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For Britney Spears and Criss Angel, I have just one word; ew.

According to The Smoking Gun, NFL star Michael Vick pleads guilty to a felony charge for his participation in a dogfighting ring:

The Atlanta Falcons quarterback admitted that his Bad Newz Kennels operation wagered money–which he provided–in pit bull fights. However, “Vick did not gamble by placing side bets on any of the fights,” according to a “summary of the facts” that was filed today in court. That document, a copy of which you’ll find below, also notes that Vick “was aware” that three of his cohorts killed several dogs that performed poorly in test fighting sessions in mid-2002. The summary reports that “Vick did not kill any dogs at this time.”

Interestingly, Jamie Foxx claims that Vick didn’t know any better, because he is black:

“It’s a cultural thing, I think. Most brothers didn’t know that, you know. I used to see dogs fighting in the neighborhood all the time. I didn’t know that was Fed time. So, Mike probably just didn’t read his handbook on what not to do as a black star. I know that cruelty to animals is bad, but sometimes people shoot people and kill people and don’t get time. I think in this situation, he really didn’t know the extent of it, so I always give him the benefit of the doubt.”

Does that mean that if I were arrested for wire fraud Eminem would say, “It’s a cultural thing, I think. Most white collar crime, obviously, is accidentally committed by Caucasians.” A crime is a crime, regardless of the race of the person committing the crime. Blaming “black culture” is a huge step down from assigning responsibility and rehabilitation.

Just-turned-18 actress Hayden Panettiere is going to be featured in an upcoming Got Milk? series of advertisements, shot by photographer Annie Leibovitz:

“You don’t have to be a hero to feel invincible. That’s why I drink milk,” she says in the ads, part of a campaign to get teens to drink three glasses of low-fat or fat-free milk a day. [src]

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The photoshoot, we think, is extremely classy, cute, and sexy. Hayden is going to be hollywood’s brightest young starlet!

So is this Britney or some photoshop nerd’s wet dream? You decide:

Unfortunately since the photographs are fairly low resolution we can’t do error-order analysis to determine exactly what got photoshopped where. In real life these days, Britney does not look like this, which is a problem for young people everywhere; they don’t have a chance to realize that their stars are just old, tired, worn out bodies that look worse than they do.

You knew it had to happen. With 50 Cent’s new album Curtis dropping the same day (9/11/2007) as Kayne West’s third album, Graduation, the two up-and-coming rappers are slanging feisty words. MTV recently ranked Kayne West (#5) ahead of 50 (#8) in their 2007 Hottest MCs in the Game, prompting 50 Cent to say:

“MTV can suck my ****. That’s their opinion who they put in this—they put Game number 3 when I wrote the 3 singles that created him. What does that mean? That I’m number 3? Because you’re not in to me this week, I get a chance to sit in the number 8 spot but the project that I created is number 3.”

50 Cent has also offered to stop making crappy music if Kayne outsells him on game day:

Let’s raise the stakes. If Kanye West sells more records than 50 Cent on September 11, I’ll no longer [perform] music. I’ll write music and work with my other artists, but I won’t put out any more solo albums.

We hope this is true! Just compare Kayne’s new single Can’t tell me nothing:

With 50 Cent’s Justin-Timberlake infused hip-pop:

We’ll probably find out Timbaland ripped the background from the modscene again…