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Two former Drexel University students hit it big recently with a major label, seemingly on thebrink of superstardom. Known as Chiddy Bang, they’ve already embarked on a worldwide tourand their album “Breakfast,” released officially yesterday, made its mark on iTunes charts lastweek. Metro got the scoop on what it’s like to make it and how Philly played a role. {page 02}
Music. Philly breakthrough
Rapper Chidera “Chiddy” Anamege, right, and producer Noah “Xaphoon” Jones wantto put Philly back on the musical map.
Philly taxes:Can’t live wit’em, can’t livewit-out ’em
Poll of residents finds many unhappy with level oftax burden But paradoxically, nearly half willingto shell out more in taxes for bigger government {page 04}
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It’s rare these days to see aPhiladelphia music act teeter-ing on the brink of superstar-dom; rarer still that they are aDrexel-educated hip-hop duowho sample songs by SufjanStevens and Kate Nash.
Rapper Chidera “Chiddy”Anamege — who with produc-er Noah “Xaphoon” Jonescomprises Chiddy Bang —says only in Philly would sucha phenomenon be possible.
“Philly definitely was agreat starting point for us be-cause there’s a lot of musicalinfluences around,” Anamegesaid on the phone Mondayfrom the dressing room at Co-nan O’Brien. “That’s whatPhiladelphia is — a melting potof a lot of different sounds.”
Chiddy Bang was borne outof Drexel University, whereprolific freestyler Anamegemet Jones, a former intern at
the Clef Club and student ofthe school’s much-lauded mu-sic industry program. “I hadnever heard of MGMT or any ofthose bands, I just come from astraight hip-hop background,”Anamege said. “Noah takes thethings we sample and putsthem in a different context.”
The group’s signature com-bination of streetwise rap overindustry-savvy samples caughton quickly in the college
scene. “All the schools in thecity of Philadelphia, that defi-nitely helped,” Anamege said.
The group signed withEMI’s U.K.-based Parlophoneimprint in 2010 with plans torelease a 2011 album, but theachievement brought chal-lenges. “Once we signed, webecame aware of a totally dif-ferent worldview where youcan’t put out music for free be-cause you’re trying to makemoney off of it,” Jones said.
Despite the sometimesrocky road, Chiddy Bang re-leased their major label debut,“Breakfast,” last Tuesday, andit skyrocketed to No. 4 oniTunes’ top 10 chart. A year af-ter their first show at Swarth-more College, they sold outSouth Street’s Theater of theLiving Arts.
Drexel duo wants Phillyback on the musical map
Rapper, producer team released major label record last week and thenzoomed up iTunes chart They credit Philly’s ‘melting pot’ of sounds
‘Frat rap’?‘Hipster hop’?PHILADELPHIA. With all of themusical baggage each mem-ber totes, Chiddy Bang’ssound is hard to define.Drawing a wide audience,from indie-loving hipsters tohard-core hip-hop fans, the
genre has been described as“alternative hip-hop,” “fratrap,” and “hipster hop.”
“I’d say we definitelyhave one foot in hip-hopworld and one foot in thepop world,” Jones said. “Andone in the alternative elec-tronic world.”
“We call it space rap fromthe future,” Anamege said.
“We’re the type of dudeswho spontaneously makemusic and we can sampleanything from any genre —we don’t really care. I thinkthat’s why you can’t reallyput your finger on what wedo because we doeverything.”
“That’s the Philadelphiainfluence.” METRO
Autopsy:Cardinal haddrugs insystemPHILADELPHIA. Toxicologyresults from a preliminaryautopsy report on the lateCardinal Anthony Bevilac-qua showed that he haddrugs in his system whenhe died last month,according to reports.
The pharmaceuticalswere all prescribed, butfurther testing is neededto determine if the levelsin his body were in linewith normal dosages, ac-cording to theMontgomery Countycoroner. Bevilacqua, 88,died at Saint Charles Bor-romeo seminary. METRO
Schoolclosingshearing thisweekendPHILADELPHIA. The cityschool district will holdpublic hearings Saturdayon the proposed closureof nine schools before afinal vote scheduled forMarch 29.
The district has held21 community meetingsover the past threemonths to get feedbackconcerned communitymembers. METRO
Resident high-risebreaks groundCENTER CITY. Officials willbreak ground for a newhigh-rise building near21st and Chestnut streetson Thursday.
