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> The New York Post is reporting that Rihanna would rather
deal with the paparazzi than a throng of screaming fans. After a
recently photo shoot, the pop star tried to leave a Manhattan rooftop
studio but was blocked by a "mob of paparazzi," a source told the
paper. When
her handlers attempted to usher her out via another exit, it was even
worse "with a mob of teens waiting for photos and autographs."
Faced with making an agonizing -- and annoying -- decision, Rihanna
opted for an encounter with the swarming photogs. Can you really blame her?
Next to a group of starstruck, needy teenagers fiending for an up close
and personal hit of their favorite chanteuse, the paparazzi probably seemed straight up catatonic.
> Sacha Baron Cohen is up to his old tricks. The comedian is currently filming Bruno, the followup to his smash hit Borat, about a gay Austrian fashion reporter who is as clueless -- and consequently offensive -- as he is coiffed. Earlier this year the actor terrorized the mild-mannered folk of Wichita, Kansas, and now he's brought his special brand of bad behavior to the Middle East. Cohen met with former Israeli spy Yossi Alpher and Palestinian academic Ghassam Khalib under the guise of filming a youth documentary. During the interview, Cohen asked why Israelis and Palestinians couldn't solve the dispute over Palestine "with a timeshare on the land," and argued "Your conflict is not so bad. Jennifer-Angelina
is worse." Which, while funny, is no longer really an apt comparison. Everyone knows ever since Jen's busied herself humping John Mayer in any and every moving vehicle available, the feud just doesn't have the same je ne sais quoi.
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-- NOAH MICHELSON
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