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Angelina Jolie: mere actress and ostentatious adoptioneer or “the best woman in the world”? That question underlies the cover story in the July Esquire and, more particularly, this week’s response to it on Slate.com. The Esquire piece, attempting to avoid the typical vapidities of celebrity profiling, argues that Jolie’s celebrity and the way she uses it, in our post-9/11 world, renders her virtuous. Slate fires back: “In the history of fawning gentlemen’s-magazine profiles, there is unlikely to be a more ludicrous example ...” Read both for yourself; the fate of nations hangs in the balance.
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YouTube: Viewers have submitted alternate versions of the ending of The Sopranos, including one in which the world literally comes to an end. Much more satisfying than the actual closure.