John Buck Co. and theINDURE fund willconstruct a 34-storybuilding with 319residential units and first-floor retail space at 2116Chestnut St. The site isthe longtime home to theold Sidney Hillman Med-ical Center. METRO
Bevilacqua
Anamege and Jones combine what they call ‘space rap’ with unexpected samples, which caught on quickly in the campus scene.
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Long live Philly
Their time in Philly was in-strumental in their develop-ment and at least onemember plans to one day re-turn for good. Here’s quicklooks at their present, pastand future related to the city:
Though they currently live anomadic lifestyle, embarkingon a whirlwind tour in thestates and abroad, both mu-sicians say Philadelphia is es-pecially significant.“To me, Philly is dope. I feellike when we came into thissituation when we first wentto Drexel the timing was per-
fect,” Anamege said. “Thetime that we started choppingup those samples, nobodywas doing that stuff. We fig-ured out a lane for ourselvesand just had to carve it.”Jones, who recently gave uphis South Philadelphia lease,hopes to one day retire inthe city.
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“I want to build arecording studio inPhiladelphia sokids have a place tolearn.”JONES
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Support forBucks County’sMurphy for AGThe Fraternal Order ofPolice Lodge 5 and Dis-trict Attorney SethWilliams formally en-dorsed Patrick Murphyfor Pennsylvania attor-ney general yesterday.Murphy, an Iraq warveteran and formercongressman, isrunning againstLackawanna Countyprosecutor KathleenKane and former Con-gressman Don Bailey inthe April 24 Democraticprimary. Murphy losthis re-election bid toMike Fitzpatrick in2010. METRO
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PHILADELPHIA. A bus driverwas acquitted yesterday ofmurder charges for thedeaths of four passengersduring a September 2010accident on a route travel-ing from Philadelphia toToronto.
John Tomaszewski, 60, ofYardville, N.J., was operatinga double-decker Megabuscarrying 29 passengers thatstruck a railroad bridge inSalina, N.Y., just outsideSyracuse. The bus was sched-uled to stop at the RegionalTransportation Center in
Syracuse, but Tomaszewskimissed the exit and woundup on the parkway.
Onondaga County CourtJudge Anthony Aloi issuedthe ruling in a non-jury trial.If convicted, Tomaszewskiwould have faced up to fouryears in state prison.
Killed in the crash wereTemple University studentKevin Coffey, 19, of Kansas;Deanna Armstrong, 18, ofNew Jersey; Benjamin Oko-rie, 35, a Malaysian minister;and Ashwani Mehta, 34, ofIndia. METRO/SDL
Driver acquitted indeadly Megabus crash
Confused about taxes?Philly taxpayers not sure
Large majority doesn’t like how much in local taxes they pay Nearlyhalf polled would pay more for better services Not sugar tax, howeverSeven out of 10 Philadelphiaresidents are concerned aboutthe overall tax burden, butmany would not mind payingmore for increased services,according to a poll releasedyesterday.
The study from the PewCharitable Trusts’ PhiladelphiaResearch Initiative reveals that70 percent of city residents callhigh taxes a “somewhat seri-ous” or “very serious” problemin their neighborhoods, upfrom 62 percent last year and55 percent in 2010.
Fifty-four percent say theypay too much for the level ofservice they receive, while 39percent claim they get their“money’s worth” or a “gooddeal” for their tax dollars.
At the same time, 49 per-cent of respondents said theywould prefer more govern-ment services and higher tax-es, with 42 percent opting forlower taxes and fewer services.
“It’s a mixed message, andit suggests if you can persuadepeople they’re actually goingto get more they might bewilling to pay more,” said Lar-ry Eichel, PRI project director.“But that’s a high bar to provethat you’re going to be able toprovide more.”
For the past two years, City
Council has approved an in-crease in property taxes —much of which has gone toprovide additional funding forthe financially-strapped SchoolDistrict of Philadelphia.
The survey also polled resi-dents’ feelings about some pro-posed ideas to generate morelocal revenue.
A sugary drinks tax, whichCouncil has rejected for the
past two years, is pretty evenlysplit, with 46 percent in favorand 49 percent opposed.
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Wildwood rated No. 1 boardwalkNEW JERSEY. Website Family Va-cation Critic namedWildwood’s boardwalk the“number one beach boardwalkfor families,” suggesting thatthe criteria for the rankingmay be based on the numberof souvenir hermit crabs for
sale and is possibly influencedby a penchant for cheapdomestic beer. The website cit-ed Wildwood’s kitsch, includ-ing its “Doo-Wop architecture”and “nostalgic, honky-tonk at-mosphere” as a reason to visit.
