“Is this real life?”

Have truer words ever been spoken? Everybody loves David after the dentist:

Well, maybe not everybody some of the Boing Boing commentators are crying exploitation but please, get a grip, people. After all, there’s a website called “Preteen Child Model Land” (that will I NOT be linking to) out there.

Strange how it’s the little things that can be so controversial. People are still talking about the recording of Christian Bale‘s on-the-set freakout and, more importantly, making fun of it! There’s the Christian Bale Soundboard to let you play your favourite bits of profanity and, of course, the NSFW Dance Remix:

The Guardian newspaper is upset at Morrissey‘s choice of sleeve art for his new single:

I’m just sad those are 7″ records, not 12, but “I’m Throwing My Arms Around Paris” is a terrific song.

Need news of the catfight between Hilary Duff and Faye Dunaway? Of course you do.

Actress Vivica A. Fox is trying to duck controversy over her decision to sell out and join the Psychic Friends Network. She hilariously claims that they did it all without her permission (well, they ARE psychic) even though there’s video of her ad!

Remember how, last week, I said I was done writing about the crazy sexuality of Ted Haggard? That was before the even crazier revelations about his sexuality. Offering up his daughter for marriage to the young guy he wants to plow? That’s controversial!

 

But for a topic truly worthy of coffee talk, we can mull over the Swedish HIV study that claims that HIV-negative guys who perform oral sex on their positive partners develop antibodies that make them immune to their partner’s particular strain of HIV. There’s a catch, warns Elizabeth Pisani, but it’s all certainly fascinating — even more controversial than Hilary Duff!

A former editor of the late, lamented fab magazine, Scott has been writing for Xtra since 2007 on a variety of topics in news pieces, interviews, blogs, reviews and humour pieces. He lives on the Danforth with his boyfriend of 12 years, a manic Jack Russell Terrier, a well-stocked mini-bar and a shelf of toy Daleks.

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