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Why James Holmes Has Fans On the Internet
Adrian Chen · 07/31/12 03:50PMThere are fans of everything on the internet. Even James Holmes, the 24-year-old accused of killing 12 and injuring 58 in the Aurora, Colorado theater shooting. What would drive a bunch of seemingly normal internet geeks to worship a mass murderer? To understand this, you'll have to journey to the dark heart of internet fandom.
Marshall Fine's Review of The Dark Knight Rises Is Bad But Not Worth Killing Him Over
Louis Peitzman · 07/17/12 06:55PMCritic Marshall Fine saw The Dark Knight Rises and didn't care for it much. That's bad enough, but then he had to go and post his opinion on the internet, thereby ruining the film's then-perfect Rotten Tomatoes rating. (Since then, it's dropped down to 85 percent, with eight "rotten" reviews overall. Sorry, fanboys and girls.)
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ian spiegelman · 04/13/08 09:47AMRachael Ray Does Her Impression Of A John Cusack-Convention Nerd
seth · 12/12/07 08:45PM
For American women of a certain age—let's say, somewhere around the Ricki Lake/Rachael Ray generation—the utterance of the very name John Cusack is enough to instantly reawaken first stirrings of celebrity puppy-love ecstasy. Give those women their own talk shows and a captive audience with the boombox-hoisting object of their romantic adolescent fantasies, however, and things can quickly get pretty awkward.