Wildwood beat out ConeyIsland, Santa Cruz and Chica-go’s Navy Pier for the dubioushonor. METRO/AW
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A Temple student was among those killed.
73%Those who rated thecity’s street repair andmaintenance as poor or“only fair.”
71%Those who rated thecity’s public educationsystem as poor or “onlyfair.”
1,600Number of residentssampled in the citywidepoll conducted betweenJan. 4 and 19.
Former Mayor John Street is among the 49 percent opposed to a sugar tax.
Comcast says it has met — andin many cases exceeded — theconditions set as part of its$13.8 billion merger with NBCUniversal in January 2011, thecompany said in a one-year an-niversary compliance reportfiled yesterday with the FederalCommunication Commission.
“Our commitments and theconditions, though extensive,have been incorporated intoour business activities and be-come part of the company’s‘DNA,’” wrote Comcast Execu-tive Vice President David Co-hen in a blog post about the re-port on Comcast’s website.
“The substantial public in-terest benefits promised by thetransaction and the competi-tive safeguards sought by theFCC are being realized,” Cohenwrote.
Comcast is required to filecompliance reports every yearfor seven years. The FCC is notrequired to respond or take ac-tion, unless a third partyshould complain to the com-mission that Comcast is not, infact, meeting its requirements.
Many of the FCC conditionssought to maintain fair compe-tition, to ensure the newlyformed company would allowaccess to its vast library of filmsand television from both Uni-versal and NBC. Comcastagreed to forgo its manage-ment slice of the video-sharingsite Hulu, which NBC had man-aged along with Fox and ABC.
It also called upon the newcompany to maintain and ex-pand local news and to aug-ment diverse programmingchoices, as well as and minorityownership opportunities.
Also laid out were conditionsin keeping with the FCC’s net-
neutrality policies, making surethat Comcast-NBCU would notimpinge upon the marketplace
choices of its 22.3 million videosubscribers and 18.1 million In-ternet subscribers. REUTERS
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Some accomplishments listedby Cohen in his blog post:
Launched Internet Essentials— “the largest and most com-prehensive broadband adop-tion program in America,”connecting more than 41,000homes to the Internet (an esti-mated 80,000 children and160,000 low-income Ameri-cans), most for the first time.Surpassed its first-yearbroadband expansion targetby 544 miles (for a total of
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Romney, Santorum seetight race in MichiganDETROIT. Mitt Romney edgedahead of rival Rick Santorumin Michigan's Republicanpresidential primary yester-day as the former front-run-ner fought to avoid a humili-ating defeat in the Rust BeltState where he grew up.
With 61 percent ofprecincts reporting at press
time, Romney led Santorumby 40 percent to 36 percent.Texas Congressman Ron Paulclaimed 12 percent andformer House Speaker NewtGingrich had 7 percent.
In Arizona, television net-works declared Romney thewinner as soon as pollsclosed. REUTERS
Two moreteens die afterschool shootingin OhioCHARDON, OHIO. Two more stu-dents have been pronounceddead from wounds suffered inMonday’s shooting rampageat an Ohio high school,authorities said yesterday, asthe shaken suburbanCleveland town prepared for
a vigil for the five teenage vic-tims of the attack.
Demetrius Hewlin and Rus-sell King Jr., 17, were both de-clared dead, a spokesman forCuyahoga County Medical Ex-aminer’s office said, adding tothe toll from the mayhem atChardon High School.
Daniel Parmertor, 16, wasdeclared dead on Monday.Two other students were stillhospitalized yesterday withgunshot wounds.REUTERS
Partial remains from somevictims of the Sept. 11, 2001,attacks ended up in a landfill,according to a Pentagon re-port released yesterday thatalso revealed other blundersat the U.S. military’s mainmortuary.
The Pentagon report saidthat several portions of re-mains found from the attackon the Pentagon and at thePennsylvania crash site of a hi-jacked airliner presumablyended up in a landfill after be-ing handed over to a privatefirm.
It did not say preciselywhere the remains ended up.
Retired General JohnAbizaid, briefing Pentagon re-porters on the findings of thereview of practices at the mor-tuary at Dover Air Force Base,said it was unclear how many
Sept. 11 victims’ partial re-mains were disposed of in thismanner.
“I don't know that there's a way to find out,” Abizaidsaid.
