50 Shades of Gray has made an appearance on the show. The ladies mentioned it earlier this year when the book first began steaming up e-readers around the nation, but this time the conversation got a little more personal.

Clad in a leather jacket, Walters asks her costars, “Do you like it when he’s rough?”

See how they responded in the clip below. Warning: Whoopi said part of this conversation “made her eyes bleed.” My ears and eyes are also still recovering.

Sound off: Too much, too early in the morning? Did it make your eyes and ears bleed too?

Read more:
E L James: ‘The Hunger Games’ ‘upset me’
‘Fifty Shades of Grey’: Some of the novel’s funniest, least sexy lines

Mar 28 2012 02:18 PM ET

This week's 'Fifty Shades of Grey' cover -- Order it now

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Entertainment Weekly has two covers this week: The Hunger Games is the newsstand cover, celebrating the film’s amazing opening weekend in theaters. Subscribers, on the other hand, will receive a Fifty Shades of Grey cover, teasing the literary smash that had movie studios panting.

Both versions feature the first Stateside interview with British author E L James (that’s a nom de plume, by the way), who explains how her erotic debut novel went from unpolished Twilight-inspired fan fiction to a full-on phenomenon. “It’s very hugely overwhelming, frankly,” the admittedly press-shy author tells EW’s Lisa Schwarzbaum. “I’ve been a production executive for the BBC for eight years. I’m now — full-time — someone who gets carted around and thrown in front of people.” READ FULL STORY »

Mar 28 2012 11:35 AM ET

Seuss family tries to guilt thieves into returning stolen Lorax statue -- VIDEO

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There are no rhymes in the video below, so don’t get excited. But the local NBC affiliate in San Diego did at least use one Grinch reference when reporting on the Lorax statue that was stolen from the La Jolla, Calif., garden of Audrey Geisel, the 90-year-old widow of Dr. Seuss (real name, Theodor Geisel), over the weekend. Property manager Carl Romero told NBC San Diego that the thieves dragged the 300-pound bronze statue down a hill, over a fence, and probably into a car. (Is it wrong that we’d like to see video of that?) Police are investigating, but Romero is offering the guilty party an out. “Give me a call, I’ll come and get it. I won’t press charges. But if we find it…we definitely will press charges. So your name will be in print and everybody’ll know you did it.”

That’s a nice try, but Audrey Geisel’s daughter, Lark Grey Dimond-Cate, who sculpted the missing statue, did a better job laying on the guilt: “It’s crummy to sneak into a 90-year-old widow’s home, in the dead of night, and steal her Lorax. You can’t be doing that,” she said. “It gave her so much happiness to get up in the morning and look out the window and see her little Lorax. And she got up the other day, and he wasn’t there,” she continued. In conclusion: “Let’s bring a happy end to this story,” she said, while holding a little replica. “The little guy doesn’t belong to ya. He belongs up at Seuss house. Bring him home.” Watch the plea below. READ FULL STORY »

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