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Slim pickings in the celebrity photo department this week. We’ve got Jennifer Lopez and her daughter Emme in some old clothes they just threw on that morning before reporting to Paris Fashion Week on Tuesday.Reuters

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We have Lady Gaga meeting Italian designer Donatella Versace in Milan on Monday, an event that led to the worldwide cancellation of Halloween this year because that’s enough horrible costumes and terrifying masks for one year.Reuters

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We’ve got Lady Gaga actually hugging Donatella Versace.Reuters

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We’ve got Dustin Hoffman trying to get that image out of his eyes.Reuters

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We’ve got Dustin Hoffman at the San Sebastian Film Festival in Spain last week holding up a lollipop and smiling benignly after voluntarily submitting to a chemical brainwashing to erase that image.Reuters

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We’ve got hunky Ewan McGregor hiking up his trou at the San Sebastian Film Festival last week.Reuters

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We’ve got U.S. President Barack Obama obviously thinking of a different Ewan McGregor at a campaign event in Washington last week.Reuters

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We’ve got J.K. Rowling telepathically commanding her legion of mindless followers to go to the nearest bookstore, buy and then immediately read her new novel "The Casual Vacancy" at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London last week.AP

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That last caption was funny until it came true.Reuters

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We’ve got a picture of Slim Pickens on the set of "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb" just to trouble the younger folks with a really old cultural reference.AP

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We’ve got Ann Romney, wife of Mitt Romney, on “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” saying it was love at first sight, that they struggled as a young couple, that she’s the boss, that Mitt isn’t a great dancer, etc., plus a whole bunch of other tired clichés of faux domestic bliss that American political wives trot out at election time.Reuters

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Not classy, Mr. Obama. Not classy at all.Reuters

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We’ve got the devout capitalist Mitt Romney offering a non-taxpaying, dependency-addicted voter as a sacrifice to the lords of Wall Street in Virginia last week.Reuters

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We’re not sure what happened to that baby but the next day Mitt Romney was serving beef jerky on his campaign plane in Philadelphia.Reuters

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We’ve got Mitt Romney (and my editors) assuring everyone that the baby is safe and sound and the whole beef jerky thing was a bad joke committed by the writer of this feature.Reuters

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See? Safe and sound.Reuters

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More jerky, America?Reuters

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