The details were disclosedin passing in a report that fo-cused on ways to improveoversight and controls of theDover mortuary after the dis-closure last year of the mis-handling of remains of wardead. REUTERS
9/11 victims’remains endedup in landfill
Previous mistake
In 2006, the mortuary acci-dentally disposed of remainsfrom a crashed Navy trainingaircraft as medical waste, asopposed to giving them agroup burial.
A report says the remains of 9/11 victims were mishandled.
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Instead of going to a licensedmedical practitioner forbreast augmentation twoweeks ago, a woman fromTyler, Texas, decided to go toQueen Divas Hair Salon andSpa instead. There, she wasimplanted with an unidenti-fied substance by salon ownerCarmel Foster, authoritiestold a local television station.The woman “became very ill— her chest was swollen, andshe was complaining of a lot
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Going under the knife isa pricey and painful deci-sion, but thousands chooseto undergo the procedures insearch of that ideal body. But,the unsafe -— not to mentionhighly illegal -— choice to cutcosts and go with a less rep-utable doctor or use an unli-censed person can be down-right deadly.
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why people want the cheaperroute, but with any discounta potential patient must won-der what they are giving upfor the lower cost. “There is amisconception among con-sumers that as long as a doc-tor is certified in a medicalfield that he or she is quali-fied to practice plastic sur-gery. This is absolutely wrongand it is dangerous for pa-tients,” said Malcolm Z. Roth,
an M.D. and ASPS president. However, some people will
opt to travel to other coun-tries or locations to get theirsurgery done for cheaper. Bak-er says while “medicaltourism” doesn’t necessarilymean a death sentence, anddifferent markets do have dif-ferent prices, it is still veryimportant to make sure thatwhoever is performing yourprocedure is licensed and theappropriate person to do yourprocedure. “To stay safe, youhave to do your homework,”Baker said.
The Australian Society ofPlastic Surgeons said that casesof corrective surgery rose 38percent over 2011, with themajority of the revisions due tomedical tourism procedures —especially breast resizing. And72 percent of surgeons saidthey had seen tourism surgerycases they couldn’t correct.
“You have to be suspicious,and you have to ask ques-tions,” Baker said. “If it is toogood to be true, it is too goodto be true. Surgery is some-thing you can’t return.”
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Baker says there are somesimple checks that any per-son can do to make suretheir surgeon is not only li-censed to perform the proce-dure they want, but willknow what to do if a compli-cation arises.
Check what boards thesurgeon is certified byand make sure the ac-creditation comes from avalid organization.Look into if the personperforming the proce-dure has a valid medicallicense. In the UnitedStates, you can alwayscheck with a state’sBoard of Medicine to seeif the doctor is licensed topractice in that state.Ask about what kind ofanesthesia the doctorgives patients, and who
will administer the anes-thesia. A licensed anes-thesiologist should be onhand.Read about the doctor’sreputation. If people arehappy, chances are thenew patent will be happytoo. Look at before andafter photos.See if the person per-forming the procedurehas privileges at any localhospitals. Because manyplastic surgery operationstake place in the doctor’soffice, Baker says it is im-portant to make sure thatthe doctor can have youtreated right away just incase something goeswrong. Hospitals thatgive plastic surgeons priv-ileges are vouching forthe doctor.
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How to find a good doctor
“You have to besuspicious, and youhave to askquestions. If it istoo good to betrue, it is too goodto be true. Surgeryis something youcan’t return.”DR. STEPHAN BAKER
Read about the doctor’s reputation. If people arehappy, chances are the new patent will be happy too.
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The GOP presidential race is still anyone’s game. Probably.
We’ve been gonefor a little whileand boy has awhole lotchanged. Re-
publican presidential candi-date Mitt Romney is consid-ered the front-runner of a raceno one seems particularly ex-cited about finishing. In a clas-sic case of Romneying, thewell-to-do politician explainedto NASCAR afficionados thathe, too, enjoys the popularSouthern pastime — especial-ly considering that several ofhis friends own teams! AndRestore Our Future, the superPAC backing Romney, has un-leashed a torrent of negativeads attacking his current clos-est contender, Rick Santorum,who until rather recently wasactually leading in a series ofnationwide polls.
What a world of differencea week and a half can make!
Well, the whole narrativemay — but most probablywon’t — change today whenwith any luck the winner(s) ofyesterday’s two qualifyingcontests, in Michigan and Ari-zona, are announced. The re-sults are expected to arrive toolate for us to do any substan-
tial analysis today; we’ll savethat for tomorrow, and leavethe guesswork to the experts.
