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Early Addition: Kim Kardashian Now Wants Jeremy Lin's Soul
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Ben Yakas
Published Feb 16, 2012
Modified Feb 16, 2012
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- Danger Jeremy Lin! Kim Kardashian's publicist is rumored to have set up a date for her and Lin. "She thinks [Jeremy] is cute, and she's good friend's with [Jeremy's teammate Carmelo Anthony's wife] Lala. It's going to be a double date," a Kardashian friend told Mediatakeout.
- Here's a video tracing the evolution of our favorite comedian, Louis C.K.
- Investigators have recommended that an Army officer and an infantryman be court-martialed because of their role in the death of Private Danny Chen, the Chinatown soldier who died of an "apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound" last fall in Afghanistan.
- A man who tried to help a mother and her screaming child get off an airplane through a shortcut has been fined $950.
- What's weirder: Nic Cage's movies, or his real life?
- Maya Rudolph is back at SNL this weekend for her first hosting gig since leaving the show—check out some cute promos here.
- Interracial marriages have hit an all-time high in the U.S.
- This is why we hate you Chris Brown—according to US Weekly, he used the following pickup line on a woman after the Grammys: "Can I get your number? I promise I won't beat you!"
- And finally, which is worse: braiding your cat's hair, or getting your cat its own tattoo?
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