Experts such as poll analystNate Silver, who thinks Michi-gan — Romney’s home state,though one he’s antagonizedby strongly opposing Obama-led auto bailouts that seem tohave led to a strengthened lo-cal industry and the saving ofmillions of jobs — could go ei-ther way. Most polls, mean-while, show Arizona leaningstrongly in Romney’s favor.
Regardless of whowins, though, thecampaign environ-ment isn’t likely toundergo a drastic
change. Will an unrealisticdouble-rout by Santorum com-pel Romney to cede the race tohis rival? Not likely. Nor willthe more plausible doubleRomney win convince Santo-rum et al that they’ve missedtheir chance. Ron Paul is stillplaying the long game, hopingto pick up enough consolationdelegates to buy some moreestablishment support for hislibertarian ideas. And thenthere’s Gingrich: Educatedguessing on the future inten-tions of that guy likely eludeseven experts like Silver.
With Super Tuesday a weekaway, we may yet be on thecusp of some serious politicalmomentum; if, that is, votersagree enough to elevate a sin-gle candidate. If not, a bro-kered convention may be onthe horizon — a looming pos-sibility that could, perhaps, beone GOP mystery more un-fathomable than even Gin-grich himself.
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2After showing up to the Acade-my Awards sporting suspiciousrings, it seems that NataliePortman and BenjaminMillepied did, indeed, get mar-ried without telling us. JewelerJamie Wolf confirms that thecouple — who met on the set of“Black Swan” and have a son to-gether — created the weddingbands.
“I designed the rings wornby Benjamin Millepied and Na-talie Portman,” Wolf told Us-Magazine.com. “They weremade with recycled platinumand conflict-free diamonds.”
Their eco-friendly jewelerleaked the news? This, friends,is what we call a rich personproblem.
Jolie’s Oscar legexplainedAfter we had time to processAngelina Jolie’s display of awhole lot of right leg at the Os-cars, we moved on to roundtwo: finding answers. (At leastwe think this is round two —there aren’t a whole lot ofguidelines here.) Naturally, anunnamed source who is “closeto her” was happy to speculate
about the pose toPerezhilton.com. “Angie wasvamping it up, no more, noth-ing less,” says the source. “Shewas having fun, living in themoment, like she always does.She is absolutely oblivious tothe controversy and attentionthe sexy pose has created.”
This is what we were afraidof. There’s no joke, no silly betwith George Clooney and Brad
Pitt, no extra cocktail to blame:She thought this was sexy.
Angelina Jolie, you are An-gelina Jolie, undisputed andsupreme Hollywood sex sym-bol. Sticking your bare leg outon stage is the equivalent ofChris Rock getting up there andtelling recycled “Two and a HalfMen” jokes. You’re better thanthis — or, at least, hotter thanthis.
More secret weddingnews: Biel andTimberlakeJessica Biel and Justin Timber-lake are trying to keep their en-gagement quiet, but theirfriends and family aren’t reallyhelping. First, Timberlake’sgrandmother spilled the beansabout the singer’s proposal,and now Biel’s “New Year’s Eve”
director, Garry Marshall, isgushing about their renewedromance. “We talk about it alot. I hope it all works out. Theyare terrific kids,” Marshall tellsUs Weekly. “I love them both.I’m happy for her.”
Young claims she’s innocent“Blade Runner” star Sean Youngwas arrested after trying tosneak into the post-Oscars Gov-ernors Ball, according to TMZ.The actress, who recentlyappeared on “Celebrity Rehab
with Dr. Drew,” made it into theparty initially and hobnobbedwith the likes of Brad Pitt andAngelina Jolie before beingasked to leave, as she didn’thave a ticket for the event.Sources say she then tried to getback into the party, leading toan altercation with security per-sonnel. Young was booked on amisdemeanor battery charge.
Baby on the way for ThurmanUma Thurman is expecting ababy with financier Arpad Bus-
son, her rep confirms to Peoplemagazine. And while theactress wasn’t necessarily readyto talk about her pregnancy, herfriends were more than happyto. “Yes, Uma is pregnant,” aThurman pal tells Life & Style.“She hasn’t announced it yet,but a lot of her friends were ask-ing her because they could tellthe difference when they sawher at New York Fashion Week.She’s usually so skinny, but nowshe has the cutest little bumpand a glow about her.” Thurmanalso has two children with ex-husband Ethan Hawke.
Checking in withsome of Hollywood’sbiggest names to seewhat they’ve been upto — in 140 charactersor fewer.
Today, Judy Greer islearning new things,Matt Lucas is easilyamused, KellyOsbourne will only goso far for beauty, SteveMartin is behindschedule and JoanRivers had a wardrobemalfunction.
@missjudygreerTurns out I married aman who knows everyword to every Neil Dia-mond song ever. Thiswasn’t mentioned inthe courting process.
@RealMattLucasYou’ll chuckle at this. Ijust took a shower andI actually did at onepoint drop the soap.
@MissKellyOrandom question whatcan i do to get rid ofpuffy eyes fromcrying? there is no wayi am putting hemroidcream on my eyes!
@SteveMartinToGoStill getting dressedfor Oscars.
@Joan_Rivers Both Jennifer Lopezand I haveexperienced nippleslips at the Oscars. Theonly difference is thatmine was peeking outof an open-toe shoe.
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Portman is a married woman — or so says her jeweler.
Talking points
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Great expectationsfor Blue IvyBlue Ivy Carter is just 7 weeksold, but some are alreadyexpecting she’ll follow in par-ents Beyonce and Jay-Z’sfamous footsteps. “She is going
to be an entertainer,” familyfriend Gwyneth Paltrow tellsHollywood Life. “She just hasthis glow around her like hermother.”
That glow? It’s most likelyCheerios dust, Gwyn — givethe girl some room.
Spader is off ‘Office’James Spader is ending his re-curring role as the disturbingRobert California on “The Of-fice” after this season. “Jamesalways wanted this to be a one-year arc, and he now leaves us
having created one of the mostenigmatic and dynamic charac-ters in television,” said execu-tive producer Paul Liebersteinin a statement.
We love a nice exit speech,but he’s not even the most“enigmatic” character at Dun-der Mifflin. What say you,Dwight Schrute?
Natalie Portmanis married — anddidn’t invite us
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Say hello to thenew ‘Dancingwith the Stars’ castWe don’t really remember halfof these people either, so here’sa helpful little cheat sheet.
1. Melissa Gilbert: The former“Little House on the Prairie”star (and sister to Sara Gilbert,a host on “The Talk”), returnsto ABC after she directed thenetwork’s after school special,“Me and My Hormones.” Yup,that is true. She’ll join tabloidstar/pro dancer MaksimChmerkovskiy.
2. Sherri Shepherd: We’re a lit-tle curious about how Shepherdwill manage her time betweenthis show, rehearsals and hergig as a co-host on “The View,”but hey, the gal must really loveher ABC. She dances with ValChmerkovskiy (and no, that’snot a coincidental last name: Hisbrother is Maksim).
3. Martina Navratilova:Navratilova is the only tennisplayer in the world who haswon Grand Slam titles in fourdifferent decades. The breastcancer survivor has won 59Grand Slam titles, nine Wimble-don singles championships and344 tournaments. She’s pairedwith Tony Dovolani.
4. Maria Menounos: Theactress, author and TV host hasa pretty beefy résumé: At 22,she was the youngest person tohost “Entertainment Tonight,”and she also conducted the onlyinterview with the Obama fami-ly during the presidential cam-paign. She dances alongsideDerek Hough.
5. Gladys Knight: The diva ofsoul needs no introduction:She’s won eightGrammys during herillustrious career andhas recorded morethan 38 albums. Shewas most recentlyseen in the TylerPerry film “I Can
Do Bad All By Myself.” Knight ispaired with Tristan MacManus.6. Jaleel White: Before therewas Zooey Deschanel, the mostadorkable person on TV wasSteve Urkel. White returns tonetwork television after stintson “Boston Legal,” “House” andthe feature film “Dreamgirls.”He’ll be dancing with two-time champ KymJohnson.
7. DonaldDriver: Pack-ers’ fans willknow Driveras a SuperBowl champand theAll-
Time Leading Receiver for theWisconsin team. He’s alsoauthored children’s books andfounded a charity to help thehomeless. He’ll dance alongsidepro Peta Murgatroyd.
8. Roshon Fegan: He’s a 20-year-old Disney Channel starwho appeared in the “Camp
Rock” films and is now on“Shake It Up!” He also
writes and produces hisown music under hisown record label. Im-pressive! He’s pairedwith ChelsieHightower.
9. Gavin Degraw: Unfor-tunately, the last we heard
of the “I Don’t Wanna Be”singer, he was getting beat up
by thugs in New York City’s EastVillage. He’s back in the newsfor a better reason now, danc-ing with last season’s winner,Karina Smirnoff.
10. Jack Wagner: You might re-member him from his days on“General Hospital” and
“Melrose Place.” Or you mightrecognize him as HeatherLocklear’s fiance (until Novem-ber 2011, at least). He danceswith Anna Trebunskaya.
11. William Levy: Ay, papi! Nostranger to TV, the Latin heart-throb can be seen on Univision’s“Triunfo del Amor,” the No. 1 te-lenovela on TV. He’llshow off his moveswith two-timechampCherylBurke.
12.KatherineJenkins:She’s aWelsh classi-cal singer who isapparently reallyfamous over-seas. She’ll dancewith two-timechamp Mark Ballas.
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community and these amazingpeople.”
Maybe getting into the hip-pie spirit of the film helped,but Aniston says she ended uplearning a lot about herself justby the change of environment.“I really realized how walled Iwas, and not consciously so,but just this armor that I kindof have, protective armor from— not my friends or people inmy family — but just being out-side in the world,” she says.“There’s this sigh of relief afterWeek 1 just knowing, ‘Oh thisis like John Travolta in “The Boyin the Bubble.”’ It was like, rid-
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The image she’s conjured re-duces her to a fit of laughter,but there was a serious sense ofself-improvement for Anistonto take away from the “Wan-derlust” production. “It wasspecial, it was really special ...to kind of get back in touchwith that part of myself andthat anonymity,” she says. “I re-ally made a conscious effort toknow, ‘Don’t wall up like that.’”
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TV watch listDon’t fear the stylus comebackThere’s a trend in smartphones,and some might call it disturb-ing. Hand-in-hand with the re-cent surge of phones with gi-gantic screens comes a surprisevisitor, poking its way out of thetechnological past to stab at ushere in the present: the stylus.
First there was the SamsungGalaxy Note, a phone with amassive, 5-inch screen and apull-out stylus called the S Pen.Now, straight from the MobileWorld Congress show inBarcelona, LG just debuted itsanswer to the Note, the Opti-mus Vu, another 5-inch phonethat sports a stylus. Tablets aregetting in on the action, too:The Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1rocks an S Pen, and the newPadFone from Asus has a stylusthat also doubles as a Bluetoothheadset!
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been surprisingly light oncelebrities. But Roberto Cavallimade up for it by closing outItaly’s shows with none otherthan one of fashion’s starriestmodels, Naomi Campbell. It wasan appropriate ending for ashow filled with flamboyantlyopulent clothes for the biggestdivas — fur-trimmed T-shirtsover leggy python bell bottoms,massive fur ball gown skirts withgraphic silk blouses and sweep-ing animal-print, chiffon dressesunder tough leather jackets.Each look was richer and moredramatic than the next.
Jil Sander
2“You can never leave withoutleaving a piece of you,” Billy
Corgan sang as the modelswalked. It’s a testament to howRaf Simons made the label hisown that the overall sadness
about his leaving Jil Sanderseemed to overshadow any buzzor excitement about the founderreturning to her namesakebrand. News that theAutumn/Winter ’12 collectionwould be Simons’ last instantlymade the show the week’shottest ticket. And afterward,people talked about it with an “Iwas there” type of reverence.The sentimentality of it all couldhave easily eclipsed the clothes,if they weren’t so sublime. Forone, Simons worked with color,specifically romantic shades ofred and soft pastels that gavesome much-needed contrast toall the moody black and charcoalwe’ve seen this week. He alsocontinued the outerwear storythat has been dominating Milan,but with an elegant touch — andthankfully not a dip-dyed fursleeve in sight. His coats andcorseted dresses came in volumi-nous shapes that evolved fromthe full skirts and dresses heshowed for spring. The clotheswere a continuation and yet adefinitive end — at least for thehouse of Jil Sander. In the mean-time, we hope the rumors thathe’ll take the reins at ChristianDior are true. KENYA HUNT
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While eating disorders arereadily associated with anorex-ic girls supposedly wanting tobe model-thin, the reality is farmore complex than femininevanity.
“There are many types ofeating disorders,” says Dr.Gregg Jantz, founder of A Placeof Hope, an eating disordertreatment center, and the au-thor of “Hope, Help, and Heal-ing for Eating Disorders.” “Forexample, there’s binge eatingand food addiction. An eatingdisorder is a chronic faulty rela-tionship with food that con-
trols one’s life.”Behavior includes binging
and purging, starvation, laxa-tive abuse and compulsiveovereating; but Dr. Jantz warnsthat these are all symptoms,not the problem. A complexrange of psychological and/oremotional conditions are be-hind eating disorders, includ-ing feelings of inadequacy, de-pression, anxiety and loneli-ness. Troubled relationshipswith family, friends or workcolleagues may all play a part.According to Dr. Jantz, younggirls and women age 13 to 30
are most at risk, with about 5percent of eating disorders oc-curring in males.
Eating disorders can be trig-gered by a single traumaticevent, such as death, divorce orrape — or a degrading com-ment. They can also take longerto develop, building as traumat-ic experiences mount up. Fo-cusing on food gives relief tounaddressed emotional pain,until it spirals out of control.
“It becomes an addiction be-cause it controls you despitemany attempts to quit,” Dr.Jantz says.
And though sufferers canexhibit considerable shameabout their condition, the stig-ma is being reduced. Public fig-ures like Lady Gaga and EltonJohn have come forward abouttheir bouts bulimia, and theNational Eating DisordersAwareness Week — currentlyunderway now — seeks to edu-cate the public.
“It makes it safer to gethelp,” says Dr. Jantz. “You real-ize you’re not alone.”
The skinnyon eatingdisorders
A gaunt frame is what you mightsee — what you don’t are theunderlying causes of the disorder
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Conservative ideas:Oxymoronic jokesRE: “MOST OF THE PEOPLE V. CIT-IZENS UNITED”: Devyn Drakeis absolutely right that mon-ey is not speech (nor is itpower!), and corporationsare not people. Devyn, I tooblame the craziness of thesystem on the conservative“Justices”, contrary toScalia’s quote — it wasScalia, after all, who stolethe 2000 election from Goreand gave it to Bush. Nowthat was crazy! The fact thatconservative politicians,judges and voters favor Citi-zens United tells me thatconservative thinking is anoxymoron, just like “Foxnews” and “business ethics”.J. ANDREW SMITH, BLOOMFIELD, NJ
Obama deservescredit not scornIt is so sad to see time has
not changed. I am not a Mus-lim, but I know Muslims.Every Catholic priest is not achild molester; not all Mus-lims are radicals. They whodenounce our president andspeak of how he is makingthe U.S. weak are theradicals. Obama hasstrengthened our country.DWAYNE ROBINSON, NORTHEAST
“Ron Paul will endthe wasteful war in Afghanistan.”
RE: “RUNNING FOR PRESIDENTWITH SCISSORS”: Ron Paul doesnot support the massivedeficit spending that has re-sulted in today’s 15 trillion-dollar long-term debt. He op-poses the thousands ofcongressional earmarks sup-porting tens of billions of dol-lars in pork barrel member
item spending. Paul is no fanof corporate welfare or spend-ing billions on uselessweapons systems supportedby Congress but not request-ed by the Pentagon. Paul willabolish corporate welfare sub-sides via favorable tax codedeductions and start a realcampaign against waste,fraud and abuse. He will closedown obsolete military basesabroad and reduce United Na-tions and foreign aid to thosewho offer us no support whenneeded. Paul will end thewasteful war in Afghanistan.LARRY PENNER, VIA E-MAIL
Hey, we didn’t killall of ’em, right?New reports declare that only30 percent of the casualties ofdrone attacks in Pakistanwere civilians and 70 percentwere militants. That is better
news, but not good news. Itmeans we only kill three in-nocent people out of everyten. That is exactly like ourpolice only killing one citizenevery time they kill two crim-inals in a chase. Would welive with that? CHARLESMICHAEL COUCH, VIA E-MAIL
Where is Obama’sleadership now?Secretary of State HillaryClinton’s tough words onRussia and China’s inactionto stop Syria’s slaughter oftheir citizens is just what weneeded to hear — from Pres-ident Obama! Any chancethey could trade places? HERB STARK, VIA E-MAIL
Stomach problemsare unsettlingIt can be debated which ofRick Santorum’s many short-comings makes him a poorchoice for president, but hisadmission that a speech byKennedy made him “want tothrow up” ought to at leastworry the medical communi-ty. DAVID TERHUNE, VIA E-MAIL
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